When I start playing again, I always need several days to learn about my opponents, but strangely enough, I always end up learning what not to do, although I would be lying if I said this was something new.
The next fight is clear proof that if you don't pay attention to every detail, you can fail miserably, as it was the easiest victory I've had since I returned, and it has been difficult to win since then.
First of all, we note that the battle rule provides shielding for all units, making it essential to protect ourselves from any magical attacks that may come our way, as it is logical to use ranged attacks when this rule applies to our confrontation.
In an attempt to protect myself from these attacks, I came up with a rather interesting combination to inflict considerable damage while protecting myself as much as possible from the aforementioned attacks.
There is no doubt that the best card for this battle strategy is Nim Guard Captain, which already has the Void ability that reduces magic attacks, so it would also gain the Shield ability, meaning that the only attacks it would actually receive would be ranged attacks.
This is also accompanied by a combination of support cards that further increase the chances of victory and are quite good.
Perhaps the most important of these is Dark Arborist, as it reduces melee attacks by 1. This would mean that the tank, who is usually the one with the melee attack, would do even less damage to our first card, leaving a smaller margin for damage.
Our opponent, on the other hand, makes a serious mistake: not only does he decide, as is logical, to place a monster with melee attack on the front line, but all his units would have that type of attack between 1 and 2 respectively, causing the shield rule to give me a very low damage range.
But in addition, with the Dark Arborist's ability reducing the attack of those with 2 damage to 1, that would mean that all their units would have 0 damage to all my cards, not just the one in the front line of battle.
This would end up being the easiest battle I've had in a long time, as it was impossible to take any damage. Here's the complete battle:
Final Comments:
The modern format is quite a bit more difficult than I remember, so every victory is valuable to me since I feel that current players have a lot of knowledge about the current cards and how to use them.
My knowledge is strong in the Chaos Legion and Untamed editions, which have long since ceased to be part of the modern edition of the game. It's obvious that I need more experience to familiarize myself with the new cards and then start renting the necessary cards to get back to silver as I was used to.
I hope that starting this new year, I can keep up the pace and not slump as the months go by, as happened in 2025, and be more active as in previous years.
Great greetings to all Splinterland players.
Here is my referral link for those who have not yet started to play and are interested in the game: https://splinterlands.com?ref=titopx
All the Captures were made from the splinterlands.com website and edited in Canva.
