## This week's Splinterlands [battle challenge](https://steempeak.com/@splinterlands/5j3jhb-share-your-battle-weekly-challenge-win-upvotes) theme is Spark Pixies. https://d36mxiodymuqjm.cloudfront.net/cards_by_level/untamed/Spark%20Pixies_lv2_gold.png The spark pixie is not a card I often use because of the low amount of health my level 2 pixies have. I was trying to complete my daily quest today and was only allowed to use the fire splinter for the battle and decided I would give the pixies a go and it worked well for me. The battle can be found [here](https://steemmonsters.com?p=battle&id=909d212e9c3a8a68f0221df7c6efeda0ed4ce704&ref=golddeck) ![mm74bv.png](https://img.esteem.app/mm74bv.png) ![y3rtvf.png](https://img.esteem.app/y3rtvf.png) ## Rules were Earthquake and Little League ### With a 13 mana cap **Earthquake:** Means that Non-flying monsters take 2 melee damage at the end of each round. **Little League:** Means only monsters and summoners that cost 4 mana or less may be used in battle. ### Summoner Selection: I have 3 fire splinter summoners to choose from: Malric, Pyre or Talia. I normally choose Malric for the +1 melee attack instead of Pyre's +1 speed, or the cheaper mana requirement for Talia. I also like to use my Malric because he is level 4 and my Pyre and Talia are only level 3. https://d36mxiodymuqjm.cloudfront.net/cards_by_level/beta/Malric%20Inferno_lv4_gold.png *** ## Monster Selection **1rst Position:** I choose Cerberus as my tank because it has self heal and was a very cheap tank as far as mana costs go. Cheaper monsters are the key in low mana matches. https://d36mxiodymuqjm.cloudfront.net/cards_by_level/beta/Cerberus_lv3_gold.png *** **2nd position:** I used my Imp Bowman for this position because it has flying, 2 mana cost, 2 health, and 2 ranged. I was hoping that if my Cerberus died that my imp bowman would become a tank. https://d36mxiodymuqjm.cloudfront.net/cards_by_level/reward/Imp%20Bowman_lv3_gold.png *** **3rd position:** I Spark Pixies here because they were super vulnerable having 1 health. I was hoping that with flying it would last a long time in the last position. I am using the spark pixies because they have a super fast speed and flying. https://d36mxiodymuqjm.cloudfront.net/cards_by_level/untamed/Spark%20Pixies_lv2_gold.png **Conclusion:** My strategy worked very well for this battle, because I wasn't able to use neutral monsters I didn't use a chicken in the back as a read tank. The small mana cap was a rough constraint and pushed me into using the monsters I did. I picked the impbowman last and picked it over cocatric because the impbowman would be doing damage more often as it was ranged. The Cerberus worked well as a tank, and after it died my imp bowman took damage long enough for my pixies destroyed the last of my opponent. I am not sure I would change my lineup in the future as this one worked very well. I liked that my 2 rear monsters were giving out 4 ranged damage every turn.