Introduction
Hello there! 
This will be my first entry for this weeks Battle Mage Secrets with the featured ruleset Five Alive. This is a ruleset allows the use of up to five monsters in battle.
The Battle that I will show to you this week was from 
Five Alive
 Five Alive | Up to five Units can be used in the battle. |
Basically, this ruleset was similar to Fab Four but with a more monster to be used and on Standard ruleset with one less monster useable but both players gains no specific advantage nor disadvantage with this ruleset.
Revealing Battle Conditions and Team Lineup
Ruleset
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 Diamond League Modern Format | 21 Mana Cap Available Elements:  Fire,  Water,  Death,  Dragon |
Five Alive | Up to five Units can be used in the battle. |
 Super Sneak | All Melee attack Monsters have the  Sneak ability. |
 Born Again | All monsters have the Rebirth ability. |
Opponent's Line- up
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My Team
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This battle has a 21 mana cap to use for cards where the active ruleset were Super Sneak, Born Again and the featured ruleset for this week which was Five Alive. With this in consideration, my lineup was consist of:
Summoner: Lily Shieldpaw - Aside from giving +1 health on all ally monsters, this summoner gives the Camouflage ability which makes backline monsters unable to be attacked directly and has the Triage ability which allows it to restore the health of backline monsters that receives damage.
- 1st Position: Baakjira - A non- damage monster with excellent hit points which also have Heal to restore its health and Strengthen that increases the health of all ally monsters. It also has Void which reduces the damage from magic attacks and Slow that reduces the speed of all opponent monsters.
2nd Position: Torrent Fiend A 0- mana cost monster which has the Headwinds ability, reducing the range damage of the opponent.
33d Position: Merdaali Guardian - Another non-damage monster which have the Tank Heal ability which restores the health of the tank monsters and Strengthen to add +1 hit points to all ally monsters. It also has Repair which restores the armor of an ally monster.
4th Position: River Nymph - With Amplify, it can increase reflected damage by +1 and Swiftness which increases the speed of all ally monsters by +1 but for this battle, its Cleanse serves an important role for removing negative status effects on the tank monster.
5th Position: Igor Darkspear - We can say that this is my strongest attacker with 3 damage and has the Stun ability, which can prevent the target for attacking for a turn but does not have much use in this battle.
Revealing the Battle
Round 1- 20:
13/21 Pelacor Bandit deals 4 damage on Baakjira.
14-16/21 River Nymph deals 1 damage on Grimbardun Smith while Igor Darkspear deals 2 armor damage on it.
17/21 Baakjira Restore its health.
18-19/21 Meadaali Guardian restores the health and armor of Grimbardun Smith.
20-21/30 Igor Darkspear and Hardy Sotonefish deals 4 damage on Baakjira and afflicted it with Stun.
From rounds 2-20, pretty much the same stuff happen in the battle with a few alterations such as when Baakjira was Stunned by Igor Darkspear which it cannot use its Heal where as River Nymph will use Cleanse to remove the Stun on it but the status of battle remains the same just like on round 1.
Round 21:
1-10/23 All monsters lose 1 health due to fatigue.
11-12/23 Both Lily Shieldpaw uses Triage to restore the health of Pelacor Bandit and my Torrent Fiend.
13/23 Medaali Guardian restores the health of Baakjira.
14/23 Pelcaor Bandit deals 4 damage on Baakjira.
15-18/23 River Nymph Cleanse the Stun on Baakjira and deals 1 damage to Grimbardun Smith followed by 2 armor damage from Igor Darkspear.
19/23 Baakjira restores its health.
20-21/23 Merdaali Guardian restores the health and armor of Grimbardun Smith.
22-23/23 Igor Darkspear and Hardy Stonefish deals 4 damage to Baakjira.
Round 22:
1-10/22 All monsters lose 2 health due to fatigue.
11-12/22 Both Lily Shieldpaw uses Triage to restore the health of Hardy Stonefish and my Merdaali Guardian.
13/22 Medaali Guardian restores the health of Baakjira.
14/22 Pelcaor Bandit deals 4 damage on Baakjira.
15-17/22 River Nymph deals 1 damage to Grimbardun Smith followed by 2 armor damage from Igor Darkspear.
18/22 Baakjira restores its health.
19-20/22 Merdaali Guardian restores the health and armor of Grimbardun Smith.
21-22/22 Igor Darkspear and Hardy Stonefish deals 4 damage to Baakjira and afflicted it with Stun.
Round 23:
1-18/31 All monsters lose 3 health due to fatigue which resulted on the defeat of Merdaali Guardian and my Torrent Fiend but was resurrected due to Rebirth.
19-20/31 Both Lily Shieldpaw uses Triage to restore the health of Igor Darkspearand my River Nymph.
21/31 Medaali Guardian restores the health of Baakjira.
22/31 Pelcaor Bandit deals 4 damage on Baakjira.
23-26/31 River Nymph deals 1 damage to Grimbardun Smith followed by 2 armor damage from Igor Darkspear.
27/31 Baakjira restores its health.
28-29/31 Merdaali Guardian restores the health and armor of Grimbardun Smith.
30-31/31 Igor Darkspear and Hardy Stonefish deals 4 damage to Baakjira.
Round 24:
1-30/40 All monsters lose 4 health due to fatigue which resulted on the defeat of all monsters aside from Baakjira and Grimbardun Smith but Pelacor Bandit, Hardy Stonefish and Igor Darkspear from the opponent side and Merdaali Guardian, River Nymph and Igor Darkspear from my side resurrects due to Rebirth.
31-32/40 Both Lily Shieldpaw uses Triage to restore the health of Pelacor bandit and my Igor Darkspear.
33/40 Medaali Guardian restores the health of Baakjira.
34/40 Pelcaor Bandit deals 4 damage on Baakjira.
35-36/40 River Nymph deals 1 damage to Grimbardun Smith followed by 2 armor damage from Igor Darkspear.
37/40 Baakjira restores its health.
38-39/40 Igor Darkspear and Hardy Stonefish deals 4 damage to Baakjira.
40/40 Grimbardun Smith restores its armor with Repair.
Round 25:
1-16/17 All monsters lose 5 health due to fatigue which resulted on the defeat of all monsters aside from Baakjira and Grimbardun Smith.
17/17 Baakjira restores itself using Heal.
Round 26-27:
1-4/5 Monsters receive 6 damage due to Fatigue which resulted to the defeat of Grimbardun Smith but was resurrected with Rebirth.
5/5 Baakjira restores itself using Heal.
And on round 27, both monsters receives 7 damage due to fatigue which resulted for Grimbardun Smith to be defeated, ending the match with Baakjira the only surviving monsters in the battle.
Battle Recap
Here is a replay of the battle which at you can watch at Splinterlands.
Did My Strategy Work?
This battle with Five Alive ruleset was a battle of attrition between Baakjira and Grimbardun Smith which has lasted 27 rounds but at the end, it was Baakjira that prevails given that it has more health and has the Heal ability, allowing it to sustain the damage from fatigue.
That was it for this post. Thank you and see you at the next one.
Previous Battles
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