The Kingdom logo is quite nice:
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You raaaaaang?
[spoiler]Kraken is Green/Purple.
KRAKEN
Legendary Monster
Depths Below (16 Green/Purple)
Deal [Magic + 6] damage to the last enemy, with a 40% chance to devour them. Create 9 Blue Gems.
(Thick Head, Huge, Tentacles)
MAX Attack:18 Life:27 Armor:18 Magic:11
Please release me…
Tentacles: All enemies take 3 damage on 4 or 5 Gem matches.
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That is a dandy of a legend trait. Just pop it in a loop team (cat/alchemist, webspinner, etc) and it can slowly grind things down.
Green Seer - Giant Spider - Kraken - Kraken
RIP taking turns.
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I think tyri has our backs. What if tyri is friends with the pirates?
Wait the traits are, let me get this straight…
(Thick head, huge, tentacles) @Sirrian was this your doing?
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Well i tried to get through this with out thinking dirty. How huge are the tentacles, and a thick head too?
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Looks like there’ll be some Alchemist/Pirate combo teams incoming…
I think the kraken is the only one that I will like.
None of the others seem very… effective? From my understanding getting more gold in battle isn’t very good and treasure maps are very niche and most mid to end game players think they are lackluster.
I’ll reserve judgement until release, of course, but Kraken looping team looks good!
Note: these troops will probably be all right for explore mode, but I’m not sure if they will shake up the meta or be very PVP viable, which I was hoping for. Of course I might be dead wrong, which is why I’m not making any definitive claims 
I hope that these troops find a nice place in PVP! Perhaps their boost ratios will make them worthwhile
Deck Hand could pair well with Green Slime: Green → Purple then Purple → Blue
Johnny Bronze would go with Marid or Tyri of course, if you’re a Treasure Map player
Bonnie could make Finely interesting, removing skulls and relying on her nuke damage
I hope the new pirate kingdom also introduces some sort of epic treasure hunt, with 10x maps for 10x rewards. Otherwise I’ll never use all those maps. The kraken looks pretty cool, I wonder how good it will be in a loop team.
Man, the crude humor in this kingdom is poem-worthy. (Limerick-worthy?) Mimic’s flavor text is:
Do boy mimcs have chestnuts?
That one does seem a little more out of place, but they are pirates after all.
Did someone ask for boost ratios and spell costs?
Deck Hand - Rare from Blackhawk, Human/Rogue
Spell: Swab the Deck (10 Blue/Red): Create 6 Purple Gems, then transform all Purple Gems to Blue.
Trait 1: Rogue Bond (Allied Rogues gain 2 Life.)
Trait 2: Avenger (Gain 3 Attack when an ally dies.)
Trait 3: Water Heart (Gain 1 Life for each Blue ally.)
MAX Attack=18, Armor=7, Magic=0, Life=27
Pirate - Rare from Blackhawk, Human/Rogue
Spell: Yarr! (10 Yellow/Blue): All ally Rogues gain [Magic + 1] Attack. Give 10 Gold, boosted by ally Rogues. [5x]
Trait 1: Greedy (Gain 2 bonus Gold on 4 or 5 Gem matches.)
Trait 2: Rogue Bond (Allied Rogues gain 2 Life.)
Trait 3: Water Link (Gain bonus Blue Mana from Blue Gem matches.)
MAX Attack=16, Armor=14, Magic=5, Life=26
Ship Cannon - Common from Blackhawk, Construct
Spell: Broadside (8 Brown): Deal [Magic + 1] damage to 3 random enemies.
Trait 1: Construct Bond (Allied Constructs gain 2 Life.)
Trait 2: Reinforced (Recover 1 Armor at the start of each turn.)
Trait 3: Armored (Reduce damage from Skulls by 25%.)
MAX Attack=14, Armor=27, Magic=6, Life=13
Sharkey - Ultra-Rare from Blackhawk, Merfolk/Rogue
Spell: Anchors Aweigh (12 Blue/Brown): Deal [Magic + 5] damage randomly split amongst enemies, boosted by Gold collected. [2:1]
Trait 1: Merfolk Bond (Allied Merfolk gain 2 Life.)
Trait 2: Big (Gain 1 Life on 4 or 5 Gem matches.)
Trait 3: Water Spirit (Gain 1 Magic for each Blue ally.)
MAX Attack=18, Armor=22, Magic=10, Life=17
Lil’ Johnny Bronze - Epic from Blackhawk, Human/Rogue
Spell: Hook Me Up (13 Yellow/Brown): Create 8 Skulls, plus 4 more for every Treasure Map collected. 20% chance to gain a Treasure Map. [4x]
Trait 1: Greedy (Gain 2 bonus Gold on 4 or 5 Gem matches.)
Trait 2: Merchant (Gain 25% bonus Gold from battle.)
Trait 3: Impervious (Immune to all Status Effects, Devour, and Mana Burn.)
MAX Attack=19, Armor=10, Magic=0, Life=29
Kraken - Legendary from Blackhawk, Monster
Spell: Depths Below (16 Green/Purple): Deal [Magic + 6] damage to the last enemy, with a 40% chance to devour them. Create 9 Blue Gems.
Trait 1: Thick Head (Immunity to Stun.)
Trait 2: Huge (Gain 2 Life on 4 or 5 Gem matches.)
Trait 3: Tentacles (All enemies take 3 damage on 4 or 5 Gem matches.)
MAX Attack=18, Armor=18, Magic=11, Life=27
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Oops, forgot the event troops:
Bonnie Rose - Epic from Blackhawk, Human/Rogue
Spell: Plunder (14 Blue/Red): Deal [Magic + 3] damage to an enemy, boosted by Gold collected. Gain 15 Gold. [3:1]
Trait 1: Invigorated (Gain 1 Life when an ally casts a spell.)
Trait 2: Fast (Start battles with 50% Mana.)
Trait 3: Water Spirit (Gain 1 Magic for each Blue ally.)
MAX Attack=23, Armor=8, Magic=7, Life=23
Mimic - Ultra-Rare from Blackhawk, Monster/Construct
Spell: Surprise! (12 Brown/Purple): Either: Give 10 Gold, OR Deal [Magic + 3] damage to a random enemy, OR Devour a random enemy, OR Explode 6 Gems, OR Gain 7 Life, OR Gain 3 Magic.
Trait 1: Greedy (Gain 2 bonus Gold on 4 or 5 Gem matches.)
Trait 2: Reinforced (Recover 1 Armor at the start of each turn.)
Trait 3: Stealthy (Cannot be targeted by spells (unless there are no other targets).)
MAX Attack=18, Armor=26, Magic=10, Life=13
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Amazing! Thank you for more info, I’ll add this to OP
Some creative and fun mechanics.
- The sharkman seems like a good prospect for the desired Undersea Kingdom.
- Kraken’s legendary trait seems like something i envisioned for Hydra, but in Hydra’s case it would be more related to skull match and also boosted by missing life to be in the same compass with the lore of “less hp = more heads” like the spell.
- Lil’ Jhonny Bronze is cool, it would be nice if he could be Finley’s outlaw relative, but i guess the background history is already set.
- Maybe the quest of the new kingdom will have some correlation with Atlanta’s storyline. Rivalry between her and Lil’ Jhonny? Love? Treason? All of it?
- Nice kingdom symbol i must say.
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I picture Johnny Bronze as being related to Tyri and Marid, since the family seems to have a 20% treasure map chance thing going, and he looks like he’ll synergize with the two of them.
The devs promised that we’d see their dad in a future kingdom…
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Kysterian DNA and genetics are weird