Any card that has a cost of 8 mana+ is useful for high mana battles and so is the Octopider which has 4 Ranged Damage and 4 Speed on 7 Health at Level 5 with the Demoralize ability which can come in really useful. Any battle where it is likely for the opponent to play a lot of Melee cards is a good spot to have this card included also given the fact that the Beta Death summoner has the same ability for a double Demoralize effect
That is what pretty much this battle was about with Game rules of all Melee Monsters getting the Sneak ability while all non-flying monsters were getting at the end of each round. The combination of the Death Summoner & the Octopider by default gave the opponent -2 damage on Melee monsters while the Chain Golem in last position reduced it by 1 more making it pretty impossible to kill. My opponent also played the Chain Golem in last position. As for the other cards, I included 3 that had the fly ability Phantasm, the Corrupted Pegasus, & the Phantom Soldier also adding the Haunted Spirit which has self heal to counter the damage for it not being a flying monster.
Even if my opponent had all his monsters at a similar level, I likely would have always won the matchup so overall it was an ok matchup that was won fairly easy keeping all of my monsters alive.
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