Close Range: When Archers Lead The Frontlines

• Protect and Divine Shield if monsters have extra armor and divine shield, their health won't be reduced so easily while when attacked by melee monsters or use melee monsters to attack the opponent.

• When there is a Close Range ruleset, expect that the opponent will use range monsters so be ready to remove their armor with Rust and reduce their damage with Headwinds.

• Counter abilities will also be handy to have such as Return Fire which will deal damage back to the attacker while Backfire, when activated, deals damage when the opponent missed an attack.

• Having Shield and Void would also help reduce the damage taken from opponent attacks and when a melee monster attacks, it only gets 1 damage if it has Shield.

• Amplify monsters will be handy with this battle as they will increase the damage of Return Fire by +1.

Rule Set

Conditions	Description
Diamond League Modern Format	54 Mana Cap Available Elements: Life, Water, Earth
Going The Distance	Only monsters with range attacks maybe used in battle.
Silence Summoners	Summoner do not give any stat buffs or debuffs or grant/use any abilities.
Cose Range	Ranged attacks may be used in the first position in battles.

Opponent's Line- up

Summoner	1st	2nd	3nd	4th	5th	6th

My Team

Summoner	1st	2nd	3nd	4th	5th	6th

For this battle, we have the featured rule set Close Range which allows range monster to be able to attack at 1^st position as well as Going the Distance and Silenced Summoner. Given this conditions, I choose the following cards for my line- up:

• Summoner: With the rule set at play abilities of Kelya Frendul cannot be used and it is just used to be able to use water monsters.
  
  

• 1^st Position: I used Drybone Barbarian as while it is a range monster, it also has melee attack and with the rule set at play, can attack 4x per turn with the help of Double Strike and can reduce the max health of the target with Cripple as well as remove all of its armor with Shatter.
  
  

• 2^nd Position: I placed the Merdhampir as secondary tank since it has the Life Leech ability and can increase its health for each time it inflicts damage to the opponent while reducing their health with Cripple and removing the opponent's Flying with Snare.
  
  

• 3^rd Position: I placed Angelic Madarin with Triage that can restore the health of a damage back line monster.
  
  

• 4^th Position: I placed Swamp Spitter because it can restore the armor of an ally monster with Repair.
  
  

• 5^th Position: I placed Supply Runner cause it can increase the health and speed of all ally monsters with Strengthen and Swiftness.
  
  

• 6^th Position: I placed Wave Brood for it has the Taunt ability and will force all abled attack to target this card while also having the Return Fire ability that deals damage back to any range monster that attack this card.

Round 1:

• As the Taunt from Wave Brood was active. all the abled monsters that attack it got their armor removed and their life damaged due to the effect of Return Fire but it also cost Wave Brood to take all the damage so its now left with only 1 health.

• War Pegasus attacks Drybone Barbarian, removing its armor but some of it got repaired by Swamp Spitter which also deal the final blow and defeated War Pegasus.

• All the 4 attacks from Drybone Barbarian hits Cornealus, dealing a total of 8 damage and another 2 from Wave Brood turn its health to only 2.

Round 2:

• Immediately, after the beginning of the round, Wave Brood and Cornealus suffer their defeat from both Supply Runner.

• The opponent made a barrage of attacks on Drybone Raider and got it defeated.

• Attacks from my team also cause Gargoya Lion to left the battle.

Final Round:

• The round started by my Supply Runner defeating the opponent's Supply Runner as it already received damage from Return Fire and with this, the additional health and speed buff to my opponent was removed,

• Attacks from Merdhampir and Angelic Mandarin defeats Venari Crystalsmith.

• The battle ends when Swamp Spitter struck Pelacor Arbalest, lasting the match for only 3 rounds.