Splinterlands BATTLE MAGE SECRETS Featuring Born Again in Bronze Brawls

Featuring Bronze League Summoner and Monsters in Action!

I am back this week with another battle-made secrets post featuring my bronze League tech in the fearsome battle. This week is going to feature born again and we'll talk about all the potential opportunity this rule set provides.

You can use it to get multiple boosts via bloodlust, martyr, or get another full stack of void armor or possibly get healed up and turn the tables on your opponent. Born again it's an interesting rule set that really empowers certain lineups

CHALLENGE RULES

RULESET: Born Again

Description: All units receive the Rebirth ability which allows them to self resurrect once.

Reasons Why I like it

You have to be very careful with how you pick your lineups, some of the things you're used to doing are now a potential negative. Adding zero or one minute cars on the back of your lineup could be devastating if they use a sneak attack bloodlust card. Giving them all of those free easy kills might mean that they become unstoppable. It's now better to only have cards that provide an attack, or heel or cleanse and should last a little while or when they get retriggered bring back a full void armor stack to allow it to have a longer life.

The Matchup - Where Rules Sets, Splinters and Mana Collide

The Rule Sets

Watch the Match Here

https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sm_voALQdJvKv10xZWqDCCt&ref=senstless

MANA: 31

Ruleset: Born Again: All units receive the Rebirth ability which allows them to self resurrect once.

SPLINTERS: Fire, Water, Dragon

Initial Rule Set and Mana Gameplay Thoughts

• Rulesets
  Having born again in conjunction with fog of war means that I'm less likely to worry about sneak or snipe or opportunity cards as none of these will have an impact and I can force the attack order to benefit me as much as possible. Either water or fire could be good, dragon unlocks a few more cards but with only 31 mana many of them will be of limited usefulness without burning too much mana
• Mana
  31 is just about enough to do anything you want, while also restricting the number of legendary cards you can use. It's easy to overspend and not balance your team out well leaving you not enough heavy hitters while you can get overrun by a full team of smaller hitters
• Splinters
  It's pretty limited between the three, I personally think either one is a fine choice and both have their merits. I would tell to lean towards water as you're able to give an additional boost of armor that will reappear on every reborn trigger.

MY TEAM

• Summoner KELYA FRENDUL
  I wanted to add the extra armor every time a monster is reborn. While it might not be a significant advantage it can certainly help especially against range or melee cards

• First Position VENARI MARKSRAT
  If it's going to be reborn I'd like to give a martyr boost twice, or three times if possible. That can really help change the direction

• Second Position RUNEMANCER KYE
  Started to play this lineup more and tweak it a little bit here and there. Having a card that is decent stats of two damage three speed five armor innate health with flying and life leech is interesting. If I'm able to boost it three times with murder, that could get me to five magic damage and 11 health before I like that it attacks very early in order and while it has limited health and only two damage, the fact that it will be reborn helps make sure it should be around for a whileth- Third Position TIDE BITER

• Fourth Position TORRENT FIEND
  Nothing big but I figured it could sit here in front of my healer and it might help me out if it gets to that
• Fifth Position MERDAALI GUARDIAN
  Clearly like to heal ruinmanser, and as it built its health be a life leech get to a point where my healing is larger than its potential damage via enemy and at that point I should be guaranteed the victory
• Sixth Position RIVER HELLONDALE
  The only way to ensure I get a triple martyr boost is to have my own resurrect in conjunction with born again, that should bring it back two times for a triple martyr boost

Opponent Lineup & Match Play

• Summoner KELYA FRENDUL
  Great minds think alike and they also went this direction. Speed and armor is great but for the two teams they'll most likely just cancel out the most part
• DJINN OSHANNUS great card to have in the lineup but it would really benefit if they had their own Marta card first
• NERISSA TRIDAWN
  Another trusted water go to favorite, three magic damage and nine health means it's a solid attack card against any lineup
• RIVERBOAT CAPTIAN
  I really like the magic splash damage as it will help eliminate cards in a second row and get them weekend or eliminated once before they come to the front
• MERDAALI GUARDIAN
  Again healing their front monster is the key as if they can keep Djinn Oshannus healthy then they can hopefully stay in front
• CREEPING OOZE
  Not providing much other than slowing me down and eliminating the speed boost that I got at the start
• FURIOUS CHICKEN
  Should probably be earlier in the lineup given it protection from fog of war

Round 1

As I look at round one this is going to be a race between building health and getting Runemancwr eliminated. My plan starts off perfectly as Markscrat gets eliminated all three times in the first round providing three martyr boosts to Runemancwr.

Round 2

Round two starts off and I will say that Runemancer looks great with the speed armor and health not to mention the five damage. If getting a full life bleach that will be adding two health from Djinn Oshannus or three health from someone without void. Passed around plays out. I only end up losing zero net health on my tank, it helps that at this health level it's already getting a plus 5 health from healing. I'm only taking seven damage, so I'll be net negative to health until my next life leads triggers adding two more health. It's actually at the round of in two that I start to realize I cannot lose this match and I've already won. My healing plus likely is equal to the attack total for my enemy

Round 3

Things start to really go my way and my base health is starting to climb quickly. Getting a heel of 5 health this round and six next round means my total potential house will be through the roof and my enemy will continue to do less and less damage. My monsters keep whittling down Djinn Oshannus

Round 4

Round four start looks much like Djinn Oshannus is starting to show signs of weakness as its health is only. It isn't long into the round before he is knocked out and retriggered. Even after getting healed at the end of the round I'm still looking great

Round 5

Runemancer is putting on a clinic and secures another knockout. All of this means I'm now healing six health per round while only receiving five magic damage allowing me to arbitrage slightly

Round 6

As we get into these later rounds not every round is going to justify a comment but the match is over the only thing I'm really interested in is just how high of a health I can get

Round 7

Health is up to 24 in this round and I have no signs of slowing down.

Round 8

I end round eight with 25 health total potential in Runemancer, that is a wild number to think of.

Round 9

Another One bites the dust, and another record falls. I'm up to 26 health by the end of this round

Round 10

I'll continue to add health but to this point it's just a matter of time.

Round 11

28 health wowser

Round 12

That 12-round battle was amazing and left me with 29 base health on Runemancer. My best so far in bronze league is 52 health, and getting that healed each round was absolutely mind blowing.

Thoughts - and Chances to Win Again

Adding as much health to the base it's critical to do it as early as possible. Also adding heavy damage for Life leech is important as it will play a role in your total health and how much you can get healed each round as a counter

It looks like I had the perfect counterpunch to my opponent, and this lineup does not always work. There have been times where I am a round or an attack order out of place which makes me lose.

~~@senstless

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