I have to be honest, the Djinn apprentice is one of my least favorite cards out of all the new ones but it does come in handy every now and then. I'm not the only one since this card is going for a pretty cheap price, it cost less than $14 to max it out... I know the bear market impacted the price of the cards but there's very little demand for a magic attacker on a fire splinter.
This card is the definition of average... Average attack, speed, and health points. To top it all it comes with a useless ability in most circumstances, The Death Blow ability is completely dependent on your enemy team composition plus being lucky enough to have Djinn Apprentice still standing by the time there's only one enemy left. 99% of the time this ability won't change the outcome of a match.
On a positive note, magic attack can be quite useful on a splinter that focuses mostly on melee damage.
BEST RULESETS
Broken Arrows - Since you can't take any ranged attackers and your enemy will most likely expect a lot of sneak attackers this can mix things up and catch them off guard.
Explosive Weaponry - 5 damage is almost guaranteed since the magic attacks ignore the shield and can't miss. Pretty easy to counter with void and reflect though.
Ruleset: Keep your distance
Mana Cap: 99
Battle Link
No meele attackers allowed and here I am playing a summoner with a +1 to melee damage. I expected my enemy to bring a full magic team so I prepared accordingly by populating the first two spots with monsters that have void + reflect. This frontline will be able to sustain a ton of damage and reflect a good chunk too. For damage I'm counting on my Lava Launcher stun combined with Ettin Spearman's knock-out ability.
Round 1
I managed to get the stun + Knock out combo and bring his frontline down to 1 health point while dealing some chip damage with the reflect. Unfortunately for me, my Lord Arianthus got poisoned and it will die at the beginning of the next round.
Round 2
Reflect was able to deal with one of my enemie's damage dealers but I got unlucky once again, my prismatic energy also got poisoned. Both enemy walls are down now it is just a matter of going through the weaker damage dealer.
My opponent made a huge mistake by placing the Cornealus at the back since it will be useless once it gets to the first spot.
Round 3
The match is pretty much over all that is left to do is to knock out the Cornealus that sits at the front unable to attack. I quickly dealt with it in two turns to get my win!
SPS Rewards are way more predictable since splinterlands changed the distribution mechanism. It is way better now in my opinion, instead of grinding hard during the early season we're now able to consistently earn SPS no matter how far along we are in the season.
