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Hello again, my coffee loving friends. This week's challenge is Melee Mayhem. In this rule set, your melee monsters are allowed to attack even when they are not at the front. This is a good rule set to unleash those strong melee monsters and deny your opponent's advantage by using abilities like Thorns, Demoralize and Shield.

... or so they think.

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RULE SETS

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	Available Elements: Water, Fire, Earth, Life, Death, Dragon
	Melee Mayhem: Melee units can attack from any position.

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! [Click here to see the lists of all the rule sets] https://splinterlands.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Rule_Sets

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STRATEGY

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In this battle, it looked like I did not abuse the Melee Mayhem rule like my opponent but this is actually a big brain play. In some battles, you can anticipate your opponent's line up based on the rules.

For example, when the rule is Target Practice that gives everyone the Snipe ability, you can anticipate your opponent using range and melee units to use the best of this rule. In Briar Patch, where everyone has Thorns, players avoid using melee monsters that is affected by this ability.

I applied the same idea on this game and anticipated my opponent using melee units while my opponent's did the same.

... or so he thought.

I intentionally did not use any melee units as much as possible in order to not get countered.

It was very successful.

I have Unicorn Mustang in the front that has Void to reduce incoming damage from opponent's magic damage. His speed and health allows him to dodge a lot of attacks while blocking those that come through.

Goblin Psychic comes as a support to keep my Unicorn Mustang healthy while Queen Mycelia increases the team's sustain via her Protect ability.

Alternative Strategy: If you really want melee units to abuse this rule, I suggest using units with Shield ability. Since you also anticipate the opponent using melee for this rule, Shield reduces their damage by half. Having Shield on both front and back eliminates the threat and then adding some form of damage in the middle.

Alternative Strategy 2: If I were my opponent and I used Tarsa, rather than having Ferox Defender and Disintegrator, I would fill my team with small melee units and abuse Tarsa's increased melee damage. I'll have Antoid platoon in the front and then other 5 melee monsters which means the team with Tarsa will have an instant extra 6 overall damage.

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CARD POSITIONING

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In this battle, I used the summoner Obsidian and monsters Unicorn Mustang, Queen Mycelia, Goblin Psychic and Mycelic Morphoid .

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Quick Stats

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Level 1: Rare Summoner. Allows level 1 common, level 1 rare, level 1 epic and level 1 legendary. +1 Magic Damage: All friendly units increases their magic damage by 1.

1. Level 1: Good monster to keep in the front. His Void ability takes care of opponent's mages while his speed allows him to dodge melee and range attacks. A balanced front line unit.	2. Level 1: Queen Mycelia protects the back with her Protect ability by giving the team an extra 2 armor.	3. Level 1: Tank Heal allows him to restore health of Unicorn Mustang every round.	4. Level 1: I have an extra mana so I added Mycelic Morphoid at the back to defend against potential sneak attacks.

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BATTLE REPLAY

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⚔️ ROUND 1 ⚔️

Turn	Description
01 - 06	Summoner effects, Demoralize, and Protect are applied to affected monsters.
07	Unicorn Mustang deals 2 damage to Ferox Defender's Armor.
08	Kobold Bruiser deals 3 damage to Unicorn Mustang's armor removing it.
09	Ferox Defender deals 2 damage to Unicorn Mustang's health.
10	Radiated Scorcher deals 2 damage to Unicorn Mustang's health.
11	Queen Mycelia deals 2 damage to Ferox Defender's health.
12	Goblin Psychic heals 3 health to Unicorn Mustang.
13	Goblin Psychic deals 3 damage to Ferox Defender.
14	Mycelic Morphoid deals 1 damage to Ferox Defender's armor.
15	Disintegrator deals 3 damage to Unicorn Mustang.

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⚔️ ROUND 2 ⚔️

Turn	Description
01	Unicorn Mustang deals 2 damage to Ferox Defender's armor.
02	Ferox Defender misses its attack.
03	Kobold Bruiser misses its attack.
04	Radiated Scorcher deals 2 damage to xxx.
05	Queen Mycelia deals 2 damage to Ferox Defender's health.
06	Goblin Psychic heals 3 health to Unicorn Mustang.
07 - 08	Goblin Psychic deals 3 damage to Ferox Defender removing him from play.
09	Ferox Defender's Protect loses its effect.
10	Mycelic Morphoid deals 1 damage to Goblin Bruiser's Health.
11	Disintegrator deals 3 damage to Unicorn Mustang's health.

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⚔️ ROUND 3 ⚔️

Turn	Description
01	Unicorn Mustang deals 2 damage to Kobold Bruiser.
02	Radiated Scorcher deals 2 damage to Unicorn Mustang.
03 - 04	Kobold Bruiser deals 3 damage to Unicorn Mustang and removes him from play.
05 - 06	Queen Mycelia deals x2 damage to Kobold Bruiser and removes him from play.
07 - 08	Goblin Psychic deals 3 damage to Radiated Scorcher and removes him from play.
09	Disintegrator deals 3 damage to Queen Mycelia's armor and removes it.
10	Mycelic Morphoid deals 1 damage to Disintegrator's armor.

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⚔️ ROUND 4 ⚔️

Turn	Description
01	Queen Mycelia deals 2 damage to Disintegrator's health.
02	Goblin Psychic deals 3 damage to Disintegrator's health.
03	Disintegrator deals 3 damage to Queen Mycelia's health.
04	Mycelic Morphoid deals 1 damage to Disintegrator and removes his armor.

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⚔️ ROUND 5 ⚔️

Turn	Description
01 - 02	Queen Mycelia deals 2 damage to Disintegrator's health and removes him from play.
03	Disintegrator's Demoralize loses its effect.
04	Goblin Psychic heals 2 health to Queen Mycelia. Game ends.

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