LORE
Elves can be found living in many of the forests of the Splinterlands. They live in the trees, but come down often to collect resources from the forest floor. Though the elves are small and beautiful, they always have a seemingly endless supply of concealed knives, with which they are deadly accurate.
STATS
ABILITIES
Level 1 - Level 10 ||
Sneak || Allows this card to prioritize the last position monster for attack.
Sneak is a good strategy if your opponent likes to employ heavy tanks. This strategy can be countered by putting a tank at the last position or by using a monster with Taunt Ability.
Rent/buy cost
This is the rental cost of Elven Cutthroat at the time of writing this article.
This is the purchasing cost of Elven Cutthroat at the time of writing this article.
Positioning
Due to Elven Cutthroat's low health and Sneak Ability, it is advised to put him in the middle of the pack where he would be the safest. However, some rule sets make him good and sometimes, just mediocre.
Advantageous Rules:
- Equaliser || The initial Health of all Monsters is equal to that of the Monster on either team with the highest base Health.
- Explosive Weaponry || All monsters get the Blast Ability which does additional damage to Monsters adjacent to the target Monster. Additional damage is equivalent to main damage/2 rounded up.
- Holy Protection || All monsters get the Divine Shield ability. The first time the Monster takes damage from a monster it is ignored. It works in Earthquake but NOT Noxious Fumes.
- Little League || You can only use Monsters and Summoners with 4 or less mana.
- Up Close and Personal || Only Monsters with Melee attack may be used in battles.
Disadvantageous Rules:
- Back to Basics || Monsters lose their own abilities. Summoner effects such as those that give abilities to monsters still take effect.
- Earthquake || Monsters without flight ability will be hit with 2 melee damage after every round ends. Snared monsters will take 2 melee damage from earthquake per turn too.
- Fog of War || Snipe and sneak abilities are gone.
- Noxious Fumes || All monsters start the game poisoned and will take 2 damage each turn unless cleansed. Big HP and cleanse are going to be your best bet here. However there may be some cases where you ignore and go for a big offensive attack and wipe out your opponent before the poison becomes a factor.
- Reverse Speed || Slower monsters attack first. Try to pick monsters with speeds of 1. Speed effects how soon your monster will attack in battle and how effective it is at evading attacks. So a monster with a speed of 1 would normally attack last now will attack first. A speed of 1 will also have the best chance of dodging if paired with evade and flying as well.
- Taking Sides || Neutral Monsters may not be used in battles.
Compatibility
As a neutral card, this card is compatible with any deck. You will have more advantage of using this card with Fire and Light due to the easily available inspires built in the deck. Light has a lot of Sneak Cards so it would be most advantageous to use it on Light Builds and do a Full Sneak Build.
This is a replay of how I use this card and taking advantage of his great ability.
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Final Remarks
This card, to be honest, is not that great. It has very low stats and low damage. The advantage of this card is the speed, which means he's one of the first few to attack first, and the sneak ability which allows him to bypass the front tank. The best use of Elven Cutthroat is when game rules Explosive Weaponry comes into play with an inspire duo.. Since this is a very speedy card,you may be able to eliminate a good support before they do any harm to your builds.
If you have any questions, suggested combos, any violent reactions, feel free to comment it down below.
Thanks for sharing! - @alokkumar121
