Hi there!
So MAGGOTS: opportunity and scavenge. This is a quite common (recently released) combination of abilities: Maggots, Screeching Vulture, Feasting Seaweed, Parasitic Growth, Cave Slug are all similar cards, allowing also some nice combos ๐คฉ.
Best game modes in witch I like to using opportunity are:
I like to pair them to some monster weakening back-line attackers (i.e. return fire or magic reflect). So the schema is: First weaken, then finish the weakest. In this optic a "Miss!!" may be fatal, so another secure game mode to playing this way is "Aim true".
I like playing it in low mana matches, where lot of low-mana-easy-to-kill guys are out. The king of this strategy is gelatinuos cube, a really strong card in my opinion (but weak to stun and affliction).
Ok now close the books ๐๐, let'do some practice!!!
Unfortunately today I couldn't play a low-mana "unprotected" game with maggots. But I have anyway an interesting one:
ALL splinters available
I took a rapid look to my opponent (@trowa-barton)'s last battles and I saw a prevalence of hearth and dragon (+1 magic). Seen the high mana match I made my prediction: Delwyn dragonscale + hearth monsters.
For my lineup instead I decided to use Maggots supported by Gelatinous cube. With frontline monster I wanted to reflect magic attacks and then having some backline attackers. The only doubt was about the summoner: -1 to ranged (useful against hearth and with a not-shielded or void tank) or +1 to melee? I decided for +1 to melee, in support to my Maggots ๐๐ So here we go:
YES! Enemy tactic guessed!
As expectd, my stunned CUBE quickly died and maggots became my tank!! ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฑ
Maggots shown their power, resisting to attacks and keeping gaining health just enough to survive. Big thanks also to my back line attackers ;) ;)
The epilogue were benign: I took a victory โ๏ธโ๏ธ and a nice story to tell ๐
Cheers! ๐๐