Splinterlands: Merdaali Guardian is a great healer in low mana matches
Splinterlands is a complex game, and it allows for various cards and strategies. Each fight is different as there are various rulesets applied, and this can give specific cards an advantage depending on how you use them. In this post, I talk about a great battle where I won because I used Merdaali Guardian.
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Merdaali Guardian is a water splinter that costs 3 mana. It starts with tank heal. It learns repair at level 5 and strengthen at level 8.
Rule Set, Battle, and Plan

The rulesets this time are Keep Your Distance and Now You Can See Me. This means that all monsters gain the camouflage ability and no melee monsters can be used. There is also 16 mana available, and I can use every splinter except earth, life, and death.
| Splinter | Mana Cost | Position | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bortus | 3 | Summoner | -1 Magic |
| Grimbardun Smith | 6 | 1st | Immunity |
| Venari Wavesmith | 5 | 2nd | Protect |
| Merdaali Guardian | 3 | 3rd | Tank Heal |
| Total Mana: | 17 |
The focus of this lineup is to keep my monsters alive while dealing damage and outlasting my opponent. My archon is Bortus for the -1 magic. Grimbardun Smith is my tank with immunity. After that is Venari Wavesmith with protect and Merdaali Guardian with tank heal. The protect and tank heal will keep my tank alive while Wavesmith deals damage.
Round 1

At first glance, I think that this match can go either way, but I have the advantage. It depends on whether or not I can take out that magic monster before my tank dies. I do think that I have the advantage because of my armor and tank heal.
Round 14

A few rounds later, my opponent is down to just 1 monster left, while I still have all of mine. This is my win because my opponent can't outdamage me.

I won the match later that round.
Conclusion
The battle this time did go exactly as planned. My Grimbardun Smith was such a good tank when paired with Merdaali Guardian. I was able to outlast my opponent despite having poor attack damage this round. Once I got rid of one monster, the rest was easy.
You can see my entire match here.
What did you think of my match? Was there anything you would have done differently? I think it is quite interesting to see how different players use the same card.
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Low cost and good heal, been a while since last time I used it
Really decent card, I played with her tons of matchups in diamond, when chaos legion was main set in modern :D and of course with Kelya Frendul summoner :D
Wow 😲 I featured Merdaali Guardian in one of my modern ranked battles today as well.It was just topping the unit in the tank position with health. I get to see and use these Chaos monsters through the Outsider ruleset.You get to enjoy it when your opponent doesn't have monsters with sneak or opportunity ability on board.It was a fun battle to watch just one magic attack from your end.Kudos 👏
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Great game, there was no way the opponent could win with that healer you have constantly reimbursing you cards every round. Great game of splinterlands lol
The sustain healing from Merdaali Guardian was crucial on that match
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