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Hello all Splinterlands friends,
This is my entry to the Battle Mage Secrets challenge from the Splinterlands team.
This week's theme is the **Explosive Weaponry** ruleset, so I would like to share a battle with it.

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# The battle ruleset
- 33 mana cap
- Ruleset - Noxious Fumes and Explosive Weaponry
- Splinter - Water/Earth/Life and Dragon
![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmYpg8gPqSPT6HssXdbUpDU6dF7MrBYy9v3UuDo1Qv3pre/image.png)

Usually, I will choose the high-speed monsters in the Explosive Weaponry battle, to take advantage of early attacks and deal as much damage as possible. However, I need to change my strategy because of Noxious Fume.  The ability to stay longer on the battlefield is much more important than making the attack.
With this ruleset, I decided to use Water splinter (again), which is my strongest splinter.

# My lineup
 
|Summoner|![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmeQyMwQicLbza75E5D9npvtL9LfjA1cjsGZBKwRFNmBjC/image.png)|**Kelya Frendul** - to have +1 Speed in order to give the early attacks and +1 armor to protect my monsters|
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|     1st position|   ![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmebxPLNo8g9mTcwQAtQmB4oE5GNrbq2ibCDW2gDEEFgQj/image.png)|    **Sea Monster** - I chose him because of his ***Heal*** ability which can heal himself an amount of health and can stay longer on the battlefield|
|2nd position|   ![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmUQrpCwMWVGf6AVfUhBy8N5usvAnbn638f9LEmUsiYt8t/image.png)|    **Venari Marksrat** - he will die 1st because of Noxious Fume and give +1 to all stats to **Sea Monster** and **DeepLurker**|
|3rd position|![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmT4MpZYhNcuQDxis8uEiXmVWVhLMx6heXi1egP2X56vub/image.png)|     **DeepLurker** - he has good speed with high damage and health, he can attack the lowest health monster and deal the additional damage to adjacent monsters with ***Explosive Weaponry***   |
|4th position|   ![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmbshSzUfWEMoUbiuUMscYM5MqmzJDjGYrFgkwwcURgU5v/image.png)|     **River Nymph**  - her ***Cleanse*** ability to remove the effect of ***Noxious Fumes*** on **Sea Monster**|
|5th position|    ![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmQvvPaaJYYPz3qDaGg5j7mGVEjvnHYuAx3qaJMsC9rKw7/image.png)|    **River Hellondale** - his ***Resurrect*** ability will revive **Venari Marksrat** 1 time to give the additional +1 stats to **Sea Mosnter** and **DeepLurker**|
|6th position|     ![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmSp8GXGRTgmFHAEsnqfHCbSrFufbG3pVZJuuXTqEggLqY/image.png)|    **Creeping Ooze**  - to use up all the mana and reduce opponent's monster speed in order to deal the early attacks|

# The battle
*You can click on the image to watch the battle*
[![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmVX7WoGyfgzUmFs33UbXLUmCD46qhuuaj1K2Hp7UUiWX9/image.png)](https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_299a5cefd948ca5b15644d93588ec1af&ref=sodom-lv)
- My opponent also used a similar strategy with **Venari Marksrat**, **River Nymph**. But my opponent used **Merdaali Guardian** to heal **Djinn Oshannus**. It has a little disadvantage because **Merdaali Guardian** has low health so she will die after 2 rounds and couldn't heal **Djinn Oshannus** anymore.
- Finally, I can win the battle within 2 rounds and 4 monsters out of 6 still stood on the board.
- Another thing that I should keep in my is to avoid using low-health monsters in the Noxious Fumes battle like my opponent.
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That's all for now and hope you enjoy this battle.
I would love to see your battle with the ***Explosive Weaponry*** rule set in the Splinterlands community.