This week's Splinterlands Challenge of the Week was to showcase the Water Elemental from the Earth Splinter
This is one of the cheaper rare Beta cards and one of the first I maxed out. It's a pretty decent card to play at the back of a deck - 5 mana, 4 damage, quite fast, dodge, so good against sneak and reasonable health with self heal
He doesn't have any real weaknesses, so TBH it's a bit of a mystery to me why I don't see him played so often!
The battle below features a classic line up featuring the Elemental, in which I use him in a Noxious fumes Rule set, he's quite good for that with his self-heal!
The Rule Set and Line Up
- Mana 18 (so 5 mana is a big ask!)
- Noxious fumes
- Equaliser
Summoner - Bortus, perfectly reasonable!
- Frost Lion - low health but that's OK in equaliser, he becomes quite a good card!
- The chicken - i'd ran out of mana, fine as a second tank
- Kelp Initiate - to cleanse the front row monster from poison, crucial in this ruleset
- The mermaid - triage for poison
- Earth Elemental - self heal for poison and my main damage card really
- The Crustacean - it's just the rule for lowish mana water battles
Did my strategy work?
Beautifully, to see it in action click here
- Round 1 - we trade blows, no losses.
- Round 2 - I take out my opponent's giant, my cleanse, triage and back row self-heal are working nicely!
- Round 3 - no losses - it happens with Equaliser when neither of you play high damage sets!
- Round 4 - I take out my opponent's Brownie.
- Round 5 - his chicken goes.
- Round 6 - I take out his Magi and Swamp thing, because they've both been weakened by 5 rounds of poison!
- Round 7 - it's all over he now has one card left!
How important was The Earth Elemental?
Overall, very useful, he was my main damage card, and his self-heal kept him at full health through the whole battle.
More important though was my overall cleanse, triage and back row self-heal strategy with this rule set.
I also may have just been a tad OPd compared to my opponent, but I've had a slack season and haven't played much so I'm lower down the orders!
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