Earthquake: Fly away or sheild up?

Many centuries ago, the Pelacor followed the prophet, Edalus, on what has become known as the ‘Exile.’ They followed him into the Mountains of Fire surrounding Mount Praetorous. For generations, they lived alone in these mountains, hidden away. They were taught to worship the sun and moon gods, Solaki and Lunaki, deities dreamt into existence from the bones of Edalus’ dead parents and his zealous mind. The scriptures read that the two Gods were carried into the heavens upon pieces of consecrated land, torn from the World to raise them high so that their worshipers would always look up to them and forever be beneath their great heavenly power.

How are you fellow crypto gamers doing today? Have you had a chance to see our game appear on Killer Whales yet? I hope it brings in a bunch of new players so we can have another great and bullish summer like we did a few years ago. I wish we could've been able to lock our cards back then because I got drunk and sold all of my MAX level cards for a bunch of crap DeFi projects, but now that we can bot and rent our accounts, selling everything makes zero sense to me.

I've been playing the game since the beginning when you could easily predict what your enemy would do because there were so few cards and logical options, but there are so many cards and rules today that I have no idea what to do now. I've won 12,367 out of 22,591 Wild battles giving me a 54% win rate so I'm doing OK I guess.

Today, I'd like to share my earthquake battle with you. My enemy thought it would be best to use the Life splinter and choose mostly cards that could fly as they don't get affected by the quake, but I went with a few flyers and focused on my shields. If you have a strong and fast enough attack strategy you can sometimes destroy your enemy before the earthquake gets you, but it's always a good idea to have at least a few cards that can fly during earthquakes.

Kelya is my favorite summoner because I love my water cards and she gives them a bit of armor and speed. General Sloan is my least favorite card because he seems to lose a lot and I'm not the only one who feels this way because he's always been one of the cheapest summoners. Since this was a battle where all cards have the same health as the strongest one we both put out ones that only use 1 mana as front meat shields and focused on our ranged attacks.

This was a nail-biter of a battle because I wasn't sure who was going to win until the end. It was satisfying to destroy that pretty boy Life angel with his powerful double strike just sitting there taking hits because ranged attack cards usually can't attack while in the front. Thanks for checking out my earthquake battle today. Good luck on the battlefield!

Check out my battle:
https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_e7b5158b2ad57a5e23e0bde2135a1b8f&ref=jeremiahcustis

This week's SPLINTERLANDS BATTLE MAGE SECRETS Challenge:
https://peakd.com/hive-13323/@splinterlands/battle-mage-secrets-weekly-challenge-s98j7q

Original artwork at NFTShowroom:
https://nftshowroom.com/jeremiahcustis/gallery

Amazing art by the Splinterlands community:
https://peakd.com/hive-13323/@splinterlands/splinterlands-art-contest-week-281-theme-sps-dao

by @leeendah

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