It is time of the week for the splinterland battle mage challenge and the choose theme for the week is the Lost Magic rule set which means we aren't allow to make use of any magic cards in the selected battle. So we are left with only melee, range and non attacking cards and there are various ways and strategy to apply in this kind of rule set, first is the using the Counter Strategy, since we are left with this melee and range cards, there are two ability which are against this cards, Thorn which deal damage back to any melee cards and also Return Fire which deal damage back to any range cards, people rarely make use of non-attacking cards in this kind of ruleset unless the card have healing and some abilities that can make them stand strong in battle.
There are some abilities you can also make use of in this battle that can help you reduce your opponent attacks which are the Demoralize ability that reduce melee attack by 1, we have some neutral cards with this ability so irrespective of the element you use, you will always see them, we also have headwinds which reduce range attack by one, this ability is rare kind of and not really present in some element especially in lower leagues and apart from this two, we have the dodge and flying ability that allow melee or range cards miss their target. All this abilities summed up together can give you a good strategy in the lost magic rulesets.
check out the battle I had with You-won in a 23 mana capped with just two rule set which is the lost magic and also Melee Mayhem which allow melee cards to attack from any position and we could pick from only fire or earth element. this two rule set together is dangerous because it is very easy to predict what your opponent might be bringing on board, the melee mayhem make me realise my opponent will surely come up with melee mainly or at least 80%, so it is very easy for me to make use of the the thorn summoner which can easily give me more advantage in the battle but since I had Cornealus in my collection and it can always heal up, i decided to use Frenheart as my summoner instead to give 1 health and close range ability which will allow cornealus to attack as a frontline.
So I use Chaos agent as my frontline, a non attacking card with the dodge ability, backed it up with Mycelic Infantry with the shield ability even though it has only 1 speed, other stats are really ok and it will really work well in this battle and lastly is the cornealus with the thorn and healing ability, I was somehow surprised when I saw what my opponent brought on board, apart from all melee and 1 range card with martyr ability, the runi shocked me because of the abilities attacked to it and it can self-resurrect, I was relieved when he didn't come up with any healing cards, The battle was a strong one because he was able to defeat all my cards except cornealus which destroy his 4 cards and I was able to win the battle
