Meow! So fluffy and cuddly, but watch out for it's sharp claws! 🐈✨

I'm not quite sure what to make of this creature, other than it's general all round cuteness 😍.

However, this summoner is known to be one of the strongest and most overpowered cards in the game. Many a player have had their armies torn apart just by virtue of him making the difference in battle. I present to you - BYZANTINE KITTY 🐈✨

(I've decided to write about the Byzantine Kitty instead of the River Nymph for this week's Share Your Battle Challenge. This battle was simply too amazing not to share it 😉.)

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Be not distracted by cuteness and fluff,

Byzantine Kitty is cuddly but tough,

If you dare to think kitty is merely a pet,

You haven’t faced kitty in battle just yet.

🐈✨From Splinterlands Lore on BYZANTINE KITTY🐈✨

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Byzantine Kitty is a Legendary card released during the Untamed expansion. It has definitely found it's place in many Dragon decks given its availability and usefulness. It's effects on the battlefield are 🏃🏻+2 SPEED 🏃🏻, 🎯TRUE STRIKE🎯 and the ✨HEAL✨ ability to all your units. It's summoning cost is, like all other Untamed Legendary Summoners, 7 🧪MANA🧪.

The stat buffs it gives are nothing out of the ordinary, so at first glance, he might look pretty bland. However, it is the HEAL ability that makes this Summoner one of the strongest in the game!

HEAL allows any unit right at the forefront of battle to be healed up. You can see then how Kitty has the ability to really help in a battle of outlasting the opponent 😱. The battle will very quickly turn against the opponent after in a war of attrition.

This could make all the difference if the battle comes down to the wire where the slightest advantage is the fine line between victory or defeat! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

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The release of Untamed gave the Dragon splinter what is probably one of the most iconic cards in the game! With the Byzantine Kitty's unique ability among summoners to confer these extra abilities on all his troops, he adds an unmatched level of firepower. This is definitely what I'd consider game changing! 😱😱😱

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📊Card Stats by Level📊

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As a summoner, his stat growth is pretty much as standard as they come along. The higher the level of your summoner, the higher the level of Common, Rare, Epic and Legendary cards can be fielded. Of course, this is also subject to the limits of the League you play in. At the Diamond and Champions League levels, the full power of a maxed level Summoner can be unleashed with no limits! 😱

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📝Important Rulesets Rundown📝

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Here, I detail the list of combat rulesets that may affect my choice of team (which is, in this battle scenario, going to be an even mix of Melee, Magic and Ranged) when I use Byzantine Kitty as my Dragon Summoner choice.

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	🤔💭✅❌🤔💭❓❓❓
	👍🏻 Attacks will never miss
	👍🏻 Gives units more protection.
	👍🏻 Units lose all their abilities. But that doesn't really affect Quix's abilities on the battlefield.
	👎🏻 Ranged units can't be used.
	N.A. Ranged units can attack from the front.
	👎🏻 Units with no flying will die.
	N.A
	👍🏻 Units can attack from anywhere
	N.A. Even summoning cost
	N.A. Blast damage
	N.A
	N.A
	Situational. Could add more damage if the opponent's front unit is stunned
	👍🏻 Improve units survivability
	N.A. Melee units are affected.
	👎🏻 Costs 4 or less mana
	👍🏻 Doesn't affect summoners
	N.A. Magic units cannot be used
	👍🏻 Gives melee the positional attack advantage enjoyed by ranged/magic
	👎🏻 Will die to poison.
	N.A. Odd summoning cost
	N.A. Slow units become fast
	👍🏻 Doesn't affect Summoners
	👎🏻 Strips all Summoner abilities
	N.A.
	N.A
	👍🏻 All abilities stay intact
	👍🏻 Allows melee to attack even if it's not in the first slot.
	👍🏻 It is NOT a Neutral unit.
	N.A. All ranged/magic units have the Snipe ability.
	N.A. Loses all armor.
	👎🏻 Only Melee units can be used.
	N.A.

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⚔️🛡My Battle Showcase🛡⚔️

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Let me present a battle I fought recently in which I used Byzantine Kitty. My opponent used the Legendary Untamed Summoner Yodin Zaku from the FIRE splinter as his main pick, while I used the DRAGON deck. 🔥 VS 🐉

At first glance, it would seem like my opponent had a HUGE ADVANTAGE over me.

• He was using a level 2 summoner VS my level 1!

It might only seem like it's a 1 level difference, but for LEGENDARY summoners, just 1 level is equivalent to about 3 levels for a RARE summoner! 🤯

• And if that wasn't enough, ALL his units were significantly higher levelled than mine! 🤯🤯

His cards were mostly maxed out for his Summoner level with him utilizing level 4 rares.

• Talk about a huge level imbalance. My units weren't even fully maxed out even for the level they were at 🤣.

I was honestly expecting this to be a crushing defeat 😜🤣. Who on earth would expect me to even win against such overwhelming force? Would I be able to turn the tide of battle against such an opponent then? Victory or defeat would lie in the small details.

I would say that Byzantine Kitty was DEFINITELY the MVP of this match, having played it's role in turning the tide of battle.

The amount of healing support it gave my team resulted in me outlasting my opponent in this particular Earthquake ruleset. It definitely provided the edge that I needed to overcome my opponent.

This ensured that the other units could eventually wear down the opponent until victory was achieved! 🏆🏆🏆

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LINK TO MY FIGHT USING BYZANTINE KITTY

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👯‍♀️👯👯‍♂️LINEUP CHOICES👯‍♀️👯👯‍♂️

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1st CARD SLOT

Furious Chicken is chosen for this slot. Normally, I would have gone for a tough tank, but in this particular battle, the chicken is simply cannon fodder to delay the opponent for a single attack.

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2nd CARD SLOT

Fungus Fiend takes up the second slot. Just like the chicken before it, this 0 mana unit has been slot in to delay the opponent by absorbing 1 attack.

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3rd CARD SLOT

Failed Summoner occupies this slot. Once again, this is another unit that does no damage whatsoever, It's goal is to take hits and further delay the opponent.

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4th CARD SLOT

Almo Cambio takes the 4th slot. The final card in my deck, I picked the high health Almo who once again does ZERO damage. This is going to be the strategy I'm using in this battle. An entire team of units who are unable to deal damage the conventional way.

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5th CARD SLOT

NIL

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6th CARD SLOT

NIL

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⚔️🛡Battle Action Report🛡⚔️

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As you can see, both of us fielded very different units in our matchup. The opponent basically went for a mix of Melee, Magic and Ranged based attacks with his FIRE team, while I went with basically a team that deals just about ZERO damage! 🤣

🔥FIRE🔥 VS 🐉DRAGON🐉

My opponent used Cerberus as his tank in the 1st slot, which was a VERY good choice. given it's high HP. Not to mention, it also has the HEAL ability, which ensures it will heal itself up at the end of every turn.

His Flame Imp occupied the 2nd slot, filling the role as a low cost Magic DPS unit.

This was followed by his Goblin Fireballer which was yet another low cost DPS unit dealing Ranged damage.

My choice of the Main Tank was actually Almo Cambio. But instead of being in the 1st slot, I placed it all the way behind in the very last position.

All my other units were there mainly to take the token 1 hit before they died.

The battle started out with all our units just duking it out pound for pound. It was a low mana game with 16 mana as the limit. The rulesets were BACK TO BASICS and EARTHQUAKE.

• The first round went as I expected with both my Furious Chicken and Fungus Fiend dying when the opponent made his very first wave of attacks. Do take note that my units (other than the Fungus Fiend, which was meant to die instantly anyway) all had ZERO attack and were unable to deal damage at all.

• Right at the very start of Round 2, the EARTHQUAKE ruleset finished off my Failed Summoner while his ENTIRE team was still intact. This looked REALLY BAD for me right? 😉

• Despite the damage and losses my team suffered, this was all according to plan. The time now came for my Kitty to shine!

• The 3rd round saw my Almo started getting healed for 4 damage a turn while the Earthquake ruleset now killed off the opponents other units too.

• The game was wildly in my favour by now. Only his Cerberus was still standing, but the opponent was losing to me in a healing race as my KITTY allowed me to outlast him thanks to the heals I received. 😈

• It was all over for the opponent now I eventually edged him out with just 1 HP. 💀💀💀

Talk about doing WAY MORE than it was supposed to!!! 😱🤯🥳 All i expected was for Kitty to possibly provide some buffs to my team and perhaps give me a more dignified loss against such an outmatched opponent. However it ended up being the entire reason for my win! Even though my entire team was basically outmatched in terms of levels and DPS, the HEALING from Kitty enabled me to completely slaughter the opponent. (at least with help from the Earthquake ruleset, since I was incapable of dealing any damage at all). 🤣

Well as you can see here in this GIF of my battle, the results were pretty good! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

This was truly an eye opener! 😁🏆

Slowly, but surely, I wore down the opponent's team and the match ended up being a close win for me. My team selection proved to be the edge I needed to eventually overpower my opponent. 💪🏻

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🔮🔮🔮Hindsight is 20/20🔮🔮🔮

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Would I have done anything differently? 🤔 This might have seemed like a disadvantage at the start but I ended up winning handily. IF I had to use the same cards again, there would be no better lineup than what I had already used for the match. Any other combination MIGHT have resulted in a loss for me. I'm really satisfied with the results against such a worthy opponent. 🏆🥇

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💭🧐💭Ending Thoughts💭🧐💭

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I definitely can appreciate Yodin Zaku and it's strengths. This is one of those cards which are very strong if surrounded with the proper team. The role it brings to the battlefield will give a player the edge in squeezing out every tiny advantage to get the win. 👍🏻

For any players looking to try out Yodin Zaku, I hope this article has given you some insight into its potential. 😉

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