Playing with MINOTAUR : The FIERCE BEAST with an AXE

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Hola Splinterland Players!

I hope you all enjoying Splinterlands!!

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

Hello splinter warriors!

Greetings to all of my Splinter lovers across the world. I hope you all are enjoying splinterlands at it's best, especially brawls! Our Neoxian Guild are currently fighting with probably the best team ever into the splinterlands brawls. The arena 3 brawl is exploding with our numerous battles because as we have successfully upgraded our guild arena to level 3 and playing back to back brawls continuously. Now we have a total of 16 total frays which means 16 guild players can enter together into brawl from now on. I am currently playing the brawl with ts-panda (untamed) and red-dog (beta) and performing very well till now. Soon we will enter into the brawl arena and be victorious once again.

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Now talking about the battle post, last week, the battle monster was Minotaur Warrior! I am running late as usual with writing these battle challenges so Let us straight look into this 4 mana REACH card from the the EARTH realm!

The Minotaur Warrior is one of the most important reach monsters of splinterlands. This 4 mana card belongs to the earth beta/alpha section and it comes with both normal and gold foil edition as well. This is obviously a must-have beta monster and a very important card in whole reach section as well because of his decent 4 mana cost! Such less mana cost monster packed with such melee attack, health and abilities becomes very reliable in many certain situations, especially when you want those abilities at a decent cost in your line up and also want to get defended by it too.

Minotaur Warrior is super usable in varieties of matches, especially in large and medium mana matches where you can choose earth splinters. Normally, I am used to put Flesh Golem (6 mana) or unicorn mustang (8 mana) to fill the front spot when playing with earth but when certain rulests comes that favors using the Minotaur warrior in reach positions, I use it without a second doubt. It's also a strategy to choose the Minotaur Warrior over any other other card when you wanna play with melees in earth splinter. So, If you want something useful which may only bear small damage from opponents at the reach but before going down will help others well, then the Minotaur Warrior can be your best friend!

Luckily, I have a level 10 Minotaur Warrior in red-dog account which I will be using now for the sake of using it in today's battle post. I did a mistake by not buying it for myself but still, I will now play with it a lot as it is delivering me great potential whenever required. So, today, I will be sharing the battle from my alt account red-dog.

Ok so, before moving on, lt use see what s being written in the book of Splinterlore for him.

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The Minotaurs are the only people in Anumün rugged enough to inhabit the Giant Grasslands of Primordia, where the Dinosaurs roam. They live in wandering tribes, sleeping in hide tents and hunting Rexxies for their meat, clothing and weapons. Minotaur spears are longer than they seem.

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For this beta/alpha edition card, Right now there is currently no max level Minotaur Warrior available at the market. However, there are also some high-level monsters available at slightly higher prices and The single ones are available starting at 0.088$ and will cost you 86.232 DEC as per the current rate.

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What Minotaur Warrior 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 1 melee attack with 2 health,1 armour and 3 speed. It brings reach ability at the initial level with it.
  • Level 3 - At level 3, it carries 1 melee attack at 3 speed, 1 armour and 4 health.
  • Level 6 - At the 6th level, It possesses 2 melee attack, 1 armour with 4 health at 4 speed. It also brings piercing ability at the sixth level with it.
  • Level 10 - At the maximum level, It possesses 3 melee attack, 1 armour with 6 health at 4 speed.

So, what do you think? It is a good choice in the battles considering it's mana cost and abilities? Let me know in the comments below!

Match Lineup

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Ruleset Of Battle

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  • Mana count This match holds a large 24 mana cap!

  • Summoners This battle supports Earth, Life and Death summoners.

  • Ruleset So, It was a double rule set as below...
    • Equal Opportunity all monsters have opportunity ability.
    • Melee mayhem melee monsters can attack from any position.

It's a match of medium mana monsters this time and I am thinking to go for the my Earth untamed summoner Wizard of Eastwood, thou there is decent amount of mana to spend in this match so I'll chose Flesh Golem followed by the Minotaur Warrior this time. Since the rule-sets are favoring all melee monsters as well, this time I will go and use the Screeching vulture ro kill low health carriers and at last i ll add some archers who will attack only at the front and sniper side of enemy line up.

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Line-Up

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FLESH GOLEM

I chose FLESH GOLEM in the first place because of its 6 mana cost that comes with some important stats and abilities as well - they are Healing and Void. I am using a level 10 and it has 4 melee attack at 3 speed and 11 health.

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MINOTAUR WARRIOR

I placed MINOTAUR WARRIOR in the second place because of its 4 mana cost and reach ability. I have a level 10 and it has 3 melee attack at 4 speed, 1 armour and 6 health. This is Mainly to protect the reach position while launch some attacks on enemies in meantime.

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SCREECHING VULTURE

I chose SCREECHING VULTURE in the third place because of its high melee attack with opportunity ability. I have a level 10 and it has 3 melee attack at 5 speed and 4 health.

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KHMER PRINCESS

I chose KHMER PRINCESS in the fourth place because of its decent magic attack at 3 speed with healing and triage ability. I have a level 8 currently and it has 1 magic attack at 3 speed and 5 health.

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HIGHLAND ARCHER

I chose HIGHLAND ARCHER in the fifth place because of its high range attack at a decent 3 mana cost. I have a level 10 and it has 3 range attack at 4 speed and 5 health.

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EARTH ELEMENTAL

I chose EARTH ELEMENTAL in the last place because of its high range attack with Healing ability at only 3 mana cost. I have a level 8 and it has 3 range attack at 2 speed and 8 health.

Battle Result

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Let us now take a dive into the gameplay.

Well, as it was no doubt an unpredictable medium mana match, but this time I went with a different strategy! I focused on defense at first and used the flesh golem that can soak up magic damages with void ability for long time from opponents while my other attackers will do their job. My opponent was having max level cards also, He also used a level 8 flesh golem at front and some other maxx and high-level cards and his line up was great too! 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 @monsters2themoon used beta Earth summoner Lyanna Natura against me.
  • At the front position, he used Flesh Golem level 8.
  • At the second position, he puts Stonesplitter Orc level 10.
  • At the third he used Wood Nymph Goblin Sorcerer lev 10.
  • At the fourth position, he puts Wood Nymph 10.
  • At the fifth position, he puts Swamp Thing level 6.
  • At the fourth position, he puts Furious Chicken level 1.

As you can watch from the battle link above, the opponent's line up was full with all max level monsters only leaving that level 8 Flesh Golem and the lev 1 chicken. At the front, he was protecting himself with a level 8 undying Flesh Golem followed by a level 8 Stonesplitter Orc, further followed by a Goblin Sorcerer and Wood Nymph so there's a perfect undying healing in the first 4 places. At the back he used chicken to soak up one of my attacks and the centaur to weak my monsters - a heavy combo of melee, range and magic attack throwers. Well, that's a penetrable wall of defense I had to break, I mean really.

He would have guessed that I would use Life monsters in this match, But this time I went with an earth deck against him and I played a trick this time by putting that flesh golem and minotaur warrior at the front position, mainly because of their strong defence, I easily won the match without breaking a sweatt. The Flesh Golem soaked up most of the attacks from the enemy monsters and gave me enough time to kill opponent's defenses one after another. The Minotaur warrior also performed astonishingly well in the battle and his 3 piercing shot attack was really giving hard time to all those enemy monsters.

My opponent @monsters2themoon really played great! I face him often on the battlefield and his line ups are great as always! If you are reading this, please give him a shout out ;)

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