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Greetings, Battlemages!

This week, we talk about one of my favorite Water card, a staple in my "Classical high mana Water team": the mighty **Nerissa Tridawn**!

### The card

No ability for this Lady, only pure magical power and health!

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She's an Epic Water monster from the Chaos Legion, costing 9 mana. Quite costly indeed, hence I usually use her at +40 mana, but she packs quite a punch for this cost! 3 points of magical attack at level 1, not less! She gains a fourth and fifth respectively at level 4 and 6.
Relatively slow, 2 Speed, she's still able to tank decently with her 9 Health at level 1.

All in one, she does nothing fancy. No super hability, no game changing trick. She just throw a massive magical attack, round after round, on any monster unlucky enough to be in first position. And that, that's game defining for sure!

### The battle

https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_37964b3ef91cef49cc83d5083cd96ff1&ref=engilhramn

The battle is played in Modern Silver. It is opened to Fire, Water, Death and Dragon and has a mana cap fo 56. The rulesets are Broken Arrows and Taking Side: no ranged or neutral units are allowed.

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#### The line up

With that high mana, I would go Water or Dragon, both are good with high mana. In the end, I chose:

Summoner: **Quix the Devious**, obviously not optimal with the Broken Arrows rule, but it gives me access to the big Dragon monsters, which are literally monsters!

First position: **Djinn Chwala**, most of all for the Thorns, I like it on tanks
Second position: **Carnage Titan**, Reach and Double Strike, what would you want more on second position?
Third Position: **Djinn Oshannus**, another monster of health and speed 
Fourth Position: **Deeplurker**, one of my favorite, the Opportunity is sometimes annoying but usually most useful!
Last position: **Nerissa Tridawn**, like a "back tank" but with massive magic damage!
For my last monster, I wasn't decided, checked what I could use and went with **Water Caller** because the Stun can be stunning and win battles!

On the opposite, my opponent went with **Kelya Frendul**.
**Torhillo the Frozen** and **Flying Squid** as the front melee.
**Nerissa Tridawn** and **Captain's Ghost** as magic attackers.
**Deeplurker** and **Pelacor Bandit** as back Opportunity/Sneak units.

#### Round 1

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Big boys won't die on a first round, but the damage accumulates already. The main difference is the armor bonus of Kelya, which saved the **Pelacor Bandit** from my **Deeplurker**. Talking of **Deeplurker**, my **Water Caller** won't survive long...

#### Round 2

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As you can see, the two tanks won't survive this round, and the **Water Caller** either. Torhillo dies first thanks to the speed of **Oshannus** and **Carnage Titan**. My **Deeplurker** misses and **Chwala** dies of a magical ball from the other **Nerissa**. And as planned, the **Water Caller** dies while having being useless.

#### Round 3

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So far it doesn't look bad for me. The Titan still has his armor, and if he dies **Djinn Oshannus** will take the relay, mitigating the magic attacks of the opponent.
But first, killing the **Flying Squid**! Speed is often the last stat taken into consideration (me too, I usually look at Damage or Health), but it does make a difference on the battlefield.
Then **Deeplurker** eliminated the **Pelacor Bandit**, timely so as my **Nerissa** couldn't tank much more!

#### Round 4

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Importance of speed again! Better kill that **Nerissa** before taking a massive 3 points of magic damage! Then the opponent **Deeplurker** targetting the armor of **Carnage Titan** while he could have killed my **Nerissa**... That's what I was referring to saying that Opportunity is sometimes annoying. But this time I'm on the right side, it doesn't annoy me!

#### Round 5

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Now the mass is said. Or the carrots are cooked. Haha! No idea what is the correct English expression!
But we can all see how it ends!


### Takeaway

We can discuss for long of the importance of speed, yeah the big boys got the kills, but why? Because Nerissa did her job: throwing big magical balls, round after round, while holding the back line! Finishers can finish, Nerissa starts and chews!
For me it's a mandatory card when using Water at high-ish mana, she's definitely part of my Classic team!