Today, I would like to talk about my very first battle using Gem Meteor that could be a great victory but I failed against a great ability of my opponent team. But I'm still happy about the battle that I lead as the my strategy looked good to me.
So, I'm about to talk about that battle where I actually LOST.
I'll be joining a battle challenge hosted by 
SHARE YOUR BATTLE Weekly Challenge! GEM METEOR.
This challenge is actually very good and I should've known about this earlier so that I could join earlier and it seems they host this challenge every week with a new themed card along with more challenges, yes splinterlands is full of challenges it seem.
This week's theme card is Gem Meteor and the host advised to create a battle post and talk about any card/monster if I don't own the theme card but I wished to join the challenge with the theme card and fortunately I had some credits in my wallet that I was rewarded with after I bought the spellbook.
So, I went to the card market and I searched this card with the help of the information that the challenge post has. After selecting the right edition, rarity and element; this card was really easy to find otherwise it'd need a lot of searching to find this card from all the collection.
When I was at the cars sale page, the lowest cost for a level 1 card was 0.48$
I needed to pay 483 credits for 0.48$ which means, 1 credit = 0.001$. I paid the credit to bought the card.
And I needed to use my private active key to complete this transaction as any transaction in splinterlands requires private active key of master password.
After understanding how to battle by the tutorial, I went to the battle page and I started trying to access a battle using the modern ranked format and the first battle I got was of a 14 mana and I was then looking for low mana card and after selecting the cards, I was about to hit rumble and that's when I saw this window saying I was surrendered the opponent team won the battle and I was really confused what happened as there should be still time.
Then I tried again and the same thing happened with the 99 mana battle where I've selected strong starter cards along with my Gem Meteor. I'm sure that there was still time as I didn't spend more than a minute in both battles and every battle offers more than 2 minutes to select the team. There's nothing to do now, maybe the battle menu came later or something else happened.
Then I tried again and now I got a 30 mana battle and I selected total 7 cards includes the summoner card and the theme card Gem Meteor. This time there was not glitch and I was taken to the battlefield.
Here you can see both team where I've found a opponent with 4 cards against my 6 cards but all the opponent cards looked powerful and the opponent used 2 legendary cards as well.
Battle Ruleset:
My chosen cards.
I chose fire splinter with 4 fire cards and 2 neutral cards.
| Tarsa | Living Lava | Radiated Brute | Tenyii Striker | Gem Meteor | Xenith Archer | Goblin Fireballer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tarsa: This is the summoner that I chose for my team and this summoner was already in my collection as a starter card. Tarsa offers all friendly monsters +1 health and all friendly melee attackers +1 melee attack.
Living Lava: This is a rare fire card with 3 melee attacks, 1 speed, 2 shield and 6 health. Living Lava has shield ability that reduces damage from melee and ranged attacks.
Radiated Brute: This is a common fire card with 2 melee attacks, 1 speed and 5 health. Radiated Brute has reach ability that allows to attack from the second position on the team as a melee attacker.
Tenyii Striker: This is a rare fire card with 2 melee attacks, 2 speed, 6 health. Tenyii Striker has sneak ability that allows to target the last monster of the enemy team instead of the first monster.
Gem Meteor: This is an epic neutral card with 1 ranged attack, 4 speed, 5 health. Gem Meteor has scattershot ability that allows to hit a random enemy target.
Xenith Archer: This is a rare neutral card with 1 ranged attack, 1 speed, 2 health. Xenith Archer doesn't have any ability in the 1st level.
Goblin Fireballer" This is a common fire card with 1 ranged attack, 1 speed, 2 health. Goblin Fireballer doesn't have any ability in the 1st level but it unlocks an ability at the fifth level and another at level 10.
Enemy's chosen cards.
The enemy chose dragon splinter with 2 dragon cards and 2 fire cards.
| Byzantine Kitty | Djinn Chwala | Grum Flameblade | Dhampir Infiltrator | Scorch Fiend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Byzantine Kitty: This is the summoner that the enemy team chose and this is a legendary summoner from the untamed edition that's market value is so high as 425$ at the time I'm writing this post, insane no? Byzantine Kitty offers all friendly monsters +2 speed and true strike ability and it will heal the monster in the first position on their team each round.
Djinn Chwala: This is an epic dragon card with 2 melee attacks, 2 speed, 5 shield and 9 health. Djinn Chwala has thorns that does damage back to the attacker when getting hit with melee attack.
Grum Flameblade: This is a legendary fire card with 4 melee attacks, 1 speed, 5 shield and 10 health. Grum Flameblade has blood lust and void armor ability in level 1.
Dhampir Infiltrator: This is a rare dragon card with 1 melee attack, 4 speed and 2 health. Dhampir Infiltrator has sneak and double strike ability in level 1.
Scorch Fiend: This is a legendary fire card with 1 melee attack, 2 speed and 1 health. Scorch Fiend doesn't have any ability in level 1.
The Battle
I was lucky that the beast monster of the enemy team didn't have the chance to attack my cards and that's where the enemy did the mistake, I think. The enemy used a melee attacker at the second position that didn't have any ability to attack from that position unless it comes to the first position.
After killing two enemy cards in a short time, my cards were doing good in attacking the enemy cards but the enemy teams summoner was healing their first card with good health each round so it was not going to die for a long time.
Just look at this moment where my cards killed all the enemy cards except one and I lost only one card. Now five of my cards were fighting against a single card and I was happy to see the enemy cards were going down easily even after I used only low valued cards while the enemy team had a big valued team of cards.
That last enemy card even lost all the health except one and if my Tenyii Striker card just had 2 more health then I'd win this battle.
At this point, only one of my cards was attacking and Gem Meteor stopped attacking as it came to the first position and the battle doesn't allow a ranged attacker to attack from first position and the enemy teams summoner kept healing its last card which lead me to lose the battle.
NEXT TIME.
The next post about splinterlands will be coming soon.
Screenshots are my take from the game website.
SEE YOU.
