Hello, everyone how are you today, still playing Splinterlands? Today I will make a post again about the Splinterlands contest Battle Mage Secrets Challenge. This Week's Theme is Born Again ruleset.

I play in the Modern Format Diamond League, using my scholar account from Balthazar.

Battle Link

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Ruleset

• Keep Your Distance, only magic and range monsters can be used.

• Little League, only Summoners or Monsters who cost 4 mana or less can 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 once per battle. It will restore full armor if have base armor or additional armor from the other monster or summoner.

• mana cap.

• can use element Death and Dragon.

My Lineup and strategy

Some guidelines we can use :

• For the Born Again ruleset always try to focus fire so we can kill the enemy forever. Every monster has 2 lives, by focusing on attacking 1 monster in a certain position, it will speed up the death of that monster so that it can reduce the damage received by our monster.
• With the Keep Your Distance ruleset melee monsters can't be used so we can assume that the enemy will attack our monster in the first position only, first look for a suitable tanker that we can use to deal with magic and ranged attacks. After that, we choose the support or attacker monster that can win this battle.
• Little League ruleset, we pay more attention to the other two rulesets, so for this ruleset, we only follow it based on the available monsters. This ruleset ensures that no monster can attack our monster from behind. As far as we know from the element in this battle, 3 monsters have range and magic attacks that can attack our monsters in the back but they cannot be used in this battle because they have more than 4 mana :
  

We use 3 tankers, but our first tanker monsters survive/defend by avoiding enemy attacks so we have to prioritize monsters/summoners that can increase our speed/decrease the enemy's speed, therefore we decided to use the Dragon summoner with a secondary element Death.

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 we can only use range and magic monster, I think the enemy will bring 1-2 range monsters. So Decreasing the range damage debuff will be good to have. Decreasing the enemy's speed increases the chance for our monsters to attack first before the enemy can attack, and if we are lucky we can kill it before they can attack. Speed decrease to the enemy monsters will benefit our tanker in the first position he survives by evading the enemy attack with his speed and ability.
	Chaos Agent, 1st position, Tanker, has the ability Dodge, Phase, and Backfire.	This is our first tanker, with Dodge ability will increase the chance to evade the enemy range and magic attack by 25%. Why he can evade the magic attack? (usually magic always hits the target), because it has Phase ability. The weakness of this monster is that it cannot attack, but it can deal damage to enemies. A bit confusing isn't it? But it's simple, when this monster can avoid enemy attacks, it will deal 2 damage back to the enemy this is because of the Backfire ability.
	Riftwing, 2nd position, Tanker and Support, has the ability Flying, Scavenger, Backfire, and Headwinds.	Flying ability is like Chaos Agent Dodge ability can increase the chance to decrease the enemy range attack by 25%. This monster can't evade magic attacks because not have Phase ability. Scavenger ability will increase our Riftwing HP by 1 every time our monster and the enemy monster die, I hope if this monster move to the first position already have good HP. Backfire same ability as Chaos Agent, but can only work for the enemy range unit. Headwinds The same effect as the summoner debuff can decrease range attack by -1
.	Venari Marksrat, 3rd position, Attacker and Support, has the ability Martyr.	You can call it tanker too but the main used of this unit is to boost the Venari Bonesmith ** stats in the 4th position with the Martyr ability (If this monster dies all the base stats of the monster adjacent to it will increase). The Ensnare ability will disable the Flying ability from the enemy monster if hit by this monster.
	Venari Bonesmith, 4th position, Attacker and Tanker. Has ability Life Leech, Poison, and Dispel.	Put this in the 4th position as our last tanker to protect our range monster behind (range monsters can't attack if move to the first position). This monster is suitable to become a tanker because has the Life leech ability, every time this monster attacks the enemy monster, the HP will increase in proportion to the damage dealt (this effect will be greater with the help of Venari Marksrat Martyr ability). Every time this monster attack has a 50% chance to inflict the poison status, if the enemy got poisoned every round the HP will decrease by 2. Dispel ability will delete all positive status/buff from the enemy monster in the first position like Swiftness, Inspire, etc.
	Soul Strangler, 5th position, Attacker. Has ability Poison.	For 3 mana this monster has high damage but is fragile because of its small HP. The weakness is the Low speed I hope this monster can hit the enemy and inflict the Poison effect, so every round the enemy's HP will decrease by -2. Because of the small HP and low speed, I put this monster in this position.
	Naga Assassin, 6th position, attacker and tanker. Has the ability Backfire, and Swiftness.	I use this monster because of the Swiftness ability which can increase all friendly monster speeds by 1 to help our tanker in front. The Backfire ability will give damage to the enemy monster if this monster can evade the range attack.

Our Formation is finished and we are ready to battle :

The Battle

• Round 1
  
  

• Round 2
  
  

• Round 3
  
  

• Round 4
  
  

• Round 5
  
  

• Round 6
  
  

• Round 7
  
  

Did your Strategy Work?

We actually guessed wrong in this battle, but yes the strategy work. We thought the enemy would use at least a monster with a mixture of magic and range. But it turns out the enemy prioritizes magic attacks. Even though the enemy has 5 units/monsters as an attacker and we only have 4 units attacker, our strategy of using 3 tankers is working well:

• Chaos Agent who survives from enemy attacks with speed and the Dodge ability before dying can give back damage to enemy units Venari Bonesmith, Life Sapper, and Revealer.
  
  
• Riftwings which survive enemy attacks using large HP thanks to the Scavenger ability which has multiple effects due to the ruleset Born Again so that each monster has 2 lives.

• Martyr ability from Venari Marksrat which adds all the stats of our last tanker Venari Bonesmith so that the effect of the Life Leech ability increases and you can get a lot of additional HP.

Likewise, the strategy of using attackers Venari Bonesmith (left picture) and Soul Strangler (middle picture) which use attacks that can cause poison effects, assisted by the additional speed of Naga Assassin (right picture) Swiftness ability makes it easy for us to kill enemy tankers Chaos Agent. Apart from attacks that can have a poison effect, Soul Strangler also has enormous damage of 4. In the Little League ruleset, as far as I know, damage 4 is the biggest. After the Chaos Agent dies we can easily kill the enemy monsters behind him who cannot deal with attacks well except the enemy unit Doctor Blight as you can see from the picture below before got attacked by our unit has 19 HP when move to the first position :

Is the strategy have room for improvement ?

I think we made a mistake in this battle, we should put Naga Assassin in front of Soul Strangler, because it has high speed which is suitable for dealing with ranged attacks, because it has the possibility of dodging, and not just dodging but also counterattack if you can avoid the enemy's attack.

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.
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