Hello Splinterlands fans. The featured card for this week is one of my favorite cards from the Water Splinter. Its Opportunity ability is very useful in any match if you want to quickly remove low health threats on the battlefield.
Challenge Rules
THEME: DEEPLURKER
Edition: CHAOS LEGION
Rarity: COMMON
Element: WATER
Attack: MELEE
Abilities: Opportunity
Battle Ruleset
Standard: No modification to the standard gameplay rules and mechanics.
Lineup & Strategy
The +1 speed and armor that this summoner adds to our team is a great advantage and will further increase the survivability of our monsters on the battlefield.
Albatross
We're placing this card on the 1st position to absorb a few hits before Djinn Oshannus steps in to tank our team. Its Flying ability gives it a chance of dodging Melee and Ranged attacks.
Hardy Stonefish
Another blocker in our lineup. Its on the 2nd position to take a few hits while Djinn Oshannus is hitting the enemy tank monster.
Djinn Oshannus
This card will be our tank monster. We placed it on the 3rd position to prevent it from receiving a few damage while dealing damage to the enemy monster on the 1st position. Its Void ability that reduces damage from Magic attacks will be useful if our opponent decides to use Magic attack monsters.
Merdaali Guardian
The Tank Healer in our team. This card will keep our tank monster alive hopefully till the last round.
Deeplurker
We're placing our featured card in this position to protect it from frontal and sneak attacks. Its Opportunity ability will help our team eliminate low health monsters not on the 1st position.
Ice Pixie
Last but not the least is Ice Pixie. This card will protect Deep Lurker from Sneak attacks. Its Flying ability gives it a chance of dodging Melee and Ranged attacks. It also uses Magic attack that ignores armor.
Battle Replay
You can watch the battle replay on this link:
https://splinterlands.com/?p=battle&id=sl_52c15365c45c047c57af37eff75361dc
Our opponent decided to use the same Summoner and a bit similar lineup. Good thing we have two Magic attack monsters since our opponent's tank monster has an increased chance of evading Melee and Ranged attacks.
We lost two of our monsters in the first round. Our team was able to eliminate the enemy monster in the 1st position, thanks to Djinn Oshannus' Magic attack ignoring the enemy monster's armor.
We lost Ice Pixie on round 2. However, the enemy tank is hanging on its 1 health. It'll probably be eliminated on the next round since its already on Djinn Oshannus' cross hair for its next attack.
As we've anticipated, Djinn Oshannus was able to eliminate the enemy monster on the 1st position. Deeplurker was also able to eliminate the enemy Ice Pixie using its Opportunity ability on round 3.
Round 4 was quite a steady battle since no monster died on this round. However, we have a bit of advantage here since our tank still has a huge chunk of health remaining. Thanks to our tank healer Merdaali Guardian who's been constantly healing our tank monster since round 1.
Sadly we lost our tank healer on round 5. Good thing it was able to restore Djinn Oshannus' health back to 10 before going down six under. Although were a bit short on manpower at the end of this round, the remaining enemy monsters are already low on health compared to ours that still have a huge amount of health.
Djinn Oshannus and Deeplurker both had their targets eliminated in one swoop. This left our opponent a single helpless Ranged attack monster on the 1st position not able to attack that later died on the next round giving our team a sweet victory.
Conclusion
Our opponent had a similar lineup except for our chosen tank and tank healer. This gave our team quite the advantage. Djinn Oshannus' health was always restored and the enemy monster using Magic attack was not making any damage since it only had 1 power. Our featured card Deeplurker also helped a lot eliminating low health monsters in most of its attacks.
Did your strategy work? What will you try differently next time?
Our strategy of extending Djinn Oshannus' presence on the battlefield by placing 2 monsters in front of it and adding a tank healer worked well. And because of its Void ability, it received 0 damage from the enemy monster that had 1 Magic damage. Djinn Oshannus + Deeplurker + Ice Pixie were an awesome combination of damage dealers.
Do you like the DEEPLURKER? Why or why not?
Deeplurker is one of my favorite cards in the game. Its always part of my lineup whenever I'm using the Water Splinter. Its Opportunity ability works very well in any lineup since it has a decent attack power of 3 and can usually do critical hits on low health monsters.
That's all for now everyone. Thanks for reading this post. Till the next Splinterlands Battle Challenge. Have a great day!!!
What is Splinterlands?
Splinterlands is a digital, collectible card game built on blockchain technology. It is similar in concept to games like Magic the Gathering and Heartstone where you build up a collection of cards, which all have various different stats and abilities, and use them to battle other players in skill-based matches. By using a blockchain technology, players can buy, sell and trade their digital assets freely just as if they were physical cards, and all transactions are recorded publicly and immutably.
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