Splinterlands Battle Mage - Lost Magic

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Hello Splinterfans!

This week we have the new Battle Mage Secrets weekly challenge with the ruleset Lost Magic.

The Lost Magic ruleset is a good chance to play some more melee or ranged attack focus without the fear of being taken out by a strong magic deck. This is also good for monsters with lots of shield who don't need to worry about magic killing them easily.


However, using magic attack is a popular attack method and it can upset your stride somewhat. When the focus is on melee or ranged attack, some tactics to use could be to debuff the ranged attack with Quix the Devious for example. This would also open up some dragon monsters to play with.

Another idea could be to use speed or piercing abilities to your advantage to outgun your opponent. This would mean to use a water deck or Jacek in the fire deck for the speed and piercing ability.



In today's battle, we have an interesting mix of thorns and reverse speed to mix things up a bit. How will it work out?

Let's check this week's battle.

My Team

This is a high mana battle with thorns and reverse speed rulesets.

Summoner/ MonsterReason
Quix the DeviousRanged attack debuff
Mycelic InfantrySlow speed & strong melee attack
RuniReflection shield
Drybone RaiderTwin-strike ability
Naga AssassinRanged attack, low mana cost
Hunter JarxStrong ranged attack
Uloth DhampirRanged attack with stun ability

My opponents

Summoner/ Monster
General Sloan
Uriel the Purifier
Gargoya Devil
War Pegasus
Venari Crystalsmith
Pelacor Arbalest
Prismologist

Battle

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ROUND 1 - Grund vs - Uriel the Purifier

With thorns and reverse speed rulesets combined with no magic, it leaves the main focus on ranged attack. My opponent has gone for Sloan to buff the ranged attack with the powerful Uriel the Purifier as tank.



To face him off I have gone for Mycelic Infantry with his normally slow speed reversed and his Giant Killer ability I hope will produce something for me.



To debuff ranged attack, I have gone for Quix the Devious and added my Runi with his reflection shield into the mix. Round 1 starts with Gargoya Devil falling first

My opponent is looking very fragile as we start round 2.



ROUND 2


Round 2 starts off with a bang, usually Uriel is dishing out some pain, but this time he takes a massive 10 hit from Mycelic Infantry with his Giant Killer ability taking him out.


Venari Crystalsmith is the next to fall. War Pegasus survives luckily as Naga Assassin misses. I mistakenly put Naga in without thinking about reverse speed.


ROUND 3 & 4

Round 3 starts off with Mycelia Infantry taking out War Pegasus for good now. He also falls thanks to thorns.

Pelacor Arbalest is next to fall and Prismologist follows swiftly in round 4.

It's all over.

Summary:

The Lost Magic ruleset reduces the options to melee or ranged attack. Therefore debuffing one of these could be a good way to go. Sometimes relying too much on ranged attack can cause your team to collapse quickly once your tank falls.

Therefore, choosing the right tank is very important. The reflective shield is also one of the great benefits to playing Runi, he can really give some advantages here.

How do you play the Lost Magic ruleset?

Thanks for reading.

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The debuff of your opponent's range attack really came in handy. I think the Mycelic in front did most of the damage, I thought he'd miss an attack due to the pegasus' fly ability. Good massive win. I've been undone by your summoner a lot.

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Thanks, Quix is a great summoner and a good addition to your line up. Whenever there is reverse speed rules, I try to play Mycelic Infantry.

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The Mycelic is unbelievably reliable in ruleset as this. Hahaha great win.

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Hi, I like your team "Drake" from "Earth" with "Quix the Devious" and "Runi", fantastic battle.👍👍👍

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Hey man, do you still play RisingStar?

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Yes I'm still playing level 106!

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I got up to lvl 62 almost 63, but I found myself doing nothing for the past few months, just grinding, just log in from time to time to run the Acoustic Tent or Local Mini Tour missions. I don't have the time nor the will to continue and keep playing but I'm not sure if I could get any value out of the time spent on leveling up until now.
What made you keep playing up to such a high level, do you cash out on anything from the game??

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Do you have a millionaire card? This means i need to run at most one mission a day to keep playing which is not too much trouble. Mostly I am buying new cards, but have cashed out a few hive now and again.

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No, I don't have it, I guess I need to go buy some starbits now because I only have 246K left... How much should I pay, whats a good price for 1mil StarBits?

OMfG, I just found out that BeeSwap is paying you when you exchange hive to swap.hive. In the past I was paying 0.20-0.25% for all my exchanges. Its only a tiny amount, you get a 0.21% reward, but at least you can swap for free, you don't get charged. Did you know about this?

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You can't buy this card now, it has been discontinued. You can only grind the normal way.

I didn't know that with beeswap, but I used uswap to get free or paid swaps before.

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You can't buy the card but you can manually request it on discord if you have 1mil starbits and above lvl 50, if lucky enough one can still get it.

uswap was my go to as well for a good while, but when I checked today I saw a 0.43% swap fee, but now checking again I see they have a link to a kswap.app discounted bridge that pays as well. Its good to have this kind of options. :))

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Ah ok, good luck, maybe you will get it then. Yes, the bridges are good for cheap swaps.

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You can't "buy" the card (even before when it is still available). 🤔 You just needed to hold at least 1,000,000 STARBITS on your #HiveEngine wallet to get the STARBITS Millionaire Card for free. 😅

The Card will stay with you even if your STARBITS tokens on your wallet drops below 1,000,000, but you would simply be unable to perform the daily STARBITS Millionaire Mission unless you can bring back your STARBITS back to at least 1 million. 🤓

Have some !PIZZA with !LOLZ for today! 😁

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You are correct for sure. There used to be some cards on the market and this could get your account suspended if you bought it. Therefore it is recommended to make sure you dont buy it to block your account.

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I think that the #RisingStar and #NFTMart frontends (as well as any frontend that allows selling and buying of Rising Star Cards) should prevent the selling and buying of the STARBITS Millionaire Card. 🤔🤓

!WEED !LOLZ

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Will see if i loss using the lost magic ruleset. Loved the teams you picked though

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Thanks for checking them out. Good luck with this ruleset.

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Oh! Thank you for thanking me☺️☺️

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