Hello Splinterland Summoners
For Today post, I want to be a bit different from the previous posts I have written before. Let say I want some refreshes so maybe writing about newer things in Splinterlands could lit up my mood a bit.
so let see something newer or more recent on this game. I have this recent reward card from Conclave Arcana edition.
Wailsworn Specter Bloodline Tribute ability there, which basically gives buff the same way as martyr ability in the past. The different is that Martyr buffs the adjacent units, and Bloodline Tribute buffs the same race or bloodline units.
However there is a big challenge here... most of the time, none of the same bloodline units. So rarely I see people trying to exploit this ability, there were some occasions but like I just said, rarely..
So It is understandable that this is an ability that is not popular. It could be a wild card because people are not very familiar with it. However... this is the second however lol....
Actually there is a ruleset or modifier that could be used to exploit this ability. It is shapeshift happens. This ruleset will treat all units as the same bloodline. So any Bloodline Tribute triggered will buff up all units.
Let see how it works. I have a relevant battle about it.
I pick this battle from modern Silver Rank battle. as you can see I put the Wailsworn Specter in front, in order to have her dead as Shapeshift combination, that would buff up all my line up.
As expected the Dino killed her instantly. This triggered the Bloodline Tribute.
My 5 backline units were all heavy magic attackers. They would get the benefit from the buff from bloodline tribute.
and this was the result. 5 of them got +1 of all their attributes. Because my team was a full mages team, we got +5 magic damage per round and I believed this would be a major threat to any team. Overall my team had 3 + 4 + 4 + 2 + 3 = 16 magic damage per round, or I could say we would kill at least a unit a round.
When round 2 started, the condition was already equal 5 vs 5. Do you see a slight change there? My Abyssal Elemental had got 4 magic damage, which meant he got another buff up on his attack.
He had resurgence ability, which when he died, he would resurrect again and had the magic debuff removed. the silence was gone, but for me, it did not matter. I only need Abyssal Elemental as the meat wall, to buy time so my main damage dealers kept killing my opponents.
These two were my main damage dealers, or the DPS units if we talked about RPG term. Both got debuffs, a slow and a silence, so they would hit later with weakened damage. Still, as you can see, both had 4 magic damage and speed above 3. So in every turn they would deliver 8 damage and none of my opponent units could withstand that.
The third round, at a glance it seemed still equal 4 vs 4. But in detail, it was far from equal. All their units were wounded from Electrified damage. Their fire power had dropped badly regarding they lost that dino skunk, one of their damage dealer.
At this point, it had already become one sided battle.
Ok, we arrived at the final round. Good Game, it was ended as one sided battle.
So what's the biggest point we could take from this battle? Simple, my backline units got powered up from that Shapeshift modifier + Bloodline Tribute ability. Would I still win if I did not exploit that ruleset? Maybe, but it would not be a one sided battle.
I hope my post here could remind you all to take advantage over this modifier. I still often seeing people ignoring the ruleset, I know they have the right units but I believe they are not familiar with this meta.
Let's exploit this ability a lot more, because I believe in the upcoming edition, we would see more from this bloodline feature. Meanwhile, let's have fun it the Splinterlands battle field...
see you next time.
