This week's Splinterlands Challenge of the Week is to share a battle featuring the most excellent sneaky Feral Spirit.
This is one of the Beta cards that I maxed out during the TH Bot rage quit sell-off, and at L10 he's pretty fearsome - 4 damage and fast, with sneak, and not too bad health for three mana either, meaning he can handle a thorny defence fairly easily if you play him with triage, which the life splinter can offer easily enough!
The Feral is one of the few cards which has the wonderful feature of doing more damage than its mana, which is something I really like!
The battle below features the Feral playing a pretty major role!
The Rule Set and Line Up
- 29 Mana - pretty much bang on for at least one 3 mana card
- No armour, perfect for sneak and opportunity as no defence against melee!
Summoner - Darla
- Lord A - shield ability where there's a no shield rule set!
- The Bard - I had one left over and swiften supports my main attacks
- Feral - sneak part 1
- Dragon Jumper - opportunity, also an awesome card.
- SS Assassin - Sneak part 2.
- Healer - triage incase of thorns but also a bit of a sneak defence.
Did my strategy work?
Beautifully, to see it in action click here!
- Round 1 - Carnage - easier to show you!
OK he took out my healer at the back, BUT.... I'm one for one with 2 sneaks and 1 opportunity!
Round 2 - the Feral takes out his shark, Dragon Jumper opts for Lord A, and the assassin poisons the Cube.
By round 4 it's game over!
How important was The Feral?
Well, he took out 2 cards all by himself, and he's the highest damage card for the mana.
All in all I think this battle shows you how to play a no shields battle - sneak and opportunity, butffed with inspire and swiften.
It would have been interesting to see how effective this would have been against fire?!?
Final Thoughts: The Feral - worth levelling up?
For me it's a big phat YES! This is a great card to have in your Life splinter arsenal - he's really useful combined with the Silvershield Assassin when the rule sets favour melee and sneak attacks.
I picked my Feral up for CHEAP in the recent BOT sale, I think a maxed one was around the $20 mark, it may have been less.
The problem you've got now is that even a level 9 will cost you a cool $50!
So maybe if you want one, a good strategy is to go for a level seven, where he tips up to two damage....
Although if you MUST play sneak, you might find cheaper options in other splinters!
If you don't yet play Splinterlands, why not give it a go?
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