SHARE YOUR BATTLE Weekly Challenge! CERBERUS

Hello guys,

Today I am going to share with you another battle in @splinterlands.

Battle details:
I played with fire splinter. And my opponent used life splinter against me.

It was a battle of total 46 mana with two rules:
Back To Basics: Monsters lose all abilities.
Explosive Weaponary: All monsters have the Blast ability.

I had my YODIN ZAKU level 3, GOBLIN MECH level 8, FLAME MONKEY level 4, CERBERUS level 6, ETTIN SPEARMAN level 8, CYCLOPS level 6 and CORNEALUS level 3.
And my opponent had his/her cards as TYRUS PALADIUM level 1, GOBLIN MECH level 1, SPIRIT MINER level 1, PEACEBRINGER level 1, MANTOID level 1, VANGELIST level 1 and SILVERSHIELD SHERIFF level 1.

Let me talk about monsters that I used in this battle.

~YODIN ZAKU. level 3

This legendary fire summoner adds +1 ranged attack, +1 Health to all friendly monsters. It also grants them all Blast ability.

Market.

This is my favorite fire summoner. His other abilities are also nice but I mostly value that all my team gains Blast.

~ GOBLIN MECH. level 8

Edition: REWARD
Rarity: COMMON
Element: NEUTRAL
Attack: MELEE
ABILITIES: Piercing at level 1, Stun at level 6.

This is a neutral monster, in this level it has melee attacks (5), Speed (3), Health (8), Armor(7)

It has two abilities at this level which are-
Piercing: If melee or ranged attack damage is in excess of the target's armor, the remainder will damage target's health.
Stun: When a monster with stun hits a targer, it has a chance to stun the target causing it to skip its next turn.

This monster needs 10 mana.
Market.

This monster is a good tank. In this battle I used it because I wanted to have a high attack power combined with Blast ability.

~FLAME MONKEY. level 4

Edition: REWARD
Rarity: COMMON
Element: FIRE
Attack: MELEE
ABILITIES: Repair at level 5, Swiftness at level 10.

This is a fire monster, in this level it has melee attacks (1), Speed (3), Health (3).

Another ability at level 5 is Repair: Restores some armor to friendly monster whose armor has taken the most damage.
Another ability at level 10 is Swiftness: All friendly monsters have increased speed.

This monster needs 1 mana.
Market.

I only used this monster because I wanted to protect my ranged monsters longer and it has decent health for a monster with only 1 mana cost.

~CERBERUS. level 6

Edition: BETA
Rarity: RARE
Element: FIRE
Attack: MELEE
ABILITIES: Heal at level 1, Retaliate at level 5.

This is a fire monster, in this level it has melee attacks (3), Speed (5), Health (8).

It has two abilities at this level which are-
Heal: Restores a portion of monster's health each round.
Retaliate: When hit with a melee attack, monsters with retaliate have a chace of attacking their attacker.

This monster needs 4 mana.
Market.

Normally I like this monster because it has Heal and Retaliate but in this battle monsters lost their abilities so I only wanted another line of defence for my ranged monsters.

~ETTIN SPEARMAN. level 8

Edition: Reward
Rarity: COMMON
Element: FIRE
Attack: RANGED
ABILITIES: Piercing at level 3, Knock Out at level 8.

This is a fire monster, in this level it has ranged attacks (4), Speed (3), Health (9).

It has two abilities at this level which are-
Piercing: If melee or ranged attack damage is in excess of the target's armor, the remainder will damage target's health.
Knock Out: Does double damage when attacking an enemy that is stunned.
This card needs 8 mana.

I wanted to use my summoner to his full potential so I needed monsters with high (and preferably Ranged) attack. For this reason I picked ETTIN SPEARMAN, CYCLOPS and CORNELIUS as the main offensive weapons of my team.

Market.

~CYCLOPS. level 6

Edition: BETA
Rarity: RARE
Element: NEUTRAL
Attack: RANGED
ABILITIES: Shield at level 3, Stun at level 6.

This is a neutral monster, in this level it has ranged attacks (3), Speed (1), Health (7).

It has two abilities at this level which are-
Shield: Reduced damage from melee and ranged attacks.
Stun: When a monster with stun hits a targer, it has a chance to stun the target causing it to skip its next turn.

This card needs 6 mana.

Market.

~CORNEALUS. level 3

Edition: UNTAMED
Rarity: LEGENDARY
Element: NEUTRAL
Attack: RANGED
ABILITIES: Heal at level 1, Thorns at level 2, Return Fire at level 3, Magic Reflect at level 4.

This is a neutral monster, in this level it has ranged attacks (3), Speed (3), Health (12).

It has three abilities at this level which are-
Heal: Restores a portion of monster's health each round.
Thorns: When hit with a melee attack, does damage back to the attacker.
Return Fire: When hit with a ranged attack, monsters with Return Fire will return reduced damage back to their attacker.
Another ability at level 4 is Magic Reflect: When hit with a magic attack, does reduced Magic damage back to the attacker.

This card needs 6 mana.

I really like stun ability. Also I thought that a monster with Shield could be useful in last position if my opponent will have monsters with sneak ability.
Market.

On the battlefield.

After seeing that my opponent is at very low level I already believed that I will win this battle. It didn't seem like his team had enough attack power to compete with my monsters.

My opponent already had his ranged monster pushed to the first position so now he had no hope.

As expected I won.

In this battle I won 10.808 Dec and 3 League Rating. My strategy worked well- My monsters with melee attack protected my team and my monsters witch ranged attack destroyed my opponent's team. But my opponent was at a very low level so my strategy was not very important.

I don't play with fire team often but when I do I really like using CERBERUS.

I think that I had a good team in this battle. Normally In a battle with Back To Basics rule I would prefer having some mages but with this summoner using ranged monsters is more beneficial. So I think that I would either pick completely different team or would not change anything.

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Thank you and have a nice day.