Hello to all Splinterlands players! this is my entry for Battle Weekly Challenge this is a popular event held by Splinterlands every week. The theme is Time Mage, a monster from life element, who has a slow ability, has high speed of 4, and a mana cost of 4.
This is a battle in the Modern Format Gold League, I played with my main account by renting a card. I play using the max silver deck, to save on rental costs.
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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Ruleset
From left to right :
- Aim true, all attacks will always hit the target.
- Tis but Scratches, all monsters have Cripple ability.
- Cripple Ability, Each time an enemy is hit by a Monster with Cripple it loses one max health
- Unprotected, all monsters can't have armor.
- Mana Cap 23.
- Can Use the element of Fire, Life, and Dragon.
My Lineup and strategy
We will first talk a bit about the monster theme in this battle Time Mage
At level 4 (silver max level) this monster has the slow ability, at level 5 it has rust which is a very useful ability to decrease enemy armor by 2. At max Level the damage increase by 3, speed by 5, and HP by 4. This card can be a determinant of victory when using the life element.
Strength :
- High Speed. good magic damage of 2.
- Can decrease all enemy monster speed by 1.
- Has good magic damage of 2.
Weakness :
- No armor
- only have 3 HP.
- don't have defense ability like Shield or Void.
Based on the ruleset for this battle, we must attack the enemy with good damage and fast speed. Because all monsters do not have armor easy to die. Whoever attacks first has a higher chance to win. Our attack can't miss so we will focus on attacking 1 monster to make them die first before they can attack. We will use the monsters with sneak abilities as an attacker.
This is our lineup from left (first position) to right (last position) :
| Summoner/monster and Skills | Description |
|---|---|
| Quick the Devious (summoner), Decrease all enemy monster speed and range damage by 1 | I think this is the best summoner for this battle. By decreasing the range damage we can focus to handle magic and Melee damage. It can decrease the enemy's speed so our monster can attack first. |
| Pelacor Conjurer, 1st position, tanker. Has the ability Flying and Magic Reflect | The speed and Flying ability of this monster is useless in this battle, we used it because has a low mana cost and good HP. He can reflect magic damage, useful if the enemy brings the magic monster. |
| Stitch Leech, 2nd position, attacker. Has Sneak ability | With this sneak ability this monster will focus on attacking the enemy monster in the last position along with 2 other monsters we brought, I put this here because I think it's safe enough from the attack,I guess the enemy will use some monster with the sneak ability too. I hope the enemy does not focus on firing the Pelacor Conjurer. |
| Uraeus 3rd position, attacker. Has Sneak ability | This is the second monster that has the sneak ability. Placed in 3rd position because this monster has lower HP than Stitch Leech, in case Pelacor Conjurer die, this monster still safe from enemy attack |
| Dhampir Inflitraor. 4th position, attacker. Has sneak and double strike ability | The third monster who has the sneak ability. Placed in position 4 for the same reason as position 3, this position is considered quite safe from monster attacks. With the ability Double Strike has total damage of 4. |
| Time Mage, 5th position, attacker, Tanker, and support | This monster is placed in this position to protect our monsters that have sneak abilities from the enemy monsters that have sneak abilities. We used if because the slow abilities this monster has. This card is the determinant of victory. With this card ability, we hope that all our monster attack first. |
| Celestial Harpy, 6th position, Attacker and Tanker. | Placed as a Tanker in the last position, even though it has a flying ability that increases dodge abilities but in this battle, it's useless, because all attacks can't miss. Its main function is sacrificed as a tanker because the Opportunity ability makes it difficult for this monster to cooperate with other monsters that have sneak abilities to attack the same enemy. We hope that before dying this monster can attack the enemy first. |
The Battle
Round 1 :
The battle starts with buffs and debuffs, here we can see the enemy's speed is only 1 left after deducting the slow of our summoner and Time Mage monsters.
At the beginning of this round, all of our monsters attack first.
Enemy side :
- Scavo firebolt killed by Dhampir Infiltrator
- Chaos Agent killed by Celestial Harpy
Our side :
- Celestial Harpy killed by Uraeus
- Time Mage killed by Tenyii Striker
At the end of this round, the battle becomes 4 vs 4.
Round 2 :
Enemy side :
- Uraeus killed by Uraeus
- Tenyii striker killed by Stitch Leech
Our side :
- Dhampir Infiltrator killed by Tenyii Striker
- Pelacor Conjurer killed by Antoid Platoon
In this round only left 2 vs 2 monsters from both side.
Round 3:
Actually, nothing happened in this round. Only both teams attack each other, no monsters die in this round. Our monster has 2 attackers the enemy only has 1 monster Antoid Platoon who can attack.
Round 4 :
Enemy side :
- Radiated Scorcher killed by Uraeus
- Antoid Platoon killed by Stitch Leech
in round 3 not much the enemy can do. Our monster is faster than the enemy because of debuff from our summoner quix. with the death of Antoid Platoon the victory become ours.
Did your strategy work?
The Strategy work, thanks to Time Mage all our monster can attack first before they die. we can kill many enemy monsters before they can attack. This battle is an example of speed VS damage.
Another position I want to try
If I got any battle like this again, I think I will change the position of Dhampir Infiltrator with Uraeus, so he can live longer. This monster has higher damage than Uraeus.
Thank you, my friend, for taking the time to review my battle report. I appreciate your efforts, and I would be grateful if you could provide me with feedback on any mistakes you find by leaving a comment.
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Credit
- Thumbnail using canva
- Divider took from
@kyo-gaming
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