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This week I'm going to show you how to play when faced Wands Out ruleset. What to look for, what are benefits of this ruleset, how to counter it, what cards go well with it and finally showcase battle featuring this ruleset.

~~ THE RULESET ~~

First of all lets see what this ruleset is all about. How to counter it or how to take advantage of it.

Main thing to do when faced with this ruleset is to try to use Phase, Void, Void Armor or Magic Reflect to counter magic attacks.

~~ How to take advantage of Silenced Summoners ~~

This ruleset mandates that only Magic attack monsters can be used. So logically you would want to boost their damage output. Unfortunately there isn't any monster that can do that, but luckily there are a couple of summoners that boost Magic attack of all monsters in your team.

The most popular of them all is Valnamor, Legendary Beta Water summoner, who boosts Magic damage, Speed and Health by 1.

If you don't have him, or you play only in Modern format, don't worry, there are great alternatives out there - here is the list of all summoners that boost Magic damage.

	Alric Stormbringer	Archmage Arius	Delwyn Dragonscale	Obsidian	Valnamor
Set	Alpha/Beta	Beta Promo	Beta Promo	Chaos Legion	Beta
Rarity	Rare	Legendary	Common	Rare	Legendary
Splinter	Water	Dragon	Dragon	Earth	Water

~~ How to counter Wands Out ruleset ~~

Since this ruleset is all about one type of attack you can try five different approaches, or combination of them. You can boost your damage (as mentioned in previous paragraph), reduce opponent's damage output, mitigate damage input, reflect damage back to your attacker or try to evade damage all together.

~ Reduce opponent's Magic damage ~

The same way you can boost Magic damage of your monsters, you can also reduce Magic damage of the opponent.

One way of doing that is using a summoner with ability to reduce enemy Magic damage. There are currently two summoners that can do that.

	Bortus	Thaddius Brood
Set	Untamed	Chaos Legion
Rarity	Rare	Rare
Splinter	Water	Death

But, unlike the magic damage boost, there are some monsters that can reduce the magic damage of the opponents with the Silence ability.

I will list only the monsters with Magic damage, because others are not subject to this ruleset.

Modern format:

	Death Elemental	Elven Mystic	Goblin Psychic	Sporcerer
Set	Untamed	Untamed	Chaos Legion	Untamed
Rarity	Rare	Rare	Common	Epic
Splinter	Death	Neutral	Earth	Earth

Wild format:

	Mushroom Seer	Phantom Soldier	Ruler of the Seas
Set	Beta Reward	Beta Reward	Beta Reward
Rarity	Rare	Epic	Legendary
Splinter	Earth	Death	Water

~ Evade Magic damage ~

Another way to counter this ruleset is to try to avoid getting hit at all. You can do that with Phase ability which was introduced later in the game with Untamed set.

There are only three Magic attack monsters that have this ability.

	Djinn Oshannus	Efreet Elder	Void Dragon
Set	Chaos Legion Reward	Untamed Reward	Chaos Legion
Rarity	Legendary	Rare	Legendary
Splinter	Water	Fire	Dragon

But please take this in consideration, with Phase same evade formula applies like with Melee and Ranged attacks - Speed is king, Flying helps too.

Keep in mind there is also a summoner that gives Phase to the whole team. She is Dragon splinter Epic summoner - Sthispa of Riftwatchers set.

~ Mitigate Magic damage ~

If you do plan on getting hit, it would be nice if that damage gets reduced on impact. Here is where Void Armor and Void abilities help.

Void Armor makes magic attacks hit Monster's armor before its Health and there are quite a few monsters that have this ability, but only three with Magic attack, all legendary cards.

	Agor Longtail	Djinn Muirat	Oaken Behemoth
Set	Riftwatchers	Chaos Legion	Dice
Rarity	Legendary	Legendary	Legendary
Splinter	Dragon	Death	Earth

There is also one summoner that gives Void Armor to the whole team. He is Life splinter Legendary summoner - Grandmaster Rathe of Chaos Legion set. He also provides additional +1 armor and Amplify ability to your team, making him very powerful and useful in various situations.

Nothing mitigates magic damage better then Void ability. That ability halves magic damage (rounded up), except for attack 1 which deals 0 damage.

Again, there are plenty of monsters with this ability, but only a handful with Magic attack.

In Modern format we have one representative in every splinter, but the Life splinter one is a Legendary soulbound reward card. You already saw that Djinn Oshannus of Water splinter and Void Dragon have Void, and here are the rest of them:

	Ancient Lich	Caladuum	Djinn Biljka	Theorosa Nightshade	Iziar
Set	Untamed Reward	Dice	C.L. Reward	Dice	S.bound Reward
Rarity	Legendary	Legendary	Legendary	Legendary	Legendary
Splinter	Death	Fire	Earth	Death	Life

It's also interesting that all these cards are of Legendary rarity.

In Wild format we have two cards, both work amazingly well in this ruleset.

	Phantom Soldier	Prismatic Energy
Set	Beta Reward	Beta Reward
Rarity	Epic	Rare
Splinter	Death	Neutral

Phantom Soldier in addition to Void also has Silence, and Prismatic Energy has Magic Reflect.

There are also two summoners, both of Legendary rarity, that give Void to the whole team.

	Mimosa Nightshade	Immortalis
Set	Untamed	Chaos Legion
Rarity	Legendary	Legendary
Splinter	Death	Earth

As you can see Mimosa Nightshade in addition to Void reduces enemy ranged damage by 1 and gives your whole team Affliction ability. And Immortalis reduces enemy health by 1 and gives your whole team Shatter ability that can be very useful when facing enemy with Void Armor in this ruleset. That's why we call Immortalis "The King" of Magic only battles.

~ Reflect Magic damage ~

And what if portion of the damage we receive gets reflected back to the attacker. That's why we have Magic Reflect ability. When hit with Magic damage, it does reduced Magic damage back to the attacker which is equivalent to the attacker's damage divided by 2, rounded up. The damage is reflected even if the attacker does not hit, like when we have Void. This ability is best utilized with Amplify.

Wild format has three Magic attack monsters with this ability, I already mentioned Prismatic Energy, and other two are both Legendary cards. But in Modern format there are only two Magic attack monsters with it. I already mentioned Djinn Muirat (he gets it at level 3) and other one is amazing Epic card with cleaver name - Lobstradamus.

	Elemental Phoenix	Gold Dragon	Lobstradamus
Set	Alpha/Beta	Alpha/Beta	Untamed
Rarity	Legendary	Legendary	Epic
Splinter	Fire	Dragon	Water

But there is also one summoner that gives Magic Reflect to the whole team. He is Death splinter Rare summoner - Owster Rotwell of Dice set.

~~ BATTLE REPORT ~~

Now let's get into the battle featuring Wands Out ruleset. Luckily, I found a perfect battle to showcase "The King" Immortalis and his Void in combination with Silence from couple of monsters in the team.

If you want you can see the whole battle, play by play - click 👉 HERE 👈

~~ BATTLE RULESET ~~

Ruleset in this battle was just perfect for a nice showcase of advantage the right choice of summoner brings to the table because of the low mana pool.

I will try to explain each part of the ruleset, so you get the better understanding what was I thinking when I picked my line-up.

~~ STRATEGY REVIEW ~~

When I saw the ruleset and available mana, it was a no-brainer for me - Immortalis is the king of these kind of matches. Paired with couple of monsters with Silence, only counter to this is to have monsters with two attack types, or maybe some Poison (like Doctor Blight). I made sure I got that part covered too with Oaken Behemoth and Runemancer Florre if my opponent chooses similar tactic.

But, my opponent chose Delwyn Dragonscale as summoner, quite understanding choice to boost his Magic attack damage. But his only chance was that his Chaos Dragon kills my monsters with Silence, which he didn't manage to do.

~~ LINE-UP ~~

You can see the line-up from both teams in battle screenshot right after this section. I will go through my line-up and explain why was each card picked and put in that spot.

SUMMONER

IMMORTALIS Earth splinter Legendary summoner that costs 6 mana. He buffs the team with Void and Shatter. -1 health to enemy monsters Void - Reduced damage from Magic attacks by half. Shatter - Target's armor is destroyed when hit by an attack from Monsters with Shatter. I chose this summoner because of all the reasons I already mentioned - he's absolute king of this ruleset.

1st POSITION ("TANK")

CENTAURI MAGE Earth splinter rare card. Costs 7 mana and has decent amount of health with 2 mana attack. Return Fire - When hit with a Ranged attack, will return reduced half of damage back to their attacker. Repair - estores some armor to the friendly Monster whose armor has taken the most damage. I picked this monster as a tank because I needed someone with higher health to tank while the rest do the damage.

2nd POSITION

OAKEN BEHEMOTH Earth splinter legendary card. Costs 12 mana, but has 2 attack types - Melee and Magic. Reach - This melee monster can attack from the second position on the team. Void Armor - Magic attacks hit this Monster's armor before its Health. I picked this monster to deal double damage from 2nd position and it can tank it needed.

3rd POSITION

SPORCERER Earth splinter epic card. Costs 6 mana, has 3 Magic attack. Rust - Reduces the Armor of all enemy Monsters. Silence - Reduces the Magic Attack of all enemy Monsters. I picked this monster to deal damage but primarily to reduce enemy damage with Silence.

4th POSITION

GOBLIN PSYCHIC Earth splinter rare card. Costs 6 mana, has 2 Magic attack. Tank Heal - Restores 1/3 of the tank's health each round. Affliction - It has a chance of applying Affliction on the target causing it to be unable to be healed. Silence - Reduces the Magic Attack of all enemy Monsters. I picked this monster to primarily to reduce enemy damage with Silence and heal the tank.

5th POSITION

RUNEMANCER FLORRE Earth splinter Legendary card. Costs 13 mana, but has 2 attack types - Ranged and Magic. It has no special abilities but it doesn't need them when she does big damage and has a lot of health. I picked this monster because she is the main damage dealer of the team.

6th POSITION

MYCELIC SLIPSPAWN Earh splinter rare card. Costs 9 mana and has 3 magic attack with Taunt. Taunt - Makes all enemy Monsters target this Monster (if they are able to). Forcefield - This Monster takes only 1 damage from attacks with power 5+. I picked this monster to split the damage from opponents team.

~~ THE BATTLE ~~

This was quite long battle because the opponent did very little to none damage to my team.

Round 1 to 3

My opponent had a Taunt monster (Iziar) in the back like I did, with Void ability so it took a bit more time for me to kill it, and when I finally did it got resurrected just to get killed again.

Round 4

With his Iziar out of the way my team finally started doing some serious damage. His tank Prismatic Energy got afflicted so couldn't be healed and the reflected damage it did got neutralized by the Void.
My team managed to take out two of his monsters in this round.

Round 5

It all almost finished in round 5 but his Chaos Dragon left hanging by a thread with 4 health.

Round 6

My team finished this battle without taking any casualties, in fact, almost taking no damage.

You can watch the video of this battle on 3speak.tv.

~~ RESULT ~~

When you get a battle that suits your daily focus and get a win streak going, you can still get decent SPS in Wild league. 😄

Link to the battle itself can be found 👉 HERE 👈

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Credits

Special thanks to:

@carrieallen for ultimate markdown tutorial.
@rqr4 for text dividers used in this post.
@splinterlands for images used in this post and for making this great game.
splintercards.com for ability and ruleset descriptions, as well as card price history.