Hello everyone, welcome to another post about Splinterlands. In this post I will talk about a strategy that I really like to use when there is an Equal Opportunity rule on the battlefield.

The Equal Opportunity rule will give all monsters the Opportunity ability and that means they will target the opponent's monster that has the lowest health. Owning monsters with low health may not be a good idea when this rule is active.

When the Equal Opportunity rule is on the battlefield I really like to use melee monsters since they have a great amount of attack and also a great amount of life, so they will be useful both in attack and in defense since they will not be easily defeated.

In the example that I will show in this post I will use few melee monsters, although I like to use several melee monsters in this type of battle I choose to try a different strategy, my focus was on monsters with magic attack that will be a good choice since I will select the summoner Alric Stormbringer and he will increase my monsters magic attack by +1 and my focus was also on monsters that had a good amount of speed so I could do my attacks early and gain advantage. Finally I also choose monsters that had the Heal ability, they will be very useful since they will be able to recover part of 1 life per round, mainly the Sea Monster that will defend in the first position and will have a big advantage since it will only receive the attack of the opponent monster that is positioned in the first position, so he will be able to recover all the lost life each round and since he has a lot of life he will only be the target of the other monsters when he is my last monster on the battlefield.

On the battlefield I choose 7 cards, they are:

1 - Alric Stormbringer was the summoner I chose and as I mentioned before he will increase the magic attack of my monsters by +1, his mana cost is 3.

2 - In the first position I chose the Sea Monster, it has the Heal ability and will be very useful in the battle because its attack is high and because it will be the last target of my opponent's monsters, its mana cost is 8.

3 - In the second position I choose Deeplurker, it has the Opportunity ability and a large amount of attack, its mana cost is 6.

4 - In the third position I choose Ruler of the Seas, it has the Blast ability and it will cause it to cause additional damage to monsters adjacent to its target, this ability is very useful when you have the Equal Opportunity rule because that way you will have chance to damage up to 3 monsters, its mana cost is 6.

5 - In the fourth position I choose Venari Wavesmith, it has the Protect ability and that means it will grant +2 shield to all my monsters while it is on the battlefield, its mana cost is 5.

6 - In the fifth position I choose Sea Monster, it has the Flying ability and that means it will have +25% chance to dodge melee and ranged attacks from other monsters that don't have the Flying ability, its mana cost it's 6.

7 - In the sixth and last position I choose Water Elemental, it has the Heal ability and that means that it will recover part of its life 1x per round, its mana cost is 5.

BATTLE

In this battle there is the Equal Opportunity rule so all monsters will have the Opportunity ability and will target the opponent's monster that has the least life, the exception will be your monster that is in the first position since it will target the opponent's monster in first position.

There is also the Ferocity rule and that means that all monsters will get the Fury ability, they will do double damage against monsters that have the Taunt ability.

Watch the Battle

In battle my opponent chose the fire deck and summoner Tarsa, his focus was on melee monsters since they will gain +1 attack from summoner Tarsa.

Choosing monsters with magic attack was a good choice as they won't struggle against my opponent's Living Lava and Antoid Platoon as they only take less damage from melee and ranged attacks because of their Shield ability.

My opponent had powerful monsters but the speed of the monsters was very low so I had a good advantage in battle, I also had Venari Wavesmith which granted +2 shield to my monsters and he was very useful, I managed to achieve victory after 4 rounds and only lose 1 of my monsters.