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...

WEAK MAGIC

"Magic attacks hit Armor before reducing Health."

WEAK MAGIC is a ruleset that limits the attacks of magic monsters. Magic monster attacks will usually immediately reduce HEALTH points even though the target has ARMOR. But in the WEAK MAGIC ruleset, magic monster attacks will hit ARMOR first before reducing HEALTH points. This is the same as the VOID ARMOR ability which makes attacks from magic monsters must destroy ARMOR first.

^{It is not recommended to use Grandmaster Rathe in the WEAK MAGIC ruleset, as he has the same abilities as the ruleset.}

There are many ways to overcome the WEAK MAGIC ruleset. One of them is by using the SHATTER ability if the opponent's monster has a lot of ARMOR (However, this method can still be overcome by the REPAIR ability which will repair some of the lost ARMOR).

Another way is to combine monsters with high ATTACK POWER and PIERCING abilities to destroy ARMOR while reducing the target's HEALTH points.

In addition, you can use the RUST ability if the ARMOR possessed by the opponent's monster is not more than 2 (if added by using Astral Entity, it can reduce 2 more ARMOR).

Although there are many more ways to deal with this Ruleset, I only mention 3 ways this time.

RULESET & FORMATION

In addition to WEAK MAGIC, the Ruleset in this battle is...

WANDS OUT

WANDS OUT merupakan ruleset yang hanya mengizinkan Magic monster untuk bisa digunakan di arena pertempuran. Agar bisa bertahan di WANDS OUT ruleset, diperlukan beberapa ability yang dikhususkan untuk magic monster seperti VOID ability untuk mengurangi dampak serangan magic dan SILENCE ability yang mengurangi 1 Attack Power dari magic monster.

Some magic monsters also have other abilities that might help to survive longer or defeat the target faster. Examples are TANK HEAL ability to heal TANK and POISON ability that reduces the target's HEALTH Point by 2 points each round if the effect is active.

TIS BUT SCRATCHES

TIS BUT SCRATCHES is a ruleset that will give additional abilities in the form of CRIPPLE to all monsters in the battle arena. If the attack successfully hits the health points of the target, the Max Health of the target will be reduced by 1 point (even though the attack does not deal damage to the opponent's monster aka 0 damage).

My Line-Up

Cards	Ability	Reason
	- Give a reduction of 1 Attack Power to All Enemies Ranged Monsters - Give a reduction of 1 SPEED to All enemies	Despite being in a ruleset that only allows Magic monsters, I still used Quix the Devious because I wanted to use some monsters from DRAGON SPLINTER. Quix the Devious which reduces 1 SPEED of the opponent's monsters will be a bit useful because it gives some of my monsters precedence when attacking their targets.
	FLYING + VOID + PHASE	Void Dragon becomes one of the right choices when required to only use Magic monsters. At level 3, Void Dragon gets the PHASE ability which allows it to avoid attacks from Magic monsters. Coupled with the VOID ability that he has had since level 1 makes Void Dragon one of the best options in the WEAK MAGIC Ruleset.
	FLYING + SCATTER SHOT + BLAST + BLIND	I use Chaos Dragon because, it has the BLIND ability (which it gains at level 3). In this WEAK MAGIC Ruleset, the BLIND ability will be useful when combined with Void Dragon which has 2 specialist abilities to dodge attacks, such as FLYING (to increase the chance of dodging attacks from monsters that do not have the same ability) and PHASE (to increase the chance of dodging magic attacks from opposing monsters).
	TANK HEAL + AFFLICTION + SILENCE	Goblin Psychic will be in charge of supporting Void Dragon when it receives heavy damage (although it can dodge, there may be some attacks that hit it) by healing some of the Health points of Void Dragon. In addition, in the GOLD LEAGUE, Goblin Psychic gets the SILENCE ability which can reduce the attack power of the opponent's Magic monster. This ability will be useful for Void Dragon so that the damage he receives is not too great.
	BLAST + RUST	In the WEAK MAGIC ruleset, there is a possibility that the opponent will use PROTECT monsters to provide additional ARMOR so that Magic attacks do not directly hit Health points. Therefore, I used Scavo Technnomancer who has the RUST ability at level 4 to permanently reduce the opponent's ARMOR (cannot be healed by REPAIR ability until he is defeated) by 2 ARMOR.
	PROTECT + AMPLIFY + TRIAGE	Besides using RUST, I also used the PROTECT ability owned by Queen Mycelia to prevent the attack from the opponent's magic monster from hitting the HEALTH POINT of my monster.
	TAUNT + FORCEFIELD	Mycelic Slipspawn is tasked with attracting the opponent's attention to focus on attacking him by using the TAUNT ability. And assisted by Queen Mycelia's TRIAGE ability to heal some of her Health points to last longer.

BATTLE START !!!

The opponent still used Grandmaster Rathe even though I previously said that this Summoner was not recommended to be used in the WEAK MAGIC Ruleset. Maybe the opponent wants to use the additional 1 ARMOR that Grandmaster Rathe has to be able to (at least) protect health points from 1 magic attack.

Unfortunately, I brought Scavo Technomancer who has the RUST ability so the ARMOR addition is omitted (except for Adelade Brightwing who has IMMUNITY).

Although I also got an additional 2 ARMOR from Queen Mycelia, the opponent had Time Mage who also had the RUST ability.

In the first round, all five of my monsters (Void Dragon, Goblin Psychic, Scavo Technomancer, Queen Mycelia, and Mycelic Slipspawn*) directed their attacks at Iziar. the target of Chaos Dragon's attack in this round was Venari Spellsmith (while the effect of BLAST hit Time Mage).

While on the opposing side, Iziar attacked Void Dragon. While the others were forced to direct their attacks at Mycelic Slipspawn).

In the second round, my five monsters were still trying to reduce the HEALTH POINT of Iziar, and the target of Chaos Dragon's attack this time was Time Mage. The BLAST effect of the attack hits the Magi of Chaos and defeats the Venari Spellsmith (despite being revived by Adelade Brightwing).

Meanwhile, on the opponent's side, all monsters (except Iziar and Magi of Chaos who attacked Void Dragon) attacked and successfully defeated Mycelic Slipspawn.

In the third round, all of the opponent's monsters failed to land their attacks on Void Dragon. The attack target of Chaos Dragon this time was Magi of Chaos whose BLAST effect hit Adelade Brightwing and defeated Time Mage (thus removing the SLOW and RUST effects on all my monsters).

In the fourth round, Attacks from all opposing monsters (except Venari Speelsmith) failed to hit Void Dragon.

Chaos Dragon directed its attack at Djinn Renova and the effect of BLAST hit Adelade Brightwing and defeated Iziar. Meanwhile, Djinn Renova who filled in for Iziar was defeated by Scavo Technomancer and Queen Mycelia.

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

The victory this time was due to my luck in choosing what monsters to bring into the battle arena. If I hadn't brought Scavo Technomancer (who has the RUST ability) I might have been troubled by Adelade Brightwing who was going to repair the ARMOR of one of the monsters.

I was also quite helped by the PHASE ability of Void Dragon and the BLIND ability of Chaos Dragon. This combination can still be useful even though the SPEED difference is not too far for some monsters.

I was also very lucky that my opponent didn't use (or perhaps didn't have) Immortalis which would grant VOID and SHATTER abilities to all monsters. If my opponent uses that Summoner, then he will most likely use Goblin Psychic which will reduce 1 ATTACK POWER of all my monsters. If the opponent has and uses Doctor Blight, I will most likely lose 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....

_{Thanks to:}

• @splinterlands
• @thepeakstudio for Dividers