Hello guys, after skipped last week challenge, I'm back on Ramadhanight's Hive Blog on Splinterlands Weekly Battle Challenge's Session. For this week Challenge, I want to share my battle which i think that the rules is perfectly match the new death Summoner, Astral Entity. I tried to combined him with the monster that i think suit him as well. Without any further, let's see how it goes !

From the shadows and the ether comes an eldritch entity known only as the Astral Entity. It is a celestial being that drifts through rifts in reality, searching for new planes and realms. There are almost no recordings of the Astral Entity in the athenaeums of the Splinterlands, but if one was to search through forgotten scrolls in the cobwebbed corners of ancient libraries, one would find the briefest mentions of this being. Snippets from across the centuries mention a humanoid shape made of cosmic energy. No one knows where it came from or what it wants, but it has only been recorded doing one thing: observing.

In spite of this, death always seems to follow the Astral Entity’s arrival. Clans and nations go to war. Crops wither, livestock become ill or infertile, and famine ravages the land. Droughts, plagues of locusts, and violent storms bring empires to their knees. And when it’s over, the Astral Entity vanishes without a trace.

When the Chaos Legion invaded the Splinterlands, the rift they opened echoed across realities. This drew the attention of the Astral Entity. It was able to slip through the rift undetected and explore this new world.

It witnessed a world rich in mana, with diverse people and dramatic landscapes. It also witnessed a world crushed by the grip of the powerful Chaos Legion and their leader, Silus of the Rift. The Astral Entity observed the battles, the people suffering, and all the death, but it did nothing to intervene. What it did do was learn. It learned the strengths and weaknesses of not only the Splinterlands, but of the Chaos Legion, as well.

The time may come when the Astral Entity chooses a side. Whatever choice it makes will be purely for its own gain and based on all it has learned from its eons of passing through the rifts.

Source: Splinterlands.com Lore

General Information About Astral Entity

This legendary summoner is able to bring lv 3 common, lv 2 rare, lv 2 epic, and lv 1 legendary monsters on his 1st level which is the max lv for bronze league. On his 2nd level, he could bring lv 5 common, lv 4 rare, lv 3 epic, and lv 2 legendary monster to cope up with max level allowed on silver league. On 3rd level, he could bring lv 8 common, lv 6 rare, lv 5 epic, and lv 3 legendary monster for competing on gold league, and on 4th level, he could bring max level for all monsters. Astral entity cost 6 mana, but having 3 abilities to help the team. -2 Armor debuff for all enemies, evade, and ressurection ability which makes him a great summoner for physical battle.

Formation

Rules :

Before we discuss about the formation, here is the rules for this match
Back to Basic : All abilities are disabled from monsters
Melee mayhem: All melee attack monsters are able to attack from any position.
Up Close & Personal : Only monster with melee attack are available.
40 mana cap: Medium high mana cap, suitable for Astral Entity. Let's bring him on !
Splinter available : All splinters except earth are available.

If you want to watch the battle, please click the link of battle replay i've mentioned above.

What I Like About Astral Entities:

Evade itself is having great impact on physical battle with it's chance to miss. -2 Armor makes it even great for assasinating enemies backline, and resurrection ability is a great addition because armor will get fully resurrected as well. All those combination makes astral entity is one of the best sumoners on physical battle.

What I Don't Like About Astral Entities:

His flexibility is not good enough because he cost 6 mana which is not suitable for low mana cap ruleset, and his great physical battle buff is not that good on magical battle.

When to Use Astral Entities:

Surely on battle where enemies would likely to use physical monsters. Especially those battle like i've just shared.

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What would i do next ?

I would like to try to combined him with monster that got void armor if i had to use him on battle with magical monster might appeared.

Astral entities having great buff and abilities to go against physical kind of enemies, but is kinda useless against magical monster. Use him on medium high mana where physical monster is likely to appeared, especially where magic is not available to get the best of him. And don't forget to combine him with high armor monster to get high armor resurrection for full benefit !

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