🌊Strong Water Team🌊

Swamp spitters hail from Skegmire, located on the Wraitholme River in the Fenmoor Basin of Praetoria's Shimmering Coasts. These terrapin tortisians are deadly killers and spend their lives learning the martial arts and using the blowgun. As youths, they hone their skills while hunting in the basin and its Bog of Wails. Most swamp spitters remain in Skegmire their entire lives, but others journey beyond the reaches of the city's swamps, turning to mercenary work and offering their services as assassins to those that can afford them. They are deadly at what they do and take their trade very seriously. There isn't a target that has escaped the dart of a swamp spitter, and only a fool would refuse to pay the bounty they had agreed upon for a task well done.

It's been a while since my last post, fellow SplinterFreaks. How y'all doing? How's your reward card collection going? I've kinda lost interest in the game since my mostly MAX-level Chaos Legion cards have been retired to the Modern League. It took me years to power up those cards and learn what works best, and my post today is about four Chaos water cards I've found win when put together, and so did Archmage bot.

I don't seem to win much in Modern and don't see the point of spending hundreds of dollars leveling up the cheap Rebellion archons as they will only be playable in Modern for less than a year from now and even when I rent MAX-level archons, I still don't win as much as I used to, but my Wild battles are doing well as I am now making it to the leaderboards sometimes for the first time since playing the game. I'm sure a lot of players hated that DEC rewards got replaced with GLINT, but I would've just spent those DEC on cards, so it makes no difference to me, and since so many people got pissed and left the game after the change, the competition is much softer. I must admit I do miss getting DEC in chests. That was fun, but too many people must've extracted from the game. I can't remember if it was 200,000 or 20,000 DEC I opened in a reward chest once, but I do remember my wife and I jumping for joy, high-fiving, and hugging each other after that reveal. My boss recently asked me what I was doing on my phone, and I let him open a chest, and it was my first Gold Legendary card ever, but I sadly haven't won any of those sexy Black-foil cards yet. I'm hoping I will one day.

The game is pretty much on autopilot for me at this point. I've staked enough SPS to earn the GLINT I need to get all the reward cards so I've stopped staking SPS and send my rewards to @RapidSPS and they make it so I have enough liquid SPS for me to cover the season pass and slowly refill my Land's staked DEC, so I've not needed to make any Hive posts either. I still curate by liking Splinterlands posts once my account gets to 100% and with almost a million SPT staked, I can give around 300 SPT per like. I was hoping it would help build my follower count, but I'm still stuck at 200 followers. I don't think my writing sucks or is hateful or anything, so it just must be boring. SPT is pretty worthless right now, and the interface is worse than the OG layer one Hive page. If they ever improve SplinterTalk, I'll be sitting pretty as a SPT whale, but it's a nothing coin right now. I can earn plenty of SPT just by liking stuff, so I only post when I feel like it, which seems to be about once a month these days. I look forward to the day when I can make posting on Hive a full-time job and post about traveling and movie reviews, and not just Splinterlands gameplay, but with the price of Hive at about a quarter, it's just a hobby and way of earning DEC for new cards for now. I remember Matt said you need about 10,000 Hive to make things work, so I'll start putting in more effort into posting and putting my Splinterlands rewards towards Hive once I pass the 5,000 HP milestone. I've put almost all of my earned HBD to DEC, so now it's time for the game to pay back its parent and Hive up, and also reduce my KE score. I asked Grok AI to read ALL of my Hive posts and recommend how to improve my writing and what my weak points were, and it said my spelling and grammar were fine but I tended to just describe things without injecting much emotion or having consistent flow in my language so hopefully I'll be a better writer in the future now. At least I don't rely on ChatGPT like everyone else does these days. Anyways, this post is supposed to be about a combo of cards that works well in battle, so let's get to it!

Baakjira is a card that I had desired for many years. A MAX-level copy was very expensive, but since Chaos prices have plummeted in price I've been able to MAX him out. Chaos cards may have lost their USD values, but that doesn't mean they've lost effectiveness in battle, and Baakjira is a good example of that. You can't find another card that has so much health, can self-heal, and comes at the low-mana price of just 6. Even when Baakjira is just a non-attacking card, it can be an impassable meat shield, but give it some weapons training and it becomes a truly OP card. It also works well as a rear or mid formation meatshield, and you can train it to shoot arrows or magic attacks too. I have a feeling that Baakjira will be a META card well into the future.

Even if Kulu Mastermind didn't provide weapons training, it would kick ass with its melee opportunity attack of 4 or 5 that attacks your enemy's weakest card. It also has a shield, making it hard to kill with melee and ranged attacks. Since Kulu Mastermind and Baakjira are both water cards, you'll see them paired together often.

I don't need to tell anyone what an invaluable card Merdaali Guardian is. If there were just one Wild Water card, a new player needs: it would be her. For only 3 mana, she both heals and restores armor at level 5. I almost always have some kind of healer when I go to battle and she is by far my favorite one.

Finally, there is the cool Ninja Turtle-looking Swamp Spitter. I remember when we were in the last bull run, and Splinterlands was going to make a deal with a major IP, but it ended up not happening. Looking at Swamp Spitter's artistic style makes me wonder if the deal was with whoever owns the Ninja Turtles' IP, and this is the team's way of giving them the finger for not going through with the deal. Anyways, it's one of the most used cards in the game because there are over a million copies. It repairs armor, kills giants, and has a decent ranged attack. Whatever the story behind Swamp Spitter's design, I am proud to have earned enough GLINT to MAX him out from gameplay alone.

Thanks for reading about my favorite water cards today. I hope this was useful or at least engaging for you to read. Have a good one and good luck on pulling those black cards!