Testing Rebellion monster -Meriput Magician

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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 discuss them in detail with strategies that best fit them. This week, we have a common Life unit, Meriput Magician, an interesting unit which can play a useful support role.

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

Meriput Magician

CARD
RARITY	Common
ELEMENT	Life
LEVEL
MANA COST	5 POINTS
ABILITIES/BUFFS	Tank Heal

Meriput Magician is a common life unit that came out during the recent Rebellion edition. It costs 5 mana to use and comes with some impressive stats. It deals magic attack damage and comes with 5 health and no extra armour of its own. But it is a good supporting unit as it has the 'Tank Heal' ability which helps the tank last even longer. I prefer to use it with a good, heavy tank and somewhere in the middle 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	Ilthain
Position 1	Nalara Geinek
Position 2	Chaos Agent
Position 3	Meriput Magician
Position 4	Prismologist
Position 5	Djinn Renova
Position 6	Pelacor Arbalest

It was a 40-mana cap battle with the "Equalizer" ruleset so the initial health of all the monsters was equal to that of the monster on either team with the highest base health.

All the elements were active during this battle. I went with Ilthian which gives the 'return fire' ability to all the friendly monsters.

It should not be a surprise that Nalara Geinek was my tank for this battle as it comes with an 'Amplify' ability which increases the return fire attack damage even more. It also has a huge health and comes with 3 extra armour of its own. All this cost just 9 mana.

The next one in my lineup was Chaos Agent. I used it in the second position and it only cost 1 mana. But due to the ruleset, it will receive more health and will prove to be a tough job to eliminate. All this just for 1 mana is just perfect.

Meriput Magician was placed in the third position, which costs 5 mana and deals 1 magic attack damage with good speed. Its 'tank heal' ability provides good support for my tank and can last even longer.

The next one was Prismologist, a strong-range attacker dealing 3 ranged attack damage and comes with a 'blast' ability which makes it even more lethal. It costs 8 mana for all this explosive power.

Djinn Renova was placed in the next position in my lineup. As you can see I focused more on magic attackers because of the extra health that the units were going to get from the ruleset. It costs 7 mana and deals heavy magic attack damage.

Last but not least was Pelacor Arbalast. It was another ranged attacker which dealt 2 ranged attack damage and cost just 6 mana. It has lower health but it was a good fit in this rule and it also comes with the 'double strike' ability which deals damage twice in each round making it very deadly.

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

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