Best Strategy for the Earthquake Ruleset?
I am a new player. I catapulted myself into Silver I league by buying cards. At this level I am surprised at how many battles use non-standard rulesets. Most of them, it seems. Rulesets take quite some getting used to. There doesn't seem to be too much opportunity to practise because very few accounts practise at this level.
I've encountered the earthquake ruleset a few times. Under this ruleset, monsters without the flying ability suffer damage every round. In the past, I always threw together a team with the flying ability. And usually lost LOL. This time, I ignored it, and deployed my strongest team.
As you can see from the battle linked below, my opponent deployed only monsters with the flying ability, apart from his tank, the awesome Living Lava. On my team, only Enchanted Pixie had the flying ability.
On this occasion I won. I'm sure other combinations could have beaten me. What do you think? Is the best strategy for the earthquake ruleset to simply ignore it and deploy your strongest team?
Watch the battle here: https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_4491c94051764b3fdab4b46db54a654b&ref=alberich
Let me know what you think :-)
Looking at your team you have about 13 damage a Turn assuming everyone gets 1 shot off.
Thats enough to take out the tank, position 2 and almost position 3.
You then loose the healer on the earthquake assuming no one falls under 2 hp
Then you win from there fairly easy. I would be surprised if you had another full turn.
I'm new myself but sometimes its best to pick something that goes together really well over worrying about the specific rules. At least thats what I've noticed at the lower silver level.
I think you picked it well in this case. Play by ear on these comps as you might find people countering your magic comp.
I've seen plenty of people play multiple tanks, gelatinus cubes and scavange ability cards as well as they can increase and sort of sustain as other cards die off.
Love that water team great work.
Cenira
Thank you! Yes, I certainly have encountered teams that eat through magic. But I think I win more often than not with combos like this.
Correction: I reached Silver III, not Silver I.