Baby Shark, make you mark, in the greatest game of all games (A Splinterlands weekly challenge - Wave Runner)

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, but the crypto rewards (DEC is the name of their native token) can be used on ETH, TRX, WAX and on the lately added Binance Smart Chain (you can provide liquidity to mine CUB on Cub Finance). You can also provide liquidity on ETH network, but this is a bit more expensive, even if you get some Uniswap bonus in DEC paid straight to your game account (I got 3-4000 DEC monthly with around 60K DEC providing liquidity). DEC is similar with a stablecoin, most of the time, 1000 DEC being $1 most of the time, but right now it is much more than that.

And now it is easier than before (one of my main complain was about beginners not having enough cards at the start) because they offer quite a lot of cards not to the one starting to play, making it a more pleasant experience - I remember losing game after game when I just started 7 month ago, so I am glad that the developers sorted this out. There is an airdrop daily, for a whole year, currently at day 51/365, 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 110% APR right now. You can rent your expensive or useful cards now, so extra DEC is coming weekly. All lands were sold out and will be introduced next, i believe, with a price of 4-500$ each at the moment. Just check this awesome page about what are the Lands supposed to do. Also, the guild brawl will be improved, with new monsters, maybe even summoners that you can use only on brawls, and some more resources. Gladiators are called, and i cannot wait to test them.

The Wave Runner is a Common Water Splinter Monster, with 5 Mana cost, Reach ability (Attack from second position) at level 1, KnockOut at level 5 (Double the damage if enemy is stunned) and Snare at level 9 (Removes Fly ability). At max level it has 4 Melee Damage, 5 Speed and 7 Health. I use a level 4 Gold Wave Runner, as it has 3 Damage and Reach, doing a nice job from the second position, and a 10% bonus for DEC rewards. Except decent damage and reach, this card has not much to offer. Unless is boosted by a Dragon, then 4-5 damage is significantly better.

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

Mana Limit: 28

Rulesets: Holy Protection (All mosters have Divine Shield) and Healed Out (No healing abilities)

Teams:

Mine - Summoner: Bortus ( Decrease enemy magic power by 1) - Unlucky choice, as the opponent has a Melee based team. Sea Monster as tank, backed up by Wave Runner. Then, for the damage bit, I chose a mix of Sandworm with Sneak, to kill the ones on the back, melee, Phantom of the Abyss, magic, with Demoralize (-1 Melee Attack) to counteract the Knight Inspire, and the reason I won, Dodge and Fly, for a splendid chance to increase melee and range attacks evasion, and Axe Master with a nice 4 Ranged Damage. Last was the Alchemist, to defend the ones doing the damage with a mighty 1 Armor, and one useful Halving skill (once a hit landed, the attack is cut to half of it).

Opponent - Summoner: Chanseus the Great (Legendary Water champion with Repair Armor, Healing the back troops and even one Ressurect), with Silvershield Paladin as tank, using Shield (reduced damage from melee and ranged attacks), backed up by a Silvershield Knight with Piercing and Inspire (+1 Melee Attack), a Shieldbeared on the third position (why?) using Taunt, then one Armorsmith with another Repair (if he would have used a healer here instead I would have been toast), and on his last two positions for damage a Silvershield Assasin (Double Strike and Sneak) and one Sand Worm (another Sneak).

This was a game of skill and luck, and obviously my Alchemist died first, then I managed to kill the Shieldbearer, which was ressurected. My Axemaster died, and at that moment I tought that I lost the game. Finally I managed to kill that Shieldbearer, who did its job perfectly, getting all the hits until the third round. And then, a miracle happened, my Phantom decided to be invulnerable to harm. I managed to kill his Paladin and his Sandworm, while my Phantom avoided 6 direct hits. Two missed hits later, I got rid of his Armorsmith and Assasin, and the game was won. This stubborn Phantom of the Abyss avoided to be hit 7 times in one game.

Star of the game - the Phantom of the Abbys, my master of evasion.

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. After the new website launch I did not receive any rewards for like one week, but they restarted to pay daily now, once more. Next, I am slowly building some SPT power to manually curate on Splinterlalk.io also.

All the best,

George

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