Introduction
Hello there! @Saydie here, playing Splinterlands everyday!
I'm here for this week's Battle Mage Secrets with the featured ruleset Odd Ones Out. It is a ruleset were only Monsters with odd Mana costs may be used in battles.
The Battle that I will show to you this week was from my bltzr-wizard-726@crimepoet account which is my alternate account using Max level Chaos Legion card delegation from NFTY Arcade. Before I show you the battle, let us learn more about this ruleset.
Also in this post are the details on how to get a free weekly SPS delegation. You can read the details below.
Odd Ones Out
 Odd Ones Out | Only Monsters with odd Mana costs may be used in battles. There are no special tricks for this ruleset, but having an idea of mana points of a few monsters helps in predicting what your opponent can and cannot use. |
Cards of Consideration
When selecting a team, there would be times that due to monsters having odd mana cost the monsters we can place in the monster slots became limited and on times like this 1- mana cards could be serve to fill this empty slots.
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Revealing Battle Conditions and Team Lineup
Rule Set
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 Diamond League Modern Format | 17 Mana Cap Available Elements:  Fire,  Water,  Life,  Dragon |
 Silenced Summoners |  Summoner do not give any stat buffs or debuffs or grant/use any abilities. |
Evens Stevens | Only Monsters with odd Mana costs may be used in battles. |
 Rise of the Commons | Only Common and Rare Monsters may be used in battles. |
Opponent's Line- up
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My Team
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For this battle, we have the featured rule set Odd Ones Out that limits the use of monsters to those with odd mana together with Rise of The Commons that limits the use of monsters to common and rare rarity while summoner abilities cannot be used due to Silent Summoner. Given this conditions, my lineup was consist of.
Summoner: I used Kelya Frendul so that I can use water team but due to the effects of the rule set, its status buffs will not be activated.
1st Position: Cruel Sethropod was a decent low mana tank with 7 health and 6 armor although it does not have any abilities it can use.
2nd Position: Merdaali Guardian was a non-damage card with Strengthen that would increase the health of all allied monsters. At the same time, it got the Tank Heal to restore the health of the frontline monster and Repair that can restore the armor of an allied monster.
3rd Position: Pelacor Bandit has Flying that gives it 25% dodge chance while the Sneak allows it to target backline monster of the opponent team.
4th Position: Angelic Madarin has the Triage ability to restore the health of backline monster and Silence will reduce the magic attack of all opponent monster.
5th Position: Chaos Agent was a non-damage 1 mana card with the Dodge ability that will give it 25% dodge chance and with Phase, it can also evade magic attacks while returning damage to the attacker that misses their attack with Backfire.
Revealing the Battle
Round 1:
5/14 Pelacor Bandit deals 4 damage on Angelic Mandarin.
6-7/14 The opponent's Pelacor Bandit attacks my Chaos Agent but was able to evade which activates its Backfire and inflicts 2 damage on Pelacor bandit.
8-10/14 Both Angelic Mandarin deals 2 armor damage each on Cruel Sethropod but the opponent's Angelic Mandarin also use Triage on itself to heal 2 damage.
11-12/14 Both Merdaali Guardian Restores the armor of Cruel Sethropod with Repair.
13-14/14 Both Cruel Sethropod attack each other but my card was able to deal 3 armor damage while the opponent only inflict 2 armor damage due to the damage difference of the card due to level stats.
Round 2:
1-2/10 My Pelacor Bandit deals 4 damage on Angelic Mandarin while the opponent deals 4 damage on Chaos Agent.
3-6/10 My Angelic Mandarin applies Triage on Chaos Agent while the opponent applies Triage on itself, healing 2 health each then proceeds to attacking Cruel Sethropod for 2 damage each.
7-8/10 Both Merdaali Guardian Restores the armor of Cruel Sethropod with Repair.
9-10/10 Both Cruel Sethropod attack each other but my card was able to deal 3 armor damage while the opponent only inflict 2 armor damage due to the damage difference of the card due to level stats and has leave the opponent with no armor.
Round 3:
1-5/11 My Pelacor Bandit defeats Angelic Mandarin while the opponent defeats my Chaos Agent.
7-8/10 Angelic Mandarin deals 2 damage on Cruel Sethropod but was healed by Meddaali Guardian and restore 2 armor.
9/10 My Merdaali Guardian Repairs 2 armor of Cruel Sethropod
9-10/10 Both Cruel Sethropod attack each other but my card was able to deal 3 armor damage while the opponent only inflict 2 armor damage due to the damage difference of the card due to level stats and has leave the opponent with no armor.
Round 4:
1-4/10 My Pelacor Bandit defeats Pelacor Bandit after it deals 4 damage on my Angelic Mandarin.
5-6/10 Angelic Mandarin restores 2 health and deals 2 damage on Cruel Sethropod.
7-8/10 Both Merdaali Guardian Restores the armor of Cruel Sethropod with Repair with the opponent also restore its health.
9-10/10 Both Cruel Sethropod attack each other but my card was able to deal 3 armor damage while the opponent only inflict 2 armor damage due to the damage difference of the card due to level stats and has leave the opponent with no armor.
Round 5:
1/8 My Pelacor Bandit deals 4 damage on Merdaali Guardian.
2-3/8 Angelic Mandarin recovers its full health and attacks Cruel Sethropod with 2 damage.
4-6/8 Both Merdaali Guardian Restores the armor of Cruel Sethropod with Repair with the opponent also restore its health.
7-8/10 Both Cruel Sethropod attack each other but my card was able to deal 3 armor damage while the opponent only inflict 2 armor damage due to the damage difference of the card due to level stats and has leave the opponent with no armor.
Round 6:
1-3/7 My Pelacor Bandit defeats Merdaali Guardian.
4/7 Angelic Mandarin attacks Cruel Sethropod with 2 damage.
5/7 Merdaali Guardian Restores the armor of Cruel Sethropod with Repair.
6-7/7 Both Cruel Sethropod attack each other but my card was able to deal 3 damage while the opponent only inflict 2 armor damage due to the damage difference of the card due to level stats and has leave the opponent with no armor.
Round 6:
1-2/5 My Pelacor Bandit defeats Chaos Agent.
3-4/5 Angelic Mandarin defeats Cruel Sethropod and finishes the battle.
Battle Recap
Here is a replay of the battle which at you can watch at Splinterlands.
Did your Strategy Work?
How many odd coincidence there is that you fought someone you know in battle with the almost identical lineup on a Odd Ones Out ruleset? I don't know but this was a great battle and I only have won against my opponent because he's got a lower level card, the difference in the lineup positioning and the RNG in the beginning that causes his Pelacor Bandit to receive damage and it also emphasize my point to use 1 mana card as long as you have the extra mana and an available monster slot to place your monster.
That was it for this post. Thank you and see you at the next one.
Previous Battles
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Card abilities and rulesets from Splintercards
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