Splinterlands Weekly Challenge Battle BATTLE MAGE SECRETS! Fire & Regret is best without ranged monsters

Every week there is a Splinterlands challenge to share a rule set using a specific card and on this week's post it is a battle with the Fire & Regret rule set. I also encourage Splinterlands players to partake in the challenge because you get to try different strategies and earn some crypto in the process.

Rule set, Battle and Plan

The ruleset this time is Close Range, Fire & Regret, and Explosive Weaponry. This means that all monsters gain the close range, return fire, and blast ability. There is also 19 mana available and I am left with the choice of fire, water, or life splinter.

The summoner I chose to use this time is Kelya Frendul. It increases my speed and armor by 1.

Splinter	Mana Cost	Position	Reason
Kelya Frendul	4	Summoner	+1 speed and armor
Diemonshark	8	1st	Trample and Enrage
Tide Biter	3	2nd	Reach and Reflection Shield
Creeping Ooze	1	3rd	Slow
Merdaali Guardian	3	4th	Tank heal
Torrent Fiend	0	5th	Filler
Furious Chicken	0	6th	Filler

I plan to use Diemonshark as my tank with enrage and trample. Then I have Tide Biter in 2nd spot with reach and reflection shield to deal with the blast damage. Next, I have Ooze with slow and Merdaali with tank heal to keep my tank alive. My last two monsters are filler monsters to tank any hits from any sneak monsters. I chose not to use any ranged monsters due to the ruleset.

Round 1

At first glance, I think that I have the advantage. So long as I don't miss too many attacks, I should be able to outlast my opponent because it will take my opponent quite a few turns to kill off my tank due to the tank heal. The only issue is that martyr monster because it could drastically increase my opponent's damage and that can easily take out my Diemonshark if I am unlucky.

Round 2

I took out the first monster and my Diemonshark will maintain its enraged state. So I should be able to kill off my Djinn Oshannus if I don't miss any of my attacks.

Round 4

I was able to take out two more monsters but I have this match won now. I can heal up any damage taken from my opponent.

As I expected, I won the match later that round because I didn't miss any of my attacks.

Conclusion

The battle went exactly as I expected. Using Tide Biter lowered the damage that I would take and the tank heal was able to heal up my Diemonshark without any issue. The enraged Diemonshark was able to deal massive damage against Djinn Oshannus and once that was taken out, the match was my win. I am glad that the martyr monster didn't activate on Djinn Oshannus either. Otherwise, I might have been in danger due to all the magic damage that my opponent had. Overall, I won without too many issues and I didn't miss many attacks in this fight.

You can see my entire match here.

What did you think of my match? Was there anything you would have done differently? I think it is quite interesting to see how different players play in a ruleset.

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