$50 Budget Series - Water Splinter

over 2 years ago

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As I have introduced in my previous posting, we will be picking cards from the Splinterlands Marketplace for cards that can strengthen the free deck and assure you of increasing your ranks for at least Silver III up to Gold III for a total of fifty US dollars ($50).

Here's what we'll cover:

☑️Chosen Splinter

☑️Tactics

☑️The Cards

☑️Total Spent

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In my opinion, Water 🌊, Fire 🔥, and Death 💀 are the most stable Splinter for the Free Deck. At Bronze League, it is imperative that you have at least one Splinter which is very dependable. I recommend that you choose between Water, Fire, and Death since they are already strong enough, and if you have a tight budget, you can easily strengthen them and become very dependable.

For this blog, we will be choosing Water 🌊 Splinter. Rest assured that I will also be creating for other Splinters soon but for this time, let's focus on Water 🌊 Splinter.

Free Water Cards are already strong for Medium Mana Range (20-28). Beyond that range, I don't advise using Free Water Cards. But after acquiring these additional cards to be discussed here, you can now play Water 🌊 Splinter on any mana range.

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Water 🌊 splinter has two kinds of tactics to play. One is the Mage Build and the other is Anti-Mage Build.

MAGE BUILD 🌩️

Mage build utilizes the Water Splinter Summoner, Alric Stormbringer. This card gives +1 Magic damage to all Magic Damage Attacking Monsters you control.

Magic damage is currently overpowered here in Splinterlands. Magic damage ignores the armor of the enemy monster cards except for monsters with Void Armor and Divine Shield ability. This means that each Magic Damage Attacking Monster directs their damage to the health points of the enemy monster. Also, Magic Damage does not miss except when affected by Blind ability, and the enemy monster has Phase ability.
Magic damage, however, can be reflected by the Magic reflect ability. The magic damage you inflict still damages the enemy monster but your monster will receive damage equal to half the damage dealt and rounded up. Also, Magic Damage can be reduced by Silence ability as well as the Void ability when magic damage is to be received.

ANTI-MAGE BUILD 🪓

Anti-Mage build, on the other hand, utilizes the Water Splinter Summoner, Bortus. This card decreases the Magic damage of all Magic Damage Attacking Monsters your enemy controls by one. (-1 Magic Damage to all enemy monsters).

This build relies on the battle history of your enemy. If you can deduce from his recent battles that your enemy uses Magic Damage Attacking Monsters, then this build may counter his monsters.
This build utilizes strong tanks and strong backline damagers. Tanks to be chosen should have any of the following Void, Void Armor, and Heal. This is the problem with Free Water Cards since your tank is the available tanks are not strong enough which only relies on high health points like the Peaceful Giant and Elven Defender.
Backline Damagers should have at least 2 damage of any kind, melee (with Sneak or Opportunity ability), range damage (most preferred), or magic damage (less preferred).

Both builds are to be used interchangeably to confuse our enemies from what build to be used and to give them a hard time countering your build. Our goal for our $50 budget is to strengthen both builds of the Water 🌊 Splinter Cards to make it a dependable Splinter Deck.

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For the main event, here are the cards to buy. Please take note that these cards and tactics are ALSO applicable to those who are only renting cards. The $50 dollars budget that I mentioned will be used to buy the cards and not on rent. Now, let's go shopping at the Splinterlands Marketplace!

(Prices and Pics are snipped at the Splinterlands Marketplace last September 26, 2021, 1600 UTC)

💧 Sea Genie

Sea Genie is a cheap and strong card addition to our Mage Build giving this card a total of 3 Magic Damage which is a real pain for the opponent. Sea Genie also has Flying ability which is very useful on Earthquake rulesets and has an increased chance for evading range and melee attacks (miss).