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###### Another week and another of **Splinterlands SHARE YOUR BATTLE Weekly Challenge** is about to be closed as we have a monster from new set of rewards cards belonging to **Death Splinter**.

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###### Well, this is one of the best monsters from new rewards cards introduced.

##### **Phantasm** is a common death splinter monster with nice statistics and abilities which we will see below:

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###### So,there we see the stats in above screenshot.

###### Good enough *melee* attack with a maximum of 3 and *speed* one of the best in the similar category monsters starting with 4 and can increase up to 6!!!

###### It's *health* is also very good starting with 7 and increases to 10 by maximum level.

##### Even better is the abilities of this monster possess with abilities of *flying*, *return fire* and *retaliate*.

###### **Flying** can be a good asset for this monster to use it at the front as this ability gives an increased chance of evading *melee* and *ranged* attacks.

###### **Return Fire** is also a good addition to counter attack *ranged* attack monsters.

###### Last but not the least is the ability of **Retaliate** which helps it attack back the *melee* monsters.

#### So, this monster is a very good one to place in the front when the *magic* is off.

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## Lineup:

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https://splinterlands.com/?p=battle&id=810c91df8d3f413cdc35a631b17f1c1a0599347f

###### This was a medium MANA battle with total MANA not to exceed 21 and Legendaries barred from battling and *ranged* attack monsters can battle even from front position because of *Close Range** enabled.

###### Keeping these things in mind, I tried below lineup and was successful to a fairer amount.

#### 1. Phantasm:

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###### Well, this monster is something without *reach* ability and it being a *melee* monster, we need to use it as a front monster or use it in battle rulesets which allow it to be used in any position like *melee mayhem* or *super sneak*.

##### This being the featured monster for this week's challenge, I aimed to use it in the front position and finally got this battle to use it.

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#### 2. Spineback Wolf:

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###### One of the best monsters for low MANA battles as it is with 2 melee attack with speed of 6 and boasts that ability to throw *thorns* besides having additional protection with that armor it has.

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#### 3. Skeleton Assassin:

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###### Although this one has lost popularity after introduction of many *opportunity* monsters, but in low MANA battles, this is still one of the most used monsters with *poison* ability and is among the first few to attack with it's speed of 5.

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#### 4. Twisted Jester:

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###### A *ranged* attack monster which is also with *snipe* ability and is good one to use at fag end as it has *dodging* ability as well.

###### It's 3 *ranged* attack takes out a monster in each round from second lineup as many of the *ranged* or *magic* monsters are with 3 or 4 health.

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#### 5. Furious Chicken:

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###### Used this zero cost monster to cover the **Twisted Jester** from getting attacked by *sneak* monsters.

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## Battle:

###### The Death monsters I used were up against Fire splinter monsters **Living Lava**, **Fire Elemental**, **Spark Pixies**, **Goblin Fireballer** and **Furious Chicken**.

##### Let's see round by round battle details as below:

#### Round 1:

###### **Phantasm** was up against *dodgy* **Living Lava** and more than  that, opponent had couple of high speed ranged attack monsters. Inspite of that, **Phantasm** survived in First round with opponent losing his **Furious Chicken** and **Fire Elemental**.

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#### Round 2:

###### **Phantasm** was the first to go in second round and opponent lost couple more thru *snipe* and *sneak* monsters **Twisted Jester** and **Skeleton Assassin** respectively.

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#### Round 3 and 4:

###### With just **Living Lava** on the other side, it was soon to be a win for me and it took 2 rounds to remove the *dodgy* **Living Lava** and it was a win for me although I lost the featured monster of **Phantasm**.

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## Question Answer Time!!!

## Did my strategy work? What will I try differently next time?

###### Well, as we can see, Phantasm, the featured monster is not quite best suited for front position because of it's lesser melee attack. So, I would have used a **Haunted Spirit** with healing ability or the **Lord of Darkness** for it's fearsome features.

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## Do I use the PHANTASM often? Why or why not?

###### Not much, I have **Haunted Spirit** and **Lord of Darkness** which are 2 most used frontline monsters and provides better attack options although, **Phantasm** can be a good addition to those 2 when it's leveled up to have those **return fire** and **retaliate** abilities.

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###### Thanks as always friends for going thru my blogs and encouraging me.

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