My entry for this week's social media challenge focuses around abusing the melee attack fire power of the fire splinter. With the new chaos legion cards coming into play, I think it's timely I share with you some insights and strategies. I will also be sharing a battle analysis with you to showcase the strengths of this cards.
The Summoner
Let's kick things off with the summoner, this will be your core card and where your gameplay will revolve. If you see your opponent not having strong melee counters, then it is a great idea to use Tarsa. For 4 mana, all melee monsters gets plus 1 attack and plus 1 health.
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Core Card
Tenyii Striker is probably one of the best cards launched in this chaos legion packs. For just 5 mana you get almost everything you need, you get a strong melee monster that simply does it all. It's sneak ability can have you position this card at any part of your lineup. Due to it's high health you can place this card in the backlines to soak up some damage. Use this card every chance you get.
Tank Choice
While Lava Golem remains to be a sold tank, it's high mana cost usually consumer a lot from the mana pool making Antoid Platoon a lot more viable in some matches. I use this card when i could not use Tenyii striker and lava golem together.
Off tank
The antoid platoon does not have a lot of HP and usually gets taken down. To create an offset for this lack of hp, and while maintaning high attack damage each round i make use of radiated brute on my second position card. I use this card if i think my opponent will not have high flee or evade tanks as well as if there is still cap space in my mana pool.
Battle Analysis
You can view the full battle here: https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_157ab207a9011729c4067ef5f7e061d1&ref=beerbod
Pre Fight Analysis
The ruleset is standard gameplay. My opponent went with a high flee and magic damage lineup. It is not bad at all, however one of his cards is the failed summoner which will not really contribute to anything except soaking up damage. I went with my Tarsa lineup, and because it's a high mana cost battle i was able to use Lava Golem as my Tank. I also have the radiated brute to act as my off secondary tank. And Tenyii striker to deal with the backlines. Coupled with Uraeus and Serpentine Spy. I also used ant miners as a back up in case i lose my first 2 tanks.
Round 1: Speed and Power
In just the 14th move of the first round, I already eliminated 3 of my opponents backline cards. Including his magic healer. I was able to 1 hit 3 of his monsters due to the Tarsa buff. I have sustained no significant damage as well since many of my cards have higher speed. This round has also significantly bugged my ant miners health. All in all it was a solid round and things are looking good for me.
Round 2: Evasion gives me troubles
While I did have a good start the end of the Second round has me troubled. 2 of his cards the unicorn mustang and the flying magic has speeds 4 and 5. This is one of the weaknesses of my lineup not having high speed and since it's a physial lineup a lot of attacks could miss.
Round 3: Opponent is catching up.
By end of the third round. I already eliminated his failed summoner bringing down his cards down to just 2. I have lost my tank. and my radiated brute is down to 3 hp. I will be in trouble if i miss more of my attacks. His high speed monsters are truly causing me some problems.
Round 4: Down to my last tank.
Towards the end of the 4th round and on the 8th move. I lost both my primary tanks. This is where ant miners have given me confidence. It went to the first position with 8hp. The unicorn mustang had just been eliminated. And I will have a lot of chances to hit my opponents final high speed splinter.
Round 5 - The Finish
I ended the battle losing only 2 cards, but things could have gone worse for me. Still even if i still missed plenty of my attacks. The ant Miner would still give me plenty of chances. And even if it came to a point that i lose my next 2 cards. My tenryii striker still has full hp and would have guaranteed me a win.
