This week's battle challenge is the SILENT SHA-VI. The SILENT SHA-VI is a death melee from the Chaos Legion set that has sneak at birth, cripple at level 6 and piercing at max level. With 4 melee damage and 6 speed, he is one of my favorite cards.
About the card:
finally, a useful common card. Before I start blabbing about stats and stuff, the art of this card, is really beautiful. The ability (sneak) and the picture (snake), god knows how much I wanted to see a card like this. Judging by the stats, he could have been a rare card. With just 5 mana cost and powerful stats, he is usable at low mana battles and mid mana battles together! chaos has 4 sneak cards at all and he is one of them! Chaos doesn't like to sneak behind the enemy, although it is a easy and high win rate strategy. Let's see, 4 attack (just enough to evade forcefield), 6 speed and seven health. not bad for a second or third tank. what I love though is cripple. You know, some players, that overuse that damn lama for the last stand. They always put kron with heal at back. But they are gonna fail this time! and piercing is so goes along with sneak. Cause armor and the last monster is like, synonym.
When to use this card?
it's always a good thing to have a sneak on your team, but:
Explosive Weaponry (high speed, spread damage), Unprotected (melee damage is advantageous) and or any battle that you think there will be support monster at back.
The battle:
https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_a61bc48e220112005b8b7bc3696a3e13&ref=na-spl-86
The Choices:
So, just a remainder, this is an scholar account. I didn't have much choice. only chaos monsters and not even all of them. (I always share battles that I wonπ)
Summoner:
As i just mentioned, I didn't have not much choice. even if I had, no buff or debuff from summoners, so who cares which summoner, right?
First tank:
You should always go melee for the first tank. Unless it's special. Plus ruleset says half of the cards are not usable. so you just try to fill the mana and try make sense out of your formation.
Second tank:
Djinn Muirat. 52 mana were screaming to be filled and guess what? I had two legendary back to back to put them in first and second position and I did!
Quick tip: if it is more than 40 mana, prefer cards with giant killer ability. chances are, there gonna be some giants there!
πStar of the weekπ:
crème de la crème! Our one and only challenge of the week, I represnt to you one of only four sneak monsters of chaos legion, the great SILENT SHA-VI! Our third tank is someone special with 5 speed and three attack, he is responsible for finishing two monsters, destroying one snipe attack all alone and finishing the battle by finishing the last monster!
Force monster:
Honestly, I don't like recharge. but sometimes they deliver, right? by the way, the reason I'm not explaining every monster and position is, I didn't have much choice because of the ruleset and because It was 52 mana battle, I just had to fill it.
Fif monster:
Again, honestly, not a fan of random attack. what is that mean at all? you either go for back or front or choose everyone to be snipe attack. but random?! I suppose you're trying to go around the taunt. but every round attacking one of the six monster and not even in an order? maybe we will see how these people will be useful after the modern/wild format happens.
All hail to true strike. I love it. I just love this guy like I love coca cola. To be the last thing I taste when I'm eating a meal. At gold III, where I usually play, he has deathblow ability and it is very satisfying to see him dealing double damage. 8 damage from an archery without buff!
As I'm writing this sentence, I just saw entire battle again, nothing special. It was start of the season and he had level one cards. Buuuuuuuuut I won!
PS: this isn't relevant but, I saw Everything Everywhere All at Once last night and it was beautiful. I totally recommend it.
