BATTLE MAGE SECRETS ✶ TAKING SIDES ✶ SECOND GO

The ruleset for this week's challenge

• Taking Sides - No neutral units may be used

The ruleset that I managed to get

• Rulesets - Going the Distance & Taking Sides
• Mana Cap - 32
• Active Elements -

Here's my starting lineup

Summoner: Pyre

• The main reason I picked Pyre was that my best ranged team was Fire element
• Other than that +1 speed is great in any situation

1st Position: Molten Ash Golem

• Molten Ash Golem was one of my main tanks for this battle
• Main reason I like Molten Ash Golem here a lot is hes Close Range ability
• Close Range - Units with ranged attacks are allowed to attack in the first position

2nd Position: Firecaller

• Love this card so much because of her stats and Martyr ability
• Firecaller was in the second position so if he died my 3rd position would get buffed and moved to the 1st position
• Martyr - When a unit with the martyr ability dies in a battle, it gives adjacent characters +1 to all stats

3rd Position: Lava Launcher

• Another great stat monster with Close Range
• Love this card a lot because of his high stats
• Close Range - Units with ranged attacks are allowed to attack in the first position

4th Position: Scavo Firebolt

• Next up in line is just a simple ranged monster
• I picked him because he was low mana cost and had 2 ranged damage

5th Position: Fire Elemental

• I picked Fire Elemental for two reasons
• First because of hes great stats + the low mana cost
• And the second reason was hes Blast ability
• Blast - Does additional damage to units adjacent to the target monster

Starting board

• The starting board didn't really say anything other than I had more monsters than him but hes monsters were higher level
• Only with this look at the board the battle could go either way

Here's how the battle went

1st Round

• After 1st Round I was quite confident that I would win this battle
• I just had much higher damage than my enemy

2nd Round

• After 2nd Round I had only lost my Molten Ash Golem and still had my Lava Launcher
• Secondly I saw that I had more speed so my monsters were going to kill my enemies Lava Launcher before he can even damage my monsters

3rd Round

• In the 3rd Round my enemies Lava Launcher died and now it was just down to defeating the last standing monsters

4th Round

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

Summary

• This battle was definitely heavily one sided but still fun to watch
• I believe the knowledge to take away from this game is Close Range is so op in Going the Distance ruleset
• Only thing I missed from Taking Sides ruleset was Furious Chicken
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Thanks for reading and thanks for all the upvotes, reblogs, comments and follows. And till the next challenge, KEEP BATTLING!