Hello everyone, how are you? I hope all have a great weekend. Today I will make a post again about the Splinterlands contest Battle Mage Secrets Challenge. This Week's Theme is Explosive Weaponry 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

• Explosive Weaponry, all monsters have blast ability.

  • Blast ability, does additional damage to monsters adjacent to the target Monster.

• Weak Magic, magic will hit armor first before reducing HP / Health Point, like the melee and range attack.

• mana cap.

• can use elements Fire, and Life.

My Lineup and strategy

Because every attack in the Explosive Weaponry ruleset will hit several monsters at once so the monsters die more easily, usually the main rule in this ruleset is to use a summoner/monster that can attack the enemy at high speed so that they have the opportunity to attack first and if you are lucky you can kill them before they can attack. Therefore we will use the Fire element because the summoner can buff all our monsters with an additional speed of +2.

This is my lineup :

Summoner or monster	Abilities	Description
	Jacek the Conqureror, Summoner. Has ability Scattershot, and Piercing ability, and can give +2 speed to all friendly monsters.	This is a summoner from the Fire element. I used this summoner because of its increased speed and Piercing ability (if Melee or Ranged attack damage is more than the target's armor, the remainder will damage the target's health.). Another ability is Scattershot makes our monster attack a random enemy monster, this ability depends on our luck/RNG for our monster to target the weak enemy monster and kill it, because of the Explosive Weaponry the Scattershot ability becoming more powerful.
	Arkemis the Bear, 1st position, Attacker, Support and Defender. Has the ability Protect, Halving, Forcefield, and Enrage.	We put this monster in the first position because it has a High HP and the Protect ability is a support ability that gives all friendly monsters armor of +2, this is useful in this Explosive Weaponry, when we are attacked by melee or range attack with armor will hit the armor first before decrease the HP including the effect of Blast ability. Halving ability will make the monster we hit will decrease the damage by half (round down). This is very useful to decrease the damage of the monster who attacks us. The Forcefield is another good defense ability, it will make all monsters who have damage of 5 or more only give 1 damage to this monster, and to increase the capability as an attacker, it has an Enrage ability, if it hit by the enemy and decrease the HP it will increase the damage and speed of this monster.
	Scavo Chemist, 2nd position, support. Has the ability Cleanse, Slow, and Headwinds.	I use this monster mainly because has a Slow ability, which decreases all enemy speed by -1, and the Headwinds ability which decreases all range damage by -1. The other ability is good too, Cleanse will delete all negative buff from the ally monster in the first position.
	Scavo Firebolt, 3rd position, attacker. Has Knock Out ability.	The reason we used this monster is because has high attack and good speed. range attack can't attack in the first position so we need to put a monster with a range attack behind.
	Countess Sinash 4th position, has ability Opportunity, Camouflage, Swiftness, and Affliction.	We were not put in the last position because we were afraid that the enemy would bring a monster with the Sneak ability and hit our monster in the 5th position damaging the monsters in the fourth and last position. With high damage of 4 but low speed and HP, this monster easy to die. We need the Swiftness ability to boost the speed. Affliction ability will disable the effect of healing if the enemy monster hit by this monster, has a 50% chance to inflict the status Affliction. Opportunity should hit the enemy monster with less HP but because of the summoner this monster hit random enemy. This monster can't be attacked if not move to the first position because has Camouflage ability.
	Supply Runner, 5th position, attacker and support. Has Swiftness, and Strengthen ability	We need this monster to further boost all our monster speed by +1 because it has Swiftness ability. The Strengthen ability will make all of our monsters live longer by enhancing the HP by +1.
	Blood Maker, 6th position, attacker . Has Scattershot, and Criplle abilities	We use this monster because of its high speed, in case the enemy brings the monster with Sneak ability we have a higher chance to evade the attack. Cripple ability will decrease the enemy's Maximum HP every time the attack hit. Scattershot ability is the same as our summoner Jacek ability.

Our Formation is finished and we are ready to battle :

Did your Strategy Work?

Yes the strategy working perfectly we have better armor than the enemy because we bring Arkemist the Bear, the enemy although have Piercing ability still needs to attack our armor first.

Our Supply Runner is a gold card that attacked first although have the same speed as the enemy Supply Runner which is not a gold card. In this battle armor and speed play important roles.

Our tanker Arkemis the Bear is better than the enemy Grum Flameblade because it can decrease the enemy attack by 50% if our attack hits the enemy.

Overall in this battle, we have better armor and some monsters have higher speed, combined with a good tanker in the front ensuring our easy victory.

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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• Divider took from @kyo-gaming.
• Card description, Image, and graphic were taken from https://Peakmonsters.com and https://Splintercards.com