Splinterlands is a NFT card game, rewarding you both NFT cards (easy to sell on many organized markets) and their own tokens - DEC - which can be exchanged on Hive, Steem, Tron and Ethereum networks. Providing liquidity on Uniswap (in those good days when the Ethereum fees were not $1000 per transaction) let you to win more DEC, Cards and even Land NFTs this month. It is a good Game2Earn opportunity, and it is one of the blockchain games i use to increase my crypto portfolio (I exchanged for Tron before, but lately i use it for tokens from the Hive Ecosystem. 

This week Splinterlands Challenge Battle according to the original post is the abominable Sea Monster. I did not use it for some time, but it is a decent card, with nice healing bonus and above average damage. Look at it:

As you can see in here, you have also return melee damage ability at level 6 (Thorns), 4-5 Damage and 12 Life when it is maxed up. So, how do i use it? The game has 48 Mana with Fog of War (no Sneak or Snipe) and Up,Close and Personal (Only melee monsters). I have used the Legendary summoner (no brainer, even if i got no return fire on ranged, but still +2 Armor and Blind is awesome). Then i put the Sea monster first, followed by Wave runner (still got the ability to attack from second position), Sandwork as back up damage, Feasting Seaweed and Parasitic growth to damage as Opportunity was still available as skill, and last resort, the War Chaang, patiently using its ranged damage +1. Let's see the video:

I have played against Life summoner, and despite the higher amount of life, they died one after another, while my Sea monster was still standing at the end of the game. The other player has the Assassin and the Sandworm doing nothing the whole game (bad positioning), so no wonder my deck did not lose even one card. And the level 3 versus level 1 made the victory easy. 

Yours truly

G.