There are some double striker monster cards in Splinterlands that are famous because of their dual power and Esper Shadowback Monster is included in that list. Today, while I was looking through many cards and learning about their structure and abilities I came across Esper Shadowback Monster.
I was impressed by its Magic and Melee attacks and thought I should share some details about this monster card with all of you and provide more information about it. When to select this monster and how to postion it wisely.
Firstly let's talk about the visual appearance of this monster card. It is an eagle shaped character dressed in battle armor. Its eyes are exactly like an eagle's and with long beak.
In its right hand it is holding an energy orb that it seems ready to throw toward the enemy units while in its left hand it carries a sharp and pointed sword, always prepared in an offensive stance.
You may have already realized that it has energy in one hand and a sword in the other. The reason is that it is both a Melee and Magic attacker at the same time, making it a double striker.
In a single round it can attack using both Magic and Melee attacks allowing it to devastate enemy units. Since it belongs to the Fire element you can also see a fiery background behind it. I was highly impressed by its visual appearance and decided to express some additional thoughts about it.
Now let's discuss some of its special powers that make this monster card extremely dangerous. As I mentioned earlier it is both a Magic and Melee monster. It has 3 Magic power and 3 Melee power.
Whether you place it on the front line or in the backline it will continue attacking every round. However, it is better to position it in a way that allows it to utilize both of its attack powers.
That means in every round it can deal a total of 6 damage to enemy units. If you imagine an enemy unit with a total health of 6, it could be eliminated in a single round by this monster's attack.
It has 2 Armor which allows you to use it as a secondary tank in medium mana battles. Its Armor continuously protects its Health while its Health determines how long it can survive in battle. The higher the Health the longer it can stay alive and because this monster has a high Health pool of 7, it can survive through several rounds of combat.
It also has good Speed, which is one of its most important strengths because it increases the pace of its attacks. The speed power is 6 which is amazing..
Along with that, this monster possesses four excellent abilities such Flying, Shatter, Determined and Piercing.
The first ability does exactly what its name suggests. It gives the monster the ability to fly making it easier to dodge enemy attacks..
Melee and Ranged attacks have a much higher chance of missing against Flying monsters.
This ability becomes especially valuable if the Earthquake ruleset is active in the battle because Flying monsters are protected from Earthquake damage which deals 2 damage every round to all the units..
The second special ability is Shatter. Shatter is an offensive ability that completely destroys an opponent's Armor with a single successful hit, regardless of how much Armor they have.
Whether the enemy has 3 Armor or 4 Armor it will all be destroyed in one successful attack. The main purpose of Shatter is to remove Armor so that subsequent attacks can start damaging the target's Health directly.
The third special ability is Determined. With this ability if the monster misses an attack once during a round it immediately performs a second attack against the same target.
The fourth ability is Piercing. If the monster's attack damage exceeds the targets remaining Armor then the remaining damage is transferred directly to the target's Health.. This allows Armor based units to be eliminated much more quickly.
Because of these four abilities this monster becomes extremely dangerous.
The best part which many of you will appreciate is that the market price of this monster card is currently very reasonable. If you want to buy this card with all of these powers and four abilities you can get it at Level 4 for only $16.
And if you cannot afford to purchase it, you can simply rent it for around 30 DEC per day, which is a very reasonable rental cost.
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