Welcome everyone👋, I'm back with a new post for the Splinterlands Weekly Challenge!

In this opportunity, I will show you a battle with the amazing Even Stevens ruleset, but before that, let's take a look at some details and how we can take advantage of it:

Even Stevens:
Only Monsters with even Mana costs may be used in battles.

This ruleset is like someone taking our cards while we sleep, but this thief for some reason only likes odd mana cards, so we still have the even mana cards to play :P

We'll have fewer options to play than we usually have, but we'll still have some powerful cards:
Water cards: Djinn Oshannus
Fire : Magnor
Earth: Kron the Undying
Life: Corsair Bosun
Death: Harklaw
Dragon: Djinn Chwala
Neutral: Chain Golem

One point to remember is that most Sneak monsters have an odd mana cost, so we don't have to worry about our last monster. But be a little careful when the Little League ruleset is in play, as most monsters that have Sneak cost 4 or 2 mana.

Also, Water and Life cards monsters that have the Tank Heal ability cannot be played, as they all have odd mana cost.

There is only one Martyr monster that can be used in this ruleset: Vruz.

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What Doesn't Kill You	Even Stevens	Close Range
All Monsters have the Enrage ability at the start of the battle.	Only Monsters with even Mana costs may be used in battles.	Ranged attacks may be used in the first position in battles.

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DARIA DRAGONSCALE

Mana: 4 | ★ Level: 2
Rarity: Epic | Edition: Beta Reward
All friendly Melee Attack Monsters have +1 Melee Attack

In this battle, all monsters will have the Enrage ability, which increases melee attack and speed by 1.5 rounded up when damaged, so I chose Daria to increased my melee attack monsters so they will benefit from this ruleset. She's an epic summoner, so she allows me to play level 3 rare cards in a bronze battle like this.

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CHAIN GOLEM

Mana: 8 | ★ Level: 1 | Speed: 2
Melee: 3 | Health: 7 | Armor: 4
Rarity: Legendary | Edition: Promo

In first position, this Golem will be a very tough and difficult to defeat tank monster, reducing the damage taken from melee and ranged attacks thanks to its Shield ability. This tank gets +1 melee attack from Daria's buff and when taking damage will have more attack thanks to the Enrage ability provided by the first ruleset.

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CORSAIR BOSUN

Mana: 10 | ★ Level: 3 | Speed: 3
Melee: 5 | Health: 7 | Armor: 5
Rarity: Rare | Edition: Riftwatchers

In second position, this corsair costs 10 mana but is worth it, it has great stats and great abilities, one of the few units with the Reflection Shield ability that makes it immune to all indirect, or reflected damage (it doesn't take damage from Blast, Thorns, Return Fire, or Magic Reflect). This Corsair can attack from the second position thanks to its Reach ability, being a second tank for the team.

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DEFENDER OF TRUTH

Mana: 4 | ★ Level: 2 | Speed: 3
Magic: 2 | Health: 3 | Armor: 1
Rarity: Epic | Edition: Alpha/Beta

I'd like to use more melee monsters, but they can't attack from third position onwards unless they have the Opportunity or Sneak ability, but they would attack different targets. And I want my monsters to attack the same enemy target starting with the enemy monster in the first row, so that the other enemies don't activate the Enrage ability, that's why I chose this magic monster and even though it has no ability at this level, it deals 2 magic attack damage which works for my strategy.

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TIME MAGE

Mana: 4 | ★ Level: 3
Magic: 2 | Speed: 4 | Health: 3
Rarity: Rare | Edition: Chaos

In fourth position, this mage is one of the life chaos cards I use the most because she has the Slow ability that reduces the speed of all enemy monsters by -1, putting the battle in my favor as long as my opponent doesn't speed up his monsters or slow down my monsters.

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PEACEBRINGER

Mana: 4 | ★ Level: 3
Ranged: 3 | Speed: 3 | Health: 5
Rarity: Rare | Edition: Beta

Although this unit has no ability, for only 4 mana it does decent damage, and will help its allies to destroy the enemy frontline monster. It will attack faster than my melee monsters because its attack type is ranged. It can also attack from the first position thanks to the Close Range ruleset.

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SPIRIT MINER

Mana: 6 | ★ Level: 1
Magic: 2 | Speed: 3 | Health: 6
Rarity:Legendary | Edition:Beta Reward

In last position, this legendary spirit will be my last magic monster on the battlefield. I put him in the last row because he has the Dodge ability which gives him a 25% chance to evade possible Sneak attacks from melee or ranged enemy monsters.

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• All enemy monsters gain Speed from Helios Matriarch's ability, but lose it thanks to Time Mage's Slow ability.
• All my monsters have Melee Attack thanks to Daria Dragonscale.

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Round 1: Chain Golem is the first to kill a monster: Enemy☠️Djinn Chwala is defeated.

Round 2: Enemy Corsair Bosun destroys ☠️Chain Golem.

Round 3: Time Mage avenged the death of my Chain Golem by defeating Enemy☠️Corsair Bosun.
__________ Enemy Dumacke Exile eliminates ☠️Spirit Miner.
__________ Defender of Truth destroys Enemy☠️Armorsmith.
__________ My Corsair defeats Enemy☠️Ajax Lightfoot.

Round 4: My Corsair defeats another Enemy:☠️Venari Crystalsmith.

Round 5: Enemy Dumacke Exile destroys my ☠️Corsair Bosun.
__________ Time Mage ends the battle by defeating ☠️Dumacke Exile with a deadly magic attack.

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CONCLUSION

The Even Stevens ruleset always changes the way I play cards as I have fewer options, forcing me to think of another strategy with only even monsters that I wouldn't need to think about if I had full cards.

Anyway, in this battle my strategy was very simple, destroy the enemy monsters one by one starting from the first row onwards. I use some melee monsters to take advantage of the Enrage ruleset, also some magic monsters in case the enemy use units with the Shield ability.

By having my monsters with higher attack damage and being slightly faster than my opponent's monsters, my team was able to emerge victorious.

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That's all for now, see you on the battlefield!