SHARE YOUR BATTLE Weekly Challenge! Crypt Beetle (Harklaw's Balls)

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The Theme of the Weekly Battle Challenge is the Crypt Beetle.

Witness how this menace wins a match with Haklaw making him worthy of the title "Harklaw's Balls", Find out why in my battle below.

Within the darkness of the necropolis, the large crypt beetle scuttled across the stone floor. It made its way through the lines of tombs, searching for its next meal. Retracing steps it often took in the emptiness and silence of the underground. The crypt beetle returned to its meal.
The crypt beetle stopped at one tomb, reared back on its hind legs, and shoved the lid off. It fell heavily to the floor with an echoing slam.
A small scream of surprise and horror sounded from across the room. The crypt beetle turned. A human stood there, face aghast, staring at the insect. As the beetle fully faced this intruder, the human turned and ran away in fright.

Splinterlands Lore

STATS

The crypt beetle is a common card under the Chaos Legion Edition. Costs 3 mana to summon this card deals 1 melee damage until level 5 and will deal 3 damage at level 10. With armor its armor and shield ability it serves as a good support tank for the death team.

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Reduced damage from melee and ranged attacks

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THE BATTLE

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RULE SET:

Silenced Summoners: Summoners do not give any stst buffs or debuffs or grant/use any abilities.
Lost Magic: Monsters with Magic attack may not be used in battles

Summoner: JARLAX THE UNDEAD

This creature of fire,death, and doom, a 2 mana summoner perfect for rulesets like Silenced Summoner. It is an epic summoner so it can summon a level 2 common card even he is only level 1.

Since no buff or debuff from summoners will be applied in this match using a 2 mana summoner is the wisest move allowing you to maximize the mana cap.

This will allow us to use more monster or use a high mana tank. Like in this match I managed to use Harklaw.


First Position: HARKLAW

With lost magic, Harklaw is just a badass tank.

The shield ability attached to this monster will let him tank melee and range damages since it will reduce incoming damage from the opponent's side.

It takes 8 mana to summon this monster, using Jarlax the Undead helped a lot in summoning him.

Most melee damage from low mana monster does not deal a lot so it's wise to have a tank with a shield.


Second and Third Position: FILLERS

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I considered the Corpse Fiend and the Creeping Ooze as Fillers, having 0 and 1 mana gave me additional meat shield for my main damage dealer to take out his backline units


Fourth Position: HALFING ALCHEMIST

The Halfling Alchemist is essential to the Harklaw and Crypt Beetle combo because it reduces the damage coming from enemy units.

It's quite a useful card in a lot of scenarios and it is one of the cards listed on my wishlist.

Once Halfling alchemist reduces the opponent's damage Harklaw and Crypt Beetle can last long in the match and will have a higher chance of winning the game.

Fun fact. If the monster has 3 damage it will be reduced to 1. Basically, the remainder of the damage will be void. 1.5 = 1


Fourth Position: TWISTED JESTER

This card is my main damage dealer and must be protected at all costs.

A 4 mana alpha card with 2 damage, 3 speed, and 4 health. This clown snipes and kills backline units.

I placed him in one of the safest positions (usually at the back) while harklaw is tanking the damage in the front.

This card is one of my favorites since I started playing splinterlands. Another card on my wishlist.


Fifth Position: CRYPT BEETLE

And Finally, last but not the least is Harklaw's balls!

I mean the Crypt Beetle...

Our star of this challenge is a 3 mana common death monster with 1 damage, 1 speed, 1 armor, and 2 health.

It also has the Shield ability that's why I call him Harklaw's balls. The same reasoning with Harklaw, I chose crypt beetle because it is good against Melee and Range attacks.

Though he will not deal any damage from the damage, this menace will protect our twisted jester until the very end.



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THE PLAY BY PLAY

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Round 1: Since it is a silenced summoner match, Pyre's buff will not apply to the opponent's monsters. The slow debuff from both of our Creeping Ooze kicked in.

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Round 2: At the end of round 1, our opponent's living lava has only 1 damage because our halfling alchemist took out half of it. Now the Halfling Alchemist's job is done and his living lava will not deal any damage to our harklaw anymore.

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Round 3: Most of our filler cards have been taken out already.

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Round 4: My twisted jester took out his chicken and his serpentine spy managed to eliminate my halfling alchemist

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Round 5: Now this is where my crypt beetle shines. Our opponent's serpentine spy will deal with crypt beetle's shields first before going to our twisted jester.

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Round 6: The twisted jester will slowly chip the enemy's tank leaving the serpentine spy alone and will be dealt with by our thick ass team.

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FINAL THOUGHTS:

The Death splinter has been one of the best splinter in splinterlands. In terms of the strategy of this match, I can say that the crypt beetle successfully did its job as (Harklaw's balls) a support tank.

This match is a good example on how to deal with opportunity monsters in low mana matches.


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Thanks for sharing! - @marianaemilia

Thanks for sharing! A battle that exemplifies great use of the C. Beetle in last position successfully completing its objective.

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