Spirit hoarder was one of the most important monster in our previous Strategy Corner about Grund, you can check it here. Today I would like to present quite similar tactics, but this time with the help of the new soulbound card Iziar which can by used with life splinter.
Spirit Hoarder looks quite innocent, but in my opinion is a quite strong card. As a support character he offers triage at first level, so even in bronze. On second level he get dispel, which now become so much more important ability because it can remove martyr and bloodlust buffs. On higher level he additionally gets blind, which could be quite useful depending of the strategy and on a highest level his damage is significant with only 3 mana cost ratio.
In general, I like to use Spirit with magic Obsiadian low mana team, as additional damage dealer. Almost all earth magic monster are very slow, so he fits perfectly, and help burst the enemy in one turn.
The battle I have chosen, is maybe not the best example what this setup is capable of. Opponent completely avoid all traps we try to set up with return fire Ilthain ability, and Iziar with his void magic reduction skill.
In general I try to avoid using only melee attacks with Melee Mayhem ruleset, because opponent could be prepared for it, and can set up complete counter strategy.
Here, our opponent went completely all-in with with only melee type damage, so our only defense for this attack is shield ability of Chaos Knight. Let's see if it will be enough:
Round 2 just started, our taunt tank Iziar is still one the battlefield, despite so many heavy hitters on opposite team. Imagine how situation would look like if opponent will use magic or range :). Unfortunatly Grum is very strong tank, and with void ability almost all our magic damage is significantly reduce. Our only hope is Chaos Knigth with Giant Killer :)
Round 3, despite the heroic task of Spirit Hoarder to keep Iziar alive, he finally was down. Fortunately we still had resurrection, which give us more room for our Knight to do more damage. We luckily got some misses because of speed difference, so overall all monster are still on the battlefield.
Round 4, finally we got some casualties :). We killed Grum, now it should be so much easier for our magic team. Unfortunately, we lost our taunt tank Iziar, so the time of Chaos Knight is limited :).
Round5, our Chaos Knight is the MVP of this battle. We luckily dodge deathblow of Forgotten One :) and manage to kill one more target. Now the battle started to look not so bad.
Round 6, finally our here Chaos Knight is no more on the battlefield. With the help of Iziar he could survive a long time, and now it's just to late for opponent to recover. With some of the armor protection from Truthspeaker we should be able to kill Forgotten One before he can kill us :).
Final 9th round, we got some lucky misses, but it wouldn't change anything for the battle outcome. Finally, we were able to make the final blow. The fight was tough, but we won it :).
As I mentioned above, this fight wasn't a perfect example of what Spirit Hoarder + Iziar can do together. Opponent completely counter almost all of our afford for good defense, but we still was able with some luck win the fight. I'm not big fun of his strategy, because it can be easily countered with one strong monster with thorn ability in the front. Usually, it's just too obvious to go only melee monsters, but sometimes it could be effective. For this fight, we got some help of luck, but overall we almost were prepared for all the different attack. Let's talk about some options and what are the reason we want to use them.
Ilthain recently become of one my my favourite summoner. From all life splinter seems very versatile. Of course, Rahte guarantees nice bonuses but now with Ilzair void ability you dont need to rely on Rathe and got some other nice options. For this strategy Ilthain suits just perfectly, he gives more crucial speed, and a nice bonus with return fire if the opponent tries this type of strategy.
I think the new Iziar card gives life splinter another life :). The strategy, which was presented today seems quite solid, and guarantee nice protection from a most form of attack. Core line-up is 3 monsters, so you have quite a flexible option for the rest of your team. It's for a sure strategy for higher mana matches because Iziar cost 11 mana, but I think he is worth trying. Spirit Hoarder fits perfectly with triage, unfortunately, on lower levels, life splinter does not offer any other monster with this ability. You can still try the new dragon summoner Lily Shieldpaw, we talked about her in our last Strategy Corner. Additional triage could be very useful, I for sure will try that option. Please, If you have any fights where you have used Iziar , let me know how he performs in comments below.
During writing this post I have just received result of one of tournament battle, so here is another example:
Silent summoner was the ruleset, so unfortunately we couldnt use Ilthain abilities, but still it was quite easy battle with our setup.
I hope you like this kind of battle and strategy presentation. More strategy analysis, discussion, and prediction games you can find on my Wednesday Splinterlands.tv stream. You can check the schedule here
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I come to some idea, I hope you will like it and participate. Every week I will publish one battle, and your goal is to point out first victim of the battle and who will be the winner. This game is exactly the same as my prediction game which I run on my Wednesday Splinterlands.tv stream. I know that not everyone can attend the stream, so I hope you will still have fun in that way. More about rules you can read here.
Among all participants who get correct answer I will randomly (probably on my Wednesday stream) choose one winner.
The prize of first blog prediction game for lucky winner will be the legendary card:
Here we got the battle, of course with our today's here: Spirit Hoarder:
Game instruction:
Try to point out which monster will die first on the battlefield and who win the battle
- t - top player
- b - bottom player
- number - order counting from the first position
Examples:
t2b = monster on second position of top player die first, bottom player wins
b6t = monster on sixth position of bottom player die first, top player wins
t3t = monster on thiird position of top player die first, top player wins
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I wish I had Izair but unfortunately I have a perfect zero bcx
and i play gold league.
My alt who plays in the bronze league got it of course :)
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thanks for kind word, today was not my best performance, if you interested you can participate with prediction game, please check the post ;), GL :D
Great Work Max!!!
thx :) stream was a mess :D
hello maxmaka nice strategy on using the new soulbound cards i quite love the new taunt life soulbound legendary cause its useful with that void armor.
t1b
thx and thanks for participation :)
b5b if reverse speed ruleset, t1b if not.
hard to predict without ruleset but i guess it makes it more fair!
it was not intended :) I fixed it, you can now check you answer with all ruleset revealed :) thx for participating
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thx, please go for prediction game :D
Hey Max! B5T.
b2t?
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t1b if 3speed dont fail against 1 speed. ign caminomechilles
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