Card Stragety Guide
DPS Tank Plus Taunt
On this Community Engagement Challenge I want to show a basic strategy of using a DPS Tank a melee monster that Have a very high attack or ways to deal big damage, since the stats and abilities of this unit have are mostly for damage have not the best defensive stats and abilities, making the tank position not that good for this unit because the opponent will take down this unit before it deals high damage, does where the Taunt on the back will help, it will Tank the damage and let your first unit do his damage.
Grund is a Great example of a DPS Tank.
Mycelic Slipspawn is Great Taunt unit in the Earth Splinter
This are the main part of the Strategy but it does not just end there you can build your whole team to support it for example With:
Queen Mycelia
This monster will greatly increases the resistance of your tank and Taunt giving both armor with Protect will heal your Taunt with Triage and will make easier to break your opponents defenses by removing their armor with Rust.
All others team members can help as well with defensive abilities like Tank Heal , Strengthen, Silenced, Demoralize, Headwinds, Blind , more Triage is always good, or offensive abilities that can help your main DPS such as Shatter, Swiftness, Inspire.
This is just an example with the Earth Splinter but this can work with any others splinter and even though I put DPS in the Tittle there are others factors to chose your Tank like abilities against melee units like Thorns, Retaliation, Shield, since while your Taunt is alive your tank will only get attacked by melee units ( unless there is a magic unit on the opponent first position)
All Splinters(colors) have Taunts units and there is even a Dragon One and a Neutral One , so there are multiple options to use this Strategy.
Weakness:
As any strategy this one have his weakness as well, the main one is the anti-taunt ability ,
Fury that make the units with it deal double damage to units with taunt.
Another one for Grunt and units slow like him is a very high speed unit, it can make quite hard to hit them.
Forcefield in case your opponent use this ability in the first position and your DPS have 5 or more attack it may ruin your whole strategy if mostly of your damage was coming from that DPS unit.
Extreme Damage from Tank and a unit with Reach, if the opponent is using very high damage melee units on the first 2 position you may get in trouble, they may end your tank even before killing your taunt, units with Retaliate can be very dangerous specially if you are using Double Strike , the Summoner Possibilus The Wise will more likely kill your DPS tank pretty fast with the Reach ability.
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Thanks for sharing! - @yonilkar
