O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done! (a Splinterlands weekly challenge story) - Day 42

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 107/365, 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 52% APR right now. Another way to make profit is to rent cards, getting paid in DEC tokens for it.

Chaos Legion cards are here, first we have a 30 days pre-sale, where you may receive some vouchers to get access to the packs early (1 voucher for every 4000 SPS stacked). There are bonuses like 10% less for 100 packs bought, 15% for 500 and 20% for 2000, also, you get a discounted price if you use SPS tokens. On top of this, if you buy more than 1000 packs you may receive a title. For every 50 packs you buy on presdale you have a guaranteed card on the next airdrops, and for every 1000 packs you have a guaranteed gold card on the next airdrops. Overall, it will be difficult to get the right amount of packs for the maximum discount. All lands were sold out and will be introduced next, i believe, with a price of 600$ on average for each at the moment. Just check this awesome page about what are the Lands supposed to do.

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Another old school card, a Common Water Monster, The Pirate Captain is booster card with Snipe at Level 1 (Hit ranged, magic or no attack on other than first position) and Inspire at Level 6 ( Increase Melee Damage by 1 for every team member). Is my card of choice with Sea Monster, for extra damage and tank healing. At max level we got 3 Ranged damage, 6 Speed and 3 Health. Equalizer is also a great ruleset to use this one and Reverse Speed is a no-no. He is still cheap enough for the boost provided (Inspire), in my opinion.

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

Mana Limit: 34

Rulesets: No Healing and All monsters got Knock Out

Teams:

Mine - Summoner: Alric with +1 Magic boost, The Kraken as main tank with Taunt and Demoralize (decrease melee attack by 1), backed up by a Furios Chicken as fodder, then three magic users (Ice Pixie with Flying, Coral Wraith Sneak and Rust - decrease Armor, and Phantom of the Abbys with Evade and Demoralize) with the Pirate Captain last as extra damage with 2 Ranged Snipe and Inspire, giving +1 Melee attack to the main tank.

Opponent - Summoner: Pyre with +1 Speed Boost, with Serpentine Soldier Shield, Naga Fire Wizard with Shield and Thorns (return melee damage to the attacker), Goblin Shaman with Weaken (decrease health) and Slow (decrease speed), Beetle Queen, Flame Imp with Flying and +1 Speed boost, and Pyromaniac with Sneak on last position of my team.

This was a game of Magic, somehow, even if my opponent tried to use Speed for a quick finish. I used Demoralize and Rust to decrease Melee attack and Armor for the opponent team. He got first two cards with Shield reducing the melee and ranged attack, and +2 Speed bonus. As we started, I managed to kill his main tank, losing my Kraken, Chicken and Pirate Captain shortly after. But I manage to gain the advantage once more, as I killed his Naga, Beetle Queen, Goblin Shaman and Pyromaniac, losing only my Pixie. Then I disposed of his Imp, and the game was mine to win.

Star of the game - Phantom of the Abbys, as it did most of the damage.

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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. Next, I am slowly building some SPT power to manually curate on Splinterlalk.io also. But for the next 30 days I am exchanging the SPT rewarded daily for vouchers.

All the best, George

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