ANTICIPATE MAGIC AND RANGED ATTACK AT BRIAR PATCH RULESET

Welcome back to my blog, @queen-silvia. In the first week of April 📆 2023, the theme of the Battle Mage Secret Weekly Challenge is Briar Patch which has the same effect as if a player use Mylor Crowling 🍃 as a summoner. Briar Patch is belong to the new rulesets along with "Fire and Regret" and "Counterspell" ruleset. All those kind of rulesets are returning the damage back to the attacker. how hard the damage returned is depending on how high the damage given by the attacker and whether the player use amplify or not. The amplify will definitely increase the damage given to the attacker. Alright, before we are talking further about Briar Patch, Let discuss about the basic concept of Briar Patch first :

What is Armored Up?

  Briar Patch : All monsters receive the Thorns ability at the start of the battle. Enemy monsters that use melee attacks receive damage back.  

Based on the description above, we already understand that playing melee monster ⚔️ is risky because they will get the melee damage by -2 no matter how high or low the melee damage given. So what's the best way 💯 to play in this ruleset? the answer is simple, since there are only 3 types of attack (melee, ranged and magic) so what we need to do is to use monsters or summoners who have the ability to anticipate ranged and magic attacks 🔮. The table below shows which summoners we can use in this ruleset :

The choice of summoners depend on the splinters available and mana. Some important things to note, skilled players or "total attack" player like to use melee monsters even the ruleset is briar patch . It's still possible because they are protecting their melee monsters with triage or repair ability by other monster so all possibilities are still might happen.

Alright, in this article, I'll show a strategy on how to win battle with Briar Patch easily by anticipating magic and ranged attack at the same time. I hope you like it, Enjoy ~

Rulesets

There are 3 rulesets in this battle, Here they are :

Healed Out	Stampede	Briar Patch

Well, The most dominant ruleset in this battle is Briar Patch because it most likely eliminates the posibility for melee monsters to be used in the battle so we can only focus to anticipate magic and ranged monsters in the battlefield. Stampede has least impact on the battle because it will only being activated if melee monsters killed the target meanwhile the chance to use melee monster is very low so we can ignore this ruleset (Most of the trample ruleset are melee monsters).

Another ruleset which has an impact to the game is Healed Out . It will make all of monsters in the battle would not be able to be healed by any heal abilities such as triage , or self heal or tank heal . However, another defensive ability such as repair is still available in this ruleset so using team with Grand Master rathe is one of great option in this ruleset because the void armor will protect Monster's health points.

Mana and Splinters

The mana of the battle is 31. Not high but not pretty low too so I would say it's mid to low mana battle ⚔️ where we can still fill all of the 6 slots in the game. based on the rulesets, some recommended summoners are Quix the Devious 🐉, Bortus 💦, Immortalis 🍃 and Lir Deepswimmer💦. Since the mana is not that high, I won't use summoner who costs more than 4 mana and since the heal ability would not be available so I think earth splinter is not an option hence the better option is to use Quix the devious 🐉 to anticipate ranged attack monsters and then use monsters with the abilities to anticipate magic 🔮 damage.

What are all of those monsters? Well, below section will explain all of them in detail, started from the summoners, first until the last (sixth) monster :

Summoner

Level 3 Quix The Devious

Tips 💡

Use Quix the devious to reduce the opponent ranged damage but never use him in reverse speed ruleset.

First Monster

Level 6 Unicorn Mustang

I used Unicorn Mustang 🐎 as the tank monster in the first position because he has some cool abilities to counter magic 🔮 attack like Void and Magic reflect . The Void ability will reduce the magic received into half (rounded) and the magic reflect will return the magic back to the attacker. The returned magic can be increased if we use Queen Mycelia as she has amplify . So, he is one of the best tank against magic. In terms of attack, he is also really good since he has 4 melee damage and 4 speed ⚡️ which always makes his attack hit the target in normal ruleset.

Tips 💡

Unicorn Mustang is one of the best tank monster with his Void and Magic reflect ability. 4 Melee makes him a great destroyer too

Second Monster

Level 6 Elven Mystic

The second monster is Elven Mystic. This monster is also used to counter magic team with his silence ability. I really love this skill because it can reduce all of the enemies magic 🔮 attack by -1, yeah all of them as long as he is alive in the battlefield. all abilities which can reduce opponent damage like silence , headwinds and demoralize are very good to be used because they changed the outcome of the battle.

Tips 💡

Silence ability reduce all of the opponent magic by -1. Try to have silence, demoralize or headwinds ability in the battle.

Third Monster

Level 6 Sporcerer

The third monster is Sporcerer. This monster has the same skill as Elven Mystic, Silence which reduce all of the magic damage by -1. One thing which is interesting from silence ability is that the ability is stacked, means we can add monster with silence ability to reduce more magic 🔮 damage. Usually 2 silence and void ability is enough to reduce all the opponent magic to zero and the void ability makes the magic attack has no damage at all. we can give void ability by using either Mimmosa 💀 or Immortalis 🍃. Another cool ability is rust which can reduce all of the opponent's armor 🛡 by -2.

Tips 💡

Sporcerer is good to be used when the opponent have armor because the rust ability will reduce the armor by -2.

Forth Monster

Level 3 Queen Mycelia

She is my favorites monster because of her great ability. The amplify is so great to increase the reflected magic ![ability_magic-reflect.png](), Thorn or return fire damage. Her second ability is protect which gives +2 armor to all of friendly monsters. This is a very good protection against melee 👊 or ranged attack 🎯 monsters and her last ability is triage which can restore the health point of monster in the backline that has taken the most damage. Afterall, this monster is used as countering the opponent attack and it's suit with my gameplay strategy so I used her a lot in many battle ⚔️.

Tips 💡

Queen Mycelia is very great to counter opponent's attack with his amplify ability. her protect and triage abilities are very nice for defensive purposes too.

Fifth Monster

Level 2 Epona

The fifth monster is Epona. Well, this monster is very useful at low and mid-to-low mana battle because of her ability, strengthen , which could give additional health ♥️ point, +1, to all of friendly monster. Additional +1 HP is very crucial because if our monster and the opponent monster have the same attack ⚔️ then the opponent monster will die 🏪 first because they have less HP than ours. At level 2, epona has Divine shield ability which enable her to negate opponent's attack for one turn.

Tips 💡

Use Epona at low and mid-to-low mana battle because she will give additional +1 health point to all of friendly monster.

Sixth Monster

Level 3 Doctor Blight

The last monster is Dr. Blight. many people said that this monster is like summoner because he should be used in any mana battle ⚔️ where the magic 🔮 monster is available. He is such a god because of his abilities. The poison ability will give -2 health point at the target if it's being activated, The camouflage will hide him in the backline so the opponent will never be able to attack him unless he is in the first position and the scavenger ability will increase his HP whenever any monsters died in the battlefield so he could be a monster with very high HP at the end of the battle ⚔️.

Tips 💡

Use Dr. Blight whenever the magic monster is available for the battle. At gold league he is such a god monster with his poison, scavenger and camouflage abilities.

Alright, all the line up has been explained, Now let's move to the battlefield and see how to anticipate magic and ranged attack properly in a single match.

Here is the battle looks like in the first round :

I put 2 silence monster in this battle which means the opponent will get his magic 🔮 damage reduced by -2 so venari Wavesmith only have 1 magic damage as long as the silence monster is alive. As the summoner, Quix the devious also reduced the opponent's ranged 🎯 damage into 1 only so it won't hurt Unicorn Mustang 🐎 a lot. Another magic monster is Void Dragon 🐉 but he only have 1 magic damage which is pointless against Unicorn Mustang 🐎 since he has Void ability to reduce magic damage to zero.

The Power Magic Reflect & Thorn Strengthen by Amplify

This is how the battle looks like at the last round. the sneak monsters of the opponent side got -3 damage due to the thorn and amplify ability. the damage kkilled them very fast since the opponent does not have repair or triage monster. All the magic 🔮 monsters also received magic damaged (-1) returned by Unicorn Mustang 🐎. The damage get bigger since it's amplified by Queen Mycelia 👑. Since the ruleset is Healed Out, Baakjira could not heal himself and the poison from Dr. Blight plus melee 👊 damage from Unicorn Mustang killed him pretty fast.

This is the daily chests I got on April 1, 2023. I am happy with it because I got the Life Soulbound legendary, Aves Sturgis 🦉, since he can give magic attack to monsters (adjacent to him) who does not have magic attack. Let see whether this card is useful because my gameplay is always countering the opponent's attack. The next precious card is 5 BCX Octavia Shadowmeld💀. She can summon a gladius card on ranked battle so It would be pretty cool to collect her until gold level, the league where I compete everyday and fight for leaderboard each season. The last precious card is 4 BCX firecaller🔥. This card is special because of his martyr ability. the rest of the cards are useful but the 3 i mentioned earlier are the greatest.

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