RULESETS & MANA CAP
💠 Stampede :
The Trample ability can trigger multiple times per attack if the trampled Monster is killed.
💠 Lost Magic :
Monsters with Magic attack may not be used in battles.
💠 Mana Cap : 23
💠 Elements : Fire, Life, Death
MY LINEUP
Card Lv Mana Element Type Attack Speed Armor Health Ability S Tarsa 1 4 Fire - - - - - +1 Melee, +1 Health 1st Living Lava 1 7 Fire Melee 3 + 1 1 2 6 + 1 Shield 2nd Tenyii Striker 1 5 Fire Melee 2 + 1 2 - 6 + 1 Sneak 3rd Chaos Agent 1 1 Neutral Support - 2 - 1 + 1 - 4th Serpentine Spy 1 3 Fire Melee 2 + 1 3 - 1 + 1 Opportunity 5th Lava Spider 1 3 Fire Range 1 2 - 4 + 1 Snipe
Here's how I came up with this lineup:
💠 Tarsa Lv1
I only have Lv.1 Summoner for all 3 elements available, so the first thing came in mind when I saw the Lost Magic ruleset was "I will not use Death, because no point using Thaddeus with no Magic monsters played. And since it was 23 mana cap, Life also is out of the picture", hence Tarsa was chosen for this battle.
💠 Living Lava Lv1
Of course the best tank for Fire stock deck is this guy. With Shield, it can withstand a few rounds before KO'ed.
💠 Tenyii Striker Lv1
With its 2 Sneak attack and 6 health combined with Tarsa's ability, Tenyii was my choice for attack dealer and secondary tank.
💠 Chaos Agent Lv1
This is a sacrifice card to protect Serpentine Spy for being wiped out on the first round by Opportunity skill.
💠 Serpentine Spy Lv1
Fire's glass cannon, a must in every small mana battle. Since it's protected by Chaos Agent, I was more confident to use it.
💠 Lava Spider Lv1
I chose Lava Spider because of its low mana decent health and snipe ability consideration.
This formation came up because I thought that the opponent will also use Fire, and since Tenyii and Serpentine Spy for sure will be in a Fire deck, I was trying to pick formation which can counter that.
OPPONENT'S LINEUP
Card Lv Mana Element Type Attack Speed Armor Health Ability S General Sloan 2 4 Life - - - - - +1 Range 1st Blinding Reflector 3 3 Life Melee 1 2 3 5 - 2nd Celestial Harpy 2 2 Life Melee 1 2 - 3 Void 3rd Gargoya Scrapper 3 1 Life Melee 1 2 - 2 Fly, Opportunity 4th Portal Spinner 2 5 Life Range 2 + 1 2 1 4 Scattershot 5th Pelacor Arbalest 2 6 Life Range 2 + 1 2 - 3 Double Strike 6th Herbalist 1 2 Life Range 1 + 1 1 - 2 -
Let's take a moment to compare my lineup and the opponent's lineup:
💠 Speed
Both our deck has almost the same speed, around 2. Not much advantage on each side. But because most of the opponent's damage dealers were Range monsters, they'll end up attacking first each round.
💠 Monster Level
As i mentioned above, my monsters were all Lv1, whereas opponent's were mostly 2 or 3. This will affect attack order since our speed are mostly the same.
> To read more about Normal Speed Attack Order, check my post HERE
> To read more about Reverse Speed Attack Order, check @kyo-gaming 's article HERE
💠 Damage
Except for Gargoya Scrapper, the opponent's total attack came up to 13 points (because Pelacor Arbalest has Double Strike). Whereas my total attack was only 11 points.
Based on those points, I was a bit doubtful to win this battle.
THE BATTLE
- Round 1 started with Serpentine Spy defeating Gargoya Scrapper as expected.
- Then Portal Spinner's Scattershot luckily hit my Tenyii Striker. If it hit other monsters, I might be in trouble.
- After Pelacor Arbalest's Double Strike hit Living Lava, my Lava Spider hit Portal Spinner.
- Celestial Harpy went and hit Chaos Agent. Kudos to Chaos Agent for serving its purpose to protect Serpentine Spy from Opportunity ability.
- Next Tenyii Striker went and defeated Herbalist as expected.
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Lastly, the tankers were unable to deal any attack to each other because of Shield and miss.
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By the start of Round 2 I was still skeptical I could win this.
- Serpentine Spy as the highest speed amongst them attacked first and defeated Celestial Harpy.
- Then Portal Spinner's Scattershot again hit a good spot on Lava Spider, unable to defeat it because of its quite decent Health.
- Pelacor Arbalest again hit Living Lava with 2 x 2 damage, also unable to kill it with 1 Health left.
- Lava Spider dealt minor 1 damage to Portal Spinner.
- Tenyii Striker Defeated Arbalest with its Sneak ability.
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Living Lava stood still when Reflector attacked it, and attacked back to eliminate its Shield.
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Without further ado, Serpentine Spy defeated Portal Spinner on the start of Round 3, and the rest is history, because Reflector couldn't attack through Living Lava's Shield.
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