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Been a while since I've joined one of Splinterlands challenges, but given a very recent battle and this week's prompt for the [Community Engagement Challenge](https://peakd.com/hive-13323/@splinterlands/weekly-splinterlands-community-engagement-challenge-battle-of-the-forgotten-cards), I had to jump in!

So, *Battle of the Forgotten Cards* it is! Those cards that we think they're just crap, or the ones that even not being that bad, we end up never using, or even those decent cards but with only a very nuche utility! Well, I happened to use one of those very sucessfully a couple hours ago!

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In fact, I think it was the first time I ever used it! I don't play death splinter that often, and although this card has decent speed and attack, a high mana and low HP don't make it that useable... unless you find a decent set of rules for it, and that's what happened on this battle:

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Three rulesets on this battle:

- *Lost Legendaries*, so no legendary cards on the battlefield
- *Odd ones out*, only cards with odd mana allowed
- *Super Sneak*, all cards have the sneak ability

I normally go for fire, water or life splinters in *Super Sneak* rulesets, but the other two rulesets make a lot of good cards in water splinter unusable; so only death and earth splinters to choose besides water, and death it was! There are a lot of good cards with odd mana in death splinter, including the **Possessed Puppet**:

- *Double Strike*
- *Cripple*
- *Dispel*

Three useful abilities, together with a 4 melee attack and 5 speed! Seemed a very good fit for the team, and I wasn't wrong! My only concern would be some card with torns in the opponent's backline: with only 5 HP, this cards is kind of squishy. Fortunately, that wasn't the case!

My opponent chose a pretty decent water team, but left a rather exposed backline, especially with this ruleset. The result?

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**Possessed Puppet** claiming its first victim on the first round, striking after the Sha-Vi. 

The thorns on the Ever-Hungry Skull I had on last position caused a lot of damage, and the Sha-VI speed and piercing helped pave the way for more strikes from the Puppet; on round two, there were already 3 cards down from the opponent's team, and Nerissa reduced to 4 HP!

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Comes round three, and guess who delivered the killing blow?

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Never thought this would be a useful card, but given its stats and the 8 melee damage per round, it was a great fit in this death team! Just comes to show that every card is worthwhile getting, since there might be an occasion where a "mediocre" card is just perfect!

If you want to check the battle with more detail, you can see it [here](https://splinterlands.com/battle/sl_b9b2e5301c2b6d1380e5b32fd6c5524b?ref=pardinus)!

Is this card one that you usually go to? With all the different strategies, maybe someone out there shows more love for this card than I do. Let me know!

See you on the battlefield! ;)

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