Underwater, there is no sound, something is lurking in the background! (a Deeplurker Splinterlands battle challenge)

What is Splinterlands?

Splinterlands is a card game, similar with Hearthstone, where you can play battle against other players to get a better rank or in tournaments. It is a NFT game based on Hive Blockchain, with multiple ways to capitalise and make money, real money, by playing it or trading in it. You can start earning as soon as you buy a Spellbook ($10) getting DEC tokens and NFT monster cards via daily quests and season quests (every 2 weeks). There is an airdrop daily, for a whole year, currently at day 201/365, I think, and you can still get some nice governance tokens just by playing the game for the next year. Everything counts, cards, DEC on HIVE, WAX, ETH and BSC, lands, titles, skins. You can maximize the airdrop by staking all you SPS for a 31.1% APR right now. Another way to make profit is to rent cards, getting paid in DEC tokens for it. But, my, oh my, the renting price right now is so, so low.

The free for all 3rd phase sale is on, and I had only enough funds to buy 68 packs. At last, we can finally buy packs with 4$, using just Credits. Even then, if you want to get the extra packs, you still need vouchers, but just for the bonus packs. An awesome hint from a really good player (not me), if you open your packs after the Legendary summoners are introduced, you have a small chance to get them from the packs. Unlike right now. I believe that lands will be introduced next in the second quarter of 2022, I believe, with a price of 500$ on average for each at the moment. Just check this awesome page about what are the Lands supposed to do.

The Deeplurker is a Common Water Unit, from the Chaos Legion pack, and at max level it has a 6 Mana cost, 5 Melee Damage, 4 Speed and 7 Health. It is good at clearing behind the tank, with Opportunity skill at level 1, attacking the target with the lowest health, and starting from level 6 you got Poison skill added, making it easy to clear all the cards with Health lower that 6 in one single hit, if Poison applies. At max level 10 got an aditional skill, Demoralize, decreasing all opponent cards Melee Attack by 1. To buy a fully upgraded level 10 card will cost you around $100, as the individual card right now is $0.25 each. Despite the high mana cost, it has decent health and damage, making it worth its while.

So, for the challenge, this were the starting conditions:

Mana Limit: 48

Rulesets: Spreading Fury (All monsters got Enrage)

Teams:

Mine - Summoner: Lir Deepswimmer (even if it was just level 1, I needed to use it against an opponent prefering ranged boost, as Return Fire was the real deal, and the +2 Armor boost combines with Blind made my team hard to kill), with Lobstradamus as main tank betting on his Shield ability to reduce both Melee and Ranged damage, Flying Squid with Reach, attacking from the second position, Deeplurker with Opportunity, to kill the cards with low health, Merdali Guardian to heal the tank, Nerissa Tridawn and Phantom of the Abyss for a big time 6 Magic damage, with the latest having Flying and Dodge to make it last on the back.

Opponent - Summoner: General Sloane (+1 Ranged damage boost), with a strong Uriel the Purifier as main tank, with Flying and Heal, not to mention Recharge, adding a dangerous 9 Melee Damage to the battle, Adelaide Brightwing with Flying, Repair Armor to support the tank and Ressurect, Lone Boatman with Snipe and Repair, once more, Supply Runner with Swift, adding 1 Speed and improving the odds for dodge, Pelacor Arbalest attacking twice per round and Flying, and Prismologist reducing damage with Forcefield and Blasting multiple enemies.

This was a interesting battle, with Pelacor Arbalest dying while attacking first target, my Lobstradamus being eliminated second, then Lone Boarman and Prismologist being destroyed by Return Fire, and my Flying Squid dying in front of Uriel. Then finnaly I have managed to kill Uriel, the Supply Runner died by Fire Return and the mages managed to kill the last one.

Star of the game - I can only say that using Lir as summoner gave me and edge and helped me win, mainly because of the Ranged Return Fire, as the enemy team got 4 out of 6 Ranged attackers, that simply beat themselves down.

On the side note, my continuous support for Splintertalk.io is going well, with my SPT tokens number raising to 1 million. All of it is delegated to @monster-curator, as this account is doing a great work curating the best posts on the forum. I have finally reached the needed SPT power (100K at the moment) to manually curate on Splinterlalk.io. Also, working on acquiring 50K Oneup next, inspired by the Carter efforts. Fancy the idea of having 200K Level too, for their airdrop.

All the best, George

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