Intense Melee Battle When Spell gets Countered

Hello there! @Saydie here, playing Splinterlands everyday!

I'm here for this week's Battle Mage Secrets with the featured ruleset Counterspell. This is a ruleset that gives Magic Reflect ability on all monsters.

The Battle that I will show to you this week was from Hive account@bltzr-wizard-726 which is the scholar account I'm playing from Balthazar Guild in partnership with Side Door Ventures and was currently playing on Diamond League of the Modern format but before I reveal the battle, let us learn more about this ruleset.

• With Magic Reflect, when Magic damage hit the target, this ability does reduced Magic damage back to the attacker.

• Deals damage equivalent to the attacker's damage divided by 2, rounded up.

• For the summoner, Owster Rotwell gives the same ability on monsters so better not use this card when this ruleset was active.

Ruleset

Conditions	Description
Diamond League Modern Format	55 Mana Cap Available Elements: Fire, Water, Death, Dragon
What Doesn't Kill You	All Monsters have the Enrage ability.
Super Sneak	All Melee attack Monsters have the Sneak ability.
Counterspell	All monsters have the Magic Reflect ability.

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 55 mana cap that we can use where the active rulesets were What Doesn't Kill You, Super Sneak and Counterspell which is this weeks featured ruleset. With this in consideration, my lineup was consist of:

• Summoner: Kelya Frendul - Gives +1 speed and armor on all ally monsters which will provide more protection since the opponent will likely to use either melee or range on this battle.
  
  

• 1^st Position: Bakkjira - As my primary tank, Baakjira not only has a good amount of health but also got Heal which allows it to restore the damage it takes and Strengthen that give ally monsters +1 health as long as it stays alive. At the same time, it got Slow that will reduce the speed of all opponent monsters and Void that would reduce the damage it receives from magic attacks.
  
  

• 2^nd Position: Kulu Mastermind - Since there was the Super Sneak ruleset, it cannot use Opportunity which supposed to allow it to target the monster with the lowest health but what it can do was give damage on monsters with no attack using Weapons Training and it also can reduce damage from melee and range attacks using Shield.
  
  

• 3^rd Position: Noa the Just - This monster have no damage so it can be trained with Weapons training. At the same time, it got Rust which reduce the armor of all opponent monsters together with Dodge which increases its evasion chance by 25% and if this card evades an attack, the attacker will receive damage due to Backfire.
  
  

• 4^th Position: Deeplurker Also can't use Opportunity but what this card have was Poison which gives 50% chance to inflict poison on the target and Demoralize which reduces the melee damage of all opponents by -1.
  
  

• 5^th Position: Coastal Sentry - A good melee card that have the Double Strike ability, allowing it to attack twice per turn together with Pierce which allows the extra damage it inflicted to the targets armor to damage the opponent's health. When the target was stunned, this may even deal twice its original damage since it has the Knockout ability.
  
  

• 6^th Position: Arkemis the Bear - Provides +2 armor on all ally monsters with the use of Protect ability and has Halving that halves the damage of the target. When this card was attacked by monsters with 5 or more damage, it will only received 1 that is due to its Forcefield ability.
  
  

Round 1:

^16-18/33 Noa the Just removes the armor of Arkemis the Bear followed by another 8 damage by Coastal Sentry which activates the Enrage for Arkemis the Bear.

^19-20/47 The Opponents Arkemis the Bear deals 1 armor damage to my Arkemis the Bear and use Halving to reduce its damage.

^21-24/33 Deeplurker defeats Arkemis the Bear. which reduces the armor of the enemy team.

^25-26/33 Arkemis the Bear removes the armor of Runi and halves its damage with Halving.

^27-29/33 Forgotten One and Ferox Defender deals 2 damae on Arkemis the Bear while restoring the armor of Runi.

^30/33 Baakjira deals 2 damage on Tusk the Wide which activates its Enrage, increasing its speed and damage.

^31/33 Tusk the Wide deals 2 damage on Baakjira.

^32-33/33 Runi deals 2 damage to Arkemis the Bear.

Round 2:

^1-7/18 Arkemis the Bear, Noa the Just and Coastal Sentry defeats Runi even when it uses its Rebirth to resurrect again.

^8-9/18 Baakjira uses Heal to get back its health then deals 2 damage to Tusk the Wide.

^10-13/18 Kulu Mastermind and Deeplurker removes the armor of Forgotten One but its Retaliate deals 1 damage to Kulu Mastermind and 4 damage to Deeplurker.

^14-16/18 Forbidden One and Ferox Defender deals 4 damage on Arkemis the Bear.

^17-18/18 Tusk the Wide deals 5 damage to Baakjira.

Round 3:

^1-10/20 Kulu Mastemind, Deeplurker, Arkemis the Bear and Noa the Just defeats Forgotten One but its retaliate cause the defeat of Deaplurker and 2 damage from Noa the Just.

^11-14/20 Coastal Sentry deals 4 damage on Disintegrator which activates its Enrage then deal 6 armor damage on Coastal Sentry with Retaliate.

^15-16/20 Baakjira uses Heal to get back its health then deals 2 damage to Tusk the Wide.

^17/20 Disintegrator deals 1 damage to Arkemis the Bear

^18-19/20 Ferox Defender Repair the armor of Disintegrator.

^20/20 Tusk the Wide deals 6 damage on Baakjira.

Round 4 and 5:

^1-7/16 Noa the Just and Kulu Mastermind defeats Disintegrator.

^8-13/16 Arkemis the Bear and Coastal Sentry defeats Ferox Defender.

^14-16/16 Baakjira uses Heal to get back its health then deals 5 damage to Tusk the Wide.

^10-13/15 Angelic Mandarin and Kulu Mastemind deals 4 damage to Bloodmaker.

^14-15/15 Baakjira restores its health using Heal.

Due to the difference in speed which is further enhance by Enrage, Noa the Just deals the finishing blow to Tusk the Wide dealing a total of 5 damage against its remaining 3 health, ending the battle in my victory.

Since there is the less possibility of the opponent to use Magic monsters with Counterspell being the active ruleset, The strategy I made is to focus my team on mostly melee monsters and some no damage monsters that was given an attack with Weapons Training since they were allowed to attack the backline due to Super Sneak and as you can see, my strategy works very well on this setup.

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