Greetings again readers! Hoping you are all good and healthy! I am sharing again another thoughts on my Splinterlands journey but focusing on a card that I frequently used.
Not that legendary nor epic. Even pricey card to boot. It is rare, yes, but can be minted from foundation packs or some daily reward grind. Take note that this packs can be claimed as long you are owning with spellbook for splinterland by buying them on the market directly or chance owning them on daily grind reward system of frontier rank battles.
If ever you tried the Frontier Rank battle of Splinterlands you must be familiar of this card for the reason that it is a card that commonly used in the team of players (which is I believed). Well, I personally always use this on my team for it is a good win grabber. Hailing from the Neutral Splinters, Vengeful Monk is what I am stating with my introduction.

Vengeful Monk

I own a maxed Gold Foil card of Vengeful Monk at the moment. Well, minting with the black foil and black foil arcane is still a possibility from the weekly draws or if ever you want to own it by choice, you can just search it in the market if you desired to own it this instant. Having a 2 Melee attack damage and an opportunity ability a good choice for an offensive card. Take note that this is a Neutral splinter and it means that it is mostly compatible with almost every team you are trying to form unless restricted.

Opportunity Ability

Targets the enemy unit with the least health.

So you see, an Opportunity ability is crucial to grab a win in your battle. It is an edge where that you can take down an enemy card that might gain a chance to flip the situation in a battle. Normally, this type of ability will target cards that got less, unless taunted, health from the beginning of the battle.
With that, I believed that it is crucial to lessen your opponent's card team as early as possible. With 3 speed, Vengeful monk card will perfectly perform a good offensive capability to your team.

Battle Sample

The best part of explanation comes from a sample battle of course. So here it is.

Battling water splinters for this round and I am choosing Life splinters. With Counter Spell on the Rulesets, I am not planning to put any magician card on my team and with that I arrived in the conclusion that using the Life splinters with the Incessant Sage as my summoner. See, that card also came also from frontier and is usable to modern rank battles. It will add an additional extra armor to my monster units and it is a perfect protection to the incoming melee and range offense. It is a high mana battle with 58 mana capacity so I built my team with medium to high mana monsters and my archon currently for Life splinters came from foundation packs. So my monster unit line up starts with Anyu Huntswoman that got flank ability followed by Mantaroth with its Aromored strike ability. Vengeful Monk is placed on the 3rd which is being protected both from front and back of my team. Sherringham Logger and A'lan Musketeer where added with their offensive capabilities. To avoid early damages from the early round to my low hp cards, I am using New Beluruc Aegis to absorb those attack with its taunt ability.

Round 1 is a bit rough start for my team. I lost 2 cards from the attacks of my opponent that got magic damage. Although counter spell was triggered, it is not enough to take down the cards which was magic reflected. Vengeful Monk with this round already targeted the card that got the most minimum health which was A'lan Musketeer from my opponent's team.

Continuing on the second round, this time my Vengeful monk targeted Mystic Scaleweaver of my opponent it was on the verge of collapsing. Lucky snake!

Round 4 is where the battle is going to be concluded. I lost my Vengeful monk in this round while tanking a few attacks. It got a descent amount of health that it survive long enough for the battle.

I still won the fight in the end with a little margin and thanks to the ruleset of course. So as you can see, Gold cards played a good role boosting your earning in your battle. 10% for every gold cards what ever it is should not be neglected for your earnings no?

• Vengeful Monk ability to cut your opponents offensive capability is a good choice of card to collect. Although it is limited with its level because it came from foundation packs for modern rank battles and Wild rank battles, well start up should not always come from those expensive cards if you cannot afford it, we can always start from the scratch right?

You can watch the full battle HERE.

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Disclaimer:

Images that were used, if not specified, are from SPLINTERLANDS.

Some features are edited thru canva.