This week's challenge from @splinterlands ⚔️

First off the card itself - check out this handsome arachnid in all its glory:

Their stats from the meta snapshot:

61% winrate is quite good (but very small sample size only being used in 0.2% of games...)

Let's see how effective it is. This is the first time I'm using it.

Here's the battle conditions:

• Unarmored (i.e., no armor allowed)
• 25 mana
• All splinters available besides red and dragon

My lineup:

• Wizard of Eastwood - my only green summoner
• Nectar Queen - one of my strongest tanks with good damage, health, and evasion
• Barking spider
• Mushroom Seer - great support given its mana cost with its silence ability and 2 magic damage
• Wood Nymph - great tank healer that does 1 magic damage as well
• Barking spider - the spider is playing the role of DPS and backside tank (to protect against sneak). Also as a ranged minion, I want to keep it as far back from the frontlines as possible. Just like with everyone else here, it has no armor, so it's not penalized by the "Unarmored" battle condition
• Furious chicken - playing the role of fodder and gold harvester

See here for video of the battle

I actually felt quite good going into the battle. But, alas, my strategy didn't work. The Kraken and Spirit Miner combo (both legendary cards) crushed me. I honestly don't know what I should have played instead to have beat them. Have any ideas? Please post down below!

Going forward, I won't use barking spider too often because it's a little expensive mana-wise for its damage output and doesn't provide any support abilities.

See y'all on the battlefield!

---

Subscribe to follow a recovering Hearthstone player's transition into becoming a Splinterlands newbie 😅

Interested in leaving Hearthstone, MTGA, or LoR to get started with an even better game? Join below using my referral code:

https://splinterlands.com?ref=genketsu