Splinterlands Battle Share with Selenia Sky from Dragon Summoner

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Today I would like to share my battle with Selenia Sky, the beta dragon summoner. This is also my participation to Splinterlands challenge: SHARE YOUR BATTLE Weekly Challenge! DRAGONS!

Battle link:
https://splinterlands.com/?p=battle&id=sl_009a6e556291910faac23f87c5a36c4e

16 mana, equalizer. Fire, Earth, Life, Dragon available

The Opponent's line up

The opponent is a good player from the anti social club, already in Champion when 10 days left in the season.

They chose Yodin and I chose selenia sky. Yodin is a popular play in equalizer ruleset because fire has a lot of good monsters with low hp. Yodin's blast, +1 archery, +1 hp are very powerful.

They got good monsters as well, chaos agent, very evasive 1 mana card, it goes very well with flame monkey in the 3rd position increasing speed. Scorch fiend, 0 mana meat shield with reducing the opponent's melee attack by 1.

They also got 3 good low mana archery monsters.
Goblin fireballer - 3 archery damage
Lava spider - 3 archery damage with Snipe
Imp bowman - 3 archery damage

The only critique I have here is that snipe is spreading the damage and allows the opponent's tank to stay alive longer.

My line up

I chose Selenia Sky as a summoner because it is only 3 mana monster. We only have 16 mana to spend, so 3 mana summoner is great. Another reason is that I knew I was going to use at least 1 archery monster, so it can boost archery monsters damage. The last reason is that it allows me to have options to use dragon monsters (in the end, I ended up not using any dragon monsters)

You could argue that using quix the divious, obsidian, or even Mylor would have been better but quix and obsidian will give 1 mana less for the monsters. Mylor doesn't do much because their melee monsters are meat shield or support monster. In the end, selenia sky was not a bad choice because it increases Iza the fanged archery damage, which is the main damage dealer.

Monsters:

Fungus Fiend (0 mana):
Reduces the speed of the opponent monsters by 1.
I was expecting a card with oppress like Grenadier. That's why I put this card 1st before failed summoner. Grenadier will do at least 6 damage to the failed summoner.

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Failed Summoner (2 mana):
It reflect magic, reduce melee attack by 1, and increase all the friendly monsters' hp by 1. One of the best tank in low mana matches.

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Epona (1 mana):

• Increase all the friendly monsters' hp by 1
• Divine shield, ignores the first damage received
• Immunity
• Repair

One of the best support monsters in the game. I chose her for the 3rd position because she can be the 3rd tank after failed summoner dies. She is amazing having repair repairing armors that queen mycelia provides.

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Iza the Fanged (4 mana):

• 3 archery damage
• Sneak
• Scavenger, increase hp by 1 when any monster dies
• Stun

This card is the main damage dealer in this battle.

It has sneak, so it attacks the monster in the very back. This worked out very well because people usually put good damage dealers in the back in equalizer ruleset. It's more efficient to kill main damage dealers before meat shields.

Sneak must have been a surprise for them.

I put Iza in the 4th position after possible tanks becase Iza can be a 4th tank because she has scavenge, increasing her hp by 1 when any monster dies. She had 16 health in the end.

Selenia Sky increased Iza's attack by 1. This was very important because the opponents' health was 10. If Iza had only 3 archery damage, it would have taken 4 turns to take down 1 monster. It took 3 turns with 4 archery damage. This was critical thinking of how fungus fiend was so close to dying.

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Queen Mycelia (4 mana):

• adds 2 armors to friendly monsters
• amplify
• triage: Heals the friendly back-line Monster that has taken the most damage. Heal is max health divided by 3, rounded down. Minimum is 2.
• rust, reducing opponents' armors by 2.

One of the best support cards in Chaos legion.
This card is a key card because it provides armor and heals backline monsters. I don't want to loose armors right away. So I didn't put this card in the very back in case the opponent have sneak.

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Khmer Princess (2 mana):

• tank heal
• triage

One of the best healers in the game because it has both tank heal and triage.

Did your strategy work? What will you try differently next time?

The strategy worked very well because the opponent was spreading the damage with snipe, which allowed the fungus fiend to stay alive longer.

The next time, I could try a more aggressive team with more archery monsters. Naga assassin or child of forest would have done very well as well.

Do you like DRAGONS? Why or why not?

I love dragons because dragon splinter has a lot of powerful summoners & monsters. It adds variety to your team.

Battle screenshots

In case you can't watch the match or video, I am adding screenshots of the battle.
You can see how Iza is taking down backline mosnters while my support monsters healing tanks.

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