SHARE YOUR BATTLE Weekly Challenge! DAX PARAGON

Dax Paragon is a Life 2 Mana Epic unit. Below is its full stats from Level 1 to 6.

At level 1, it has a speed of 2 with 1 magic attack, 0 armor and 3 health points. It has no ability at this point.

At level 2, it will gain the Amplify ability. Amplify increase the damage from Magic Reflect, Thorn and Return Fire by 1.

At level 5, it will gain another ability, Affliction. Affliction can cause a unit to be unable to be healed.

At max level 6, the full stats of Dax Paragon is 2 magic attack, 2 speed, 0 armor and 5 health points.

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Next lets take a look at how Dax Paragon will perform in the various rulesets:

This table is generated using Koodies's Splintertools #3, created by @koodies

Rulesets	Dax Paragon Level 1
	🔮 Magic Attack: 1,💗 Health: 3,🛡️ Armor: 0,⏩ Speed: 2
	👍Good as it means Dax Paragon can hit against all enemies even if the target is under phase.
	👍Extra protection is always good as Dax Paragon not only doesn't has armor but also has low health.
	👎It will lose its Amplify and Affliction.
	No effect.
	No effect.
	👎It will suffer 2 damage from Earthquake per round and will die fast due to no armor and low health points.
	👍Good as Dax Paragon has low health and will benefit from gaining better health stats from this ruleset.
	👍Allow Dax Paragon to hit low health points target. But it can be targeted by enemy team as well.
	👍Can be deployed.
	👍Allow it to deal blast damage.
	👎Cannot be deployed.
	No effect. It doesn't have sneak or snipe in the first place.
	👎Means it can't be healed.
	Useful only if the lineup also has a unit that can stunned.
	👍Extra protection is always good.
	👍Can be deployed.
	👍Can be deployed.
	👍Can be deployed.
	👎Cannot be deployed.
	No effect.
	👎Will lose 2 health points per round to poison and die fast.
	👍Dax Paragon is slow so this ruleset would help it.
	👎Cannot be deployed.
	Not much effect. Its health point is too low to allow it to suffer more than 1 hit.
	No effect.
	No effect.
	No effect.
	👍Allow it to hit enemy backline range and magic unit. But it is also vulnerable to that so need to position some other ranged and magic units with higher health points in front of it.
	No effect as it has no armor in the first place.
	👎Cannot be deployed.
	👎Its attack cannot bypass armor in this ruleset.
	👎Cannot be deployed.
	👍Can be deployed.

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Finally lets take a look at a Wild ranked match I had using Dax Paragon as one of the unit in the setup. The battle restrictions are:
Briar Patch (Thorn) plus Aim True with a max mana limit of 21. The Video for the Full Battle can be seen here:
https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_9ecf67de23faa20693065bcac0f22ed0&ref=genming

TEAM SETUP:

Splinter	Mana Cost	Position	Reason
General Sloan	4	Summoner	I can only chose between Life and Water splinters here. Between these 2, General Sloan is my highest summoner so I went with it. Beside Life has a lot of good low mana units.
Pelacor Conjurer	2	1st	Pelacor Conjurer is one of the best low mana tank out there. I am afraid of the opponent using Water lineup with magic units so Conjurer with its magic reflect ability would help me here.
Dax Paragon	2	2nd	Dax Paragon's Amplify ability will make Conjurer Magic Reflect ability more deadly. And it is also a low cost unit.
Creeping Ooze	1	3rd	Added Creeping Ooze to slow down enemy units so my Conjurer has a even higher chance of dodging enemy melee and range attack.
Venari Crystalsmith	4	4th	Healer to keep my Pelacor Conjurer alive as long as possible. Plus it will also gain +1 range attack from General Sloan giving it a decent attack.
Pelacor Arbalest	6	5th	My main DPS. Note that I have a few low health units in the lineup that would shield this unit from enemy opportunity monster for a while
Chaos Agent	1	6th	Another low health unit to draw sneak and opportunity attack.
Total Mana:	20

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Battle Lineup:

My opponent went with a Life splinter lineup as well using a much stronger tank, ShieldBearer. But ShieldBearer is an expensive unit to summon. Let see how it went.

End of Round 1:

As you can see, the opponent Time Mage hit my Pelacor Conjurer with 1 damage but was reflect back with 2 damage right away. This is because of the the Amplify ability from my Dax Paragon. This is why Pelacor Conjurer is a great tank for low mana matches and Dax Paragon is a great compliment to it if you are expecting magic attack.

Even though I will lose my Conjurer soon, the opponent Shieldbearer is not in any better shape due to my ranged bombard from my Crystalsmith and Arbalest.

End of Round 2:

I lost my Pelacor Conjurer but it also took away my opponent Time Mage with it. The opponent then quickly lost its might Shieldbearer and its game won for me as now the opponent has no unit that it can attack back. Short and simple victory.

KEY STRATEGY
My strategy in this match was very simply to use Pelacor Conjurer to hold the front line as long as possible while my high damage backline rain down on the opponent frontline. As long as I can keep my Arbalest alive long enough, its double strike will destroy the opponent frontline quickly (provided it doesn't miss too many times).

CONCLUSION ON DAX PARAGON
I used Dax Paragon very often especially in low mana matches in combination with Pelacor Conjurer. I find they compliment each other very well allowing me to have more mana to field a stronger backline.

Best position to put Dax Paragon is usually in the middle position.

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