Every week there is a Splinterlands challenge to share a battle using a specific card and on this week's post it is the Regal Peryton card. I also encourage Splinterlands players to partake in the challenge because you get to try different strategies and earn some crypto in the process.
Featured Monster: Regal Peryton
Regal Peryton is a earth splinter card that costs 5 mana. It starts with the flying ability and doesn't learn any new skills afterwards. The stats are decent as a tank but I find the low magic attack an issue. If I had the +1 magic summoner leveled up along with this card, I would not mind using it more. However, mines is only level 2 so it only has 1 magic attack so it doesn't fit my lineup most of the time.
Rule set, Battle and Plan
The ruleset this time is fog of war. This means that all monsters lose their sneak or snipe abilities. There is also 28 mana available and I am left with the choice of any splinter.
The summoner I choose to use this time is Wizard of Eastwood. In a match like this, I think that removing 2 armor will make it easier for me to kill the opponent and my cards can be played at their highest level.
| Splinter | Mana Cost | Position | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wizard of Eastwood | 3 | Summoner | -2 Armor |
| Unicorn Mustang | 8 | 1st | Tank with void magic |
| Failed Summoner | 2 | 2nd | Reflect magic |
| Fungus Fiend | 0 | 3rd | Filler monster |
| Regal Peryton | 5 | 4th | Flying magic monster |
| Queen Mycelia | 4 | 5th | +2 armor |
| Goblin Psychic | 6 | 6th | Tank heal |
| Total Mana: | 28 |
My plan is just to have a lineup using a few tanky monsters up in front. Unicorn Mustang is fast and strong so it is up first. Then there is failed summoner as it has decent health and reflect magic. I have the fiend next as a filler and some magic monsters to back up my lineup in the back as support or damage dealers.
Round 1
At the first glance of my opponent's lineup, I think it will be dangerous because I can't really do much damage after my Unicorn Mustang goes down. So it depends on how fast I can kill off my opponent. It does look like my opponent used a sneak monster so he is down one monster to attack.
Round 3
After 2 rounds, I have lost one monster and I haven't done as much damage as I would like. I hope my tank dodges a few times so it lasts longer.
Round 6
I think I have this match lost because I won't be able to deal much damage. That opportunity monster can kill me quite easily and it will hit my healer soon enough.
Unfortunately, my Regal Peryton did not dodge enough but I was able to dodge a few attacks and bring the fight close as it was down to the 1 monster on my opponent's side.
Conclusion
The battle this time did not go as I expected. The lineup I went for had a bunch of counter against magic monsters but it wasn't really able to help much against my opponent's line up. From what I see, I do think I did what I could with my own lineup despite the difference in card levels.
The -2 armor from Wizard of Eastwood did help as it negated the summoner's +1 armor. However, the speed still worked against me because my opponent still got his buff. I would say that my opponent's lineup was strong but I think the only mistake he had was to use the sneak monster. I just think the poison on those monsters are kind of overpowered and it definitely hurt to get hit by that in this match. There is only so much I can do when my opponent had void magic and I had to rely on Unicorn Mustang for most of my damage.
You can see my entire match here.
What did you think of my match? Was there anything you would have done differently? I think it is quite interesting to see how different players use the same card.