Prevailing on the Neutral Battlefield

Ruleset

Opponent's Lineup

Conditions	Description
Champion League Modern Format	53 Mana Cap Available Elements: Life, Death
Shades of Gray	Only Neutral Units may be used in battles.
Target Practice	All Range and Magic attack Monsters have the Snipe ability.

Summoner	1st	2nd	3nd	4th	5th	6th

My Team

Summoner	1st	2nd	3nd	4th	5th	6th

This battle comes with a 53 mana cap where the active rulesets are Target Practice and the featured ruleset for this week which was Shades of Gray. With this in consideration, my lineup was consist of:

Summoner: Astral Entity - A 6- mana Death summoner which reduces the armor of all opponent units by -2 while giving all ally units the Dodge ability, giving them 25% evasion chance. It also has Resurrect which allows to revive 1 ally unit that was defeated in battle.

• 1^st Position: Arkemis the Bear - A 12- mana melee unit with Protect that gives +2 armor to all ally units together with Halving that halves the attack of the target. It also has Forcefield which turn damage from 5 or more attacks into 1 and Enrage that increases the speed and damage when taken damage.
  
  

• 2^nd Position: Coeurl Lurker - An 11- mana melee unit with Taunt that allows it to force able monsters to attack this card and Phase which allows it to dodge magic attacks.
  
  

• 3^th Position: Runi - a 6-mana melee with Opportunity that targets units with the lowest health togrther with True Strike which makes its attack to never miss. It also has Rebirth which is like self Resurrect and Reflection Shield that makes it immune on reflected and blast damage.
  
  

• 4^th Position: Supply Runner- A 6- mana Range that gives +1 health and speed on all ally units with Strengthen and Swiftness.
  
  

• 5^th Position: *Magi of Chaos- A 6- mana magic with Oppress which inflicts twice the damage on units with no attack.
  
  

• 6^th Position: Doctor Blight- an 4- mana magic unit that prevents the target from being healed with Affliction and gives it Poison to lose 2 health each round. It also has Scavenger which allows it to increase its health for each monster that was defeated and Weaken to reduce the health of all opponent units by -1 while it cannot be directly attacked unless it was on the first position due to Camouflage.
  
  

  

  Revealing the Battle

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  ^{1-15/29- Pre- battle Phase: Application of ability buffs and de- buffs by both teams.}

  Round 1:

  

  ^16-17/29 Both Supply Runner removes the armor of Coeurl Lurker.

  ^18-19/29 Arkemis the Bear inflicts 2 armor damage to Mantaroth
  and reduce its damage with Halving.

  ^20-24/29 Mantaroth Repair its armor and removes the armor of Arkemis the Bear with Blast Damage dealing 4 damage to Coeurl Lurker.

  ^25-29/29 Doctor Blight and Runi inflicts 6 damage to Coeurl Lurker.
  
  

  Round 2:

  

  ^1-2/15 Both Supply Runner inflicts 3 damage to Coeurl Lurker.

  ^3/15 Arkemis the Bear inflicts 2 armor damage to Mantaroth.

  ^4-8/15 Mantaroth Repair its armor and deals 3 damage to Arkemis the Bear and 5 Blast damage to Coeurl Lurker.

  ^9-13/15 Magi of Chaos defeats Coeurl Lurker which increases the health of both Doctor Blight with their Scavenger.

  ^14-15/15 Doctor Blight removes the armor of Supply Runner and give it Poison followed by 4 damage inflicted by Runi.
  
  

  Round 3:

  

  ^1-6/21 Supply Runner dies due to Poison, resulting for both Doctor Blight to gain health.

  ^7-9/21 Arkemis the Bear and Supply Runner removes the armor of Mantaroth followed by 4 damage inflicted by Magi of Chaos.

  ^10-18/21 Mantaroth deals 3 damage to Arkemis the Bear while its Blast defeats Coeurl Lurker which got revived by Astral Entity's Resurrect.

  ^19-21/21 Doctor Blight removes the armor of Mantaroth followed by 4 damage by Runi.
  
  

  Round 4:

  

  ^1-5/17 Supply Runner and Arkemis the Bear defeats Mantaroth increasing the health of both Doctor Blight.

  ^6/17 Magi of Chaos removes the armor of Venator Kinjo.

  ^7/17 Venator Kinjo deals 1 damage to Arkemis the Bear.

  ^8/17 My Doctor Blight inflicts 2 damage to Venator Kinjo.

  ^9-12/17 The opponent Doctor Blight defeats Coeurl Lurker increasing the health of both Doctor Blight.

  ^13-17/17 Runi defeats Venator Kinjo increasing the health of both Doctor Blight.
  
  

  Round 5 and 6:

  

  ^1-3/13 Arkemis the Bear and Supply Runner inflicts 3 damage to the opponent Arkemis the Bear which activates its Enrage.

  ^4-5/13 The opponent Arkemis the Bear deals 3 damage to my Arkemis the Bear and reduce its damage with Halving.

  ^6-12/13 Magi of Chaos, Doctor Blight and Runi defeats Arkemis the Bear.

  ^13/13 The opponent Doctor Blight deals 2 damage to Arkemis the Bear and gives it Poison.
  
  

  

  With round 6, Arkemis the Bear dies from Poison but aside from that, the full attack from my team has ended the opponent Doctor Blight, bringing the match on its end.

  

  Battle Recap

  Here is a replay of the battle which at you can watch at Splinterlands.

  

  Did My Strategy Work?

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  Although the use of monsters were only limited to only neutral units on Shades of Gray ruleset, we are still very free to use any of the summoners regardless of their element which could affect the outcome of the battle due to the set of stats and abilities they can provide. And with the additional abilities that the summoner gives, increases the chance for me to win my battle.

  That was it for this post. Thank you and see you at the next one.

  

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