Splinterlands - Beginner's Guide - New Legendary Fire Summoner!

Are you new to Splinterlands and searching for some advice, then you found the correct series! In this Beginner’s Guide Series, we are discussing things that new players of Splinterlands should know or try to learn. In this specific episode we will take a look at the upcoming legendary Fire Summoner that is supposed to be airdropped soon. We will discuss the benefits of this card, potential strategies and cards to use it best with. In the end we will also take a look to the other side of the board and will think about how to stop this card if being faced against us. If this article motivated you to start playing this amazing game, then feel free to join the fun over the following link:

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Conqueror Jacek

First things first, let’s talk about the summoner himself. Conqueror Jacek is a 6 mana cost legendary summoner which looks rather interesting on the first glance. What immediately jumps into my eye is the Scatter-Shot Ability, but we will talk about this in a little bit. It comes also with the Piercing ability for any of our monsters and gives our monsters additionally two speed. Especially the speed buff is something interesting to consider as it is one of the most underrated stats that is often being overlooked. In my opinion it matters a lot who can strike first and it also increases the chance to dodge the attack!

Now let’s talk about the card’s special abilities: Scatter-Shot will be a game changer in my opinion and I will tell you why. Not only will this apply Chaos to all the Battles but it will also help against opponents that have a superior deck. Because of the Scatter-Shot Ability you will be able to ignore taunted minions and have a chance to hit the most important support unit of these players. It is important to mention that this Ability is only applicable to all Ranged and Magic Attackers. All Melee attackers will stay the same as they were.

In combination with the Piercing Ability, this card has the potential to be a game changer. With the piercing ability you can finally use some heavy attacked Tanks that will actually benefit from having a massive attacking stat! Furthermore, I think that both of these Abilities combined will help to deal with some of the bot problems that his game is still facing from time to time. Because of the unpredictable flow of the battle due to the randomness of the Scatter-Shot ability, it will be harder for the bots to generate the perfect strategy for each opponent. I am very curios at which price tag this card will come out but I am predicting that it will be definitely worth more than the Life Legendary summoner at 22 USD at the moment.

Potential Strategy & Useful Cards

So what would be the potential strategy for this card? The first thing that comes to my mind is Madness! What is greater than hitting the support unit of the opponent? Maybe hitting the monsters next to the support unit as well and causing Mayhem! This can be done with the Explosion Ability which the Fire Splinter has two Ranged Attackers of. With the Fire Elemental and the Pyromancer we have two cards that could fit very nicely in the above described roster. Especially the Fire Elemental is very quick and with two additional speed this card will be speedy Gonzales! It can even go up to 6 speed at the highest level which would then bring its speed up to 8 which is very insane in my opinion.

Pyromancer on the other hand can shine will shine with a potential of 4 Ranged Attack. This can bring the damage to the adjutant minion up to two which is pretty nice if you ask me. With 5 health and 2 speed, this card should not hide from any other card out there, especially not if it gets an additional 2 speed boost. With both of these cards, we would be able to deal some serious damage in the most random places of the battlefield and because we have a speed advantage, the chance is high that we will always hit first. With a little bit of luck we could even get rid of some support units before the battle even started for our opponent.

I think this summoner is perfect to break some solid and rigid strategies. Another very great card to combine this Ability with is the Flamesmith. Because of it Shatter Ability we can basically destroy any armor with just one hit. This card is perfect to use in combination with the two cards above as we can make sure that the armor will disappear. Additionally to this, we can also play all of the nice big tanks without worrying that our attacks will be absorbed by only one armor. Due to the Piercing ability the Attacks will just go through any kind of armor.

Counters And Drawbacks

Last but not least I want to talk about potential weak points and counters of this card. Well, first of all, the summoner is costing 6 mana. Yes it is not the biggest price, especially for a legendary summoner. But if we have a ruleset where we have to operate on a very tight mana budget we can not just spent 6 mana for a summoner that will only help our ranged and Magic Attackers. Furthermore, this summoner can destroy our own plans for a strategy. Because of the random nature of the Scatter-Shot ability, we can not really focus on one minion. In many cases it is better to focus on just the tank or just the Back-Support Unit of our enemy. This will just help us to establish dominance in the battle and is often times the most preferred strategy.

Not only that but I still think that this card will be beaten by any Magic Comb with some magic attackers that have a good amount of health. I look specifically at Djinn Oshannus and Nerissa Tridawn as they have a very nice amount of health as well as some solid amount of Magic Attacks. Because the Fire Splinter is traditionally very good counter by magic attacks this could be the only opportunity in the future.

With that being said, I am definitely looking forward to this summoner and try him out on my own. The chance is very high that I will not get him through the airdrop. This is why I will try to get one copy of this summoner somehow cheaply!