I haven't enjoyed a battle in the Little League ruleset quite like this one beforeβand not just because I won, but because for the first time, I felt like I had devised a solid strategy. So, even if I were to lose a battle tomorrow despite using this strategy, I would accept it as part of the game; I don't see any inherent flaws in the strategy itself, though there is, of course, always room to improve it further with better cards.
This battle featured the Noxious Fumes and Broken Arrows rulesets, alongside Little League. Noxious Fumes poisoned every card right from the start; Broken Arrows prevented the use of Ranged attackers; and Little League restricted the lineup to cards with a mana cost of 4 or less. The combination of these three rulesets imposed so many constraints on my deck that I was left with very limited summoning options. Usually, battles like this bore me because I struggle to figure out the right move, and I often end up losing with a random assortment of weak cards. However, this time I stayed calm and devised a strategy that took the low mana cap and these specific rulesets into account.
A key part of my strategy involved weakening the enemy; given the constraints of 'Little League' and low mana caps, you rarely get to pick cards with high health, so further weakening the opponent's cards could offer a significant advantage. The 'Weaken' abilityβpossessed by one of my Gladiator cardsβimmediately came to mind for this purpose. However, there was a drawback: the card was a melee attacker lacking the ability to strike from anywhere in the lineup. Strategically, I was initially reluctant to use it because it didn't seem suitable for the frontline position. Yet, its impressive speed, formidable 4-point melee attack, and the 'Bloodlust' ability ultimately won me over. To make this strategy workβspecifically to protect the card while simultaneously weakening enemy attacksβI needed one more element: the Death element's 'Dark Arborist,' whose 'Demoralise' ability reduced the attack power of all enemy melee attackers by 1. I also included a card with the 'Immunity' ability in the team so it could withstand the poison from 'Noxious Fumes', and balanced the power by adding a few magic cards alongside the melee ones.
With these powers now in effect, the battlefield looked like the screenshot above. The opponent had summoned only three cardsβall melee attackersβwhose attack power had been reduced to just 1, and whose health had also been lowered; consequently, these cards appeared significantly weakened before the battle even began. Although my own cards weren't exceptionally powerful, I had filled all the available slots, giving me a numerical advantage; furthermore, my team possessed a balanced mix of abilities, as I wasn't solely reliant on melee cards. Thanks to my team's active powers, my frontline melee card gained a natural layer of protection; even if all three of the opponent's cards had focused their attacks on it, my card would still have managed to execute its massive melee attack twice. Although I won the battle without losing a single card to a knockout, the poison from Noxious Fungus's ability did affect some of my cards; nevertheless, the outcome of the battle remained in my favor.π₯
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