Well hello there my fellow Splinterlands players

Here we are again at my Battle Mage Secret challenge, and yes we are stilll having BORN AGAIN Ruleset as our theme. Actually this is my second entry, the first one you can read it here:

https://peakd.com/hive-184309/@dewabrata/battle-mage-secrets-born-again-will-feed-the-bloodlust

In my first entry, I emphasized these two things that we often met on lower leagues, below Gold League:

1. Basic Mechanism
2. Hard to counter bloodlust.

Due to these points, mostlikely all we see are Bloodlust taking the MVP on the battle. However the are cases that Bloodlust would do nothing special, and in this battle I would like to show a battle which I did not have to bring any bloodlust units...

So how would I counter bloodlust units? Well we have martyrs right now, and during this rulesets, martyr will deliver double buffs due to die twice. How this will go.. Ok let's check our battle!

THE BATTLE

This was a Silver League battle of Wild Format. I was using my own account this time, not the scholarship account. The ruleset was quite interesting, here it was:

It had Born Again which we had been looking for and the other one was Heavy Hitter. It's hard to exploit Heavy hitter, so I believe I should focus on Born Again ruleset.

24 Mana cap, there was not many things we could set up here, so I believed for the battle, each side would be heavily focusing on 1-2 main units only. There were only Dragons and Water, so my thought was... Everyone might have this dude on their mind:

Yes, he was Isgald Vorst. He was one of the best unit for this ruleset combination. So the battle should be focusing on him, and both side would display what was the best lineup to support him... That's why I thought initially however:

1. This was not a Bronze League battle, so there should be an option to counter this guy
2. This was not Gold of Diamond league, so we should focusing on basic mechanic first.

So I have this two units on my mind now:

1. Sea Monster

Sea Monster was a classical tank that once ruled over Bronze League. Recently people forgot about this dragon because he was not that outstanding on higher league. Let say he was an early bloomer, super strong on bronze, good at silver and gold... but so so on Diamond.

The reason I picked him because for Basic Mechanic, Hitting and survival, he was one of the best. 5 Melee damage, come on... 9 Health point and a healing... Surely the king on Bronze, however on Silver... Well I still belived he had what I needed.

2. Venari Marksrat

Well he was the guy to counter opportunity attacker, the perfect bait because each time this rat died, adjacent units would get powered up. This method was not a perfect one, because on the other hand, he could be feeding the bloodlust opponent.

It's a big gamble, however I believed we must trust our hunch. I had great feeling that Marksrat and Sea Monsters would settle this battle for me.

Ok now tis time to see how the battle went:

• The battle started with both of us buffing up our team and debuffing our opponents. Both of us using Water Element, however the core of their team, as expected, was Isgald Vorst
• My opponent had 2 melee damage, 2 magic damage, and 1 range damage. Totally they had 5 damage per round.
• My team had 5 melee damage, 1 range damage and 2 magic damage. Combined all, they became 8 damage per round.
• My opponent really tried to exploit their Gladius Isgald Vorst. All of the other units were as the support for him. The same went for me, everyone buying Sea Monsters time to run over their line up

• Nothing really looked different from the first round.. However we both lost a unit and got the rebirth. We could see their Isgald Vorst getting stronger

• Both of us trying to keep up the pace. None seemed to have bested the other.. yet
• However Round 3 was the decisive one, becauses this time their Isgald Vorst would be lured to hit my Marksrat

• Again, Born Again made the line up looked the same as the previous round. However things would start to look different because my Riverboat Captain starting to blast their line up.

• However things looked not as I planned before. Despite of being winning, I lost the pace here. It's 4 vs 3 now.

• My team managed to get it back on evenly square again, 3 vs 3.
• I had a lead thanks to Kelya Frendul +1 armor. After their Noa The Just died, the rust ability was gone and this was the key point of this battle.

• That 1 armor made a huge difference, my team was leading again. 2 vs 3, and I believed I could win this now.

• With Sea Monster +3 Health from healing and got +3 health again from Merdaali Guardian Tank heal, literally their Isgald Vorst only delivered a net 1 damage per round... So I thought this was the time I said Good Game

• but it's not nice to cut the battle half way through... Let's see the finish line here, the round 9. Thank you

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CLOSURE AND DISCUSSION

well It's a good battle afterall, both of us came with a solid meta, great line up and really focus on what we were aiming. Overall the topic of this battle was the bout of these 2 core units:

Isgald Vorst vs Sea Monster, and Sea Monster won the bout... However the key winning points was not about the Sea Monster itself. We had several other notable points here:

1. Riverboat Captain Blast made a huge impact. I still stayed with my previous post argument, that MAGIC damage really important on Born Again ruleset because they could bypass any armor. Magic + Blast = awesome
2. My formation did not great but it really built to counter Isgald Vorst. Sadly we could not do this on Bronze, however Its feasible on higher league. That's why for you Splinterlands Starter or Lower League players, this is one of the main reason why many endorse you guys to come and play on higher league. Well atleast you can play on Silver with a very affordable rental cost.

ok that's for today, Have fun with BORN AGAIN ruleset. And please and don't forget to leave your comment or feedback below. thank you.

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• @splinterlands : for holding BATTLE MAGE SECRETS challenge events
• carrieallen : for ultimate markdown tutorial
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