Splinterlands - 99 MANA Battle? I can win it with 25 MANA monsters!!!!

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How are you all doing? Gearing up for the Season End Rewards? Well, I just reached Champions 1 on penultimate day for the season to end and I had an interesting Equalizer battle with 99 MANA limit.

Well, exactly the same thing as above, happened with me in an Equalizer battle as I won the 99 MANA cap battle with 25 MANA monsters!!!

Here I go to the battle details without wasting further time.

A huge respect to my opponent in this battle for the lineup he used.

Battle and Lineup:

An Equalizer battle always fascinates me as I have high win percentage with that rule set and more than 95%, I have used Fire splinter with Exploding Dwarf at the front!!!

I continued the same trend with this battle as well with below lineup.

1. Exploding Dwarf:

MANA Cost: 5

No matter what the opponent has lined up, I always use this monster for an Equalizer battle as it has won me most of the times!!

8 melee attack(thanks to inspire by Enchanted Pixie and Ferexia General) and abilities of Retaliate, Blast and Pierce makes it my go to man for the rule set.

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2. Giant Roc:

MANA Cost: 5

This monster responds well to the Exploding Dwarf with it's Trample and Flying abilities besides the Reach ability.

Inspired to have 5 melee attack, this also can back up as front monster this being the Equalizer battle.

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3. Enchanted Pixie:

MANA Cost: 3.

Used this particularly for Inspire ability and also being an Flying monster, it can evade few attacks from melee and ranged monsters.

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4. Flame Imp:

MANA Cost: 3

Another monster I use most in Equalizer battles is this one for it's Swift ability and this also being Flying monster, can evade few attacks.

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5. Beetle Queen:

MANA Cost: 4

The sole healer for Fire Splinter, Beetle Queen is a must for Equalizer battles to keep healing the Exploding Dwarf to keep it going.

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6. Ferexia General:

MANA Cost: 5

Last monster on my lineup, but a prominent one with Inspire ability and is also a Snipe attack monster with useful 3 ranged attack.

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Total MANA Cost: 25.

That was a formidable lineup for ALL of 25 MANA cost in a 99 MANA cap battle!!!!

It won't be fair if I don't provide the details of monsters lined up by opponent to compare the same with my lineup.

Lord Arianthus:

MANA Cost: 5.

Opponent used Dragon splinter with Earth splinter for the lineup and he had Lord A at the front followed by Gelatinous Cube, so his strategy was to have a strong neutral front line and attack from backend monsters.

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Gelatinous Cube:

MANA Cost: 6.

A self healing monster to back up Lord A at the front and save the backend monsters for a longer time.

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Peaceful Giant:

MANA Cost: 5.

Another neutral monster to further strengthen the front line and protect the other 3 monsters to follow.

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Robo-Dragon Knight

MANA Cost: 11.

And.. the attack for opponent starts with this newly introduced Reward Card with 4 melee attack which can start attack when it comes to front position since this is a melee monster.

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Diamond Dragon:

MANA Cost: 10.

The monster which can attack from round 1 for opponent is this one and the one to follow.

A magic attack monster with 2 attack and huge armors of 10 and slows down my monsters with slow ability.

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Wood Nymph:

MANA Cost: 4.

Last monster on opponent's lineup included this healing monster which also has a single magic attack.

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Total Mana Cost for opponent's monsters: 41

That completes the lineups for both teams and confirms that 25 MANA cost monsters by me will be facing 41 MANA cost monsters used by opponent.

Battle:

Would you expect a 25 MANA monsters in a 99 MANA cap battle? Well, I felt I have the best lineup and hence I did go with that!!!

Round 1:

Lord A from opponent's side bear all the attack including the blast from Exploding Dwarf and both got healed to get back near to the original health.

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Round 2:

As we expect, it's the front monsters which will have to bear most of the attack in Equalizer battles and the front monsters from both sides lost a bit more health in this round and the details at the end of round 2 were as below:

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Round 3:

We finally saw end of life for a monster in this round with Lord Arianthus bowing out and that also took Gelatinous Cube to reduce opponent's monsters count to 4.

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Round 4:

It was end of another neutral monster Peaceful Giant in this round for opponent and that means, we got the Robo-Dragon Knight into the front position and ready for it's first attack.

I am excited to see to see how it battles with those nice abilities.

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Contrary to what I was expecting, Robo-Dragon Knight surrendered to the supremacy of Exploding Dwarf and opponent's chances were getting lesser and lesser with just one more main monster left in Diamond Dragon.

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It was the turn of Diamond Dragon to lose out in this round and there was only the healer Wood Nymph left to conquer the battle.

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It didn't take much time to remove the last monster on opponent's side i.e. Wood Nymph to register a win.

I think usage of 3 neutral monsters by opponent made it a one sided match as it would have been beneficial for him to use couple of attacking magic or ranged monsters would have made it more competitive.

In the end, a win is a win and that too with just 25 MANA monsters is something that made me confident to try out more such combinations in future.

Thanks for going thru this blog and I hope you enjoyed reading this.

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