Splinterlands: Delaying your attacks so your opponent damages themselves in Collateral Damage

Splinterlands is a complex game, and it allows for various cards and strategies. Each fight is different as there are various rulesets applied, and this can give specific cards an advantage depending on how you use them. In this post, I talk about a battle where I did won because I had a better strategy.

Rule Set, Battle, and Plan

rule set.png

The rulesets this time are Armored Up and Collateral Damage. This means that all monsters gain +2 armor and the reckless ability. There is also 29 mana available, and I can use earth or dragon splinter.

Splinter	Mana Cost	Position	Reason
Underboss Fabino	5	Summoner	+2 melee or poison
Halfling Refugee	1	1st
Lurking Puffer	2	2nd	Corrosive Ward
Mantaroth	11	3rd	Shield and Armored Strike
Pallus	8	4th	Flying and Reach
Total Mana:	27

The focus of this lineup is to keep my monsters alive while dealing damage and outlasting my opponent. My archon is Underboss Fabino for the +2 melee damage for 2 units. My tank is Halfling Refugee, and my backup tank is Lurking Puffer. Finally, I have Mantaroth and Pallus. My plan is to let my first two monsters tank damage and finish off the remaining monsters with Mantaroth and Pallus.

Round 1

round 1.png At first glance, I think that this match can go either way, but I have an advantage in an extended battle as my opponent just kills off his own team.

Round 5

round 5.png A few rounds later, my opponent and me is left with 2 monsters, but my monsters are stronger than my opponent.

I won later that round.

Conclusion

I won the match because my strategy worked out. Letting my opponent kill himself, then finishing off the rest with Mantaroth and Pallus worked out great. My archon also increased their damage, so they were the perfect finishers in this match of Collateral Damage.

You can see my entire match here.

What did you think of my match? Was there anything you would have done differently? I think it is quite interesting to see how different players use the same card.

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Comments · 6

@pizzabot(60)· 2d

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@tortangkahoy(57)· 2d

Waiting for the enemy team to self-destruct was a fun to watch

@hatdogsensei(69)· 3d

Letting the enemy team kill themselves was a brilliant move

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@josediccus(83)· 3d

You can never go wrong fielding and playing the mantaroth. It wasn't just a shield, it acted as a tank too, took the hits and allowed the card with the reach ability to keep dealing damage, very good strategy.

@atnazo(78)· 3d

This is good strategy and using cards with no attack just to wait a little bit longer can help with that! 👊😎

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