Hi everyone, Welcome back again to my Splinterlands Share Your Battle Weekly Challenge. This Week we have GRUND as our theme, a muscular ??turtle?? from Earth Element Chaos Legion Edition. Because in the last couple of share your battle I used different monsters from the official theme, this time I will force myself to use the official one. And of course, I use the standard thumbnail from the official post too, although personally I like my own thumb design better than the official one, because it differs me from the other.
Shorten Lore: Grund is well loved amongst the people of Praetoria and he is a staunch defender of them, his strong ideals of honour and justice infused within in from a young age. When he heard of the Chaos Legion invasion, Grund took up his hammers in anger and sought them out immediately.
Grund is a true melee attacker, he has good melee damage and speed from the start. Later on the Gold Level, he will get new ability which is Trample. This ability will give him an extra attack again if he kills his target.
In this share a battle challenge, I wanted to highlight his ability which make him one of the best striker from Chaos Legion Edition. It's too bad the summoner I have won't support it, because Obsidian is a magic oriented one. but let see how it goes.
~ click the image above for the full battle video ~
I took this simple battle from Modern Format Gold League. I was using that Black Santan guy, its a Scholarship Account. The ruleset that I was looking for was STAMPEDE.
In general, picking a 10 mana monster into a 23 mana battle is not a bright one. A suicidal precisely, however I had a strong believe that Double Strike + Trample supported by Stampede ruleset would be an insane sighting in this battle. so here is my lineup:
| Position | Card | Ability | Plan and Strategy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Summoner | +1 Magic | I like Obsidian a lot, she is a powerful summoner who boosts up mages. However this time I would not need her +1 magic damage buff, I just need her to summon our GRUND | |
| Main Tank | Double Strike, Trample | Our main theme this week. I wanted to see him swinging his hammers continuously until all opponents wiped out. | |
| Second | none | A 0 mana filler. Incase opponent using a blast attack, it won't hurt my third monster directly. Fiend is a good bait for opponent opportunist attacker. | |
| Third | Protect, Amplify, Triage | I need her protect ability, +2 armor to all allies. We had a scatter shot ruleset here, so we don't know who gets hit first. A protect ability will be significantly important here. | |
| Fourth | Sneak, Poison | He is my Plan B monster incase somehow GRUND fails miserably. Uraeus in Gold League is lethal, a poison on backline is uncureable. | |
| Fifth | none | or a two mana monster, her stats is good. I put her behind incase I get a Uraeus vs Uraeus battle, my Uraeus won't be hit first. |
ok I will be honest here, my plan did not work, it failed badly. I could not run the Stampede Killing party at all. There are two points we can take from this battle:
My opponent tactic was great, simple as it sounded. In a glance we saw his line up consisted of silly monsters. 2 Non attacking monsters as the tank, and the back party were all archers. However there were two goals he managed to get:
I talked about my opponent had better tactic but why would I still win? The answer was GRUN. Let me summarize what GRUN had done in that battle:
That's the fact. Eventhough Grun had only landed 6 from 11 attacks, which almost half of them were miss, he was still the major threat. Half of opponent's monsters were killed by him .
Although my tactic failed, the battle still showed us how superior GRUN was.
Thank you for visiting my Weekly Battle Challenge, don't forget to leave your comments and feedback below. There are credits in this post for these people:
