BATTLE MAGE SECRETS ✶ UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL ✶ SECOND GO

The ruleset for this week's challenge

• Up Close and Personal - Only units with melee attacks can be used

The ruleset that I managed to get

• Rulesets - Up Close and Personal & Cripple
• Mana Cap - 38
• Active Elements -

Here's my starting lineup

Summoner: Mylor Crowling

• With this weeks challenge the best summoner you could possibly go for is Mylor Crowling as he gives your monsters Thorns
• Thorns - When hit with a melee attack, does damage back to the attacker

1st Position: Mycelic Infantry

• Mycelic Infantry was my main tank for this battle
• Main reason I like Mycelic Infantry here a lot is hes Shield ability
• Shield - Reduced damage from melee and ranged attacks

2nd Position: Dumacke Orc

• Next up is this lovely soulbound card
• Main reason I like Dumacke Orc here a lot is hes Shield ability
• Shield - Reduced damage from melee and ranged attacks

3rd Position: Flesh Golem

• Next in line is another tanky monster
• For 6 mana you get 10 hp with Heal
• Heal - Restores a portion of the unit's health each round

4th Position: Disintegrator

• I like Disintegrator a lot here because of hes Demoralize ability
• Demoralize - Reduces the Melee attack of all enemy units by 1

5th Position: Uraeus

• Uraeus was the last monster I picked and the main reason was that he costed only 3 mana
• Sneak - Targets the last unit on the enemy Team instead of the first unit

6th Position: Stone Golem

• Another lovely monster with Shield
• Shield - Reduced damage from melee and ranged attacks

Starting board

• The starting board didn't really say anything other than I definitely had better summoner than him
• Also I went with the more defensive team and he went with more aggressive comp
• I just needed to wait and hope that his monsters would just kill themselves hitting my monsters who have Thorns

Here's how the battle went

1st Round

• After 1st Round the boards looked quite the same
• Just some minor armor damages

2nd Round

• After 2nd Round my board was still looking almost as healthy as in the beginning with only one monster fallen
• My enemy in the other hand lost 2 of hes Sneak monsters and was about to lose his Deeplurker next round

3rd Round

• In the 3rd Round I lost my Uraeus but my enemy also lost his Deeplurker
• The board was looking quite in my favor

4th Round

• In the 4th Round his tank finally fell and at that point I was 100% sure I would win this battle

5th Round

• After 5th Round my enemies board was almost empty
• Now it was just down to clean up and I believed that the next round should be the last

6th Round

• It took me 1 full round to kill my enemies last standing monster
• After hes Demented Shark had fallen I took the victory
• Battle Replay Link

Summary

• This battle was definitely interesting to watch
• I believe the strategy to take away from this battle is that using the right summoner for you battle ruleset could be the difference between winning and loosing
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