Aligator, disintegrator , I am a bit of commentator! (A Splinterlands battle challenge)

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 240/365, I think, and you can still get some nice governance tokens just by playing the game for the next year. 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 28.2% APR right now. 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.

At last, we can finally buy packs with 4$, using just Credits. Even then, if you want to get the extra packs, you still need vouchers, but just for the bonus packs. An awesome hint from a really good player (not me), if you open your packs after the Legendary summoners are introduced, you have a small chance to get them from the packs. Unlike right now. I believe that lands will be introduced next in the second quarter of 2022, I believe, with a price of 500$ on average for each at the moment. Just check this awesome page about what are the Lands supposed to do.

Part of the Neutral Splinter, the Disintegrator has 3 Melee Damage, 2 Speed, 4 Armor and 7 Health at max level 10. As for skills, it is starting with Demoralize at level 1 ( enemy Melee Damage reduced by 1), gaining Trample at level 5 ( attacking the next card when killing), Knockout at level 8 (double damage on stunned cards) and finally Retaliate at level 10 (chance of attacking back when hit). Useful on various rulesets like Reverse Speed and Stampede.

So, for the challenge, this were the starting conditions:

Mana Limit: 56

Rulesets: Up, close and personal (only Melee Damage cards available)

Teams:

Mine - Summoner: Daria Dragonscale with +1 Melee Damage boost, with ShieldBearer as main tank, with Taunt and Shield, reducing Melee and Ranged Damage, backed up by the new Carnage Titan, using Reach to attack from the second position, Shield and Double Strike, Silvershield Assasin next using Sneak, Double Strike and Poison, Armorsmith with Repair to keep the Armor up for the main tank, Vigilator with Thorns, Double Strike and Poison, to help speeding the battle, and Disintegrator last, with Demoralize to decrease the opponent Melee Damage, and Trample.

Opponent - Summoner: Mother Khala with +1 Health boost, with Goblin Meck as main tank with Piercing and Stun, Goblin Toad as back-up, attacking from the second position with Reach and Poison, Uraeus with Sneak and Poison , Silvershield Assassin with Sneak, Poison and Double Strike, Sandworm with Sneak and Snare, and Crystal Jaguar with Thorns to damage my cards using Sneak.

This was a interesting battle, with me using a strategy of double strike cards for offence and reduced ranged and melee damage for defence, and my opponent using Sneak and Poison combo. My Assassin said Banzai, taking out the Jaguar before dying. Then both our main tanks died, as the second round ended. Double Strike prove its advantage, as I took out his Goblin Toad and Uraeus. His Sandworm managed to kill my Disintegrator, dying shortly after that, together with his Assassin. With 3 of my cards still alive, I won.

Star of the game - The Silvershield Assassin, acting as some sorts of kamikadze.

On the side note, my continuous support for Splintertalk.io is going well, with my SPT tokens number raising to 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 (103K at the moment) to manually curate on Splinterlalk.io. Also, working on acquiring 50K Oneup (3602 UP now) next, inspired by the Cartel efforts. Fancy the idea of having 200K Level too, for PsiberX airdrop (147K now), as I also managed to round up 100 Hive to buy a piece of Land in their game.

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All the best,
George

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