Splinterlands weekly challeng: Barking spider to the rescue.

Hello my fellow splinternians,

Been a minute and thank God for the weekly challenge, it has given some of us the strength to be able to churn out weekly post when inspiration fails.
For this week's challenge we have the barking spider which I have never used before because it is bringing nothing to the table as a whole level 5, so I had to upgrade it to level 6 to activate its blindness.

Splinterland challenge is making us buy cards that we feel we do not need on a normal day which is sometimes good. So today on barking spider level which is associated with the earth summoner by the way, I got an interesting battle below.

Battle Link

Battle Rules:
Heavy Hitters: All monsters have the knockout ability.
Melee mayhem: Melee attack monsters can attack from any position
Mana Cap: 32
Active summoner: Earth, Water and Life

So I went with Earth because I have been struggling to get a battle with barking spider all this while and to God be the glory I finally won this. To win this I got my team lined up like this:

This is the summoner I used because I have no other option and it also has plus 1 health to all friendly monster

Due to its self heal ability and his melee strength which is doubled with the knockout ability when attacking its enemy, I decided to make him my first monster.

Lord has the magic reflect and since all monsters have the knockout ability this means some magic monsters might be used by my opponent and you can never go wrong with lord though, so I settled with it been my backup for my first monster. It also helped distract y enemies ranges monster in this battle by allowing my own range sniper take them down. He was also the only monster to die in this battle.

I still have level 5 of this tree like I normally call it and I always use it in all my earth battles except when range monsters cannot be used in battle. I love its flexibility and self healing ability for my battle.

This little nymph helps heals the tank and manages to destroy enemies monster with its magic ability, it sometimes dies quickly in a magic and raged battle due to its ability to always go for the tank instead of little monsters like her. She is one stubborn nymph who didn't die in this battle but helped fight the battle to finish because the enemy id not make use of a magic reflect monster.

The man of the hour with its only ability which is the power to blind the opponent's monsters which makes them to be unfocused when battling. When one is blind, you tend to do things out of instinct which might not be 100% correct most times. In this case, it gave me an edge over my opponent because since they became blind, they missed some opportunity and the barking spider also helped me defeat the first monster and whichever replace it after the death of the current one of the enemy's team .

Lastly,I chose this monster for its tank healing and protective armor. It is also a warrior when it comes to its snipe ability which will help me attack enemies either ranged or magic monsters which was in person of child of the forest and spirit of the forest.

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