Greetings to all Splinterlands players! this is my entry for BATTLE MAGE SECRETS Weekly Challenge! this is a popular event held by Splinterlands every week. The theme today is about the ruleset Back to Basic. Monsters lose all abilities. Summoner effects are still active (Yodin Zaku, Mylor, etc).

This is a battle in the Modern Format Champion League, I played with my scholar account from Balthazar.

The guide presents a strategy on how to advance through the ranks by utilizing reasonably priced or cheap-to-rent monsters that can still prove effective.

Battle Link

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For the video :

Ruleset

From left to right :

• Back to basics, monsters lose all abilities.
• Close Range, range monsters can attack from the first position.
• Super Sneak, all melee monsters have a sneak ability.
  • Sneak ability, melee monster can attack from any position the enemy monster in the last position.
• Have a mana cap of 54.
• We can choose the element of Fire and Earth.

My Lineup and strategy

There is some guideline we can use :

• Back to basic ruleset, for this ruleset we relying on the ability summoner, because all monster not have any abilities.
• Closed Range, I think this is not an option here to use range monster, because we need to focus fire, and usually range monsters only have low HP with little armor or no armor.
• Super Sneak ruleset, we need to focus fire and used all the high damage melee monsters to attack the monster in the last position.
• I think there was 2 summoner which suitable for this battle using the element Fire and Earth.
  • Mylor from earth element, give thorns ability to all friendly monster, every time the enemy monster hit our monster then the enemy will receive 2 damage. This is favorite Summoner in battle melee vs melee.
  • Jacek the Conqueror from fire element, give +2 speed, scattershot, and Piercing ability. for this battle, the speed increase and Piercing ability are very important. With the piercing ability, if the enemy armor is destroyed and there is damage left after hitting the armor, the damage will decrease the HP. Speed will increase the chance to hit the enemy and attack first and maybe can kill the enemy before they can attack.
• Position is very important in the battle with back to basics ruleset, which monster can die first and which monster we must protect we must think carefully.

Fortunately, we don't have Mylor because at maks level it's an expensive monster for rent or buy, so we choose Jacek.

The enemy line up :

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This is our lineup from left (first position) to right (last position) :

So as not to confuse we'll call all the monsters we use attackers. Because in the end the melee monster we used can be used as a tanker. In the normal ruleset (monsters can use abilities) usually this monster can be a tanker. Except for Tenyii Striker usually use as an attacker only.

Summoner/monster and Abilities	Description
Jacek the Conqueror(summoner), give +2 speed, Piercing, and Scattershot ability.	We will not use Scattershot ability in this battle because we need to focus fire. We will maximize the use of the Piercing ability.
Tusk the Wide, 1st Position, Attacker.	Put this in the first position because not have high damage and no armor. Only have Great HP. This monster's job is to protect the monster behind so another monster can focus fire attacking the enemy monster in the last position.
Legionnaire Alvar 2nd posiiton, attacker	In case the Tusk the Wide die, this will become 2nd tanker because has high Armor.
Grum Flameblade, 3rd position, attacker.	High damage monster his main task is to decrease the enemy HP monster but can be a tanker too. this monster has very high HP and good armor. But the speed is slow, let's hope the attack does not miss when attacking the enemy.
Tenyii Striker, 4th position, attacker.	This monster is easy to die so put in this position behind high HP and Armor monster. Tenyii Strike has high speed and great damage so I used it.
Forgotten One, 5th position, attacker.	This monster has very high damage, good armor and HP. This is our main attacker, we hope with this monster can decrease a lot of enemy HP.
Disintegrator, 6th position, attacker.	This monster use as tanker the damage is not that big, but has an okay armor dan HP.

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The Battle

Round 1:

• Enemy side :

  • Legionnaire Alvar is killed by the Disintegrator

• Our Side :

  • Disintegrators are killed by enemy Disintegrators.

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Round 2 :

• Enemy side :
  • The Forgotten One was killed by our Forgotten One.
• Our Side :
  • None of the monsters on our side died anymore

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Round 3 :

• Enemy side :

  • Magi of Chaos was killed by our Tenyii Striker.
  • The Disintegrator was killed by our Grum Flamblade.

• Our Side :

  • The Forgotten One is killed by an enemy Disintegrator.
  • Tenyii Striker is killed by an enemy Grum Flameblade.

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Rounds 4-5 :

• Nothing happened in round 4 only the monsters kept attacking each other so we skipped to round 5.

• Enemy side :
  Tusk the Wide was killed by our Tusk the Wide.

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Round 6 :

• Our Side :

  • Tusk the Wide was killed by an enemy Grum Flameblade.

• Enemy Side :

  • Grum Flameblade was killed by our Grum Flameblade.

With the death of Grum Flameblade, victory is on our side.

Did your strategy work?

Our strategy of using the summoner Jacek which increases speed and gives the ability Piercing to all of our monsters coupled with using monsters that have armor and focus fire on attacking monsters in the last position worked well. Enemies in the last position can be killed quickly.

The enemy carries a monster with a magic attack which in my opinion is a mistake because by using the summoner Jacek the attacks become random if you are not lucky it will hit monsters that still have large HP, like in this battle, Magi of Chaos' attack hits Tenyii Striker and Legionnaire Alvar and both of them are still alive and give the opportunity to attack the enemy in the last position first.

Other Summoner i want to try

Immortalis

I want to try this summoner because has a Shatter ability, with this ability the enemy armor will be completely destroyed if hit by an attack no matter how big the armor is, and HP decreased by 1 is useful in melee battle.
The Problem is, this monster does not give any speed buff, so we may have trouble hitting the enemy, and maybe our monster will die first and not have a chance to attack. I think this is an interesting Summoner to try.

Thank you, my friend, for taking the time to review my battle report. I appreciate your efforts and would be grateful if you could provide me with feedback on any mistakes you find by leaving a comment.

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Credit

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