This weeks monster in focus is Shadow Snitch a melee monster under the death splinter. I own a lvl 4 version which has 2 melee, 2 speed and 6 HP. His ability at all lvl's is Reach which means he can attack from the second position in my team. I haven't really used this card alot before so let's see how it performs
Shadow Stitch's strengths are his reach ability and his high HP, so I wanted to use him as a secondary tank that would be able to not only deal some damage but survive a few hits if required
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I like to really focus my attacks on a single target under the holy protection ruleset because I don't want to be wasting shots every round breaking the protection of multiple monsters. So for that reason I set up my team to only attack the main tank of my opponent, perfect for shadow snitch
My strategy going into the match was to focus all my attack on my opponents tanks so I selected 1 main tank and shadow snitch at the front end and high damage dealing monsters in my backline
Harklaw was my main tank with the shield ability I'm hoping he can stick around for awhile
Shadow Snitch in the second position to make use of the reach ability and survive a few hits if Harklaw goes down
In my backline I had Insidious Warlock, I was hoping because of its recharge ability by the time it could do some damage my other monsters would have removed my opponents holy protection and thus can do a big shot of damage
Venari Bonesmith I like to hide in the backline of my team so it can use its life leech ability and gather HP throughout the battle
Grim Reaper I chose for his affliction ability because I was expecting my opponent to use a heal monster. The 3 range damage is also great
And finally Dhampir Stalker at the back with high HP and 3 range damage aswell its a really powerful back tank
At the end of round 1 my strategy has been playing out perfectly, I managed to defeat my opponents main tank and also break the shield of his next monster up, while also having my entire team still alive
My opponent managed to kill my Harklaw which brings shadow snitch into the main tank position which is what I wanted with his high HP i'm hoping he can survive long enough for my backline monsters to finish the job
Shadow Snitch survived my opponents onslaught long enough so I could defeat my opponents Phantom Soldier and bring his Twisted Jester into the frontline making him useless now
My shadow snitch finally went down but not before dealing out one finally shot of damage to my opponents Ancient Lich who is now on the verge of defeat
From here there is nothing more my opponent could do as my backline archers finished him off while my Bonesmith healed himself in the frontline
I think my strategy worked and shadow snitch was a good fit under these circumstances
It is an OK card one I wouldn't use every battle but under a select few rulesets e.g Little League, Reverse Speed I think he definitely could be of great use and really shine
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