Today's 30 mana battle was one of the worst defeats I have ever faced and I had never experienced this kind of defeat before. Maybe it happened because of my wrong strategy or perhaps I took the rulesets too lightly and selected poor monsters accordingly.
Usually I have a very high win rate in high mana battles. Similarly my win rate in medium mana battles is also quite good while I face some struggles in low mana battles. But today in this medium mana battle there were no restrictions in the rulesets so maybe I took it too lightly and thought that this battle would be an easy win for me.
That is why it is important never to underestimate your opponent even if you get easy rulesets you should still select your best monsters.
In today's 30 mana battle I got two rulesets without any restrictions meaning I had to select my monsters just like I would with normal modifiers.
Before moving toward the battlefield it is important to understand which two rulesets appeared and what strategy I used that led to such a bad defeat.
RULESET 1: NO PAIN NO GAIN
This is a ruleset in which all units receive the Pain Forge ability.
Pain Forge works when a unit has the Poison or Burning ability. When monsters have Poison or Burning they receive +1 Power meaning one point is added to their Power.
This ability is especially useful for monsters that can apply Poison or Burning effects. Therefore according to this ruleset it is important to adopt a strategy in which you select monsters from your deck that have Poison or Burning effects.
Unfortunately I did not have any monster like that which made this ruleset completely useless for me.
RULESET 2: EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
All units whether they belong to allied or enemy teams receive the Opportunity ability.
With Opportunity monsters target the units with the lowest Health.
Normally every player places their lowest Health monster in the backline as a support unit or a strong hitter so that it remains safe in the backline. However because of this ability monsters with the lowest Health are at risk.
Therefore according to this ruleset you should adopt a strategy in which you try to avoid selecting monsters with low Health.
MY STRATEGY AND MONSTER SELECTION
After understanding these two rulesets let's see what strategy I adopted and which monsters I preferred.
I selected an Archon with the +1 Speed ability which gives all my allied units +1 Speed at the beginning of the battle.
Since monsters with low Health are at risk selecting this kind of Archon is better for hitters because they can attack quickly.
For my frontline I selected a unit with the Dodge ability. I thought I would use it as a tank monster and all the attacks coming toward it would keep missing.
In the second position I selected a melee attacker that did not have the Reach ability. This turned out to be a huge mistake.
I should have selected a monster with the Reach ability so that it could continue attacking. Since my first tank monster would not receive many successful attacks it would survive on the battlefield for a long time. During that time the second monster would not be able to attack.
In the third and fourth positions I selected ranged attackers that did not have very good Health. This was another reason behind my poor monster selection.
BATTLEFIELD BREAKDOWN
When I looked at the enemy units on the battlefield I saw that their lineup was exactly the kind of lineup I should have selected.
The opponent had a strong combination of melee attackers that remained a threat to me from the beginning until the end of the battle.
In Round One I kept receiving powerful hits which eliminated my first monster. By the end of Round One two of my monsters had already been eliminated.
As Round Two started I had only two monsters alive.
My frontline monster managed to make many attacks miss which allowed it to survive on the battlefield for quite a long time.
However both of my remaining monsters continued to survive until Round Five and both sides kept delivering heavy strikes. But by the end of Round Five both of my monsters were eliminated and I suffered a terrible defeat.
All the enemy units were still alive while all my monsters had been eliminated. I felt quite disappointed but I also learned a good lesson: I should never take such rulesets lightly.
What strategy would you use in this kind of ruleset and which strategy would you adopt? I would be glad to see your answers in the comment section.
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