First let us talk about martyr ability, cause this battle is having strong connection with the marty ability.

Martyr ability with above icon is giving effect that when defeated, adjacent units gain +1 to all stats. So just like it's name, the monster with this ability might be just a sacrifice for the monsters beside them. With Damage, Armor, Health, and Speed Addition, you can make a superior monsters. Those improvement are often given for monsters with high damage and/or having regen ability, or make a giant with bloodlust ability,

Icon of bloodlust ability, which makes the monster is having stats improvement as well every time they eliminate enemies

Martyr for No Damage Monster

Okay, so we already know how the martyr effect, which one of it is damage improvement. But what if it's given to non damage monsters ? Does it makes sense ?

This is the monsters with just 1 mana cost without any damage ! But turn out can be a very usefull and deadly monsters with some supports of martyr ! Let's check it on the battlefield !

Battle Example

I will give you a battle example of the use those abilities on the battlefield.
You can watch the battle on this link https://splinterlands.com/battle/sl_448c9e3c2e10cdf667a4bd390f4793d0

I will also give the preview about it on this section.

Ruleset :

The ruleset is neutral only with melee mayhem and crippl, with the only splinters unavailable is the dragon

And here is the formation of both team !

I was about to laugh cause thought that he is mistakenly put the chaose agent beside the martyr, but then realize that chaos agent have more to offers ! Especially with double martyr due to the resurrected from the summoner. Meanwhile, I go with common strategy, put some decoy on front and get main hitter at the back

How the Battle Goes

In 1st round, his martyr monster is eliminate with double martyr effect after the resurrection, meanwhile my team still complete, but there is bad situation cause my monsters can't hit the chaos agent, with triplle backfire for the Drybone Raider, and another backfire for Legionaire Alfar and Halfing Refugee.

At 2nd round, chaos agent bring trouble again cause he eliminate Drybone Raider with 2 back fire, and he also manage to backfire the legionayre alvar and halving refugee again.

My enemy chaos agent finally eliminated after the poison and magic damage from dr blight at 3rd round, but it doesn't matter cause all my monsters except for dr blight is already eliminated

Finally all my monsters are eliminated, with most of damages are from the backfire from a monsters that doesn't having attack !

Conclussion

The use of martyr effect are not limited for monsters with damage, there is many more strategy we can explore, and one of them is to having a monsters that could evade most damage while hurt back enemies ! Don't forget to watch the battle and keep learning !

Final Words