Hello Hivians and Hivers,

Welcome to my weekly Splinterlands BATTLE MAGE SECRETS challenge. This time we are having WEAK MAGIC Ruleset as our theme this week.

Weak Magic is a ruleset which makes all magic attacks hit the armor first. So all kind of attacks will hit armor, they can not by pass armor to reduce health directly. During this ruleset usually people will exploit the use of their armor. This means:

1. People will use big armors units
2. Protect ability user will be highly favorable
3. Repairman ofcourse will be the core supports, regarding those point no 1 and 2.

Simple isn't it? Nah... That won't be as simple like that, because your opponent will come with RUST ability, which eliminate 2 of your armors, most likely they have cards with Shatter ability because having big armor target is something that they are looking for... unit on the battlefield an Amplify ability.

So how do we handle this issue then? For me, because I am a casual player, not a very competitive one... I will focus of what this ruleset gives to us, the extra benefit of the armors, to withstands magic attacks. Exploit your armor, put more armor and repair them, as simple like that.

Ok let's check out battle now...

THE BATTLE

This was a Gold League battle of Wild Format. I am using Blackkrrsantan, a Scholarship account for Juice Guild from @bulldog1205 our beloved streamer. Well, I was running away from modern format because people who had new Rebellion set were beating me out, so I had better Daily Loot Chest in Wild.

This ruleset was a tricky one. 44 Mana, so we had to aware that having 6 cards was very important. We had that Tis But Scratches and Melee Mayhem, so any small attacks could reduce your max health point. Indirectly we could say this kind of anti Weak Magic too.

So here were my points of building my line up

1. Venari Wavesmith to add more 2 armors to everyone in my line up
2. Noa the Just, he had rust ability as a counter because I was sure my opponent would have some armor buff up too.
3. Teenage Ninja Turtle 😂 He was very important because of the Repair Ability
4. My tank should have enormous armor. so that must be DiemonShark
5. Due to Melee Mayhem, I needed more speed. I did not want to lose because my opponent moved first... Bakjira was the choice.

So this was how the battle went:

• The battle started with both of us buffing up our team and debuffing our opponents. 14 moves just for these, there were quite good amount of debuffs there.
• My opponent came with 8 melee damage, 1 magic damage and 6 range damage per round. That would be a combined 15 damage per round plus the blast effect.
• My team had 13 melee damage, 2 magic damage, and 3 range damage. That would be a combined 18 damage per round, however I did not have any blast ability.
• Fighting against Yodin Zaku surely was a headache, however I was very happy my team was faster here. I had a good chance of winning due to it.

• Round 2 started with 5 vs 6 condition, My team was leading due to my Kulu Mastermind killed their Goblin Shaman in the first round.

• Round 3 started with 3 vs 6 condition, the gap kept widening. my team was definitely almost guaranteed to win this battle.

• Round 4 was the last one, Good Game...

CLOSURE AND DISCUSSION

The starting line up from both side were very interesting, both seemed to deliver their best, seriously 14 buffs and debuffs was not a joke at all... However things fumbled in the middle and the battle became one sided favoring my side. What happened in this battle were these:

1 Better Tank

Diemonshark is the best example of what a good tank looks like for the Weak Magic Ruleset. He has enormous armors and that keeps my Diemonshark alive until the end of battle.

Without any shatter ability, facing this kind of tank was a true headache.

2 Kulu Mastermind indeed OP

Stats Wise, Kulu Mastermind is already super strong. High Melee Damage and high Speed, hard to kill due to his high health point. However the scary part is his Weapon Training ability. The current cards and rulesets favor a lot on weapon training ability.

Seriously, these trio were ridiculous. 10 Melee Damage alone from them. This happened due Kulu 4 Melee Damage with Weapon Training. Thanks God Developer already nerf down that Weapon Training, else they could go worse with extra Inspire Ability.

3 Exploiting Armor is not the same as Using Armor

Both of us trying to exploit the use of armor, however in my opinion, they failed badly because they relied solely on Ferox Defender.

Ferox Defender is a perfect unit for this ruleset, He gives armor, he repair armor, and he destroys armor (on higher level). However one unit is not enough, if we want to exploit armor, who is the second unit, the third and how many units do you plan to employ to support armors?

I had three units: Venari Wavesmith, Noa The Just, and Swamp Bitter. They had one. This is the difference, I am exploiting the use of armors, meanwhile my opponent just utilizing the armor.

4 SPEEEEEED!!!!

let's check back the starting line up

Both of us had 3 fast units and 3 so so one. However overall my team speed was higher.

and after their Goblin Shaman died, things got worse... I had 3 units move first, and this mean I delivered 10 damage first before they could make a single move. This made they got killed first before they could start the blast explosion party, that's why even they had Yodin Zaku, they could not hurt my team a lot because they died first.

ok that's for today, Have fun with Weak Magic ruleset. And please and don't forget to leave your comment or feedback below. thank you.

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• @splinterlands : for holding BATTLE MAGE SECRETS challenge events
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