Beastmode ON!!

For this week's Share your Battle contest, a very special card for me!

First of all, Kudos to the artist, because the Stonesplitter Orc looks really badass!

Why is it special for me? Because I only have 2 maxxed alpha cards... and this guy is one of them!

I used the Orc a ton of time when we only had Alpha edition. Now I tend to use it a little bit less, because he's not exactly the best tank, given it's middle range HP. Nevertheless, this card has some skills that make him just insane in some rulesets!

He starts with retaliate from level 1

In the first few levels, apart from the retaliate he hasn't got much on his favour: not that huge speed, low HP (starts with only 4)

At level 3, with 4 melee attack, 4 speed, shield and 5 HP, things start to be interesting

At level 5, the magic begins:

enrage!!

With all the skills and a very respectfull attack, the Orc can be a killing machine!
A 4 melee with retaliate turns into 8 damage in one round, which is already good. But what if... the beast is awaken?? In the battle I'm sharing... it was!!

Rulesets:

no legendaries
the HP of all monsters is equal to the HP of the highest HP monster in the battlefield

These rulesets are just perfect for the Orc! No legendaries excludes a lot of tanks with heavy armour, and the HP boost makes him a lot less squishy!

My strategy:

Orc as a tank
Brownie as an offtank, since HP is no longer an issue; besides, speed and attack boost!
Centauri mage with repair ability, the idea was to keep Orc's armour on, but the opponent's summoner eliminated that strategy from the start
Nymph for the heals
Vulture to cause some more damage
Sincve I had an extra spot on the line up, Ooze, to give even more of a speed edge.

The speed was enough to kill the opponent's tank on the first round, before he even attacked! And to finish the first round in beauty...

BEASTMODE ON!!

Enraged kicked in! 9 melee attack and 8 speed!! AND the chance to retaliate; a possibility of 18 melee damage in one round! And now with a tank with lightning speed...

The minotaur didn't stood a chance! One retaliate, and he was out. The mushroom seer had the same fate. And the nymph...

Well, you can imagine the story! Unless the opponent's team has a lot of firepower to take an enraged Orc down quickly, with 9 attack it's almost a one-hit-one-kill for most of the opposing monsters.

In rulesets like melee mayhem the Orc is also a great choice, since he can lash out the huge strikes and not being on the front line. So you see... it's easy to like him! 😉

Do you have any Orc strategies that you want to share?

See you on the battlefield!

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