Serpent of the Flame - Splinterland Weekly Battle Post Entry

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I remember vividly when I first started playing Splinterlands the Serpent alpha version was one of the cheaper epic cards to obtain. At the time when I first bought a level 2 the price I was paying for was around $0.5/bcx. It has more than double since and although I owned it for quite a while and have a level 4 I sparingly use the card. It is almost as useful to me as Naga Warrior.

Why lack of use? The card mana is pretty high for a low melee attack, 6 mana to have base value of 2 melee. Although health and toughness benefits the card as a tanker. I still prefer Cerberus with self heal but sometimes if the rule set does not allow healing abilities and only fire splinter is allowed to be chosen I would lean toward using Serpent as a tanker.

Below is a battle I use Serpent in. Enjoy!

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In my losing battle using Serpent as my tanker I was trying to take advantage of the rule set weak magic. With some toughness in Serpent it seemed a good fit. Looking back though probably going with Life splinter or Dragon was better off since there are more monsters with toughness. Anyways the thought I had was to lead the attack since Serpent had a quick 6 speed.

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However my opponent had a LoA at level 3 which basically stone walled me from any chance of winning. I was unable to mount any attack against LoA and lost within a few rounds. Worse off I was only able to knock out my opponent's Ruler of the Sea while my entire formation was knocked out with ease.

One reason I had a disadvantage was that my formation was with a level 4 summoner in Marlic while my opponent had a level 5. With higher level summoner they were able to use higher level monsters. In addition they had a efficient formation where all monsters would be able to attack from the first round. While my chicken was just a fill in spot and the remainder of my formation also was able to attack from first round with the exception that each monster's attack was specific to a monster whether it was reach in Giant Roc, snip with Spy, or Worm with sneak. This actually became a handicap as my focus of total damage in attacks were scattered around multiple monsters while my opponent had all their attacks directed to my lead monster.

If you are curious of the battle here is the link.

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