Splinterlands Challenge of the Week - Always Play the Rule Set!

This week's Splinterlands Challenge of the Week was to showcase Efreet Elder from the Fire Splinter, my duff Splinter, which I never play, so I've used this week's challenge as a free license to showcase any battle, highlighting the desirability of playing the ruleset, rather than ignoring it like my opponent does in this battle.

NB - it is against the fire splinter, so that's something, and against a superior opponent in terms of number of maxed cards they played, but they ignored the rulesets, and lost!

The Rule Set and Line Up

• 18 MANA
• SLOW
• HEAVY HITTERS

Summoner - Bortus

1. Spineback Turtle - nice low mana slow tank
2. The Chicken - blast fodder (sorry chicken!)
3. Ice Pixie - a useful two mana damage card
4. The Medusa - Stun!
5. Pirate Archer - nice low mana heavy damage.
6. The Crustacean, great for the slow ruleset!

Did my strategy work?

Beautifully, to see it in action click here!

• Round 1 - Carnage! I take out his chicken, the Medusa STUNS the Cerberus, I take out Cerberus, the Kobold MISSES the Crustacean.
• Round 2 - I take out his Serpentine Spy, and first ranged monster, the Kobold MISSES the Turtle, but gets taken down by the dual magic attacks anyway!
• Round 3 - it's all over, just one magic monster left!

Lesson - ALWAYS play the ruleset!

My opponent had a decent selection of cards in their own right, LOTS of damage, but....

1. If you can't hit with fast cards on slow, that damage doesn't count.
2. Because I played one STUN monster, my damage increased significantly! As well as have having all my other other inverse speed advantages and more buffs!

In short, always play the ruleset!

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