Splinterlands Weekly Challenge | A backup tank and some very useful "Thorns"

Delwyn Dragonscale

Once again one of my favorite Dragon Splinter summoners is without a doubt my Delwyn. Since I really like the magic attack, I wanted to take advantage of using my Dragons in conjunction with my Water Splinter again, in order to further increase my main magic attack against my opponent. This is what I thought when I thought of my strategy with the amount of mana we were offered to fight in this battle.

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The Kraken

This is a born tank par excellence of my water team, "The Kraken", is splendidly strong and resistant to a large number of attacks and more at level 2 that I possess, its large amount of life points amounting to 14, a huge speed of 4 points and a deadly melee attack of 4 points, makes this card the most powerful of the field. To top it off, my "Kraken" comes with two intrinsic abilities, one is "Demoralize", which is able to decrease by -1 point the melee attack of all my opponent's cards, the other is "Taunt", which allows me to attract to this specific card, any type of attack that my opponent has, something really cool.

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Spineback Turtle

This card is very good, the best of all is that it does not consume much mana to be able to summon it to the field, even so, my strategy using this card, was to place it in the second position, so that it could act as a backup tank in case my big "Kraken" fell in battle, which was a bit likely, but possible, because even though I could read my opponent's play a bit, I wanted to make sure I had a very good frontal resistance, like my Kraken in front and my "Spineback Turtle" replacing it in the second position. Even so, his intervention was not necessary, since my "Kraken" was able to withstand practically all the attacks of my opponent remaining with only 1 point of life.

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Djinn Oshannus

A really powerful card that can serve as a tank, but this time I wanted to leave it as a purely offensive card, since its speed and attack points are very good, I did not really focus on the skills that this card has, which is only to reduce the magic attack that can propel him, I was only interested in his great speed of 5 points +1 and a magic attack of 2 points, all thanks to a great card that I use and that I will describe later.

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Diamond Dragon

This card can't be missing in my "Dragon" attack formation, since its abilities at only level 1 are really useful on the battlefield. In addition to this, its very good life points of 6 points and a very good attack of 2 points, allowed me to have available a great magical destructive power that made my opponent's tank fall without being able to hit his first attack. On the other hand, his "Slow" ability allowed me to slow down the speed of all enemy cards by -1 points, something that very quickly gave me the advantage in attack, which gave a serious blow to the strategy used by my opponent.

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Spirit Miner

This is another of my main attack cards, although it is much more than that, as it has really good and effective intrinsic abilities that can give a final blow to anyone if we know how to use it correctly. With a very good 6 points of life, 2 points of attack, and 3 +1 points of speed, it is a really dangerous card, plus it has an ability that is the counterpart of "Slow", this is called "Swiftness", able to increase the speed of all my cards in +1 points, which complements my strategy of making my opponent much slower and my team much faster.

Fire Spitter

This is a really powerful card and with very low mana points to summon it, the reason to place it in the last position is because of its ability to "Fly", which would allow it to dodge a large number of attacks in case my opponent used a card with the ability to "Sneak" to attack my last position card, in addition to that, its great speed would increase the chances of failure of these sneak attacks to my team. So my strategy with this card was focused on providing defense and protection and my main attacking cards and at the same time an offensive card with 3 big ranged attack points that were deadly for my opponent.

My strategy worked perfectly since from the beginning of the battle I was able to neutralize my opponent, decreasing his speed and increasing mine at the same time. Besides, his idea of taking away a -1 magic attack point was good, but it was useless thanks to my Delwyn Dragonscale that was able to counteract this effect in a way, leaving the original attack of my main attack cards and attacking in basically every round with a huge offensive attack

This is not a card that I use very often, but for certain battles, it is really very useful, for example, in my battle, it was a very good backup tank, because, if my main tank "The Kraken" was defeated, it would be difficult for his "Sea Monster" to continue in the battle thanks to the "Spines of my turtle", not to mention the consecutive attack of my cards towards the tank in the first position. Otherwise, it can adapt to rules where mana is very low, this is where the full potential of "Spineback Turtle" can be seen.