Nidhoggr is a Legendary Dragon summoner from the Rebellion Series. He's one of the airdrops from Conflicts, a feature in Splinterlands where you can get cards by staking cards and packs from Rebellion.

Nodhoggr costs 10 mana and has abilities of -1 Armor and -1 Health to enemies. It has Forced Reduction Debilitation reducing your team size by 1.

His Rebellion Tactics abilities are both strong as well and can be used depending on your plan for that battle.

He can give Blast and Deathblow to 3 of your units giving your team insane AOE damage or give 3 of your units +2 Speed and Execute to quickly eliminate your enemies fast before they can act.

To compensate with this overloaded kit, Rage costs 16 mana to be used in the battle. When combined with Nidhoggr, that's already 26 mana for a summoner and a single unit which is already equivalent to a whole sized decent team.

I don't think I need to point out the awesome combos that this mighty dragon alone possess but...

• 5 magic attack with Life Leech gives you extra 3 health per attack.
• Weapons Training gives your two other units extra 3 attacks which is very strong since it's also a magic attack that passes through armor and cannot miss.
• Void means he can act as a tank with his insane 11 health and 5 armor.
• Flying with 4 speed means a lot of attacks to it would probably miss unless they are magic attacks.

This is my most favorite strategy so far for Modern Format as it's very easy to pull as long as you hve the budget for it.

The main strategy is composed of Nidhoggr as the main summoner, Rage and any two units with no attacks. I prefer Water Element for Merdaali Guardian and Baakjira but can also be anything like Chaos Agent and Grimbardun Smith for Neutral or Riftwing and Chaos Animator for Death.

The Rulesets are...

• Even Stevens only allowing units with even mana to use.
• Fire and Regret giving all units Return Fire which damages any attacking range units.

In this battle, I added Blast and Deathblow abilities from Nidhoggr to Baakjira, Rage and Djinn Oshannus. All of them have Magic attacks making Blast also Magic. Rage is really good with Blast as his 5 magic attack means he can deal 3 Blast attack to other units. The other 3 magic attack units deal 2 Blast attacks increasing my overall power for this battle.

The Rulesets are...

• Standardwhich is the normal rule set. No changes whatsoever. Just play with what abilities your summoner and other units would give.

Since the mana is very low, I wasn't able to use Nidhoggr. I also was in a numbers disadvantage facing 2 units versus 6. Even so, I am confident that I can win since Rage has both Blast from Nidhoggr allowing him to damage 2 units at a time and Life Leech to regain some health every attacks.

If my enemy didn't use Silent Sha-vi or any Sneak units, this would be a lot easier since my Chaos Agent, a 1 cmana unit, will be able to use his 2 magic attack (-1 magic attack from Enemy Thaddius Brood) that is granted by Rage's Weapons Training.

This is also the reason why I really like Rage. Units with no attacks like Chaos Agent or Riftwing, typically has low mana to compensate their lack of ability to attack. This complements very much with Rage's high mana consumption allowing you to pull off low mana units and give them high damage.

This combo from Rage is more disgusting in Wild Ranked Format. In Wild Ranked Format, you can use a Neutral unit called "Furious Chicken" which has no attack and costs 0 mana giving you a 2 in 1 unit combo with Furious Chicken and Rage anytime you play him.

The Rulesets are...

• Counterspell gives every unit Magic Reflect that returns a portion of the damage if that attack is magic. While Rage is affected by this, he still has Void which would halve the already halved return damage to him so he would be fine even in this ruleset.
• Taking Sides which does not allow any use of Neutral units, which is fine. Water Element is also not allowed so I went with the only element available to be used by Dragon, which is Death element.

In this battle, I fully utilized the Summoner Tactics and Tactics stage to see what my enemy's plan is before adding the Summoner Tactics abilities given by Nidhoggr. Instead of Blast and Deathblow, I added +2 Speed and Execute to Dhampir Infiltrator, Djinn Chwala and Silent Sha-Vi.

The reason for this change is because the only threat I saw in my enemy is Lira the Dark. Adding +2 Speed to Dhampir Infiltrator gives him 6 Speed, same as Lira the Dark. This allows him to hopefull attack first before Lira the Dark eliminating her before she attacks. That would be possible due to Execute which allows Dhampir Infiltrator to launch another extra attack once Lira the Dark goes down to 2 Health. Now, it's just math.

Lira the Dark has 6 Health. It will be reduced by 1 because of Nidhoggr going down to 5 Health. Dhampir Infiltrator does a Sneak attack doing 2 damage putting her at 3 health. He attacks again due to Double Strike putting her to 1 Health. Since Lira the Dark is 2 health or below, Execute allows Dhampir Infiltrator to do a third attack doing another 2 damage killing Lira the Dark in the process.

The only downside is that the system probably do a coin toss so Lira the Dark was able to attack first than Dhampir Stalker since they both have 6 Speed. Otherwise, she would've died before even doing any actions.