Welcome back to another fresh and juicy Splinterlands post guys, and I hope all of you are doing pretty great in your lives and enjoying another wonderful and energetic weekend with your family and friends. For those of you who are deep into this game, I hope all of you have already been making steady progress in the current ranked season while expanding your card and asset collection and earning a lot of valuable rewards every day. Whether your mission is simply to reach a higher league tier, unlock better seasonal rewards, or even secure a champion top leaderboard position, I sincerely wish every one of you the very best. Looking at the current ranked season, there are still around 11 days and 19 hours remaining before it comes to an end. Since we are still comfortably only within the first half of the season, there is more than enough time left to recover from losing streaks, improve our lineups and battle strategies, and continue pushing toward our desired trophy milestones before the countdown reaches zero.
Now, talking about my own progress in the Frontier mode in this game, I am currently battling in the highest Gold I league with 3,560 trophies. As always, my first target remains reaching the 4,200 trophy milestone. After that, if I still have enough Battle Energy and enough free time available, I will once again try my luck at climbing toward the leaderboard. Looking at the weekly raffle progress, I currently have 57 raffle entries collected so far. There are only around 18 hours and 38 minutes remaining before this week's raffle comes to an end, so I will try my best to collect a few more entries before the timer expires. This week, I am aiming somewhere between 63 and 66 entries, which is slightly higher than my usual target.
Today's Frontier Daily Wheel rewards were pretty low I would say. This time I received only 50 Sparks together with another 10 Sparks from my daily 20% streak bonus. Although today's reward wasn't particularly exciting, I am much happier about maintaining my login streak. Today marks my 62nd consecutive streak day, and I definitely do not want to lose that valuable bonus after keeping it alive for such a long time. Thanks to today's rewards, my total Sparks balance has now reached 23,206 Sparks, and I will continue saving them for future upgrades and purchases.
Apart from that, today I also opened 8 Foundation Packs that I earned from the last three days' daily missions. This turned out to be one of my better openings recently. Among the total cards, I managed to pull 1 Legendary card, 4 Epic cards, 1 Gold Foil Rare card, and another 6 Rare cards. Besides those, I also received 2 Gold Foil Common cards and rest all regular Common cards. Overall, I am really satisfied with today's pack opening, especially because getting four Epic cards together is not something that happens very often.
Now moving on to today's featured monster, let me introduce another powerful reward card from the newest Conclave Arcana Reward card set. As you have already seen in the title and thumbnail above, today we will be taking a closer look at the Grove Doomblade. So, let's jump right in.
The Grove Doomblade is a monster type card that was first seen in the game with the launch of the newest Conclave Arcana Reward card set. Like the other monsters from this reward edition, players can obtain this card completely free by actively playing ranked battles and opening reward chests throughout each season. This monster belongs to the Fire element and comes from the Elf bloodline. It is classified as a Rare monster card, meaning players need a total of 115 CC cards to fully upgrade it to its maximum level. The Grove Doomblade costs 9 mana to deploy, making it more suitable for medium to high mana limit battles where its tremendous offensive capabilities can truly shine. This monster uses Melee attacks and eventually unlocks four powerful abilities that make it an outstanding backline assassin capable of eliminating enemy support units with frightening efficiency. Let us now take a closer look at its stats and abilities across different leagues.
At Level 2, the Grove Doomblade possesses an incredible 5 Melee attack, 1 Speed, 3 Armor, and 5 Health. Even at this level, it already gains two powerful abilities called Sneak and Fury.
SNEAK – Targets the enemy unit in the last position.
FURY – Deals double damage if the target has Taunt.
At Level 4, the monster maintains its massive 5 Melee attack together with 1 Speed and 3 Armor, while its Health increases to 6. At this level, it unlocks another powerful ability called Stun.
STUN – Has a 50% chance to apply Stunned for one round after a successful attack. Stunned units skip their turn and cannot retaliate.
At Level 6, the Grove Doomblade becomes even deadlier by increasing its attack to an incredible 6 Melee while also improving its Health to 8. Although it gains no new ability at this stage, the huge increase in raw damage makes every successful hit even more devastating.
At Level 8, the Grove Doomblade reaches its maximum form with an astonishing 7 Melee attack, 1 Speed, 3 Armor, and 8 Health. At maximum level, it unlocks its final ability called Ambush.
AMBUSH – Takes an extra turn before the first round of battle begins.
Last but not least, I think the Grove Doomblade is one of the most terrifying Sneak attackers introduced in the new Reward card set. The very first thing that grabs my attention is obviously its unbelievable attack power. Reaching 7 Melee damage at maximum level is already enough to eliminate many fragile backline monsters in a single strike. Since it also possesses the Sneak ability from its earliest level, those devastating attacks are almost always directed toward the opponent's vulnerable support units hiding at the back of the lineup. Another feature that I really like is the Fury ability. Nowadays, many players rely heavily on Taunt monsters to protect their important backline units. However, Grove Doomblade completely punishes that strategy by dealing double damage whenever its target has the Taunt ability. Against defensive lineups built around Taunt tanks, this ability becomes incredibly valuable. The Stun ability further increases this monster's usefulness. Landing a successful stun can completely disrupt the opponent's strategy by forcing an important monster to skip its next turn. Sometimes, a single missed attack from the enemy is all it takes to completely change the outcome of the battle. Finally, the Ambush ability is undoubtedly my favorite feature of this monster. Being able to perform an additional attack before Round 1 officially begins is simply amazing, especially on a monster that already possesses such enormous attack power. In many battles, Grove Doomblade can heavily damage or even eliminate an enemy monster before the real fight has even started. Overall, I believe this is an outstanding reward monster for players who enjoy aggressive melee strategies. It combines heavy damage output, powerful control abilities, and excellent utility into one solid and dangerous package that can easily turn the table quickly in many battles.
