Splinterlands: Dread Tafarian is an amazing tank

Splinterlands is a complex game, and it allows for various cards and strategies. Each fight is different as there are various rulesets applied, and this can give specific cards an advantage depending on how you use them. In this post, I talk about a great battle where I won because I used Dread Tafarian.

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Dread Tafarian is an earth splinter that costs 9 mana. This splinter starts with the heal ability. This card doesn't learn any new abilities, but increasing its level will increase its stats.

Rule Set, Battle, and Plan

The rulesets this time are Deflection Field and Rise of the Commons. This means only common/rare cards can be used, and all monsters gain the deflect ability. There is also 26 mana available, and I can use any splinter.

This ruleset is interesting because we are limited to common and rare cards. It depends on how you find the best lineup based on that limitation.

Splinter	Mana Cost	Position	Reason
Aurelia	6	Summoner	+1 Health
Dread Tafarian	9	1st	Heal
Grand Consul Minion	4	2nd
Wilhelmdale Deputy	7	3rd	Snare
Total Mana:	26

My summoner is Aurelia for the +1 health. My tank is Dread Tafarian with heal. After that are my ranged monsters Grand Consul Minion and Wilhelmdale Deputy.

The focus of this lineup is to keep my monsters alive while I deal as much damage as possible. Dread is mainly there to tank the damage as it heals every single round. The ranged monsters will deal damage.

Round 1

At first glance, I think that this match is to my advantage. My opponent has their damage spread out so my Dread Tafarian can last quite long. So long as I finish off a few monsters before my backline dies, I win this match.

Round 4

A few rounds later, my opponent is left down to 1 monster while I still have 2. My opponent can't outdamage me so I win by default.

I won that match later that round.

Conclusion

The battle this time went exactly as planned. Dread Tafarian was great as a tank because my opponent couldn't deal eenough damage after I killed off a monster or two. Sometimes all you need to do is outlast your opponent.

You can see my entire match here.

What did you think of my match? Was there anything you would have done differently? I think it is quite interesting to see how different players use the same card.

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