BATTLE MAGE SECRETS ✶ BRIAR PATCH

The ruleset for this week's challenge

• Briar Patch - All units receive the Thorns ability at the start of the battle. Enemy units that use melee attacks receive damage back

The ruleset that I managed to get

• Rulesets - Briar Patch & Rise of the Commons
• Mana Cap - 34
• Active Elements -

Here's my starting lineup

Summoner: Immortalis

• With the ruleset that I got Immortalis was just the perfect summoner to go with
• Mostly because of the Void ability he gave to my whole team as my enemy was most likely going to play magic damage team
• And if my enemy was going to play someone with armor I had it covered with the Shatter ability

1st Position: Mycelic Infantry

• Mycelic Infantry was my main tank for this battle
• Even tho Briar Patch was active I still felt like my enemy might play melee tank
• Main reason I like Mycelic Infantry here a lot is hes Shield ability
• Shield - Reduced damage from melee and ranged attacks

2nd Position: Creeping Ooze

• Love this card so much because of how many stats you get for low mana
• For 1 mana you get 1 melee damage, 1 speed, 2 hp and also the Slow ability
• Slow - Reduces the speed of all enemy units

3rd Position: Goblin Thief

• Low mana cost melee monster with Sneak

• Even tho he is melee monster and was going to die in 3 attacks I was hoping he would get at least one kill maybe two if lucky

• For 4 mana you get 3 damage (with Sneak), 4 speed and 4 hp
• Sneak - Targets the last unit on the enemy Team instead of the first unit

4th Position: Mushroom Seer

• Love this card so much because of his Silence ability
• Silence - Reduces the magic attack of all enemy units

5th Position: Wood Nymph

• Wood Nymph was the first healer card in my team
• Even tho you don't get a lot of stats for 4 mana you do get the Tank Heal ability which I really like
• Tank Heal - Restores a portion of the unit in the first position's health each round

6th Position: Goblin Psychic

• And another healer just cause why not
• Even tho he costs 2 mana more then Wood Nymph you get better stats
• Tank Heal - Restores a portion of the unit in the first position's health each round
• Affliction - When a unit with Affliction hits a target, it has a chance of applying Affliction on the target causing it to be unable to be healed

Starting board

• The starting board didn't really say anything other than that I had one more healer than my enemy and also my melee tank had Shield
• So that led me to believe I had a small advantage over my enemy
• But to be sure let's start the battle and have a look

Here's how the battle went

1st Round

• In the 1st Round I managed to kill two of my enemies monsters
• Sadly I saw that my Goblin Thief was going to die next round was not be able to get another kill

• Also my Mycelic Infantry was getting quite low already but I was hopeful that my two healers could heal him up before he dies

2nd Round

• After 2nd Round the board looked quite the same as after 1st Round
• Only my Goblin Thief died and got nothing for it sadly
• Now I just needed to land my Affliction to out damage my enemies healer

3rd Round

• In the 3rd Round I managed to hit my Affliction and kill his Pelacor Mercenary
• Now I was 100% sure I was going to win this battle so it was just a matter of time when I was going to take down every single standing enemy monster

4th Round

• In the 4th Round I took down his Venari Marksrat

5th Round

• After I took down my enemies second to last monster only one stood between me and the victory

6th Round

• It took me 1 turn to kill my enemies last standing monster
• After hes Goblin Psychic had fallen I took the victory
• Battle Replay Link

Summary

• This battle was definitely heavily one sided but still fun to watch
• I took some risky moves playing melee monsters in battle were Briar Patch was active but it payed off
• But in my opinion the biggest difference came from card levels
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