Share Your Battle, Weekly Challenge, A Meteor of Pizza!
The beauty and the chaos of a meteor shower coming through this week for the Share you Battle Challenge over at Splinterlands! Another nod to the art department on this one, it is just amazing too look at, the detail, the swords, just yes please!
In all honesty, this is not a card I use very often, yet, one more level and it becomes a better deal! The 5 mana is hard to fit into many fights, the 1 ranged damage is not a big thing, the 5 speed is nice, the 5 health as well, a decent card, just not in my lineups very often. The main reason for this the ability, Scattershot, so it hit monsters randomly, rather than be focused, I like the focused aspect of my damage more than the scatterness of it all.
Before we get to the battle, let’s look at the history and the lore that has been written about the Gem Meteor (by Splinterlands.com):
When the cosmos was borne into creation and the stars were placed into the heavens, everything had its place and travellers crossed the known worlds by the shapes they had joined together in the sky. As centuries passed, some of these stars were destroyed, either striking other objects or simply their light dying away, obliterated into tiny pieces. Meteors lit up the night for evermore, tracing lines in the blackness as they shot through the sky.
Astronomers have studied this phenomenon for many years and attribute the trailing light to a gathering of crystal dust upon the meteor. A crystal that holds great value when it falls to the land and is acquired by the people. But then chaos arrived, angry that mortals should benefit from such riches thrown from the heavens. Uul breathed life into these dead rocks and created the Gem Meteor, a creature that soars through the sky and flings crystal shards from its body at anyone unfortunate enough to get in its way. These crystalline missiles splinter and crack upon impact, ricocheting into everything nearby and inflicting devastating damage. Sometimes the meteorites descend into such a frenzy that they become completely indiscriminate about who or what they fire their shards at.
Followed by a story:
Lorcan peered up at the night sky. Pulling the shemagh away from his mouth, he breathed in the cold air. The stars were unusually bright this night and he could trace the plough easily in the blackness between them. Glancing back at the spice train behind him, he waved them on and started down a long dune. The trading post was close.
He wasn’t even halfway down the slope when a cry arose from behind. Men shouting for people to take cover and to look out from above. He crouched beside his camel and stared wide-eyed at the sky, desperately looking for any danger. But all he could see was a shooting star, trailing above them. Then to his astonishment it turned in the air and started to descend on their position. Moments later the crystal shards came and all chaos was let loose.
Explosions lit up the trading caravan, bright flashes of light as crystal missiles were indiscriminately flung in all directions. Screams of the wounded and dying filled the night air, and panicked animals struggled to break free of their harnesses to escape the disorder. Lorcan managed to glimpse two white burning eyes and a mouthful of long fangs as the hostile creature flew by. And then it was gone again, as quickly as it had come, flying away through the night sky until it was merely a shimmering line across the blanket of night. But when Lorcan looked to his people again, they were in complete disarray, many of them lying dead on the cold sands.
The battle that we are examining for this one is a low mana cap at 15, plus:
Explosive Weaponry: All Monsters have the Blast ability
This rule set really does help with the Gem Meteor, it really can do a lot of damage.
Here is the quick link to the battle, from the Modern Silver League: (Link) however, I will break it down, then you might want to watch again.
First up, the Summoner:
I decided to go water on this one for the blast, the extra amor means they can hang around longer the speed means that they will hit faster, which helps to take down the many monsters that pop up.
The front line was the Cruel Sethropod:
I use this card a lot actually, at 3 mana, but with 4 health and 4 armor, it sticks around for awhile.
The next card is a filler card to help take some of that blast damage:
Using 0 mana this becomes a necessity with the low mana fights, but then allow it to absorb 2 hits, that becomes very useful as well.
The card of the hour is next:
The health and the speed really help on this one, so that I can take damage from the back a little bit, but then also after the Fiend dies I can take damage from the front while keeping my last card alive. Then the Scattershot ability hopefully will take them out quickly, or at least chip away at 3 monsters every
Lastly, we have the Pelacor Bandit:
I love this reward card, the 4 speed, 2 damage, only heighted by Kelya, awesome, but the sneak, means it takes them out before it gets hit! The flying also helps with this monster as well, keep those misses up!
My strategy worked on this one, but the star of the fight really is my Pelacor Bandit, they missed him 3 times, which means less damage being done to me, that is what I needed to happen!
I would pick up some packs, it is great to pull this card from there for the Collection Power and it does work well in some niche situations.
Overall, this was a really good battle for me, and when you are watching a battle, you always need some Pizza! If you are looking for a great area of Positivity along with a great community, com join the Pizza Family!
You can find them here: Awesome Pizza Discord
Remember to reach across the aisle and talk to someone that might be different than you, you might be amazed at the person you find!
I do want to say thank you for reading all of this and have a wonderful week!
Dr. Kqaos
Photos come from PowerPoints stock image, Bitmoji with Splinterlands logo on top of it, or my own screen shots of Splinterlands, along with the image that they provided for the Weekly Challenge.
Thanks for sharing! - @alokkumar121
