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<center> Hello everyone, This is @cantfoldaces participating in the Weekly Battle Mage Secrets Challenge, in the best #play2earn game out there!! #Splinterlands!! </center>

Welcome to my second challenge posting of this week! What a hecting week it has been in my private life to the point that I have to decide between grinding some splinterlands battles or just focus of preparing a blog post for this week's challenge (which I'm currently doing at the moment :) ) 

 # Counterspell

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- All units receive the magic reflect ability at the start of the battle. 
- Magic damage attackers receive damage back, Damage returned is equal to the damage of the attacker divided by 2, rounded up.

I have watched a battle from a top spot Silver gplayer that I forgot the name and he used such an annoying composition that CANNOT be hit if Magic Damage gets disregarded/banned for the battlefield: 

https://d36mxiodymuqjm.cloudfront.net/cards_by_level/chaos/Conqueror%20Jacek_lv2.png   + https://d36mxiodymuqjm.cloudfront.net/cards_by_level/rift/Coeurl%20Lurker_lv2.png

Adding to that a couple of Speed Manipulation for the Lurker to reach 8 Speed + *Dodge*! 
By doing some quick maths: Evasion chance for Lurker 25% (Dodge) + 70% (7 speed diff) = 95% evasion chance
That means monsters with 1 or 2 speed pratically can never hit Lurker ! 

Without Further ado, let's get started with the battle: 

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 https://i.imgur.com/YtFjXCw.png 

- UNLIMITED MANA
- Death + Water Elements available
- `Counterspell` + `Fog of War` Rulesets

Without paying attention to my opponent's potential lineup, I decided to go as follow: 

## Summoner

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Abilities: *+1 Armor* + *+1 Speed*
Water Summoners are awesome, my favourite is possibilus but Kelya gets its own utility as well! Speed is key so every speed manipulation matters especially when going for opportunity monsters! 
+1 Armor is broken on itself especially when Magic is less likely to be played since it protects from any Melee/Ranged Damage! 

## Tank 
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Ability: **Trample** + **Enrage** 

On of the best Tanks on the Silver Leaguein term of Tankiness and especially Damage! 
A total of 14 hit points makes it sturdy against most damage but most importantly, its high speed, coupled with a potential enrage, bumps up its Damage as well as a higher chance to proc Trample and don't forget about its higher evasion chances !

## 2nd Position
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Ability: **Weapons Training** + **Opportunity** + **Shield** 
The least I can say about this monster is how BROKEN it is! **Opportunity** with high speed + high damage is superb on itself, Weapons training is well used in certain monsters combination and it unlocks the **Shield** at level 2 making him able to take the Tank Position or the last, sneak counter, position! 

## 3rd Position
https://d36mxiodymuqjm.cloudfront.net/cards_by_level/reward/Djinn%20Oshannus_lv2.png

Ability: **Void + Phase**
Why a magic damage dealer!? First opponent won't expect a sort of Magic damage so his tank would be vulnerable to Magic, second, **Void** will nullify the the reflected damage so it doesn't matter if counterspell is used and third it can serve as a 3rd tank if things go wrong! 

## 4th Position
https://d36mxiodymuqjm.cloudfront.net/cards_by_level/chaos/River%20Hellondale_lv2.png

Ability: **Ressurect + Inspire**
Another MAgic Dealer, its true that he doesn't get Void and would slowly die by the counterspell ability but I've got the Speed and Tankiness so I just have to buff their Melee Damage as well !

## 5th Position
https://d36mxiodymuqjm.cloudfront.net/cards_by_level/rift/Sea%20Stalker_lv4.png

Ability: **Camouflage + Snipe**
This is a great damage dealing monster with 5 Ranged Damage that can fire on the backline while being safe from Sneak/opportunity due to the camouflage ability
I'm using this monster more frequently in high mana battle because of the damage and survivibility! 

## 6th Position
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Ability: **Repair**
Since there is a higher chance of using Melee & Ranged Damage, it's only right to keep annoying the enemy but repair the Armor that gets destroyed and keep wasting the upcoming enemy fire power! 

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## <center> [Link to The Battle](https://splinterlands.com/?p=battle&id=sl_937fc30ed56b6b29236532c8925275ab) </center>

# Pre Round 1
 https://i.imgur.com/99rFiE4.jpeg 

A solid and well balanced team that I'm facing, it was smart providing a frontliner with the Shield Ability and got tons of damage from the backline! Let's hope that Diemonshark can hold on against this! 

# Round 1 
 https://i.imgur.com/rrTxhnL.jpeg 
- It's amazing how my team gets the priority thanks to the Speed Buff from kelya and dropping down the enemy Tank to *only 3 Health* 
- Diemonshark loses its Armor, gets enraged! and leading to the last couple of enemy shots to be missed (harklaw and Queen of Crows) 

# Round 2
 https://i.imgur.com/nPopTE6.jpeg 
- An enraged Diemonshark is first to act and takes down Harklaw but sadly misses the Trample of Pallus
- Luckily my Magic Attack dealers (the utility of Magic Damage) did manage to hit pallus, otherwise, what a Evasion Fiesta with both Diemonshark and Pallus evading most of the incoming Damage! 
- The repair did buy some time for Diemonshark but ended up going down by Queen of Crow
- Wait! It got Ressurected with ALL its annoying Armor! 

# Round 3
 https://i.imgur.com/I66S9oc.png 
- Diemonshark is back on FIRE! Takes down Pallus, Tramples to Queen of Crows and takes down half its health! 
- Sea Stalker takes down Queen of Crow on its turn by firing a deadly arrow
- River Hellondale did a great service but ended up dying to the Counterspell ability!
- Repair buys up a lot of Time for Diemonshark that was only left with a single HP and no armor after Drybone attacks! 

# Round 4
 https://i.imgur.com/9VoWAEr.png 
- Diemonshark, the MVP of this battle, Takes Down Drybone, Tramples and almost taking down Lire the Dark but lets the Honor to Oshannus to finish her off !
- Forgot about Kulu Mastermind ... :')
- Sea Stalker finishes the battle by One-Shot the last Gladius Card to clinch the Victory! 

 https://i.imgur.com/blWvs4T.png 

### <center> [Link to This Cool Battle](https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_937fc30ed56b6b29236532c8925275ab&ref=cantfoldaces) </center>

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# Post Battle Commentary 

- I'm pretty happy with the battle outcome and the flawless Victory! The Ressurect came at the best time!
- Perhaps what thing that can be changed is switching Oshannus to the 2nd Position and provide a strong archer on the 3rd Spot like Coastal Nymph or Barmaid! 

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