Splinterlands Social Media Challenge: Wailing Wraith is great in reverse speed matches

Splinterlands is a pretty complicated game and there are some interesting battles with all the options available. This is a part of the weekly social media challenge for Splinterlands. This week the topic is a great battle that I had recently.

Featured card: Wailing Wraith

The card that I am focused on is Wailing Wraith. It's one of the Rebellion cards and I got one copy of this card at level 1. It has reach and armored strike to start off. It learns affliction and rust later when leveled up. Armored strike allows an extra attack using it's current armor.

Rule set, Battle and Plan

The ruleset this time is Reverse Speed and Counterspell. This means that all monsters gain the magic reflect ability and monsters with lower speed attack first. There are 25 mana available and I am left with the choice of death or dragon splinter.

Splinter	Mana Cost	Position	Reason
Astral Entity	6	Summoner	-2 armor, dodge and resurrect
Cursed Windeku	6	1st	Thorns
Wailing Wraith	4	2nd	Armored Strike and Reach
Weirding Warrior	2	3rd	Shatter
Ravenhood Warden	4	4th	Protect
Soul Strangler	3	5th	Ranged damage dealer
Corpse Fiend	0	6th	Filler

I used Astral Entity as my summoner so that my opponent loses 2 armor, and my cards get dodge and resurrect. My lineup starts off with a thorns tank. Then comes Wailing Wraith in the 2nd spot to attack. I have my ranged damage dealers and one of which has protect. This will increase the damage from my Wailing Wraith's armored strike. My last spot is a fiend to tank any sneak attacks and give my damage dealers more time to deal damage.

Round 1

My opponent is using a duo ability summoner and it looks like he gave his monsters ambush. I hope that the attacks don't come back to kill me off but at least my frontmost monster has thorns. Other than that, I think I have the advantage because my opponent doesn't have many attackers.

Round 2

I was lucky enough to kill two of my opponent monsters and I haven't lost a single monster yet. At this point, my opponent's damage has been severely dropped and I still have my resurrect. So I think this win is mine at this point as I don't think I can miss that many attacks.

A few rounds later, I was able to win the match.

Conclusion

The battle this time around went exactly as I expected. My thorns tank definitely helped out quite a bit as it dealt a lot of damage against my opponent's main damage dealer. My opponent was also using armored strike but thorns stopped it from being very effective. My summoner did a great job of reducing the armor because it could have been way more dangerous otherwise. I think my opponent just didn't have many attackers and I felt that his reliance on the first two monsters hurt his chances.

You can see my entire match here.

Feel free to leave a comment if you read my post. If you have any questions, feel free to ask and I will do my best to answer.

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