Splinterlands Highlights - Featuring Possibilus the Wise in Explosive Weaponary

Featuring Bronze League Summoner and Monsters in Action!

I'm back this week to share another splinterlands battle that I recently played that I thought was pretty impressive. This match features a combination of possibilus the wide, think kids monsters to trampoline reachability and a rule set explosive weaponry that gives all monsters exposed to the text. These two things can combine for very powerful force.

Let's take a look at this match and how everything played out.

Weekly Highlight -Possibilus the Wise in Explosive weaponry

Explosive Weaponry

All units gain the Blast ability.

Additional damage is equivalent to main damage divided by 2, rounded up. Include a unit with Reflection Shield in your lineup to absorb blast damage and protect your back line. Edition: CHAOS LEGION Rarity: RARE Element: WATER Attack: Abilities: TRAMPLE Abilities" REACH Health: +2 Reasons Why I like it

The Matchup - Where Rules Sets, Splinters and Mana Collide

The Rule Sets

Watch the Match Here

MANA: 32

Ruleset: Explosive Weaponry: All monsters gain the blast ability.

SPLINTERS: Water, Life, Dragon

Initial Rule Set and Mana Gameplay Thoughts

Only three splinters are available, so I think this is going to be a water or dragon focused match. I think both have a good monsters that can have bloodlust or double strike or other abilities that would make them very powerful.

Decent armor, decent speed and small attack all in all not a terrible choice.

Opponent Lineup & Match Play

Much like my team with your guard is only here to protect against sneak attack

Round 1

Is wrong one starts I'm actually not too confident and who's going to win. To me it looks like we both have a opportunity depending on how things go. Has the match starts off and we start attacking face and speed preference I am the first to get to a boost as Markscrat he's knocked out and use both of my monsters and boost. Unfortunately it also triggers a bloodlust for my opponent. Passed around and not very much has happened, but I expected a bit more in the next round.

Round 2

Honestly nothing looks like that really changed in this match but things are about to get interesting. As the route starts I manage to score a knockout on Markscrat, and trigger my first trample of the match. I'm very fortunate that I hit Djinn Oshannus, in the trampol takes out an additional card via blast.

Markscrat gets resurrected which is actually good for me as splash damage can't be avoided. So after Resurrection Coastal sentry attacks knocking out Markscrat again and delivering splash damage before boosting Djinn Oshannus.

I've added some more screenshots below to try to kind of walk through this process and see just how impressive what is about to go down is.

Since I scored a knockout I get to trample before my double strike 2nd attack g oes. And get a bit lucky and the trampel hits Djinn and knocks him out as well delivering even more splash damage.

Double Strike

Thoughts - and Chances to Win Again Splintertools.io

Pretty wild that the combination of reach, trample, and explosive weapon can build the combination like this. Once I got on a roll I took out the entire squad without much resistance or their ability to get a break.

~~@senstless

Splinterlands Monster Highlight Featuring TRAPP FALLOWAY smashing to a victory

Featuring Bronze League Summoner and Monsters in Action!

I am back with another awesome monster highlight. This was from a very recent battle in the past couple of days and I'm excited to share it because it's the first time I was able to really utilize and dominate a match with Trapp Falloway.

Weekly Challenge -TRAPP FALLOWAY

Edition: GLADIUS Rarity: EPIC Element: DEATH Attack: MELEE Abilities: BLOODLUST Abilities" WEAKEN Health: 5 Speed: 4 Attack: 4 Armor: Reasons Why I like it

I think Trapp Falloway it's very unique card. Having a four melee attack combined with a speed of four and a half of 5 all will only cost you four mana is unique. This means it could be used in Little League games and other low mana matches where you typically don't have heavy hitters like this. The two abilities of both weekend and bluff bus work together surprisingly effectively we can go drop your bullets off of bloodlust means every time you get a knockout you start adding one to your stats. Considering where you start for speeding attack it doesn't take long before you will be delivering to the pretty vicious blows. The biggest weakness I see and no armor makes it a bit prone to getting knocked out before I can get a roll

The Matchup - Where Rules Sets, Splinters and Mana Collide

The Rule Sets

Watch the Match Here

MANA: 34

Ruleset: Equalizer: All monsters start with the same health, based on the highest health in either team.

Ruleset: Super Sneak: All Melee monsters gain the sneak ability.

SPLINTERS: Fire, Water, Life, Death

Initial Rule Set and Mana Gameplay Thoughts

Rulesets I think the rule sets are probably going to impact this match the most. Having super sneak allowing all monsters Disney tech opens up the playing field to melee card that would normally otherwise be ignored. Make a lot of great teams with fire water and death. Especially water with inspire and really make some of those little memory cards much more powerful with armor. Equalizer also means that some lower mana cards when I will be much more difficult to get through with everyone should have the same amount of health.. Mana Heaven only 16 mana to pick your monsters will definitely limit this matchup. More than likely to fill it a full team it will require a lot of zero one and two men of monsters with a few bigger more powerful monsters. I think the 16 mana still plays well mostly with fire water death Splinters

Not having dragon or Earth is not a deal-breaker in this matchup, although I could see where people would prefer to play Earth with some of their thorns and low mana monsters. I still think this will be a fairly good matchup with anything available splinters.

Opponent Lineup & Match Play

Round 1

Just looking at the teams before everything starts I'm feeling a little underpowered versus my opponent who seems to have a lot of damage dealers team, the only good thing for me is that my summoner has taken away one health and Trapp Falloway has offset there's someone who's boost leaving them all with poor health.. But as the round starts I get to attack first and Trapp Falloway knocks out it's first card and gets his first bloodlust. His round one ends I score my second knockout with none other than cursed slime ball, my weakest gets lowest attacker.

Round 2

It's around two starts my opponent still has more cards dealing more damage, but I have a card that is able to deliver a single knockout blow to everyone of their cards. It's round two plays out I get lucky with a miss on Carrion Shade preventing it from being knocked out.

Round 3

At the start of round 3 I have more cards, but many of mine are close to being knocked out. Once again speed and power kills and I get to go first. That means that will score another knockout with Trapp Falloway and get to trigger my second bloodlust of the match I get another Miss on Chaos agent before losing another card leaving trap alone at the back.

Round 4

Ground floor starts and it's becoming almost routine now. Trapp Falloway goes first, get to knock out, and adds to its stats. After this knockout I'm dealing seven damage with seven speed and I'm at five health.

Round 5

Around five starts and I am close to being knocked out. The only positive thing is given my speed and my attack I will get rid of cobalt bruiser before it can attack me and knock me out. Another boost puts me to 8 damage and speed with three health.

Round 6

I scored my last and final knockout match as well as the victory knockout and push track to a nine attack 9-speed with for health.

Thoughts - and Chances to Win Again

Looks like I'm an 89% favorite to win, I assume this has to do with the RNG and the misses I had on both Chaos agent and Carrion Shade. If my opponent hit every attack then I believe I would lose before I had a chance to build up my stats. It looks like maybe I should have had Trapp in third position vs fourth to increase my odds of winning to 100%. I'll have to consider that for the next time and put more protection on the back end to allow it to build more stats.

~~@senstless

Splinterlands Monster Highlight Featuring Witch of Warwick

Featuring Bronze League Summoner and Monsters in Action!

I'm excited to share another monster highlight post showcasing how certain monsters can help you win or make a big difference in your lineup. This week I got to share one of the new cards I pulled and leveled up which is the witch of Warwick. This was a bronze level brawl match that I played for my guild. Let's take a look at the card and how it all played out.

Weekly Challenge -Witch of Warwick

Edition: GLADIUS Rarity: COMMON Element: DEATH Attack: MAGIC Abilities: LIFE LEECH Abilities: BLOODLUST Health: 6 Speed: 2 Attack: 2 Armor: Reasons Why I like it I'm a big fan of any card that has life Leach generally. When you add a life leech and blood loss to give you the ability to both stack your magic attack, as well as your health on each turn. You can create a monster that starts to add two or three health for each attack and add one to its attack every time it gets a knockout. Overall I think it's pretty powerful and it starts off with a high health which is uncommon for cards of life leech.

The Matchup - Where Rules Sets, Splinters and Mana Collide

The Rule Sets

Watch the Match Here

MANA: 15

. Ruleset: Equalizer: All monsters start with the same health, based on the highest health in either team.

Ruleset: Silenced Summoners: Summoners do not give any buffs/debuffs.

SPLINTERS: Water, Earth, Death, Dragon

Initial Rule Set and Mana Gameplay Thoughts

Rulesets The rule sets are interesting since it is a silent summoner match meaning now it just comes down to the cards and their base attacks without getting any advantages, as well as every card having the same health. I don't think the equalizer match will be as important necessarily since the mana is limited to 15. I don't think they'll be any cards with a high health and most cards will be in the 4 to 6 range that are played meaning no significant health to wear down. Mana 15 mana is a huge constraint. This is going to mean most cards that are played are very low mana cards and that usually translate to low attack and or low health. It's very difficult to find a card that has a high attack or health at The limited mana unless you only want to play one card. Playing one card comes with a big risk as you're only getting to attack once or twice round versus stacking your tax Splinters Only missing two splinters in this match which is fire and life. I think life would be a hard one to play given to manic instructions, but fire would definitely be a very easy play in most low mana matches. Although losing the summoner boost means that the fire cards are not doing as much damage as they typically do and might not be a desirable. Either way I think you can build a solid team on any of the four splinters left although I would probably tend to play Earth or death.

Opponent Lineup & Match Play

Round 1

I'm going to start off by saying I was quite annoyed by the fact that I could not get the back button to work on the game replay. That means that I had to try to stop the play somewhere and take a screenshot of the match. That means that each round always started with the first tech before it would pause. I hope the team addresses this and fixed it. As the game started I think both teams look fairly even and I have no idea who's going to win.

As round one starts, I'm lucky to get a couple of misses due to my flying and I start to build a little bit of health with life leech. While the first round featured a lot of attacks and Mrs on both sides it ended without anyone losing Bacardi

Round 2

It's around two starts with both look fairly even in my mind damage is hitting in multiple places and it's too early to tell how it's going to play out as round two progresses I continue to get lucky with a couple of misses and until finally I lose carrion Shade.

Round 3

Round three starts and I am clearly down one card with my second tank having already lost some health. It's not long into round three where I lose yet another tank and I'm down to only three attacking cards. Things are not looking great for me at this point but I am hoping I can score some blood loss knockouts soon.

Round 4

Clearly feeling like I'm going to lose at this point. At the start of the second round I lose Markscrat and I get a martyr boost to my which of warwick. This turns out to be crucial as it boosts the speed of attack and triggers me to go next which finally gets me to knock out zenith Monk. This triggers a blood loss boost and gets me up to four attack for speed and 10 health. Still no guarantees as my opponent has also scored three knockouts with their Gladius card and it's up to doing for damage.

Round 5

The start of round five things are still not looking great but I will be adding two health per attack at this point so there is help.

Round 6

It's around 6:00 plays out I take a significant amount of damage before I get a chance to attack leaving me with only one health. Lucky for me I get both lively and bloodlust which boosts my health back up to three and it boosts my speed to five. This is crucial since magic attacks before range attacks.

Round 7

Attacking first gets me some additional health which will likely have me survive around 7:00. I am able to survive with just down to one health again before my attack and bloodlust. The crucial part about this is I have now moved Alfredo into first position where it no longer attack and I'm guaranteed all but a victory. It'll just take a matter of time to get through their health.

Round 8

Round 9

It'll take another round after around 9:00 to finish this off. But it won't take too long. It goes until around 11:00 where I deal out six damage per attack and I clear out the back row.

Round 10

Thoughts - and Chances to Win Again

~~@senstless

Splinterlands Share Your Monster Highlight Featuring Xulax Nightwind

Featuring Bronze League Summoner and Monsters in Action!

I have another amazing battle to share this week with a monster highlight of XULAX NIGHTWIND. This battle played out in silver league I believe, but both teams were playing with bronze level capped cards so we were at an equal fitting as far as abilities in car levels. I think this just goes to show that sometimes you can play a lineup that looks good on paper, is executed poorly, and still end up with a victory due to some of these powerful Gladius cards

Weekly Challenge - Xulax Nightwind

Edition: XULAX NIGHTWIND Rarity: LEGENDARY Element: DEATH Attack: MELEE Abilities: VOID ARMOR Abilities: BLOODLUST Health: 7 Speed: 3 Attack: 3 Armor: 7 Reasons Why I like it Quite honestly at first glance it's a powerhouse. Seven armor that is upgraded to void armor is impressive for any card. That can withhold a substantial amount of damage from any attack giving it some stain power. It also has decent health at 7 has three melee damage, in 3 speed. Overall that's a pretty impressive amount of stats.

The Matchup - Where Rules Sets, Splinters and Mana Collide

The Rule Sets

Watch the Match Here

MANA: 34

Ruleset: Are You Not Entertained? : One additional Gladiator card may be used in battles

Ruleset: Odd Ones Out: Only monsters with odd mana costs may be used.

SPLINTERS: Fire, Water, Life, Death, Dragon

Initial Rule Set and Mana Gameplay Thoughts

** Rulesets The rules center interesting, and I like the are you not entertained little scent that allows you to play in Gladius card. This means that you might have one, two or even three cards depending on the seminar you pick and it has a brawl. Since this was right to play it opens up the opportunity to be able to use two cards potentially. The other rule set of odd cards only can be a nuisance but overall isn't too into the trial back since most of the higher planet cards I feel are odds.

The only splinter that is left out is Earth and that removes the desperate need to play a magic reduction and or avoid heavy team since it can't be played. I think the mana and the rule sets leave it open to just about any splitter being used depending on the mindset of the person you're battling and there's no clear direction of what you should pick

Opponent Lineup & Match Play

Round 1

Chris Brown one starts I'm not feeling very confident. The air of my lineup seems to be sticking out but I'm still hoping that I can get a dual boost to Coeurl Lurker and start to drop some hammers.

Is the round starts, it dawns on me that having taunt in second position might not be a great choice. While I do get a couple of early misses it is still sustaining substantial damage before getting its first boost from Venrai Markscrat. It is taking way more damage today is hoping I can't even moved into first position.

Round 2

Round two starts off much like round one and while I have some good luck with RNG and see Karen some more misses, I still lose Coeurl Lurker for losing a tank for second time and it is knocked out of the match I'm guessing my choice for putting taunt in second place was not a wise one.

Round 3

Three stars and things are looking pretty rough for me as I do not have many monsters left to attack, and they have a double sneak attack lined up for me. The only benefit to round three is that I lose Venrai Markscrat second time which means that night wind moves to first position and gets a Martyr boost to stats. Luckily for me you did not take me to turn yet so after the boost it is the first to attack and it delivers a knockout on night ghoul and triggers another stat increase via bloodlust. The round comes to an end as I lose Silent Sha-vi.

Round 4

Around four looks pretty rough for me as it starts. I'm down to one attacking monster and one monster that couldn't repair armor. Overall not great and while I'm doing some significant damage there is significant risk of losing

Luckily for me the added Dodge from the summoner means scavo sticks around long enough to give me an extra repair in both of my armor one last time before being knocked out.

Round 5

Is around 5:00 starts it's looking pretty dire for me. While I will attack first it won't be enough to secure a knockout and trigger bloodlust again. My only hope is that my increased speed plus Dodge gets me in favor of the RNG gods and generate some misses. It turns out this time they were in my favor and all melee and arrow attacks missed me. Any one of those hitting could have been significant trouble in more than one would have been devastated.

Round 6

Since all of those attacks missed, and I now still attack first it means I'm going to secure a knockout. Well not necessarily that interesting it's the blood loss and I'm interested in. I will get another speed attack armor and health boost. I've now gained another speed advantage Plus Dodge factor to generate more missing from my opponent. Is the round plays out all melee attacks Miss leaving me with full health and a devastating punch.

Round 7

I'm honestly surprised that I'm still around at this point, but I'm starting to think I might have a shot. It's around starts I secure another knockout triggering bloodbust and my stats are getting to be a little ridiculous. Seven melee, seven speed, one armor and 10 health is a pretty badass monster. The best part is even with the increased speed every monsters attack hits me this round.

Round 8

What is the round starts I get another knockout and it's now clear to me that I'm actually going to pull this victory off in the next couple of rounds. It's my speed and damage that are going to be uncontrollable and they don't have enough attacks to drain my health.

Round 9

Round 10

As round 10 starts I have nine melee, nine health, and absolute mind-boggling number. After I secure my last knockout and wouldn't match both of those who boosted to 10 melee, 10 speed that is an absolute ridiculously high speed.

Thoughts - and Chances to Win Again

I hope to continue to use night wind but in situations that fit it better. It is great card and continue to build its stats up through bloodlust, and avoid armor is rare and exceptionally powerful in a lot of match sets.

~~@senstless

Splinterlands Share Your Battle Weekly Challenge Katrelba Gobson Triumphs of Yodin Zaku

Featuring Bronze League Summoner and Monsters in Action!

I'm back this week with another monster highlight post. This is where I choose to feature monsters at a bronze level typically battling in silver league or above. I hope to give those who are playing at lower levels or new to the game some insight on possible strategies to use, the best cards to Target, and the strategies that I find most effective. While we all have our own plain style, I always enjoy seeing what others do and then adding it to my toolbox. This week's highlight is Katrelba Gibson from the Gladius edition.

Weekly Challenge - Katrelba Gobson

Edition: GLADUS Rarity: COMMON Element: EARTH Attack: MELEE Abilities: DOUBLE STRIGE Abilities" BLOODLUST Health: 4 Speed: 3 Attack: 2 Armor:

Reasons Why I like it

There is so much to like for this common Gladius card. It's one of the few cards that gets to have three abilities before anything is added by a seminar. Most importantly it starts off with a base attack of two melee with three speed meaning it should attack relatively early in position, it's a tech is a sneak attack and it is amplified by the fact that it has double strike meaning it gets to do two attacks. Well this alone would make the card good, what makes it great is the addition of bloodlust. The card can manage to secure a knockout it'll increase each one of its stats of melee, speed, and health for each knockout.

The only downside to this card is it's relatively high man of six and lower health of four. Sometimes it can inadvertently be targeted by opportunity cards or taken out before it can get on a roll.

The Matchup - Where Rules Sets, Splinters and Mana Collide

The Rule Sets

Watch the Match Here

MANA: 23

Ruleset: Are You Not Entertained? one additional Gladiator card may be used in battles

SPLINTERS: Fire, Water, Earth, Life, Dragon

Initial Rule Set and Mana Gameplay Thoughts

** Rulesets Interestingly this is one of the rare one rule set matches that I feel like I've had. The only rule set is are you not entertained, which allows us to use one additional Gladius card. In my case given the summoner I chose this battle it'll be the only card but in some situations in bras you could have as many as three if chosen the right summoner. This really changes the lineups in some matches

** Mana 23 mana is traditionally not a low number, but in wild and in the modern format I find it more difficult to play given the number of cards that have higher manners. If I'm not careful I can end up taking more than half of my mana with just the summoner and my first tank. I think Amana tends to shy away from life matches, and dragon matches for the most part will slightly favoring magic and fire melee

** Splinters The only spent your lost is death, which isn't a bad option given its reduction of health and thorns combinations that are possible. I expect this to be a magic Earth heavy opponent or a Melee fire opponent

Opponent Lineup & Match Play

Round 1

I'm not too confident I can secure many knockouts before I take too much splash damage. It's the first round start speed and attack type goes first triggering my opponent to go first with blood maker. I get very fortunate that it's scattershot actually attacks unicorn mustang first. This limited splash damage to only fungus flinger which I am perfectly happy to lose versus doing serious damage to Katrelba Gibson. Buckley unicorn mustang secures a knockout for being attacked again this time by scabble. Luckily for me the splash damage knocks out flinger triggering martyr. This gives the all-important boost to both unicorn mustang in speed health attack and Katrelba Gibson. With the new speed Katrelba a text first and since it has double attack it actually gets to knock out lava spider before it can attack. This triggers bloodlust boosting it to four May late five-speed 6-in. Has the rest of the round plays out damage is Delta both sides but no one lasts any other monsters.

Round 2

After a very busy round one, round two is looking to be in my favor. Without the speed boosts from fungus flinger I fear the results May turn out much differently. But given that situation both unicorn and Katrelba with attack first. Unicorn mustang takes away the health of ant miners, while Katrelba knocks out scavo fireboat, and then after the blood loss boosts is able to knock out blood maker on a single attack. Taking away five health on one attack is massive. The double strike combo and high melee damage can really become impressive. The rest of the round continues but at this point it's inconsequential as they don't have enough firepower or monsters to matter.

Round 3

Room 3 starts but it's all going to be Katrelba. Another double attack, in another double knockout. This means it gets two more blood lusts bringing it to a whopping nine speed, 8 melee attack by the end of the match. If there is any monsters left it could deal out 16 melee damage with the speed of 9. That is just unfathomable and totally awesome.

Thoughts - and Chances to Win Again

~~@senstless

Splinterlands Share Your Battle Highlighting Lily Sheildpaw

Featuring Bronze League Summoner and Monsters in Action!

I'm back featuring another monster highlighting how I was able to use my bronze level deck to defeat cards much higher than my own. And this highlight I will use Lily Shieldpaw to defeat a level 6 similar team. This is typically a gold league team and almost every card is maxed out. This means level 3 legendaries, level for fx, level 8 Commons this is a very powerful team that they have built. Let's take a look at how I was able to overcome the higher ranked cards and pull up a victory.

Weekly Challenge -LILY SHIELDPAW

Edition: CHAOS LEGION Rarity: LEGENDAY Element: DRAGON Attack: SUMMONER Abilities: TRIAGE Abilities" CAMOFLAUGE Health: +1 Reasons Why I like it This is a very unique card, and while who doesn't love to get plus one to all monsters it's typically not the main draw of Lily Shieldpaw. Having your summoner provide some triage, as well as camouflage to all of your monsters is a huge benefit. This keeps the attacks on target, while healing your back line for many splash damage and or poison. Having a card provide triage can really help you increase your longevity in certain rule sets.

I don't really see any negatives to the card other than it's higher mana cost, as it could fit a lot of different rule sets and can be combined with multiple triage cards or a tank killer to really provide outstanding durability to your team.

The Matchup - Where Rules Sets, Splinters and Mana Collide

The Rule Sets

Watch the Match Here

MANA: 55

Ruleset: Armored Up: All monsters get a +2 armor buff at the beginning of the game.

Ruleset: Back to Basics: All monsters lose their abilities.

Ruleset: Noxious Fumes: All monsters are afflicted with the poison debuff at the start of the game.

SPLINTERS: Fire, Water, Death, Dragon

Initial Rule Set and Mana Gameplay Thoughts

There's a lot to take in. And let's break it down into a few different sections to see what my initial thoughts are.

I think the rule sets of armored up, lose all ability, and having everyone start off poisoned or quite interesting. Since there's no way to cleanse the monsters in this match it'll be a war of attrition to see who can last the longest. It'll be trying to protect some high amount of cards towards the end to outlast your opponent. Magic will be favored since there's armor, and there's no way to counter the heavy magic attacks.

Opponent Lineup & Match Play

Round 1

Better speed pays off. Having them secure the first knockout and the majority of their team by the end of the first time though not much else has happened other than a lot of health has been reduced, and the start of the second round will start to really drop health to critical levels

Round 2

Run two starts off here it looks pretty good. Hope you have to factor in the fact that each monster is going to lose two health to start the round. After the poison is applied to every monster they secure a another knockout of grum. This was void dragon who received the first triage it moves to first position with a full eight health. I was able to score a knockout and deal some more damage for the round ended.

Round 3

Things look a little dicey before the round starts and will look even worse after everyone loses two more health. My opponent actually loses a monster and has two more monsters and won't make it past the next round. Unfortunately for me I get another first position card knocked out leaving me only three but the interesting part is my primary monster moves back to first position with a full 12 health. Triage is really paying off and helping my back line cards have full health when they moved to first position. That's the round plays out! Last knockout and things are really going to get interesting.

Round 4

It's around for starts, my opponent will lose two of his three monsters to the poison and I'll be left with a mostly fully healthy team after triage too monsters with almost full health dealing five magic damage and three melee. By the time the round is over my opponent is left with one monster with only two health.

Round 5

For the round even gets to start I'm guaranteed a victory as the poison will knock my point out and I will still be lifted two monsters.

Thoughts - and Chances to Win Again

I don't think I can overstate how much triage impacted this match as it allowed my high health monsters to move into first position fully healed and able to absorb plenty of damage.

~~@senstless

Splinterlands Share Your Battle Highlights Featuring Vera Salacia- Where Bronze Cards Beats a Gold/Silver Deck!

Featuring Bronze League Summoner and Monsters in Action!

I am back this week highlighting another battle that showcases my bronze League deck facing off against a mixed gold/silver league team where I managed to be victorious. This gives hope for all of us Small Time players who sometimes climb the ranks well above their card levels and flirt with those with much bigger collections. I think this helps show that while high-level cards are obviously stronger you can still get some wins against tired teams when you have Superior strategy for the rule sets.

Weekly Challenge -VERA SALACIA

Edition: DICE Rarity: RARE Element: WATER 2Abilities: ALL MONSTERS RECEIEVE THE SNARE ABILITY AT THE START OF THE BATTLE

Reasons Why I like it One of the more underrated dice summoner cards in the modern format. It only cost three mana which sometimes can be significant, but the addition of snare is where it can really shine. Catching those flying monsters especially with magic attacks can really help turn the tide of otherwise seemingly impossible monsters to hit. When used in conjunction with an earthquake match it helps to knock out those cards that have flying much sooner by removing the flying ability.

The Matchup - Where Rules Sets, Splinters and Mana Collide

The Rule Sets

Watch the Match Here

MANA: 24

Ruleset: Earthquake: All non-flying monsters take 2 physical damage at the end of every turn.

Ruleset: Target Practice: All ranged and magic monsters gain the snipe ability.

SPLINTERS: Fire, Water, Earth

Initial Rule Set and Mana Gameplay Thoughts

My Lineup

Opponent Lineup & Match Play

Round 1

Before round one starts I am a little concerned with the amount of magic damage they have. The good thing for me is the fact that all the range attacks have snipe before attacking demon shark. This will give demon shark an opportunity to make it out of the first round

As the round starts demon shark does manage to get a knockout and a trample bringing the health of field summoner down to four. And ice pixie does its magic by ensnaring Regal perryton. I think that'll be crucial as it will now start to take earthquake damage. I unfortunately lose wave Smith right after which removes the extra armor that I had counted on for the start of route 2. I should have put more scratch in first ranged position. I then quickly lose Markscrat but it's Marta gives a boost to pellicore bandit which will come in handy. The round ends as I lose ice pixie to goblin psychic. I've taken a tremendous amount of damage around one and it's looking a little lean.

Round 2

Luckily for me the start of round two will deal with earthquake damage tell the monsters that don't have flying, or have flying but have been snared the entire enemy team will not take to health damage, while I will only be losing damage on one monster. We both lose one monster to earthquake damage before the round starts. Given the boost helichor is the first to attack and it takes out goblin psychic which is a tremendous boost to my chances. They now have two monsters dealing five magic damage, both of which are exceptionally low in health.

Round 3

Round 3 starts and I am guaranteed a victory. Every monster in my opponent's team has less than two health and they will all be taking earthquake damage as were I still have armor on demon shark and pellicore bandit behind with flying. Having ensnare to bring down the Regal Harrington was a massive boost as well as getting a mortar boost to teleport bandit for both speed health and attack.

Thoughts - and Chances to Win Again

According to the tool, my lineup is a 100% chance to win again. Well I think this lineup could be improved by moving helicorp bandit 3rd position, Venrai Markscrat to second position and Venrai Wavesmith the fourth position, overall it was still a solid lineup. But I'll have to consider the next time I play to ensure I watch both the rule sets to put my lineup in correctly. It could have been costly as I lost the extra armor I was counting on other positions.

~~@senstless

Splinterlands Share Your Battle Monster Highlight Featuring DUMACKE ORC

Featuring Bronze League Summoner and Monsters in Action!

I'm back to highlight another victory were bronze cards were victorious over silver/gold League cards. This just goes to show that Superior lineups can defeat much higher cards that you normally think would be impossible. I think personally that the reward system should reward me more for pulling off victorious like this when I am clearly out playing my card levels against opponents, well I know this could never happen since it would be ripe for manipulation I just feel like there should be some bonus factor for defeating higher level cards.

On a side note my frustration level is growing in gold as I am clearly outclassed the majority of matches and I need to ensure that I play in silver league next season so my posts next season should be more about playing against bronze cards versus silver cards.

Weekly Challenge - DUMACKE ORC

Edition: SOULBOUND Rarity: RARE Element: DEATH Attack: MELEE Abilities: THORNS Abilities" Health: 10 Speed: 3 Attack: 2 Armor: Reasons Why I like it

I like this card cuz it is a classic melee tank beast. Having a shield that reduces the melee damage and arrow damage means it ends up soaking up a tremendous amount of hits before it's knocked out. It needs 12 damage, delivered by at least a two plus damage each time before it's knocked out. If you add any sort of a repair ability it can really become troublesome to take out. It's got a decent attack of two with a decent speed of two but it's the strongest attributes are its armor and shield. The biggest weakness is the fact that it only has one health. This means that it'll be limited to melee only matches or matches that exclude magic, or another exception would be matches that have equalizer where it's health would get a boost.

The Matchup - Where Rules Sets, Splinters and Mana Collide

The Rule Sets

Watch the Match Here

MANA: 55

Ruleset: Equalizer: All monsters start with the same health, based on the highest health in either team.

Ruleset: Even Stevens: Only monsters with even mana may be used.

Ruleset: Melee Mayhem: Melee monsters can attack from any position.

SPLINTERS: Fire, Water, Life, Dragon

Initial Rule Set and Mana Gameplay Thoughts

*Rulesets Rulesets are quite interesting. Having only even monsters I don't think will be too significant given the fact that there's for splinters. When you add in the melee mayhem of all melee monsters can attack from any position it really opens up the game style and it makes the Even Stevens rule set not as impactful. I think the biggest rule set here is going to be equalizer as all cards will now have the same health and it will be much more difficult to get through some of the cards. Depending on repair and or healing if used it might be troublesome to get through some of those pesky cards.

Opponent Lineup & Match Play

Round 1

Even before round one starts I expect this to be an absolute slug fest. It will take quite a while for everybody to get enough damage to get a knockout. As the round plays I noticed a couple of things. The double melee boost of my opponent is really powerful, but the Shield of my tank card is more powerful. By the time the round ends I like the way the things look.

Round 2

It's around two starts you can tell that Shield is very important in this matchup. I managed to score the first knockout and lucky enough for me it was with Tatiana so I get a bloodlust boost. I hope this isn't the last but has the rest of the round plays out I am feeling more confident in my team especially considering that I have a healer that are allowing heavily shielded cards to last two rounds. While I do lose the orc on one of the final attacks it is served its purpose and I'm feeling hopeful

Round 3

It's around three plays out it plays out much very similar to the prior rounds and I score another knockout. This means that this point I am one monster attacking up on my opponents with an healer. By the end of the round I still hold the advantage on armor, monsters, and healer while they hold the advantage on damage done each round.

Round 4

Round four starts and I'm starting to think I might have a shot at this as I score another knockout leaving them down to only three monsters while I still have five. I'm pretty impressed that I got through four rounds and still have only my second card in first position.

Round 5

Around five starts and I am able to score another knockout. I believe this means it's only a matter of time before I am victorious. Having boson in second position now with reflection Shield is great as it's not taking any damage from exploding rats meaning that my position is only growing stronger. As the round ends I have five monsters to their two

Round 6

Around 6:00 is great for me again as I'm able to score another knockout while still leaving chaos night in first position. At this point with the damage they do and my healing I cannot lose this match and it's only a matter of time for me to wear them down and knock them out.

Round 7

Around seven shows just how effective high health and shield can be against melee cards. While I hit my attacks I only took away after health and I won't win until next round

Round 8

I was guaranteed a victory when you look at how round eight starts it just took a couple of attacks and I won pretty easily.

Thoughts - and Chances to Win Again

It's nice to look at it probability of winning if you were to repeat the match. This just means that my lineup choice was not a fluke, and I didn't get lucky. According to the tool I am a 100% repeat victor, no matter how many times I ran it things always looked good for me. This just means that a superior lineup is able to defeat tire ranked cards if picked correctly. It's not saying this lineup would win every time against every lineup, but this lineup would win every time versus the lineup they chose. I think it's pretty impressive to be able to pull these off that makes me feel good about my card choices.

~~@senstless

Splinterlands Monster Highlight Tatiana Blayde

Featuring Bronze League Summoner and Monsters in Action!

I'm back with another highlight for my bronze League account and this time it happens to be from a brawl and sharing a Gladius card. I wish I got a chance to play more brawl matches so I could really start to hone in on the best lineups when I unlock the Gladius cards I have started to use the new summoners a bit more rent to play, but most of their use has been still in the brawls. This week I am highlighting Tatiana Blayde but I recently got from a Gladius pack and I was able to use for the first time, and it worked out quite effectively.

Weekly Challenge -Tatiana Blyade

Edition: GLADIUS Rarity: LEGENDARY Element: NEUTRAL Attack: MELEE & ARROWS

Abilities: CLOSE RANGE Abilities" BLOODLUST Health: 5 Speed: 5 Attack: 2 RANGE / 3 MELEE Armor: 0

Reasons Why I like it There is so much to like with this card. Having a card that has both range attack and melee with the close-up ability so we can do a double attack from the first position is great. It not only unlocks the card in otherwise restrictive game types, but manufacturing that it has five speed with its heavy damage it could be a really powerful card the biggest downside is the fact that it has only five health at one bcx, but hopefully bloodlust can give it a few boosts to where it's not an issue.

These cards can be really powerful in certain rulesets, especially ones where melee's been attacked from any position, if you're able to provide it some boosts from summoners or martyr prior to it moving to the first position.

The Matchup - Where Rules Sets, Splinters and Mana Collide

The Rule Sets

Watch the Match Here

MANA: 35

Ruleset: Holy Protection: All monsters gain the divine shield ability which reduces the damage of the first attack received to 0.

Ruleset: Going the Distance: Only Monsters with ranged attacks may be used

Ruleset: Aimless: All monsters have scattershot ability.

SPLINTERS: Water, Earth, Dragon

Initial Rule Set and Mana Gameplay Thoughts

RULESETS First things taken with the rule sets, I think they will help to drive much of the game lineup. In fact that we can only use range attacks will severely limit the monsters that can be played. The fact that life is not an option also means that it is going to be a bit tougher. Adding and scatter shot with holy protection for me also means that it's going to be much harder to control your attacks are going and many of the first and second round tax depending on RNG will only be removing the divine shield.

Opponent Lineup & Match Play

Round 1

That's the first round starts I am happier than my car just slightly tired level on some cases, and I really like my two main cards. I think it all depends on how the first scatter shots attack and where the boosts land.

Has the first round plays out I'm the only one to lose a card, but I think most of the monsters on the board lost their holy protection of divine Shield and the second round is where things will start to be a bit more interesting.

Round 2

When looking at the board before round two starts I'm still feeling fairly confident especially considering I'm expecting my two most powerful cards to both get one to two boosts for the round is over. I do lose fungus finger so Tatiana moves to first after it's boosted. It gets three range attack, for melee, and 6 speed. A few turns later, I then lose muskrat giving my two most powerful cards each boost. This moves Tatiana to an amazing four range attack, five melee, seven speed and seven health. This guarantees it is around starts and I attack first delivering a guaranteed 9 damage. This also means that if I knock a couple of cards out then bloodlust will start to roll in my favor

Round 3

Ground floor starts and I secure a knockout with each of Tatiana's attacks. This leaves her with an amazing six arrow attack, seven melee, 9 speed and 9 health. It's overwhelming speed should help contribute some Mrs on my opponent. Not to mention that Runemancer Florre also got boosted to four magic damage and three arrow damage with 5-speed meaning it will also attack very early. Well there are no more knockouts than wrong three the board shifted heavily in my favor

Round 4

Front door starts and I secure another knockout with Tatiana. While it's basically over the stats just continue to amaze me it is 7 range attack, 8 family attack, 10 speed and 10 health. That's delivering 15 damage every turn at this point and it's mind-boggling. While they're Tatiana card gets to move up magic attack of Runemancer Florre those first and that's it out before it didn't get to chance.

Thoughts - and Chances to Win Again

It looks like I'm very likely to win and I match up, hovering around 92% to 97% I think that my lineup will be very successful in the future. It must depend on some very unlucky RMG and the scattershot taking out my primary attack monsters while leaving my martyr monsters behind. If I never get a chance to build the stats to get the blood loss rolling it could be troublesome

~~@senstless

Splinterlands Share Your Battle Weekly Challenge SPIRIT HOARDER

Another Bronze League Deck, Competing and Winning in Silver 1

That was pretty excited to see the weekly challenge this week as I really think that Spirit hoarder is a key card that can be used in many different scenarios to give your team a massive edge. There are not that many cards that have triage and allow you to heal a card outside of the tank position

This week's match was even more important given the rule lineups of equalizer and his but scratches..

Weekly Challenge -SPIRIT HOARDER

Edition: CHAOS LEGION Rarity: EPIC Element: NEUTRAL Attack: MAGIC Abilities: TRIAGE Health: 3 Speed: 1 Attack: 1

Reasons Why I like it

I think the biggest key on my spirit order is such a good card is because it has triage allowing you to heal card in the back line that is sustained the most damage. The same healing rules apply and it gets to feel 25% of its health around.

This is especially useful when you have a card that has taunt in your back line that will both attract the attack of the other monsters and can be healed stick around even longer. Having a magic attack is also a big bonus since most healers tend to have a ranged arrow attack. Find that magic attack healers especially powerful especially when. With the Earth splinter to get an additional boost their attack the only draw back really help Target for opportunity cards and can be taken out before provides the benefits you're looking for.

The Matchup

The Rule Sets

Watch the Match Here

MANA: 49

Ruleset: Equalizer: All monsters start with the same health, based on the highest health in either team.

Ruleset: Tis but Scratches: All Monsters have the Cripple ability.

SPLINTERS: Earth, Life, Death, Dragon

Initial Rule Set and Mana Gameplay Thoughts

First off 49 mana it's quite large and will allow you to play almost in accommodation of cards you want. Well you can't go all 10 plus mana, you do have the ability to add significantly higher man of cards in combination that will allow you flexibility and The heavy hitters that you're looking for. I'm making all the cards equal to the highest health card while also reducing the health for each attack that hits. The one nuance to tiswood scratches is that blast damage attacks do not impact total potential health, just normal Total health minus attacked and. Splash the triage can come along and still give it back to its full original health. What's that time Anna I assume likely be heavy magic.

Opponent Lineup & Match Play

Round 1

Round one kicks off and all of that negative speed is really slow in the monsters down. There is a significant amount of damage delivered to both teams but given the fact that he's starting health is 13 of all monsters it leaves quite a bit of room especially after all of my monsters are healed by both triage and thank you. Several of them took some rather large reductions in health

Round 2

Round 2 starts off with a bang for me and I get to knock out Floyd dragon. As the round progresses nothing really changes other than I do finally lose Slipspawn. Good news is unicorn dragon can get healed again and so can goblin psychic who took some splash damage. By the end of the round my team is mostly healed to Max health that's left.

Round 3

as round three starts I still feel like it made anybody's match. There is a lot of monsters with a lot of health doing a lot of damage and eating away at the underlying Max health. And it's round three progresses I do get another knockout of chaos dragon unfortunately I also lose unicorn mustang. The attack switch from magic to ranged is hurting me a bit more than I thought. As round 3 comes to an end I feel pretty good as my monsters are mostly not to tell her and I'm still doing some pretty good things

Round 4

Round 4 follows much of the same as the prior rounds, they're heavy range attack is doing lots of damage and with both score a knockout leaving each with three dragons and full health.

Round 5

Things are pretty even as we eat to Three monsters in each team has some slightly different advantages or disadvantages. For my opponent They're upside is they will do more damage around if everything hits they will do a total of nine damage to the tank plus two splash damage well I am only going to be doing seven damage to the tank with no splash damage the benefit is that I have a tank heel and a triage card left to help heal me up.

Ask around the place out I am starting to love Regal Peryton, it's high speed plus flying has allowed me to get two misses out of three arrow attacks. Key to allow my health to return to its Max by the end of round.

Round 6

In round 6 my trio continues to dominate. I scored two more misses with regal and it's flying and high speed, while Spirit order and goblin psychic dealt out magic damage while healing both regal and spirit horde back to their full potential. I think this is going to be a long drawn-out match to get it over into final victory just due to their high health.

Round 7

Found seven starts off much the same but they're down to one attacking monster and it's only a matter of time before I can eat through all their health.

Round 8

Round 8 I finally finish off Pelacor Arabelist, leaving just one monster I need to eat through.

Round 9

Round 9 and 10 are just a one-sided attack Battle as it takes me awhile to finally knock them out. Matt wants to talk about her strategy here it was just a one-sided attack until it was over.

Thoughts - and Chances to Win Again

It's nice to see his number as high as 98% and have your strategy validated. Having some middle damage magic cards that always hit doing damage each round while having both a tank heel and triage card really helped me to keep an upper hand against my opponents. I guess there must be some small chance of me missing if I don't get lucky on the RNG and I don't score as many misses. Overall I think this is a prime example of how powerful the spirit holder can be to protect your attacking cards and back row and keep them healthy for when they move into first position so that they can be healed by your tank heel card. That way they're not showing up as the new tank with only one or two health left from splash damage. If you don't have a spirit order I would highly recommend looking at a new one to your collection.