Welcome back to another awesome Splinterlands post guys, and I hope all of you are doing well in your lives and spending a shiny and wonderful day with your family and friends. Now, for those of you who are immune to market and are actively playing this strategy-based card game continuously and trying to improve your NFT card and asset collection, I believe most of you have already started pushing and shoving in this fresh new ranked season and are trying hard to increase your trophy count once again. If we take a quick look at the current season timer, there are still around 14 days and 9 hours left before the reset happens, so there is plenty of time left for grinding missions, collecting rewards, and aiming for higher league tiers.
Now talking about my own progress in the frontier mode of this game, I am currently playing in the highest Gold I league tier with a trophy count of around 2,840. My target for this season remains the same as usual, first reaching the 4,200 trophy mark and then trying for a leaderboard spot if everything goes smoothly. Now, if we take a look at the weekly Frontier raffle, I currently hold 38 entries and there are still around 1 day and 8 hours left before the raffle draw happens. This time I will try to push my entry count somewhere between 57 and 60 in order to improve my chances even further, just like the last time.
Now, the last ranked season actually turned out pretty well for me because somehow I managed to enter the leaderboard after a long time. I finished the season with the 48th rank, with a total of 4,380 trophies and as a reward, I received 2 Foundation packs along with 5 raffle entries.
Apart from that, I also opened a total of 10 Foundation packs that I had collected over the last couple of days along with the leaderboard reward packs. The outcome was honestly pretty satisfying because I managed to pull 1 Legendary card, 2 Epic cards, 12 Rare cards including 4 Archons, 1 Gold Foil Common card, and the rest Common cards.
Now moving forward, let us come to the main topic of this post, as today I will be discussing another interesting monster from the newest Escalation mini card set. As you have already seen in the title and thumbnail above, today I will be talking about the Sable Dustpaw. So if you are interested in learning more about this monster card, let us take a deeper dive without any further delay.
The Sable Dustpaw is a monster-type card that was introduced in the game with the newest Escalation mini card set. This monster belongs to the Earth element and comes from the Canisan bloodline. By rarity, this card is an Epic monster, so you will require a total of 46 CC cards in order to upgrade it to its maximum level. If you want to use this monster in battles, you only need to spend 3 mana, which already makes it a very flexible option for almost every type of match, especially low and medium mana limit battles. The attack type of this monster is Magic, and despite its low mana cost, this card comes with a surprisingly large health pool along with decent speed and useful abilities. At its maximum level, this monster gains a total of three abilities that make it both defensive and strategically dangerous. Let us now take a closer look at its league-wise stats and abilities below to find out more about this monster.
At level 2, this monster already possesses decent stats that consist of 1 magic attack power at 3 speed with a solid 6 health. Apart from these stats, it also gains an ability called Decoy. This ability works almost like a secondary Taunt mechanic and helps protect your important backline units.
DECOY – Draws the attacks of enemy units with Snipe, Apex Strike, and Opportunity unless an allied Taunt unit is present. Does not affect enemy units in the first position.
When you upgrade this monster further to level 3, its base stats remain the same, but it unlocks another interesting ability called Kindred Spirit: Poison. This ability can become very useful if you build your lineup around poison-based strategies.
KINDRED SPIRIT: POISON – At the start of battle, adjacent units with Kindred receive Poison.
As this monster gets upgraded further and reaches level 5, its stats improve and it now holds 2 magic attack power at 3 speed with 7 health. Even though it does not gain any new abilities at this level, the increased magic damage and health definitely make it much more effective in battles.
Finally, when you upgrade this monster to its maximum level of 6, its stats remain at 2 magic attack power with 3 speed and 7 health, but it also gains another very useful ability called Reflexes. This ability becomes extremely useful against monsters with double attacks or multiple attack types.
REFLEXES – After the first successful attack by an attacker against this unit, all subsequent attacks from that attacker against this unit miss for the rest of the round.
Last but not least, I think this monster is an excellent low mana magic card with several useful defensive abilities. First of all, getting a monster with a large health bar, decent attack, and good speed for only 3 mana already feels amazingly amazing. This monster can even serve as a frontline or even secondary defensive wall in certain high mana limit matches. Another great advantage is the Decoy ability, which acts almost like a secondary Taunt effect. It attracts enemy Opportunity, Snipe, and Apex Strike attacks whenever there is no allied Taunt monster present, giving your important attackers extra time to deal damage. If you enjoy poison-based strategies, then the Kindred Spirit: Poison ability can also become very useful. Simply place another monster with Kindred adjacent to this card and they will receive Poison effects. Finally comes the Reflexes ability, which is especially useful against dual-attack or multi attack type enemy monsters. Once the first attack lands successfully, all following attacks from the same attacker will automatically miss during that round, which can completely ruin the enemy’s attack chain. Overall, I think the Sable Dustpaw is a very strong low mana magic monster with solid defensive utility and several tricky abilities that can create huge advantages in battle. What do you think?
