BATTLE MAGE SECRETS ✶ EVEN STEVENS

The ruleset for this week's challenge

• Even Stevens - Only units with even mana costs may be used

The ruleset that I managed to get

• Rulesets - Even Stevens, Maneuvers & Counterspell
• Mana Cap - 31
• Active Elements -

Here's my starting lineup

Summoner: Mylor Crowling

• With this weeks challenge the specific summoner type doesn't really matter
• In my case as earth was active I settled for Mylor Crowling as his ability is super strong in my opinion
• Thorns - When hit with a Melee attack, does 2 Meele damage back to the attacker

1st Position: Flesh Golem

• Flesh Golem was my main tank for this battle
• Main reason I like Flesh Golem here a lot is his Heal ability
• Heal - Restores a third of the max health to this Unit's health each round

2nd Position: Biceratops

• Biceratops was picked just because he had 1 armor and with Maneuvers active he was also able to attack from the second position
• Even tho For 4 mana Maneuvers isn't the greatest monster to play Even Stevens ruleset really took a lot of my options away from me

3rd Position: Clockwork Aide

• I was really hoping my enemy wouldn't play any magic because of Counterspell was active
• If you enemy doesn't play any magic, Clockwork Aide is a great tank for low mana
• Clockwork Aide also has a great ability from lvl 1
• Swiftness - All friendly Units have their Speed increased by 1

4th Position: Parasitic Growth

• Next up in line is this lovely monster with Opportunity
• For 4 mana you get 2 melee damage (with Opportunity), 1 speed and 3 hp
• Opportunity - Units with the Opportunity ability may attack from any position and will target the enemy Unit with the lowest health

5th Position: Goblin Thief

• And another monster with the ability to damage my enemies backline
• For 4 mana you get 2 melee damage (with Sneak), 3 speed and 4 hp
• Sneak - Targets the last Unit on the enemy Team instead of the first Unit

6th Position: Hunter Jarx

• Hunter Jarx was my backline tank for this battle
• Also his has some quite amazing stats being 3 ranged damage (with Snipe), 2 speed and 7 hp
• Snipe - Targets the first enemy Unit with Ranged, Magic, or no attack that is not in the first position with Ranged or Magic attacks

Starting board

• The starting board didn't really say anything other than luckily my enemy didn't play any magic damage and also played a lot of melee
• If I could get through my enemies first 2 monsters the battle should be over as these two monsters only have enough damage to make a difference

Here's how the battle went

1st Round

• 1st Round was a total disaster for me
• My Flesh Golem died instantly and I didn't get anything for it
• But I felt like I still had a chance in this battle

2nd & 3rd Round

• After next two rounds the board was looking quite empty
• I wasn't sure but it seemed to me like like the battle was in my favor because of Thorns even tho I didn't have much hp left

4th Round

• Now I was 100% sure I was going to win this battle
• If I manage to hit both of my attacks and he also gets the Thorns damage the battle should end in 5th Round

5th Round

• It took me 1 round to kill my enemies last standing monster
• After his Xenith Monk had fallen I took the victory
• Battle Replay Link

Summary

• This battle was definitely closer than I would've liked
• I believe the battle came down to mostly summoner diff
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