Splinterlands: Rent Cards to Skyrocket Your Battle Wins & Glint Surge!

Happy Sunday, Splinterlands warriors! 🤗 Welcome to my Hive corner @zusi78.

Splinterlands is no walk in the park, but that's what amps up the excitement.A winning strategy weighs stats, abilities, rulesets, mana caps, and beyond. That's why you must factor them all into your deck building. Toss in strong cards to boost your setups, and push hard to rack up as many victories as possible! 🔥

My last post here, I recapped my solid progress in the game. But yesterday, while clashing with Ranked Modern veterans, I spotted game-changing cards in their decks. Inspired, I hit the market,only to find them way too pricey for an outright buy.

Then it hit me: Why not RENT them? Two days in, it's been a game-changer. Wins, Glints, and SPS rewards are flooding in battle after battle!

Glint Surge Unlocked!
Pairing rented beasts with my owned cards spiked my win rate from ~55% to 75% overnight. Glints are pouring in,who needs to own everything when renting delivers ROI like this?My Rented MVPs Crushing Battles

THE RENTED CARDS

These are some of the cards I rented;

GIANT ALPINE SKINK is a common water unit that cost 8 Mana, with 4 melee attack,3 speed and 7 health, with 2 armour.A very formidable unit and good as a tank.I got the gold foil.At Max level,it has Shield,Phase and Stun abilities

KULU MASTERMIND this a legendary water unit,that cost 9 Mana, with fantastic abilities at level 1,It has Opportunity, targets the enemy with the least health,it has 4 melee attack and speed respectively and a health of 9.Good in the first position and in high Mana battles.At Max level,it also has Shield and Enrage abilities

SKRAG THE GNAW this is a legendary earth unit that cost 8 Mana and has a melee attack of 3,speed of 3 and 3 armor combined with 8 solid health.At level 1
It has the poison burst ability.That is when defeated,it has a 100% chance apply poison to attacker and 50% chance to apply poison to unit opposite the attacker.Poisoned,unit lose -2 health at the beginning of each round.At max level,it has Reflexes, Cripple, Thorns and Rebirth abilities,what a unit!

ARACHNE WEAVER this is an epic death unit that cost 5 mana with a magic attack of 2 and a speed of 2 as well and an handsome health of 7.The most uni trait of this card is its Corrupted Healing ability.It restores about 70% of max health to allied units.At Max level it also have the Scavenger and Poison abilities.

HALFLING REFUGEE this is an epic neutral unit that cost 8 Mana,5 melee attack and a speed of 3.It is a very formidable unit, good in the first position, with a handsome health of 8.At Max,it has the Weary and Heal abilities

Let us watch two battles of GIANT ALPINE SKINK a unit I rented,in action;

BATTLE 1

The total mana for this battle was 33.I chose MARLAI SINGARIEL as my Archon, and my tank was GIANT ALPINE SKINK, while my opponents Archon was UNDERBOSS FABINO and his tank was ENDLESS APE a formidable tank.And good enough, there was no rulesets and just 4 rounds

Round 1.

Round 3.

My tank holding its own by dealing a fatal blow to my opponent tank and allowing my other units to eliminate my opponent units.

Round 4.
In this round it was already game over.
My tank has done the main work, holding very well for my other units with magic attacks to do the remaining damage of taking out my opponents units.

Watch the full battle HERE

BATTLE 2,
I call this battle quality vs quantity! Despite my tank was poisoned 🤢,he still took out as many units of my opponent.
The total mana for the battle was 34,also there was no rulesets and I chose MARLAI SINGARIEL as my Archon, GIANT ALPINE SKINK was still my tank,followed by just two magic attack monsters,
SALTWATER MAGE AND MYSTIC WEAVER.
MY opponent Archon was DOLFAR DARFLAK, his tank named FENMOOR HAUNT,was followed by 5 other monsters.So aside our Archons,It was 3 against 6.

Like I said earlier,no rulesets and just seven rounds.

Round 1
In this round SALTWATER MAGE was poisoned 🤢

Round 2
The poison extended to my tank,but by then three of my opponents units has gone down

Round 5
One against one

Round 6
game over!

Watch the full Battle HERE

Conclusion, I won the two battles with my rented cards. GIANT ALPINE SKINK was a good example.

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Thank you for for reading my post, please do watch the battles. Yours truly, @zusi78, signing off.