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...

SUPER SNEAK

"All Melee attack Monsters have the Sneak Ability."

SUPER SNEAK is one of the Rulesets that gives additional abilities to all monsters, in the form of SNEAK abilities. However, this ability is only specific to Melee monsters (as long as they are not in the first position). Meanwhile, Magic and Ranged monsters will still attack the opponent's monster in the first position or other positions if they have certain abilities (SNIPE, OPPORTUNITY, or SCATTER SHOT ability).

To survive in this Ruleset, most players will put a monster with the THORN ability to deal 2 DAMAGE every time a Melee monster from the opponent's side that gets the SNEAK ability attacks this monster or it can also be the SHIELD ability to reduce the impact of the attack from the opponent's Melee monster.

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Apart from the above methods, sometimes some players also include monsters with DEMORALIZE abilities if there are enough Manacap available. This method is used so that the attack from the opponent's Melee monster that gets SNEAK ability will only have small damage or not do any damage (if the monster in the last position has SHIELD ability).

But there is a new way (a way I just found out) to increase wins in the SUPER SNEAK Ruleset. That way is by using Jared Scar.

You must use a level 3 Jared Scar to "increase the chance" of winning a battle in this ruleset.

RULESET & FORMATION

In addition to SUPER SNEAK, the Ruleset in this battle is...

STAMPEDE

STAMPEDE is a Ruleset that allows monsters with the TRAMPLE ability to be able to activate their ability continuously as long as the target hit by this ability is immediately defeated at that time.

In order to avoid the STAMPEDE Ruleset, it is necessary to use monsters with high HEALTH and bring monsters that have ARMOR or support monsters that have PROTECT abilities because basically this TRAMPLE ability is an ability specifically for melee monsters which must destroy ARMOR first before reducing the HEALTH of the target.

REVERSE SPEED

REVERSE SPEED Is a ruleset that prioritizes monsters with low SPEED to attack first.

To deal with the REVERSE SPEED Ruleset, you should bring monsters with the lowest SPEED and high ATTACK POWER to get a chance to attack first.

My Line-Up

Cards	Ability	Reason
	- Give an additional 1 ARMOR to All Allies - Give additional abilities in the form of VOID ARMOR and AMPLIFY	I use Grandmaster Rathe so that I can give an additional 1 ARMOR to all my monsters. This is so that the attack from the opponent's Melee monster does not directly reduce the HEALTH of my monster. Grandmaster Rathe also gives VOID ARMOR ability so that the attack from the opponent's magic monster can be the same as the attack from the opponent's Melee or Ranged monster which must hit the ARMOR first.
	MAGIC REFLECT	I chose Blinding Reflector over Pelacor Conjurer because I wanted to utilize the VOID ARMOR received from Grandmaster Rathe. Although both have the MAGIC REFLECT ability, BLINDING REFLECTOR has quite a lot of ATTACK POWER as well as ARMOR (converted into VOID ARMOR). The SPEED of Blinding Reflector is lower than Pelacor Conjurer and it fits well in the REVERSE SPEED Ruleset which prioritizes monsters with the lowest SPEED to attack first.
	HALVING	I decided to use Halfling Alcemist instead of Xenith Archer because there is a rare ability, HALVING. HALVING ability is an ability that reduces the ATTACK POWER of all kinds of monsters to only half. And I use Halfling Alcemist just in case the opponent uses monsters with high ATTACK POWER.
	BLOODLUST + TRUE STRIKE + PIERCING	Jared Scar is the key to winning this battle. With a combination of TRUE STRIKE and PIERCING abilities, he can deal damage to ARMOR while reducing the HEALTH of the target. Coupled with BLOODLUST which will add 1 POINT to all his stats every time he defeats an opponent's monster makes him quite useful (and quite troublesome if he is on the opponent's side).
	MARTYR	I used Venari Marksrat because I needed his MARTYR ability. MARTYR ability will add 1 POINT to all stats of monsters near the owner of this ability when the owner of this ability is defeated.
	AFFLICTION + CAMOUFLAGE + POISON	Despite being in the last position, Doctor Blight will not be targeted by Melee monsters with SNEAK ability because he has CAMOUFLAGE ability. As long as Doctor Blight is not in the first position (or all monsters in front of him are defeated) he will not become the target of attacks. While hiding from the opponent's attacks, Doctor Blight uses AFFLICTION and POISON abilities to make the targeted monsters incurable and slowly die (POISON= deals 2 HEALTH damage per round if not healed with CLEANSE ability).

BATTLE START !!!

The opponent also used Jared Scar in this battle but in a different position. The opponent used a different Summoner (General Sloan) so he got an extra 2 Mana and he used it to bring in 1 extra monster.

In the first round, the opponent's Blinding Reflector attack failed to hit Venari Marksrat. But unlike Jared Scar who successfully attacked and immediately defeated Venari Marksrat. He got an additional BONUS from BLOODLUST ability for defeating Venari Marksrat, but on my side, there were 2 monsters (Jared Scar and Doctor Blight) who got additional stats from MARTYR ability due to defeating Venari Marksrat.

The opponent's 2 Magic monsters (Dax Paragon and Spirit Hoarder) successfully attacked Blinding Reflector but they received a counterattack (MAGIC REFLECT) reinforced with AMPLIFY. The same thing happened to Doctor Blight when attacking Pelacor Conjurer, but the difference was that the counterattack only hit the VOID ARMOR of Doctor Blight.

In the second round, the opponent's 2 magic monsters (Dax Paragon and Spirit Hoarder) were defeated by using counterattacks (MAGIC REFLECT) reinforced with AMPLIFY. Pelacor Conjurer was defeated by Halfling Alcemist.

Jared Scar who took the place of Pelacor Conjurer managed to defeat Blinding Reflector and got an additional BONUS from BLOODLUST. However, the fun was slightly interrupted because Doctor Blight managed to attack him and deal with AFFLICTION and POISON.

Although in the third round Jared Scar managed to defeat Halfling Alcemist and got another BONUS stat, it was still not enough to make him survive the POISON that gave him 2 points of damage at the beginning of the third and fourth rounds (as well as the attack from Doctor Blight in the third round).

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

You could say that the victory this time was a stroke of luck because the opponent only used Spirit Hoarder level 2, not level 3. If the opponent has a level 3 Spirit Hoarder that has BLIND ability there is a possibility that the attacks from Venari Marksrat and Halfling Alcemist can miss even though they are superior in SPEED on the REVERSE SPEED Ruleset. That's because Pelacor Conjurer has the FLYING ability which gives it a chance to dodge attacks from opposing monsters that don't have the FLYING ability.

And if Pelacor Conjurer fails to be defeated in the second round, then the opponent's Jared Scar will defeat my Jared Scar who has lost ARMOR.

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