Intro

Water splinter is my favorite at the moment playing with Kelya Frendul or renting Alric Stormbringer. The flying squid being a strong monster that combines nicely with Kelya Frendul. High health monster with 3 damage with reach strong play when you want to use a melee attack setup.

THEME: FLYING SQUID

Edition: CHAOS LEGION
Rarity: COMMON
Element: WATER
Attack: MELEE
Abilities: Reach

Stats

I got my card on level 4, I should upgrade it to level 5 for the extra speed with Kelya 5 speed. It is still a expensive (mana wise) monster but in the right context worth it.

Strategy

My opponent is on a life steak I anticipate that there will be ranged involved. So shields up and Kelya is suited for that all +1 shield. Life monsters are not the fastest nor the slowest so i think to bring high speed monsters and expect some misses.

Rulesets

Holy protection
First hit will have no impact. In this case nice for the shield to have it absorb an extra hit.

Healed out
No healing monster may be used.

The Lineup

Summoner

Card	Reason
	My favorite splinter always great to have extra shield and extra speed. My intention in this battle is to use the speed in my advantage

Monsters Lineup

1st	2nd	3rd

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Serpent of Eld (lvl 1):
I love this card with the dodge and the high speed it really synergy great with keyla.
IMO speed is often forgotten how important it is. Myself included forgetting about speed al the time. e.g wanting to place Grum Flameblade then only see misses with his 1 speed 😂.

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Flying Squid (lvl 1):
Great card. a bit of a risk to only use two strong / high mana monsters with this low mana cap.
Reach/High health/High speed/High damage what can there possible go wrong.

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Torrent Fiend(lvl 1):
Meat shield to protect the back and keep the flying squid alive longer.

The Battle

Reference

Link to the battle:
Link to battle

Rounds

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Start :

The Elven Defender is a strong pick even on level 3. that is not binificial for me. But when i can kill him then the path is clear it think.
My speed difference is good to have some misses. To bad he has chosen Creeping Ooze which countered my keyla +1 speed.

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Round 1:

First misses are in the pocket. stil looking strong only the back linne of my opponent is also strong with 3 damage in range and 3 speed. I need a lot more misses.

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Round 2:

2 more misses. this might not be enough next round the Elven Defender is dead

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Round 3:

Only 1 miss. But because of my speed the Elven Defender could not attack. So that is another advantage for high speed.

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Round 4:

1 miss again. Only now my Serpent of Eld is dead. So the the Flying Squid is need to take out these other monsters.

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Round 5:

No misses this round. Need to kill the Ooze quickly so the archer get in the front are unable to to do any damage.

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Round 6:

No miss, here you see how much the speed difference in combination with the dodge of the Serpent of Eld was helping. But 2 damage less for my opponent and again because of the speed i may deal the first hit so his Peacebringer will get in the front then is the battle over.

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Round 7:

Forgot about the divine shield so another round needed to get the Peacebringer in the front it's getting close but i will survive.

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Round 8/9/10:

ROUND 8 AGAIN there is something wrong here with the count???

ROUND 11?? Not sure how the count is working even with a ctrl-F5 it still displays this order.
But never mind it is a win

Conclusion

Yes my strategy worked with the flying squid as second strong monster. especially liked to demonstrate once again the importances of speed

That's all for this week hope you enjoyed reading this battle report. See you all on the battle field