Splinterlands Share Your Battle Challenge: Pirate Captain

This week PIRATE CAPTAIN was surely a tough challenge. His shooting skills must on point though since he comes with the Snipe ability despite holding a flintlock (boy, those things aren't accurate at all).

To be frankly honest, I don't use this card much because I think blue is better at directly tearing down the frontline. I don't own enough blue cards nor Selenia to make a unit like this work well enough for me.

The battle! Click here for the Battle

Ruleset:

Noxious Fumes: All monsters start the game poisoned and will take 2 damage each turn unless cleansed.
Taking Sides: Neutral Monsters may not be used in battles.

Battlefield:

Summary:

Smart viewers would see that I am only using 44/46 mana available, so I could straight up replace my pirate captain with a Sniping Narwhale. Let us talk about snipe units in blue though. I think Snipe units do best when you want to tear down the enemy middle/backline equally fast. In this case, many players tend to store some tankier units behind with Noxious Fumes in order to live until the last turn. Being locked into blue/dragon without even the help of neutral certainly made the selection difficult. This is one of the few times I would use a snipe unit in blue.

Another good ruleset would be all ranged/magic units gain blast, where Snipe excels (looking at you Yodin).

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It's almost time to say good bye to him in the modern format :')