Hey guys, it’s another week in battle again and I come your way with my battle on the Briar Patch Ruleset. As always, I’m excited to share my battle. This battle however, did not how I anticipated and I was honestly not surprised because I realized several faults in my strategy. I guess that’s what learning is about.
Without further ado, let’s get into it.
I’m going to be showing you my lineup first before my enemies, so you’ll feel my shock when I realized my strategy was fucked.
Battle Line Up and Strategy
Strategy
Looking at my opponent’s previous line up, I realized he loved using Tarsa sometimes and Obsidian sometimes. Tarsa suggested he’s strategy was mostly Melee heavy, and Obsidian suggested magic-focused strategy. So in picking my strategy, since I wasn’t sure which summoner he would use in this battle between Tarsa and Obsidian I decided to pick a summoner that would counter Obsidian with a -1 magic debuff, and including a monster in my lineup that counters the +1 magic attack that Tarsa grants. I believed that this way, my strategy would not be taken by surprise if he uses any of his favorites.
My Line Up
| summoner | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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As I explained already in my strategy, I chose Thaddius Brood as my summoner for the -1 magic debuff which I already explained.
In position one, my stupid ass put the Disintegrator, for the -1 melee attack of his Demoralize. Because I was so focused on countering my opponent’s strategy, I forgot of the most important thing – the ruleset. Briar Patch basically discourages the use of Melee attack, and I had not just one monster with melee attack, but 2! Fuck me.
In second position, I put the Revealer for his Stun ability. I anticipated that my enemy’s first monster would be very powerful, and that it would be in my best interest to prevent it from attacking Disintegrator since my -1 melee attack ability depended on him not dying. You’ll find out why this didn’t work when we get to my opponent’s line up.
In position 3, I had Silent Sha-Vi in anticipation that my opponent would use Obsidian. I observed from his previous line ups that every time he used Obsidian, he put the Goblin Psychic and Spirit Hoarder, a tank and back line healer, at the back of the lineup. These two would’ve been Silent Sha-Vi’s perfect targets, given his Sneak Ability.
Finally, all the way at the back, I put Venari Spellsmith counting on his Dispel ability to clear all good effects that would be on his first position monster (which I believed would be powerful), weaking or debuffing it for my monsters to kill.
Now let’s take a look at my opponent’s line up.
| summoner | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Surprise surprise!! No Obsidian, no Tarsa. Instead, my opponent used Helios Martriach, and why he did that, you’re about to find out. The fate of my entire strategy is in shambles!
In my opponent’s position 1, we had Lurking Puffer. This actually made a lot of sense, and considering the ruleset, was a great monster to use against my melee tank.
Position 2 was where I realized I was fucked. My opponent had Fungus Flinger, A MARTYR! You know that’s not good news. But wait until you find out who was in third position.
If it aint Quora fucking Towershead in position 3. Lol it was confirmed I was done at this point. But no, it gets worse.
All the way at the back, we had Venari Marskrat, ANOTHER MARTYR. I realized at this point that Disintegrator’s Demoralize is useless in this battle.
Finally, the battle
As usual, summoner buffs took effect before the battle began
Round 1
This round started with my melee attackers going first. The irony. I killed Vernari Marksrat on my enemy’s team, activating his martyr, and making Quora more dangerous!
Round 2
By the start of round 2, my tank was killed, taking down with it, the small shackle Demoralize placed on Quora. Revealer was moved to first position. Considering that Fungus Flinger was in my opponent’s first position, this new arrangement didn’t have any benefit to me at all, especially taking into consideration Quora also has bloodlust and just got fiercer the further into battle we went. At the ending of the round, it was clear all my monsters were living on borrowed time.
Round 3
Silent Sha-vi got killed by thorns from attacking Quora. I also killed Fungus Flinger, but it was more sad news than good, because again, Quora grew ever more powerful. Thankfully (maybe not really thankful cos it didn’t end up doing any good in the grand scheme of things) Venari Spellsmith dispelled Quora’s gained attacks, but it was too late at this point.
Round 4
I had two magic monsters on their last breaths standing against dreadful Quora. At this point, the only way I was winning would be if Revealer was able to Stun Quora into not attacking again for the rest of the game, whiles taking Dispel attacks from Venari Spellsmith simultaneously. But because both Stun and Dispel were working with probability, the odds were not in my favor. It didn’t help that Quora attacked first, pushing the odds of the odds being in my favor out of my favor. Lol. Anyways, Quora levelled both my monsters (of course) and I lost the battle.
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