Battle Mage Secrets: Unprotected! by @nozem01

Hello everyone and welcome back to my Splinterlands blog! Yesterday we got a new Battle Mage Secrets Challenge about the Unprotected ruleset, in which all armor is removed from all monsters...

All armor is removed from units and one cannot gain armor.
Shield and Divine Shield are unaffected.

So watch out you don't play cards with abilities like Protect and Repair because they will be useless!

We just had a season ending so it was time to open our earned boxes again, and with it, we all got dropped down a bunch in ranking, so we all have to crawl, climb and scratch our way up onto the ranking ladder again to get those nice rewards from the early days in the season and get higher Reward Points to earn more chests, with my main account I stay in Wild League for at least the first week because Modern is way too competitive, and with Wild I can use my full deck so it's more fun anyway.

On most season endings I skip the first day or two to let the big players climb up again so I don't have to face them, resulting is a little better win rate in my ranked battles but because I was very busy at last season end I wasn't able to play on the last day so I had my energy piled up at 50/50 so that's a waste... so I decided to just give it a try and it wasn't that bad in Wild, my alt is in Modern and it's struggling hard, but I don't mind, every win it gets is something extra, it's just there to farm some SPS and chests...

So... on to today's challenge:

The battle I want to share is a fresh one, about 13 hours old when I was playing yesterday evening after work. A Wild League Unprotected / Fire and Regret battle with 43 mana and only Water, Life and Dragon available to be chosen from. With Fire and Regret, facing a big magic team is something you have to keep in mind, so we definitely need some magic protection, at the same time, Kelya Frendul is less effective because it's +1 armor will have no effect because of the Unprotected ruleset. With these ruleset my choice was pretty simple with the available summoners I have, Life isn't an option for me, General Sloan boosts ranged damage but the Fire and Regret ruleset will damage myself, Grandmaster Rathe's Void Armor and +1 Armor will be useless, Quix the Devious -1 ranged damage will be uneffective because probably my opponent won't play a big archer team, so I decided to use my 2nd water summoner: Pembrook Nymph to be able to use a Gladiator and I know exactly which one!

Making my team, I made a pretty big mistake by choosing Axe Master in the Fire and Regret ruleset...

First look at the battlefield:

Hmmm that's a nasty team, Taunt / Heal can be very effective, I'm not sure this is a human player but it certainly has some nice cards, good for me the team isn't perfect too, with two ranged monsters in it in the Fire and Regret ruleset...
Hopefully I'll do enough damage to get trough the healing taunt, if not.. I'll be in trouble!

My Line-Up:

• Summoner: Pembrook Nymph - reason: Access to the Water team but Kelya was less effective, this was the logic choice.
• First position: Baakjira - reason: Protection against a magic team and a good meat shield.
• Second position: Flying Squid - reason: Good 2nd position, fast, good damage and HP.
• Third position: Kulu Mastermind - reason: Great opportunity killer with high damage and HP.
• Fourth position: Venari Marksrat - reason: He's meant to kill himself boosting the surrounding cards.
• Fifth position: Isgald Vorst - reason: Without armor, she will be extra effective to get the bloodlust going.
• Sixth position: Axe Master - reason: yeah... this wasn't my best move 😅 Deeplurker would've been a better option to get a big opportunity team.

The Battle:

Round 1: Although I made a mistake with Axe Master and it killed itself, I was able to blast trough the Taunt / Heal and I have way more HP on the battlefield, I already know I'll be okay 😊

Round 2: haha my martyr won't die that wasn't the plan 😂 Isgald is now faster than Kulu Mastermind so getting the kills to spin up more bloodlust, when they start together Kulu attacks first which can be a problem sometimes.

Round 3: This is going to be a quick battle, it will be over next turn, Isgald is the fastest so it will strike first, but even if she wasn't here, Kulu Mastermind has the same speed as Sandworm but will attack sooner because it's Legendary.

You can watch the battle unfold for yourself here.

It's a win! this is a pretty average reward for Wild, and I'm still climbing. As I said before, this was yesterday, I now reached Gold League, but declined because I have a max Silver deck, the Gold level summoners will slaughter me 😆 no thanks!

That's already the first post for this week, I'll make my second post in two days on Saturday probably, I need to do some other real life stuff today too and drain my energy in ranked battles some more, I hope you all have an incredible day and maybe I'll see you on my next post, cheers!

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Sources: For my thumbnail I used a background from @golemoverlord, when you're not playing this game as a splinterlands player, you're missing out!
I made a post with more info about Golem Overlord here.