For Guild & Glory: Brawl Report #140

Overview

Welcome back Splinterlands battlemages to another edition of "For Guild & Glory," my brawl report covering all the action from my three accounts: @ducecrypto in Tier 4 with @shield-of-glory, @treycrypto in Tier 3 with YGG Brawlers (Niðavellir) and @shaelien in Tier 3 with the always lively @the420syndicate. It has been a minute since my last report, nearly 30 cycles ago when Shield of Glory was still in Tier 3 - you can read it here: Cycle #111.

Shield of Glory, the leading guild of the Kingdom of Glory [KoG] alliance, had been dominating Tier 4 as one of the top guilds in Splinterlands, winning 6 cycles in a row coming into #140. W3e spent a whole month finishing first, with DuceCrypto holding it down in Fray 18 - Modern Silver Gold Foil.

This upcoming brawl will be the very first for TreyCrypto with the Yield Guild Games alliance, as I recently joined a strong Tier 3 guild in the Brawler crew - Niðavellir. For those who don't know, the names of the YGG Brawler guilds are from Norse mythology and Niðavellir has something to do with Dwarves... neat! Hopefully, I will be able to make a statement as an anchor Gold Foil player in Fray 16 - Modern Silver Gold Foil.

Last and still blazing strong in Tier 3 is my original guild, The 420 Syndicate, with my recently revived Shaelien account battling up in weight class. The deck sports a gold league Chaos Legion set, but plays in Fray 13 - Modern Diamond.

DuceCrypto for Shield of Glory

Shield of Glory finished 2nd out of 9 guilds, good for 183 SPS, 167 crowns and 9,534 merits, but our dominance of Tier 4 came to an end this cycle as Summoner's Tribe (ST) took the top spot. ST is the first and only guild to upgrade its arena to Level 9 for Tier 5, but since it is alone, it continues to be the guild to beat brawling in Tier 4. That didn't faze @nizzyz, who went undefeated 8-0 in his fray, while @azircon and @champion-slayer were near-flawless in their Gold Foil gold league frays.

I finished 6-2 for a 75% win rate, and as a whole, the guild was over 66% at 110-53. I lost the one I really wanted though, the battle against @cyberblock of ST, but they ran Yodin in a narrow rule set that I didn't have the answer for... it wasn't that close.

TreyCrypto & Shaelien for The 420 Syndicate

Although TreyCrypto will be debuting with YGG Brawlers (Niðavellir) for the next cycle, in #140 I was still playing both Trey and Shaelien in The 420 Syndicate - boy did I go out with a bang. Trey was one of five brawlers that managed to finish X-1, helping The 420 Syndicate to a 2nd-place finish out of 9 guilds.

Shaelien was also able to grind out a positive record battling up at diamond league. My favorite battle was this one against @ithaka, using triage to preserve my ranged attack with Level 6 Keyla and beating a max Level 6 Ilthain team.

The Gladius Cases

With Shield of Glory finally upgrading its store to Level 8 for Power Stones, I am excited to burn some DEC for the chance to increase the drop rate of Gold Foils in my gladius cases. So far so good with the 5 or so cases I've been able to purchase each brawl cycle. I'll start updating this section with pictures/videos of my Gladius case openings going forward, but for now you'll have to take my work for it that my Gold Foil count is definitely increasing!

New Brawl Preview

In brawl cycle #141, there will be unprecedented amounts of Kingdom of Glory carnage in Tier 4, as we are battling against alliance guilds Guardians of Glory and No Guts No Glory. [KoG] really making a statement in Tier 4! The Guild of Neoxian and YGG Brawlers (Asgard), arguably YGG's strongest guild, are also tough competition this cycle.

I'm a little less familiar with the powerful guilds in Tier 3, but I'm excited about Trey's debut brawling with YGG. Hopefully I come out of the gates strong and support a big first-place finish alongside my new guildmates. And with Shaelien, every win in diamond league with a gold deck feels like an upset win as I continue to support the scrappy @the420syndicate.