Hello Battle Mages!

Welcome to another Splinterlands Battle Mage Secrets Weekly Challenge. For this challenge, we are going to discuss the earthquake ruleset or the ruleset where all non-flying monsters takes 2 damage at the end of each round.

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🦅 Ruleset: Earthquake

Card	Description
Earthquake	Non-flying monsters takes 2 damage at the end of each round.

The earthquake ruleset provides an advantage to those monsters with flying ability as they are not affected by the damage per round. This ruleset as well provide the advantage on those monsters with high armor as well as shield ability.

A 2 damage per round is quite painful as the 2 damage per round is affecting all monsters in the field.

Consideration

In my perspective, when earthquake occurs, I usually think if I should use all monsters with flying ability but this might not be the case all the time as some monsters especially melee might not be able to attack in the backline. This is why sometimes there is a combination of flying and non flying monsters.

First thing to consider is the elementh allowed in the battle. If the element does have a lot of flying monsters in your deck. If not then check whether you have a non flying monsters but with a high armor or shield ability.

In my opinion, dragon, life and death have the most monsters with flying ability. So I would choose these element when earthquake ruleset is in play. However earth and water may be chosen as well as there are monsters in those element which grants extra armor to temporary deal with the earthquake damage.

🦅 Cards

Suggested Cards

Brighton Bloom is the most suitable summoner in this ruleset as it gives flying ability to all monsters. Another summoners are those that involves armor and repair.

Card	Information
Brighton Bloom	Brighton Bloom provides the flying ability to all monsters which prevents them to be affected by the earthquake damage.

In choosing the monsters, as I have mentioned those with flying abilities are automatically eligible in the earthquake ruleset but besides those flying monsters, those with shield, repair and snare abilities are also those that are good to have.

Below are the list of my choices of monster with flying abilities:

Monster	Element	Ability	Remarks
Pelacor Bandit	Water	Flying	A sneak monster with flying ability
Phantom of the Abyss	Water	Flying	A magic monster with flying ability
Runemancer Kye	Water	Flying	A magic monster with life leech ability
Nectar Queen	Earth	Flying	A high attack monster with retaliate ability
Pelacor Mercenary	Earth	Flying	A tank monster with healing ability
Regal Peryton	Earth	Flying	A magic monster with high speed
Adelade Brightwing	Life	Flying	A magic monster with resurect and repair ability
Celestial Harpy	Life	Flying	A melee monster with opportunity
Kralus	Life	Flying	A tank monster with immunity and healing ability
Luminous Eagle	Life	Flying	A melee monster with reach ability
Pelacor Arbalest	Life	Flying	A range monster with double strike ability
Uriel the Purifier	Life	Flying	A tank monster with healing ability
Dark Ha'on	Death	Flying	A tank monster
Raa	Death	Flying	A range monster with double strike ability
Agor Longtail	Dragon	Flying	A tank monster with high defense and heal
Dragon Jumper	Dragon	Flying	A melee monster with opportunity and snare ability
Chaos Dragon	Dragon	Flying	A magic monster with high magic damage with blast
Runic Skyclaw	Dragon	Flying	A high damaging range monster
Void Dragon	Dragon	Flying	A magic monster with void and phase ability with high speed
Gargoya Devil	Neutral	Flying	A range monster with high damage and close range ability
Tower Griffin	Neutral	Flying	A range monster with protect ability

Those with shield ability as well as snare ability is also a good use in earthquake ruleset. Also those with protect ability can provide extra layer of defense against earthquake.

Disadvantage Cards

The disadvantage card are simply those without flying ability since they are affected by the earthquake damage in every round.

🦅 Battle Strategy

Battle

Rules of Combat

Modifications: Stampede, Earthquake, Taking Sides
Mana Cap: 40
Playable Splinters: Life

Team Composition

With the earthquake in play and the life splinter is the only one avaiable without neutral due to taking sides ruleset which is good because the life splinter do have many monster with flying ability.

• Summoner: Initially I prefer to use Grandmaster Rathe for extra armor but then I decided to use General Sloan to boosted Pelacor Arbalest attack as well as to have a 6 monster in my list.
• 1st Position: Uriel the Purifier with the healing ability and high damage recharge. This card is unaffected by the earthquake.
• 2nd Position: Adelade Brightwing acts as a support with resurrection, repair and magic damage. This card is unaffected by the earthquake
• 3rd Position: I personally choose stitch leech to deal damage in the backline due to its sneak as well as hoping for the life leech ability to sustain the earthquake damage.
• 4th Position: Djinn Renova is also intentional for this lineup because of its strengthen which gives extra health and most importantly the triage ability which can sustain the earthquake damage.
• 5th Position: Celestial Harpy is unaffected by the earthquake and with the help of its true strike and opportunity, this card is a good option for this round.
• 6th Position: Pelacor Arbalest performs a double attack and boosted by General Sloan. This card is also unaffected by the earthquake.

Basically, my line-up is a flying ability monster which do have a good attack and support stats and ability as well as non-flying monsters that can sustain the earthquake damage.

Battle Analysis

Looking on the opponent's line-up, we have the same thinking to use most of the monsters with flying ability in order to avoid the earthquake damage.

1. All of my opponent cards is not affected by the earthquake while two of my monster is affected but can do the sustain damage.
2. The attack power of my line-up is much higher than his lineup.

BATTLE LINK

🦅 Closing Remarks

Earthquake ruleset is a troublesome ruleset especially if you do not have Brighton Bloom since it will definitely cause a constant of two damage per round to non-flying units. This ruleset also provide the importance of the abilities such as flying, shield, snare and sustain abilities such as triage and repair.

Which strategy do you use for the Earthquake? Do you often use all of your monster with flying?

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