Battle Mage Secrets Weekly Challenge - Up to Eleven - Modern Diamond Ranked 2

Hello everyone! This is my second entry for this week's Battle Mage Secrets Weekly Challenge with the Up to Eleven rule set!

Up to Eleven is not the most interesting rule set but it's also not one that creates uninteresting games. There are three possibilities for this rule set. You can choose to ignore it and play the same cards you would if it didn't exist; you can choose to prepare to for the opponent's possible use of Magic Reflect, Thorns, and Return Fire; and you can choose to use those abilities yourself. You can also opt to have both of the last options. There's no way to know which option is correct, it all depends on other rule sets, available mana and splinters and trying to guess what the opponent is doing. You might go with Thorns and face a team without melee monsters.

This game also has the Heavy Hitters and Little League rule sets. Little League is the dominant rule set here. The other 2 are easy to ignore, especially Heavy Hitters. I only have 1 monster with a reflect ability and my opponent has none. They have 1 Reflection Shield and 1 Stun (in the same monster) while I have none of those. My Xenith Monk died before even getting one Magic Reflect because it missed the attack against Riftwing. I was also able to kill their Clockwork Aide to get back my armor. After getting rid of the clock, their team started to fall apart with my Sneak monsters dealing a lot of damage. Eventually, it was Doctor Blight vs. Doctor Blight. Mine was buffed with martyr but also had 1 less magic attack from Thaddius Brood. However, theirs was at a lower health and already poisoned, so the game was 100% mine, at that point.

What do you all think about Up to Eleven? Do you have any interesting games or strategies for it? Let me know in the comments! Thank you for reading!!