Hello everyone and welcome to my contest! I decided to try something a little different this time and want to introduce a battle contest!

The idea is that I'd like to highlight a battle or two featuring some strange, exciting, or FRUSTRATING battles for your viewing pleasure!

How This Will Work

This community is great and very welcoming to newcomers. If you browse PeakD, you'll see just how much user generated content there is which ranges from basic how to play guides, to more advanced strategies from the top leaderboard players, to investment advice!

To do my part in giving back, I'm starting a giveaway!

The rules are simple:

1. Comment below with an interesting, strange, or hilarious battle (don't forget to include your in-game name)
2. Provide a short comment on what makes your battle unique or special
3. Upvote this post
4. Entries must be entered before the post pays out (7 days from when I post).
5. You may submit up to 3 entries but you can only win once.

That's it!

If I select your battle to be featured on my next post, I'll send you a prize! Runner-up prizes will also be given!

Prizes for the this Week

For this week, I'll be sending the winner of the Featured Battle a GOLD Pelacor Deceiver and two runner-ups a Gargoya Devil and Exploding Rats! You won't want to miss out on this one!

1st Place	Runner-up #1	Runner-up #2
(Featured Battle)	(Honorable Mention)	(Honorable Mention)

Featured Battle Winner: Who Needs Speed when you have LUCK!

Congratulations @beffeater! Your battle was chosen as today's winner! It was a hard decision but what ultimately set this battle apart from the others is the takedown of a Legendary summoner!

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On my initial review, I thought, "there's no way beffeater wins this.."

Byzantine Kitty has such crazy buffs and each of the monsters benefit in some way.

We have:

1. An insanely fast Void Dragon with Void AND Phase. Who's gonna hit that consistently?
2. If you don't hit Void Dragon, guess what? Kitty heals it. So you need to string together a few hits to take it down
3. Backline defense that's also fast and has Backfire. You miss, you get hit.
4. Dragon Jumper is protected in the middle and will do all kinds of damage with the opportunity ability. Did I mention it's also fast?

So how does he even survive???

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Part One : Business as Usual

Round 1 goes off and it's about what you would expect. Beffeater's wise choice of going with Tyrus Paladium and Truthspeaker gave him much needed armor to defend against the opposing Blast damage.

Luckily for him, his Life Leech was able to hit his opponents Naga Assassin which is very important.

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Part Two : Last One Standing

Both players did a great job of anticipating enemy moves and putting in monsters/abilities to counter.

Beffeater protected himself against Ranged and Melee with all of his armor and also went for a Magic counter with the Reflect abilities of his front 2 tanks. This essentially prepared him for every kind of attack.

His opponent did something similar but in a different way. Void Dragon was used as a tank to absorb Magic damage (Magic is very popular in Explosive Weaponry rulesets). He then used Byzantine Kitty which gives +2 Speed, True Strike and Tank Heal. The 2 backline monsters are very fast and will hopefully attack first while having a high chance of dodging.

While the top player went for Armor to prevent as much Blast damage as possible, the bottom player went for the "can't blast me if you can't hit me" strategy. Both great strategies!

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Get used to this face because you will see it a lot in this battle.

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Part Three: The Final Blow

Finally, after 10 rounds of missing, healing, and slowly chopping down the enemy, beffeater strings together enough attacks to take out the Void Dragon. I'm sure he was sweating as his frontline was slowing being taken down, 1 Magic damage at a time.

Runner-Up #1: @Henruc with the "Why are you hitting yourself" Strategy

I was torn when choosing a winner because this battle was so good. I love a good Magic Reflect with Amplify. Henruc took it to another level and went with THREE reflectors boosted by Amplify.

Like the previous battle, Explosive Weaponry gives a huge advantage to Magic damage since it can get under Armor. However, it is actually WORSE for the Magic user if their opponent uses multiple Reflect monsters. Since they're hitting 2 monster with Magic, they're getting 2x the Reflect back which is also amplified!

It hurts when you're getting more damage reflected back to you than than you are dealing out.

Very well played counter by henruc!

Runner-Up #2: @Amaillo-m with the "Levels Aren't Everything" Battle

This battle made me do a double (maybe triple?) take because it's a mirror match except for the Level of the Hill Giants. The top player has a Level 3 which does 2 damage and the bottom has a Level 2 which only does 1 damage and THEY WON.

On closer inspection, it came down to which Spirit Hoarder went first in the 2nd round. The one who went first would first heal the friendly Slipspawn before sending the killing blow to the opposing Slipspawn. Then, the other Spirit Hoarder wouldn't have anything to heal and would be attacked a healed up Slipspawn (no killing blow).

Essentially it came down to a coin toss at that moment and luckily for amaillo-m, it worked out in his favor!

Thanks for Stopping By

Congrats to all of the winners and thanks again for checking out this post. I hope it was fun and enjoyable content for you.

Make sure to leave a comment with your battle for a chance to win!

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If you decide to use my referral link, I'll happily send you a few cards to help you get started!