Welcome to my 32nd #BrawlReport as part of the 
I was back to battling in Fray #1 for this brawl after letting some other members fight in the first fray for the past month. I've noticed that the #1 Fray seems to be getting a bit more competitive lately too. It's not uncommon for me to be going up against an opponent with a power rating over 200,000. My own power rating is in the four digits and I rent cards for brawling.
Congrats to 
We earned 16 crowns and 862 merits for finishing in 2nd place in this brawl. A 1st place finish would have been possible here but we had some missed battles so that was a lost opportunity there. However, a 2nd place finish is pretty good and gets us a nice number of merits to put toward gladius card packs.
I managed a respectable 4 wins and 2 losses in this brawl. One of the losses was the result of a rather stupid mistake, but that's how it goes sometimes. As I mentioned earlier, Fray #1 has been getting more competitive and it's not as easy to win if making small errors anymore.
Featured Battles
Battle #1
This opponent's guild has a top 100 rank and this player is in the Wild Diamond league, so this was probably the toughest battle I had in this brawl.
I really dislike these low mana battles, but it seems my opponent chose to stick with deploying many low mana cards instead of focusing on one or two powerful ones. In the age of bloodlust cards, this strategy can be quite dangerous since the bloodlust will gain stats each time it kills an enemy card and with a bunch of low health cards that is much easier. That's exactly what happened in this battle, my gladiator card was hitting with 2 magic and 2 melee each turn and easily taking out two opponents each turn, thus increasing its stats further.
This was a satisfying victory that I was not expecting when I saw who my opponent would be.
Battle #2
Watch the battle.
I relied on Quora Towershead again in this battle. I find this gladiator card to be quite powerful when it ends up in the first position since it can deliver two hits per turn, magic and melee. I placed a healing card behind it to further boost its healing power each turn. The risk of the healing placement is if my opponent uses a sneak attack to take out the last card, which is exactly what this opponent did.
Despite the power of Quora, my opponent's boosted melee attack made quick work of destroying the health of mine and I didn't even manage to kill a single enemy. This was a very good strategy from my opponent to take out a pretty strong gladiator setup on my end.
This was an overall successful brawl, but I still took a couple of difficult losses from fairly low ranked cards. This just goes to show how important it is to have a good strategy for the different rulesets so that you can quickly deploy them in the brawls. Perhaps my reliance on my gladiator cards to carry most of the load in these battles is my own weakness too.
@hive.pizza #BrawlReport?kennysgaminglife spearheaded the #BrawlReport project as a way to get PIZZA guild members more engaged in the @Splinterlands community. Here's what he had to say:
*Starting with the brawl that just ended, I've invited/asked members of the #HivePizza guild to publish a #BrawlReport, breaking down their highs & lows, where they need help, questions they have, strategies they love, and so on. The idea is to help us all reflect a bit, learn a bit, share a bit, earn a bit, and connect a bit :-)
Check out the latest update on the Hive Pizza token project. We also have an announcement in there about the newest PIZZA guild! We are up to four Splinterlands guilds now and are consistently well-ranking.
Check out the other recent #BrawlReport posts from the #HIVEPIZZA family:
