Hello guys, how are you today? I hope all of us here are good

Here we area at my second Splinterlands Battle Mage Secret challenges, and we still have the FAB FOUR ruleset as our theme today. This is my second entry so I do not need to talk a lot regarding I have done that in my first post.

In this post, I will try to add some funny point here, which is:

It doesn't mean you must have 4 units

Some people during Fab Four ruleset, their focus is to get the best meta with 4 units. That's exactly correct, however some condition make this one fails... Which is when you have a very small mana cap, below 20 mana.

I do not have fancy and powerful deck on Splinterlands, mostly my cards are Silver Max Level. So I am very familiar with low mana battle, because we have it frequenlty on Silver and Bronze league. Let's check my battle for more detail below

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THE BATTLE PREPARATION

18 mana cap, that was low enough to give some headache. Without any melee unit available, there was a unit that keep popping out in my head, and it was this:

LvL 3 Usut is definitely a great choice for this one. Its almost a guarantee to win with this dude, however... what if I did not have it LoL

So I could only build something similar, like this one

Position	Card	Ability	Plan and Strategy
Summoner		+1 speed, +1 armor	What can I say? she is the best chaos legion rare summoner. Whether you go with melee, range, or maybe magic only, she could keep up with the meta you want to build.
Main Tank		Martyr, Snair	My plan is simple, Let Marksrat dies first so he will buff up Djinn Oshannus
Second		void, phase	This is a high risk gamble, because I am constructing a meta similar to Usut but if I meet Usut, I will lose too LoL. However its too soon to give up now. Djinn Oshannus buffed by martyr ability is good
Third		Tank Heal, Repair	I need her just to replica USUT skills on Djinn Oshannus. Making him able to heal everyturn and repair might be needed incase my opponents come with range attacks

Wait, only 3? You sure? Yes We are sur here

THE BATTLE PROGRESS

Water vs Death, I was lucky they did not bring USUT in... or maybe the thought of having USUT was clouded.. because it would make them unable to came with 4 units... so let see how this would go

• The battle started with both of us buffing up our team and debuffing our opponents.
• My opponent came with 4 range damage and 1 magic damage. It's a combined 5 damage per round.
• My team had 1 magic damage per round, it felt like a suicidal move.
• If my oshannus failed to dodge any, this would be a silly battle battle.

• Look! Marksrat died and Oshannus got buffed up... However 2 magic damage only... this would be a very long battle, so I would keep forwarding fast.

• Finally I could kill their Riftwing in the round 5... Damn this was a very boring long battle.

• on round 7, I finally killed their marksrat and their Venari Bonesmith got powered up

• It took 13 round for me to kill that venari bonesmit

• Finally, its all over on round 14

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CLOSURE AND DISCUSSION

Ok, it was a nasty long battle, however I won perfectly. So it proved my strategy was right:

1. In small mana cap, focus on one core units, and have everyone to support him/her. I had Djinn Oshannus there, my opponent did not focus on one.
2. The reason why my opponent could not focus, I believed because he/she wanted to build a meta with 4 good units. the meta is good, they had 5 damage per round, had riftwing as the tank, however the thought of having 4 units became a wall or a box in their head, making them unable to see beyond that "box". If they came with USUT and Venari Marksrat on front, I would lose badly.
3. The general meta has changed since the martyr and bloodlust available in rank battle. Having more units doesn't mean it is better, because you could end up giving some food to opponent with bloodlust ability. This is why we don't see fiend and chicken as frequent in the past.

Those point 2 and point 3 are my reason why we don't have to think that we need 4 units... If you could get a good idea with only 2-3 units, then go a head!!!

Ok that's for my Splinterlands Battle Mage Secret post. Thank you for coming and reading my post here. See you on the battlefield!!

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