Magalli's "SHARE YOUR BATTLE Weekly Challenge! VENARI KNIFER!"

New "Weekly Battle Challenge"!

The subject of this week is the Venari Knifer.

1 ) Mana cost: 6 Fair Mana Cost considering its high stats.

2 ) Melee Attack: 2 Nice Melee Attack, enough to inflict damage to Monsters with the Shield ability too.

3 ) Speed: 5 Amazing stat, considering how Speed works.

4 ) Expansion: Chaos Legion I highlighted that because in the near future the Expansion of a card will be essential to know if it is playable in the Modern format or in the Wild format (MF: playable only in the last two Expansions that came out on Splinterlands, WF: every Expansion is playable).

5 ) Health: 7 Great stat, The Venari Knifer has enough Health to be considered a good tank.

6 ) Element: Earth It means that it can be used only with Earth and Dragon Summoners.

7 ) Ability: Thorns One of the best abilities for a Tank, it is explained better later in this post.

Please Note: the Venari Knifer has no Armor.

In general the Venari Knifer can be considered a nice card, but with the right Rules of Combat it can really shine:

I chose Rules that imply the use of Melee Attack Monsters, and Rules where the Opponent's Monsters attack can be predicted in a determined spot, to take full advantage of the Venari Knifer's ability (Ex. with "Super Sneak" placing the Venari Knifer in the last spot can be really useful, taking advantage of its ability Thorns).

The introduction to the Venari Knifer is over, let's see how I used it in battle:

Rules Of Combat:Neutral with the "Healed Out" Rule the healing abilities are not allowed, not a problem.

Mana Cap: Positive I can use all my owned nice cards, including the Venari Knifer.

Active Elements: Positive I can use a Magic deck with no worries about an eventual Death or Water deck.

Summoner: Obisidian I can take advantage of my Level 2 Obsidian Summoner, who synergizes perfectly with my Monsters and strategy.

Focus: Fire I will not receive Focus Points if I win, but I will have an important surprise effect (and some juicy Season Points).

The Strategy: Considering my focus, and considering I used a Fire deck in all my last 5 battles before this, I bet that my Opponent would have chosen something to counter a Physical Deck, not being prepared to fight a Magic one.
I used the Venari Knifer instead of the Goblin Psychic because the healing abilities are not effective, and to take advantage of its Speed stat and its Thorns ability.

So as a Tank I used the Venari Knifer:

Then I deployed the Regal Peryton, to use its high-Speed Stat and its Flying ability as a backup Tank in case the Venari Knifer would die too soon:

Amazing card, amazing Golf Foil, amazing to find it in a Pack.

After it I deployed one of my best cards:

The Protect ability is essential versus a Physical deck.

In the fourth position I placed another legendary card:

Its ability can be really helpful in case you face a Deck that uses Monsters that Attack the second lines.

In the fifth position I placed a Neutral card, the Venari Spellsmith, it is not one of the best cards, but after the last Rewards Update, it is important to use owned cards, and it has an interesting ability:

And in the last position, I deployed another Monster with the Thorns ability:

Another amazing GF card.

Time for the battle (link):

As expected my Opponent chose a counter for a Physical Deck.

Thanks to my trump cards and my leveled Monsters, I won pretty easily, but only because I predicted my Opponent's choices.

Final Considration:

The Venari Knifer is a good card and a good tank, right now it doesn't really synergize with the CL Earth Summoner, so I think we will have to wait for the Legenadary Heart Summoner reveal to give a better opinion for a future use.

Leveling up the Venari Knifer becomes a really interesting card with nice stats, just be careful when you level it up because at level 3 and 6 it loses 1 point in Health stat.

Best regards,
Magalli

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