Share Your Weekly Battle Challenge Featuring Cruel Sethropod By affliction

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Hello Splinterlands Community!
Hope everyone is doing well.
Today we are going to talk about my experience about a battle featuring Cruel Sethropod, the theme card for this week's battle challenge.

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ABOUT THE CARD :

Before we talk about the battle, let us briefly talk about the card.

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Edition: CHAOS LEGION
Rarity: COMMON
Element: WATER
Attack: MELEE
Abilities: N/A

The water deck is one of my favorite decks from Chaos Legion because of the synergy it brings specially with melee cards.
Cruel Sethropod is a low mana solid tank splinter that adds great value to the water splinter specially in low mana battles.
Let's take a look at the stats of the card at all levels.

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For the cost of 3 mana, the card comes with 1 melee damage, 1 speed, 3 armor and 4 hp at level 1 which sure does the job when it comes to protecting from the front line.
At the highest level, the card is an absolute beast with 3 melee damage, 6 armor and 7 hp.
For today's battle I am using a level 5 version of the card that comes with 2 melee damage, 2 speed, 4 armor and 5 hp.

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THE RULE SET :


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  • Mana Cap : 32
  • Rule set :
    Close Range: Ranged attacks may be used in the first position in battles.
    Odd Ones Out: Only Monsters with odd Mana costs may be used in battles.
  • Available Splinters :
    Water
    Earth
    Life
    Dragon

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THE LINE UP :

For our summoner we went for a level 3 Quix the Devious.
The - 1 to archery and -1 to speed this summoner inflicts to the opponent deck are amazing debuffs to have and being a legendary summoner.
Since I bought cheap power recently to be able to play in gold league, I bought 3 more copies of the card and leveled him to level 3 which is allowing us to play max level gold cards.


At position 1, we went have Cruel Sethropod, the card of the week.
The level 5 version of the card comes with 2 melee damage, 2 speed, 4 armor and 5 hp. For mana cost of only 3, this will act as a solid tank.

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At position 2, we have a level 4 Venari Wavesmith.
This rare Reward card from water splinter comes with 2 magic damage, 3 speed and 4 speed. In addition to that, the card also comes with Protect at all levels, which adds +2 armor to all cards.

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At the 3rd position, we have went with a great support card from the Water splinter, River Hellondale.
At level 2, the card offers 2 magic damage, 2 speed, 1 armor and 4 hp.
The abilities Resurrect and Inspire the card comes with additionally at this level brings amazing synergy with the Water splinter.

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In the next position we have Uraeus, the neutral epic card.
Though it is one of the few cards I have a max level copy, for the battle we could only use a level 5 version of the card which comes with 2 melee damage, 4 speed, 1 armor and 4 hp. Additionally, it comes with the abilities of Sneak and Poison

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In the next position we have a max level Pelacor Bandit.
Similar to Uraeus, though we have a max level version of the card, we are able to have the card effective at the level 8 version.
It is simply astonishing how cheap this card is with the kind of utility it adds to the water deck!
The Sneak with Flying ability at all levels gives a card an added advantage in most battles. At level 8, it comes with 3 melee damage with 6 speed and 4 hp. And most importantly we get this entire package for just 3 mana!

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At the last position we went with a level 4 Gargoya Devil, the Neutral Rare Reward card.
The card comes with 3 ranged damage, 3 speed, 1 armor and 3 hp and additionally the abilities Flying Close Range and Deathblow

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THE HIGHLIGHTS :

  • Round 1:

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In round 1, Our Gargoya Devil draws first blood by taking out the Mycelic Slipspawn from the opponent deck. But soon the Djinn Biljka from the opponent's deck takes out our tank Cruel Sethropod which gets revived by the River Hellondale and Cruel Sethropod absorbs another hit from the Spirit Hoarder and finally gets eliminated from the battle after doing its job for a round.

  • Round 2:

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Right at the start of the round, Pelacor Bandit takes out the Spirit Hoarder.
But we too loose our Venari Wavesmith to Regal Peryton.
The action for the round does not end here as Uraeus takes out Mushroom Seer and Gargoya Devil gets another kill by taking out Hill Giant from the opponent's front line giving us the advantage.

  • Round 3:

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Our Pelacor Bandit gets another kill at the start of this round by taking out the Regal Peryton. And in the next turn Uraeus wraps up the battle by taking out Djinn Biljka giving us the sweet taste of victory.

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THE LINK : You may watch the full battle here

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DID MY STRATEGY WORK?
The plan was to divide the attack in 2 ways, having 2 magic damage dealers with a range attacker attacking the front line and 2 sneak attackers doing serious damage to the enemy back line as our tank Cruel Sethropod buys out enough time by taking damage. This obviously worked out very well and the battle was over in 3 rounds only.

Do I like the Cruel Sethropod? Why or why not?
Cruel Sethropod is a simple bland 3 mana pure tank that does the job.
Though, it is a bit prone to magic damage but it still can take a beating.
The card is not valued enough as it does not have any abilities but this is a card you will not love seeing as your opponent specially in low mana battles and I too use it quite often and I feel it is a great addition to the Water splinter.

Do let me know in the comments if you liked my article.

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