BATTLE MAGE SECRETS Weekly Challenge! RULESET: Going the Distance
After debuting for the first time 16 weeks ago and after learning last week that sometimes the Monsters in Praetoria decide they really dislike Taunt Monsters and start doing double damage to them, the Battle Mage Secrets Weekly Challenge is back and this time only Ranged Attack Monsters are allowed on the battlefield. Yeah, I know you've already read the title but even if you haven't, you have positively figured out that the Challenge this week is to display a battle involving the Going the Distance ruleset.
Let us see what this ruleset does before we get into the nitty-gritty of the line-up and the battle itself.
The Going the Distance ruleset is pretty straight-forward - only Monsters with Ranged attack may be used in battles. Well that's definitely as easily understandable as a Ruleset can get.
Now that we've got a good idea of what the Going the Distance ruleset practically does, let's see now how it can be effectively utilized.
There are a few options to approach this ruleset depending on the Splinter options you have available as far as I'm concerned:
- If Fire is available for you, you can set up a very nice ranged team if the mana budget allows for it since Fire has great Monsters with the Close Range (Monsters with the Close Range ability can perform ranged attacks from the first position) ability. All of them are displayed above. What's even better than you can pair them with the Ash Mirage who has the Headwinds (reduces the Ranged attack of all enemy Monsters) ability. If you add Quix on top with his -1 Ranged Attack debuff, then the enemy ranged attackers are going to have a really hard time dealing with your team.
- Another way to approach this is to use Earth and Fernheart to give all your Ranged Monsters the Close Range ability and make them viable tanks or you can go Life with Ilthain and rely on her granting Return Fire (when hit with a Ranged attack, Monsters with Return Fire will return reduced damage back to their attacker) ability and have the enemy team essentially kill themselves. There cool options in the Water Splinter with Wave Brood and Death with Queen of Crows as well since both are very potent anti-ranged Monsters.
Now that we have a decent understanding of the featured Ruleset and its potential advantages and disadvantages, let us have a look at the battle I have chosen to showcase.
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- The line-up of the Battle and the Ruleset:
The rulesets for this battle are Going the Distance, Unprotected (Monsters do not have any armor and do not get armor from Abilities or Summoner Buffs) and Odd Ones Out (only Monsters with odd Mana costs may be used in battles). The mana budget is 24 which is rather low so I will have to work with a limited line-up as I am very mana-dependent this battle. The available Splinters are all but Water. I have decided to go with the Dragon Splinter and Life as a sub-element.
I've decided to start with one of the new soulbound cards which have recently been introduced into the game - the Venari Marksrat. I am interested in its main ability - Martyr (When this Monster dies, adjacent Monsters get +1 to all stats). I've placed it at the front of the Ranged pack so it can buff the card following it. It has only 3 health so it's generally easily killed.
Following immediately after is the Gargoya Devil. I have it in the 2nd spot so it can get buffed by the Muskrat's Martyr ability and potentially manage to tip the scales in my favor even though in this particular battle it does not have its signature 2 Armor due to the Unprotected Ruleset.
The 3rd spot goes to the Portal Spinner. I don't normally rely on Scattershot (this Monsters attacks hit a random enemy target) Monsters since I've found RNG to be really unreliable when I happen to count on it, however, I think that when it comes to Ranged vs Ranged battles, having Scattershot in your line-up could potentially have a higher than usual pay-out. In a addition to that the Portal Spinner packs a pretty good punch with its 4 Ranged Attack.
Last but probably not least is another Scattershot Monster - the Gem Meteor. It is actually a pretty good Ranged Attacker with its 5 Speed and 4 Ranged Attack as well as Piercing (If Melee or Ranged attack damage is in excess of the target's Armor, the remainder will damage the target's Health) even though Piercing is not really relevant this battle since no Monster has armor.
It is time for a quick round by round analysis:
- The Summoner I am going with for the battle is Quix. He is my favorite Dragon Summoner, and is probably one of the Summoners I use most often in battles together with Immortalis and Kelya. He is also a nice fit for this particular battle as he nerfs the Speed of the enemy Monsters by 1 as well as their ranged attack by the same amount. My enemy has chosen to go with Quix as well as but they have chosen the Earth Splinter so their approach is slightly different. Let's see how this goes.
- After 1 round we can see that I have lost my Venari Muskrat, and my Gargoya Lion has moved to the tank spot with its Attack and Health totals buffed by 1. On the other hand my Scattershot special forces have brought the enemy backline to near-death Health figures so I hope I will manage to capitalize on that next round.
- Round 3 - I have managed to take down two of the enemy Monsters so I have basically managed to put myself in an advantageous position. Let's see what happens next.
- Round 4 - Both of the enemy Monsters are 1 hit away from dying, however, it is up to the backline to determine the winner in this battle.
- Round 5 - My Gem Meteor has managed to take down the enemy Venari Seedsmith before it could take down my Portal Spinner so that has sealed the deal for me. It was a quick but very cool battle. RNG is... sometimes.. fun.
Well this was definitely a fast but fun battle, and an entertaining way to showcase the Going the Distance ruleset. See you next week with another exciting post related to the brand new Battle Mage Secrets Weekly Challenge!
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