Splinterlands Battle Of The Week: Thorns are Sharp

The Ruleset

• Rulesets - Close Range
• Mana Cap - 19
• Active Elements -

Here's my starting lineup

Summoner: Mylor Crowling

• With the ruleset and element pick that I got I really did not want to play ranged monster as if the ruleset favors one or another attack type your enemy usually tries to counter it
• So in my case I went with earth element and Mylor Crowling as my summoner because I did have a great team in mind and also Mylor Crowling is just a wonderful summoner in my opinion
• Thorns - Returns 2 physical damage to attacker when hit by a melee attack

1st Position: Halfling Refugee

• Halfling Refugee was my main tanks for this battle
• Main reason I like Halfling Refugee here a lot is his high stats for his low mana cost
• The reason he has so high stats for only 1 mana is that his ability is a selfharm one but as he is in the first position I was not really afraid that he could take my whole team to get ground with him
• Weary - At the beginning of round 1, Weary units have a 10% chance to become Exhausted. This chance increases by 10% every round, up to a maximum of 80%. Exhausted units skip their turn and cannot Retaliate

2nd Position: Creeping Ooze

• Creeping Ooze is a safe low mana cost monster to play in any low mana cap battles
• His main thing is his Slow ability but also his 2hp which meant he could tank at least 1 attack when it comes to that
• Slow - -1 speed to all enemy units

3rd Position: Uraeus

• Uraeus was my only Sneak monster for this battle
• I thought that he might be kinda useless solo but still played him as I just did not have anything else to play and hopefully he could do at least some damage to my enemies backline
• Sneak - Targets the last Unit on the enemy Team instead of the first Unit

4th Position: Mushroom Seer

• Next up in line is my take on countering my enemy playing magic based comp
• Also Mushroom Seer had some decent stats on him when it comes to damage
• Silence - -1 magic power to all enemy units

5th Position: Wood Nymph

• Wood Nymph was my only healer for this battle
• I was really on the fence playing him but in the end still played him
• I did not really want to hold my selfharming tank alive for too long as every round he lived he could skip my whole teams turns but felt like the odds ever still low enough to have a strong tank in fornt
• Tank Heal - Each round, restores 1/3 of max health (rounded down) to the allied unit in the first position

6th Position: Goblin Dartling

• Goblin Dartling was my backline tank for this battle
• Even tho his stats were quite stinky I still played him as I just did not have anything better to play for 2 mana
• Also I had him in gold foil so incase I should win this battle I would get a reward boost which is always great

Starting board

• After seeing the starting board I was quite scared as my enemy played a 3 melee damage Katrelba Gobson who was going to get a lot of take downs from my backline
• But I did play Mylor Crowling as my summmoner so just maybe he kills himself at some point and after he gets taken down my enemy is out of monster who deal damage
• But my predictions could still be off by a mile so lets start the battle and have a look

Here's how the battle went

1st Round

• After first round his Katrelba Gobson did look scared at first glance but when you look closer you might see that he only has 2hp left which meant he was going to fall to Thorns damage in the start of the second round
• Even tho his Katrelba Gobson will manage to take down my 3 backline monsters I will still have two monsters with attack left on my board
• Understanding that the battle was basically over already but lets still keep watching

2nd Round

• After 2nd Round my enemy was out of damage dealing monsters and the battle was decided
• I had lost 3 backline monster up to this point which meant the rest of the battle was going to take some time but would 100% finish with my winning it
• Now I just needed to wait until my enemies last two monsters were taken care of and then I could enjoy my victory

3rd, 4th & 5th Round

• It took me 3 rounds to kill my enemies last two standing monsters
• After his Kra'ar Xoc and Clockwork Aide had fallen I took the victory
• Battle Replay Link

Summary

• This battle was quite close actually
• This victory 100% belongs to my summoner Mylor Crowling as if I had played any other summoner I believe I would have lost this battle
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