Crystal Jaguar is an Untamed common card for the white splinter. Looking at its stats it reminds me very much of water splinter's Spineback Turtle. There is more towards favoring Spineback in the stats category is was far superior to that of Crystal Jaguar. However life splinter tends to lean with a lot of cards with defense and toughness enhancements. Crystal Jaguar has its place.
In this battle I went head to head with fire splinter with my own life splinter formation. I sunk in Crystal Jaguar just so this match would become applicable. In the battle it is limited to 38 mana and has a rule set of using only even number monsters only.
My formation starts off with Crystal Jaguar and follow by Silver Shield Warrior, Goblin Mech. Then in middle of the formation is Evangelist and Peacebringer where they are ranger monsters and end with a support in Silvershield Knight.
My opponent goes with Goblin Mech and then Minotaur, Parasitic Growth, Kobold Miner, Battering Ram, and end with Prismatic Energy. Off the bat the closing monster in the formation is not in an ideal position. Only real good use is defending sneak magic attack monster. My formation does not have that type of monster so clearly Prismatic Energy will not benefit for being in the rear.
At the end of round 1 I am out with Crystal Jaguar. It is clear that a level 1 Jaguar would not be effective in this battle. Without thorn ability it clearly was just a punching bag with no bite. In addition to lose of my Jaguar my Silvershield Warrior is weaker at the end of the round. My opponent full formation intact.
The signs of melee versus melee started to show up in round two as my Silvershield Warrior gets knocked out it becomes a head to head with high power Goblin Mech. My Silvershield Knight's Inspire boosts my Goblin to match the attack of my opponents. In addition I will have Peacebringer and Evangelist for supplemental attackers.
We exchanged blows and my opponent loses Goblin Mech while I lost my Evangelist. Now it was five against three and I was with the disadvantage. The hope here is my Goblin Mech could outlast my opponent's heavy melee attacks.
Now I am down Silvershield Knight at the end of round 4. While my opponent has its Minotaur knocked out they still had the advantage of 4 versus 2. The only positive is my Goblin Mech is still alive.
This maybe the round with a turning point as my opponent loses two monsters in parasite and ram. I on the other hand now with Goblin Mech and Peacebringer. Sweet!
In one devastating blow my Peacebringer was able to knock out Kobold Miner leaving only Prismatic Energy left. With Prismatic only able to do 1 damage per a hit my Goblin Mech had the upper hand as it could deal a 5 melee attack.
It would end in 7 rounds with my formation able to turn the tide and come out with the win. What is fascinating is that at the end my formation came out ahead even though I was seemingly always behind in most of the battle.
Crystal Jaguar was not very useful at level 1. This battle was proof of that. At level 4 it gains the thorn ability which may make it more viable option as a tanker. Yet this battle is memorable considering how I was behind in most of the match but yet ended up winning.
The position of my opponent's Prismatic Energy and its use came back to haunt them. It would have been much more useful if that monster was a range attack monster, since Fire splinter has many very good high mana range attackers.
In any case I came out of the match with the thinnest of margin to be considered victorious. Look forward to upgrading my Crystal Jaguar to higher level so to make better use of it in future battles.
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