Splinterlands weekly battle challenge - CARRION SHADE

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Hello everyone, it's time for another weekly battle challenge so lets dive right in.

Carrion Shade

For this week we have the Carrion Shade. Lets check out his stats:

Starting at level 1 he has 1 melee damage, 2 speed and 2 hp. Level 2 doesnt change anything, but at level 3, which i have him at he gains the Flying ability, which makes him perfect for a back-line protector to maybe get a miss or two. At levels 5 and 9 he gains another point of Speed, and at level 7 a point in damage. But these are outside of my range for now, so I will be using my level 3 Carrion Shade.

As a new player I have been trying to level up the cheaper splinters first, which includes the Death splinter which I will be using for this battle - Thaddius Brood. For the moment I have him at level 2, because there are some nice bonuses the cards gain. Not exactly my favorite splinter, but is is definitely very strong.

Rulesets:

• Available splinter: Life, Death, Dragon;
• 20 mana cap;
• Spreading Fury: All monsters gain the Enrage ability;
• Healed out: All healing abilities have been removed from Monsters and Summoners.

So upon seeing these rulesets, as I dont have the good (or any, lol) Dragon monsters yet, so I decide to go for a sneak attack team. Lets see the team:

Team:

Monster:	Why did I choose it:
	Perfect fit for the Rulesets imo. The -1 magic damage won't be much use as the main magic damage splinter aren't available. The -1 hp would make it easier to kill off the backline faster.
	Not much to talk about him. As the mana cap is only 20 we wont see much damage. He's the most polular main tank for the splinter. Only 6 mana, the Thorns ability, 3 speed and an amazing 9 hp at level 1. I will be using my level 2 Windeku for the extra 1 hp he gains, because he is rare and thats the max I can use him.
	Next up is probably my favorite Chaos Legion death monster - Silent Sha-vi. At level 3 (which is max for my level 2 Thaddius) he has 4 speed, 3 melee damage, Sneak and 5 hp.
	Uraeus. Perfect pick for the Sneak team, only 3 mana, at level 2 - 2 melee damage, and a massive bonus - 1 shield. Perfect for back-line. Not the fastest sneaker, but he's quite good.
	The star of this weeks match. Already talked about him, so - level 3 for the Flying ability. Combined with the last card they provide a very good back-line defense, because of the Enrage ruleset I decide to go for a bit more defensive instead of the Undead Badger, because an enraged monster will plow through the backline if not stopped.
	A second back-line defender, just to protect us from other sneaks with his Dodge ability.

Lets get into the battle, which you can check out here.

Round 1

As the battle begins I'm feeling quite optimistic, just because the enemy monsters are all level 1, but his summoner (also Thaddius) is level 4, which kind-of doesnt make much sense to me. So our Windeku has 1 more hp and he should hold up without breaking a sweat in the front-line. Seeing that his Silent Sha-vi is level 1, we now know that we will hit first.
Our Sha-vi hits theirs, leaving him at 1 hp and enraged to attack next, but luckily Chaos Agent's is good at his job and he dodges the enraged Sha-vi attack, but on the next hit he falls down to the Undead badger's might.
As there are no more monsters left on our team with Ranged or No-attack Death Elemental attacks our Cursed Windeku to take away his 1 bonus hp we have from our rank 2 and Enrages him. The Cursed Windekus exchange an attack and Uraeus manages to land an attack on the Enraged enemy Silent Sha-vi and finish him, which concludes round 1.

Round 2

Starting round 2, things are looking pretty well. We get abit lucky for our Cursed Windeku to attack first and kill the enemy, leaving us with 1 hp. Next up our Silent Sha-vi kills the Death Elemental and Undead Badger kills our Windeku, but sadly dies to his Thorns.

Thinking now even if in round 2 the enemy has attacked first, we would've easily won the battle, just because of that 1 miss we had in Round 1.
That was kind of a short battle, but with Enrage and 20 mana cap we cant expect much more, haha.

Thank you for your time, have a wonderful week and see you next time!

P.S.: Shoutout to @kyo-gaming for the awesome dividers. Check them out here.