Splinterlands Newbie Tips: Silver League, punching above your weight.. using Water Splinter

Greetings fellow Splinter Warriors..

I've not been in Silver League long, but it's a lot more fun than Bronze with the higher mana matches allowing far more opportunity to come up with strategy that will allow David to occasionally skin Goliath! Just wanted to big up a few cards that seem to fly under the radar..

Focusing on the Water Splinter there are a couple cards that will allow you to create mayhem!

A personal favourite that I rarely see played or talked about is Torhilo, in various scenarios either paired with Bortus to nullify Magic attack or as first up tank in higher mana matches. This card excels in Silver league, especially against Earth splinter stacked heavy for magic damage, and is stupidly underrated!

The Axemaster is another priceless gem, worth every penny, with that double strike ability he can come in very handy in divine shield matches. In normal matches the combined damage of 4 wrecks unsuspecting opponents!

And surprisingly the Captains Ghost with the Affliction ability, it's nothing special with hit points or damage but can level the playing field in a match where the opposition has decided to be cute and heal their forward tank as a means of survival.. not once they have been crippled though!

Update..

Always helps to have a few battles shared.
Here's the usual max Water Splinter setup I use, minus a few tweaks for whatever the battle rules are.
(You would be amazed how often this setup can scalp opposition using multiple legendaries)

And an example of the Torhilo & Captain's Ghost combo, which was really overkill for this battle but still..

Happy Hunting!!

There's no putting the genie in the box after reading this!