Hey fellow Splinterlands fans, welcome back to my Splinterlands blog! I hope you are all doing great and have great success in your battles, unless you and I meet on the battlefields of Praetoria of course. 😁

Time flies by, it's Thursday already so the weekend is getting close and it's that time of the week to make another post to take part in the challenges the Splinterlands Team gives us to hopefully earn some extra money because there are always more things in Praetoria we desire as battle mages.

With the time flying by, a positive thing about that is the game is updated weekly with cool new things, last week we had the option to turn off liquidity bots which was a great improvement, I don't mind the extra waiting time and it was frustrating to battle teams higher level than myself and the worst thing is all the promo cards they used not affordable by most normal players, no more of that! I don't mind losing to actual human being that kick my ass with either superior strategy or just a better deck, it's all part of the life being a battle mage!

This weeks Social Media Challenge:

This weeks Social Media Challenge is the same as always;

🔥 Share Your Most Remarkable Splinterlands Moments: Do you possess a battle of epic proportions that deserves to be seen by all? Have you crafted something extraordinary within the Splinterlands realm? Maybe you've got profound thoughts, insights, or strategies related to stats, cards, abilities, or gameplay that are waiting to be shared? We want it all, and we want it to be nothing short of AMAZING!

I didn't have to think long about what has been the most amazing thing that happened in the last week, I had a great fight against a OG player with some very nice cards, seeing the line-up I just skipped the battles, no chance, more on that later!

To find out how you can participate in the challenge yourself, and start earning and building your deck yourself, check out the official Splinterlands post here.

Beating The Odds...

When I was grinding my battles in low Gold I met @oudekrijger with two really nice cards, one of them was Heloise the Hollow, I think this was the second or third time I ever met Heloise in battle, for the players playing in lower leagues and not familiar with this card, this was a card that was auctioned and from memory only 100 cards in total were created, every card has it's own mint number and being this scarce they're quite valuable and very.. like REALLY strong!

What she does is drawing all attacks to herself using taunt, when she dies she counterattacks with her 8 melee damage, then siphons the soul from one of her team mates and resurrects... she can only siphons every team member once because they're getting the 'weary' status effect and she can't siphon weary souls, but this does mean she gets a maximum of FIVE resurrects and every single time she retaliates like a truck, mostly killing her attacker in one blow, only some armor or more than 8 Health Points can save it.

'Oude Krijger' means 'Old Warrior' in my language, so this player is probably from my country or Belgium. It's been a while since I've met him or her, I think it was last in the old modern rotation so maybe this is one of the returning players? Let me know when you're reading this fellow old warrior. 😉

Sharing the battle

This battle was in this season I think, not long ago anyway but with time flying by who knows maybe it was last season.. it's a 46 mana, Modern League Fog of War / Weak Magic / What Doesn't Kill You battle with only the Earth splinter locked out to be chosen from so plenty of options! I mostly let the rule set combination as well as what my opponent played in it's last battle decide what my team will be, when I saw Mantaroth I knew I had to get rid of that Shield ability so Cryptic was my solution!

First look at the battlefield:

HOLY SHIT this dude has some nice cards! When I met this player before it was still in the Chaos Legion era and I was playing with a (close to) max set as well... now I can no longer afford this, which is fine so I got back to Silver where I spent most of my Splinterlands career anyway, so I definitely have a level disadvantage!

I anticipated for Mantaroth by bringing cryptic, with the Expose I can remove the shield and because my tank is a lot faster, it can probably dodge some attacks so my team will take care of that problem but that was the least of my problems, HELO friggin ISE, supported by a Black Foil.

I brought two silences, probably to take care of Lorkus but that was pretty useless since my opponent is only using one magic card.

My Line-Up:

• Archon: Cryptic - reason: Poison + Expose tactics and combining Earth and Water, my favorites!
• First position: Giant Alpine Skink - reason: Fast with high damage, will get dangerous with Enrage.
• Second position: Ujurak Brave - reason: Secondary tank with Silence.
• Third position: Venka the Vile - reason: High damage with Charge.
• Fourth position: Arachne Weaver - reason: Awesome card, Healing plus Scavenge, I love it!
• Fifth position: Daigendark Hunter - reason: Good damage, Sneak with Silence.
• Sixth position: Meriput Slinger - reason: High damage with Slow and Impede.

The Battle:

Round 1: Holy shit, she retaliates with 14 melee damage because of the enrage! Already killing two of my cards...

Round 2: And one more dead on my side.. still the entire enemy team is alive, my only 'luck' is half of the enemy team can't attack so I wonder why this old warrior did that... Mantaroth is exhausted so unable to attack, that's nice but he would have probably missed anyway.

Round 3: Oh this is actually very cool! Arachne Weaver is dropping poison on Heloise without killing her so the retaliate isn't triggered but she dies from poison!

Round 4: Since Heloise siphoned four souls and the fifth (Halfling Refugee) was Weary to begin with so unable to be siphoned, she's finally put to rest but there are still two other good cards doing a lot of damage left...

Round 5: Hold on guys!!! You can do it!!

Round 6: O Crap, my main tank is killed, this is getting close! Ujurak Brave has armor so it can survive two more rounds, the poison combined with my attacks will kill Thragha, my sweet Arachne Weaver scavenged up to 15 Health Points so this is starting to look good!

Round 7: The win in certain now, amazing!

Well, this battle 'only' earned 3 SPS but beating this team should reward a lot more! 🤣 nah I'm kidding... it was an amazing fight to watch, I like the battle mechanics Splinterlands brings, it's so complex the options are almost unlimited.

I do wonder why oude krijger made this team, I'm sure with a proper line-up being able to attack from the rear I would have lost, but I'm not complaining!

You can watch the battle unfold for yourself here.

Well, that's it for this post everyone, I hope you enjoyed!

I still have some work to do, draining my energy enough to make it to tomorrow evening without reaching 50. Lately in the top of Gold 2 is the max I can get so I will probably get my ass kicked, last time I checked I was on the Gold Leaderboard is the 30's together with my friend @estebam!

Thank you for reading!!!

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Also, when you require any help to get you started,let me know, I'm here to advice and guide new players and maybe I can help you with card delegations too!

Have a great day!