SHARE YOUR BATTLE Weekly Challenge! XENITH ARCHER

Hello everyone, Lester here! It's time again for Splinterlands Share Your Battle Weekly Challenge! How's your recent rewards from Focus Chests? Good? Bad? Meh? While you're not sure yet on what is your next strategy, check out my entry to SHARE YOUR BATTLE Weekly Challenge! XENITH ARCHER.

For this post, let's review one of the Neutral Cards from Chaos Legion - Xenith Archer. I will be also sharing some of my battles using this card. Before going through the details, let check first this card's stat and lore.

Xenith Archer is one of the few cards that has no Ability even if it reach the highest level possible. To compensate for that, I think, it costs 2 mana only to summon and has 2 HP. However, it only has 1 Attack until it reach level level 6. Given these stats, how and when should we use Xenith Archer? You might be thinking that it will be easily killed or cannot do much damage in the battle.

To maximize the use of this card, you need to know the right configuration. Let's start with the Summoners. Since Xenith Archer is a neutral card, there are several summoners that this card can work well with.

The first one is Prince Rennyn, a legendary summoner from Earth Element that gives +1 Ranged Attack as well as +1 Speed and +1 HP. The next one is from Fire Element, Yodin Zaku, which gives +1 Ranged Attack, +1 HP and Blast ability. We also have General Sloan and Selenia Sky that gives +1 Ranged Attack.

How about the Rulesets? For me these are the Rulesets that are most compatible with Xenith Archer.

On top of these Rulesets, it is best to use Xenith Archer in low mana cap battles. One of my favorites is using Selenia Sky or Prince Rennyn and 2-mana costs cards when the battle has low mana cap.

Here is the line-up I used in this battle challenge. In this battle, the ruleset is Rise of the Commons. The mana cap is 20 only and this gives me limited monster units to be used in this battle. All elements can be used and I am currently doing my Focus Element which is Earth, so that's why I tried this line-up. When having a focus element with a summoner that gives +1 Ranged Attack, I always make sure that I rented/owned a Xenith Archer. With This kind of ruleset and mana cap, the list of usable cards are limited. But since Xenith Archer is costs 2 mana and a Rare card, I can use it in this ruleset.

In this battle, my strategy is to use as much as possible low mana cost cards. I used the Prince Rennyn (5) as my summoner to take advantage of its +1 HP for Flesh Golem's heal and +1 Ranged Attack for my ranged attack cards. My tank here is a level 3 Flesh Golem (6) with its Heal ability. For me, this is a good tank given that it will receive +1 HP from Prince Rennyn to maximize its Heal ability. My Pos 2 card here is Mycelic Morphoid (1) inflict additional damage to enemy melee cards. My Pos 3 is Earth Elemental (3), a ranged attack card with 6 HP, good for providing shield to my back line attackers in case my melee cards were defeated. Next card to it is Xenith Archer (2) and will benefit from Prince Rennyns +1 Ranged Attack, HP and Speed. This will compensate Xenith Archer's low HP and Speed at level 3. My fifth card is Goblin Dartling (2) which is also a Ranged card. And my 6th card is Creeping Ooze (1). It provides speed debuff to enemy hoping that my cards will attack first. All in all, the total mana cost of this line up is 20.

The opponent used Light element with Shieldbearer as tank, Scavo Hireling for repairing Shieldbearer's shield, Venari Crystalsmith for healing the tank and Celestial Harpy for backdoor attacks.

At the end of Round 1, no card was sent to graveyard and both sides received minimal damage.

At the end of Round 2, Celestial Harpy was defeated because it attacked Mycelic Morphoid and received damage from thorns. My line up is still intact and Shieldbearer's HP was down to 6.

In Round 3, turn 5, Xenith Archer dealt the final blow to Shielbearer. After the Shieldbearer was defeated, the battle led to my victory.

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Here is the full replay in Splinterlands and Youtube.

(Unsupported https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07X7zi8BkUI)

Did your strategy work?

What will you try differently next time?

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That's all and thank you for reading my post. And always keep on battling!!!

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