Splinterlands Battle Mage Secrets Weekly Challenge - Five Alive

_{Image from @splinterlands}

Hello everyone, this is my entry to the splinterlands battle mage challenge for this week. I will be describing one of my battles with the given ruleset. I used my account @yahuzah which is my spl account for all battles.

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Battle Ruleset

Ruleset Icon	Description
	Shades of Gray : Only neutral monsters may be used in battle
	Fog of War : Monsters lose snipe, sneak and opportunity abilities
	Five Alive : Up to five unites can be used

These three rulesets meant that I could only use up to five monsters who were neutral and would lose all sneak, opportunity and snipe abilities.

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My enemy's Lineup

Summoner	1st	2nd	3rd	4th

Summoner chosen

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For this battle, I chose the Drake of Sarnak summoner to allow me select dragon monsters and give them all +1 ahield.

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Battle Tactics

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Since none of the monsters were going to be have *sneak, opportunity and snipe abilities, positioning of my monsters was influenced.

In first position, I selected Grimbardun Fighter for its shield which would reduce melee and ranged damages by 50%.

_{Grimbardun Fighter in first position}

I selected Venari Markstrat in second position for its martyr ability.

_{Venari Markstrat in the second position}

In the third position, I selected Prismatic Energy for its magic reflect ability.

_{Prismatic Energy in third position}

In the fourth position I selected Magi of Chaos.

_{Magi of Chaos in the fourth position}

In the last position, I selected, Scarvo Hireling for its repair ability.

_{Scarvo Hireling in the last position}

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Battle Details

When I saw the lineups, I knew the battle was going to be an easy win because of the kind of monsters my enemy brought.

Summoner buffs took effect and the battle began with my third, first and second monsters all attacking my enemy's first monster but being unable to kill.

The second round started and immediately, my third monster killed my enemy's first. Attacks continued and the health of my enemy's second monster who was now first was reduced to 2 at the end of the round.

In round 3, I couldn't kill my enemy's first card but at the start of round 4, my third monster was able to kill the first monster.

As round 4 progressed, my enemy's Scavo Hireling became the new first monster but wasn't killed. However, at the start of round 5, Scavo was killed.

My enemy was finally able to attack but managed to reduce the shield of my first monster by 1. That was nowhere enough to kill me and attacks from my monsters till round 6 was enough to kill my enemy.

Here is my battle link. Watch here how I took my enemy to battle and won.

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