Blast – Splinterlands

Blast

"Does additional damage to Monsters adjacent to the target monster."

Additional damage is equivalent to main damage divided by 2, rounded up.

*Blast only impacts monsters adjacent to the targeted monster

Notable Rulesets

Top 3 Rulesets	Bottom 3 Rulesets
Holy Protection - Use blast to disable your opponent's divine shield.	Counterspell - Your blasting monster will take magic reflect damage from all monsters impacted by blast!
Target practice - for maximum impact, monsters should snipe monsters located closer to the center of your opponent's back line. That way, you have 3 monsters taking damage instead of 2. Magic monsters may be nested closer to the center of your opponent's back line.	Fire & Regret - Your blasting monster will take return fire damage from all monsters impacted by blast!
Unprotected - without armor, blast will go much further in defeating your opponent.	Spreading Fury - Blast can enrage your opponent's monsters -- adding +1 to speed and melee attack.

Notable Abilities

Top 3 Abilities	Bottom 3 Abilities
Scavenger - Allow your scavenger to increase their health stat while both your and your opponent's monsters fall to blast!	Reflection Shield - If your opponent plays a monster with Reflection Shield, they will not take damage from blast!
True Strike - Do not waste a blast attack by ensuring it will hit!	Enrage - Blast can enrage your opponent's monsters - adding +1 to speed and melee attack.
Snipe - Focus your attack on monsters not in the first position to maximize damage to adjacent monsters.	Return Fire - Your blasting monster will take return fire damage from all monsters impacted by blast!

Remarkable Interactions

The Blast damage applied to adjacent monsters is always 50% (rounded up) of the monster's base attack damage done.
- Modifiers such as Giant Killer, Knock Out, Oppress, and Recharge apply after the base blast damage is calculated.
- The 50% damage reduction if the defender has Shield or Void is applied to this final damage value.
Blast damage will apply the Snare if it hits a flying monster.
Monsters with Life Leech will NOT gain additional health from blast damage depending on the damage applied.
Dispel does not trigger on blast damage.
Blast damage will trigger the Oppress, ability if it hits a monster with no attack.
The Piercing ability does apply to blast damage.
The Forcefield ability will reduce the blast damage to 1 only if the base blast damage (before modifiers are applied) is >= 5.
Blast damage will trigger the Magic Reflect and Return Fire abilities which returns damage to the monster attacking with the blast.

Summoners with Blast:

Yodin Zaku adds+1 to ranged attack, blast, and health, you can grant the power of destruction to even your lowest health and attack cards! Consider the implications of return fire rule set and ability - be sure that you do not dish out more than you can take!

Monsters with Blast:

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Fire Elemental - Level 1
Pyromancer - Level 1
Prismologist - Level 1
Nightmare - Level 1
Chaos Dragon - Level 2

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