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Lore

Banished from Below 3 of 5 - A massive race of rat-like people called venari have lived in the Strite for thousands of years. They are skilled technicians and mechanics who can make advanced devices and tools the likes of which Splinterlanders have never seen. The venari control powerful forms of magic that they have synthesized from the minerals and mana flows of the Strite. Through their complex field of science called smithing, they have been able to create and recreate many types of natural and magical phenomena from any magical element.

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Overview

This week's Battle Challenge features the River Nymph and I was trying hard to use her, but unfortunately it didn't work. She is very situational and there are many better cards in the game for four mana, so I have decided to share a battle with one of my favorite Rare Reward card, which I love from the beginning of my journey into this wonderful universe.

I have tried to pick a battle, which has a card that has a similar role than the River Nymph, but he does exactly the opposite. The card is the Venari Wavesmith, which is always a good pick and it is quite cheap at the moment to rent or even to buy a maxed Level of him. 😇

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Stats and abilities

Level	Ability	Description
Level.1	Protect	All friendly Monsters gain +2 Armor.
Level.5	Dispel	When this monster hit an enemy, it clears all positive status effects on that enemy.

The Venari Wavesmith is a Rare card and a support like the River Nymph. He has low stats, but his most important ability is Protect to give +2 Armor to all of his friendly creatures allowing them to sustain more damage.

On Level 5 he receives the Dispel ability, which does exactly the opposite like the Cleanse, because it will remove a positive status effect like a buff from the enemy monster in their first position. 😁

Market price for the Venari Wavesmith

If you are going to burn and delete from the existence this Water card, it will yield 20 DEC if it is a regular card and 500 DEC if it was a gold card. Six of the gold foil cards havs been deleted over time.

This card is a Rare card and it is a Reward, which means that the price of the regular card is very affordable for a monster with this power level. One BCX of this card cost around 0,02 USD, so if you want a maximum level of this monster it will set you back only with around 2,3 USD. 😁

This card is still in print, so his price is keep goind gown gradually, but whenever the print will stop it might start to rise up again! 😁

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The upcoming Battle ruleset

Ruleset	Description
Equalizer	The initial Health of all Monsters is equal to that of the Monster on either team with the highest base Health.
Fire & Regret	All monsters have the Return Fire ability.

Don't use high HP monsters and focus on high damage. Try to use a lot of monsters as well. Having a Tank Heal, Thorns, Triage for defense helps a lot.

My lineup

	Kelya Frendul is an amazing Summoner from the Water Splinter. He give +1 Speed and +1 Armor to all of his friendly creatures, which means a huge difference against a non Kelya team. 😁
The Diemonshark is not the thoughest, but the quickest and strongest tank in Splinterlands. His most important ability is his speed, which is further boosted by Kelya and if he will be damaged he will increase this huge speed further thanks to his Enrage ability. 😎
	I am usually using the Djinn Oshannus as an off-tank, because of his high speed and Phase and Void abilities. He is one of the best counter against the strongest attack type, which is Magic. 😌
Nerissa Tridawn is a very strong damage dealer and she has a lot of Health to survive the enemy attacks. She became quite expensive to rent recently, but she is well worth the price. 😇
	The Axemaster is a must have with Kelya, because he is much quicker with him and he will attack twice in every round. The Equalizer ruleset helps a lot for his survival. 😁
The Venari Wavesmith cost only 5 mana, which means that he is an easy fit into any kind of setup. As a support monster he makes a huge advantage to our team, because he provides an extra +2 Armor to all of his friendly creatures.
	The Runemancer Kye has a similar role like Nerissa, but with a twist. She has an ability of Life Leech, which will increase her own health with every damage she makes against an enemy monster. Usually I use him at the back of my backline to give her enough time to build up her Health. 😊

The Battle

Please click on the picture if you want to see the replay of the battle.

When I saw the rulesets and the available Splinters to play I knew that I will play with Kelya, because he is reliable and his monsters has a huge damage output. The extra Armor provides to block a full attack and if I combine that with the Venari Wavesmith I might even block two attacks.

Unfortunately my opponent brought Kelya as well, but my team composition is built on Magic damage, so his Armor didn't really mattered much. 😁

My Axemaster is geting damaged by the Return Fire ability i every round, but he has a lot of Health to mitigate that. Also his damage output is unmatched in this battle.

My opponent didn't really focus on one monster instead he tried to kill my last creature, which is the Runemancer Kye. In normal circumstances without the Equalizer ruleset he might have a chance to do some serious damage especially with his Deeplurker and his Poison ability, but not today! 😂

In every round of this battle I had enough damage to kill one of his monsters and he was keep trying to kill my Runemancer, which was a terrible idea.😊

Did your strategy work? What will you try differently next time?

My strategy worked as I wanted, because I had much more damage than my opponent monsters and the main problem was that he (or his robot) didn't pay attention to the Equalizer ruleset. 🤣

Battle Result

Do you like the Venari Wavesmith? Why or why not?

I like him a lot and I even bought a gold foil version of him (which was being rented out as it is confusing to withdraw my cards if I want to play them, because of the "new" 2 days renting system) and he has the ability to easily provide a huge advantage to our team by protecting them with his Armor. 😉

I like to help new players 😉, so if you are just starting this game and you can use my referral link to sign-up, write me a message on Discord (LordDiablooo#3750), so I will send you 100 DEC and few key cards (delegated for an entire season) to kick off your career in Splinterlands. 😊

If you would like to use some of my dividers I have created for your blog feel free to use them following this link. 😉

Thank you so much 🙏 that you took the time to read my Weekly Battle Challenge. I hope it was informative and you liked it. 🤞

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