Paddy long legs - The Irish Octopider (Weekly battle challenge)

What is Splinterlands? 

Splinterlands is a card game, similar with Hearthstone, where you can play battle against other players to get a better rank or in tournaments. It is a NFT game based on Hive Blockchain, but the crypto rewards (DEC is the name of their native token) can be used on ETH, TRX, WAX and on the lately added Binance Smart Chain (you can provide liquidity to mine CUB on Cub Finance). You can also provide liquidity on ETH network, but this is a bit more expensive, even if you get some Uniswap bonus in DEC paid straight to your game account (I got 3-4000 DEC monthly with around 60K DEC providing liquidity). DEC is similar with a stablecoin, most of the time, 1000 DEC being $1.

And now it is easier than before (one of my main complain was about beginners not having enough cards at the start) because they offer quite a lot of cards not to the one starting to play, making it a more pleasant experience - I remember losing game after game when I just started 7 month ago, so I am glad that the developers sorted this out. There are big changes and improvements coming soon, according to the Hive rumor mill. Just check this awesome page about what are the Lands supposed to do.

On this week challenge we have a Rare Reward card from the Death Splinter with 5 Ranged Attack, 8 Health and 4 Speed at max level, Demoralize (Reduce melee attack by 1) at level 3 and Blind (Increase change of missing the target) at level 7. The mana cost is high, 8 Mana, but the Demoralize will provide a significant advantage in high Mana battles. For 18-19$, you can have a max level Octopider, so the price is decent still. I am actually playing this card if there is more than 40 Mana Limit per game.

So, for the challenge, this were the starting conditions:

Mana Limit: 48

Rulesets: Melee Mayhem (Melee attack from any position

Teams:

Mine - Summoner: Daria (+1 Melee Attack bonus), Goblin Mech, Vigilator, Sandworm, Shadow Presence, Ancient Lich, Octopider

Opponent - Summoner: Tyrus (+1 Armor bonus), Shieldbearer, Goblin Mech, Sacred Unicorn, Billa the Radiant, Divine Healer, Armorsmith

In this game I used Goblin Mech as main tank, supported by Vigilator secondary, as it has double attacks and poison. The poison made the difference this game. Then I had Sandworm for the back monsters, Lich for magic damage and the Octopider ranged damage and Demoralize (-1 Melee Attack for my opponent) with Shadowy Presence to increase health and act as buffer before the Lich will be getting the extra health.

As the fight started, The Shieldbearer died first, followed by his Mech, and then by my Mech. After that the Vigilator killed his Unicorn, and the Sandworm finally killed his Armorsmith, after missing few times. Billa still managed to kill the Vigilator, before the rest of my army killed his last two monsters.

On the side note, my continuous support for Splintertalk.io is going well, with my SPT tokens number raising a bit over half a million. 82% of my target reached and hopefully the 1 million will be done in few months. All of it is delegated to @monster-curator, as this account is doing a great work curating the best posts on the forum. 

All the best,

George

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