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BATTLE LINK -- January 25, 2025 -- Day 25 of 365 vs.
Today's battle is another from Modern Champion League, as I spent my weekend free time doing more than just my tournament battles. Hopefully, I will be able to improve my 62% Modern win rate from last season!
The 27-mana battle had three rulesets: Shades of Grey, Tis but Scratches, and Close Range. Only two elements were excluded, Life and Earth, so we were safe from worrying about Tofu as the opposing summoner. My opponent opted for the speed and protection of Kelya, while I decided to prioritize attack power and life leech by selecting Lorkus.
Bandano, a KoG alliance account in our Guardians guild, leaned into the speed of his team by doubling down on swiftness with the null attack monster, Clockwork Aide. But there was no threat from Venka, instead poison attacks to the back with Uraeus and to the front with Dr. Blight. Interestingly, Uraeus was the only similar monster we had in this neutrals-only battle, when there is typically more overlap in this somewhat narrow selection of cards for battle.
Today's featured card is the Chaos Legion common, Supply Runner, who is known for his speed and the swiftness bonus he provides for your team. That swiftness ability is even more important in Shades of Grey, when it can make the difference determining whose lineup of neutrals gets to attack first.
Not only does Supply Runner speed up the attacks of my whole team, but it is also fast enough to get its range attack in before Venka. This comes in clutch when the opposing tank has Divine Shield or high health to protect it from a trampling attack from Venka.
In this battle, Runner hit for just enough damage on Xenith Monk to destroy the armor and shrink its max health by one because of cripple. Crucially, this got Monk's health down to 8, so that Venka was able to kill it in a single attack and then trample over to take out the Aide with a huge 14-point attack. Clearing out the first two monsters with my first two attacks left the middle part of my opponent's lineup exposed to the support monsters I brought along to help out.
By the time Venka got to attack in Round 2, it was able to take out the Gem Meteor and trample over the Venari Marksrat too, leaving Bandano with only Dr. Blight on his side. This was too much to ask for even the powerful Chaos Legion prerelease promo.
In neutral-only battles, one needs to properly plan for Venka or be prepared to die to her deadly trample attack. In this case, the best defense was a good offense because speed kills. Thanks to Supply Runner for getting us the fast start we needed to take this one home.
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