A Very Horny Toad - Splinterlands Weekly Challenge

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What's up fellow summoners,

this week's challenge is about the Horny Toad! The Horny Toad is an UNTAMED edition card featuring the abilities reach and poison. Both of these abilities can be useful but let's delve into that later. I don't use horny toad too much since Manticore is a much better unit and it boasts much better health and attack for only 1 extra mana.
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Card Levels

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Horny toad's stats start of as meager and pretty much useless with its slow speed, low attack, and low health for a mana cost of 3. I usually use hirny toad to absorb an opportunity hit for my serpentine spy since it doesn't do much else. At higher levels though, it gets poison which does help the toad a lot in terms of usefulness. Otherwise, I prefer to stick with other more useful reach monsters such as my previously mentioned manticore.

Ruleset

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The ruleset for this battle is weak magic which means that magic attacks hit armor first before hitting health. The mana cap of 30 means there will be a lot of mid-mana monsters on the field.

Summoners and Monsters

Summoners

Daria Dragonscale

Daria is my best summoner yet and since I want to help horny toad's attack a bit, I will also add +1 melee to its attack.

Monsters

Serpent of the Eld

The serpent of the eld is a really useful monster with the ability of return fire and dodge. Along with high speeds and high attack, this is a monster to be feared.

Horny Toad

I placed it here to do reach damage but I am expecting it to die early because of its low health. Good to get off some damage though.

Mighty Dricken

Mainly here to flex but also a tank to protect my other monsters if my two main monsters die early.

Crustacean King

Very nice healer and an additional 1 damage can't hurt. Will keep my serpent alive for as long as possible.

Ruler of the Seas

Good blast monster and heavy magic damage monsters. Good for taking out weak second position monsters such as horny toad.

Water Elemental

Here for damage output and a defense against possible sneakers. Its dodge and high speeds makes it hard to hit.

Battle

Turn 1

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Gosh I didn't expect Horny toad to die this early in the game. THe blasts manage to get past my serpent of the eld and hit the horny toad. This is the major flaw of horny toad and why I don't use it; it is a very weak monster and is super easy to kill using blast. It did get a hit off though which is good and did some damage to the prismatic energy. Also managed to destroy the spineback turtle.

Turn 2

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My Serpent of the Eld was stunned the previous turn so I didn't manage to get far into the enemy team but I did manage to kill the prismatic energy. Glad I did that since Reflect magic is doing a number on my ruler.

Turn 3

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Managed to kill all his other troops but left his ruler at 1 health. Will end the game next turn.

Turn 4

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My water elemental got the final kill and ending the pretty one-sided game.

Conclusion

Horny toad SUCKS. That is my conclusion and I am going to be blunt with it. It did absolutely nothing in this match and a manticore would have been much much more helpful than the toad. It did some damage sure but other than acting as a meatshield, I see no uses for it. I suggest summoners use other reach monsters onstead of horny toad unless their horny toad has poison which can be a bit more useful. That is how I see horny toad. I may be wrong but that is my experience with it.

Thanks for reading my post guys and remember to BATTLE ON!

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Dude. I'm with ya.😂
I never pick the right ruleset or something.
And I also love the Manticore!

I have found a lot of people do love Mr. Horny... Mr. Toad... so it's interesting.

I think there are enough cards and different abilities that everything CAN have a place... it's a matter of if it works best for your strategies.

Love this game.

Great post. 🥰
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