RISE OF THE COMMONS

"Only Common and Rare monsters may be used in battles"

In RISE OF THE COMMONS ruleset, we are only allowed to use monsters with COMMON and RARE rarity. However, this restriction only applies to monsters and you can still use Legendary Summoner in this Ruleset.

There is no special trick to easily overcome this Ruleset. Things like Mana cap, available elements, and the presence of other Rulesets need to be used as a benchmark to create a monster lineup that will be brought to the battle arena.

RULESET & FORMATION

In addition to RISE OF THE COMMONS, the ruleset for this battle is...

FOG OF WAR

FOG OF WAR is a ruleset that eliminates abilities such as SNIPE, SNEAK, and OPPORTUNITY. So monsters with these abilities are not recommended to be brought into the battle arena. Instead, we need Ranged, Magic, and NO ATTACK monsters to fill positions other than TANK.

MARTYR & RESURRECT strategy will be quite useful in this ruleset where we will put a monster with MARTYR ability in the first position, then we will let it get attacked by the opponent's monster until it loses. Later the monster will be revived by the RESURRECT Monster and defeated again by the opponent's monster. So that the monster in the second position will get additional STATS from MARTYR twice (It is recommended to use monsters with high ATTACK POWER or SPEED to fill the second position).

Monsters with the SCATTER SHOT ability are not affected by this Ruleset. Even though other Monsters can only attack TANK, Monsters with SCATTER SHOT ability will still attack random targets in each round.

GOING THE DISTANCES

GOING THE DISTANCES ruleset has similarities with UP CLOSE & PERSONAL Ruleset in that both are only allowed to use 1 type of attack. The difference is that in UP CLOSE & PERSONAL we are only allowed to use Melee monsters (and Dual-Attack type monsters that have Melee attacks), while in GOING THE DISTANCES ruleset we are only allowed to use Ranged monsters (and Dual-Attack type monsters that have Ranged Attack).

My Line-Up

Cards	Ability	Reason
	- Reduce 1 SPEED to All Enemies - Reduce 1 Attack Point to All Enemies Ranged monsters	Although in Life Splinter there is also a Summoner specifically for Ranged monsters (General Sloan), I prefer to use Quix the Devious from Dragon Splinter. Quix the Devious besides being a "counter" to face General Sloan, he has another ability which is to reduce 1 SPEED point from the opponent's monsters. When we choose a Summoner from Dragon Splinter, we can not only choose monsters from Dragon Splinter but we are given the opportunity to choose one of the available elements other than Dragon to use for its monsters.
	MARTYR	As I said before, in the FOG OF WAR Ruleset, monsters with abilities such as SNIPE, SNEAK, and OPPORTUNITY will lose the ability of those abilities and all monsters can only attack the target in the first position (except monsters with the SCATTERSHOT ability) And MARTYR is a suitable monster to fill the first position to be defeated first. Once they are defeated, the monster that takes their place will receive an additional 1 point in all their STATS (ATTACK POWER, SPEED, HEALTH, ARMOR (if they have it)).
	BACKFIRE	Despite having low Health points and little Mana usage, Naga Assassin makes up for its shortcomings with a very high SPEED among other Ranged monsters. At higher levels, Naga Assassin even gets an ability in the form of BACKFIRE. BACKFIRE is an ability that will give an attack of 2 Attack points when the opponent's monster fails to land its attack on Naga Assassin. This combination is more powerful when Naga Assassin gets additional STATS from the defeat of Venari Marksrat.
	FLYING + CLOSE RANGE + DEATHBLOW	Gargoya Devil is a Ranged monster that can be used in the first position (because of the CLOSE RANGE ability). It also has 2 ARMORs that can protect its Health from 1-2 attacks from the opponent's monsters. Gargoya Devil will later be used as a TANK when Naga Assassin cannot use BACKFIRE (Naga Assassin is defeated).
	FLYING + DOUBLE STRIKE	The reason I use Pelacor Arbalest is because it has a DOUBLE STRIKE ability that allows it to attack twice per round. If you can attack 2 times in a row, it will be faster to defeat your opponent's monsters.
	FLYING + SHATTER	War Pegasus has a SHATTER ability that allows it to damage all ARMOR in one attack even if the opposing monster has quite a lot of ARMOR. War Pegasus is also 1 SPEED ahead of Pelacor Arbalest so he can "open the way " for Pelacor Arbalest to defeat monsters with quite a lot of ARMOR.
	SWIFT	In addition to the 1 SPEED reduction to the opponent's monsters, I also use Supply Runner which adds 1 SPEED point to all my monsters. I did this to increase the chance of activating the BACKFIRE ability owned by Naga Assassin.

BATTLE START !!!

The opposing side both used Venari Marksrat and put him in first place but he didn't use the same Summoner (instead he used Franz Ruffmane which added 1 ARMOR and allowed him to use 1 GLADIUS monster). This makes him lose 1 SPEED and 1 ATTACK POWER even though each of his monsters now has 1 ARMOR.

In the first round, each Venari Marksrat was defeated. This made the monster behind him get an additional 1 point of STATS. On my side, Naga Assassin got the increase. while on the opponent's side, Gargoya Devil got it.

The upgraded Naga Assassin managed to dodge 2 of the 3 attacks directed at her. Although she couldn't attack because she was in first position and didn't have the CLOSE RANGE ability, she was able to activate 2 BACKFIRE on the 2 monsters whose attacks failed to hit her. The first failed attack came from War Pegasus while the second failed attack came from one of Pelacor Arbalest's attacks.

In the second round, Naga Assassin only managed to avoid 1 out of 4 attacks directed at her. The failed attack came from Venari Crystalsmith.

Before being defeated by Pelacor Arbalest, Naga Assassin managed to dodge an attack from Ajax Lightfoot.

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

Although I was able to win the battle this time, it was due to the luck brought by Naga Assassin. If she had failed to dodge all of the opponent's attacks, there is a possibility that the opponent would have gotten the upper hand (although they were at a disadvantage due to reduced Attack power and SPEED, they benefited from the addition of 1 ARMOR that was able to protect HEALTH from 1 attack).

The active chance of BACKFIRE will be higher if there is a Ranged monster that has BLIND ability. But unfortunately, that monster only exists in EARTH SPLINTER (Fungus Flinger) which is not included in the available elements this time.

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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