Fly to Avoid the Shaking Earth

Hello there! @Saydie here, playing Splinterlands everyday!

I'm here for this week's Battle Mage Secrets with the featured ruleset Earthquake. This is a ruleset were all non-flying units received 2 damage at the end of every turn.

The Battle that I will show to you this week was from my Hive account@crimepoet account which is an alternate account I'm using with Nfty Arcade max level CL deck and was playing at the modern format, currently holding the 13^th position on the Diamond Leaderboard. Before I show you the battle, let us learn more about this ruleset.

In order to prevent receiving damage from Earthquake, the easiest option is to use units with Flying ability but if it was not possible, you can instead use monsters with Heal so that they can restore the damage they received from the ruleset or Shield which can reduce Earthquake damage.

Flying	- Has an increased chance of evading Melee or Ranged attacks from Monsters who do not have the Flying ability. - Summoner Brighton Bloom gives this ability to every friendly monster at the start of a battle.

When using Flying units, be wary of the opponent using monsters with Snare cause its target will lose its Flying ability and will received Earthquake damage just like regular units.

Ruleset

Conditions	Description
Diamond League Modern Format	57 Mana Cap Available Elements: Fire, Life, Earth, Dragon
Heavy Hitters	All Monsters have the Knock Out ability.
Are You Not Entertained Yet?	One additional Gladiator card may be used in battles.
Earthquake	Non-flying Monsters take 2 Melee damage at the end of each round.

Opponent's Line- up

Summoner	1st	2nd	3nd	4th	5th	6th

My Team

Summoner	1st	2nd	3nd	4th	5th	6th

For this battle, there's a 57 mana- cap that we can use where the active rulesets were Heavy Hitters, Are You Not Entertained and Earthquake which is this weeks featured ruleset. With this in consideration, my lineup was consist of:

• Summoner: Quix the Devious - Reduces the speed and range attack of all opponent monsters by -1 and was a Dragon summoner that allows me to be able to use Dragon units in combination with my chosen element which in this case was the Life Element.
  
  

• 1^st Position: Uriel the Purifier - As my primary tank, this card possesses a good amount of health and armor while also having the Flying and Recharge ability at level 1 which gives it 25% chance to avoid melee and range attack and also makes it immune to Earthquake where recharge triples its attack but it skips a turn. It also has Heal that allows it to sustain the damage it receives and when it dies, it will deal 1 damage on all opponent monsters using Redemption.
  
  

• 2^nd Position: Adelade Brightwing - With Flying, it can also avoid Earthquake damage while at the same time, it has Repair which restores the armor of an allied monsters and Resurrect which can revive an ally monster. It has Immunity that makes it unaffected by negative status effects and Swiftness which increases the speed of all monsters by +1.
  
  

• 3^3d Position: Venari Marksrat - Has a relatively low health and can receive Earthquake damage but it has Martyr which increases increases the stats of monsters adjacent to it when this card was defeated and it also have Snare which removes the Flying of the target.
  
  

• 4^th Position: Chaos Dragon - Another monsters with Flying with the Scattershot ability at level 1 which randomizes its attack. It also have Blast which deals damage to the adjacent monster to its target and Blind which gives 15% evasion chance to all monsters.
  
  

• 5^th Position: Iziar - Was a monster with Taunt which forces opponent monsters to target this card together with Martyr which will give stat boost when this card was defeated.
  
  

• 6^th Position: Djinn Renova - Although this card has no Flying it has Triage which allows it to restore the health of the backline monsters and Strengthen which gives +1 health on all allied monsters.
  
  

Round 1:

^13-14/29 Runic Skyclaw and Void Dragon deals 4 damage on Iziar.

^15-17/29 Chaos Dragon deals4 damage on my Chaos Dragon with Blast inflicting 2 damage on Venari Marksrat and 1 to Iziar.

^18-19/29 My Chaos Dragon deals 4 damage to Runic Skyclaw with Blast deals 2 damage on Djinn Renova.

^20/29 Iziar deals 2 damage on Uriel the Purifier

^21-22/29 Djinn Renova restores the health of Runic Skyclaw and deals 2 damage on Iziar.

^23-24/29 My Djinn Renova restores the health of Iziar and deals 4 damage on Uriel the Purifier.

^25-26/29 Uriel the Purifier restores its health with Heal but its Flying was removed with Venari Marksrat's Snare.

^27-28/29 Adelade Brightwing restores the armor of Uriel the Purifier and deals 1 damage on Iziar.

^29/29 My Adelade Brightwing deals 2 damage on Uriel the Purifier.

Round 2:

^1-7/27 Monsters without Flying receives Earthquake damage.

^8-9/27 Runic Skyclaw and Void Dragon deals 4 damage on Iziar.

^10-12/27 My Chaos Dragon deals 2 damage on Void Dragon with Blast deals 2 damage on Uriel the Purifier and Adelade Brightwing.

^14-16/27 Chaos Dragon deals 4 damage on my Uriel the Purifier with Blast dealing 2 damage to Adelade Brightwing.

^15/27 Iziar deals 2 damage on Uriel the Purifier.

^16-17/27 Djinn Renova restores its health and deals 2 damage on Iziar.

^18-19/27 My Djinn Renova restores the health of Iziar and deals 4 damage on Uriel the Purifier.

^20-21/27 My Uriel the Purifier restores its health and removes the armor on the opponents Uriel the Purifier.

^22-23/27 Uriel the Purifier restores its health.

^24/27 Venari Marksrat deals 1 damage on Uriel the Purifier.

^25-26/27 Adelade Brightwing Repair the armor of Uriel the Purifier and deals 1 damage on Iziar.

^27/27 My Adelade Brightwing deals 2 damage on Uriel the Purifier.

Round 3:

^1-12/49 Monsters without Flying receives Earthquake damage. which resulted on the death of Venari Marksrat which is revived by Adelade Brightwing which gained stats boost together with Chaos Dragon due to Martyr.

^13-14/49 Runic Skyclaw and Void Dragon deals 4 damage on Iziar.

^15-21/49 Chaos Dragon deals 4 damage on my Adelade Brightwing with 2 Blast damage on Uriel the Purifier and defeats Venari Marksrat that once again increases the stats of Adelade Brightwing and Chaos Dragon due to Martyr.

^22-42/49 Adelade Brightwing and Iziar defeat Uriel the Purifier twice but its Redemption has caused for the defeat of Adelade Brightwing and Iziar which activates its Martyr and increases the stats of Chaos Dragon and Djinn Renova.

^43-44/49 Djinn Renova restores its health and deals 4 damage on Uriel the Purifier.

^45-48/49 My Djinn Renova and Uriel the Purifier restores its health.

^49/49 Adelade Brightwing deals 2 damage to Uriel the Purifier.

Round 4:

^1-3/17 Monsters without Flying receives Earthquake damage.

^4/17 Runic Skyclaw deals 3 armor damage to Chaos Dragon.

^5/17 Void Dragon deals 2 damage to Uriel the Purifier.

^6-10/17 My Chaos Dragon defeats Runic Skyclaw and Djinn Renova.

^11-12/17 Chaos dragon deals 4 damage on Uriel the Purifier and 2 damage on my Chaos Dragon.

^13-14/17 Djinn Renova restores the health of Chaos Dragon and deals 3 damage to Void Dragon.

^15-16/17 Uriel the Purifier restores its health.

^17/17 Adelade Brightwing deals 2 damage on Uriel the Purifier.

Round 5 and 6:

^1-2/15 Monsters without Flying receives Earthquake damage.

^3/15 Void Dragon deals 2 damage to Uriel the Purifier.

^4-7/15 My Chaos Dragon deals 4 damage on Void Dragon with its Blast damage defeats Adelade Brightwing.

^8-9/15 Djinn Renova restores its health.

^10-15/15 Chaos Dragon defeats Uriel the Purifier but its Redemption deals 1 damage to all opponent monsters which resulted to the defeat of Void Dragon.

With the last round, the combined attack from Chaos Dragon and Djinn Renova deals enough damage to defeat the opponents Chaos Dragon which ended the battle in my victory.

With the Earthquake ruleset, the easiest way to avoid the damage it inflicts at the end of the round, the easiest way was to have monsters with Flying ability which half of the units on my team have and although the opponent has more Flying monsters than me, the Snare and Martyr specially help for me to prevail on this situation which is a significant win for me since I was pursuing for the leaderboard specially since the ranked rework will remove it next season.

That was it for this post. Thank you and see you at the next one.