No Melees Allowed!
Introduction
Hello there! @Saydie here, playing Splinterlands everyday!
I'm here for this week's Battle Mage Secrets with the featured rule set Keep Your Distance. It is a rule set that bans the use of monsters with melee attack on battle.
The Battle that I will show to you this week was from my @agonyaccepted which is playing manually in the Diamond Modern League with Max level NFTY Arcade card delegation. Before I show you the battle, let us learn more about this rule set.
Keep Your Distance
 Keep Your Distance | Monsters with  Melee attack may not be used in battles.Keep no attack or higher HP monsters in the front. Keep higher speed Magic monsters with abilities like Flying, Dodge, Blind in the front. |
Non Damage Tanks:
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These were the samples of cards with no attack and could served as tanks when Keep Your Distance ruleset was in play.
Revealing Battle Conditions and Team Lineup
Rule Set
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 Diamond League Modern Format | 43 Mana Cap Available Elements:  Fire,  Water,  Life |
 Armored Up | All monsters have 2 armor in addition to their normal armor stat. |
Keep Your Distance | Monsters with Melee attack may not be used in battles. |
Opponent's Line- up
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My Team
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For this battle, we have the featured rule set Holy Protection were all monsters have the Divine shield ability as well as Counterspell that gives the Magic Reflect ability and Weak Magic that prevents magic attacks from penetrating armor. Given this conditions, my line- up was made of:
Summoner: I used Kelya Frendul which gives + 1 speed and armor on all ally monsters.
1st Position: Baakjira has huge health and has the Heal ability that will recover some of the damaged it receives as well as Strengthen which increases the health of all ally monsters. It also got Void which reduce the damage it takes from magic attacks and Slow to reduce the speed of all opponent monsters.
2nd Position: Merdhampir has the Cripple ability that reduces the max health of the target as well as Lie Leech which increases its max health every time it deals damage. Ensnare will remove the Flying ability of the target.
3rd Position: Angelic Mandarin has the Triage which can restore the health of a backline monster together with the Silence to reduce the magic of all opponent monsters.
4th Position: Swamp Spitter has the Repair which restores the armor of an ally monster and Giant Killer that deal double damage on monsters with 10 or more mana.
5th Position: Runemancer Kye also got the Life Leech ability with Flying that gives 25% dodge chance and Fury to deal double damage on monsters with Taunt
6th Position: Wave Brood has the Taunt ability which forces monsters attack on this card while it also got Return Fire to reflect range damage towards the attacker and Void to reduce magic damage.
Revealing the Battle
Round 1:
12-16/33 Time Mage, Supply Runner and Venari Crystalsmith attacks Wave Brood for 5 damage but the Return Fire damage removes the armor on Supply Runner and Venari Crystalsmith.
17-18/33 Angelic Mandarin restores 4 health on Wave Brood.
19-22/33 Merdhampir disables the Divine Shield on Pelacor Conjurer and reducing its health while it gains 1 health on its own.
23-27/33 Swamp Spitter Repairs the armor of Wave Brood and together with Runemancer Kye attacks Pelacor Conjurer, dealing 4 damage but Magic Reflect cost it to lose 2 damage.
28-32/33 Djinn Renova and Pelacor Arbalest attacks Wave Brood dealing 7 damage but Return Fire damage causes Pelacor Arbalest to lose its armor and receives damage.
33/33 Wave Brood deal 2 damage at Pelacor Conjurer.
Round 2:
1-7/21 Time Mage, Supply Runner and Venari Crystalsmith defeats Wave Brood but the Return Fire damage deals 2 damage each on Supply Runner and Venari Crystalsmith. Venari Crystalsmith heals Pelacor Conjurer for 3 Health.
8-14/21 Angelic Mandarin restores 4 health on Wave Brood and together with Merdhampir and Swamp Spitter, defeats Pelacor Conjurer.
15-17/21 Runemancer Kye deals 4 damage on Djinn Renova, gaining 2 health.
18-20/21 Djinn Renova and Pelacor Arbalest attacks Baakjira dealing 6 damage.
21/21 Baakjira heals 5 damage.
Round 3:
1-2/18 Time Mage, Supply Runner deals 5 damage on Baakjira.
3-4/18 Angelic Mandarin restores the health of Runemancer Kye and attacks the armor of Djinn Renova.
5-6/18 Venari Crystalsmith restores the Health of Djinn Renova and deal 4 damage on Baakjira.
7-15/18 Merdhampir, Swamp Spitter and Runemancer Kye defeats Djinn Renova. Swamp Spitter restores the armor of Baakjira.
16-17/18 Pelacor Arbalest deals 4 damage on Baakjira
18/18 Baakjira heals 5 damage.
- Round 4:
1-2/16 Time Mage, Supply Runner deals 5 damage on Baakjira.
3-9/16 Angelic Mandarin, Merdhampir and Swamp Spitter defeats Venari Crystalsmith. Swamp Spitter restores the armor of Baakjira.
10-11/16 Runemancer Kye deals 4 damage on Time Mage and gains 2 health.
12-14/16 Pelacor Arbalest defeats Baakjira.
- Round 5:
1-4/12 Time Mage, Supply Runner and Pelacor Arbalest attacks Merdhampir and deals 10 damage.
5-9/12 Angelic Mandarin, and Swamp Spitter defeats Time Mage.
11-12/12 Runemancer Kye deals 4 damage on Pelacor Arbalest and gains 2 health.
- Round 6:
1/10 Supply Runner attacks the armor of Merdhampir.
2-3/10 Angelic Mandarin defeats Pelacor Arbalest.
4-7/10 Swamp Spitter and Runemancer Kye defeats Supply Runner ,ending the match.
Battle Recap
Here is a replay of the battle which at you can watch at Splinterlands.
Did your Strategy Work?
For this battle, I have made sure to be prepared and bring Adelade Brightwing so that I can use the Divine Shield ability from its full potential. On the other hand, the opponent has self destruct it self by bringing magic monsters without any type of protection with the amplified magic attack which cased them a lot of damage and the fact that the opponent is fighting my team with only gold level team which does not have as much abilities and stats that my team have given that we have some similar cards.
Previous Battles
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All the image that I edited here belongs to Splinterlands.
Card abilities and rulesets from Splintercards
All the battle links provided comes from my personal accounts and from the scholar account that I am using from Balthazar Guild. The guild is offering a max level Chaos Legion deck scholarship with 50% SPS split. To get a chance to for the scholarship just join theirs discord channel.
Also, the guild was offering SPS delegation which you can get by joining Captain Whoco's weekly stream on Twitch.
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