Hello Splinter lovers, today I will make a post again about Battle Mage Secrets Challenge This week's theme is Reverse Speed Ruleset :

I play using my scholar account from Balthazar. This is their Discord if you want to join, but you must queue in the waitlist first because right now the scholar is full.

Battle Link

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Ruleset

• I play in Diamond I league Modern Format.

From left to right :

• Reverse Speed, Monsters with the lowest Speed attack first and have the highest chance of evading attacks.
• Lost Magic, only monster with range and melee attack can be used in this battle.
• Holy Protection, all monster have Divine Shield ability.
  • Divine Shield, the first time the Monster takes damage it is ignored.

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  Mana Cap.

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  the element we can use.

My Lineup and strategy

In the Reverse Speed and Holy Protection ruleset I try to pick monsters with lower speed and make sure not use the summoner or monster who can add speed. We focus fire to 1 monster with all of our monster, because only the second attack started to damage the enemy. In this battle can't used magic we focus against range and melee attack. In this battle, we assume that the enemy will also attack our monster in the first position (focus fire), because Life Element has many monsters with very strong front attacks.

My card in the scholar account is limited, so this guide is suitable only for Splinterland players who want to play in the Diamond League with cheap cards. My lineup:

~~~~~~~Summoner/Monster~~~~~~~	Description
	General Sloan, we want to use many range attack monsters so we used this Summoner to add +1 damage to all our range attacker.
	Chaos Knight, 1st positon. This is our attacker and tanker. Put in the first position because has good armor and Shield ability.
	Sunkai Harvester, 2nd positon. This is our 2nd attacker and tanker. In case our Chaos Knight die this monster can be the 2nd tanker although not have strong defense due not have Shield ability.
	Drybone Raider, 3rd positon. This monster have two type attack archer and melee. When move to the first position this monster only can damage the enemey with melee attack. We use this monster because it has the Shatter ability. This monster weakness is slow, HP and armor not good so we put this monster here, to protect this monsters from the enemy attack.
	Prismologist, 4th positon. We used this monster because it slow and have Blast ability to disable the effect of Divine Shield in several monsters. Put in this position to be a tanker because have armor and Forcefieldability in case the Drybone Raider death.
	Pelacor Arbalest, 5th positon. This is our main attacker with Double Strike ability and boost from General sloan, this monster attack become very large
	Venari Crystalsmith, 6th positon. This is our Healer we put this monster behind because our Pelacor Arbalest has slower speed than our Venary Crystalsmith and have Flying ability, maybe several enemy attack can be evade.

The Battle

The enemy brings summoner Ilthain who can reflect back the range attack and give damage, and brings the tanker in the front Shieldbearer who has high armor and Shield ability.

Round 1:
As usual, The battle starts with buff and debuff.
Prismologist with the slowest speed attack first, because of the Blast effect the enemy behind Shieldbearer which is Corsair Bosun got attacked too badl he has Reflected Shield so ignore the damage of Blast. because 2 enemy receive damage from Prismologist, two enemy reflected back the arrow damage to Prismologist, disabled the Divine Shield and destroy the armor. The Blast ability becomes a disaster in this battle.
Luckily we bring Drybone Raider with 1 attack to destroy the armor of Shieldbearer who has 8 armor. With the help of an attack from another monster Sunkai Harvester can kill the enemy Shieldbearer in this round.

• Round 2:
  With 1 attack our Prismologist Destroy the armor of Corsair Bosun and disabled the Divine Shield from the enemy behind Venari Crystalsmith, this time our Blast effect which got reflected killed our Prismologist. In this round after being attacked by another monster Corsair Bosun killed by our Chaos Knight. Venari Crystalsmith move to the first position, because it's a range attack it can't attack anymore. Our Pelacor Arbalest is killed by the reflected damage when attacking the enemy Venari Crystalsmith. Our Sunkai Harvester managed to kill the Venari Crystalsmith. In this round we can see why we should pick the slowest speed monster, the Lone Boatman who attacked with 5 speed miss when attacked our Drybone Raider who has 2 speed it should be dead because only have 1 HP.

• Round 3:
  In this round the enemy Tower Griffin who moved to the first position killed by our Venary Crystalsmith.

• Round 4:
  Lone Boatman moves to the first position and can't attack anymore. Only 1 enemy can attack the Prismologist. The enemy Lone Boatman Killed by our Chaos Knight.

• Round 5:
  The enemy's last monster Prismologist can't attack anymore and is easily killed by our Sunkai Harvester.

Did your strategy work?

Not according to our plan, because of the enemy summoner Ilthain, but we managed to win in this battle I think because :

• The enemy monsters did not focus fire, The enemy Lone Boatman attacked our Drybone while the other 5 enemy monsters attacked our Chaos Knight. We used 6 monsters to attack the enemy in the front position.
• We bring Drybone Raider who has Shatter ability, with this ability we can easily destroy the monster armor in front position who has high armor due to increasing armor from The enemy Tower Griffin.
• Our Tanker Chaos Knight and Sunkai Harvester have high damage due to the boost from Chaos Knight Inspire ability. And Chaos Knight can defend well against many attacks from the enemy.
• The enemy summoner increases the speed of the enemy monster, in this battle, we can see our monster evade several attacks from the enemy monsters, and many of our monsters attack first and manage to kill the enemy monster without giving them a chance to attack our monster.

Thank you everyone for taking the time to read my post. I really appreciate it 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.
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