Imagine Dragons - Good music and barbecue,courtesy of the Splinterlands battle challenge - Day 75

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 140/365, 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 43% APR right now. Another way to make profit is to rent cards, getting paid in DEC tokens for it.

Chaos Legion cards pre-sale is done, and somehow I have managed to buy 700 packs, a solid number, much higher than the 500 I expected to get. The second sale started, with double the drop rate for the vouchers. You still need to use them to buy more packs, until beginning of January, when we can finally buy packs with 4$, using just Credits. Even then, if you want to get the extra packs, you still need vouchers. All lands were sold out and will be introduced next, I believe, with a price of 709$ on average for each at the moment. Just check this awesome page about what are the Lands supposed to do.

My choice of Dragon card was one of my favourite summoners, the Epic Daria Dragonscale, providing +1 Melee Damage boost. Being an epic card, you only need 46 of them to upgrade this one to max level, but this will likely cost you $1300-1350 for a level 6 summoner today. Nevertheless, this is a perfect card for some rulesets, such as Up, close and personal (Melee only), Equal opportunity (all cards have opportunity, or Super Sneak (All cards have sneak). Check how this is working on the video bellow.

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

Mana Limit: 44

Rulesets: Silenced Summoners (no summoners boost) and Up, close and personal (Just melee damage cards)

Teams:

Mine - Summoner: Daria Dragonscale, with no boost due to ruleset, with Living Lava as tank using Shield to reduce damage and Rust to take out some armor, backed up by Fineas Rage attacking from the second position due to Reach and some useless Oppress skill (this game). Then I have used some cards like Uraeus and Dragon Jumper with Sneak and Opportunity, to attack on the back of his team, with a little twist on the back (monsters with range attack like The Vigilator, with Thorns and Poison as extra and War Chaang, with a very useful Retaliate)

Opponent - Summoner: Malric Inferno, with no boost, a crazy strong Magnor with Taunt, Enrage (extra damage) and Trample, for extra attacks, backed up by Cerberus with Heal and Retaliate, Giant Rock with Trample also, Serpentine Spy with opportunity, Kobold Miner with Sneak and a Fineas Rage on the last position, probably aiming to absorb some Sneak damage (I did not have much of it, only the Uraeus).

This was a game that underlined strategy against money, as all his cards were max levels. This is why in Splinterlands, while paying for extra cards helps, this will not guarantee a victory (yeah, almost not pay to win, almost). I somehow managed to overpower his tank in the first round, thanks to a well timed Poison. Then my Uraeus died. I killed his Spy and his Cerberus in the second round, and his Kobold in the third round, before losing my tank. Then, in round 4, it was matter of time until I disposed of his 2 left cards, with nothing to lose.

Star of the game - my tank, of course, thanks to his Shield skill, defending valiantly the whole team.

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 (63K at the moment) to manually curate on Splinterlalk.io also.

All the best, George

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