Hi everyone, Welcome to my BATTLE MAGE SECRETS post. BATTLE MAGE SECRETS itself is a replacement for SHARE YOUR BATTLE CHALLENGE, where if SHARE YOUR BATTLE CHALLENGE takes 1 monster as its weekly theme while BATTLE MAGE SECRETS takes 1 Ruleset as its theme. And the theme for this week is...

BORN AGAIN

"All Monsters have the Rebirth ability."

BORN AGAIN is one of the rulesets that gives additional abilities in the form of REBIRTH to all monsters in the battle arena. REBIRTH is an ability that can revive monsters that have been defeated once.

REBIRTH has similarities with the RESURRECT ability, which can both revive monsters once. But what distinguishes the two of them is that REBIRTH is owned by the monster that was just defeated, while RESURRECT is owned by other than the monster that was just defeated.

The monsters that benefit the most from this ruleset are monsters with the MARTYR ability. This is because they can give an additional 2 STATS to the monster next to them. After all, they lost 2 times (thanks to the REBIRTH ability). If you bring a monster with the RESURRECT ability, there is a chance that the monster's MARTYR will give an additional 3 STATS.

RULESET & FORMATION

In addition to BORN AGAIN, the Ruleset in this battle is...

NOXIOUS FUMES

NOXIOUS FUMES is a Ruleset that gives POISON effects to all monsters in the battle arena. However, the POISON effect can be removed by using the CLEANSE ability (however, the monster being removed must be in first place) or by letting it lose and then reviving it using the RESURRECT or REBIRTH ability (if the monster is not in first place).

We can also bring monsters with the HEAL ability to defend against the Health point reduction caused by the POISON effect, but this can be done on the condition that the monster does not take any other damage other than POISON.

Or you can also use monsters that have the IMMUNITY ability. In addition to avoiding POISON , monsters with this ability can prevent various kinds of de-buffs that will be given by the opponent's monsters.

STAMPEDE

STAMPEDE is a Ruleset that can strengthen one of the abilities, and the ability in question is TRAMPLE . TRAMPLE is an ability that can immediately attack the opponent in the next position after successfully defeating the opponent in the previous position. However, this ability can only be used by Melee monsters.

Meanwhile, the STAMPEDE ruleset can strengthen the effect of TRAMPLE . If TRAMPLE can only attack the next opponent once. But if it is in the STAMPEDE ruleset, the attack can be carried out to the next few opponents on the condition that the target must immediately lose in 1 attack and will stop if the target can still survive in 1 attack.

My Line-Up

Cards	Ability	Reason
	- Give a reduction of 2 ARMOR to All Enemies - Give additional abilities (DODGE ) to All Allies - use RESURRECT ability once per battle	I chose to use Astral Entity because I initially thought that my opponent would use Melee or Ranged monsters so that I could utilize the DODGE ability to increase the chance of my opponent's Melee or Ranged monsters' attacks missing.(but the reality was different) The reduction of 2 ARMOR is also to make it easier for my monsters' attacks to hit the Health points of my opponent's monsters faster. Meanwhile, the RESURRECT yy ability will be useful to stall for time so that the opponent's monster's attack does not hit my monster in the next position.
	SHIELD + IMMUNITY + DEMORALIZE	I chose Harklaw because he has the IMMUNITY ability which can prevent him from the effects given by the NOXIOUS FUMES ruleset. In addition, he also has the DEMORALIZE ability which is useful for reducing the ATTACK POWER of the opponent's Melee monster and the SHIELD ability which can reduce the damage caused by attacks from the opponent's Melee or Ranged monster.
	VOID ARMOR + KNOCK OUT + GIANT KILLER + MAGIC REFLECT	I used Djinn Muirat because it is a Magic monster that has VOID ARMOR and MAGIC REFLECT abilities that can resist the attack rate of the opponent's Magic monster Another reason I chose it is that there is a possibility that the opponent will use monsters with a large amount of Mana. Therefore, I utilized Djinn Muirat who has the GIANT KILLER ability to defeat them.
	MARTYR	The reason I'm using Venari Marksrat this time is of course because I want to utilize the abilities given in the BORN AGAIN ruleset. Venari Marksrat will have the REBIRTH ability so it is possible that it can give additional STATS to nearby monsters twice through the effect of the MARTYR ability.
	AMPLIFY + GIANT KILLER + DEMORALIZE	Cabalist in this battle can be useful to support Harklaw by giving DEMORALIZE again so that the ATTACK POWER of the opponent's Melee monster is reduced by 2 points. He can also help Djinn Muirat with his AMPLIFY ability to strengthen the effect of the MAGIC REFLECT ability that Djinn Muirat has and help Djinn Muirat to defeat monsters with high Mana using the GIANT KILLER ability.
	SWIFTNESS	I used Supply Runner merely to increase the speed of my monsters so that they could attack first.
	TAUNT + FORCEFIELD	I use Night Ghoul to lure the attention of the opponent's monsters so that they attack him (using TAUNT ability). This is so that the attacks from the opponent's monsters are not centered on just 1 of my monsters.

BATTLE START !!!

As I said before, this time the opponent focused more on attacking using Magic monsters (whereas in some of his previous battles, he mostly used Melee and Ranged monsters). He even uses Grandmaster Rathe which gives an additional 1 ARMOR and all ARMOR turns into VOID ARMOR so that attacks from Magic monsters must go through ARMOR first.

Luckily, the monsters on the opponent's side rarely have ARMOR so the additional 1 ARMOR can be eliminated by Astral Entity which reduces 2 ARMOR of the opponent's monsters.

In the first round, all the opponent's magic monsters (Adelade Brightwing, Time Mage, Iziar, Djinn Renova and Doctor Blight) attacked Night Ghoul and defeated him. But he bounced back thanks to the REBIRTH ability and the effects of NOXIOUS FUMES disappeared. Harklaw who was facing Uriel the Purifier failed to attack him.

Meanwhile, my other monsters (Djinn Muirat, Venari Marksrat, Cabalist, and Supply Runner) managed to attack Iziar (although a small portion of Health was healed by Djinn Renova).

At the beginning of the second round, almost all monsters were affected by POISON so their Health was reduced by 2 points. Night Ghoul was defeated twice, each time by the attacks of Time Mage and Iziar. Meanwhile, Djiinn Renova, Adelade Brightwing, Uriel the Purifier, and Doctor Blight attacked Harklaw.

Meanwhile, Iziar was defeated twice. The first was by the attacks of Supply Runner, Cabalist, and Djinn Muirat, and the second defeat by the attack of Venari Marksrat.

In the third round, Iziar was defeated for the last time by Supply Runner. Harklaw was defeated by Time Mage and Djinn Renova as well as by an attack from Adelade Brightwing in his second defeat. Meanwhile, Doctor Blight who tried to attack Djinn Muirat (who filled in for Harklaw) lost due to Djinn Muirat's MAGIC REFLECT ability.

Cabalist, Djinn Muirat and Venari Marksrat almost managed to defeat Uriel the Purifier.

In the fourth round, Uriel the Purifier was defeated twice. The first defeat came from Supply Runner and Cabalist while the second defeat came from Djinn Muirat and Venari Marksrat.

The Time Mage and Doctor Blight who tried to attack Djinn Muirat fell with him because of the effect of Djinn Muirat's MAGIC REFLECT ability.

In the fifth round, Adelade Brightwing was defeated twice, by Cabalist and Djinn Muirat respectively. Djinn Renova was only truly defeated in the sixth round by an attack from Supply Runner.

To see the entire battle, you can watch it at >> FULL BATTLE LINK
And this is the challenge link >> CHALLENGE LINK

Review of this battle

To be honest, I didn't expect to win this battle, because this formation was originally used to counter Mantaroth which in the previous few battles was always used by the opponent (hence I used monsters with DEMORALIZE and GIANT KILLER abilities).

Although in this battle the opponent did not use Mantaroth, but unexpectedly the opponent brought 2 monsters with Mana points above 9 (Uriel the Purifier and Iziar). And that indirectly worked in my favor. Plus, the opponent focused on using Magic monsters, which made MAGIC REFLECT from Djinn Muirat and AMPLIFY from Cabalist play an important role in this battle.

That was the post BATTLE MAGE SECRETS for this time. Thank you for visiting and taking the time to read. See you in the next post....

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