Hello all Splinterlands Player, today I will make a post again about Battle Mage Secrets Challenge This week theme is Equalizer Ruleset :

I battle in Diamond League Modern Format, using my scholar account from Balthazar.

Battle Link

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For the video :

Ruleset

From left to right :

• Counterspell, all monsters has Magic Reflect ability.

  • When hit with Magic damage, does reduced Magic damage back to the attacker. Deals damage equivalent to the attacker's damage divided by 2, rounded up.

• Equalizer, This is the theme for this challenge as already explained in the picture above, the HP of all monsters is the same base on the highest monster HP brings in the battle.

• Are You Not Entertained ?, Players can use a Gladius card, this card usually only can use in Brawl only. All Gladius card has Bloodlust ability, so when kill the enemy all stats will be increased.

• Mana Cap 25.

• Can use all elements except Dragon.

My Lineup and strategy

I think for this battle the Equalizer Ruleset is the most important, so we must pay attention to several details:

• Focus Fire, we must try to focus the attack on 1 monster so can kill it fast.
• Always try to bring a monster with the ability Heal (Heal, Tank Heal, Triage).
• Speed, with high speed can kill the enemy monster before they can attack.
• Make sure to fill all slot, because all monster has the same HP, so can give us an extra tanker.

We decided to choose a monster from the Life element the summoner can add +1 damage to a range attack. The reason is that to focus fire with the great attack we can only choose Magic and Range, but the with ruleset Counterspell, the Magic monster has a disadvantage, so we choose range attack.

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This is the enemy lineup :

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This is our lineup from left (first position) to right (last position) :

Summoner/monster and Abilities	Description
General Sloan, Summoner. Has ability Range Attack +1.	Because we want to maximize the damage of range attack we used this summoner.

Chaos Agent, 1st position, tanker. Has the ability Dodge, Phase, and Backfire.	This monster is all in one tanker it can handle all kinds of attack, Phase ability make this monster can evade magic attack like when attacked by range or melee attack. Dodge's ability will increase the chance to evade all attacks by 25%. Backfire, this ability is fun, although this monster can't attack it can give +2 damage when the enemy attack misses.

Time Mage, 2nd position, attacker and 2nd tanker. Has the ability Slow, and Rust.	You must be asked why you using magic with the ruleset Counterspell, the reason is that there is possible the enemy bring a summoner/monster which can add armor. Armor is the enemy of range monster because no matter how big the damage of range monster if the enemy's armor remains 1 when attacked, the HP will still not decrease. Time mage will decrease that armor by -2 with Rust ability. The support ability slow is useful too because can decrease the speed of all enemy monsters by -1, increasing the chance of our monster attacking first.

Xenith Archer, 3rd position, attacker. Has no ability.	This monster use to fill the slot and protect another range monster behind because we were only left with 2 mana when choosing other monsters. This monster will have good damage by using General Sloan the damage becomes 3

Venari Crystalsmith, 4th position, attacker and support. Has the ability Tank Heal, and Dispel.	This is our Healer, it can heal monsters in first position. Dispel ability will delete all positive buff from the enemy in the first position, this is perfect for this battle, we need the enemy monster in the first position as weak as possible so we can kill it fast.

Supply Runner, 5th position, attacker. Has the ability Swiftness, and Strengthen.	The reason for using this monster is that we need a faster speed, Swiftness ability will add +1 speed to all our monsters, and the Strengthen ability will add +1 HP. This is a very good support monster, it has good speed and attack too, a complete package of good attackers, and support. With Good speed may evade some of the attacks if the enemy brings a monster with a sneak ability.

Ajax Lightfoot, 6th position. Has the ability Bloodlust.	The reason for putting this monster in here is because has the highest speed of all of our monsters. I'm afraid that the enemy will bring many monsters with Sneak ability. I hope the high speed can evade some attack. If we are lucky we may kill the enemy and activated the Bloodlust ability.

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The Battle

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Round 1:
As usual, the battle starts with buff and debuff from both sides.
Don't know why but the enemy monster Venator Kinjo armor is not decreasing, maybe because the monster has an Immunity ability?

Venari Kinjo is an easy target for our monster, cause has low speed.
We immediately kill Venator Kinjo and Merdaali Guardian, they do not have a chance to do anything because our monster speed is higher.
We can see the speed of Ajax lightfoot save him from death when attacks from enemy monsters Uraeus can be avoided

Round 2 :
We attack first because has higher speed, the enemy Monster Spirit Hoarder and Deeplurker died in this round before can attack our monster.

Round 3 :
Not much the enemy can do with 5 vs 2. With the death of an enemy Pelacor Bandit killed by Xenith Archer, the victory becomes ours.

Did your strategy work?

Actually, I hesitate to put Venary Crystalsmith in the last position or in the middle, if the enemy uses the same formation as we focus fire monster in the first position and put the Venary Crystalsmith in the last position I think we will lose.

yes, our strategy worked, fortunately, the enemy does not focus fire, and do according to our prediction bring monsters with the sneak ability with only 3 enemy monsters attacking our backline Ajax lightfoot, we kill faster.

After I see this battle again I just realize the enemy level is only at gold, but I think even if the enemy brings a monster with a Diamond level the result is still the same we use 5 monsters to attack 1 monster in the first position, while the enemy attacks our 1st position monster and the last position monster, the damage is split so not strong enough.

Thank you, my friend, for taking the time to review my battle report. I appreciate your efforts and would be grateful if you could provide me with feedback on any mistakes you find by leaving a comment.

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Credit

• Thumbnail using canva
• Divider took from @kyo-gaming
• Card description, Image, and graphic were taken from https://Peakmonsters.com and https://Splintercards.com