Splinterlands Challenge of the Week: Having a Blast!
This week's Battle Mage rule set challenge was Explosive Weaponry in which every monster gains the blast ability at the beginning of the battle...
With blast attacking monsters do half the damage against neigbouring opponents!
Blast general strategy....
The crucial thing here I think is to play snipe, or maybe even Sattershot, anything which gives you the most chance of damaging TWO monsters rather than just one, which would be the case with both tank and sneak attacks.
I usually try to play one massive damage card at least for those extra blast points either side!
Defensively I find triage and shields with repair can work well to mop up that surplus damage.
Blast battle exemplar
The battle below shows a battle featuring blast with scattershot rulesets, a great combination!
Mana and rulesets:
- 37 Mana
- Scattershot and blast
Summoner - Lily Shieldpaw - for the triage, mainly
- Flesh Golem - an awesome tank with self-heal
- Gold dragon - high attack and health
- Goblin psychic - high attack and decent health, also tank heal
- Queen mycelia - shields
- Miticca headhunter - main damage card
- Fungus Fiend - 0 mana filler!
The battle...
- round 1 - Carnage - I take out the TruthSpeaker, shields DOWN!
- round 2 - straight off the bat Miticca takes out the slugs and the Eagle with BLAST! I take out the Lone Boatman at the end of the round. Also my monsters are getting healed by TRIAGE!
- round 3 - It's all over, I finish my opponent off!
Final battle analysis
There was no point going for snipe like I usually would with scattershot in effect...
My opponent wasted some mana on the taunting SB because scattershot trumps that.
It was all over for my opponent when he lost his TS, shields down!
This was a lesson in shields and triage and MASSIVE attacks.
Blast final thoughts...
Play shields - this is where I ended up thanks to them mainly...
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