Splinterlands BATTLE MAGE SECRETS Featuring Aimless in Silver League Play with Bronze Level Cards

Featuring Bronze League Summoner and Monsters in Action!

After taking a couple weeks off I'm back to share another battle mage secrets featuring aimless in silver league with my bronze level cards. This is an interesting rule set that only allows those monsters with arrow attacks to play. It really starts to bring out and highlight those monsters that have close range or return fire.

CHALLENGE RULES

RULESET: AIMLESS

Description:

Only units with ranged attacks may be used.

Consider including units with the Close Range and Return Fire abilities in your lineup.

Reasons Why I like it
This really changes up your traditional lineups and forces you to play some unconventional teams. Clearly monsters with close range will have a significant advantage as well as cards that either have returned fire or headwinds to reduce their attacks.

I think it gives you a chance to use cards that you normally might otherwise have a harder time fitting into lineups that now provide much more utility given it The limited selection

The Matchup - Where Rules Sets, Splinters and Mana Collide

The Rule Sets

Watch the Match Here

https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_e709703d816b63feb8298b5d69531673&ref=senstless

MANA: 28

Ruleset: Going the Distance: Only units with ranged attacks may be used.
Consider including units with the Close Range and Return Fire abilities in your lineup.

Ruleset: Rise of the Commons: Only common and rare monsters may be used in battles.

SPLINTERS: Water, Earth, Death, Dragon

Initial Rule Set and Mana Gameplay Thoughts

** Rulesets
Clearly I think aimless will have the biggest impact on the match. It will significantly reduce the number of cards available for selection and will drive most cards to only be able to attack the back row unless you pick one of the very few cards that are in the collection at my level that have close range. I do think that having rise of the commons where we're losing some of the ethics and legendaries will remove some of the other cards that could be powerful. I think that this match will rely heavily on summoners and will most likely feature something like contessa lament or Fernheart.

• Mana
  28 mana I think it will be fairly easy to get enough cards to fill all the spots, all at the same time not enough mana to get too crazy with some of the higher attacking cards.
  ** Splinters
  Clearly losing the life splinter here is a huge loss. I believe it'll either come down to a match of death with contessa lament or Earth with Fernheart because the most traditional lineups

• Summoner Contessa L'ament
  I went the path of trying to reduce my enemies attack as much as possible by reducing all ranged attacks by one. Since I don't have many or any cards that have headwinds at this level in the modern format I had to use a summoner to do it.

• First Position Venari Markscrat
  I think I play Markscrat in the first position more than any other position on my team. I desperately want to give a boost to what my true tank will be

• Second Position Queen of Crows
  Great card to put in as my tank with armor and high health and after getting a boost for both speed and attack it will be a really good tank and the only car that can attack from first position

• Third Position Ravenhood Warden
  Well not much of an attacking card, I'm hoping that it's ability to add armor to all of my cards for help protect me

• Fourth Position Dhampir Stalker
  Truly my big second hitter with true strike and three damage I'm hoping it's score some big hits and helps to knock out my enemy

• Fifth Position Weirding Warrior
  Put it at the end here to help shatter armor. Plane teams that add armor with either the summoner like water or like I'm doing with ravenhood Warden it helps to be able to shatter it and start taking away health

Opponent Lineup & Match Play

• Summoner Thaddius Brood
  Luckily for me it looks like they don't have contessa and have to play the traditional Thaddeus which won't have too much of an impact other than health.
• Gargoya Devil
  Well another good card with close range, it's a lower health means it's going to be getting taken out of the match sooner
• Supply Runner
  Great card with high speed and decent health. I often overlook supply runner and I need to start looking at including it more
• Soul Strangler another solid choice for low mana, I think it's a solid play
• Dhampir Stalker just like me they're playing dhampir stalker with true strike to make sure they get some damage.

Round 1

Before round one starts I'm feeling pretty good about my choice, mostly due to my summer choice and their reduced attacks. Not to mention the increased armor I decided to add. As round one plays out most of their monsters are faster than mine which is okay since the first card I lose actually gives me martyr and boosts the Queen of Crows before it's turn so I get the increased attack. By the end of round one due to an unfortunate mess on my part I'm the only one to lose a monster

Round 2

The start of round 2 looks pretty good for me as they will quickly lose their tank and move down to only two attacks the cards while I have four cards packing and my tank is in no danger of being taken out as the round plays out I score the knockout quickly followed by a second knockout at the end of the round all would be carrying the victory for me. I have not sustained any substantial damage and I just need one more round to crank through the team

Round 3

I think you can really see the impact of the decreased attack damage by contessa as Queen of crows is still around and my entire team makes it to the match as I secure two knockouts that's around and finish with an entire team

Thoughts - and Chances to Win Again

It's nice to see that my line of choice was a solid choice the game type and that I am a 100% likely repeat victor. I think contessa played a huge role followed by ravenhood warden. By both decreasing their attack and giving me additional armor I really gave myself the opportunity to succeed and when.

~~@senstless

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