When it comes to **Sneak** ability, I have three favorite monsters. The Fire Splinter **Kobold Miner** which I have a rented Gold Foil version. The other two are Life Splinter monsters: **Feral Spirit,** & **Silvershield Assassin.** ---------------------- #### Check This Week's Battle ![screenshot.1591034545.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/ahmadmangazap/T5EEyx5X-screenshot.1591034545.jpg) ##### [[Click Here to Watch the Battle]](https://steemmonsters.com?p=battle&id=aec03940262cf830472a84e20acca9ed17ef266a&ref=ahmadmanga) [I choose the monsters using the same criteria I'll talk about below] -------------------- #### My Fire Splinter Strategy **Kobold Miner** is a monster I use in all my (except in Odd Mana only battles and rulesets that doesn't allow Sneak of course.) His low Mana cost of 2 is very attractive and his **Sneak** ability is integral to all my Fire strategies. I used to put **Elven Cutthroaght** (another Sneak ability user) alongside him, but since I reached the Gold League, I've been replacing her with the Opportunity monster **Parasitic Growth.** All of these three monsters get Melee Attack boost when I use **Malric Inferno** as a Summoner. In my Fire teams, I usually put **Goblin Mech** or **Molten Ogre** as a tank. Followed by **Giant Roc** if Mana allows, then followed by **Kobold Miner** and **Parasitic Growth** then I put my Ranged and Magic monsters, as you see in the battle above. I don't know if this strategy is optimal but I'm slowly improving it over time. #### My Life Splinter Strategy My main Life Splinter strategy uses **Sneak** ability, but I don't currently have a high-level summoner for Life Splinter. (I don't use Life two too much now that I'm at Gold League.) That's why I don't have a battle link to showcase what I'm going to write below. ![screenshot.1591034672.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/ahmadmangazap/MDi6Uqmb-screenshot.1591034672.jpg) My strategy goes like this: I use a Tank with high health, toughness or both. I might put some filler monsters like **Furious Chicken** or **Creeping Ooze** next. Then I put monsters with *Sneak* ability (usually when Mana allows, Silvershield Assassin is put first because she has the highest health, then **Feral Spirit** and finally **Elven Cutthroaght.** The latter is has low health but enough speed to do something before an **Opportunity** ability monster kills her.) Finally I put my **Silvershield Knight** last for his ability **Inspire** that will make sure the attack of all my assassins doubled! > *Silvershield Assassin* is my favorite but the optimal use for this card is when the Mana limit is at least 30 so I could support her with *Silvershield Knight's* **Inspire** ability. #### Answering Carrie Questions! As usual with these posts. I'll answer @carrieallen questions from the [weekly challenge's post:](https://steempeak.com/splinterlands/@splinterlands/share-your-battle-weekly-challenge-sneak) > When and where do you put it!? I have never put one up front... I feel like this is a bad. When do you choose sneak over a tank? Do you? I feel so silly for missing this. I don't know how wrong you were using them, but **Sneak** ability monsters are terrible Tanks. They are also terrible 'last' monsters due to their low health. I always put them in the middle as you saw in my **Fire** and **Life** strategy breakdown above. I always aim for a Tank that has the higher **Life × Toughness** average value. I try to put filler monsters both before and after the Sneak ability monsters so they recieve a hit if the opponent has a Sneak or Opportunity monster lurking. (Though sometimes I gamble that the opponent won't use Sneak or Opportunity and act accordingly.) So I hope that answers your question Ms. @carrieallen~ That's all for today's entry to the weekly challenge. I hope I'm not too late and will try to take part in the next one soon!