This week the Share Your Battle challenge monster is the Spineback Turtle. It is a water Splinter common Beta card and is a tank with a mana cost of 4. I do not own one, so I rented a Level 1 Spineback Turtle to use in this week’s challenge.
Most tanks in Splinterlands have a high mana cost. Of all the tanks that are 4 mana or less, the Spineback tutle is the greatest in all of Splinterlnads in my opinion. Tanks like this with low mana costs are often called mini tanks. Level 4 is where it gets real beasty as it adds thorns which does 2 damage every time it is hit by a Melee monster.
For this week’s challenge, I have chosen to share a 14 mana match with a Standard: No modification to gameplay ruleset.
https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_a594b0b85c9f73a71319cc9deb559f49&ref=ninjamike
A small mana match seemed like a good time to use the Spineback Turtle. Considering that it is only a 4 mana tank, the turtle cannot be killed off very quickly, with its 6 health and 2 shield. For my summoner, I went with Bortus because it provides -1 to all enemy magic attacks. This will offset the risk of a strong magic attack that would go through the shields.
After the Spineback Turtle, I filled out the rest of my lineup with a Furious Chicken, an Ice Pixie, and a Venari Wavesmith which provides an additional 2 shield to all my monsters.
During the first round, I destroyed my opponents first card while retaining all of mine.
I've almost taken out another card. However, my Furious Chicken has nearly been wiped out.
I've taken out another card. My Furious Chicken is gone, but luckily the next card that my opponents sniper will target has 2 armor.
I'm very close to victory at this point.
After 5 rounds the game was essentially over. My opponents final card which was a ranged attack monster fell into first position where it could not attack any longer.
My opponent’s team had no monsters with magic attack. So overall my strategy of having a mini tank with a bit of shielding and then further fortifying it with 2 additional shield for all my monsters worked. Putting my furious chicken in the second position was a perfect call. My opponent had one sniper which focused some firepower on defeating a monster that could not attack anyway.
