Solinterlands Battle Mage Secrets Challenge - Weak Magic

_{Image from @splinterlands}

Hello everyone, this is my entry to the splinterlands battle mage secrets challenge for this week. I will be sharing one of my battles. For this battle, I used my account @yahuzah which is my spl account.

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Battle Rulesets

Ruleset Icon	Description
	Weak Magic : Magic attacks hit armor before reducing health

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My Lineup

Summoner	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th

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My enemy's Lineup

Summoner	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th

Summoner chosen

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For this battle, I decided to use the Tarsa summoner which gives +1 melee and +1 health to all friendly monsters. I decided I would use melee attack monsters and to give myself the best advantage, I thought this summoner would be useful.

1st Position

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For the first position in my lineup, picked the Xenith Monk which has the ability to heal in every round. It has a melee of 1 and attacks in the first position.

_{monsters in position for the battle}

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Battle Tactics

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I always try to look at my enemy's battle history before a battle. It made me realize my enemy likes to use monsters who attack the last monster. I couldn't pick a dodge monster who attacks and so I just went with Xenith Archer.

_{Xenith Archer in last position}

I then decided to pick the Ferox Defender monster who though attacks only in the first position, has high health and the ability to add all friendly monsters +2 armor.

_{Ferox defender in second position}

I also decided to use Magi of Chaos who who has a magic attack of 2 and a health of 6. I then put Magi of Chaos in the fourth position of my team because it could attack from any position.

_{Magi of Chaos}

I wanted to be able to attack my enemy's last monster as well since his battle history suggested he does same. I decided to go with Tenyii Striker who has a health of 6, melee of 2 and a speed of 2. The 2 armor from Ferox Defender was going to help as well.

_{Tenyii Striker in fifth position}

To help my team, I opted to use Countess Sinash who had a ranged attack of 3 and a speed of 4. I wanted to use this because it could only receive direct when in the first position. However, the positioning proved to be wrong because I had it in the third position. It should have probably been in the last position.

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Battle Details

Summoner and unit buffs took effect and the battle began.

The summoner choice from me proved to be quite useful but positioning of my monsters was a mistake. My enemy ended up bringing monsters who attacked my last monster. My enemy also brought the Ferox Defender who gave his monsters +2 armor.

Mordeus, the opportunity monster with a 5 melee attack killed my last monster, Xenith Archer.

As the battle continued, I killed my enemy's fifth monster and Mordeus again killed my Tenyii Striker.

By the middle of round 3, my enemy had 4 monsters left and I had 3.

In round 5, I knew I would lose after my first monster and Ferox defender were killed. Countess Sinash doesn't attack in the first position so at this point it was a smooth ride for my enemy.

The battle ended up going into the 6th round it was just too easy for my opponent.

The battle was fought and lost in 6 rounds.

Here is my battle link. Watch here how I lost to my enemy.

All images used are from splinterlands.com and splintertools.