SHARE YOUR BATTLE Weekly Challenge! GRUND

Grund is an Earth 10 Mana Epic unit. Below is its full stats from Level 1 to 6.

At level 1, it has a speed of 3 with 3 melee attack, 0 armor and 10 health points. It has an ability called Double Strike which allow it to hit 2 times per round.

At level 4, it will gain 1 more melee damage while also getting the Trample ability. Trample allows it to do another melee attack when it kills an enemy unit.

Finally at its max level 6, it will gain the Cripple ability. Cripple will cause enemy unit to lose 1 max health everytime it gets hit by Grund. At max level, Grund has 4 melee damage, 3 speed, 0 armor and 13 health points.

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

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

Rulesets	Grund Level 1
	🔮 Mana: 10,💗 Health: 10,🛡️ Armor: 0,⏩ Speed: 3
	👍Good as it means Grund can hit against all enemies whether if they are faster or can dodge or fly.
	👍Extra protection is always good as Grund doesn't have armor to start with.
	👎It will lose its Double Strike and other abilities.
	No effect.
	No effect.
	👎It will suffer 2 damage from Earthquake per round.
	👎Bad in low mana matches as Grund's health isn't low.
	👍If Grund is not in the first position, it can target enemy unit with low health.
	👍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.
	👎Cannot be deployed.
	👎Cannot be deployed.
	👍Can be deployed.
	👍Can be deployed.
	👍Means it can be placed at the back to deal double damage while letting the tanking to be done by a better tank.
	👎Will lose 2 health points per round to poison.
	👎Grund isn't slow so this ruleset wouldn't help it.
	👎Cannot be deployed.
	👍An enraged Grund is dangerous.
	👍Grund has Trample at higher level and Stampede would make it unstoppable.
	👍Allow it to hit enemy back unit only if it is not in the first position.
	No effect.
	No effect.
	👍This ruleset means every enemy units do not have shield. An unshield enemy unit can be quickly taken out by Grund because of its Double Strike.
	👍Can be deployed.
	No effect.
	👎Cannot be deployed.
	👎Cannot be deployed.

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Finally lets take a look at a Wild ranked match I had using Grund as one of the unit in the setup. The battle restrictions are:
What Doesn't Kill You plus Unprotected with a max mana limit of 32. The Video for the Full Battle can be seen here:
https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_f860d51c1724370a722668a3b2db2f46&ref=genming

TEAM SETUP:

Splinter	Mana Cost	Position	Reason
Immortalis	6	Summoner	I used Immortalis because opponent had been using Obsidian based on the opponent past 5 battle history.
Fungus Flinger	3	1st	This is a new unit that has the Martyr ability. Putting it up front is to get it to die so it will buff up my next unit.
Grund	10	2nd	Grund is my main tank and also main offensive power. It has Double Strike and once buffed up by Fungus Flinger's death, will have 4 melee attack per strike!
Wood Nymph	4	3rd	Need healting to keep my Grund alive so deployed Wood Nymph here.
Goblin Psychic	6	4th	Another healer to keep my Grund alive.
Venari Marksrat	3	5th	Another new unit with Martyr ability. Since I am not using any unit with Taunt, enemy sneak unit can get behind my back so plus Marksrat here as a precaution.
Total Mana:	32

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Battle Lineup:

My opponent did chose Obsidian and went with a full magic lineup including Spirit Druid Grog, which has Resurrect. Now let see how the battle went.

End of Round 1:

My Fungus Flinger was quickly killed which activate Martyr. Martyr gave my Grund +1 melee attack, +1 speed and +1 health points making it a scary threat. Grund was then hit again and trigger Enrage which now gave Grund a total of +6 melee attack and +6 speed. It looked unstoppable.

End of Round 2:

Opponent's tank, Mycelic Slipspawn, was easily killed by Grund, then got revived by Spirit Druid Grog and get killed again by my Wood Nymph. The fight at this point already looked over for my opponent.

End of Round 3:

It was over. My enhanced Grund cut through the opponent remaining lineup with ease.

KEY STRATEGY
My strategy in this match was very simple, used Grund's Double Strike ability to cut through the opponent lineup. I have to ensure Grund can survive whatever the enemy threw on it though and thus I used 2 healers to keep healing it. I also used a unit with Martyr to tank the initial attack and to boost Grund's stats even higher.

CONCLUSION ON GRUND
Grund is one of my most commonly used Earth unit in high mana battle. I used to use Unicorn Mustang as a tank in my Earth lineup but ever since Unicorn Mustang becomes a starter unit and its price surge, I have switch to Grund. Usually I would use Grund and Mycelic Slipspawns together but that is if it is a high mana battle. Normal smaller mana better you can only use one or the other.

In this match though you can see how powerful Martyr can have on Grund. Double Strike added with Martyr is OP.

Best position to put Grund is the 1st position. You can put it elsewhere if the rulesets allow Grund to hit from other positions.

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