Taking on the @splinterlands @play2earn share your battle weekly challenge once again!

Dragon cards are quite unique since they add a lot of flexibility to your cards. When playing a Dragon summoner you get access to all the cards on a chosen splinter and the dragon cards as well. On top of that, most of them are above average and some are just insanely good but kind of pricey in mana terms. All around a great pick when you see a high mana cap matchup.

Daria Dragonscale was the only dragon card that I used on my match. It is one of my favorite cards to play with since I have all the sneaky monsters leveled up to at least level 7. It is my usual go-to when the fire splinter is blocked since she's a slightly higher mana cost Malric Inferno.
The best part is that it didn't cost me anything to level her up, I got several Darias as daily quest rewards and even sold some copies at a big discount when compared to nowadays prices.

Rules and strategy

Super Sneak and little league with a high mana cap is an excellent opportunity to whip out my Daria Dragonscale to fully take advantage of that +1 melee boost.

A great way to counter super sneak is to bet on shield and thorns combo. Let the opponent take himself down.

Battle Field

I will guide you through my thinking process while picking my team: Upfront I went with the Crystal Warewolf to ship down the melee front line and possibly a second line melee with reach using the thorns ability. As an added bonus it has the silencing ability to reduce any possible magic damage.

I was anticipating a lot of melee damage so that's where the Defender of truth and his plus 2 shield ability proved to be a good addition to the team. More sustainability means more thorn damage for my opponent.

Now it's time to deploy the spikes on my backline for my opponent to impale his sneaky attackers onto. ENCHANTED DEFENDER + CRYSTAL JAGUAR with +2 shield and sneak ability was the final piece to complete my strategy.

FERAL SPIRIT + URAEUS were just fillers to try to outspeed and poison my opponents while they kept running headfirst into my wall of thorns. The battle was quite easy to win even though my opponent got lucky and poisoned my backline twice, but luck can't beat a solid strategy.

Here's the battle link if you want to check it out. I love the beginning of the season to grind out those extra DEC rewards, cashing: +30!