Battle Challenge with DELWYN DRAGONSCALE!
Hi and welcome to this weeks Battle Challenge with dragons! I'll go over my strategy and line up, thoughts on one specific dragon card and show you a nice battle in the upper silver league. You can find the link to the full battle further down below.
Let's go!
The Card
The card I want to highlight from this battle is Delwyn Dragonscale. He's a common dragon summoner, that gives +1 magic. I have just recently begun playing him to get more variety for my dragon focus quests. He's relatively cheap to rent at the moment but super powerful. Magic itself is already very strong and summoners like Alric or Obsidian in high demand. While Delwyn is a little bit more expensive in terms of mana he offers so much utility, because every splinter has a couple good magic monsters, allowing for some powerful compositions.
The Ruleset
The Line Up & Strategy
I chose Delwyn as my summoner, because because I love magic and there are a couple of high speed flying cards in earth and dragon that can utilize Enrage very well to dodge melee and ranged attacks. I also had enough mana to build a big team, so I didn't have to worry about spending a little more on a summoner
Another magic attacker with good damage. Slow and not the highest health, but therefore offers great abilities with Heal and Affliction. There's almost no magic line up where I don't bring this guy.
That's the line up. With life and earth available I expected either a Lorna Shine sneak team, which usually doesn't have too much protection other than the Holy Shield, so my fast magic attackers could take care of the lower health sneak monsters. Or a lot of armor, in which case magic would also be very strong. As for earth I expected either a magic team with Obsidian, which I tried to counter with the Void Dragon a little bit or a Mylor team, which again, magic is also decent against, because you don't get hit by the thorns.
All in all I felt pretty comfortable with my line up. The team has very high health, good speed and damage and is protected by Taunt for the first few hits, so that my healer and damage dealers have a little breathing room.
The Battle
My opponent did go for a Lorna team. Not as much sneak, but very melee heavy. They also brought a Taunt with Shieldbearer and all the monsters have decent health. However one big difference I noted was that their team was slower and other than the Divine Shield from Lorna they had no support cards. I'm confident in winning this battle.
Conclusion
And I did win! It took two rounds to get through all the Divine Shields and my Chaos Dragon didn't hit the most accurate Scatter Shots, but my high health tanks (Grund and Slipspawn) soaked up enough damage to let my damage dealers (Void Dragon and Regal Peryton) take out the enemy with their speed and damage in the end.
I checked the battle with Splintertools, which is a great site to analyze your games and try out different line ups and as you can see I had a 90% win rate, so no luck here.
All in all I wish I owned a level up Delwyn, as magic is my favorite and he allows for so many nice magic line ups across all splinters. Void Dragon and Chaos Dragon are also fantastic cards and currently very cheap!
Disclaimer
None of this is financial advice. These tips are for educational purposes only and might all fall out of date as both Splinterlands and the Crypto Market in general are subject to constant change.
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Thanks to Carrie Allen for the amazing Markdown Tutorial Hope you enjoyed the read. Have a great day and until next time! Pinkman45
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Thanks for sharing! - @lenonmc21
Your battle post is fine, although you can give more details of your strategy to make it more complete and your effort to write a battle more noticeable. Your formatting should be improved, justify the text and align everything perfectly. Finally, stop using so much reward.app, this can be considered as agriculture and can be detrimental to you, you can use it, but not so often.
thanks for the feedback, unfortunately I have had posts where I put in hours of work going into a lot of detail both in battle posts and social media posts and all I have gotten were responses like "this is a good card" or "good summary". It feels like some of the curators are not reading the entire post or don't understand it. At least they don't show it and that's frustrating. As for justifying the text I think it looks better this way. For the reward.app I'm not really sure what this has to do with anything. It's an option, why not use it? I personally want to have liquid funds to reinvest back into the game instead of hive I have to power down.
All in all the blogging experience has been very frustrating to say the least and I might stop all together.