Splinterlands Battle Mage Weekly Challenge - Target Practice

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Hello everyone, this is my entry to the splinterlands battle mage secrets challenge 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
	Silent summoners : Summoners do not give any stat buffs or debuffs or grant/use any abilities
	Target Practice : All ranged and magic attack monsters have the snipe ability

The target practice ruleset means that magic and ranged attack monsters in the second position are attacked first.

The silent summoners ruleset means the summoners give no additional stats to the monsters and neither do they remove stats.

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My Lineup

Summoner	1st	2nd	3rd	4th

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My Opponent’s lineup

Summoner	1st	2nd

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Summoner chosen

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For this battle, there was silent summoners and only the death summoners was allowed so I just decided to use a summoner with the lowest mana.

1st Position

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For my first position in my lineup, I decided to go with the Carrion Shade monster because it attacks from the first position. Because of the target practice ruleset, I wanted to have the range and magic monsters far from the second position.

_{monsters in position for the battle}

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Round 1

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Cursed Windeku from my enemy's team attacked first and killed my first monster, Carrion Shade. My second monster who became my first monster, Cursed Windeku attacked my enemy's first monster and did a damage of -2 health but got a return damage of -2 health because of the thorns damage.

My last monster, Cabalist attacked my enemy's second monster, Usut and rendered a damage of -2 health. Usut from my enemy's team attacked and killed my second monster, Venari Markstrat. Since Usut is a bloodlust monster, killing my second monster granted Usut increased stats and also gave my first and last monster +1 stats.

Increased stats to the monsters

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Round 2

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With a new melee of 3, my first monster, Cursed Windeku attacked my enemy's Cursed Windeku and did a damage of -3 health. A return thorns damage of -2 health was done to my first monster. My last monster, Cabalist attacked my enemy's last monster and did a damage of -3 health to Usut.

My enemy's Cursed Windeku attacked mine and did a damage of -3 health reducing the health to 3 while my enemy gained a return thorns damage of -2 health damage. My enemy's Usut attacked my last monster and reduced its health to 3.

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Round 3

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Cursed Windeku from my team attacked and killed my enemy's Cursed Windeku but a thorns damage of -2 health was done to my first monster reducing my health to 1.

My last monster, Cabalist with a damage of 3 magic did a damage of -3 health to my enemy's Usut. Usut killed my first monster and gained additional stats.

Round 4

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Usut attacked and killed my remaining monster. My enemy was able to win because the bloodlust came into effect and with a new speed of 3, my enemy attacked first.

The battle was fought and lost in 4 rounds.

Here is my battle link. Watch here how my enemy beat me.

All images used are from splinterlands.com and splintertools.