The mana cap for my next battle was 37, which is good enough to use the monsters I like and try to ignore the Taking Sides ruleset, because I need more mana to use only the choosen Splinter monsters without any neutral ones. 🤫

The Counterspell ruleset is a bit relief, because it is almost eliminates the use of the magic attack monsters, because they will damage themselves with every attack that they make unless they have the Void ability. This ruleset also makes assembling the team more difficult as well, because it reduces the available pool of monsters.

My lineup

	Chanseus the Great as the name suggest is one of the best summoner in the game. He cost 7 mana, which quite a lot, but he has 3 abilities to support his monsters. The first is the Protect, which will repair the armor on the monster who has taken the most damage. The Triage will heal a friendly backline monster and the Resurrect will revive the first friendly monster back to life. 😜
The Pelacor Conjurer is a low budget monster who doesn't have any attack and his cost is only 2. He is an easy fit into any kind of team, but his advantage is that his high health compared to his cost and his high speed to dodge any incoming melee and ranged attacks. 😋
	I do not use Kralus often, because he cost a fortune t orent, but he is well worth his price! He has huge health, which is an excellent combination with his self Heal ability. He has two kind of attacks, which is magic and melee and he has the Flying ability as well, which helps a lot to dodge the incoming melee and ranged attacks. 🤗
The Venari Crystalsmith is an excellent support monster, because she has the Tank Heal ability, which is amazing in a combination with Kralus self Heal ability. On top of that the Crystalsmith has +2 ranged attack damage as well, which is amazing. 😉
	The Stitch Leech is my only Sneak attack monster, because if my opponent would bring some squishy support monster in his backline he might be able to remove them. He has +3 attack damage and his cost is only 3, so he has space in any kind of team, so it is worth to use him. 😇
The Silvershield Sheriff is an amazing ranged attack monster, because he has +4 ranged attack damage on his own and he uses the Snipe ability as well, which means he will prioritize his attack against the ranged, magic or no-attack damage monsters wherever they are. He cost quite a lot of mana, but I do not think I could win this battle without him. 🤩
	The Soul Fiend is just a 0 mana filler monster in my team and he worked perfectly, because he lured the enemy Deeplurker attack twice, which saved my more important backliner for two rounds. I also have him as a Gold Foil version of him, which is amazing to increase the rewards from a winning battle by 10%. 🥰

The Battle

My opponent brought Possibilus the Wise for this battle, which became an amazing Summoner for me recently, because he gives +2 Health to all of his monsters, but more importantly he also gives the Reach ability and Trample as well. This is especially good for the melee attack monsters, because they will be able to attack from the second position and if they kill an enemy monster they will be able to make an extra attack. He had a pretty solid melee attack team and I hope his Deeplurker is not going to troll my backline out. 😅

The Coastal Sentry is an amazing combo with Possibilus, because she has two attack per turn on her own and the Trample could boost that up to three if she kills a monster, which she did in the first round killing my Conjurer and with the extra attack she removed all the armor from my Kralus.

Luckily my Silvershield Sheriff had the Snipe ability, so his target was the only magic attack monster from the enemy, which is Adelade. This was a huge kill for us, because Adelade Inspired her own team buffing their melee attack by one and also she couldn't use her Resurrect ability.

In the second round not much happened and luckily his Sentry missed one of his attack against my Kralus.

Unfortunately in the third round she didn't miss and luckily his Deeplurker had other plans and killed my Stitch Leech instead of my Kralus, so he had time to heal himself up with the Venari Crystalsmith.

In the fourth round my Kralus finally killed his super high damage tank of Diemonshark, so only two monsters left in his team for the fifth round.

My opponent Deeplurker took his job very seriously and started killing my backlien utilising his Trample ability and attacking twice in every round after he killed one of my monster.

In the last two round luckily the heal on my Kralus was more than enough to mitigate the damage outcome of the Deeplurker, so my team was able to achieve the Victory for me. 😇

Battle Result

Did your strategy work? What will you try differently next time?

My strategy worked perfectly, because the Sheriff were able to kill their Adelade from his backline, before she could Resurrect his fellow companion and on top of that they have lost her Inspire ability, which increased their melee attack by one.

Kralus and the Crystalsmith prooved to be an amazing couple, because they were able to sustain a lot of incoming damage, which gave time to my team to kill their monsters in time. 🤗

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