Using as Many Close Range in Going the Distance

Hello there! @Saydie here, playing Splinterlands everyday!

I'm here for this week's Battle Mage Secrets with the featured rule set Going the Distance. It is a rule set where only monsters with range attack may be used in battles.

The Battle that I will show to you this week was from my @agonyaccepted account from which is an alt account I'm using with the NFTY Arcade card delegation and was grinding on the Diamond league of the modern format but before I show you the battle, let us learn more about this rule set.

Cards with Close Range Ability:

These were the cards with the Taunt ability which was mostly avoided when Ferocity ruleset was active. That said, the battle that I will show you will tell a different story.

Rule Set

Conditions	Description
Diamond League Modern Format	39 Mana Cap Available Elements: Fire
Going the Distance	Only monsters with Range attack may be used in battles.
Earthquake	Non- flying monsters take 2 melee damage at the end of each round.
Are You Not Entertained?	One additional Gladiator card may be used 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 Ferocity gives the Fury ability on all monsters along with Equal Opportunity so they would also have the Opportunity ability. Given this conditions, my lineup was consist of:

• Summoner: I used Conqueror Jacek that gives +2 speed on all ally monsters and with it, it also gives the Scattershot ability where magic and range attacks
  target random monsters and Piercing which takes the excess damage from the targets armor to the targets health.
  
  

• 1^st Position: Molten Ash Golem has the Close Range ability that allows it to be able to attack at tank position together with Weaken that reduces the health of all opponent monsters as long as it remains on play.
  
  

• 2^nd Position: Lava Spider has the Snare ability which removes the Flying ability of the target and will also deal Poison on it.
  
  

• 3^rd Position: Lava Launcher aside from having Close Range has the Stun ability which will cause the target to attack.
  
  

• 4^th Position: Venari Marksrat has the Martyr ability which will increase all the stats of the monster adjacent to it when it was defeated and acts more as a sacrificial card.
  
  

• 5^th Position: Gargoya Devil has the Close Range ability along with Flying ability which increases evasion change by 25% and will make it unaffected by Earthquake damage.
  
  

• 6^th Position: Firecaller also has Fury ability which deals double damage on monsters with Taunt together with Martyr as this will be another sacrificial monster to boost the stats of Gargoya Devil.

Round 1:

^13/26 The first one that attack was Lava Spider, attacking Sarius which aside from its armor has also inflicted 1 damage to it.

^14/26 Fire Caller attacks the opponent Molten Ash Golem and inflicted 2 damage.

^15/26 Lava Launcher attacks the opponent Gargoya Devil, dealing 2 damage and Stuns it.

^16/26 Gargoya Devil Deals 4 damage to opponent Molten Ash Golem.

^17/26 Molten Ash Golem attacks the opponent Molten Ash Golem for 3 damage.

^18-19/26 Bold Venari Marksrat and Tinderlock attaks my Molten ash Golem for 4 damage.

^21-22/26 Sarius and Firecaller attacks Molten Ash Golem for 6 damage and defeated it.

^26/26 Molten Ash Golem attacks Lava Spider for 3 damage.

Round 2:

^1-9/24 Earthquake damage took effect and has caused for Lava Spider and Molten Ash Golem to be defeated and has taken 2 damage on the armor and health of monsters without Flying ability.

^14-18/24 Firecaller and Lava launcher attacks the opponents the opponent Firecaller for 8 damage and was able to defeat it but it activates Marty and increases the stats of Sarius.

^20/24 Gargoya Devil deals 4 damage to Tinderlock.

^22/24 The opponent Gargoya Devil, Venari Marksrat and Tinderlock attacks Lava Launcher with 5 armor and 3 health damage.

^24/24 Venari Marksrat deal 1 damage on Tinderlock.

Round 3:

^1-6/18 Earthquake Damage took effect and has kill Venari Marksrat and Firecaller. along with 2 damage for monsters with no Flying.

^7-13/18 Double Martyr activates which increases the stats of Lava Launcher once and Gargoya Devil twice.

^14/18 Gargoya Devil defeats Sarius, dealing 6 damage.

^16/18 Lava Luancher defeats the opponent Gargoya Devil for another 6 damage.

• Round 4:

^1-5/8 Earthquake damage took effect and defeated Tinderlock which has left only Venari Marksrat on the opponent side.

^6/8 Gargoya Devil attacks Venari Marksrat and since it was the only monster left on the opponent side, Deathblow has activated which has doubled the damage of Gargoya Devil when the opponent has only 1 monster left, dealing a total of 12 damage.

Here is a replay of the battle which at you can watch at Splinterlands.

As there was only one element available for this battle, the monster options was very limited but I was able to fill it with us much Close Range monsters as I can, placing my only Flying monster at the back and then placed it in the middle of 2 monsters with Martyr so that it will gain status boost when the rule set damage take effect and defeated those monsters. As a result, Gargoya Devil has became really powerful and was able to defeat the last monster of the opponent with twice the damage.