Hello everyone, we meet again. Today I will make a post again about the Splinterlands contest Battle Mage Secrets Challenge. This Week's Theme is Even Stevens ruleset.

I play in the Modern Format Diamond League, using my scholar account from Balthazar I only use cheap cards like Chaos, Reward, and some Neutral.

Battle Link

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Ruleset

• Even Stevens, only monsters with even mana cost can be used in this battle.
• Born Again ruleset all monsters have the Rebirth ability.
  • Rebirth ability, when this monster dies it will self-resurrect with 1 Health/HP once per battle. If this monster has base armor before it will restore fully.
• Aim True, attacks always hit their target.
• mana cap.
• can use elements Life and Dragon.

My Lineup and strategy

In this battle, we decided to use the Dragon element because you can use monsters from the life element too. By using the Dragon element we can use the Quix summoner which can reduce the damage range by 1, so we can focus more on dealing with melee and magic attacks. In battles with the Even Stevens ruleset the strategy of attacking the enemy from behind is rarely used because few monsters have the Sneak or Opportunity ability. Examples of monsters with the Sneak ability (attacking enemy monsters in the last position)that we can use in this battle are:

Notes :

• In my opinion Dumacke Exile is not suitable for use in battles with a mana cap of 19 because it requires quite high mana, namely 6.
• Meanwhile, Vruz I don't have this unit, it requires 2 mana and the Martyr ability so it is suitable for use in this battle.

Monsters with Opportunity abilities (attacking monsters with the lowest HP) that we can use in this battle:

In the battle with the Even Stevens ruleset, there are not many monsters with small mana that are strong enough to attack the enemy monster in the first position, so we decided to attack the enemy from behind (Sneak ability). We only have 1 monster with the Sneak ability so we will need time to kill the enemy, to protect the monster we will build defensive fortifications in front and behind,

This is my lineup :

Summoner or monster	Abilities	Description
	Quick the Devious, Summoner. Can decrease enemy monster speed and range damage by -1	We used this Dragon summoner because it can decrease enemy range monster damage and increase the chance for our monster to attack first, and evade the enemy attack by reducing the enemy's speed by -1.
	Pelacor Conjurer, 1st position, Tanker. Has the ability Flying, Magic Reflect, Divine Shield, and Phase.	This monster is a favorite as a tanker in the low mana battle because has high speed and can evade all attacks including magic because has the Phase ability. The Flying ability can increase the chance to dodge enemy attacks by 25%. If attacked by a magic attack and hit, it will reflect the damage to the enemy. The ability Magic Reflect deals magic damage equivalent to the attacker's damage divided by 2, rounded up. It is immune to the first enemy attack that hits because has a Divine shield ability. With the ruleset Born Again when this monster resurrects it will have Divine Shield ability back.
	Vulguine, 2nd position, attacker and tanker. Has the ability Scavenger, Dodge, and Enrage	Placed in the 2nd position because this monster has The Scavenger ability which increases the HP every time any monster dies. I hope when this monster advances to first place it will have quite a lot of HP. A Dodge ability increases the chance to evade the enemy melee and range monster by 25%. Further increase in the capability to evade the enemy attack comes from Enrage's ability when this monster's HP decreases will increase the damage and speed. When this monster moves to the first position and gets Enrage effect this monster will be hard to hit with melee and range attack.
	Soul Fiend, 3th position, support. Has Swiftness ability.	This monster has zero mana cost and can give +1 speed to all our monsters. With better speed, our chance to attack first, hit the enemy, and evade the enemy attack will increase. This unit has a low attack and is easy to die..
	Dhampir Infiltrator 4th position, attacker. Has the ability Sneak, Double Strike, Cripple, and Affliction	With the Double Strike ability this monster every round attack twice and gives total damage of 4. This monster with the Sneak ability will attack the monster in the last position. The Cripple ability will decrease the enemy's maximum HP by 1 every time this monster attack hit, if the enemy has armor the HP still decreases. Affliction ability will disable all healing abilities if inflicted upon the enemy unit. This monster is easy to die because not have armor and low HP, so I put it in the 4th position.
	Chaos Knight, 5th position, attacker and tanker. Has the ability Shield, Giant Killer, and Inspire.	This monster can't attack from this position, I put it here because having Shield ability will decrease the damage of the melee and range attack by half in case the enemy brings a monster with the Sneak ability. Our Dhampir Infiltrator need Inspire ability to increase the damage of our melee monster by 1.

Our Formation is finished and we are ready to battle :

Did your Strategy Work?

Yes, the strategy works well. In the initial rounds only Dhampir Infiltrator could attack enemy monsters while we were attacked by the four enemy monsters Vruz, Celestial Harpy, Venari Crystalsmith, and Dax Paragon from the rear and front, however, our defense is quite good at the front (the enemy mostly attacking our monster in the front of Dhampir Infiltrator) so that the Dhampir Infiltrator as the main attacker remains safe from enemy attacks until the battle ends. Thanks to the help of Chaos Knight which provides additional damage to Dhampir Infiltrator we can kill the enemy at the back before our monster at the front dies and the enemy starts attacking Dhampir Infiltrator.
Vulguine who advanced to first place has 12 HP because of the Born Again ruleset, many monsters die and are resurrected again.

Thank you, my friend, for taking the time to review my battle report. I appreciate your efforts and would be grateful if you could provide me with feedback on any mistakes you find by leaving a comment.

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Credit

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