Splinterlands Battle Of The Week: Simple Battle, Simple Team

The Ruleset

• Rulesets - Wands Out & Back to Basics
• Mana Cap - 18
• Active Elements -

Here's my starting lineup

Summoner: Immortalis

• With the ruleset and element pick that I got I knew I had to play a magic comp and so did my enemy
• For secondly as Back to Basics was active both teams were going to be super simple magic comps with no abilities
• That in mind I needed a summoner that would get me a headstart in this battle
• So in my case I went with earth element and Immortalis as my summoner just because of his Void ability
• Void - 50% less damage (rounded up) from magic attacks or 0 damage from magic attacks of 1 power
• Shatter - Successful attacks destroy the target's armor

1st Position: Regal Peryton

• Regal Peryton was my main tank for this battle
• Main reason I like Regal Peryton here a lot is his high hp count for only five mana cost
• Also his other stats were decent enough for 5 mana being 2 magic damage and 6 speed
• Flying - +25% chance to evade physical attacks. No effect if the attacker also has Flying. Immune to Earthquake

2nd Position: Madcap Magus

• Now as the mana cap was quite low and I had already spent most of it on my summoner and a tank for the front I needed someone cheap but still with decent amount of damage output
• So I picked Madcap Magus as one of them only because of his 2 magic damage
• Scattershot - Magic and ranged attacks target a random enemy unit
• Life Leech - Increases health and max health by 50% of damage dealt (rounded up)

3rd Position: Djinn Biljka

• And for last but not least with my other half of leftover mana I got a shine golden Djinn Biljka
• Basically same story goes here
• As water and death elements were off the board I really did not see my enemy playing a summoner that does -1 magic damage to my whole team so I really needed cheap 2 magic damage monsters
• Camouflage - Cannot be directly targeted unless in the first position. Does not affect indirect attacks (e.g. Scattershot, Blast splash damage, or Trample) or Wingbreak
• Void - 50% less damage (rounded up) from magic attacks or 0 damage from magic attacks of 1 power

Starting board

• Already after seeing the starting board I was quite confident I would win the battle just because of our summoner diffs
• Even tho he played a summoner that gives +1 magic damage to his whole board my monsters all had Void which meant I was dealing 6 damage per round and my enemy was only dealing 3 damage per round
• So even tho my enemy had 5 more hp on his board I was just dealing a lot more damage
• I hope my predictions are right but lets still start the battle and have a look

Here's how the battle went

1st Round

• After first round the board was still looking quite the same as in the start
• I had lost 3 hp and my enemy had lost 6 hp
• Lets keep watching and praying that my calculations were correct

2nd Round

• After 2nd round I was starting to look really scary because I forgot to take speed into account
• Not that I or my enemy could miss attacks because every monster was magic but because of speed difference the attack order was going to decided to faith of the battle
• Lets hope for the best and keep watching

3rd Round

• 3rd Round was so huge for me as the attack order came in clutch
• If my enemy would have attacked first and killed my Madcap Magus without him being able to get his attack off the battle would have come down to 50/50 with the last attack order deciding the battle but as I lucked out the battle was now 100% decided
• Now I just needed to wait for the start of the next and final round and then claim my victory

4th Round

• I managed to attack first and that was all it took to kill my enemies last standing monster
• After his Khmer Princess had fallen I took the victory
• Battle Replay Link

Summary

• This battle was definitely closer than I would have wanted but still fun to watch as win is a win
• The strategy to take away from this battle is that Immortalis is unbeatable in Wands Out ruleset battles
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