Hello every Splinters Lover, today I will make a post about Battle Mage Secrets Challenge This week's theme is Even Stevens Ruleset :

I using my scholar account from Balthazar battle in Diamond League Modern Format, my deck only consist of Chaos Legion Card, Neutral Card, and some reward card.

Battle Link

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Ruleset

From left to right :

• Even Stevens, only monsters with even mana cost can be used in this battle.

• Keep Your Distance, can't use melee monsters.

• Explosive Weaponry, all monster have blast ability.

  • Blast ability, does additional damage to Monsters adjacent to the target Monster.

• Mana Cap 18.

• Can use elemen Earth, and Dragon.

My Lineup and strategy

Some info we can use in this battle :

• Because we can't use melee then only Range and Magic monsters we can use.
• In the ruleset, Weaponry Explosion for Range and Magic monster who has Reflection Shield ability to counter the effect of the blast unfortunately only has high mana monsters, so not suitable for this low mana battle. I don't think the enemy will use that either. We need a fast monster so we can attack first and give Blast effect damage,
  

• In the ruleset Even Stevens, and Keep Your Distance rulesets, monsters with the Sneak ability (attack monster in the last position) only has Liza the Fang, It's rather risky to only bring 1 monster with sneak ability because we can't do much damage. So we can assume that the enemy will not bring these monsters. no monster with Opportunity ability we can use in this battle. So we can assume that our backline will be safe from the attack.
  
  
  
  So my conclusion is because this is low mana battle and the monsters do not have much HP we need speed so we can attack first, and focus fire on the enemy in the first position, inflict blast damage hoping the enemy dies before can attack our monsters, we decided to use Dragon summoner Quick the Devious which can decrease the enemy speed.

So this is our Line up :

Summoner or monster	Abilities	Description
	Quick the Devious, Summoner. Can decrease enemy monster magic speed, range damage by -1	Top priority is speed so we use this monster, and we believe that the enemy will use some range monster too
	Venari Spellsmith, 1st position, Attacker and Sacrifie. Has the ability dispels, Amplify, and Redemption,	We use and put this monster in the first position because of the Redemption ability (after this monster die will inflict 1 damage to all enemy monster)
	Xenith Archer 2nd position, attacker, and 2nd tanker. Has no ability, Affliction, and Dodge	Has decent damage of 2. With only 2 mana cost with 5 HP, this monster is good enough as a tanker, Hope can buy the time for the monster behind to inflict more damage to the enemy monster
	Acid Shooter, 3rd position, attacker. Has ability Scattershot. Cripple, and Poison	Same as Xenith Archer this monster has 2 mana costs, we use this monster because of the Poison ability. Poison ability is deadly in low mana battles because the monster's HP is not much. Every time this monster attack has a 50% chance to inflict the Poison status. Every enemy monster who has been inflicted with Poison status will decrease the HP by -2 every round.
	Queen Mycelia, 4th position, attacker, and support. Has the ability Protect, Amplify, Triage, and Rust.	Put this monster in 4th position because this monster is important enough, need to protect this monster from attack as long as possible, and I think this position is safe enough, This monster can give armor by +2 to all friendly monster (Protect ability). can heal monsters not in the first position (Triage). The Rust ability will decrease the enemy armor by -2, the weakness of the archer is that it must destroy the armor first before the attack can hit the HP, by decreasing the armor we hope the attack of our archer can hit the HP.
	Naga Assassin, 5th position, attacker. Has Backfire, and Swiftness ability	Put this monster in the last position in case the enemy bring the monster with the ability Sneak with Naga Assassin high-speed hope can evade 1 or 2 enemy attack. We need more speed for Explosive Weaponry too so we use this monster, Swiftness ability can give all friendly monster speed increase by 1.

The Battle

Enemy monsters formation.

Our monster formation.

• Round 1:
  The battle started with buff and debuff from both sides.
  As the battle started immediately our Naga Assassin followed by 2 of our monsters attacked the enemy Naga Assassin, and the speed of all our monsters was approximately greater than the enemy. Our Acid Shooter manages to inflict poison on Liza the Fang. In this round enemy, Naga Assassin was killed by Queen Mycelia

• Round 2:
  At around 2 started Liza the Fang HP decreased by 2 because of the poison status effect and die. The enemy can't do anything in this round, Our monster attack first and killed all of the enemy monster before they can attack. When Acid Shooter is killed by Venari Spellsmith the victory becomes ours.

Did your strategy work?

The strategy which is according to our plan :

• The enemy brings some archer, with our summoner the damage decrease by 1.
• Acid Shooter manages to inflict poison status, which kills the enemy after that, making our Monster job easier.
• The speed makes all of our monster attacks first and manages to kill the enemy Naga Assassin in the first round and decrease the enemy HP behind.
• Protect ability is very useful to handle enemy range archers.

The strategy which is not according to our plan :

• Venari Spellsmith manages to stay alive until the end so the ability Redemption not working, great though, our tanker holds until the last.
• The enemy uses Liza the Fanged monster with sneak ability but can't do much damage because it hit the armor and the damage already decrease because of our Summoner.
• The enemy uses Sthispa summoners to handle Magic attacks, maybe they think that we will use many magic attack monsters.

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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