Splinterlands: Martyr works out well in Noxious Fumes

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

Rule Set, Battle, and Plan

The ruleset this time is Noxious Fumes, Fire & Regret, and Going the Distance. This means that only ranged monsters can be used, and all monsters start off poisoned and they have the return fire ability. There is also 43 mana available, and I can use any splinter splinter except for life.

Splinter	Mana Cost	Position	Reason
Drake of Arnak	4	Summoner	+1 Armor
Zyvax Vuul	8	1st	Flying and Recharge
Ettin Spearman	8	2nd	Piercing
Firecaller	5	3rd	Martyr
Pyrewatch Devil	3	4th	Lifeleech
Venari Marksrat	3	5th	Marytr
Sarius	3	6th	Bloodlust
Total Mana:	34

I use Drake of Arnak as my summoner for the +1 armor. Zyvax Vuul is my tank with flying and recharge. This will let it dodge some hits and the recharge works well as the return fire won't hurt it the first turn. Then I have Ettin Spearman as my backup tank with its decent health. I have two martyr monsters in the third and fifth spots to buff up my monsters. Pyrewatch Devil is in the 4th spot with life leech in between those two monsters as it can survive a bit longer if it increases its health and my last spot is a monster with bloodlust. The ruleset this time is tricky, and there isn't much I can do as I just want to outlive my opponent (ranged attacks are countered).

Round 1

At first glance, I think that this match can go either way. I do think that I have the advantage due to the martyr monsters in my lineup, but anything could happen. The reduced damage from my opponents summoner will hurt a bit, but it also reduces the counter damage that I would take.

Round 2

I have lost 3 monsters, but my opponent only lost 2. However, poison will kill off 3 of his monsters this turn, so the match is mine. I won because those martyr monsters died and buffed up my monsters. It also added back in some armor on my monsters, so that they would survive longer.

I ended up winning this match later that round, just as I expected. If I missed all my attacks, it would have been a draw, but I didn't miss.

Conclusion

The battle this time played out exactly how I thought it would. With the ruleset, there wasn't any reason to focus on damage when it gets countered back at you. So I went with a delaying strategy, and the martyr monsters worked exactly like I thought it would. It allowed my monsters to live long enough and get the win by outlasting my opponent.

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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