Hello, Everybody today I will make a post about Community Engagement Challenge: Favorite Strategies. This Week's Theme is discussing good/unique formation.

I battled in the Diamond League Modern Format Diamond League using my scholar accounts from Balthazar.

Battle Link

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Ruleset

• Standart ruleset: no modification applies in this battle. All according to the standard gameplay rules and mechanics.
• mana cap.
• we can use Water, Earth, Life, and Death elements.

My Lineup and strategy

My Strategy :
In every battle first, we must think about who the tanker is. In this low mana battle, we have 2 good tankers in the water element and Life element. But we decided to choose the Life element because have a good tanker which hard to hit because of its ability and high speed. Another reason now we now have a max reward card from the Life element that is good for defending against Sneak attack. (In low mana battles many use the Sneak strategy (attacking unit in the last position using melee type unit with Sneak ability)) .

This is my lineup for this battle :

Summoner or monster	Abilities	Description
	Lux Vega, Give speed, armor, and speed +1 to all friendly monsters.	This summoner from the Neutral element is a better version of Kelya Frendul (summoner from Water element) with a higher mana cost. Armor buff will help in the battle against melee and range unit, because it needs to destroy the armor first before can decrease our HP. With increasing speed, our monster has a chance to attack first, evade the enemy attack, and kill the enemy before the enemy can attack. The increase in HP gives us more chance for our unit to survive.
	Pelacor Conjurer, 1st position, Tanker. Has the ability Flying, Magic Reflect, Divine Shield, and Phase.	This unit is the reason we choose to use the Life element, this is our main tanker. In the low mana battle, this monster is hard to kill because has high speed and can evade all attacks including magic because has the Phase ability. The Flying ability can increase the chance to dodge enemy attacks by 25%. If attacked by a magic attack and hit, it will reflect the damage to the enemy. The ability Magic Reflect deals magic damage equivalent to the attacker's damage divided by 2, rounded up. It is immune to the first enemy attack that hits because has a Divine shield ability.
	Soul Fiend, 2nd position, support. Has Swiftness ability.	We don't have more mana left and this unit has zero mana cost. Although This unit has a low attack and is easy to die this is good for a 2nd tanker, at least can receive 1-2 attacks before dying. Swiftness ability will increase all ally speed by 1.
	Stitch Leech, 3rd position, attacker. Has the ability Sneak, and Life Leech.	This melee monster can attack from any position because it has a Sneak ability, making it attack the opponent in the last position. With Life Leech's ability every time this monster attacks and decreases the enemy's HP, the HP/max HP will increase according to the damage dealt. Put it in the 3rd position in case our Soul fiend dies and this unit moves to the first position with Life Leech ability I hope it already high HP.
	Uraeus, 4th position, attacker. Has the ability Sneak, and Poison.	Same as our Stitch Leech has Sneak ability, we use this unit because of the Poison ability (if inflicted on the enemy will decrease their HP every round).. This unit is weak against attack so we put it in the middle.
	Dumacke Exile, 5th position, attacker. Has the ability Sneak, and Fury.	Will work together with Stitch Leech and Uraeus to attack the enemy unit in the last position. If the enemy brings a unit with the Taunt ability this unit will do double damage when attacking that unit.
	Evelyn Auvera, 6th position, tanker & support. Has the ability Immunity, Thorns, Reflection Shield, and Inspire.	This unit is the reason why this formation became stronger. This unit will increase the damage of the melee attacker by +1 (Stitch Leech, Uraeus, and Dumacke Exile). While this unit is still alive our attacker will be safe from Sneak attack, this unit has high armor and decent HP, if it is attacked by the melee enemy will give damage back to the attacker by +2 because has Thorn ability. Immunity ability makes this unit immune to negative effects like Poison, Stun, Slow, etc. Reflection Shield make this unit immune to the damage from Blast, Magic Reflect, Thorns, and Return Fire.

Our Formation is finished and we are ready to battle :

How does it work?

By putting double tanker in the front and Evelyn Auvera in the back position our attacker is safe from the enemy attack, if we have more mana we can change the Soul Fiend with Blinding Reflector which has a 3 mana cost for a stronger tanker, especially against a magic attacker. The Blind ability from this unit gives an increasing chance to evade the enemy range and melee attack by 15%.

What battle situations does it shine in?

It shines when the enemy uses a unit with Sneak ability, in my opinion, it will be suitable to be used in battles with a mana cost of 30 or less. If the battle occurs with mana cost 20 or less we can replace Dumacke Exile with Celestial Harpy to reduce mana usage so we can still use Evelyn Auvera.

What cards are essential?

Evelyn Auvera is an essential card, a great tanker for handling melee units with the Sneak ability with this card we can focus on our tanker and the attacker.

Conclusion

In this battle our guess is right the enemy uses a formation that focuses on rear/back attacks on our units, but we have anticipated it by placing Evely Auvera in the rear itself, so we can defeat the enemy who uses Water element. The Water element has long been known for its great units that have Sneak ability and this time we fight it with the Life element lineup which is stronger because of the new card from Rebellion Reward card Evelyn Auvera. As seen below, a unit with Sneak ability like Pelacor Bandit tries to attack Evelyn even though Evelyn gets damaged but the attacking unit also has its HP reduced, while our attacking unit remains safe, and manages to kill one by one the enemy units in the rear:

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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• Divider took from @kyo-gaming.
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