Splinterlands - SHARE YOUR BATTLE Weekly Challenge - Theme: Spineback Wolf

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Hello Friends,


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It's a season of festivals and here in India, we are celebrating the festival of Holi which is called as Festival of Colors since we use different colors to apply to each other and celebrate this festival :).
We are just 2 days away from the current season to end with me in Diamond I league right now and hopefully, I will make it to the Champions league in these 2 days of time.
This blog is in response to the new SHARE YOUR BATTLE weekly challenge with theme being a Death Splinter monster of Spineback Wolf.


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Spineback Wolf is a common Death Splinter melee attack monster from alpha and beta versions.
It's a monster with 2 nice abilities and the details of the same with level-wise details of attack, speed, armors and life are as detailed below.


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As we can see from above screenshot, this monster starts with single melee attack, but that increases to 2 from level 4 requiring 12 cards to be combined and the most this monster can have is 3 attack which will be from level 8 onwards.
The speed for this monster is the best stat for this monster as it starts with a speed of 6and that remains same throughout 10 levels.
This monster also has armors in the range of 1 or 2 which fluctuates as and when this monster gets a new ability.
The Life for this monster starts at 3 lives which quickly gets up to 4 from level 2 itself and it can go to a max of 5 lives in between those 10 levels.
The abilities this monster possesses are reach from level 1 and thorn from level 5 onwards.
Because of it's good speed and abilities this is among one of the most used monsters from Death Splinter although the introduction of another reach monster with tank heal ability, the Corrupted Pegasus might have reduced this monster's popularity a bit.

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Battle and Lineup:


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This was a battle with 42 MANA cap to allow usage of some of the best monsters and the rule sets were Super Sneak and Up Close and Personal.
Super Sneak we all know that, it will make all the melee monsters to turn into sneak monsters all those will target the last monster on the lineup.
Up Close and Personal being one of those new rule sets and allows only melee monsters to be used in the battle.
The lineup I used for this battle with 2 interesting rule sets was as below:

Lineup:

1. Haunted Spirit:


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Super Sneak battle needs strong monsters with armors and shields and also with abilities like throwing thorn and retaliate to melee attack to stay longer in the battle and also attack back.
That being said, we need a healing tank at the front to keep the other monsters alive as well and hence, I used this self healing monster at the front.

2. Phantasm:


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This was my planned backup front monster besides using it's speedy attack and this being a flying monster, can evade some attacks from opposite monsters.

3. Corrupted Pegasus:


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Used this tank heal monster to keep Haunted Spirit alive as long as possible and also use it's melee attack besides strengthening the monsters by increasing life.
This is another flying monster I used although I doubted this might not come to front position because of healing Haunted Spirit at the front.

4. Goblin Mech:


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Goblin Mech is one of the best for Super Sneak and Melee Mayhem battles not just with it's attack, but also with it's good armors and abilities like stun and pierce.
I used this in Fourth position for possible sneak attack as this will be targeted after Sixth and Fifth position monsters I used.

5. Lord of Darkness:


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With it's armors, shield and abilities of stun and enrage, this is best suited to be used at the back end for super sneak battles and that's what I did and also to utilize it's attack of 3 (without enrage).

6. Spineback Wolf:


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Lastly, I used theme monster in Sixth position as this one is with armors and can throw thorns and can be an early attacker with it's speed of 6.

Opponent used Death Splinter too and his monsters were Lord of Darkness, Haunted Spirit, Phantasm, Animated Corpse, Goblin Mech and Corrupted Pegasus which is more or less same as I used but the order was strangely opposite to what was required since this was a Super Sneak battle.

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Battle:

Super Sneak battles are among my favorite battles with not just with this splinter, but also with Life, Earth and Fire splinters as well and here I give the details of this battle round by round for an interesting flow.

Round 1:

The battle being Super Sneak battle, both back end monsters will be the target for all monsters except the front ones and Spineback Wolf used by me and Corrupted Pegasus used by opponent couldn't go beyond round 1 as they were the target monsters.


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Round 2:

After the exit of Spineback Wolf and Corrupted Pegasus, the 2 new back end monsters were Lord of Darkness for me and Goblin Mech for opponent and both being stun ability monsters, it was a battle to be won between them and Lord of Darkness had the upper hand by stunning Goblin Mech although it survived this round.


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Round 3:

Opponent had to bear the loss of 2 monsters in this round as stunned Goblin Mech and Animated Corpse got removed in this round leaving him with 3 monsters.


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Round 4:

Lord of Darkness from my side has to go in this round as it was being targeted in this Super Sneak battle and that means, Phantasm and Goblin Mech were the new back end monsters now.


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Round 5:

Phantasm from opponent's lineup did evade few attacks in previous round, but it wasn't that lucky in this round and became the only casualty.


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Round 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10:

After Phantasm's exit, Haunted Spirit and Lord of Darkness kept fighting especially the Lord of Darkness fought for almost 3 rounds but finally succumbed to all the combined attack from the other side.


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Questions and Answers:

Did my strategy work? What will I try differently next time?

It was a good battle against a far better opponent, but the placement of monsters by him allowed me to get on top of the monsters he used and yes, my strategy of preparing a lineup for Super Sneak battle worked quite nicely although Haunted Spirit was stunned almost 90% of time.
I would say I would have used Lord A instead of Spineback Wolf as that would be a more potent monster against sneak attack.

Do I like the SPINEBACK WOLF? Why or why not?

Ofcourse yes, it's one of the most used monsters by me during earlier days, but after the introduction of Corrupted Pegasus, it's not being used much by me as Corrupted Pegasus gives that tank heal option while giving same melee attack as the Spineback Wolf gives.

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That was a nice battle isn't it? There was some help from opponent too for not lining up monsters for a Super Sneak battle, but a win is a win :)
Thanks for going thru this and I always appreciate the support I get from all of you :)

Wishing all Happy Monday and nice week ahead :)

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Thanks for sharing! - @ashikstd

Well, now it's a very long and nice post.
I'd still love to see the monster pictures in smaller sizes.
You've done well on the battlefield as well.

Keep on battling.

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I tried my best @ashikstd to reduce the size, but monsters come with background as black, which didn't look good. Any suggestions from your end bro?

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Hey... I see.
I believe some writers are using online tools to reduce the size but I don't know which one as I didn't try yet.

I usually use

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this tag... which aligns the picture at one side with a smaller size.
You may try it and I hope you'll like it.

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