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CHALLENGE RULES

RULESET: BACK TO BASICS

Description: Units lose all abilities.

Info: Summoner effects are still active.

The Battle

Battle Rulesets	Description	Info
FIRE AND REGRET	All Monsters have the Return Fire ability.	Try to avoid ranged monsters.
BACK TO BASICS	Monsters lose all abilities.	Back row monsters are safe from the enemy's Sneak, Snipe, and Opportunity attacks. The ruleset places importance on Magic and Ranged attacks as melee attacks lose their ability to hit outside of the first position. Select monsters with high speed and choose a summoner that increases damage or defense against Magic or Ranged attacks. Lining up monsters in ascending order of their health is the way to go.
EARTHQUAKE	Non-flying Monsters take 2 Melee damage at the end of each round.	Using monsters with Flying or Heal is the trick for this ruleset, but if you are unable to choose such monsters, use monsters that have high HP and great damage. Don't keep heal units up front. Shield has a very important role. Using Brighton Bloom as a summoner can help in this ruleset. Keep monsters with Flying in the last positions when the Earthquake has done enough damage to both sides.

Lineup

It was a mid-mana, death-only game.

Card	Strategy
	Lux Vega - My default choice in most of the games. She is very strong in B2B games, cause the 3 good stat increase abilities.
	Cursed Windeku - Because of the healing ability It is one of my favorite death tank, unfortunately, it was not useful in this game, but it's stats make hi a good tank for 6 mana in this battle.
	Wily Coyotian - A soulbound reward card, I only have level 9, what was a key in this game. See later.
	Xenith Archer - It has no ability, so the stats are strong for only 2 mana. It has a little problem with the F&R ruleset, but I didn't have a better choice.
	Weirding Warrior - It was the worst card in the game caused range attack and low health, but I didn't have any other more useful options in my mind.
	Magi of Chaos - Natural magic monster with good base stats. Suitable for almost every back to the (future :) ) basic game.
	Magi Necrosi - It has a lot of abilities, but the base stats are still good enough for this game.

Battle - Replay

Did your strategy work? What will you try differently next time?

So-so. I didn't have good chance to win, but at least I didn't lost :)

If I am able to upgrade Wily (+1 damage, only 5 cards missing for this) I got almost 100% win:

Battle Results

It was a draw battle, I think second in my Battle Challange history.

Do you like the BACK TO BASICS ruleset? Why or why not?

Not much, but it is easier to select monsters, based on only their pure stats. The key in this games is the strong summoner with good abilities.