***If you read until the end, genuinelly comment with what you think about this post, and you will enter automatically in a raffle to win a Gold card. Winners announced in the next week battle challenge post. The last winner was @luizeba, and the Gold Pelacor Deceiver was already sent to him/her.
What is Splinterlands?
Splinterlands is a card game, similar with Hearthstone, where you can play battle against other players to get a better rank or in tournaments. It is a NFT game based on Hive Blockchain, with multiple ways to capitalise and make money, real money, by playing it or trading in it. You can start earning as soon as you buy a Spellbook ($10) getting DEC tokens and NFT monster cards via daily quests and season quests (every 2 weeks). There is an airdrop daily, for a whole year, currently at day 354/365, I think, and you can still get some nice governance tokens just by playing the game for the next few months (11 days left). Everything counts, cards, DEC on HIVE, WAX, ETH and BSC, lands, titles, skins. You can maximize the airdrop by staking all you SPS for a 32.5% APR right now. Holy Molly! I got one validator, and all the licences from the pre-sale were sold in 12 minutes. You can buy one in the Tranche 1, paying $3000 in SPS. You can get it much cheaper (around $800 less) if you buy 500 Vouchers and use them when you buy a licence. Another way to make profit is to rent cards, getting paid in DEC tokens for it. But, my, oh my, the renting price right now is so, so low. Check the contest at the end of this post!
We can buy still Chaos Legion packs with 4$, using just DEC, for a 45% discount right now (something like $2.10 per pack instead of $4). Even then, if you want to get the extra packs, you still need vouchers, but just for the bonus packs. An awesome hint from a really good player (not me), if you open your packs after the Legendary summoners are introduced, you have a small chance to get them from the packs. It was announced that Lands NFT and Riftwatchers pack are coming in the third quarter now, with the new Roadmap proposed by Splinterlands. Just check this awesome page about what are the Lands supposed to do.
The Flying Squid is an expensive unit, with a 7 Mana cost, and 3 Melee Damage, 5 Speed and 10 Health at max level. The abilities are good enough, Reach at level 1, attacking from the second position, Blind at level 6, increasing the chance to miss for Ranged and Melee attacks, and Backfire at max level 10 (doing 2 damage when the enemy misses). It is a good card for high mana battles, especially for rulesets like Lost Magic (no magic users) and Melee attacks only. The card is not very expensive, costing 'only' $24 for a max level ($0.06 for one LVL 1 card).
(To see the video, you can check the battle link.)
So, for the challenge, this were the starting conditions:
Mana Limit: 29
Rulesets: Equal opportunity - all cards got opportunity, and Close Range (Ranged can attack from the first position.
Teams:
Mine - Summoner: My summoner was Kelya Frendul, adding +1 Speed and Armor, Diemonshark as main tank with Trample (attacking once more after a kill) and Enrage, Flying Squid with Reach, attacking from the second position, and Blind, making the opponent miss more often, Deeplurker with Poison, Albatross with tank healing, Pelacor Bandit with Sneak and Flying, and a Torrent Fiend as fodder, to defend from few hits.
Opponent - Summoner: Thadius decreasing my Magic Attack and Health by -1 , Windeku as main tank returning Damage with Thorns and Healing, Harkclaw second with Shield, Immunity and decreasing Melee attack by -1 with Demoralize, Legionairre Alvar third with Void Armor, Giant Killer and another Demoralize adding -1 Melee attack, Weirding Warrior with Armor Shatter and Amplify, making the Windeku Thorns quite a problem, and a Corpse Fiend as fodder.
This was a interesting battle, and the teams seems both balanced. The Corpse and the Warrior died first, with my own Albatross being killed right after that. My Torrent Fiend died ambushed by the opponent, and after a sustained assault, I managed to kill Alvar. Then somehow I destroyed the Windeku, with the Diemonshark killed by the damage return. 2 more rounds and 6 attacks later, the Harkclaw is dead, and I won.
Star of the game - The flying squid, as the Blind skill resulted in quite a few attacks being missed by my opponent at critical times.
On the side note, my continuous support for Splintertalk.io is going well, with my SPT tokens number raising over 1 million. All of it is delegated to @monster-curator, as this account is doing a great work curating the best posts on the forum. I have finally reached the needed SPT power (110K at the moment) to manually curate on Splinterlalk.io. Also, working on acquiring 50K Oneup (28100 UP now) next, inspired by the Cartel efforts. Bought 200K Level too, for PsiberX airdrop, as I also managed to round up 100 Hive to buy a piece of Land in their game. Got 4 PsyberX packs already on airdrop in the last 3 months. Happy to have them!
Also, if you are posting on Publish0x and Read.cash blogs, and you liked the Chifibots game mentioned in the latest OneUp Cartel posts, there are still 4 prizes to be won if you want to get some of their NFT packs on this contest, open until the day they launch.
All the best, George
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