Silent Sha-Vi: Sneak Meta Monster

For this battle challenge, we have the silent sha-vi. Really enjoy using this monster on the death squad and makes for a very formidable play against heavy magic teams with tank heals. The art is really quite awesome as well! For a harry potter fan like myself, this screams Voldemort's snake for me for some reason. Now that we have covered my enjoyment with the card, we will now examine the stats for it.

Silent Sha-Vi

The viper is a DPS monster with high damage for the mana cost as well as fairly high speed. More importantly, you get three melee damage at bronze level making it a very effective monster at the lower levels and bronze tournaments. The cripple at level 6 is an interesting ability and helpful with all the heals and triage we see at higher levels of gold and diamond. Lastly, the piercing is really great to have at the highest level as you do not want four damage going to one annoying shield. Lastly, the health per mana cost is quite great and makes the viper a solid sneak block. Here is a battle using this great sneak play and showing off the sha-vi's power. Link to the full battle is as follows: https://splinterlands.com/?p=battle&id=sl_a320979398a4d35246d5ec82375fe448

Round 1

We have an earthquake and enrage matchup in this one. My opponent had a propensity to play blue magic so that was what I was expecting. When I expect magic, playing thaddeus with a sneak play has worked quite well for me as a counter. As round 1 plays out, he takes out a few of my throw away monsters to build up my riftwing health. My sneak monsters go to work eliminating his ice pixie and taking out the venari shield. This was important given the earthquake will now do damage to the wavesmith.

Round 2

One of my sneak monsters goes down with the earthquake damage but more importantly my sha-vi was enraged and his oshannus has no shield for protection anymore. The viper is up to five damage now and quickly takes care of the wavesmith while my uraeus deals with his distraction of the chicken. My riftwing continues to gain health and be a great tank up front in this ruleset.

Round 3

After the earthquake damage hits, it is all down to my sha-vi and riftwing to battle the oshannus. The enraged melee boost is a great help here as I do heavy damage to oshannus leaving him with three health after this round. From there, it is all over. Earthquake damage finishes off my opponent and my riftwing is left with plenty of health.

In my opinion, this is a must have card to level up for any serious player in this game at bronze and silver. A card I really see only gaining in value over time. Thank you all for reading and please upvote or comment if you enjoyed the content.