This week's battle challenge involves the Life Sapper! The Life Sapper is a Death splinter Magic monster that is an excellent card due to it's low mana cost and Life Leech ability!
The Life Sapper is an incredible card especially in low mana battles. At only 3 mana, it has decent speed, good damage, but poor health. However, the Life Leech ability is amazing.
Being a Chaos Legion rare card, it is very affordable to buy/rent so you will see this card often.
| Icon | Ability Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Life Leech | Monster's health increases each time it damages an enemy Monster's health in proportion to the damage dealt | |
| Redemption | When this Monster dies, it does 1 damage to all enemy monsters. The damage dealt is Melee and follows normal rules of melee attacks |
At Bronze and Novice league, Life Sapper isn't super strong but do not underestimate the Life Leech ability. Given the right setup, Life Sapper can end up being your tank.
In Silver, the 2 damage from this 3 mana card is excellent. Just like in Bronze/Novice, it can end up being a great tank if given enough time to build up health.
The next improvement is at max level where it gains redemption. Redemption can really ruin your day when it goes off against you so it's a great ability to have.
In this week's featured battle, we have Thaddius Brood versus the dreaded Alric Stormbringer in a Back to Basics Explosive Weaponry battle!
| Back to Basics | Monsters lose all abilities | |
|---|---|---|
| Explosive Weaponry | All Monsters have the Blast ability | |
| 19 Mana | This is considered a low mana battle | |
| Active Splinters | All splinters except Earth are available |
As I mentioned before, these rules skew HEAVILY towards Magic damage and because I am playing in Gold League with a Silver deck, it's very likely that I will be outgunned if I try to go toe to toe with my opponent.
For that reason, I played defensively with Thaddius Brood to stifle their Magic damage. With no Obsidian available, my opponent will either be using Alric Stormbringer or have NO Magic buff which makes Thaddius Brood even more effective.
Additionally, the -1 health debuff will be huge in this battle due to the Explosive Weaponry ruleset especially when paired with Magic monsters.
| Position | Card Image | Card Name | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Summoner | Thaddius Brood | Rare Death summoner that grants a -1 Magic and -1 Health debuff to the enemy monsters | |
| Pos 1 (tank) | Chaos Agent | Obviously he can't attack but I want him to soak up some damage to protect my backline | |
| Pos 2 (secondary tank) | Corpse Fiend | Same as the Chaos Agent except this costs 0 mana and can potentially get an attack off | |
| Pos 3 (tertiary tank) | Carrion Shade | AGAIN, another damage soak with the ability to attack once it gets to the front | |
| Pos 4 (attacker) | Magi Necrosi | Great Magic attacker due to it's high damage and high speed | |
| Pos 5 (attacker) | Revealer | Low mana Magic attacker with decent damage | |
| Pos 6 (attacker) | Life Sapper | Very low mana attacker that can dish out 2 damage! |
Yes! I was able to counter my opponent perfectly and took the win.
I analyzed the battle with Splintertools and was given a 100% chance of winning the battle. That is always great to see!
The Life Sapper is a great card to have and gets even better as you level it up. At only $0.16/BCX, make sure to pick up a bunch of cheap copies while you can.
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