Splinterlands Engagement Challenge: Combo Chronicles! Marlai Singariel, Thanalorian Scion, and Daarg Deadblast

Every week there is a Splinterlands challenge that can be found in this week's post. I also encourage Splinterlands players to partake in the challenge because they get to learn about the game. In this week's challenge, we talk about a good combination that I use a lot in Modern.

Featured cards

Marlai Singariel is a water summoner that costs 6 mana. It gives +1 magic to all monsters, and increasing the level increases the maximum level of cards that can be on your side. I have been using this card quite a bit because magic is very powerful in the lower leagues. I managed to level this card to level 2, and I have noticed that has helped me a bit in matches.

Thanalorian Scion is a water splinter that costs 5 mana. This splinter starts with low health and speed, but it has high armor. It starts off with corrosive ward and void armor. It learns true strike at level 5. As it levels up, the speed and health never change, but that void armor ability is what makes this card great. At level 11, it's the equivalent of 11 health so long as the opponent does not have the shatter ability, even if the opponent is using magic monsters. I don't think the true strike does much on a magic monster, but I guess it might be useful if the opponent has phase.

Daarg Deadblast is a Rebellion water splinter that costs 6 mana. It has the ability weapons training and swiftness from the very first level. At level 2, it learns triage and at level 3, it learns dodge. As a support monster with the weapons training ability, I think it works well as it makes your own monsters faster.

Battles

You can find the first battle here. I had my summoner increase my magic damage, Thanalorian Scion as a backup tank, and Daarg Deadblast for the weapons training to the nonattacking monsters. Daarg is one of the best cards because it basically adds 6 damage per turn on those tanky monsters when you consider my summoner. I was able to easily win once those magic monsters started killing monsters.

You can find the second battle here. I used a similar strategy, but I used some low mana monsters instead due to the mana cap. It demolished my opponent.

You can find the third battle here. This was against an opponent with nearly maxed-level cards. I thought I was going to lose when I saw how fast my Thanalorian Scion died, but my high-stat supporting monsters pulled through for me.

Conclusion

The strategy is to use Marlai Singariel for the +1 magic, Thanalorian Scion as a tank or backup tank, and Daarg Deadblast as a weapons training monster on non-attacking monsters. Depending on the mana available, you can swap for lower mana cost monsters for the weapons training part. I showed that using lower mana monsters does reduce the chance of the monsters surviving when it is hit, but the damage stays the same. Another reason why Thanalorian Scion is great as a tank is due to the corrosive ward skill that reduces armor. Most opportunity monsters tend to be melee, so removing that armor can help in fights as well. These three cards work well, and I have been using them a lot in modern ranked battles to move up in the leagues. It is flexible, and you can adapt as you need to.

What did you think of this combination? Have you used it, and is there anything you would change to make this combination even more powerful?

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