The Snitch Sucks

Rant about a snitch.

“Who’s the snitch?” A phrase uttered often in groups up to no good. Snitches disrupt plans. Snitches get the team in trouble. They ruin the best laid plans. Snitches are rarely a praised bunch. I don’t intend to change that today.

Even in Gold, I'm not a fan

The Shadow Snitch is a card I rarely, if ever play. I just don’t like it^[1]. The Snitch pales in comparison to powerhouse reach arounds like Fineass Rage and the Flying Squid.

Not only is the Snitch slow, but it hits for a mere 1 melee for most of bronze and silver levels. Even if the Snitch was faster, I hate 1 damage units. If an opponent unit has a shield (void) the 1 physical (magic) damage does nothing and the unit is a wasted slot in the line-up. Never rely on a one-damage unit.

I’ll be the first to admit death splinter is not my first choice and will reluctantly continue to admit that the Cursed Windeku has troubled many of my bronze and silver teams. As the result o a disappointing Chaos legion pack opening (worth about 60 cents), I actually own a Snitch. I honestly didn’t even remember until writing this and looking over the stats. I guess that says how often I consider this card. I can hope this card is better at higher leagues, but I don't know myself.

I could be wrong the snitch may have talents I’ve failed to see. I’m happy to admit if I’m wrong so lets try a few matches…

Shadow snitch team looses. Click for full battle

That didn’t go so well. Having silenced summoners kept mylor's thorns our of play or this would have gone worse. I would have considered some life sapper or ranged unit, but those were not allowed in the ruleset. Realistically, I should not have forced myself to use death splinter where I would normally use something else. In particular, single attack melee were bound to have trouble with the main tank

Perhaps another try.

This battle goes no better. Click for full battle.

Nope. The Snitch still sucks. Here I had a little hope the Snitch would fair better as the Little League ruleset should cut out some of the stronger high attack & high defense cards. Unfortunately, death splinter has seemingly low attach numbers available with low mana and I couldn't come close to matching the massive ranged damage from the life deck.

Let’s give it one last go.

Windaku pulls the team through. Click for full battle

I actually won. While the Snitch (at 1 total damage) did better than the Life Sapper, the team was clearly pulled up by chief tank Windeku. I guess the snitch served as a valiant meat shield, but an expensive one at 4 mana. Perhaps it’s unfair to judge the snitch as a lvl 1 card vs leveled decks, but that hasn’t stopped many other chaos legion cards at this rating, so until I’m proven otherwise, I stand by “The Snitch Sucks.”

In response to the weekly Splinterlands Share your Battle

1. If you like the card, prove me wrong. Not every card is great and I just don't like this one. ↩