THE CUBE 🧊

Hi guys, what a great card to comment this week! It will be really hard to keep it simple and reasonably short... Let's try ;)

Card analysis

Gelatinous Cube (THE CUBE) is a common reward card currently being printed (about 30% to date). It is THE ONLY card presenting a game changer ability combo:
Heal + Scavenger.
Moreover at higher level it presents also void ability that adds it further endurance.

Main focus:

• No attack (just a flabby absorbing)
• 13 health (highest value for a self-healing monster) intended to rise due to scavenger: the more health rises, the more will be recovered by self-healing, giving rise to an unknown scenario so far: the

WINNING BY FATIGUE

This is the huge power of the cube, making it a game changer card in:

• Low mana matches full of easy-to-kill puppets
• Earthquake ruleset (no need fo fatigue if the earth quakes and monsters get killed faster, rapidly increasing cube's health)

And really useful in high-mana matches as:

• Sniper defender (really effective against cards like Spirit of the forest, Twisted Jester, Centaur, Mantoid, ...)
• Sneak defender (willing to win by fatigue)

Use as a tank at your own risk, there is an high probability of being stunned or afflicted (support by cleanse monster will be indispensable) . Lord Arianthus is more suited to play as not-attacking tank.
As a sneak defender there are several different monsters playable, so I prefer placing the cube as a sniper-defender, so that it will become tank with an higher health and hopefully with a lower opposite tank attacking power.

The match

I play since few months to this beautiful game. I have invested some 💲💲💲 but not so much. So there are several really powerful cards that I don't own. As a consequence I definitely hate them. Lord Arianthus is for sure my enemy #1 card. Spirit of the forest is another. But who matters, I have the cube! This is so satisfying (SPOILER ALERT):

It's difficult to forget such an epilogue

But let's start from the beginning. Today I will share with you 2 matches (here and here) that I think are really explicative of the power of the cube. They are really really similar, showing the cube in earthquake working with opportunity's screecting volture.

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My lineup is exactly the same in both matches, and also my opponents one (essentially: LA + some monster + Spirit of the Forest).

The common script:

• Cocatrice rapidly killed
• All puppies dies in first earthquake and cube gets the power.
• Vulure kills critical monsters (mostly the chief).

Then history changes, but epilogue is the same: CUBE RULES in loooooong matches. First time by earthquake, second time by fatigue.

Bonus track match

Ok, ok. I also have to share this crazy match. No earthquake. Just a normal match, but with CUBE vs CUBE 😱 😱😱 . Another little spoiler:

Final considerations

With great power comes great responsibility, yes, but in Splinterlands comes also great weaknesses... or NERFING🤣.

Despite being really powerful if well played, I think the cube will not be nerfed, because as a 6 mana card it really struggles to survive in some other situations, expecially if it is stunned, afflicted or against really high attacks.
So a great card, at the right mana price.

Cheers!

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