Wands Out: When Mages Battles It Out

Hello there! @Saydie here, playing Splinterlands everyday!

I'm here for this week's Battle Mage Secrets with the featured ruleset Rise of the Commons. It is a ruleset were only Common and Rare Monsters may be used in battles.

The Battle that I will show to you this week was from bltzr-wizard-726 which is the scholar account I'm using from Balthazar Guild with max level gold foil CL deck and was playing at the modern format of the Diamond League. Before I show you the battle, let us learn more about this ruleset.

Among all attack types, magic would be the considered as the strongest one as unlike melee and range, it can attack at any position and unless the monster have void armor, the attack can pass through most armor, directly damaging the targets health. Unless one has Phase, they cannot evade magic attacks regardless of their speed and only Void and Silence were the abilities that can reduce the damage from magic attack.

There are also lots of summoners could be proven to be synergistic with magic units and the question of which one to use will be situation- based.

Summoners for Wands Out

Rule Set

Conditions	Description
Diamond League Modern Format	57 Mana Cap Available Elements: Fire, Life, Death, Water
Counterspell	All monsters have the Magic Reflect ability.
Noxious Fumes	All Monsters start the battle Poisoned.
Wands Out	Only monsters with Magic attack may be used in battles.

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 the featured rule set Wands Out that only allows the use of magic monsters which makes it tricky due to Counterspell that reflects magic damage, add to the Noxious Fumes that makes all monster poisoned, causing them to lose 2 health each round. With this in consideration, my lineup was consist of:

• Summoner: Grandmaster Rathe - Provides +1 armor together with Void Armor that protects my monster from magic attacks until the armor were used and it's Amplify will increase the damage of Magic Reflect by +1 .
  
  

• 1^st Position: Time Meddler - Despite its low level, it has decent amount of health and armor which allows it to serve as a tank.
  
  

• 2^nd Position: Time Mage - Reduces the armor of the opponent with its Rust in case the opponent also have monsters with Void Armor and it's Slow will allow my monsters to be able to attack first.
  
  

• 3^rd Position: Adelade Brightwing - Has the Immunity that makes it immune to Poison as well as Repair that will restore the armor of an allied monster. It also increases the speed of all ally monsters with Swiftness and for once, it can revive a defeated ally with it's Resurrect with 1 health and all negative buffs removed.
  
  

• 4^th Position: Magi of Chaos - Has Oppress that can double damage on non- damage monsters but since only magic units can be used, it was placed due to its huge damage output.
  
  

• 5^th Position: Iziar - Has the Taunt ability that forces monsters to attack this card and it has Void which reduces magic attacks. Once it was defeated its Martyr would activate and would increase all the stats of monsters adjacent into it.
  
  

• 6^th Position: Djinn Renova - Increases the health of all ally monsters with Strengthen and restores the health of damage monsters with Triage.

Round 1:

^11-20/37 Time Mage, Iziar, Djinn Renova and Time Meddler defeats Djinn Muirat which causes each monsters to lose their armor due to Magic Reflect but was ther Resurrect by Skok Duskblight.

^21-22/37 Revealer deals 1 damage on Iziar but was unaffected by the Magic Reflect as it has Reflection Shield.

^23-28/37 Magi of Chaos and Adelade Brightwing defeats Djinn Muirat which also causes them to lose their armor. Adelade Brightwing Repair the armor of Time Meddler.

^29-32/37 Skok Duskblight and Cabalist inflicts 2 damage on Iziar but received 2 damage each due to magic reflect.

^33-34/37 Usut deals 2 armor damage on Time Meddler which received 3 damage in return.

^35-37/37 Ancient Leech deals 1 damage on Iziar which let it Life Leech 1 Health but also received 3 damage due to Magic Reflect

Round 2:

^1-10/37 Due to the effects of Noxious Fumes, all monsters aside from those with Immunity received 2 damage each which resulted on the defeat of Ancient Leech.

^11-18/37 Time Mage attacks Usut for 3 damage which was reflected back to it resulting for its defeat that activates the Bloodlust of Usut and then it was revive by Adelade Brightwing.

^19-24/37 Iziar and Djinn Renova defeats Usut which they both received some damage but Djinn Renova Heals Iziar.

^25-26/37 Time Meddler deals 2 damage on Skok Duskblight and got 2 damage reflected back on it.

^27-29/37 Revealer deals 1 damage on Iziar.

^30-33/37 Magi of Chaos defeats Skok Duskblight also got magic damage reflected on it.

^30-33/37 Adelade Brightwing restores the armor of **Time Meddler and **defeats Cabalist also got magic damage reflected on it.

Round 3:

For the last round, Time Mage and Djinn Renova defeats Revealer which have ended the battle but not before the Magic Reflect removes the armor of Time Mage and cause the defeat of Djinn Renova.

The combination of rulesets for this battle are quite tricky specially that only magic units can be used. Thankfully I got my Grandmaster Rathe to be able to provide protection to my monsters while increasing the damage my opponent receives due to Magic Reflect which overall ended up to give me the victory for this match. Probably would not work if I am against Immortalis Or Lily but when it only comes with this 4 elements and exclusively Chaos Legion cards, there is no denying that I prefer to use this team.

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