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Anything people used to rush probably isn't junk. You either got Tarts or you rushed to get Eroys.

EDM in fact has marginalized elemental royalty. As Eroys are not cost efficient compared to EDM summons now. And I've seen them used in the brief time between no clams and EDM.
As for Seraphs, I'd for one still use them, but it's not the 100 gems cost that'a s problem, it's the some 300-400? gems you have to invest without hammers and clams to get a mage to summon one. That's why I suggested lowering Wish to S8.

As for the Sea King, I've seen him used a load of times before EDM, and he was in fact, great. Someone who didn't catch a Water Queen could still get a Sea King. I've seen Dimaz use them regularly, WingedDog, Psycho, me, etc.
Corwin used them to smack my tartarians in a game not long ago.

But as for Krakens, I agree they are junk. And Ettins too, if they were free they'd still be useless.

But as far Eroys go, I said it before and I'll say it again, either their cost needs to be lowered or the cost of all EDM increased.