Hello Battle Mages!
Welcome to another Splinterlands Battle Mage Secrets Weekly Challenge. For this challenge, we are going to discuss the earthquake ruleset or the ruleset where all non-flying monsters takes 2 damage at the end of each round.
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🦅 Ruleset: Earthquake
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Description
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Earthquake
Non-flying monsters takes 2 damage at the end of each round.
The earthquake ruleset provides an advantage to those monsters with flying ability as they are not affected by the damage per round. This ruleset as well provide the advantage on those monsters with high armor as well as shield ability.
A 2 damage per round is quite painful as the 2 damage per round is affecting all monsters in the field.
Consideration
In my perspective, when earthquake occurs, I usually think if I should use all monsters with flying ability but this might not be the case all the time as some monsters especially melee might not be able to attack in the backline. This is why sometimes there is a combination of flying and non flying monsters.
First thing to consider is the elementh allowed in the battle. If the element does have a lot of flying monsters in your deck. If not then check whether you have a non flying monsters but with a high armor or shield ability.
In my opinion, dragon, life and death have the most monsters with flying ability. So I would choose these element when earthquake ruleset is in play. However earth and water may be chosen as well as there are monsters in those element which grants extra armor to temporary deal with the earthquake damage.
🦅 Cards
Suggested Cards
Brighton Bloom is the most suitable summoner in this ruleset as it gives flying ability to all monsters. Another summoners are those that involves armor and repair.
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Information
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Brighton Bloom provides the flying ability to all monsters which prevents them to be affected by the earthquake damage.
In choosing the monsters, as I have mentioned those with flying abilities are automatically eligible in the earthquake ruleset but besides those flying monsters, those with shield, repair and snare abilities are also those that are good to have.
Below are the list of my choices of monster with flying abilities:
Monster Element Ability Remarks Pelacor Bandit Water Flying A sneak monster with flying ability Phantom of the Abyss Water Flying A magic monster with flying ability Runemancer Kye Water Flying A magic monster with life leech ability Nectar Queen Earth Flying A high attack monster with retaliate ability Pelacor Mercenary Earth Flying A tank monster with healing ability Regal Peryton Earth Flying A magic monster with high speed Adelade Brightwing Life Flying A magic monster with resurect and repair ability Celestial Harpy Life Flying A melee monster with opportunity Kralus Life Flying A tank monster with immunity and healing ability Luminous Eagle Life Flying A melee monster with reach ability Pelacor Arbalest Life Flying A range monster with double strike ability Uriel the Purifier Life Flying A tank monster with healing ability Dark Ha'on Death Flying A tank monster Raa Death Flying A range monster with double strike ability Agor Longtail Dragon Flying A tank monster with high defense and heal Dragon Jumper Dragon Flying A melee monster with opportunity and snare ability Chaos Dragon Dragon Flying A magic monster with high magic damage with blast Runic Skyclaw Dragon Flying A high damaging range monster Void Dragon Dragon Flying A magic monster with void and phase ability with high speed Gargoya Devil Neutral Flying A range monster with high damage and close range ability Tower Griffin Neutral Flying A range monster with protect abilityThose with shield ability as well as snare ability is also a good use in earthquake ruleset. Also those with protect ability can provide extra layer of defense against earthquake.
Disadvantage Cards
The disadvantage card are simply those without flying ability since they are affected by the earthquake damage in every round.
🦅 Battle Strategy
Battle
Rules of Combat
Modifications: Stampede, Earthquake, Taking Sides
Mana Cap: 40
Playable Splinters: Life
Team Composition
With the earthquake in play and the life splinter is the only one avaiable without neutral due to taking sides ruleset which is good because the life splinter do have many monster with flying ability.
- Summoner: Initially I prefer to use Grandmaster Rathe for extra armor but then I decided to use General Sloan to boosted Pelacor Arbalest attack as well as to have a 6 monster in my list.
- 1st Position: Uriel the Purifier with the healing ability and high damage recharge. This card is unaffected by the earthquake.
- 2nd Position: Adelade Brightwing acts as a support with resurrection, repair and magic damage. This card is unaffected by the earthquake
- 3rd Position: I personally choose stitch leech to deal damage in the backline due to its sneak as well as hoping for the life leech ability to sustain the earthquake damage.
- 4th Position: Djinn Renova is also intentional for this lineup because of its strengthen which gives extra health and most importantly the triage ability which can sustain the earthquake damage.
- 5th Position: Celestial Harpy is unaffected by the earthquake and with the help of its true strike and opportunity, this card is a good option for this round.
- 6th Position: Pelacor Arbalest performs a double attack and boosted by General Sloan. This card is also unaffected by the earthquake.
Basically, my line-up is a flying ability monster which do have a good attack and support stats and ability as well as non-flying monsters that can sustain the earthquake damage.
Battle Analysis
Looking on the opponent's line-up, we have the same thinking to use most of the monsters with flying ability in order to avoid the earthquake damage.
1. All of my opponent cards is not affected by the earthquake while two of my monster is affected but can do the sustain damage.
2. The attack power of my line-up is much higher than his lineup.
🦅 Closing Remarks
Earthquake ruleset is a troublesome ruleset especially if you do not have Brighton Bloom since it will definitely cause a constant of two damage per round to non-flying units. This ruleset also provide the importance of the abilities such as flying, shield, snare and sustain abilities such as triage and repair.
Which strategy do you use for the Earthquake? Do you often use all of your monster with flying?
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