Lore

Portals Spinners are members of the Cult of the Rift, a faction within the Chaos Legion that harnesses rift magic to cast deadly spells.

Portal Spinners siphon life magic from their surroundings to open mini-rifts in the fabric of reality. Some thought to use these portals to travel between realms. However, after attempting to do so, many a Portal Spinner was consumed by whatever foul beasts dwelled on the other side of the portal. Others emerged... rearranged... and either dead or wishing they were dead.

Now, Portal Spinners simply use their portals to launch chaotic and random attacks against their enemies. They might open one portal beneath a fallen sword, boulder, or other weapon of convenience and a second portal above their enemies, sending the weapon through the rift and crashing down on its unsuspecting victim.

If facing enemies capable of flight, Portal Spinners have been known to use their portals to drop nets upon their foes, grounding them.

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The White Splinter is not my favorite from all the six classes, because my experience shows that it is quite easy to counter and the high leveled good cards are very expensive, so it is difficult for me to play with it properly.

Anyhow I had to give it a try for this weeks challenge (This is one of the reason I love these kind of challenges, because they will push me out of my comfort zone and I might be able to discover something new! 😊) playing with the Portal Spinner, which I never really used before. 😁

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Let's see his stats and abilities on all levels.

The Portal Spinner's Ranged 🏹 attack damage is 2 on Level 1, which is amazing for 5 mana and receives +1 Armor 🛡 as well to protect him from 1 incoming Melee and Ranged Attack completely. He receives the infamous Scattershot ability, which makes the Portal Spinner attacks to hit a random enemy target. 🤓

This ability makes very difficult to predict the outcome of the battle and this is one of the most important reason I didn't use him at all. My strategy (and I believe most of us use this strategy as well) to focus most of the damage on a single monster and do not spread the damage on multiple monsters. Using the Portal Spinner makes focusing my opponent creatures more difficult, but in some circumstances like in the Back to Basics rulesets, where all the Monsters lose all abilities this monster could come in handy. 😎

Ruleset	Description
Unprotected	Monsters do not have any armor and do not get armor from Abilities or Summoner Buffs.

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My lineup and the decision behind it!

Summoner
General Sloan

General Sloan is one of the cheapest on the market if you are planning to rent or buy him. His ability is to provide +1 Ranged 🏹 Attack damage to all of his fellow ranged monsters. This ability is quite strong on its own, but if you want to play competitive with him you need to protect your lineup somehow. Thankfully there are many ways where you can get armor 🛡 from life monsters, which is pretty good, but like I mentioned in my opening they are pretty expensive.

General Sloan worked out perfectly with the Portal Spinner as it is a Ranged attacker, so I just had to protect my rangers in order to defeat my opponent. 😊