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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
  

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		Kelya Frendul - to have +1 Speed in order to give the early attacks and +1 armor to protect my monsters
1st position		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		Venari Marksrat - he will die 1st because of Noxious Fume and give +1 to all stats to Sea Monster and DeepLurker
3rd position		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		River Nymph - her Cleanse ability to remove the effect of Noxious Fumes on Sea Monster
5th position		River Hellondale - his Resurrect ability will revive Venari Marksrat 1 time to give the additional +1 stats to Sea Mosnter and DeepLurker
6th position		Creeping Ooze - to use up all the mana and reduce opponent's monster speed in order to deal the early attacks

The battle

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• 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.