Hi everyone, Welcome to my BATTLE MAGE SECRETS post. BATTLE MAGE SECRETS itself is a replacement for SHARE YOUR BATTLE CHALLENGE, where if SHARE YOUR BATTLE CHALLENGE takes 1 monster as its weekly theme while BATTLE MAGE SECRETS takes 1 Ruleset as its theme. And the theme for this week is...

LITTLE LEAGUE

"Only units and summoners with a mana cost of 4 or less may be used."

LITTLE LEAGUE is a ruleset that limits the use of monsters (Units) and Summoners through the amount of Mana they have. In the LITTLE LEAGUE ruleset the amount of Mana from Summoners or monsters that can be used is no more than 4.

Usually, monsters with Mana no more than 4 have not-so-big and balanced Stats. Sometimes they have high Attack Power but only have 1 Health Point (and vice versa). Therefore, summoners or monsters must provide buffs to the entire team or Defuffs to all opposing monsters.

An example of a buff that (might) be useful is the PROTECT ability which will be useful if facing monsters with Melee and Range attack types (but not useful if facing Magic attacks). As for Debuff, we can use abilities that can reduce the Attack power of all opponent monsters such as DEMORALIZE (for Melee monsters), HEADWINDS (for Ranged monsters), and SILENCE (for Magic monsters). We can also use WEAKEN ability to reduce 1 health point of all opponents or RUST ability to remove 2 ARMOR of all opponent monsters (can also remove the effect of PROTECT ability).

RULESET & FORMATION

In addition to LITTLE LEAGUE, the Rulesets in this battle are...

BORN AGAIN

BORN AGAIN is one of the rulesets that give additional abilities to all monsters in the battle arena. The ability given in the BORN AGAIN Ruleset is REBIRTH . REBIRTH is an ability that can only be used by its owner when he is defeated. When the owner of this ability is defeated, he can "revive" himself by using the REBIRTH ability. However, this ability can only be used once in each battle. And if he is defeated again, then he needs a monster that has the RESURRECT ability to be revived.

BROKEN ARROWS

BROKEN ARROWS is a ruleset that restricts the use of monsters with Ranged attack types (this restriction also applies to dual attack type monsters that have Ranged attack as one of their Attack types). So monsters that have the HEADWINDS ability will not be useful due to the absence of Ranged monsters in the battle arena.

My Line-Up

Cards	Ability	Reason
	- Give additionals of 1 Attack Power to All Allies Magic monsters	Because the element choices available are only limited to FIRE and EARTH, I decided to use EARTH Elements. the reason I chose Earth Elements is that there are more dominant Magic attacks that can directly attack the opponent's Health points even though they have ARMOR. Coupled with the Summoner (Obsidian) which also gives an additional 1 Attack power to all Magic monsters.
	STUN	The reason I'm using Hill Giant is because it has a STUN ability that can stop the target's movement for 1 round (if the effect activates successfully). In addition, Hill Giant also has quite a lot of Health points and Attack Power, making it a good choice to fill the first position.
	OPPORTUNITY + DODGE	Besides Hill Giant, I also use Venari Scout which also has high Attack Power and Health points. Although it lacks the Health advantage compared to Hill giant, Venari Scout has high Speed as well as the OPPORTUNITY ability that allows it to attack at any position while attacking the opposing monster that has the lowest Health points.
	PROTECT + AMPLIFY + TRIAGE + RUST	I decided to use Queen Mycelia because she can provide an additional 2 ARMOR to all my monsters through the PROTECT ability and provide a 2 ARMOR reduction to all the opponent's monsters through the RUST ability so that my Melee monsters can directly attack and reduce the Health points of their targets. In addition, Queen Mycelia also has the TRIAGE ability which helps heal some of the Health points of one of my monsters that are not in the first position.
	CAMOUFLAGE + VOID + WEAKEN	Despite having low Health points and SPEED, Djinn Biljka has high Attack power and a WEAKEN ability that can reduce 1 Health point of all opponent monsters so that they can be defeated faster.
	SNEAK + POISON	Uraeus is one of the monsters that most players often rely on when in the LITTLE LEAGUE ruleset. The reason is of course because it has the SNEAK ability which allows it to attack monsters that are in the last position. besides that, Uraeus can also have a poison effect on its target (if the effect is successfully activated) by using the POISON ability.
	DISPEL + AMPLIFY + REDEMPTION	Since there was a possibility that the opponent would use Uraeus as well, I prepared Venari Spellsmith in anticipation. Although there is no ability to resist the attack of Uraeus, when Venari Spellsmith is defeated, it will deal 1 point of damage to all the opponent's monsters through the REDEMPTION ability. Coupled with the BORN AGAIN Ruleset, it allows it to deal 2 points of damage to all opposing monsters when it is defeated twice.

BATTLE STARTS!!!

The opposing party uses Obsidian as a Summoner. we also have similarities in choosing some monsters (although with different placements)

In the first round, the opponent's Uraeus attacked and defeated Venari Spellsmith. But with that first defeat, Venari Spellsmith dealt damage to all of the opponent's monsters for 1 point using the REDEMPTION ability. This made one of the opponent's monsters (Djinn Biljka) also lose for the first time due to REDEMPTION.

My Madcap Magus suffered two losses at once due to attacks from my Venari Scout and Uraeus. My opponent's Xenith Monk and Queen Mycelia attacked Hill Giant. The Hill Giant then counterattacked the Xenith Monk and gave it a STUN effect so that it could not move in the next round.

My Queen Mycelia and Djinn Biljka who tried to attack Xenith Monk were counterattacked and took damage. Even Djinn Biljka lost for the first time due to the attack.

In the second round, my Uraeus defeated my opponent's Queen Mycelia for the first time. Meanwhile, my opponent's Uraeus defeated my opponent's Venari Spellsmith for the second time. But with his REDEMPTION ability, the opponent now lost 2 monsters (Queen Mycelia and Djinn Biljka*) and that was their second loss.

Xenith Monk who was immobilized this round became the target of attacks and was defeated twice by Venari Scout and Hill Giant respectively. Queen Mycelia defeated Chaos Agent for the first time but the attack from Djinn Biljka failed to hit her and she received BACKFIRE for failing to attack Chaos Agent.

In the last round, Chaos Agent was defeated for the second time by Venari Scout. Meanwhile, my Hill Giant and Uraeus each defeated my opponent's Uraeus.

To see the entire battle, you can watch it at >> FULL BATTLE LINK
And this is the challenge link >> CHALLENGE LINK

Review of this battle

Using the REDEMPTION ability in the LITTLE LEAGUE ruleset turns out to be quite effective, especially with the BORN AGAIN Ruleset which makes the damage twice as much. The selection of Djinn Biljka who has WEAKEN ability and Uraeus who has SNEAK ability are also factors in the success of using REDEMPTION ability this time. If there is no WEAKEN ability, the opponent's Uraeus needs 2 rounds to defeat Venari Spellsmith. And there is a possibility that it is the opponent who wins the battle this time.

That was the post BATTLE MAGE SECRETS for this time. Thank you for visiting and taking the time to read. See you in the next post....

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