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Hello all #Splinterlands friends,
This is my entry for the Battle Mage Secrets weekly challenge.
This week's theme is the Reverse Speed, so I want to share a recent ranked battle with this ruleset.

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The battle ruleset

• 48 mana cap - a high mana battle
• Ruleset - Armored Up, Reverse Speed and Super Sneak
• Splinter - Only Fire, Earth and Dragon Splinter can be used in this battle
  

With Reverse Speed, the strategy is to choose low-speed monsters to give the early attack. I have low-speed Fire melee monsters and low-speed Earth magic monsters. However, the Earth magic monsters have lower health than Fire melee monsters. On another hand, the melee monsters can attack from any position with Super Sneak, so I decided to use Fire Splinter in this battle

My team lineup

Summoner		Eternan Brune - he can eliminate the effect of Armored Up ruleset from all enemy monsters. In addition, I can use 1 Gladiator in the battle
1st position		Arkemis the Bear - I chose him because he has high HP, add 2 additional armors to all my monsters and can reduce the enemy attack by half with his Halving ability
2nd position		Chimney Wallstop - he has very high attack and can blow 1 monster with 1 attack
3rd position		Ferox Defender - he give another 2 additional armors to all of my monsters and can Repair the armors as well
4th position		Scavo Hireling - also can Repair the armors of my monsters
5th position		Pyrewatch Devil - I chose him because of his Dispel. It's very helpful to remove any positive effect from enemy monsters
6th position		Dumacke Orc - I chose him because he has Shield and Retaliate. These skills are very helpful to counter the attack from enemy melee monsters with Super Sneak ruleset in this battle

The battle

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• My enemy chose Dragon Splinter with level 7 summoner Helios Matriarch. It was not a good choice in the battle with Resever Speed.
• My enemy guessed I would use magic monsters in this battle, so Nalara Geinek was used in this battle. It has Silence ability to reduce 1 magic attack from all my magic monsters. Luckily, I didn't choose any magic monster. It also has Amplify ability that will double the return damage of Thorn from Djinn Chwala and Krash Wanderford.
• Because all of my monsters had lower speed than enemy monsters, my monsters could make the early attack. After round 1, no one was killed, but Krash Wanderford was left with low HP
• In round 2, only Krash Wanderford was eliminated from the battle. It became a long rally battle because we both had Repair ability.
• Finally, my team won the battle after 9 rounds.

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That's all for now.
I hope you enjoy this battle and have nice weekend!

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