Battle of the Week — @clayboyn vs @warrentrx

Splinterlanes is a three-lane way to play Splinterlands: two players battle across a Friendly Lane, the Command Lane and a Hostile Lane with Decks built from their own Splinterlands cards, and the winner of a battle for Tickets takes a real card prize. Battle of the Week is a new series: one match worth watching again, read the way the site's own What decided it panel reads it. For the first one we went back through the replay archive and pulled the match it rated the most dramatic of all: @clayboyn against @warrentrx, a Ranked match on 6 August 2026, won from ten Monsters down, with one Monster left standing at the end.

@clayboyn won after 50 rounds of play (matches were 50 rounds then; they are 25 today) and 5 death battles, finishing 1 Monster up. @clayboyn gained 20 Rating for it; @warrentrx gave up 20. The prize card was Flame Mephit (about 2.74¢ at the time), delivered to @clayboyn’s Splinterlands account on-chain.

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How it went

@clayboyn fielded Byzantine Kitty in their own Friendly Lane, Eternal Tofu in the Command Lane and Risqruel Drath in @warrentrx’s Friendly Lane.
@warrentrx fielded Byzantine Kitty in @clayboyn’s Friendly Lane, Yodin Zaku in the Command Lane and Eternal Tofu in their own Friendly Lane.

• Round 4: first blood — 1 of @clayboyn’s Monsters fell; @clayboyn’s Halfling Refugee was the first to go, in @clayboyn’s Friendly Lane to Conjurer's Hubris.
• Rounds 5–11: 10 Monsters fell as the Lanes filled.
• Round 12: 3 of @clayboyn’s Monsters fell; @warrentrx’s Venka the Vile took 2 of @clayboyn’s; @clayboyn was wiped off the board — Second Wind, battles paused while they rebuilt.
• Rounds 13–15: both sides built up — nothing fell.
• Round 16: @clayboyn went in 10 Monsters down — the deepest hole of the match; 2 of @warrentrx’s Monsters and 1 of @clayboyn’s Monsters fell.
• Round 17: 5 of @warrentrx’s Monsters fell; @clayboyn’s Venka the Vile took 2 of @warrentrx’s.
• Rounds 18–20: 6 Monsters fell as the Lanes filled.
• Round 21: 4 of @warrentrx’s Monsters and 4 of @clayboyn’s Monsters fell; @warrentrx’s Oridum Graybrow took 2 of @clayboyn’s.
• Rounds 22–50: 48 Monsters fell as the Lanes filled; @clayboyn went into the death battles 5 Monsters down.
• 5 death battles — no more deploys, the last Monsters standing fight it out: @clayboyn lost nothing, 7 of @warrentrx’s Monsters fell; @clayboyn’s Calamity was the last Monster standing.

What decided it

@clayboyn only pulled ahead in the very last battle. The Lane that did the most for @clayboyn: @clayboyn’s Friendly Lane.

Lane	Damage (@clayboyn / @warrentrx)	Kills	Mana spent	Held at the end
@clayboyn’s Friendly Lane	267 / 358	19 / 11	128 / 81	@clayboyn
The Command Lane	170 / 174	13 / 8	79 / 92	nobody
@warrentrx’s Friendly Lane	215 / 493	4 / 26	99 / 36	nobody
Total	652 / 1025	36 / 45	306 / 209

Best card on each side

• @clayboyn: Calamity — 7 kills, 188 damage.
• @warrentrx: Venka the Vile — 16 kills, 342 damage.

Talisman mods that fired

• @clayboyn: no Talisman mod fired.
• @warrentrx: no Talisman mod fired.

The dice went against @clayboyn 29 times and against @warrentrx 29 times. Final Luck: @clayboyn 1699, @warrentrx 757 — the unluckier player takes a drawn board.

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