Splinterlands Weekly Battle Challenge! Grund master of Earth~

Good day everyone! This is an exciting week for all of us hive users because of the sudden pump in the market. Are you as strong as the Grund to hold or to take profit?

Grund is an epic Earth unit in Chaos Legion Pack. I got 1 of this as my reward card and I was very happy to have it. I like its double strike and he is very useful in opportunistic, sneak, and melee mayhem.
Lore:

Grund has spent his entire life in the lowlands of Praetoria and has grown to love the land and its people. First introduced to the lore of battle as a hatchling, he has studied it ever since with enthusiasm. When he became a juvenile his hands found steel, an old rusting sword abandoned and forgotten in the swamp by some intrepid explorer. Before long it became an extension of himself as he applied all he had learned, quickly mastering blade work. From then on, he became obsessed with the art of armed combat and practiced with any weapons he could get his hands on.

In my previous social media challenge, I used Immortalis too, especially when trying to counter my enemy's attack.

LOSING GRUND

In this image, you can see already whose team is winning. As Grund is a melee attack and double strike, Mylor Crowling will always give 2 damage to me. I wasn't able to arrange my cards properly because of the time ticking. If only I have put Supply Runner at the last stand and the second position is Mycelic Slipspawn I might have won because Goblin Psychic will support his health by healing him.

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Since we can try and try until we could succeed, here is a success story I have that I could share here in Splinterlands' weekly battle challenge.

WINNING GRUND

BATTLE RULES

All Monsters have the Knock Out ability. All Monsters have the Opportunity ability. With only 46 mana and the element to be used are earth, life, and dragon.

MY LINE UP

SUMMONER

A legendary earth summoner under the Chaos Legion Pack. The best of this summoner its void and shatter abilities. Giving a shield to my monster against magic and removing the shield of my enemy and be vulnerable to melee and ranged attacks.

CARD NAME	ABILITY	STRATEGY
	DOUBLE STRIKE - Monster attacks twice each round.	His high health is best for being a first tank even though I know he can be useful in the backline, it will still be a great advantage putting him at first.
	TAUNT - All enemy Monsters target this Monster (if they are able to)FORCEFIELD- This Monster takes only 1 damage from attacks with power 5+	Because of the opportunistic ruleset, although unsure that they will direct their attack to Mycelic Slipspawn magic and range will surely prolong my Grund.
	TANK HEAL - Restores a portion of the Monster in the first position's health each round. Restores 1/3 of the max health, rounded up.	This would totally prolong the health of Grund and he may stay until the last round.
	SILENCE - Reduces the Magic Attack of all enemy Monsters.	I wanted to make sure that when the enemy's monsters will attack my team, they could not penetrate enough because of this ability and Immortalis' void.
	PROTECT -All friendly Monsters gain +2 Armor.	This legendary card I won is my favorite especially in ruleset like this. If the enemy will use a melee and range attacks, it will preserve the health of my team.
	THORNS - When hit with a Melee attack, does damage back to the attacker. Has an upper cap of 2.	If enemy will use sneak attacks especially melee, he will inflict pain with them thru his thorns.

ROUND 1

Both of the teams have Mushroom Seer so we both negated each's magic attacks. Therefore, my Immortalis was right as a summoner despite the enemy used Lyanna Natura. Although the enemy used melee attacks and a ranged last tank, they could not easily kill my Mycelic Slipspawn even Sandworm could not deliver his high attack because of forcefield ability. With Queen Mycelia my team was protected from them. After the enemy's Mushroom Sneer died, my magic attacks was back to its original state, then Grund started to attack the Nectar Queen and there was no miss, leaving her with 6 health.

Before the round ends and Goblin Psychic died, he was able to heal the enemy's first tank.

ROUND 2

When I thought that Grund will finish the enemy's tank this round, I was wrong, as I have said, before the first round ends he was healed by Goblin Psychic. Pelacor Mercenary has higher attack compared to Sandworm because of forcefield but even so, Sandworm was not able to attack in this round because he was killed earlier due to his low life. This round ended Nectar Queen with one life.

ROUND 3

Grund was healed in the previous round but during this round the first attacker was Venari Knifer. He easily killed Nectar Queen. I was thinking that the enemy might attack Venari Knifer so I can see his thorns damaging them, too bad, there's no need for him to do so. This round left with two monsters on the enemy's deck. The game is quite obvious who wins but let us proceed to round 4.

ROUND 4

The first part of this round, Venari Knifer easily defeated Earth Elemental. Now with Pelacor Mercenary, you can totally see in the picture on the right side, how aggressive Grund is and this is how we won the battle. Thanks to his double strike!

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

Yes, my strategy worked. If I had the same opponent and set of tea, I may use the summoner Mylor Crowling with Grund because they used mostly of melee attacks.

Do you like GRUND? Why or why not?

I have liked Grund ever since I had it. If there is opportunistic and sneak abilities, I always use Grund because of his high health, melee attack with double strike and if added into 2 strikes, it will add up to 6.

Thank you for reading!

Watch this video now or just click Winner Grund above if you want to watch the whole battle.