Splinterlands Card Review - Neutral Untamed Commons
I am on to the Neutral cards. Yes, I am going to do the commons first. I hope you don't find that too boring as you can still win 500 DEC for some feedback. I haven't been playing as much as I want. I hope I find some more time soon. I really want to start buying more of these cards while they are cheap. Time to get to the review.
Mantoid is a good card. We all will want to own this card. It is a sniper with up to 4 damage. It also has snare that is a nice bonus to fight a lot of cards. The card has good speed at higher levels and good hit points. It is an all-around good card. The one drawback is 6 mana cost. It might seem weak for that cost. But it will still get play when people want to try a triple sniper combo. I have already done that with this card and sometimes it is great and sometimes it is bad. It depends on if your opponent has easy to kill targets in the back. Headwinds will also ruin your day. Yet I still like this card and think it is playable at level 4 when it gets 3 damage.
Elven Defender is a card I don't like as much. When you have 8 mana cost and only do 3 damage it seems low. I do see that he has shield and armor with stun at max level. But he is slow and doesn't hit that hard. I could see you tossing him in maybe in the big 99 mana matches when it is super sneaky or melee mayhem but that is about it. Let me know if you think I am wrong? What team do you think he might be a good tank for? I am thinking maybe earth who can heal him but the have good tanks. I will see when I get him to level 7 if he is better than I think.
Horny Toad is a useful card. At only 3 mana cost he can get up to 3 attack but most likely will have 2. But he has reach and poison with okay speed. Low hp but that is expected in cheap monsters. As soon as he gets poison he is a very usable card in low mana matches. He would replace almost any other reach monster in that kind of battle. He will show up in little league games also. This might be the best common of the neutral cards. It is very playable in a lot of games.
Parasitic Growth is the other card you will see a lot. Opportunity can be a really cool skill. Add in scavage and it is a nice little combo. Running around killing weak guys and picking up a hit point. His 4 mana cost hurts a bit unless you have him maxed out and he has that last attack point. He is also a little slow. But that is sometimes a plus on opportunity cards. So he can target someone the rest of your fast guys weakened. The only reason I am not more of a fan is because of the chicken. That stupid chicken is almost always on the board and will make this guy go after him first. If your chick has armor you laugh while he goes after him twice. On and he is slow so he might miss once and now 3 attacks to kill the chicken. At high levels, he gets a lot more playable. Also, he can be used in an Opportunity team. That can be fun but that skill is either great or bad depending on what the other person plays. In a group, it gets better, that chicken dies fast but still can make you ignore a strong monster that kills your team.
Let me know what you think. Overall the cards are all good but some are better than others. It is nice most of them don't have to be high level to use.
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I agree with your ambivalence toward Elven Defender as a !monster @stever82. Once it gains the Shield ability at Level 5 it can withstand a good melee/ranged beating, especially with a healer, but I still rarely use it. Maybe if the rules were melee only and evens only with 99 mana? How many can I buy with 500 DEC.... Thanks again. :)
Looks like I need to upgrade my horny toad. 🤞
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It's disappointing that these untamed cards are pretty poor at the lower levels. someone delegated a load of Level 1 Betas to my untamed experimental account and I pretty much always choose them now over the untamed so it looks like my experiment wont' be going much further. I tried to discipline myself to just play untamed but it's too frustrating now the options of alphas/betas are there.
I had not noticed the Horny Toad, but now I see how useful it can be.
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Totally agree on Parasitic Growth -- great !monster when it works, and much less so when it just beats up a chicken while the rest of my team gets wiped out. But, teamed up with other Opportunity or Sneak can pack a good punch against the opponent's back line. Even better is knocking out the weakened lead !monster . :) Thanks for posting.
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