This week's Splinterlands battle challenge theme is Rexxie.
I don't often use Rexxie. I like the trample ability though and the high melee attack so sometimes I use Rexxie in melee mayhem or super sneak. I had the Earth Splinter yesterday for my daily quest and came across a perfect battle to use Rexxie. I had selected this team before I knew that Rexxie was the theme for this week's battle challenge.
The battle can be found here
Rules were Super Sneak and Lost Legendaries
With a 31 mana cap
Super Sneak: Means All melee attack monsters have the sneak ability.
Lost Legendaries: Means legendary monsters may not be used in battle.
Summoner Selection:
I was trying to complete my Earth splinter quest so I had 3 choices of summoners to use. Lyanna for the +1 health, Wizard of Eastwood for -1 opponents armor, or Xander for 1 less mana cost. I went with Lyanna for the +1 health.
Monster Selection
1rst Position: I choose the Unicorn Mustang to act as my tank because it has 3 melee, 11 health, and pretty fast speed at 4. The high health makes a great tank and it also has the void ability which helps with magic attacks.
2nd position: I choose Rexxie for this position because of the 5 melee attack and the trample ability. I was thinking Rexxie would make a great backup tank as well if my Mustang died.
3rd position: I put my Wood Nymph in this position to protect it from attacks from my opponent. I also chose the Wood Nymph for it's tank healing cababilities and magic attack also it has more health than my Khmer Princess which is my other healer.
4th Position:
I choose the furious chicken for this position because I had an open space left in my line-up and the chicken has a melee which will attack the rear of my opponents team during these rules.
5th Position:
I choose the Earth Elemental for this position because it has self heal, I was hoping it would act as a secondary rear tank if my flesh golem died. It also puts more pressure on my opponents front tank because of the 2 ranged attack. I like that the earth elemental also only has a 3 mana cost!
6th Position
I picked the flesh golem as my rear tank because of the self heal ability.
Conclusion:
My strategy worked very well for this battle, as we can see none of my monsters died.
In hindsight I probably should have reversed the order and put flesh golem 5 and earth elemental 6 because flesh golem has a 3 melee and earth elemental has a 2 ranged. I would have prefferred that the earth elemental died first so I could get more damage from the flesh golem, but for this battle it did not matter.