Weekly Battle Challenge Featuring "KULU SWIMHUNTER"

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Hello Splinterlands Community!
Hope everyone is doing well.
It is this time of the week when we post about - SHARE YOUR BATTLE Weekly Challenge and the card for the week is KULU SWIMHUNTER.

ABOUT THE CARD :
So, before we move onto some battle and strategy with the card, let's take a look at the card.

Edition: CHAOS LEGION
Rarity: COMMON
Element: WATER
Attack: RANGED
Abilities: N/A

Now, let's check out the stats of the card.

Kulu Swimhunter does not have any ability. It however comes with decent range damage at all levels for mana cost of only 4.
At the very first level it has 2 range damage which scales up to 4 damage at the highest level. At the highest level it also has very good speed of 5 which increases up to 6 with Kelya and it has a decent health pool of 4 at level 1 and 6 at level 10.
I currently have a gold foil 1 bcx version of the card which I use quite often.

THE RULE SET :

Mana Cap : 52
Rule set :
Even Stevens: Only Monsters with even Mana costs may be used in battles.
Available Splinters :
Fire
Water
Earth
Death
Dragon

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THE LINE UP :

For our summoner we went for a level 4 Kelya Frendul of course.
This adds +1 to armor and +1 to speed to water splinter.

At position one, we went with a level 4 Diemonshark with 3 melee damage with 4 speed, 6 armor and 8 hp at the cost of 8 mana. And the abilities Trample with Enrage it comes with at this level makes the card deadlier.

At position two, we have Djinn Oshannus, the card that needs no introduction.
At level 2, it provides 2 magic damage, has a hp of whopping 11 and speed of 5. In addition to that it has Void and Phase abilities.
This entire package comes at the cost of 8 mana.

In the next position we have Deeplurker.
This is one of the best Chaos Legion card for the water splinter in my opinion.
At level 5, this beast of a card comes with 4 melee damage, 4 speed which is increased to 5 with Kelya and 7 hp with Opportunity ability. Definitely a must have!

At position 4, we went with supply runner. I have a level 5 gold foil version of the card and it adds great synergy with Kelya as at level 5 the card has the ability Swiftness that further enhances the speed of all the allies by 1.
At this level, the card itself comes with ranged damage of 2, speed of 4 and hp of 5.

Next we have our card of the week Kulu Swimhunter at position 5.
As mentioned earlier, we are using a gold foil 1 bcx, level 3 version of the card.
With the bonus speed from Kelya and Supply Runner, the card has a total speed of 5, ranged damage of 2 and hp of 5.
This is quite handy of mana cost of 4.

At the last position we have selected a level 1 Wave Brood with 1 ranged damage and 1 speed that gets buffed to 3 but the most important stat of the card is the health pool of solid 12 combined with the ability Taunt
At the higher level the card becomes even better with Void and Return Fire

THE HIGHLIGHTS :

Round 1:

In the first round, our Wave Brood gets taken out my constant magic spam and the killing blow was from Coral Wraith.

Round 2:

Right at the start of round 2, our Diemonshark eliminates The Kraken and soon after our Deeplurker also takes revenge by taking out Coral Wraith.
Our Kulu Swimhunter also contributes in dealing damage to the front line of the enemy deck.
However, our Diemonshark gets eliminated by Ruler of the Seas.

Round 3:

The battle seems evenly poised at the start of round 3 as both the teams were down to 4 cards each.
But, our Djinn Oshannus gives us an advantage by taking out the Djinn Oshannus from the opponent's team. And soon, our Deeplurker also takes out the Sea Genie.

Round 4:

In round 4, our Supply Runner eliminates Ruler of the Seas and our team is closing on a victory.

Round 5:

This turns out to be the last round of the battle as our team drains out the hp of the last card from the enemy deck, Lobstradamus.
Soon, our Kulu Swimhunter does the final blow taking out the Lobstradamus giving our team a hard fought deserved victory.

THE LINK : You may watch the full battle here

DID MY STRATEGY WORK?
Absolutely! The plan was to protect our front line from the magic damage and sacrificing the Wave Brood while the rest of the team does damage to the enemy deck.
Though the Wave Brood was taken out in the very first round, it helped our Diemonshark to sustain long enough to deal serious damage.
Our card of the week, Kulu Swimhunter also did played part in dealing damage to the enemy front line and also getting the final kill of the battle.

Do I like the KULU SWIMHUNTER? Why or why not?
Yes, I do like the card and use it quite often even though it is only a level 3 card. It excels in battles with rule sets like

Fog of War
Back to Basics
Close Range
Little League

And I do plan on upgrading my Kulu Swinhunter once I get the opportunity.

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