Modifier Mastery: Counterspell in Modern League

Introduction

Today I would like to focus on the Counterspell ruleset and playing it in the Modern League. We are all too familiar with playing Counterspell and most other rulesets in the Wild League because we have been doing it for at least four years by now, so let's take a look at how I like to play Counterspell modifier aka ruleset in Modern.

The Archon Strategy For Counterspell Modifier

When it comes to the Counterspell modifier in Modern League I like to play it with one of my two summoners: Prophet Rosa because it has plus two ranged damage to two of my ranged monsters or gives shield to one of my monsters which is also useful in the situation where magic attackers are less likely to be used. I prefer Prophet Rosa to add two ranged damage because that way I can equip more of my monsters and do some really focused damage.

My other go to summoner in the Modern League is Reklah because it gives Deflect to two of my units and that means I can safely use two magic monsters with the Counterspell modifier. That is a good strategy as well as our opponent could be expecting us not to use any magic monsters and that gives us an element of surprise. And that is one of the reasons I don't like using the shield of the Prophet Rosa on my tank unit in front as it can be easily counteracted by the magic monsters with a Deflect shield.

The Battle

Link to Modern Counterspell Battle

Now let's take a look at one of my recent Modern League battles which featured Counterspell as one of the two modifiers. The other modifier was Fog of War where all units loose Sneak, Snipe and Opportunity abilities. This is a very high mana battle where we have ninety seven mana available so we can pretty much play any units we want without having to worry about running out of mana.

We also have three splinters active: Water, Earth and Dragon. The fact that Death splinter is not available made my decision very simple and I went with the Water splinter and Prophet Rosa archon aka summoner. I chose to go with boosting my ranged attack with Prophet Rosa. In the front I am playing a new Conclave Arcana rewards card Coralforged.

Playing Coralforged which is a common rarity card that I have at level six, so two levels below the level eight which is a maximum level I can play due to my summoner limitation. I am playing a rare Prophet Rosa summoner at level six as maxed out modern summoners are too expensive to buy or even rent at this time.

But even at level six Coralforged is a valuable card to play upfront because it allows me to play a two tank combination where I play a Rebellion reward card Commander Slade as my secondary tank. This configuration is possible due to the fact that Coralforged has a Flank ability which gives my unit in the second position reach at the start of the battle.

I am also playing heavily shielded units as I do not expect a lot of magic damage on the opposing team, so in the third and fourth position I placed two more new Conclave Arcana rewards cards that come with the Charge ability that lets me play them from any position. So in the third position I placed Ironwing Juggernaut and in the fourth position I played Surgeblade. Both units are not fully maxed out yet, but still provide a really good armor and damage combination.

And finally in the back I have two ranged attackers that I am boosting using Prophet Rosa. With two extra damage from here these should be really good damage dealers.

I was lucky that my opponent also didn't come with the maxed out cards even for the level of his summoner, which is a very common situation in the Modern League. So lets see how this will playout.

In the first round our first tank missed against their tank and was subsequently taken out by our enemy. So we started round two down one.

Round two was way more favorable to us as we took out three of the opponents cards without loosing any of our own, and most importantly we took out most of their damage dealers and the nerf to our ranged attackers. I can see that this is a win already.

By the start of the round four the battle is clearly over.

And we take home a win to earn us more entries into the Weekly Fortune Draws.

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