LIFE vs WATER

Adelade Brightwing coming to the rescue

Rule Set

Mana Cap: 32
Silenced Summoners: No summoner abilities
Splinters allowed: Fire, Water, Life
Splinters not allowed: Earth, Death, Dragon

Strategy

Fire, Water, and Life don't have a lot of starter magic monsters so I wasn't worried about that -- plus my opponent's recently played section didn't have a lot of magic monsters for those splinters. I expected mostly enemy melee and range attacks so I went for Chaos Knight as my front-line tank due to his Shield ability which reduces melee and ranged damage. In 2nd position, I had Chaos Agent as a sacrificial buffer in case Chaos Knight went down. I picked Adelade Brightwing for 3rd position due to her magic damage, Flying ability which helps her dodge melee and range better, and her Rebuild ability that fixes the armor of allies whose armor's been damaged. To couple with Adelade's armor healing, I put Venari Crystalsmith in 4th position due to her Tank Heal ability which fixes front-line allies health. In 5th, for mostly attack damage I put Pelacor Arbalest due to their Double Strike ability which attacks twice. In sixth position, I chose Portal Spinner due to their bit of armor and their Scattershot ability which hits a random enemy, allowing damage to be spread out more among the enemies.

Opponent's Line-up

They went for an anti-magic water team, with Bortus and his magic-decrease ability. In 1st position, they chose Wave Brood who has a tremendous amount of health and the Taunt ability which makes all enemy monsters attack them until they're defeated. In 2nd place, they picked Flying Quid who can attack from 2nd position due to their Reach ability and has a lot of health. In 3rd position they chose Merdaali Guardian who has Tank Heal which will be useful for their Wave Brood. In 4th position, they had a gold-foil Axe Master who is a similar card to my Pelacor Arbalest with Double Strike except they have higher speed and more health. In 5th position they picked Scavo Hireling who rebuilds armor and in 6th position they picked Creeping Ooze with the Slow ability which decreases enemy team's speed.

Total Stats & Abilities

2 Melee - 2 Magic - 7 Range - 6 Speed - 4 Armor - 19 Health
vs
2 Melee - 5 Range - 13 Speed - 30 Health
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Shield - Flying - Rebuild - Tank Heal - Double Strike - Scattershot
vs
Taunt - Short Range - Reach - Tank Heal - Double Strike - Rebuild - Slow

Round 2: No monsters defeated.

Round 3: Wave Brood defeated.

Round 4: Flying Squid defeated.

End of battle: Merdaali Guardian, Axe Master, Scavo Hireling, and Creeping Ooze defeated.

I won 19 Rating and 8 Dark Energy Crystals.

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Portal Spinners

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(@shortsegments, @saviib, and I started a guild -- The Black Bulls! Check us out on Splinterlands!)