BATTLE Weekly Challenge - Passive Crystal Jaguar !!

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Hey Summoners,

For this week's Challenge battle i bring you, Crystal Jaguar.

I don't play life often but occasionally i do rent a Life team when i have my Quest for Life up and the Jaguar is one of the cards i always rent. Truly strong as a tank in Low mana & little league matches. It is also tanky enough for a back line sneak bait at higher levels it get Thorns and Retaliate


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The Battle Rules

League @ Gold 3

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  • 24 Mana
  • Life / Death / Dragon
  • Taking Sides (No Neutrals)
  • NO Sneak and Snipe (Did not notice this, more on this later)

Strategy

Firstly looking at the Splinter choices it has to be Dragon as my highest life and death summoners are only lvl 3 rares. This being Gold league it does not really cut it, i decided to go for a Kitty to survive longer (Speed + Heals are awesome), Now for those who doesn't know Dragon Splinter is quite unique as it allows you to select another Sub-Splinter that is available in this case Death and Life. Life Splinter was choosen as i do not have any decent Death cards.


The Lineup

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Kitty is one of the best summoners in-game in my opinion...Heals and +2 speed is godly and to top it off your monsters cannot miss !! Looking back at this i really position the Jaguar wrongly as my initial plan was to have it as a Sneak tank but i missed out the fact that 1) there is no Sneak/Snipe rule 2) my higher lvl Jaguar was delegated to my other account. I missed this 2 important things as i was dead tired from burning my DCR% from 100% to 30% in one sitting (DEC rewards spiked up that day and took advantage of it). Now that the confession is out of the way lets look at the Line-Up.

  • Djinn Chawala
    One of the best reward card to come out of the new reward pool so far !! I feel that this will be one of the staple Dragon tanks or Back-Line bait going forward as most of the existing Dragons are older Beta/Alpha cards. High Health, Armor and Thorns plus decent amount of Damage make this one of my top choices for Dragon tank unless i am pretty sure i will be facing Magic Damage then Robo Dragon Knight is a better choice.

  • Dragon Jumper
    A very good card to kill the back line with Opportunity, Quite high attack and Speed. As Sneak and Snipe is banned Opportunity is the only other card ability usable to kill back lines.

  • Black Dragon
    Life Leech unit...gets stronger and stronger as it grows bigger, and if its big enough + Heals from Kitty its literally unstoppable.

  • Venari Crystalsmith
    New Life healer. I suppose it will be the new Life meta healer in the new Modern format as the Divine Healer wont be available.

  • Crystal Jaguar
    So yes this one was blind me putting here thinking to use it as a Sneak tank, was kinda burned out from all that DEC farming that i also didn't notice the higher level one was delegated out hahaha.

  • No Chicken !!!!
    Ya Kinda sad I cant put the usual chicken here as its Taking Sides ☹️


The Battle

https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_4459e86eef3e50a2de23653c2a97a1c5&ref=bladesong

My opponent is quite stacked with the Knight and Baby Unicorn buffing up the Angry Unicorn quite a lot, lucky my tank have quite a bit armor and health. Lets see how this goes

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Coming to Round 2 everything is still standing although the damage from the Unicorn is quite high and i feel dumb about that Crystal Jaguar placement, i can only handicap myself more.

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As expected my tank is dead from all those damage, what i can say is i was lucky that the Unicorn doesn't have trample...phew. Now i can only hope that Dragon Jumper's high speed and flying plus heals from the kitty he can survive a few rounds. I should still have enough damage to punch thru the Unicorn.

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Whew the Unicorn is dead but i still have to rely on RNG alot as there is still alot damage from the opponent side. So far so good on the dodges. The longer this goes the bigger my Black Dragon gets and my damage is still decent.

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So far so good on the RNG they have been missing my Jumper a lot !!!

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Finally the Knight is dead...this fight is a slow grind with pretty good luck on my side. And so far the star of today's show the Crystal Jaguar still did not do a single thing lol.

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This looks like a win for me as they don't have enough damage already.


Conclusion

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A satisfying win as at the start it looks like their line-up and winning this without the Crystal Jaguar doing anything sitting all nice and comfortable at the back. MVP have to be the Dragon Jumper doing all those Dodge tanking !!

And on a side note the DEC rewards is awesome...and this is at about 40%+ ECR !!!

That is all folks, Stay Safe and See you next week !!


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https://splinterlands.com?ref=bladesong



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