Testing Rebellion monster - Gobson Sniper

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The Rebellion edition is the latest edition of cards in splinterlands and there are a lot of new summoners and monsters which came out with this one. Each week I focus on different monsters and talk about them in detail with strategies that best fit them. This week, we have a Rare Earth unit, Gobson Sniper, a powerful ranged attacker that can snipe off units easily from the back of the lineup.

Let's start by looking at its stats in detail.

Gobson Sniper

CARD
RARITY	Rare
ELEMENT	Earth
LEVEL	4
MANA COST	5 POINTS
ABILITIES/BUFFS	Snipe, Cripple

Gobson Sniper is a Rare Earth unit that came out during the recent Rebellion edition. It is a mid mana cost unit costing just 5 mana to use but it comes with some impressive stats. It deals significant ranged attack damage and decent speed. Its 'Snipe' ability helps deal damage to the enemy unit with ranged, magic or no attack which are mostly hidden behind a heavy tank. So, this unit can snipe off those units. It also comes with the 'cripple' ability which lowers the max health of its attacked unit. Being a ranged attacker I would put it somewhere at the end of the lineup.

Let me show you how it performs using a battle as an example.

My Lineup

This is my lineup for the battle

Position	Summoner/Monsters
Summoner	Obsisian
Position 1	Grund
Position 2	Mycelic Slipspawn
Position 3	Regal Peryton
Position 4	Goblin Psychic
Position 5	Queen Mycelia
Position 6	Gobson Sniper

It was a 43-mana cap battle with the "Target Practice" ruleset which gives all ranged and magic units the 'snipe' ability.

All except Dragon elements were active during this battle. I went with Obsidian as my summoner which increases the magic attack damage of my units by 1.

My tank in this battle was Grund, it is an impressive unit dealing 4 melee attack damage and having good health. It comes with a 'double strike' ability which, as the name suggests, can strike twice in the same round. This makes it quite lethal and all this at just 10 mana was not bad at all.

Next in my lineup was Mycelic Slipspawn. It was a mage that had a lot of health and an interesting ability, taunt, which made all the units attack this unit first. Not only that, but it also had the 'forcefield' ability. So, it takes a lot of time to eliminate this unit.

Regal Peryton was placed in the third position, which costs 5 mana and deals 2 magic attack damage with incredible speed. It's a 'flying' ability for him it dodges more attacks. So, it was a no-brainer for me to choose in this battle.

The next one was Goblin Psychic, a healer that supports my tank as it comes with a 'tank heal' ability. It costs only 6 mana and deals 2 magic attack damage.

Queen Mycelia was placed in the fifth position, it was yet another mage but with an interesting ability. The ability named, protect, gave all the friendly units +2 armour and this made the entire lineup sturdier, especially against melee and ranged attackers.

Last but not least was Gobson Sniper. It was the only ranged attacker in my lineup. Costing just 5 mana and dealing a huge amount of range attack with good speed and decent health, it added a lot to the striking power of my lineup. It comes with some interesting abilities too. One of these abilities is 'Camouflage' by which this unit can't be directly targeted unless it comes at the first position so its relatively lower health was not a problem at all.

Now that my lineup was set, it was time for battle.

I will share my battle here, which I have uploaded to YouTube.