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BATTLE LINK -- January 24, 2025 -- Day 24 of 365 vs.
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My opponent made the popular choice, the legendary Dragon summoner Quix, who combines headwinds and slow for an effective package in this ruleset. They paired Dragon with Water, and ended up with three of the same monsters as me in their lineup: Drybone Barbarian, Angelic Mandarin, and Wave Brood.
To be honest, these three monsters are typically auto-includes in range-only battles. Barbarian provides a double-strike melee attack, while Mandarin teams up to triage the beefy taunt monster Wave Brood. Wave Brood is especially powerful in these battles because it taunts all attacks and has return fire to deal reflection damage to all the range attackers. I leaned into that strategy even harder than my opponent, and it won me the battle!
The featured card of the battle is the rare Rebellion Water tactic summoner, Prophet Rosa, who I used to give Wave Brood shield. Providing Wave Brood shield halves the damage of range attacks and makes the Water taunt monster almost unkillable when paired with Mandarin's triage ability. Water has two great options to weaken the opponent's attack.
The new common Rebellion reward card, Mar-Toren Trader, has headwinds and self-heal for an efficient 3-mana cost. Even more important is the Rebellion legendary, Endura Brune, who brings a wealth of impactful support abilities. To start, Brune has headwinds, but don't overlook its swiftness, and especially not its amplify! Combined with the return fire from Wave Brood, amplify deals extra reflection damage, which adds up quickly in a range-only battle.
Crucially in Round 2, my opponent's Barbarian attacked first and killed mine, meaning my opponent controlled all the damage output from 1st position. My only route to victory was sustaining my Wave Brood long enough to deal lethal reflection damage to all of my opponent's monsters combined with the random scattershot attacks from Coastal Nymph.
Last but not least, the scattershot from Nymph also played an important support role in the victory. Both of us brought a taunt strategy leveraging the return fire of Wave Brood, so Nymph's scattershot attack evades taunt to deal damage to more vulnerable monsters. Nymph dealt a crucial hit to Mandarin in Round 2 and Battle Mage in Round 3, which allowed Wave Brood to finish the job.
Once I got their triage monster off the board, they could not keep up with the damage threat from Wave Brood's reflection damage. Barbarian was a threat to take me out from the front but did not have enough time to finish the job. A shielded Wave Brook strikes again. Be careful, you've been warned!
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