Splinterlands Social Media Challenge: Anasth Soothsayer is great in Noxious Fumes Fights

Splinterlands is a pretty complicated game with interesting battles with all the options available. This is a part of the weekly social media challenge for Splinterlands. This week is about a great fight where Anasth Soothsayer kept my tank alive long enough to win the match.

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Anasth Soothsayer is a water splinter that costs 6 mana. It starts with cleanse ability. It learns tank heal at level 2, lookout at level 4, dispel at level 6, and dodge at level 4. I have this card at level 2 so it has the tank heal and cleanse ability.

Rule set, Battle and Plan

The ruleset this time is Wands Out, Armored Up, and Noxious Fumes. This means that only magic monsters can be used, all monsters gain +2 armor and start poisoned. There are 36 mana available and I am left with the choice of fire or water splinter.

Splinter	Mana Cost	Position	Reason
Kelya Frendul	4	Summoner	+1 armor and speed
Djinn Oshannus	8	1st	Void and Phase
Riverboat Captain	6	2nd	Blast and Affliction
Anasth Soothsayer	6	3rd	Cleanse and Tank Heal
Runemancer Kye	11	4th	Flying and Life Leech
Total Mana:	35

Kelya Frendul gives +1 armor and speed. Djinn Oshannus is my tank with void and phase to reduce the magic damage. Then I have Riverboat Captain with blast and affliction. I use it for affliction incase there is a healer on my opponent's side. My third monster is Anasth Soothsayer because it will cleanse poison from my tank and heal it. My last monster is Runemancer Kye with flying and life leech so it can survive longer.

Round 1

At first glance, I think that I have the advantage. because I should be able to outlast my opponent because of my last monster. However, my opponent does have a lot of strong magic monsters so I am not sure if my tank can last long enough. If it can, I should win this match because of the poison and burn. Otherwise, I will lose. There isn't much suspense in this match so I will move towards the end of the match because both me and my opponent will be trading blows.

Round 3

Three rounds later, my opponent is down to one monster and my monsters are still alive (barely). Unless I miss all my attacks, I have this match won. I was worried about my tank surviving but it was able to stay alive long enough due to the heals and cleanse.

I ended up winning the match later that turn. Two of my monsters did die to poison though so this was still a fairly close match.

Conclusion

The battle this time around went exactly like I expected. Anasth Soothsayer was able to keep Djinn Oshannus alive with the cleanse as well as heals. This let me outlast my opponent. I think that it was a mistake for my opponent to use a monster with burn. It made his lineup take even more damage every single turn and this gave me the slight push to win the match.

You can see my entire match here.

Feel free to leave a comment if you read my post. If you have any questions, feel free to ask and I will do my best to answer.