Second attempt at the Pelacor Arbalest share your battle challenge, This time round with a higher cost pool and the blast ruleset which work quite well with the Pelacor Arbalest as it has double strike.
Link to the Battle: https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_df600d180ce0335ea407f3a81bc21747&ref=dotz132
Card Background Information
| Edition | Chaos Legion |
|---|---|
| Rarity | Rare |
| Element | Life |
| Attack | Range |
| Abilities | Double Strike/ Flying (level 5) |
Card level & stats
Bronze max | LV2 - +1 Health
Sliver max | LV4 - +1 Health & +1 Speed
Gold max | LV6 - Gain Flying & +1 Health
Diamond and above | LV MAX - +1 Damage
Cost per level (used prices at time of writing)
Seems to cost at least 0.23 per copy, which is somewhere in the middle of the rare cards for the chaos legion.
| League | Max Level - Copies needed | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Bronze max | LV2 - 5 copies | 1.15 usd. |
| Sliver max | LV4 - 25 copies | 5.75 usd. |
| Gold max | LV6 - 60 copies | 13.8 usd. |
| Diamond and above | LV MAX - 115 copies | 26.45 usd. |
Level 5 is required to gain Flying which makes this card usable in earthquake matches as its base hp is quite low and without flying it will die in 1 or 2 turns depending on the level of the card, sadly the damage buff is only available at the diamond league and above.
the gold foil starts at level 2 but cost about 3 x the amount of a regular level 2 and would require 7 copies just to get the Flying ability, which is quite a lot as its almost possible to get the max regular version.
Battle rules
| Symbol | Rule Effect |
|---|---|
| All Monsters have the Blast ability. | |
| Neutral Monsters may not be used in battles. |
Total Mana : 58
Usable elements : Fire, Earth and Life
This match has quite a bit of mana to use which allows for most high mana cards to be used, the options are limited since neutral cards cannot be used and all units get blast which makes those hard hitting and double strikes units quite good to use since blast will do more damage if the base is higher.
Team Composition
| Card | Role | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| Summoner | Grandmaster Rathe is extremely good to use since it gives void armor to all your units and amplify with a single point of armor to all units which is quite good since it makes all magic attacks hit armor first plus the amplify increases the magic reflect damage by one which can hurt those void magic units | |
| Main tank, Self heal, Flying, Recharge | Uriel the Purifier, it has a pretty high attack but only can attack on alternate turns which may be bad as in exchange it gets 3x its damage as the attack which can hurt a lot with the extra blast damage since blast does half the damage | |
| Magic Reflect, Flying, Holy protection | Pelacor Conjurer with the holy protection it gets one free negate, with its flying it can dodge those range and melee attacks and it can reflect those magic damage hit and since there is blast it can be in the 2nd slot and reflect those magic hits | |
| Magic Damage, Triage, Strengthen | Djinn Renova with its triage it will heal those in the backline and with blast it good as it does magic damage ignoring armor | |
| Armorer, resurrection, Flying , Immunity | Adelade Brightwing has repair which can give back armor to units and with resurrection it can pull back one unit from the grave plus it does magic damage | |
| Range damage, Double Strike, Flying, Star of the Challenge | Pelacor Arbalest, the star of the hour with its double strike its quite a menace with the addition of blast damage which makes it do one extra point of damage to the next to the target but it cant take much damage | |
| Range damage, Forcefield, Blast | Prismologist with forcefield it will prevent those 5 damage and above sneak units from crushing the backrow and protect the team from those huge blast damages |
Now on to the Battle
Round 1
Unluckily for me they have a unit with snare which took out my Uriel the Purifier from the sky making its easier to kill since it lost its dodge from flying buff against non flying units which decrease its chance to attack the new turn.
At the end of this round I lost quite a lot of hp to my main and sub tanks which is not that good but my team did remove one of their units which is quite good as it made this battle a 5v6 for now.
Round 2
The Pelacor Arbalest is doing a nice job by doing quite a bit of damage with its attack since nothing is targeting it which is nice since keeping it alive is allowing it to do 6 damage each turn.
The round ends with my sand losing 1 unit while the opponent's team lost 3 of their units leaving 2 range units on their team with only one of them having close combat
The Last Round
Strategy Talk
The strategy was revolves around Grandmaster Rathe with it giving void armor and a point of armor since their is the blast ruleset every bit of protection is good to prevent units from dying from the blast damage, having double strike is also great since it basically does 2x damage and 2x blast damage.
Pelacor Arbalest is a great unit and getting it to level 5 will make it a strong unit to use in earthquake matches which is even better since double strike in earthquake is quite deadly but still getting a single copy is also good since its base damage is quite high plus with a summoner buff it can do 6 damage per turn.
Thanks for the battle challenge curation team
Can't wait to see which card will be in Next's weeks challenge
If you are interested in the game, here's my referral link: https://splinterlands.com?ref=dotz132