Splinterlands | Earthquake Battle Challenge

Another rule set is highlighted this week in the Share Your Battle Challenge for Splinterlands. This is the Earthquake Game Rule.

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I consider Earthquake as one of the most important game rules that you have to build your collection around one way or another. There is just 1 summoner that fully counters the 2 damage at the end of each round to monsters that have no Fly ability which is the dragon Brighton Bloom. Right now, this can be bought at level 6 for 130$. I don't own in and just tend to mostly play Monsters with the Fly ability to avoid getting hit by the 2 damage at the end of each round. Other options are to play monsters with armor, shield or self-heal as those reduced the damage that comes in. The Dragon Summoner generally is a good choice as it has a ton of monsters with the fly ability. From what I know, monsters either hand fly or they don't and it never gets added in abilities that unlock when a card is leveled up

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This is one of those battles which shows how vital it is in Splinterlands to have a wide card collection. Not only was only the Earth class available, the Earthquake rule on top made you require monsters with the Fly ability and there was not too much mana to spend so you also needed some lower-cost monsters.

I did have the needed cards and in these cases it's not vital to have the highets allowed card levels. This made me play my level 5 Lyanna Natura Beta Summoner which gives all monsters +1 health which is more cost effective and useful compared to the chaos legion Obsidian summoner. I started out with 2 Monsters that have a zero cost in the Furious Chicken and the Fungis Fiend. Since these have no fly ability and are sure to get killed, it's best to have them absorb some initial damage. As my main tank I used the Pelacor Mercenary which has 1 armor, Fly and self-heal which makes it hard to kill with these rules. The Screeching Vulture also is an excellent card in these game rules as it has fly, and is allowed to attack from any position + increases it's heals as the game progresses and monsters die. In the back I did play the Brownie which not only gives the other 2 melee cards +1 attack but also extra speed while being fast itself. So in case an enemy had a sneak attack monster there was still a chance for the attack to miss keeping it alive 1 more round.

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This was an easy 100% win accoring to Spintertools as my opponent only had 1 fly monster and a summoner that was more expensive with less benefits. So this one had nothing to do with skill but much more about the pay2win factor which made it nearly impossible for me to ever lose this matchup.

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Full Battle Replay

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Previous Weekly Challenges

-	-	Counterspell	Close Range	Broken Arrows
Briar Patch	Back To Basics	Armored Up	Aimless	Aim True
Spirit Hoarder	Dragons	Magi Necrosi	Dax Paragon	Grund
Nerissa Tridawn	Leginonnaire Alvar	Djinn Inferni	Dragons	Cursed Windeku
Prismologist	Mycelic Infantry	River Nymph	Molten Ash Golem	Gem Meteor
Dragons	Dhampir Stalker	Temporal Master	Regal Peryton	Diemonshark
Djinn Apprentice	Magi Of Chaos	Dragons	Life Sapper	Pelacor Arbalest
Mycelic Slipspawn	Angelic Mandarin	Tenyii Striker	Venari Spellsmith	Dragons Challenge
Soul Strangler	Portal Spinner	Hill Giant	Flying Squid	Antoid Platoon
Xenith Archer	Dragons	Silent Sha-Vi	Garagoya Scrapper	Venari Knifer
Cruel Sethropod	Scalvo Firebolt	Supply Runner	Dragons	Crypt Beetle
Time Mage	Mycelic Morphoid	Kulu Swimhunter	Radiated Brute	Disintegrator

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