Testing some strategies with Runemancer Florre

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The Rebellion edition is the latest edition of cards in Splinterlands and there are a lot of new summoners and monsters which came out with this one. Each week I focus on different monsters and discuss them in detail with strategies that best fit them. This week we are going back to the Chaos edition for an impressive unit. It is a legendary Earth unit, Runemancer Florre, a power attacker with impressive stats and a very high mana cost. It costs a whopping 13 mana to use but can this unit justify this hefty cost? Let's try to answer this question.

Let's start by looking at its stats in detail.

Runemancer Florre

CARD
RARITY	Legendary
ELEMENT	Earth
LEVEL	1
MANA COST	13 POINTS
ABILITIES/BUFFS	No abilities

Runemancer Florre is a Legendary Earth unit. It is a high mana cost unit costing 13 mana to use but it comes with some impressive stats. On the attacking part, it deals both magic and ranged attack damage with high speed so it can be a very powerful attacker. And on the defensive side, it has a lot of health so it can be a wise choice in your battle, especially if it is a high mana cap battle or a 99 mana cap battle. It doesn't come with some abilities which would have made it too powerful in my opinion. Because it has the ranged attack too so I prefer to use it somewhere at the end of my lineup.

Let me show you how it performs using a battle as an example.

My Lineup

This is my lineup for the battle

Position	Summoner/Monsters
Summoner	Obsidian
Position 1	Mycelic Slipspawn
Position 2	Regal Peryton
Position 3	Goblin Psychic
Position 4	Queen Mycelia
Position 5	Runemancer Florre

It was a 53-mana cap battle and had the following rulesets:

• Fog of War - Monsters lose the Sneak, Snipe and Opportunity abilities.
• Holy Protection - All Monsters have the Divine Shield ability.
• Silenced Summoners - Summoners do not give any stat buffs or debuffs or grant/use any abilities.

All elements except 'Death' and 'Dragon' were active during this battle. I went with Obsidian as my summoner as I wanted to go for a heavy mage attack and I like my Earth units.

My tank in this battle was Grund. It is an impressive melee attacker dealing 4 melee attack damage and twice every round because of its 'double strike' ability. It also came with enough health to stand there for a while. All it cost was 10 mana which I could easily afford in this battle.

Next in my lineup was Mycelic Slipspawn. It was another mage that had a lot of health and an interesting ability, Taunt, which made all the enemy units attack this one if they could. This helped my tank last even longer as the attackers were shifter to it. It also had the 'Forcefield' ability which lets it last even longer.

Regal Peryton was placed in the third position, which costs 5 mana and deals 2 magic attack damage with incredible speed. It's a 'flying' ability for him it dodges more attacks. So, it was a no-brainer for me to choose in this battle.

The next one was Goblin Psychic, a healer that supports my tank as it comes with a 'tank heal' ability. It costs only 6 mana and deals 2 magic attack damage. It also had the 'affliction' ability which lets it hide from potential attacks until it gets in the first place.

Queen Mycelia played a crucial role in my lineup as it gave all of the friendly units +2 armour which increased the defensive capabilities of my units. It only dealt one magic attack damage but it was one of the cheaper units and cost just 4 mana to use.

And finally, the highlighted unit, Runemancer Florre. I placed it at the end of the lineup so its ranged attacks continue to work for much longer. I could have used its huge health to shield my other monsters by placing it in the middle of the lineup or even further ahead but I didn't want to waste that ranged attack damage.

Now that my lineup was set, it was time for battle.

I will share my battle here, which I have uploaded to YouTube.