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Hypothetical Rank Up No. 6: Mordred

[Note: This one isn’t necessarily SUPER needed like I believe the others are, but given the changes made to Artoria’s kit to distinguish HER from the many AoE Farming Sabers, I thought Mordred deserved the same. That and it just randomly came to me-]

Mana Burst A -> Camlann Executioner A++

Increase own Buster Card effectiveness (1 turn). + Apply Trait Change: Gain Berserker Class Affinity (1 turn). Change all Command Cards to [Buster] Cards (1 turn).

The idea lorewise here is firstly the battle of Camlann in which Mordred absolutely slaughtered King Arthur’s knights and the two fought to mutual destruction after during a weary parley a snake caused a knight to draw their sword, leading to an uncoordinated massacre between the opposing knights of Arthur and Mordred. In Fate’s specific version, Morgan le Fey had a curse placed on Mordred that forced their body to keep moving even after death, thus fatally wounding Artoria while she thought she had won. The second basis is on the long-running, frankly quite accurate joke that Mordred’s fighting style is really just a Berserker disguised as a Saber. Frankly it’s always surprising when I remember they DON’T have a Gorilla deck. With Artoria getting an ability to convert herself into an all buster servant though, of course Mordred deserves the same. Where they differ is that while Artoria’s Dragon Core gives her a boost to her NP, Mordred’s instead changes their class affinity to Berserker, trading in a 2x damage modifier against Lancers for a 1.5x damage modifier against ALL non-foreigners. In true berserker fashion this also leaves them wide open until their next turn if anything survives by making them take double damage from all non-berserker sources (who still would deal an increased 1.5x damage). The core function this serves gameplay wise is to give Mordred a clear role separate from AoE Saber farming, something LOTS of other servants can do just as them. This would allow Mordred to excel in farming multi-class nodes or in a non-farming scenario allow them to absolutely buff the hell out of their buster for one turn since the damage buff isn’t NP specific and their recent JP buff boosts their Crit damage up to 3 times over 3 turns and grants starts while upping their Buster Crit-Star Gather for 1 turn.

So to be clear, this now gives Mordred a unique multi-class farming niche akin to a typical AoE berserker but without nearly as much risk of dying while building NP, with their default still being a Saber class. Meanwhile in higher level content it allows them to either deal good AoE damage against multiple targets of multiple classes (ideally a scenario where the main target is a lancer with other classes supporting), or massively jack up a single round of damage with a triple crit buster.

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