BATTLE MAGE SECRETS Weekly Challenge! - Back to Basics

Hi everyone! So this weeks challenge is about the Back to Basics ruleset, in which monsters lose all abilities but summoners keep their abilities.

So, Melee is pretty useless besides putting it on the first position, all other melee monsters won't be able to attack until they get to that first position, I like to put a fast melee monster in that spot with high health points, armor is less important for me with this ruleset because I generally see a lot of magic to be played, the same as with the armored up ruleset from last week. Of course ranged monsters still can be effective too, so depending of the availablity of the splinters, I decide my strategy.
Generally I want a summoner with either + or - magic damage:

• Thadius Brood (Death)
• Obsidian (Earth)
• Bortus (Water)
• Alric Stormbringer (Water)
• Valnamor (Water)

My Battle was a Back to Basics / Holy Protection ruleset with a 33 Mana cap, only splinters available are Life and Death. My strategy was pretty basic, put a fast high health points monster up front, fill it with a 1 mana 4HP card to suck up some damage after my tank is killed, on the third spot my main magic attacker with some nice health points too to further protect the glass cannons behind it. At this point I could have chosen to include some ranged attackers so spread the risk of my enemy playing Thadius with -1 magic, nerfing my damage output.
To be honest, I'm not sure why I didn't and go all magic but it turned out nice - the enemy summoner had a -1 ranged damage spell, useless against my lineup, but, then again my -1 magic didn't do anything against his archers also
You can watch the battle here for yourself.

My opponent put in a double tank to suck up the damage, the drawback of using archers is they can't attack in the front position, so when his tanks died, it was just mopping up the rest.

To be fair, it would be ever better if I had switched my 5th and 6th card because now my last card had more health points to protect the card behind it if I had switched them around. But it didn't came that far.

Well... that was it for this week :) see you next week!

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