Elven Cutthroat! Not as a Sneak but as a Meat Shield! (Weekly battle challenge)
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This time I'll be bringing out Elven Cuthroat, not as the typical sneak fast attacker, but as my Meat Shield and you'll know how shortly...
Starting out with the game ruleset:
- 30 Mana
- Equal opportunity
- Earth and Death Inactive
Oponnent history: Seems a typical Mylor abuser with the usual lineup consisting off Unicorn + Mushroom Seer + Wood Nymph.
Althought Earth is inactive, I'll most probably go with the same team composition as I'll explain below, but still, I'm relieved I won't be facing his strongest comp!
Enemy will likely go either for Fire or Life deck.
My Strategy
I decided to organized everything in a Table for better visual!
Position | Monster | Characteristics |
---|---|---|
Summoner | Drake of Arnak | +1 Armor + Versatility |
1st position | Djinn Chwala | Thorns + Great tankiness |
2st Position | Elven Cutthroat | Low Health + high spead |
3nd Position | Fire Elemental | Blast + 2 ranged damage + high speed |
4rd Position | Pyromancer | Blast + 2 ranged damage + decent Health |
5th Position | Centaur | 4 Mana filler + 4 Health |
Thorns: When hit with a Melee attack, does damage back to the attacker
Blast: Does additional damage to Monsters adjacent to the target Monster
Opportunity: Monsters with the Opportunity ability may attack from any position and will target the enemy Monster with the lowest health
Playing according to the ruleset is as more important as playing the opponent!
- +1 Armor is crucial by absorbing at least 1 attack from enemy, by having 4 monsters on the backline, that's equal to absorbing 4 attacks
- Elven Cutthroat Role:
- Being the lowest Health makes it the first target: protecting the other damage dealers
- 3 speed: can perform an attack before dying + chance of enemy missing if it got less than 3 speed!
- The importance of Blast: By attacking the backline, it'll damage 3 monsters instead of one, in fact Pyromancer and Fire Elemental will deal 4 damage/round (imagine playing with yodin)
- Thorns in a situation when all the backline got taken out, Djinn chwaya will still provide decent damage to melee attackers!
- Centaur well... I had 4 mana left and picked it for being ranged and got higher health than elven
Battle
Here is the link to watch the battle: Enjoy!
https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_3bdaaecb1868d3c0c87816916bee80e4&ref=cantfoldaces
Round 1
At first glance, it's a favourable matchup for me, enemy might thaught I'll be going for magic deck by picking Stone Golem at the front line(It doesn't matter too much in opportunity ruleset).
Enemy backline is relatively beefy with the exception of creeping ooze some might take some time to take them down
Elven will attack "Silvershield paladin" before dying.
Round 2
As expected of Elven being taken down,
Both Fire elemental and Pyromancer dealt a total of 8 damage to the backline,
Luckily the last attack from cave slug missed Fire elemental
Djinn chwala doing its thing and eleminates enemy tank!
Round 3
This match is technically over and Djinn chwala can take over the battle by itself
Pyromancer is safe and will keep dealing good damage
Silvershield paladin will take more time to eliminate because of its shield
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