Let's go for another Sharing Your Battle, this time the chosen rule is Even Stevens, I find this rule a little dull, but I confess that leaves the intriguing matches at times, I suffered to find a match with this rule, luckily I won the first one that appeared, let's go to the post.
| Rule | Description |
|---|---|
| EVEN STEVENS | Only Monsters with even mana costs may be used in battles. |
Even Stevens is a rule that will not influence the battlefield but the choice of your line-up, only units with even mana cost will be able to participate in the game (half of the cards out 🤣), breaking a little the main combos, when this rule appears the most difficult part is to assemble a team without their usual moves, another detail is that most of the time you will not be able to use all the available mana 😂.
I don't have a specific strategy for this rule and I try to manage which cards I have available, there is no bad skill for this rule, on the contrary all will be useful, I usually try to use the ones I like the most like Heal, protect and void armor to defend myself well, but nothing prevents me from using my arsenal completely here 😄.
Below, I will list my favorite skills for this rule.
| Abilities | Nome | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Heal | One of the skills I like the most, almost always useful, I get sad when the unit dies without healing, so I try to put some more supports to avoid this kind of situation. | |
| Blast | Area damage is great for destroying small armor and divine shield of opposing units, it is a somewhat rare ability, but if you have a unit with it use it at will. | |
| Protect | Armor for your entire team, sometimes it can be ineffective, but I always like to use it, it is almost a Divine Shield for your entire team. | |
| Void Armor | Excellent for protecting from magic damage, a strong magic combo can be lethal if you have no protection against it. | |
| Tank Heal | I also like it a lot, even more than the Heal skill, it manages to give good support to the tank, making it stay alive for much longer. |
| Card | LineUP |
|---|---|
| Summoner : This summoner is excellent against magic units and also takes 1 HP from all opposing units, it is great in games with low mana cost. | |
| Tank : Tough tank, with thorn and healing, it is incredible with some more supports like armor, will hold very well to the initial rounds of the game. | |
| DPS: I was in doubt about the positioning of this unit, but I thought it would be more protected here than in the last position, I thought it would be more likely to appear units with sneak than with snipe. | |
| DPS/Suport: An excellent support for the death element, it has the Protect skill something rare in this element, I left him well protected in the middle of the line-up. | |
| DPS : Pretty generic card, will protect the back-line against sneak units and still do some measly damage 😂. |
Analyzing the match: In the dispute between summoners I come out ahead, because my summoner nullified the only bonus of the opposing summoner, in addition to taking 1 HP from all his units, Windeku will do good damage to Grund with his thorn, this match will be defined as soon as one of the tanks falls,
Round 1 - A very hectic round, I had forgotten about the Weirding Warrior's Amplify ability with it on the field the Cursed Windeku applied 6 damage only with the thorns and then knocked out Grund with a simple hit, soon after the princess was knocked out by the RavenHood Warden, victory is very close.
Round 2 - It was a very fast game, with only one ranged unit on the field, my opponent couldn't do anything else, the game ends with a Xenith Archer hit.
As we saw before the Even Stevens rule only influences the creation of your line up, it is almost a Standard rule, limiting only your choices, the whole part of assembling the line-up must always follow your strategy adapting to the few available cards you have, your main moves may still exist but may undergo some change.
Game Link: Splinterlands
Battle Link: ZALLIN Vs. LITO-SPL-GAMING1
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