Splinterlands | Taking Sides Challenge

This week another fun game rule in the Share Your Battle Challenge which now also is called 'Battle Mage Secrets" in Splinterlands. This is the Taking Sides Rule.

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When I get the taking sides rule, my main though always instantly goes out to how I can get Armor on my monsters. Each splinter class cards have their own strenght but the one I never end up choosing is Fire because that is the hardest one to get armor on your monsters. Aside from this, I mainly look at what some on the most powerfull & fun class cards are th build a deck around. These usually are the Ruler of The Seas, The Queen Mycelia, The Sacred Unicorn, the Ravenwood Warde, or the Vruz.

A lot however depends on the other game rules that are on. For the battle this week these were Odds Out & Eathquake for which the Earth Splinter class cards seemed to be the best choice since it has multiple good odds mana cost monsters with the Fly Ability.

With only 14 Mana to spent there were limited options and the 2 cards I wanted to get in were the Pelacor Mercenary and the Screeching Vulture which left just 1 mana to be used and I choose the Mycelic Morphoid putting it in 1st place knowing it might do some thorns damage and absorb some damage as it was not going to survive the earthquake damage.

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My opponent had a very similar idea also playing the Pelacor Mercenary but instead opting to combine it with a martyr ability monster to get its stats up. My strategy ended up to be a bit better which got me the win on this one. I always like these battles where both players have similar ideas executed with a slight variation.

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Full Battle Replay

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Previous Weekly Challenges

-	Super Sneak	Stampede	What Doesn't Kill	Wands Out
Silenced Summoners	Rise Of The Commons	Reverse Speed	Odd Ones Out	Noxious Fumes
Melee Mayham	Lost Magic	Lost Legendaries	Little League	Keep Your Distance
Holy protection	Heavy Hitters	Healed Out	Going The Distance	Fog Of War
Fog Of War	Fire & Regret	Explosive Weaponry	Even Stevens	Equal Opportunity
Equalizer	Earthquake	Counterspell	Close Range	Broken Arrows
Briar Patch	Back To Basics	Armored Up	Aimless	Aim True
Spirit Hoarder	Dragons	Magi Necrosi	Dax Paragon	Grund
Nerissa Tridawn	Leginonnaire Alvar	Djinn Inferni	Dragons	Cursed Windeku

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