Splinterlands Battle: Waiting Game with Temporal Master

Good day, Splinterlands! Splinterlands' Share Your Battle Weekly Challenge is back! Check out their post for the SHARE YOUR BATTLE Weekly Challenge! TEMPORAL MASTER if you want to join in too! Let me tell you about one of my most recent battles with Temporal Master. I'll admit that while using Life Element, this card isn't one of my favorites. However, there are times where this card, when used with the appropriate cards, might benefit your lineup. How did I use Temporal Master to win? Let's look at it.

The Modern Format ruleset for this fight is Little League wherein only monsters and summoners which have a mana cost of 4 or less may be used. The maximum amount of mana allowed is 27. The available elements are Water, Death and Life. Temporal Master has the ability Recharge which makes this card wait for another turn before it attack, however, the damage will be x3. During a turn in which Temporal Master is not attacking, this card is very vulnerable to damage from the opponent. And you might think that this is quite infuriating.

I used Level 3 Lorna Shine as my Summoner to offset the time that Temporal Master is recharging. The Divine Shield ability given by Lorna Shine will negate any first damage that will be inflicted to my monsters. This includes Ranged, Melee and Magic Attacks. My monster in the first position is a Level 2 Xenith Monk which has the Heal ability. I am hoping that the Xenith Monk will provide more assistance to my back line attackers by holding its position using its Heal ability. I also used a Level 3 Time Mage with 2 Magic Attack and has the Slow ability. I then used a Level 3 Venari Crystalsmith with Tank Heal ability to fully support Xenith Monk. I put my Temporal Master in the 4th Position to be safe from frontal direct attacks and monsters with Sneak ability. In this way, it would have more time to recharge and attack. My monsters in the 5th and 6th positions are my backline attackers. I have a Level 3 Celestial Harpy with its Opportunity ability and a Level 2 Uraeus with its Sneak ability. Uraeus is at the farthest because it has an armor that can negate physical attacks.

The plan is to use Lorna Shine's Divine Shield for all my monsters, especially Temporal Master, to survive longer and deal more damage to the enemy. The enemy has a combination of Melee and Ranged attack monsters. The enemy tank has Shield ability which will lessen the physical attacks of my monsters. Good thing that I have monsters with magic attack so this will not affect them. Here in Round 1, Temporal Master goes into Charging mode and will not attack.

In the end of Round 1, enemy Tortisian Fighter left with 1 HP. If Temporal Master did not go to Charging mode, Tortisian Fighter would have been eliminated in Round 1. So this might be one of the disadvantage of having the Recharge ability.

In Round 2, my Xenith Monk was annihilated already and Temporal Master completed its recharge and attacked Tide Biter with a whooping 3 Damage. In just 2 Round, it inflicted 3 damage already whereas if it attack each round, it will inflict 2 damage only. Cool trade off I guess.

In Round 3, Temporal Master goes into Charging mode again. I thought I will lose in this battle because my monsters upfront are getting annihilated one by one.

However in Round 4, Temporal Master made a comeback and defeated enemy Uraeus in 1 hit. Now, I still have my Venari Crystalsmith that can heal itself and has Celestial Harpy as my backline attacker.

Moving to Round 7, Temporal Master goes into Charging mode again the enemy has 2 Ranged Attack monsters.

In Round 8, enemy Kulu Swimhunter was already defeated as well as my Venari Crystalsmith. Since the only monster on the enemy side is a ranged attack monster, this spells out my victory.

I won and earned 6,148 Reward Points and 0.196 SPS in this battle. And my rating increased by 24.

The plan to delay the damage from the opponent worked well because of Lorna Shine's Divine Shield. And that also helped my Temporal Master have more turns to recharge and deal more damage afterwards. This battle demonstrated how strong Temporal Master could be if you have other monsters that will support it while charging. It would also be better to deal 3 magic attack instead of 1 magic attack against monsters with Void Ability.