Splinterlands Battle Of The Week: Low Mana Cap and Tank Heal

With the ruleset, mana cap and element pick that I got I needed a summoner that was highest possible level with a lowest possible mana cost as Silence Summoners was active there buffs or abilities did not matter at all
Second thing that I had to keep in mind was that the mana cap for this battle was so low I needed to play a element that had I good low mana cost monster in it
So in my case I went with earth element as I had a great team in mind there
And also because I had 4 mana cost level 4 summoner there which is decent for my rank and this battle

Goblin Psychic was my main tank for this battle
Main reason I like Goblin Psychic here a lot is his Tank Heal + Affliction ability combo
Both of these abilities were really good, one to keep my tank alive and the other to counter my enemy playing any healer monsters
Also as Goblin Psychic was a 6 mana cost monster he also had some quite decent stats especially when you take out the melee monsters as Keep Your Distance was active
Tank Heal - Each round, restores 1/3 of max health (rounded down) to the allied unit in the first position
Affliction - 50% chance to apply Afflicted after a successful attack. Afflicted units cannot be healed

Mushroom Seer was here mainly because of his ability
As Keep Your Distance was active and the mana cap was quite low I figured my enemy might try to play more magic based comp and Mushroom Seer with his Silence was going to counter it perfectly
And he also had quite okei stats for being a 5 mana cost magic monster so even if I managed to miss my prediction I would still get a quite decent monster for my 5 mana
Silence - -1 magic power to all enemy units

Next up was my lowest mana cost 2 magic damage monster I had available to play
Firstly for 3 mana Djinn Biljka has amazing stats and that was main thing what I was after for
The second thing was that he had Void which would possible make him a great tank to put in front of my team but I did not do that because I was little afraid that my enemy might play ranged not magic and that would have taken a big chunk of my damage away really quickly, so I played him in the back of 100% damage in mind
Camouflage - Cannot be directly targeted unless in the first position. Does not affect indirect attacks (e.g. Scattershot, Blast splash damage, or Trample) or Wingbreak
Void - 50% less damage (rounded up) from magic attacks or 0 damage from magic attacks of 1 power

For last but least was of course Furious Chicken
As I was out of mana and 3 open slots to fill just why not play him
And the reason why I played him in the back was that I was little afraid my enemy might go death and play Usut with Bloodlust and if my Furious Chicken was in the first position that could be an easy takedown for him and make this battle so much harder for me
But playing him in the back was not a total waist as my enemy still might play a magic monster with Sneak and that way my Furious Chicken would tank at least a single attack making him a great monster to play here for free

Already after seeing the starting board I was quite confident I would win because his whole team was kind unleveled
Because his team was unleveled I sadly missed my Mushroom Seer pick as my enemy did not have any magic monster who had 2+ damage on them I could debuff
But that aside I just felt like I had more damage and more hp compared to my enemy
But my predictions could still be off by a mile so lets start the battle and have a look

After the first round the board was still looking quite the same as in the start
I still had my entire board while my enemy already lost his first monster
But anything could still happen so lets keep watching

After 2nd Round I was starting to look really happy as it seemed like my Tank Heal was doing its job and my first monster was still alive while my enemies team was falling fast
In the second round I took down another one of my enemies monster and damage the next one to a point where he was also going to fall in the start of the next round
Lets hope for the best and keep watching

The battle board looked really good for me at at this point and the battle was 100% decided as my enemy only had a single monster left
The 3rd round worked out really really great for me and I managed to take down three of my enemies monsters in a single round
And on top of that my entire team was still alive and fighting strong to the victory
Now I just needed to wait for the start of the next and final round and then face my victory

This battle was definitely heavily one sided but still fun to watch
The strategy to take away from this battle is the basic Tank Heal + some kind of debuff ability combo in a low mana cap battle
This way your enemy just simple does not have the damage to take down your first tank and you can chip down his team one by one
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