***If you read until the end, genuinelly comment with what you think about this post, and you will enter automatically in a raffle to win a Gold card. Winners announced in the next week battle challenge post. The last winner was @tommy8, and the Gold Gargoya Lion was already sent to him.
What is Splinterlands?
Splinterlands is a card game, similar with Hearthstone, where you can play battle against other players to get a better rank or in tournaments. It is a NFT game based on Hive Blockchain, with multiple ways to capitalise and make money, real money, by playing it or trading in it. You can start earning as soon as you buy a Spellbook ($10) getting DEC tokens and NFT monster cards via daily quests and season quests (every 2 weeks). The airdrop ended. You can still get some rewards staking all you SPS for a 30% APR right now. Holy Molly! I got one validator, and all the licences from the pre-sale were sold in 12 minutes. You can buy one in the Tranche 1, paying $3000 in SPS. You can get it much cheaper (around $800 less) if you buy 500 Vouchers and use them when you buy a licence. Another way to make profit is to rent cards, getting paid in DEC tokens for it. But, my, oh my, the renting price right now is so, so low. Check the contest at the end of this post!
We can buy still Chaos Legion packs with 4$, using just DEC, for a 45% discount right now (something like $2.10 per pack instead of $4). Even then, if you want to get the extra packs, you still need vouchers, but just for the bonus packs. An awesome hint from a really good player (not me), if you open your packs after the Legendary summoners are introduced, you have a small chance to get them from the packs. It was announced that Lands NFT and Riftwatchers pack are coming in the third quarter now, with the new Roadmap proposed by Splinterlands. Just check this awesome page about what are the Lands supposed to do.
The Dragon summoners are quite good ones, as they give you access to the dragon cards, but also to another splinter that you may choose. Daria is one of the summoners that I keep renting for now, as mine is only level 4. I do have a max one, Quix, all the other ones being quite low, only level 3-4. Daria is boosting melee damage +1, and it is superior to the Fire one, even if the Fire summoner Tarsa is boosting +1 melee damage and +1 health, as you have access to the Dragon cards, and some of them are quite powerful.
(To see the video, you can check the battle link.)
So, for the challenge, this were the starting conditions:
Mana Limit: 20
Rulesets: Lost Legendaries (no legendary cards allowed) and Earthquake (non flying monsters take 2 damage every turn)
Teams:
Mine - Summoner: Daria Dragonscale boosting Melee attack by +1, with a Pelacor Deceiver as main tank, Flying, returning damage if it is either hit (Retaliate) or missed (Backfire), a Manticore as back up, with Flying and Reach to attack from the second position, a Firespitter with Flying , Naga Assasin with Backfire and Swiftness, boosting everyone speed +1, and last, a Cursed Slimeball, with Redemption, doing 1 damage to every enemy upon dying.
Opponent - Summoner: Zintar Mortalis, decreasing melee damage by -1, Furious Chicken first as fodder, Phantom Soldier used against mages, with Flying, Silence(-1 Melee damage) and Void( reduced magic damage) - lucky me, I had no mage, Soulstorm with Flying and Snare (a good choice for Earthquake ruleset), Undead Archer using Affliction (no healing) and Shatter (destroying Armor), with a Cocatrice last, my arch-nemesis that keep getting missed one time too many as it has Flying and Dodge.
Round 1 - The Chicken died first, the Undead Archer got 2 damage missing (backfire) and then died by Earthquake.
Round 2 - Slimeball dead, using Redemption to do some extra damage. Then the magic happen, with the Deceiver killing the Phantom, the Fire Spitter killing the Soulstorm, and then the Cocatrice attacked, and died by Retaliation. I won!
Star of the game - Pelacor Deceiver, doing extra damage using both Retaliation (attack back when hit) and Backfire (attack when missed).
On the side note, my continuous support for Splintertalk.io is going well, with my SPT tokens number raising over 1.1 million. All of it is delegated to @monster-curator, as this account is doing a great work curating the best posts on the forum. I have finally reached the needed SPT power (110K at the moment) to manually curate on Splinterlalk.io. Also, i have finished working on acquiring 50K+ 1UP (55k 1UP now) next, inspired by the Cartel efforts. Bought 200K Level too, for PsiberX airdrop, as I also managed to round up 100 Hive to buy a piece of Land in their game. Got 4 PsyberX packs already on airdrop in the last 3 months, with one more to come in September. Happy to have them! On top of this, it will be a new soccer game made by the Splinterlands team, with quite some interesting mechanisms. Coming up in September-October with the first versions!
Also, if you are posting on Publish0x and Read.cash blogs, and you liked the Chifibots game mentioned in the latest OneUp Cartel posts, there are still 4 prizes to be won if you want to get some of their NFT packs on this contest, open until the day they launch. We are closer than you imagine!
All the best,
George
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