Playing with CALADUUM : The ancient alien with unseen magical powers

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What's up Splinterland Lovers!

I hope you all enjoying Splinterlands!

This is your splinter fellow warrior mango-juice with another Splinterlands Social challenge post!!

While the world is now gone crazy with NFTs let me tell you that Splinterlands is one of the earliest and mightiest strategy based NFT card game that has proved its worthiness in this NFT explosion as well. All the splinterlands warrior out there, I hope you are enjoying this fantastic game and sharing experience with your friends and family!

Anyways, the current season is on it's midway and I did well in this season with all the 3 accounts that I am currently playing. I reached Diamond league leaderboard with all 3 accounts mango-juice, red-dog and ts-panda and won 20k, 30k and 20k dec respectively. The season rewards were not as good as of last season but I am still happy with what I got. I won one or 2 untamed packs from every SL account and some epic and common gold foils too, but no legendaries this time as well. Among them, on my own account, I got 1 UT pack, but chose to save it for now.

Weather it's ranked matches or tournaments or brawl, the competition among us SL players are rising to next level because of so many different types of cards available to choose from. Moreover, there are more number of strong players incoming to the game than it used to be. So the heat has increased a lot lately and you gotta increase your card hodling over time to match things up!

Now, talking about today's social post, I took some time and was thinking of which monster I should use today as my today's social post. Then I called up a brand new addition to the ts-panda account, the legendary fire monster CALADUUM in my max level collection recently, so without having a second thought, let the CALADUUM secure his place in my weekly curation post!

CALADUUM is the from the newest dice edition cards which costs 11 mana and is very usable in high mana matches where it is available to select, especially when you want to protect your other monsters at the backside with a big health and shield carrier with vivious magic attacks and with Void, Cripple, Immunity and Thorns ability. Costing 11 mana, this new dice monster has 4 magic attack with 4 awesome abilities as mentioned above which makes him into a fierce killing machine which can kill monsters back to back before going down. The void save him from the magic attacks as well but the most attractive ability is the immunity ability which is matchmaker often according to me. So, If you really want a defensive beast at the reach position that can kill down some the enemy monsters easily with its high magic attacks and astonishing abilities, CALADUUM can be your true companion!

I always love playing both ranked matches and tourneys with different types of monsters and by now I have a decent collection of untamed and dice cards in ts-panda. Moreover, I am also in work building my own reward collection slowly as you can easily buy cheap reward monsters of any splinter from the market as they tends to be cheaper than beta or untamed editions. Now that I have almost all the untamed and reward of earth water and fire cards and also some alpha/beta edition as well, whenever I see a big mana match with an opportunity for fire monsters, I will now select CALADUUM over any other high mana card nowadays when choosing the fire splinter since I got him. Thanks to the owner of ts-panda, @raymondspeaks who recently bought it.

However, Costing at large bag of 11 mana, this monster has still shown great potential on the battlefield, especially in the high mana matches. So today, I chose the CALADUUM to showcase in front of all of you splinter lovers.

Ok so, before moving on, let us see what is being written in the book of Splinterlore for him.

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Deep beneath the cracked ground of the Burning Lands, under the lowest caves of the Serpentines lies a magical stone chamber that has sat undisturbed for many thousands of years. The stones that make the walls of this chamber are living; they are the Vuto-duum, ancient refugees from a distant destroyed planet. They have hidden here in the rocks since the lifeless times, infusing them with a special type of magic that emits a faint violet fog. A cave-in at the Dwarven mines above recently opened a thin passage all the way to the Great Lava Lake at 1200 fathoms below the surface, and the magic escaped.

A small wisp of the violet fog eventually found its way to the Lava Lake and dived in. With complete control over the molten rock, The Vuto-duum were able to finally craft the perfect stone body for their ultimate warrior. Caladuum is infused with all the ancient wisdom and knowledge of the Vuto-duum, as well as their magical powers. He is destined to free them forever from their prison of stone, and the Splinterlands shall know a new champion.

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  • For this dice edition card, Right now there are currently no max CALADUUM available at the market.
  • Some high level cards are there at good price.
  • The single ones are available starting at 9.71$ and will cost you 9,637.717 DEC as per the current rate.

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What CALADUUM is actually capable of?


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Let's have a look into his stats and find out!

  • Level 1 - In its initial level, it carries 3 magic attack with 10 health, 3 armour and 1 speed. It brings the void ability at the initial level with it.
  • Level 2 - At level 2, it carries 3 magic attack at 11 health, 3 armour and 1 speed. It gets Cripple ability at level 2.
  • Level 3 - At the 3rd level, It possesses 3 magic attack with 11 health, 3 armour at 1 speed. It also gets Immunity at level 3.
  • Level 4 - At the maximum level, It possesses 3 magic attack with 11 health, 4 armour at 1 speed. It also gets Thorns at level 4.

So, what do you think guys? Is it a fantastic choice to defend opponents single handed or just another basic legendary monster? Let's now see about his ability.

ABILITIES:

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Void

Gets less damage from magic attacks.

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Cripple

One it attacks, enemy loses 1 max health.


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Immunity

Its is immune to all negative status effects.

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Thorns

When hit with a melee attack, does reverse damage to the attacker.

Match line up

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Ruleset Of Battle

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  • Mana count This match holds a large 34 mana cap!

  • Summoners This battle supports Fire, Water, Earth, Death and Dragon summoners.

  • Ruleset So, It was a double ruleset as below...
    • Aim TrueMelee and Ranged monsters always hit their target.
    • Earthquake Non flying monsters will receive damage each round.

Well, It's a large bag of 34 mana match this time and I am thinking to go for the Legendary Fire summoner Yodin Zaku. Because it's a Armored up and Close range ruleset match, this rule set is favoring range monsters. Though it a 34 mana match with other options available, I can definitely use the CALADUUM at the 3rd position this time to form a decent defense to cope with things up!

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Line-Up


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MAGNOR

I chose MAGNOR in the first place because of its high health + attack with variety of abilities - Taunt, Enrage, Trample and Return Fire ability. I have a level 4 and it has 6 melee attack at 3 speed and 16 health.

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FURIOUS CHICKEN

I chose FURIOUS CHICKEN in the second place because of its 0 mana cost and no ability. I have a level 1 and it has 0 melee attack at 1 speed and 1 health.

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CALADUUM

I chose the CALADUUM in the third place because of its large 11 mana cost that comes with devastating magic attack with Void, Cripple, Immunity and Thorns ability. I have a level 4 and it has 3 magic attack at 1 speed, 4 armour and 12 health. This is Mainly to give our enemy cards a big bit of damage via direct magic attacks.

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BATTERING RAM

I chose the BATTERING RAM in the fourth place because of its decent melee attack with opportunity and shatter ability. I have a level 10 and it has 2 melee attack at 5 speed and 4 health. This is Mainly to give our low health enemies a bit of extra damage.

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GOBLIN FIREBALLER

I chose GOBLIN FIREBALLER in the fifth place because of its 2 mana cost, 2 range attack with stun and Snare ability. I have a level 10 and it has 2 range attack at 4 speed and 5 health.

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HALFLING ALCHEMIST

I chose the HALFLING ALCHEMIST in the last place because of its 2 mana cost and decent range attack with halving and redemption ability. I have a level 4 and it has 1 ranged attack at 2 speed, 1 armour and 2 health. This is Mainly to give our enemy cards a little bit of damage via range attacks.

Battle Result

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Let us now take a leap of faith straight into the gameplay.

Well, it was an super exciting and a very unpredictable large mana match and friends, the match was full of medium and big mana monsters as my opponent used a maxx level dragon summoner Selenia Sky against me! My opponent was having some maxx level water and neutral cards and his line up was just great! Let's look down to the match!

Gameplay

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You can directly view the battle. Just click the hyperlink below.

Battle Link


First, let us follow the opponent's line-up...

  • My opponent @memories4ever used Dragon summoner Selenia Sky against me.
  • At the front position, he used the Cube Level 10. He definitely chose an undying defensive beast as tanker due to the large mana ruleset to his front and I just hope I get able to kill this undying tank beast with my warriors.
  • At the second position, he puts the Albo Cambio lev 1.
  • At the third he used Sea Ginie lev 10.
  • At the fourth position, he puts Fire Spitter level 6.
  • At the fifth position, he puts Mermaid Healer level 4.
  • At the sixth position, he puts Water Elemental level 8.

As you can see from the battle, as usual, the opponent's line up was fully focused to attack on my first position. while at the front, the Cube was defending with Scavenger, Healing and Void ability, followed by the Albo Camino to get some extra health bar to spare at reach position. The Water Elemental was protecting the back with Evade and healing ability and the Fire spitter and Sea Ginie was helping with their dangerous attacks with multiple abilities.

Really,the true hero of this battle is the CALADUUM who really stood long and launched multiple deadly magic attacks upon the enemy monsters and helped me win this match. In this following match, I have chosen a good front defense because the Magnor really stood up for quite some time and helped me me distracting the opponent with his taunt, enrage and Return fire ability while my other monsters were attacking and killing the opponent enemies. I did a good move by choosing the Alchemist in last and goblin fireballer and Ram dual for their back to back attacks. Together they have dealt a great damage upon my enemies.

My opponent @memories4ever really played great! I face her often on the battlefield and him line ups are great as always! If you are reading this, please give him a shout out. I hope you have enjoyed reading my post. Please let me know your feelings by leaving a comment below.


Last but not least, I really wanna say thanks to the entire @splinterlands team for their fantastic and tireless effort on this game. You guys really rock!!

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