Welcome back to my blog, @queen-silvia. The theme of this week's Battle Mage Secret Challenge is Back to basic 
Ruleset. There are many ways / strategies to win ⚔️ this ruleset depending on the other two rulesets that follow. In this article, we are going to discuss the best way to win this ruleset in general but first of all, as usual, let's talk about the basic concept of the back to basic ruleset so that we can have better understanding and good strategy at the battlefield 💪.
What is Back to Basics?
Back to Basics : Monsters lose all abilities.
Well, this ruleset cause all monsters in the battlefield lose all of their abilities. If you guys see at the bottom of each card, you will see the some logos which shows the card skill / abilities 🔥. In this ruleset, all of them are neglected and what remains in the cards are their attack (could be melee 💪, ranged 🎯 or magic 🔮), speed ⚡️ (right below the attack attribute) and health point (at the right bottom section of the card).
The big question now is what is the best effective way to win this ruleset? If you guys have your own strategy, feel free to put it in the comment section and let's have discussion. In my opinion, since all of the skills are removed that means all monsters are losing their ability 💥 to counter the opponent attack, so the best way to win this ruleset is to use ultimate attack 🗡. and the king👑 of ultimate attack is the legendary fire 🔥 summoner that we all already know, Yodin Zaku 🦊 (because of his blast effect).
- The
Blast
ability will give additional damage the monster next to the target 🎯 so it's a bonus damage which could never be negated since the opponent monster doesn't has the reflection shield
ability due to back to basic ruleset.
Well, This article will be discussing about how to use Yodin Zaku 🦊 effectively at Back to Basics ruleset effectively and we could even think about how to anticipate if the opponent is using the yodin counter like Lir Deepswimmer 💦 or Ilthain 💨. Alright guys and gals, Let's get started :
Rulesets
There are 3 rulesets in this battle, Here they are :
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Alright, so the ruleset which has the biggest impact to the battle is keep your distance 
which means that we can only use ranged 🎯 and magic 🔮 monsters in the battle field. Since ranged attack could not attack in the first position, so we have to utilize magic monster in the frontline especially magic monster with very high health point ♥️ in the first position as a tank. at normal ruleset, we can counter the opponent's magic monsters using silence 
and void 
but since the ruleset is back to basics these abilities are not available so we have no other choice except killing the opponent first.
Another ruleset is Taking Sides 
, well this ruleset will prevent us to use neutral monster in the battle field so we have to remember the meta cards of all splinter very well. Meta is the most used cards, the example is Deeplurker 🐬 for water splinter, Fineas Rage 🗡 for Fire Splinter, Queen Mycelia 👑 for Earth Splinter, Pelacor Conjurer 💨 for Life splinter, Cursed Windeku 👿 for Death splinter and Dragon Jumper 🐉 for Dragon Splinter. Well I think everyone has their own meta preference, these cards I have mentioned are the meta cards in my version.
Mana and Splinters
The battle consisted of 47 mana, well high enough for gold league where we can arrange pretty nice team with good combo and support between each monsters. There are only 2 splinters available, Fire 🔥 and Life 💨. We can suspect which summoner that the opponent might use based on the splinters given. At Fire Splinter, the most probably used summoners are Jacek, Yodin, Scargore and at Life Splinter, the most likely summoner to be used are General Sloan, Grand Master Rathe, and Ilthain. Well, among all of those summoners, Yodin 🦊 is the deadliest summoner with his blast effect so that's the reason I used him in the battle. We can always use this kind of mathod in every match.
Summoner
Level 3 Yodin Zaku
effect to all of friendly monsters, additional +1 Health points ♥️ and +1 ranged damage 🎯. In the battle where there's no water, life and Dragon available for the match, this summoner is very dangerous since there will be No Lir Deepswimmer 💦, Quix 🐉 the Devious and Ilthain 💨 to counter this summoner. Tips 💡
Be careful using Yodin Zaku when Water, Life and Dragon available in the battle because the opponent can use Lir, Ilthain or Quix to counter Yodin Zaku.
First Monster
Level 6 Efreet Elder
, we have to put monsters in the order from the highest HP to the lowest HP. This way we can protect 🛡 monsters with low HP from being killed too early in the battlefield. He has 2 magic 🔮 attack which can inflict 3 damage to the enemies due to the blast effect. Tips 💡
In Back to basic ruleset, make sure to put monsters in the order from the highest HP to the lowest HP to protect monsters with low HP
Second Monster
Level 3 Ifrit Rising
which makes him skip every other round. Well, he does double ⚡️ damage but the way he skip his round makes him very vulnerable to be the target of being attacked 🎯 by the opponent and died 🚑 before he shot his attack. However, in back to basics ruleset, he could attack in every round and with his 9 Health Points, He is good enough to be the second tank 🚂 monster. Tips 💡
Ifrit Rising barely used in normal match due to his recharge but in back to basics he is such a good tank monster with his 9 HP
Third Monster
Level 6 Djinn Apprentice
Tips 💡
Always put monster with lowest HP at the backmost of line-up (regarding their type of attack).
Forth Monster
Level 6 Ash Mirage
ability outside of back to basics ruleset to reduce the opponent's ranged damage by -1 but at the current match, that ability is neglected. He has 6 Health point which makes me put him at the forth position to hold 🛡 the opponent attack first. Another Ash Mirage strength is his speed ⚡️ (5) which makes all of his attack has high chance to hit the enemy. Tips 💡
Putting monster in order from highest to lowest HP should be implemented not only for magic monsters but also ranged monsters too.
Fifth Monster
Level 5 Lava Launcher
ability, keep in mind that at back to basics ruleset, monsters are losing all of his abilities which cause this monster only able to attack from the backline just like the other ranged monsters. Tips 💡
Putting monster in order from highest to lowest HP should be implemented not only for magic monsters but also ranged monsters too.
Sixth Monster
Level 6 Ferexia General
Tips 💡
Put monster who have the lowest HP in the last position
Alright, all the line up has been explained, Now let's move to the battlefield and see how the strong Yodin Zaku team at Back to basics ruleset.
Here is the battle looks like in the first round :
I think the battle is unmatched started from the beginning. The ruleset was "Keep Your Distance" where all melee monsters are not available to be used in the battlefield but the opponent used Tarsa and she is not giving any melee buff to fire team, only additional 1 health point. Meanwhile, The Yodin team have 3 buffs, additional +1 ranged damage, +1 health point and blast effect. The team also have monsters who have highest HP ♥️ in order from the highest to the lowest which protect monster with the lowest HP from being attacked too early.
The Power of Blast effect
At Back to Basics ruleset the reflection shield is not available to be used in the battle that means no counter for Blast attack so Yodin is over powered in the battle even if the opponent is using summoner with return fire like Ilthain they are still not able to return the magic damage back to the opponent so that's the reason why Yodin team is the deadliest 😈 summoner at Back to basic ruleset. Here is the link if you want to see the complete battle, Enjoy :
Well, I am so grateful with the last End of Season reward chests because I got so many Soulbound Summoner Cards, 6 BCX Lobb Lowland 🍃, 2 BCX Pembrook Nymph 💦 and 12 BCX Eternan Brune 🔥. It really boost my Soulbound summoners into the next level, currently my Lobb Lowland is at lv.5, Pembrook Nymph at Lv.3, Eternan Brune at lv.4, Franz Rufmane at lv.1, Octavia Shadowmeld at lv.2, and Helios Matriach at lv.2. I think all if them are ready for Bronze tournament except the life splinter but if dragon 🐉 splinter is available then it won't be a problem. Another cool reward from EOS chests was the 2 BCX of legendary water 💦 card, Musa Saline. I need to figure out how to use that card soon.
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