Hello all Splinters fan, Today I want to make another post in Splinterlands Community for Battle Mage Secrets Challenge. This Week's Theme is Up Close and Personal ruleset.

I play in the modern format, Gold League, using another my scholar account from Balthazar.

Battle Link

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Ruleset

• Up Close & Personal, only melee monster can be used in this battle.

• Born Again, all monster have the Rebirth ability.

  • Rebirth ability, when this monster dies it will self-resurrect with 1 Health once per battle

• Amplify, Increases Magic Reflect, Return Fire, and Thorns damage to all enemy monsters by 1

• mana cap.

• can use all element except Earth.

My Lineup and strategy

With Ruleset Up Close and Personal and Born Again I decided to focus attacking the enemy in the first position because our best attacker with great damage only for front attack, and we have summoner who can make this monster even stronger. The other option is used monster with Opportunity (will hit the enemy with the lowest HP) or Sneak ability .

This is my lineup :

Summoner or monster	Abilities	Description
	Byzantinne Kitty, summoner, give buff speed +2 to all friendly monsters, True Strike ability, and can heal monster in the first position.	We use this summoner because with high speed we have high chance to attack first and can't miss because all monster will get True Strike ability. With high speed the enemy monsters will have difficulty hitting our monsters, and the heal will give our tanker in the first position chance to live longer.
	Forgotten One, 1st position, attacker and tanker. Has the ability Immunity, Retaliate, and Piercing.	The reason we use this monster because have high damage and have 50% chance to do counter attack if hit by the melee monster (Retaliate ability). If the attack destroy the enemy armor and still have damage left it will decrease the enemy HP because have Piercing ability. It have no defense ability with slow speed (lucky we use this Kitty summoner to increasing this monster speed by +2), our attacker monster need to give high damage so can killed/decrease the enemy HP monster as much as possible before die.
	Carnage titan, 2nd position, attacker and tanker. Has the ability Reach, Double Strike, and Shield.	With Forgotten One will become our main attacker. This melee monster can attack from the 2nd position because have Reach ability. Will attack twice every round doubling the damage (Double Strike) ability. This monster strong against range and melee monster because have Shield which can decrease the damage by 50%, with Heal from the summoner this monster is hard to kill, to bad the HP only 8.
	Venator Kinjo, 3rd position, support. Has the ability Reflection Shield, Camouflage, Immunity, and Slow.	This monster can't attack from this position I only used it because of the Slow ability. It will decrease all enemy monster speed by -1 and increasing the chance for our monster to evading the enemy melee and range attack. this monster can't be attacked unless move to the first position because have Camouflage ability. With Immunity ability this monster immune to all negative status like Stun, Poison, Blind, Cripple, etc. Reflection Shield ability will disabled the effect of Blast attack if the ally monster adjacent to this monster attacked by Blast attack. It will remain a support unless move to the first position and start to attack the enemy monster.
	Ferox Defender, 4th position, support. Has the ability Protect, and Repair.	It will not attack from this position but will give extra armor +2 to all our monsters and restore the ally armor who got the most damage. I used this monster to support our tanker and attacker in front Forgotten One and Carnage titan.
	Disintegrator, 5th position, support. Has the ability Demoralize, Trample and Knockout.	Another monster who can't attack only idle in here it's main job to decrease all enemy melee monster damage by -1 (Demoralize), because all monster is melee this ability will help a lot. When this monster killed the enemy monster then Trample ability will be activated and make this monster attacking the monster behind. knock Out we not use this ability because we don't bring any monster with Stun ability, just for the info when the enemy stun and hit by this monster it will do double damage.
	Tenyii Striker, 6th position, attacker and tanker. Has the ability Sneak, and Dodge.	This is our tanker and attacker but for behind position, in case the enemy monster bring monster who can attack the monster from behind (Sneak ability) with high speed the summoner give to this monster and Dodge ability (increase the chance to evade the enemy melee and range attack by 25%) I hope this monster can evade many attack protecting our support monsters who can't attack.

The Battle

Just want to highlight some interesting battle, because in high mana battle and Born Again ruleset usually the battle will be long and it will be boring to discuss each round. The enemy bring Legendary monster Yodin this monster can give Blast damage to every attack from the enemy monsters.

• Round 1:
  As you can see in the first round that the enemy bring dangerous monster who can destroy the armor with only 1 hit Drybone Raider, although our Forgotten One already got speed buff from the summoner but it's still slow monster the different of speed is not that high all enemy monster attack is hit the Forgotten One. Drybone Raider Have double type attack melee and range attack so can attack from behind position, and got buffed from the summoner increase the range damage. the enemy bring 2 monster who can repair armor the Flame monkey and Ferox Defender, as you can see the enemy melee monster Living Lava and Fineas Rage who only got 2 damage after decrease by our Demoralize ability from Disintegrator can't hurt our Carnage Titan because Carnage Titan have Shield ability and Blast effect only have 1 damage. The enemy Living Lava in front have Rust ability which can decrease the enemy armor by -2.

• Round 4 :
  This is when we start to see the outcome of this battle, when the enemy Living lava die hit by our Carnage Titan , it very hard to kill because have Shield ability and the armor keep restoring. With the death of Living lava all our monster armor behind come back again. Until round 4 our Tenyii Striker still alive and busy attacking Forgotten One although got counterattack (Retaliate ability) because have high speed and Dodge ability some counterattack is miss.

• Round 8 :
  Although not many attack can be evaded by our Forgotten One but the increase speed sure help a lot, because several attack from the enemy can be evaded by and our Forgotten One still alive until round 8, although already die once in round 3. The enemy Ferox Defender can't do anything when move to the first position , because have low speed attacked by our Carnage Titan and die killer by our Forgotten One. In this round we can sure that the victory will become ours, so we will see the last round below.

• Round 12 (Final Round) :
  Only left Forgotten One in the enemy Line up. Although it activated the Retaliate ability when hit by our Carnage Titan but finally die attacked by our Tenyii Strike without a chance to hit back, and the victory become ours.

Did your Strategy Work?

The Strategy is working. There are several strategies that we use in this battle, especially those that use melee only monsters:

• Summoner Byzantine Kitty which provides speed, as well as the ability so that every attack doesn't miss and Heal which helps Forgotten One survive until the end of the round. And also Venator Kinjo which reduces enemy speed.
• The monster Disintegrator which has the Demoralize ability to reduce damage from melee monsters by 1.
• Ferox Defender which can add armor and repair armor.
• The use of the Carnage Titan monster is due to its Shield ability so that the effect of Blast damage does not cause major damage.
• The attacking team Forgotten One and Carnage Titan which deals so much damage that it can kill Living Lava whose armor is restored every round by enemy monsters Flame monkey and Ferox Defender.
• Tenyii Striker although he only kill Forgotten One in the last round, but the attack to the enemy Forgotten One distract the enemy who have Repair ability. Make it repair the Forgotten One armor and Living Lava.

Rebellion Pack is coming

After the December 5th Tuesday we can't use this summoner again in the Modern Format for more Information :

This will change the structure and strategy of playing in Splinterlands because some cards will disappear and new cards will appear with several new abilities. I can't wait to see how this will change the way we play, what about you?

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