Battle Mage Secrets: Broken Arrows

Broken Arrow is a ruleset where all ranged monsters may not be used in battles. Even those monsters that have 2 types of attack like Runemancer Florre that have 2 magic attacks and 2 ranged attacks. As long as it has a ranged attack it can't be used in battles.

Top Summoners for Broken Arrows: Modern Format

Summoner	Description
	Immortalis: This summoner is good to counter magic attacks as it has a void ability which reduced the magic damage given by your opponent. It also has a shatter ability, you will love this ability especially when your opponent is using Grandmaster Rathe with sustaining Shieldbearer. Shatter Ability can destroy the armor of your opponent, as long as it hits its the target.
	Grandmaster Rathe: Another summoner to counter magic damage. Void Ability and Void Armor Ability are not the same but it has the same purpose which is to reduce magic damage. Void Armor ability is an ability in which your armor will be hit first by magic damage instead hitting your health directly. Grandmaster Rathe with Shieldbearer as your tank and adding sustaining team you will have a higher chance to winning battles.
	Byzantine Kitty: The number 1 best summoner for me is Byzantine Kitty, this summoner can give your monster +2 speed, has the True Strike Ability which all of the attacks will never miss and lastly, this summoner will heal the monsters in the first position. Byzantine Kitty with Agor Longtail as your tank and adding healing monsters to sustain your tank. Suggestion sustaining team is Oshuur Constantia, Adelade Brightwing, Djiin Renova and Truthspeaker.
	Lux Vega: This summoner can give your monsters an additional 1 speed, armor, and health. This is mostly not a counter to any summoner but this is a summoner that helps you if you want to attack first. Choose a tank that has the void ability or void armor ability since with the Broken Armor ruleset most players choose magic damage. As anti-magic as a tank I will suggest when you are using this summoner choose melee monsters that give a lot of damage but be careful when the Earth is an active splinter you don't want to face Mycelic Slipspawn that has Forcefield Ability.

Top Tank Monsters for Broken Arrows: Modern Format

Almo Cambio	Cornealus	Wave Brood	Baakjira	Coeurl Lurker	Shieldbearer	Dark Haon	Agor Longtail

Battle Field Ruleset

Ruleset	Description
	Up to Eleven: All monsters have the Amplify Ability.
	Broken Arrows: Ranged attack monsters may not be used in battles.
	Are You Not Entertained?: One additional gladiator card may be used in battles.

Mana Cap: 60
Active Splinter: Fire, Water, Life, and Death

Battle Prediction

Earth splinter is not active so I think my opponent will not use Life splinter with sustaining team. There is a chance that my opponent will use water or fire splinter with all melee attacks. So I choose water splinter and pick those monsters that can reduce melee attacks.

My Team

Team	Description
	Kelya Frendul: This summoner gives an additional 1 speed and armor to all my monsters.
	Legionnaire Alvar: I choose this monster because I aimed to Demoralize my opponent's melee attacks. This monster can reduce 1 melee attack to all my opponent's monsters. It also has void armor ability that's why I choose this as a tank.
	Flying Squid: Helps to take damage in my opponent's first position, it has 3 melee damage. Flying Squid have reach ability so placing it in 2nd position so it will be able to attack.
	Djinn Oshannus: I choose this cards incase my opponent has pure magic damage. So if my 1st and 2nd position dies I still have Djinn Oshannus that can counter magic damaged since this monsters has void ability.
	Deeplurker: This monsters help me in my goal to reduced my opponent melee attacks. Deeplurker has Demoralize ability just like Legionnaire Alvar. And I think this monster is powerful because of it's oppurtunity ability that combine with poison. Deeplurker melee damage is 5, has 4 speed, and 7 health.
	Nerissa Tridawn: For all of the monsters I choose the target is the first position. That's why I choose this monster, even my opponent choose Baakjira it can still give enough damage because this monster has 5 magic attacks.
	Phantom of the Abyss: I add this monster because I think my demoralize team is not enough. I'm using lv3 Phantom of the Abyss which has flying, dodge, and demoralize abilities.

Start of Battle

Round 1

• My opponent uses Lux Vega with Baakjira in the first position and all his attackers are melee monsters.
• My tactics for demoralizing my opponent's melee monsters are succeed. I have 3 monsters with demoralize abilities. Opponent Deeplurker and Doctor Blight are the only monsters that can give damage more than 1.
• Legionnaire Alvar gets poisoned by opponent Deeplurker.

Round 2 to 3

Round 2	Round 3

• In Round 2, Kulu Mastermind and Deeplurker attack miss hitting Legionnaire Alvar.
• Round 3, Legionnaire Alvar is killed by poison and Deeplurker.
• My Deeplurker kills Isgald Vorst.
• One of my team with Demoralize ability is down so my opponent's melee attacks increase by 1.

Round 4 to 5

Round 4	Round 5

• Round 4, my Deeplurker is down.
• In this round, finally tank is killed. Opponent don't have any monster that can counter magic damage.
• Round 5, Flying Squid is killed by Kulu Mastermind.
• Djinn Oshannus get poisoned and Nerissa Tridawn kills opponent Deeplurker.

Round 6 to 7

Round 6	Round 7

• In round 6, Djinn Oshannus kill Noa The Just.
• In round 7, Djinn Oshannus is killed by poison.
• Nerissa Tridawn and Phantom of the Abyss kill Kulu Mastermind.

Round 8 to 9

Round 8	Round 9

• My remaining monster is Nerissa Tridawn and Phantom of the Abyss with a total of 9 magic damage.
• Doctor Blight is the only monster remaining on my opponent's side. With 2 magic damage and 14 health.
• I have enough damage to kill Doctor Blight so I win this battle.

I'm using a scholar account in this battle

With the Broken Arrow ruleset, it is clear that your opponent will choose either magic or melee attacks. So choose a monster that can reduce those attacks. For melee monsters, you can use monsters with Demoralize abilities or use a summoners that have thorn abilities which is Mylor. For Magic Attack, you can counter this by choosing a summoner with void ability or void armor ability. Also, try to reduce magic damage by picking monsters with Silence Ability.

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