Hello everyone, welcome to another post about Splinterlands. In this post I'm going to talk about the Martyr ability I discovered recently, I know it's been a long time since the new reward cards were introduced but I still hadn't read about all the new abilities they brought to the game, the Martyr ability is one of them.

Recently I acquired the Fungus Flinger card in my reward chests and although I had already fought against opponents that used this card in battle I still didn't understand how its ability worked due to lack of curiosity, but now that I own the card so I had to learn its usefulness to be able to use it correctly in battles.

What is the Martyr ability?

As I mentioned before the Martyr ability was introduced along with the new reward cards (it's been a few months now), when a monster with the Martyr ability dies it increases the stats of adjacent monsters by +1, this means that the monsters will gain +1 attack, +1 speed, and +1 health. As the adjacent monsters are, you will only be able to increase the stats of a maximum of 2 monsters, so the positioning of the cards will be very essential so that you can choose which monsters will receive this buff when the monster with the Martyr ability is defeated.

To better understand how the ability works I will demonstrate it through a battle soon.

The card I acquired was Fungus Flinger from the earth deck, currently I am only able to use it at level 1 but it is enough to put together a good strategy since at that level it already has the Martyr ability.

Fungus Flinger is not a very strong monster to have in battles, but its mana cost is low and it has very useful abilities like Martyt, Blind and Affliction.

• The Blind ability will increase the opponent's chances of missing the attack by +15%.
• The Affliction ability will have a 50% chance when attacking to apply affliction to the opposing card and render it unable to heal.

The Martyr ability I already explained and together with these 2 abilities Fungus Flinger becomes a very useful card to have, but unfortunately I only have it at level 1 so the Martyr ability is the only one I am able to use with it, but this won't be a problem and to demonstrate in practice how useful this ability is I will show it in action through a battle.

BATTLE

As I can only use Fungus Flinger at level 1 and at this level he is very weak so my goal for him in this battle is to use him as a sacrifice to increase the stats of my other cards.

Watch the Battle

In this battle there is the Explosive Weaponry rule and having it will make it easier for me to complete my objective with Fungus Flinger since that way I can increase the stats of 2 of my cards.

I placed Fungus Flinger between Flesh Golem and Kron the Undying since those are the 2 cards I want to stat boost. Fungus Flinger has low health so it will be an easy target for my opponent and it will also be very useful as a shield during the first round until it is defeated.

Just as I predicted Fungus Flinger was easily defeated and the Martyr ability was activated giving +1 to all stats of Flesh Golem and Kron the Undying, now they are even stronger to face the battle.

Now that Fungus Flinger has been defeated, my default strategy is positioned for this type of battle, Flesh Golem will be the main defense and Kron the Undying will take the additional damage from the Explosive Weaponry rule but it won't be a problem for him since he has a Heal ability.

To complete my strategy I also choose Wood Nymph which has the Tank Heal ability, so I have a lot of healing in this battle and it will be very useful to keep my cards on the battlefield as long as possible so that they can do even more damage.

Mylor Crowling is my summoner for battle and he will also be of great help as he will grant Thorns ability to all my monsters, this ability will be very useful against melee monsters.

Now that all my strategy has been assembled, all that remains is to wait to see the result.

With each passing round I can clearly see that choosing the right strategy as I have a lot of healing and it is being very useful against the Explosive Weaponry rule, in addition 2 of my cards are even stronger already received the Martyr ability buff .

In the end my opponent couldn't resist and I finally managed to achieve victory.