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_{Source: Splinterlands}

There are many strategies or cards that we use to try to obtain advantages and last longer in battles, among these we have the shields, which allow us to have a better defense when receiving attacks, but there are also ways to counteract or eliminate this type of defenses, such as the Shatter ability. There are some cards that have this ability, but these only work every time the card attacks, but it is more effective to use this ability with a summoner, for example: Immortalis in the Earth element; in this way each card of the team will have the power to eliminate the shields, and thus we can have access to directly wear down the opponent's life.

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But there are also cards that have abilities to heal the shield wear or others that allow to have +2 shields at the beginning of the battle in each card of the team, these abilities are Repair or Protect, but still Shatter can affect them and impose against these abilities, that is why they are so useful, now let's see how the Shatter ability works in battle.

In this battle I faced a life team, the opponent was @stanlsherm17035, the maximum mana was 27 and one of the battle had the condition Fire & Regret, mainly we can see several cards that have shields, which is very common in this element, as there are several cards that come equipped with the shield or others that allow to increase it, As in this battle Scavo Hireling, which has the Repair ability, in each round we could see how ShieldBearer's shield was recovered, but the Shatter ability was in charge of destroying it and despite the adversity, it was possible to destroy the first opponent's card, later everything became easier.

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Link to the battle Splinterlands web: https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_d81d4aa7b3a9b9dea4a12179d2d9f2b5&ref=darwinjj

It is also important to evaluate the conditions of the battles, to know if it is convenient or not to make use of the ability, since some conditions allow increasing the shield naturally, in this last case it can be useful, in other occasions the conditions of the battle prevent the shields, therefore the ability would not have any effect, We can also find the condition of only making use of magic cards, which evade the shields and the damage goes directly to the life, the only way for Shatter to be useful with this condition, is that there is a card that has the ability to affect the shield before the life of the monster.

Undoubtedly the Shatter ability is quite useful against teams that use the shield as a defense, as it is usually an obstacle and also wastes time trying to destroy the shields, as I mentioned, if we have on our side the Shatter ability, so we can make attacks directly to the life of the cards, i.e. the Shatter ability allows us to go to the important, therefore it gives us the opportunity to finish more quickly with the enemies.