My Battle Weekly Challenge - Splinterlands

This is a card that I do not own and also never used in my battles, in fact, I use very little the LIFE team, this is something that I must correct, and only in battles with high mana cap.

Crystal Jaguar is a common card, with a lot of availability in the market (more than 40 thousand cards) and, therefore, its rent is very cheap and can be found for only 0.10 Dark Energy Crystal a day.

It belongs to the LIFE team, has 1 point of melee, which is low, a reasonable speed of 3, armor of only one point and considerable life of 5 points, which makes it a good choice for the first position of the team, especially since it only costs 4 manda to parcicipate in battle.

Crystal Jaguar doesn't have any abilities until its level 4 and my battle was with the card at its first level, that is, in its version without any abilities.

My current battle status is 988 rating and I'm in the "Bronze II" league, so those are the characteristics of the Battle Weekly Challenge,and the choice of battle rules was as follows:

My challenger's last five battles were with the following elements: Water, Fire, Life and Water.So it would not be possible to find out which team he would use.

But analyzing the cards he used in his last battles I verified that in teams close to 30 mana, as the battle would be, he used Water team, so the probability of doing so was high.

So, considering this chance, I chose the summoner "Mother Khala" for granting +1 life to all cards and decided to put my team in the following position

1 - "Clay Golem", because it has a lot of life and the "void" ability, reducing the magic attack of enemy monsters.
2 - "Crystal Jaguar", to join the game as soon as the Clay Golem was destroyed.
3 - "Centaur" for its ranged attack.
4 - "Lone Boatman" for his ranged attack.
5 - "Divine Healer" for its "tank heal" ability to recover the card's life in the first position.
6 - "Cave Slug" for its "opportunity" ability to attack from any position.

Round 1:

Well, as you can see, my opponent's choice was for the fire team, composed of the following cards: Living Lava, Goblin Shaman, Spark Pixies, Serpentine Spy, Fire Elemental, and Cerberus.

The choice of the fire elemenot team was a surprise, which made the battle very complicated since I prepared my team for the water element.

In the very first round my "Clay Golem" was defeated, taking my high life card out of play. Thus the Crystal Jaguar went to the first position. On his team I managed to defeat only the Goblin Shaman by an attack from my Cave Slug

Round 2:

In the second round I realized that things were very complicated for me.

Right from the start my Crystal Jaguar could not resist the attacks from Spark Pixies, Serpentine Spy, and Fire Elemental.

On the other hand, my Lone Boatman defeated Spark Pixies and Cave Slug when attacking, it MISSED Serpentine Spy, which was horrible, because my chances were already small and I could have taken another card out of battle, gaining a small advantage for the third round, which did not happen.

Round 3:

In Round 3 my Centaur was defeated, bringing the Loane Boatman to the first position (which was later healed by the Divine Healer) and the Cave Slug FINALLY managed to hit the Serpentine Spy taking it out of battle.

Round 4:

The battle was almost over and my defeat was certainly only a matter of time. Lone Boatman was defeated and Cave Slug MISSED AGAIN (lol) his attack, but this time on the Fire elemental.

Round 5:

Sad end for the Divine Healer in this round.

Round 6:

Not much can be done, just wait for the end of the battle, which happened this round with the defeat of my "Cave Slug".

This is the end of the line for me.

My mistake in this battle was to assume right from the start that my opponent would choose the water team, which he did not.

I should have prepared a "mixed" team capable of facing other elements, with abilities to reduce melee or ranged attacks, but I focused only on magic damage, which was not even used by my opponent.

Analyzing the battle later I also saw that I chose the wrong position for the Centaur and the Lone Boatman.

Another point that influenced the battle was the attack lost by Cave Slug in the second round, which would certainly have taken Serpentine Spy and his 2 damage out of the battle. In the fourth round he also lost an attack, but the outcome of the battle was already well underway.

Finally, my impressions of Crystal Jaguar were good, it is a strong card with a considerable life for the first position, especially in battles with little mana, because its cost is low.

Battle Link:
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