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Plushie was a new type of card introduced in the Battle for Meridell set. There is Jeran Plushie, Kacheek Plushie, Shoyru Plushie, Mynci Plushie and of course the King Skarl Plushie in total to collect, and used together they can be quite formidable.

Even though Plushies are worth only 2 bank points, they provide a bonus to your Neopets stats when they are in your bank. For instance, if you are playing with normal and Experienced Shoyrus and you bank a Shoyru Plushie, all of your Shoyrus get +1 to all stats. Remember that by banking a plushie you are missing out on one or two points (as opposed to banking a three or four point item), however if you bank early on, that +1 could easily pay for itself. Remember that boosting your stats by a single point can mean up to 15% more chance to win a contest. Multiply that by three arenas and it doesn't sound too shoddy.

To play with the King Skarl Plushie you really need to be playing a Plushie deck. OK - so you are going to have to bank a lot of plushies to win, but the stat bonuses that the plushies provide are going to make it hard for your opponent to win contests. Remember, if you have two King Skarl plushies in your bank the bonus is doubled, so for every other plushie you have in your bank other than the King Skarl Plushies you get a bonus of +2. For instance, if you had two Shoyru Plushies and two King Skarl Plushies in your bank, all your Shoyrus would have a total bonus of +6 making them exceedingly difficult to defeat. However, after four banks would you rather be on eight or sixteen points?

Plushies could be useful if used in some kind of lockdown defensive deck. Use Lupe Defender, Aisha Enchantress, Slorg Trails, Royal Summons, Shadow Usul and Eyrie Guard to really make it hard for your opponent to win any challenge on their turn, and then really slow the game down to a 2-point bank speed. Every plushie you bank makes it that little bit harder for your opponent.

With the current set of cards, plushies are useful, but not amazingly helpful mainly due to their low bank cost. Although it can be sometimes advantageous to bank cards with low values (Cleansing Flames, Money Tree Ghosts), getting to 21 points wins you the game, and at two points a bank it's going to take you a long time to win with a Plushie deck.

In closing, King Skarl Plushie is good, but I don't think it is going to get much serious play for now. If only there was an Experienced Neopet who gave you a bonus if you banked plushies... *cough*

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