Abyssal Guard (Legends of Runeterra)

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Abyssal Guard For Alternate Card
Region	Bilgewater
Type	Follower
Cost	4 Mana
Card text
Keywords	Fearsome Imbue Attune
Description	When you played a spell, give me +2|+0 this round.
2 3
Collecting & Crafting
This card is collectible, and costs 100 or 1
Flavour
"Many of our tribe find Loto somewhat unnerving. They see only a tireless fighter, and the distance in his troubled gaze. But I know what's truly in his heart--fear that he is not strong enough to save us... and extraordinary love." - 2 Tama, Marai Songstress
Expansion	Set 5 - Beyond the Bandlewood
Rarity	Common
ID	05BW008
Artist	Envar Studio
Artwork	Primary Censored

Trivia

• Internally, this card is called Manta Murai.
• His name is Loto.
• He is in a polyromantic relationship with 3Nami and 2 Tama.
• His voiceline "O'aku Marai" translates to "I am Marai".
  • This voiceline is also shared with 2 Marai Songstress, though she says it while blocking.
• 3Nami is featured in the artwork.
• In the alternate artwork, Nami's chest is covered, and another creature was added in the foreground.

Quotes

Summoned

• ▶️   "I alone stand against the abyss."
• ▶️   "Fear what thrives in shadow."
• ▶️   "I am stronger than the darkness within me."

Allied 3Nami present

• ▶️   Abyssal Guard: "I will die before the murk takes another."
  • ▶️   Nami: "Please don't be reckless. We need you."

Allied 2 Marai Songstress present

• ▶️   Abyssal Guard: "Perhaps our end is unavoiable."
  • ▶️   Marai Songstress: "I believe in Nami. And in you, pele'ai."

Sees a Unit Summoned

Allied 3Nami

• ▶️   Abyssal Guard: "Beloved! Get behind me."
  • ▶️   Nami: "You know that's not gonna happen."

Enemy 3Nami

• ▶️   Nami: "I can't give up now. I'm sorry, Loto."
  • ▶️   Abyssal Guard: "Beloved!"

Allied 5 Fleet Admiral Shelly

• ▶️   Fleet Admiral Shelly: "Commence Operation Recover Moonstone!"
  • ▶️   Abyssal Guard: "Ugh, we are doomed."

Allied 4 Marai Greatmother

• ▶️   Marai Greatmother: "It seems you gain a new scar every day, Loto."
  • ▶️   Abyssal Guard: "A price I pay willingly so that we may live."

Allied 2 Marai Songstress

• ▶️   Marai Songstress: "We'll only survive this together, Loto."
  • ▶️   Abyssal Guard: "Tama, you should not have come!"

Allied 2 Marai Warden

• ▶️   Abyssal Guard: "Ai'la, keep them safe when I am gone."
  • ▶️   Marai Warden: "Or, better idea: don't get killed."

Attack Declared

• ▶️   "A needful strike."
• ▶️   "O'aku Marai."

Block Declared

• ▶️   "Come, then!"
• ▶️   "Invader!"
• ▶️   "Drown!"

Death

• ▶️   "Nami..."
• ▶️   "Tama..."
• ▶️   Loto groans.

Change Log

Abyssal Guard
V4.8	Keyword added: Attune
V3.6	Text becomes: "When you play a spell, give me +2|+0 this round." Old Text: "When you cast a spell, give me +2|+0 this round."
V3.5	Undocumented: Alternate artwork added.
V2.14	Added.

References

Legends of Runeterra