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Hello, Everyone, today I will make a post again about the **Splinterlands** contest [Battle Mage Secrets Challenge](https://ecency.com/hive-13323/@splinterlands/battle-mage-secrets-weekly-challenge-sffnvx). This Week's Theme is  **Lost Magic** ruleset. 

I usually battled in the **Modern** Format **Diamond** League using my 2 scholar accounts from **Balthazar** scholar bltzr-wizard-710 and bltzr-wizard-711.



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# <center>Battle Link</center>
If you want to watch the [Battle Link](https://splinterlands.com/?p=battle&id=sl_129fe59d92b21c0e08ce654df97fe567)
Video link:  https://youtu.be/ua3SxDuv5X0


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# <center>Ruleset</center>
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- ![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmS9mHgYoRHgzJru8VVv2gRJ4M7Sc7Ciok3EPsz5pAZPiJ/firefox_vjqtcjdtg1.png) **Lost Magic**, can't use monster with magic attack.
- ![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmU2z6FAfdo9jgvKxSKa4N1u4qUEgiKrXN1Sd9Trb2BYDK/maneuvers.png) **Maneuvers**, all monster has **Reach** ability. 
  - **Reach ability**, all melee monsters can attack from the second position.
- ![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmV7VKsL2vmwCrKDRXsg2n1ZYonu7WRWYf24Yi67nxNBDT/firefox_ndopoh3s5c.png) **Equal Opportunity**, all monsters have **Opportunity** ability. 
   - **Opportunity** ability, all monsters will attack the enemy monsters with the lowest HP.
- ![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmV51vwoRJHd5aFjhCPWZ2mPy51gvu5MGhFgn7Nn9cVXWp/image.png) mana cap.
- ![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmQtDkuZDxxjWoCjQ3eBFnxn1tpJgYhffuQRwZqLVqoF2b/image.png) can use **Fire**, **Death** and **Dragon** element.

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# <center>My Lineup and strategy</center>
- In the ruleset **Lost Magic** focus on handling range and melee attacks. 
- In the **Maneuvers** and **Equal Opportunity** ruleset we must focus in the **Equal Opportunity** ruleset because it override the **Maneuvers** ruleset.
 
We decided to use the **Death** element because it has a summoner which gives the ability to increase the evade ability to all our units by 25%. We will discuss more in the lineup and the closing section.

The Lineup we use :
|Summoner or monster|Abilities|Description|
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|  ![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmWxtim7mEikeqjoXScgbT8V17b1jhPnahgqeqaB7J8f52/firefox_6svq2omiul.png)|**Astral Entity**, Summoner. Can decrease the enemy armor by -2, Give **Dodge** the ability to ally monsters, and have **Resurrect** ability.| We used this **Death** summoner because can give Dodge (increase chance to evade the enemy melee and range attack by 25%) and **Resurrect** ability (bring back one friendly monsters who die). The decrease in the enemy armor will make the enemy easier to kill.| 
|![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmQkaC9Pgyfj9zVwQa953uaQmrC57mukwUuU31nhfXnkbK/bear.png)  |**Arkemis the Bear**, 1st position, Attacker, Support and Defender. Has the ability **Protect**, **Halving**, **Forcefield**, and **Enrage.**| We put this monster in the first position because it has a High HP and the **Protect** ability is a support ability that gives all friendly monsters armor of +2, when we are attacked by melee or ranged attack with armor will hit the armor first before decrease the HP.  With **Halving** ability, the monster we hit will decrease the damage by half (round down). The **Forcefield** is another good defense ability, it will make all monsters who have damage of 5 or more only give 1 damage to this monster, and to increase the capability as an attacker, it has an **Enrage** ability, if it hit by the enemy and decrease the HP it will increase the damage and speed of this monster.|
|![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmcTzU7QSCyUMHi8ejKHrYBty4pdwuxMCLWVN44P4xNvgD/image.png) |**Drybone Rider**, 2nd position, Attacker. Has the ability **Double Strike**, **Shatter**, and **Cripple**.| This will be our main attacker. We will combine the **Double Strike** ability which makes this monster attack twice each round with the effect of **Martyr's** ability to boost the damage. If this monster attack hits the enemy will lose one max health because of the **Cripple** ability. This Unit has **Shatter** ability, if this monster hits the enemy all armor will be destroyed even if it has 10 or more armor. The monster's weakness is slow speed, hope with the help of **Martyr ** boost can hit the enemy. |
| ![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmcN5Ugi4w869XQTuKxLCKnngb4tf3A4pVPH1TZD7mMbhy/chrome_jmgopiyray.png)|**Venari Marksrat**, 3rd position, attacker and support, has the ability **Martyr** **Ensnare** and **Shatter**.| We used this monster to boost the stats of the **Drybone Barbarian** in the 2nd position and **Junker** in the 4th position. we put it here to make sure that this monster dies first before any monster (due to the low HP in the **Equal Opportunity** this monster will be attacked first), and the **Resurrect** ability from the summoner will make the effect of the Martyr ability become double, with **Martyr** ability If this monster dies all the stats of the monster adjacent to it will increase.  The **Ensnare** ability will disable the **Flying** ability from the enemy monster who got attacked by this monster, **Shatter** ability is same ability like Drybone Barbarian.|
|![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmQqDiNL19Pd4ToCkHaTnN5g49wApmjcLicPY4PzXcrSFD/image.png)|**Junker**, 4th position, attacker and support. Has the ability **Reach**, and **Repair**| We put this melee monster in the 4th position to get the effect of the **Martyr*. The **Reach** (melee attack can attack from the 2nd position) ability from this monster will be overridden with the **Equal Opportunity** ruleset. We use this unit because has a **Repair** ability that gives armor to the unit whose armor has taken the most damage.|
| ![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmPkaQtTotooET8dYf3aBp3Y4PiAX73NGkYBdXshq4NfXQ/image.png)|**Curse Windeku**, 5th position, attacker and tanker. Has the ability **Thorn**, **Heal**, and **Slow**.|  We put this monster in the 5th position just in case if the enemy brings a melee monster with the **Sneak** ability which can attack the monster in the last position (6th position). If our monster in the last position die the enemy unit who has **Sneak** ability will attack this monster. Has  **Thorns** ability to make the melee monster hits this monster will get damaged by -2 HP. If the attacker monster has **Shield** ability only gets damage -1 HP. **Slow** is another good support ability, it will decrease all enemy monsters' speed by -1 giving our monster more chance to attack first and kill the enemy monster. And the most important thing is that this monster has the **Heal** ability to restore some of the HP.| 
| ![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmVRmsh8A3YBuCZjmP5TYGnn2F9MhLDAn5cfoyriWYmP4c/image.png)|**Pelacor Deceiver**, 6th position, attacker and tanker. Has the ability **Flying**, **Backfire**, and **Retaliate**.| This is our first tanker to face a back attack. If this unit successfully avoids the enemy's attack, it will deal 2 damage back to the enemy's HP (**Backfire** ability). Also, if the monster receives a melee attack, there is a 50% chance that the monster will attack back the attacker. The **Flying** ability will give you a 25% greater chance of dodging enemy attacks. |





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Our Formation is finished and we are ready to battle :
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# <center> Did your Strategy Work? </center>
Our main strategy is using the **Martyr** effect to boost the attack of the **Drybone Raider** and its work. Although the enemy brings high tier monsters like **Mantaroth** you can see the **Martyr** effect after the **Venari Marksrat** resurrects the 2nd time by the summoner **Astral Entity** our **Drybone Raider** attack becomes so high with a total of 9 damage from range and melee attack it will give a total of 18 damage every time it attack.
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You can see with high damage it kills 2 monsters at once and still attacks the **Mantaroth** decreasing the HP. 
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Thank you, my friend, for taking the time to review my battle report. I appreciate your efforts and would be grateful if you could provide me with feedback on any mistakes you find by leaving a comment. 

If you are new and want to try this fantastic strategy card battle game feel free to use my referral code https://splinterlands.com?ref=poplar-22 to join.

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# <center>Credit </center>
- Thumbnail using Canva.
- Divider took from @kyo-gaming.
- Card description, Image, and graphic were taken from https://Peakmonsters.com and https://Splintercards.com