No Abilities? Summoners Can Give You Some When its Back to Basics

Hello there! @Saydie here, playing Splinterlands everyday!

I'm here for this week's Battle Mage Secrets with the featured ruleset Back to Basics. It is a ruleset that makes all monster lose their abilities.

The Battle that I will show to you this week was from Hive account@bltzr-wizard-726 which is a scholar account I'm playing from Balthazar Guild with max level Chaos Legion deck which placed 38^th on the leaderboard last season and was currently playing on Diamond League but before I show you the battle, let us learn more about this ruleset.

• The ruleset places importance on Magic and Ranged attacks as melee attacks loose their ability to hit outside of the first position.

• The choice of summoner will be vital for this ruleset as monsters can gain additional abilities and stats that would not be affected by the rule set.

• Back row monsters are safe from enemy's Sneak, Snipe and Opportunity attacks.

• Select monsters with high speed and choose a summoner that increases damage or defense against Magic or Ranged attacks.

• Lining up monsters in ascending order of their health is the way to go.

• The levels of summoners and monsters also greatly affects the outcome of the battle since the higher the level of the summoner and monsters are the higher the stats they have.

Ruleset

Conditions	Description
Diamond League Modern Format	24 Mana Cap Available Elements: Fire, Death, Earth, Dragon
Equalizer	The initial Health of all Monsters is equal to that of the Monster on either team with the highest base Health.
Holy Protection	All Monsters have the Divine Shield ability.
Back To Basics	Monsters lose all abilities.

Opponent's Line- up

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

My Team

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

For this battle, we have Back to Basics which is the featured ruleset that gives +2 armor on all monsters, similar to Protect ability together with Born Again and Rise of the Commons. With this in consideration, my lineup was consist of:

• Summoner: Astral Entity - Reduces the armor of all opponent monster by -2 and gives the Dodge ability that gives all ally monsters 25% chance to evade melee and range attacks while Resurrect allows an allied monsters to be revived once.
  
  

• 1^st Position: Position**: Wily Coyotian - For 2 mana, this card has decent amount of armor and health combined with its speed allows it to attack faster and increase the chance to evade attacks.
  
  

• 2^nd Position: Chaos Agent - A 1 mana card that although does not have an attack, also excels in terms of speed, increasing the chance to dodge attacks..
  
  

• 3^rd Position: Life Sapper - A 3 mana magic card with decent speed.
  
  

• 4^th Position: Xenith Archer - A 2 mana card range with decent speed.
  
  

• 5^th Position: Dhampir Stalker - Quite fast but most importantly, it got high damage output and decent health.
  
  

• 6^th Position: Soul Strangler was the last card which only cost 3 mana but also has high damage output.
  
  

Round 1:

^7-8/17 Regal Peryton Shatters the armor of Wily Coyotian and removes its Divine Shield.

^9-13/17 Life Sapper removes the Divine Shield of Mycelic Morphoid followed by an attack from Xenith Archer, Dhampir Stalker and Wily Coyotian that defeated it.

^14/17 Soul Strangler removes the Divine Shield of Fungus Fiend.

^15-17/17 Magi of Chaos and Djinn Biljka deals 7 damage on Wily Coyotian.

Round 2:

^1-3/13 Regal Peryton defeats Wily Coyotian but was revive with Resurrect.

^4-8/13 Life Sapper, Xenith Archer, Dhampir Stalker and Soul Strangler defeats Fungus Fiend.

^9-13/13 Magi of Chaos and Djinn Biljka defeats Wily Coyotian

Round 3:

^1/8 Regal Peryton removes the Divine Shield on Chaos Agent.

^2-6/8 Life Sapper, Xenith Archer, Dhampir Stalker and Soul Strangler defeats Hill Giant.

^11-23/23 Magi of Chaos and Djinn Biljka deals 7 damage on Chaos Agent.

Round 4:

^1-2/9 Regal Peryton defeats Chaos Agent.

^3-7/9 SLife Sapper, Dhampir Stalker and Soul Strangler defeats Regal Peryton.

^8-9/9 Djinn Biljka deals 3 damage on Life Sapper.

Round 5 and 6:

^1/6 Regal Peryton Shatters the armor and deals 2 damage on Silent Sha-vi.

^2-6/6 Life Sapper, Xenith Archer, Dhampir Stalker and Soul Strangler defeats Djinn Biljka.

With round 6, because my team got better speed, they were able to attack first which resulted to the defeat of Magi of Chaos.

When it comes to the Back to Basics ruleset, it was only monsters that lose their abilities. This does not affect the summoners so choosing its best to consider choosing the optimal summoner that can give you the best ability for the given battle.

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