(Image made by me with Splinterlands stuff)
There are times when I look at the rule set for a match and scratch my head trying to figure out how I'm going to make a decent strategy, other times I go "oh I got the cards for this to rock. This was one such match.
This particular match was a brawl. I'm in the NFG-Legion 2 guild, and we do pretty good. I normally take fray 6, which means it's a lot like modern but with some caps on level. Here's the rule set
Aim true and armour up, with life, water and earth, and a pretty generous amount of mana. With my deck, and owning the OP Archon Elias Max Pruitt I went with him. For those not familiar Elais gives all friendly units with a melee attack +1 attack, and all units +1 armour. In addition to that already pretty great boon, he also has tactics. A unit either gets cleanse and repair, or armoured strike and piercing. Like I said, he's op, and is also in a badass electrical wheel chair. What's not to love about this guy?
Summoner chose, now whose on the team?
Commander Slade the absolute awesome badass is an obvious choice. The five armour + 1 armour from Elais + 2 from the rule set means that he's got 8 armour. That means 8 attack with piercing, plus his normal attack of three. And with his high speed, he'll be one of the first to attack. But I decided I wanted to beef that, and everyone on the team more. So the nimble brook explorer was brought in.
Thanks to the large mana pool for this fight I could afford to bring this chonky boy on board. With 5(now 8) armour, and 12 health it takes a lot to bring the Ulundin overseer down. And thanks to his flanking ability Commander Slade can still deal out massive damage. To keep this going I recruited Meriput Magician with tank heal and a magic attack.
I also decided to hire the caravan guard for triage. Between these two, the +2 armour from nimblebrook explorer I felt like my team was going to take A LOT to take down.
There's our line up, and a hint of what I'll be facing. The one thing I that made me worried with this line up is that I had two units which had no attack, but considering how hard Slade would be hitting, I was okay with it.
With all buffs and debuffs in place this was how the battle began.(Why isn't debuff a word on here? Or did I spell it wrong?)
So as we can see lots of armour on my line, some folks real low in health on theirs. But they got Quora who is ridiculously strong. She def deserves her Epic rank.
However as the fight went on I started feeling a lot more confident that things would work out. Slades first attack took out the skyspire leopard.
The second took out a bit of Quora's health and destroyed her armour. But I did have that self healing to contend with. But Slade's enfeeble does reduce her damage which helped me relax a bit.
By the end of round one I was confident I'd won the fight. Quora would go down to Slade, and while the stealth and snipe were hitting my back line, none of them were going after the key part of my strategy: the absolutely devastating attacks of Commander Slade.
By the end of round two it was just a matter of turns before everyone was done. After two more round of Commander taking out units in one attack, and everyone else helping as they can, the battle is won, with most of my units at full health and with some armour left.
Now an important question I ask myself is "What could have countered this?"
Multiple units with corrosive ward would have reduced Slade's armour and thus his attack. Multiple units with snipe or sneak could have taken out my support units. Possibly Olivia of the Brook copying the healing and negative health abilities. Tofu giving everyone thorns would have reduced Slades armour quickly to, especially when paired with the Blackmoor elf, or anyone else with affliction making the thorns do 3 damage instead of two.
So a question for you dear readers to make commenting more interesting, what strategy would you do to counter this team?
