When playing Splinterlands, there are times when I thought that my team would lose the match, upon seeing my opponent's lineup, and seems to counter my cards. So since I think that the battle would turn out against my favor, rather than watching, I would rather skip the battle. Then all of a sudden, I saw the result, and turns out that I win the battle. Because I do not know how I was able to reverse that situation, I will watch that battle then to review my strategy.
So, for this week's Community Engagement Challenge, I want to share one of such battles where I though I was at a disadvantage but suddenly got a #battlefieldbreakthroughs and lets me win the match.
Battlefield Rulesets
Rulesets are the modifiers that changes how a player will build their lineup with the cards at their disposal. In the match that I'm about to share, there are two rulesets at play, aside from the 30 mana cap and with both teams allowed to play all elements except from Water.
With the Wand Out ruleset, players can only summon units with magic attacks. Playing with magic units means that most of the attacks were unavoidable unless someone has Phase.
Armored Up on the other hand gives all players + 2 armor before the battle starts. Since we are both playing with magic units, It does not really do much unless one has the Void Armor ability.
My Breakthrough Lineup
Since I do not have all the cards and checking my opponent's previous plays as well as the rulesets available, I was almost certain I do not have a play that could win the battle, But I do not just want to give my opponent a free win, so rather than to surrender, I just sent the best possible team I could play with the deck I had. It consist of:
Since it was a battle between magic units, the obvious Archon to use is someone that can increase the magic of its units like Lorkus. Sad to say, I do not have Lorkus or to be more precise, I do not have it at max level. I do have Cryptic though, so I just used that with it's Poison and Expose ability. The -1 speed is nice but it do not really make difference when fighting against magic which does not miss most of the time as well as with Blind.
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Main Tank: Dark Arborist- Serves as a good magic tank for only 4 mana as it has Void which halves the magic damage it receives and Magic Reflect that returns the attack to the opponent.
2nd Unit: Ujurak Elder- Does not serves much as an attack unit but it can at least increase the health of all my units using Strengthen.
3rd Unit: Arachne Weaver- Up to 70% health on any of my cards that got damage but will reduce their health by 1 each time they are healed.
4th Unit: Chaos Adjutant- Has the Scattershot ability which attacks cards randomly each turn and might as well afflict the opponent with Poison.
5th Unit: Baron Fyatt- Also has Scattershot and has Halving that halves the attack of the opponent unit hit by this card.
Even by looking at this, you would not think of it as a proper team with 4 out of the 5 cards all soulbound rewards that also does not have any decent attack power.
Battle Showcase
After sharing you what my team is like, I may as well show you the entirety of the battlefield, which upon looking, you may come up with the same conclusion that It was a unwinnable battle. Right of the bat, the opponent uses a unit with Silence ability that reduces my damage by 1 and Void that can half the damage they received. But since all my damage were turned into 1, every time that I hit my opponent's unit, my damage will becomes 0 and will make no damage to my opponent. I could make some damage through the Scattershot but my opponent also has Corrupted Healing to cover for that and at the same time, they have Affliction which will prevent my cards from healing.
Ambush Round:
My victory was probably becomes clear during the Ambush round with Baron Fyatt taking a hit to Inept Healer that turns it's damage to 1 and Poison it, but because it has Magic Reflect, I had to received 2 damage from attacking it.
Round 1:
Furthermore, in round 1, Inept Healer was attacked once again by Chaos Adjutant, taking away the opponent's healer, while Ujurak Elder was able to removed the Void ability on Nalara Geinek
Round 5:
I do not want to repeat the same thing, so I moved it to the final round, where my team takes the win when it finally beats the opponent's last card. It becomes possible because I was able to remove the Void of the opponent and the Silence that reduces my team's magic. That said, I still lost two of my cards against the opponent.
Closing
Sometimes, we faced battles that we thought we could not win, no matter how much we tried. But with some luck, even with a bad lineup, we can sometimes snatch victory from the jaws of defeat, thanks to the RNG Gods.
Thank you, and see you on the next post!
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