Hello Splinterlands summoners and welcome back to my blog! In today's post, we'll check out a card that combines debuff and support in its kit: the Dark Guard Ironwing. At lower levels, it will provide your team with a strong debuffer, reducing the enemy's attack. It will also provide support by repairing armor. At maximum levels, it will have a strong attack itself.

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Lore

The Dark Guard Ironwing's lore fully complement their abilities. They hunt the enemy's highest damage dealer and reduce their power. They also use their shield for offense.

Darkguard ironwings are ravenfolk operatives trained to hunt the battlefield's greatest threats. They identify the most dangerous opponent and eliminate them.

They carry massive shields, but not for defense alone. Ironwings use them to smash and bludgeon, and their attacks sap the vigor of their targets. Champions become liabilities, and heroes become burdens. Between battles, they maintain their shields with obsessive precision, hammering out dents, replacing broken plates, sharpening edges.

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Stats and Abilities

The Dark Guard Ironwing is a seven mana Water card. It deals two range damage and has four speed. It has seven armor and six health to sustain itself in battle. For players with limited budget, it's good to have this unit at level four where it will have two powerful abilities to debuff the enemy's highest attacker. It will have Apex Strike that enables it to target the enemy with the most power and Halving that will cut its damage potential by half. At level six, it will have a support ability, Repair to help the team with their armor and at maxed level, it will have an offensive ability, Armored Strike, enabling it to utilise its armor for melee attack.

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Possible Teams and Rulesets

Being a support and debuff unit, it will fit in with most teams. It will be more effective in rulesets like Super Sneak or Melee Mayhem where its Armored Strike can hit from afar. Archon Elowen Sylphie will be perfect for this unit. Elowen's bloodline dominion ability, Charge will be most useful to Darkguard Ironwing. It will enable him to use his Armored Strike ability from the backline.

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Featured Battle

Today's featured battle is in the high level of Diamond League. Player FZHAO had a maxed Darkguard Ironwing in his team. He used legendary Loving the Moo archon. His team was composed of the following units.

Doomshield Warden

Perhaps the best among the common Escalation cards. He deals seven melee damage, has nine armor, eleven health and three speed. He also has four useful abilities. His a great tank overall with high damage and defense complemented by defensive and offensive abilities.

Ironwing Juggernaut

A three mana common reward card that packs a lot of punch for his size. He deals three melee damage and has three speed. On defense he has five armor and seven health. Among his abilities, he has Charge that enables him to attack with melee from afar. On the other hand, he can be exhausted because of his Weary debilitation.

Gramel the Hunger

The first card to have all three attacks. He can also attack with melee from the backline because he has Charge ability. He has Shapeshift ability that enables him to benefit from any archon's bloodline dominion ability.

Doldrus

The rare promo card of the Escalation set. Doldrus has no attack but has plenty of useful support abilities. It has Cleanse that's useful in this battle that had Noxious Fumes ruleset. It grants Deflect ability to adjacent units and most useful is his Corrupted Healing ability that targets all allied units.

Darkguard Ironwing

Lastly, he has Darkguard Ironwing in his team.

The enemy had the Earth splinter led by Kaylia Silverleaf who grants the Execute ability to all elves. He doesn't have units to counter Poison but he does have a healer in the team to sustain health. However, its only a single target healer unlike Doldrus's that heals multiple units.

In this battle, Darkguard Ironwing's offense helped his team win the battle. His Armored Strike ability was instrumental in defeating enemy targets. More than his support and debuff abilities, at maxed levels, his offensive skills are crucial to winning.

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