When Magic is Lost...

Hello there! @Saydie here, playing Splinterlands everyday!

I'm here for this week's Battle Mage Secrets with the featured ruleset Lost Magic. It is a ruleset were monsters with magic attack cannot be used in battle.

The Battle that I will show to you this week was from my Hive account@agonyaccepted which is an alternate account of mine playing manually in the Diamond Modern League using Max level Chaos Legion deck borrowed from NFTY Arcade. Before I show you the battle, let us learn more about this ruleset.

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Cards Based on Attack Types

Aside from the summoner, there were 4 types of monsters based on attack types namely, Non-damage (default) with no attack, melee, range and magic but because of the ruleset magic monsters cannot be used. These were the samples of cards with different attack types and the cards that were crossed out are samples of Magic cards that were banned from this ruleset.

Summoner	Non- Damage	Melee	Range	Magic

Rule Set

Conditions	Description
Champion League Modern Format	52 Mana Cap Available Elements: Fire, Water, Death, Earth
Scattershot	All monsters have the Scattershot ability.
Lost Magic	Monsters with Magic attack may not be used in battles.
Reverse Speed	Monsters with the lowest Speed attack first and have the highest chance of evading attacks.

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 Lost Legendaries were the legendary summoners cannot be used in battles along with Taking Sides that bans the use of neutral monsters and Fire & Regret that deals Return Fire damage on range monsters. Given this conditions, my lineup was consist of.

• Summoner: I used Immortalis that though has the Void ability that is not useful for this battle, the Shatter ability would be very helpful in removing the armor of the opponent as well as the -1 health de- buff on all opponent monsters.
  
  

• 1^st Position: Mycelic Infantry was an ideal tank for reverse speed rule set cause of its 1 speed partnered with the Shield ability which reduces the damage received from melee and range attacks. Once it loses health, the Enrage ability will increase its speed and melee damage while the Giant Killer will double the damage against monsters with 10 or more mana.
  
  

• 2^nd Position: Drybone Raider has both melee and range attack so it can still do melee damage once it fell to the 1^st position while it also have the Double Strike ability that allows it to attack twice per round. Its Shatter ability overlaps with Immortalis but it also have the Cripple which reduce the max health of the target for every time it receives damage.
  
  

• 3^rd Position: Fungus Flinger has the Blind ability that gives 15% chance that opponent's melee and range units miss their attack and was a good bait for Opportunity attacks as it has low health and has the Martyr ability which will increase all the stats or the monsters adjacent into it.
  
  

• 4^th Position: Gargoya Devil which have the Close Range ability allows it to attack even at first position and has the Flying ability that gives it 25% chance to evade melee and range attacks. It can also deal twice the damage if the target is the last monster the opponent have using the Deathblow ability.
  
  

• 5^th Position: Uloth Dhampir has the Triage ability that could heal backline damage while the Stun ability has 50% chance to prevent the target to attack for a turn.
  
  

• 6^th Position: Goblin Tower was a very slow range unit with a decent amount of armor that could protect it from Sneak attacks and can deal huge amount of range damage not only with its Target but also the adjacent monsters with the Blast ability.

Round 1:

^10/29 Mycelic Infantry attacks Coastal Sentry removing its armor.

^11-14/29 Goblin Tower attacks Flying Squid removing its armor while the Blast deals to damage to Coastal Sentry and removes the armor of Wave Brood which also deal 2 damage back due to Return Fire.

^15/29 Uloth Dhampir removes the armor of Merdaali Guardian and also inflict Stun on it so it cannot use its abilities.

^17-20/29 Drybone Raider deals 2 damage on Coastal Sentry and removes the armor of Coastal Sentry then reduce both of their max health with Cripple.

^21/29 Gargoya Devil deals 4 damage to Merdaali Guardian.

^22/29 Fungus Flinger deals 1 damage to Flying Squid.

^23-24/29 Sea Stalker Cleanse the Blind from Coastal Sentry and removes the armor of Mycelic Infantry.

^25-29/29 Coastal Sentry and Flying Squid deals 4 damage to Mycelic Infantry, activating its Enrage ability.

Round 2:

^1-6/21 Goblin Tower attacks Poseidon removing its armor while the Blast defeats Merdaali Guardian and to 2 damage to Wave Brood but deal 2 damage back due to Return Fire.

^7-8/21 Mycelic Infantry deals 16 damage on Coastal Sentry with the effect of Enrage and Giant Killer.

^9/21 Uloth Dhampir deals 4 damage on Flying Squid and also inflict Stun on it so it cannot attack.

^10/21 Wave Brood removes the armor of Goblin Tower.

^11-15/21 Drybone Raider deals 2 damage each to Wave Brood and Sea Stalker but deal 1 damage back due to Return Fire.

^16-17/21 Gargoya Devil defeats Sea Stalker.

^18/21 Fungus Flinger deals 1 damage to Flying Squid.

^19-20/21 Poseidon deals 4 damage to Goblin Tower with the Blast also del 2 damage on Uloth Dhampir.

Round 3:

^1-5/20 Goblin Tower attacks Wave Brood dealing 5 damage to it and 2 damage on Poseidon and 3 damage on Flying Squid but Return Fire damage causes causes Goblin Tower to be defeated.

^6-7/20 Mycelic Infantry defeats Flying Squid.

^9-11/20 Uloth Dhampir restores its health and deals 4 damage on Wave Brood which deals 2 damage back with Return Fire.

^12/20 Wave Brood deals 1 damage on Mycelic Infantry.

^13-18/20 Drybone Raider defeats Wave Brood, receiving 1 damage back due to *Return Fire and deals 1 damage to Poseidon.

^19/20 Gargoya Devil deals 4 damage on Poseidon due to the effects of Deathblow.

Round 4:

As Poseidon cannot attack anymore, it only takes one attack from Mycelic Infantry to finally finish the battle in my win.

When magic units cannot be used in battle, chances are that the opponent will use melee and range monsters with armors to them and having the Shatter ability could be really helpful on this type of battles so although Immortalis' Void would not help in this match, it's Shatter will be very useful added with a team of slow monster to fight under the Reverse Speed ruleset.