How cool is the Captain? : Trying out the Captain's Ghost card 😎

Namaskar Splinterland Players!!

I hope you all are happy and enjoying Splinterlands!

This is your splinter fellow warrior mango-juice with another Splinterlands share your battle weakly challenge post!!

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Another week passed by and I am still in my lockdown days, doing silly things at home. Probably, Moreover, the monsoon season has hit hard on our state and its raining cats and dogs for the last 4 days :(. Meanwhile, while I can't be outside in this rainy season, Splinterands is my only tonic to fight with this never-ending boredom. It helped me a lot during the long lockdown and still helping me in killing my free time lot.

At day time, I do work from home for mt office and at night I hang out with hive lovers ;) I am in this routine for months now, since the lockdown started, this has been my daily routine and I really am enjoying it.

If you have visited my blogs previously, clearly you know that not only I love to play it, but also I like to make blogs on this game. I mainly post blogs about SpLinterlands in the Hive and other social media. I also partake in weekly battle challenge and social media curation posts.

Anyways, that reminds me of this week's @Splinterlands challenge post on the Captain's Ghost! If you are a Splinterlands lover just like me, clearly you know about the weekly challenge post where they give one theme every week and we write a quality post on it and stand a chance to get curated by team Splinterlands. This week, the theme is to write an article on the new water Reward card Captain's Ghost! So let's take a deep dive into Splinterlands and meet with our challenger, The forgotten captain of the battlefield, the commander of ghosts, Captain's Ghost!

Captain's Ghost is a newly launched magic reward card that is belonging to the Water reign. It's considerably a big card and costs 7 mana to use. This new generation monster has the Affliction ability from level 1 and the oppress ability from level 5. Now let us have a look at his lore story!

The Captain of a great pirate ship perished in a battle against Old Frank, one of the most ruthless Sea Monsters of the Splinterlands as his ship was dragged under. While he died, the burning desire for the treasure the Captain was seeking ripped his soul from his body. The Captain simply could not cope with the fact that he would never behold the treasure, so he defied reality and life itself. As his lifeless body sank with the ship, the Ghost of the Captain sprang for the surface and began to wander the Splinterlands, lost and seeking a hopeless treasure that he would never find. After nearly a hundred years of wandering, the Captain has finally chosen to appear in battle at Mount Mox. The mere sight of his ghostly presence is enough for many opponents to collapse in fear.

Is this captain of any use?

Let's have a look into his stats and find out!

• Level 1 - In its initial level, it carries 2 magic attack with 7 health and 1 speed. It brings the Affliction ability with it.
• Level 4 - At level 4, it carries 3 magic attack at 2 speed and 7 health. It becomes a decent magic attacker card.
• Level 10 - At max level, It possesses 4 magic attack with 8 health at 2 speed. It also possesses 2 abilities with it at max level as stated below.

Affliction

With this ability, if the monster launches an attack on the enemy, it has a chance to apply Affliction on it, making him unable to heal.

Oppress

With this ability, the monster does double damage to an enemy that has no attack.

Current Market Status

Currently, the Captain is placed at 0.12$ per BCX (211.305 DEC as per current rate). There is no max level on the market currently so you have to buy those 1 bcx cards to make it higher level. Though, there is a level 1 (4 bcx) Captain open for sale at 0.46$ (806.028 DEC).
I have a level 3 Captain currently in my collection. I recently bought some from the market and made it level 3 as I think it's the extra jewel to the magic group and is worthy of a choice for his tank stats with abilities.

Match line up

Ruleset Of Battle

• Battle link Click here

• Opponent @primersion

• Mana count This match holds a high-range 40 mana cap!

• Summoners This battle supports Water, Earth, Life and Dragon summoners.

• Ruleset So, It was a dual ruleset as below...

• • Healed Out ( No monsters can heal or can be healed).
• • Earthquake (Non-flying monsters will lose 2 health at the start of every round).

It's a high mana match and I am thinking to go for the Water summoner Alric Stormbringer deck with a group of magic monsters and the Captain along with it.

At this ruleset, I have a large mana limit in my hand, after using the summoner and Cap, I will be left with 30 mana, which is a lot for those remaining 5 places. I have to choose it wisely as if I choose som high mana cards from collection, I'll have to choose 2 or 3 mana cards for the rest places. I decided to choose magic monsters at the back with gigantic defence Lord + Prismatic Energy at the front, Both of them will be enough will soak the enemy attacks and also some real damage in reverse!

Healing Abilities are useless in this battle so I am not gonna use any heal monster this time, rather I would go with the powerful monsters.

Line-Up

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LORD ARIANTHUS

I chose LORD ARIANTHUS in the first place because of its high health and tank abilities. I have a level 4 and it has 1 speed and 9 health. It also carries 4 abilities with him such as...

• Shield - Will take less amount of hit from melee and ranged attacks.

• Void - Will take less damage from magic attacks.

• Thrones - When hit by a melee attack, does damage back to the attacker.

• Magic Reflect - When hit by magic, Will reflect less amount of damage back to the monster.

PRISMATIC ENERGY

I chose PRISMATIC ENERGY in the second place because of its high health and reflect ability. I have a level 8 and it has 3 magic attack with 5 speed and 11 health. It also carries 2 abilities with him such as...

• Void - Will take less damage from magic attacks.

• Magic Reflect - When hit by magic, Will reflect less amount of damage back to the monster.

CAPTAIN'S GHOST

I chose the CAPTAIN'S GHOST in the third place because of its decent health and affliction ability. I have a level 3 only and it has 2 magic attack with 2 speed and 8 health. It also carries 1 ability with him as shown below...

• Affliction - With this ability, if the monster launches an attack on the enemy, it has a chance to apply Affliction on it, making him unable to heal.

SEA GENIE

I chose the SEA GENIE in the fourth place because of its decent magic attack and flying ability. I have a level 8 only and it has 3 magic attack with 3 speed and 5 health. It also carries 2 abilities with him as shown below...

• Flying - non-flying monsters will have a 50% chance to miss this monster when targetting.

• Strengthen - All friendly monsters will get increased health.

RULER OF THE SEAS

I chose the RULER OF THE SEAS in the fifth place because of its blast and silence ability. I have a level 4 RULER OF THE SEAS at it has 4 magic attack at 3 speed and 5 health. It possesses 3 abilities as stated below.

• Blast - When hit a target, does reduce damage to the adjacent monsters.

• Swiftness - Every friendly monster will get +1 speed.

• Silence - Every enemy monster will get -1 magic power.

MISCHIEVOUS MERMAID

I chose the MISCHIEVOUS MERMAID in the last place because of its magic power and evade ability. I have a level 5 MISCHIEVOUS MERMAID at it has 3 magic attack at 4 speed and 5 health. It possesses 1 ability as stated below.

• Evade - Has an increased chance of evading a melee or ranged attack.

Battle Result

Well, the match was simply awesome guys! The opponent used an Earth deck on me but my strong monsters got able to survive and kill down the enemies one by one.

Let us now take a dive in the gameplay.

Gameplay

You can directly view the battle. Just click the hyperlink below.

Battle Link

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First, let us follow the opponent's line-up...

• My opponent @primersion used Earth summoner Lynna Natura against me.
• At the front position, he used Flesh Golem Level 5. He chose an Immortal beast to his front and I just hope I get able to kill this shielded beast with my melee warriors.
• At the second position, he used Prismatic Energy level 5.
• At the third position, he puts Mushroom Seer lev 5.
• At the fourth position, he chose Wood Nymph lev 6.
• At the fifth position, he chose Magi of the Forest lev 2.
• At the last position, he chose Javelin Thrower lev 5.

For me, It was quite an unpredictable match because of the weird deck I had made. Using all the best cards in a 40 mana match is not possible and it indeed didn't allow me to choose The phantom of Abyss or The Kraken and other high mana monsters. But I wanted to see how much effective it will be. Gladly I won this match somehow.

First of all, I took advantage of the Healed out ruleset and used more attack type monsters instead of the healers. I also built a strong defence which did stand a long time and protected my rear monsters. At the third position, I was unsure but used the Captain as the affliction ability won't help me in a healed out match.

I most of the time choose Ruler when playing with a water deck for his unmatched abilities at 6 mana cost. This time I also did the same. I intensionally choose less flying monsters and put more effort into the high attack. Among my deck, only the genie was having flying ability but still, luckily I won.

Again, It was a great match and my opponent also had a great line up.

I hope you have enjoyed reading my post. Please let me know your feelings by leaving a comment below.

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Last but not least, I really wanna say thanks to @aggroed @yabapmatt and the entire @splinterlands team for their continuous and tireless effort on this game. You guys really rock!!

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