My choice of Dragon card was one of my favourite summoners, the Epic Daria Dragonscale, providing +1 Melee Damage boost. Being an epic card, you only need 46 of them to upgrade this one to max level, but this will likely cost you $1300-1350 for a level 6 summoner today. Nevertheless, this is a perfect card for some rulesets, such as Up, close and personal (Melee only), Equal opportunity (all cards have opportunity, or Super Sneak (All cards have sneak). Check how this is working on the video bellow.
So, for the challenge, this were the starting conditions:
Mana Limit: 44
Rulesets: Silenced Summoners (no summoners boost) and Up, close and personal (Just melee damage cards)
Teams:
Mine - Summoner: Daria Dragonscale, with no boost due to ruleset, with Living Lava as tank using Shield to reduce damage and Rust to take out some armor, backed up by Fineas Rage attacking from the second position due to Reach and some useless Oppress skill (this game). Then I have used some cards like Uraeus and Dragon Jumper with Sneak and Opportunity, to attack on the back of his team, with a little twist on the back (monsters with range attack like The Vigilator, with Thorns and Poison as extra and War Chaang, with a very useful Retaliate)
Opponent - Summoner: Malric Inferno, with no boost, a crazy strong Magnor with Taunt, Enrage (extra damage) and Trample, for extra attacks, backed up by Cerberus with Heal and Retaliate, Giant Rock with Trample also, Serpentine Spy with opportunity, Kobold Miner with Sneak and a Fineas Rage on the last position, probably aiming to absorb some Sneak damage (I did not have much of it, only the Uraeus).
This was a game that underlined strategy against money, as all his cards were max levels. This is why in Splinterlands, while paying for extra cards helps, this will not guarantee a victory (yeah, almost not pay to win, almost). I somehow managed to overpower his tank in the first round, thanks to a well timed Poison. Then my Uraeus died. I killed his Spy and his Cerberus in the second round, and his Kobold in the third round, before losing my tank. Then, in round 4, it was matter of time until I disposed of his 2 left cards, with nothing to lose.
Star of the game - my tank, of course, thanks to his Shield skill, defending valiantly the whole team.
On the side note, my continuous support for Splintertalk.io is going well, with my SPT tokens number raising to 1 million. All of it is delegated to @monster-curator, as this account is doing a great work curating the best posts on the forum. Next, I am slowly building some SPT power (63K at the moment) to manually curate on Splinterlalk.io also.
All the best, George
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