Community engement Challenge - Try this one trick to make your crypt beetle awesome!

The crypt beetle is a not entirely inspiring card. At level one it has 1 attack, 1 speed, 1 shield and two health. The shield ablity means that 2 health might last a few hits, buuuut one or two hits from a magic attack and it's gone. It makes an okay front line in really low mana fights. (And honestly, okay is being generous in my experience.) I think outside of equalizer fights I rarely use it.

But then you throw in the equalizer effect and it's a great choice for 3 mana!

My opponent decided to go with the Cursed Windeku, and that meant everything had a starting HP of 9. Shield with 9 health, and -1 to magic from the summoner is a great choice. The hungry skull ending up with 9 health instead of it's wussy one hp is also nice.

Round three and the crypt beetle is still alive for now. But when it goes down, there is still quite a few beefy dudes waiting.

So a three mana starter card, soaked up 3 round of damage, which is awesome.

I would also like to give an honourable mention to this damage absorbing bloated riftwing. And the 17 health life sapper. It's silly.

If you'd like to watch the whole fight see it here https://splinterlands.com/battle/sl_1b08a1c13692c5577b05b35200dab424?ref=artofkylin

Thanks for reading!

And a question for you! What is your fav battle condition?