Splinterlands Community Engagement Challenge - Magic monsters rule the game

Hello all Splinters,

This is my entry for the Splinterlands Community Engagement Challenge 👍. This week's theme is Power Plays – Your Favorite Card Combos, where you can share the card combinations, unstoppable synergies, and game-changing tactics that help you dominate the battlefield.

In the new Modern format, I always see the magic monsters play a crucial role in winning the game. That's why I invest mainly in Magic Monsters in this post

I will share with you 2 battles with magic monsters, and they helped me to win against 2 stronger opponents

This is the 1st battle with the following rulesets

• 17 mana cap - a low mana battle

• Even Stevens - Only monster with even mana cost can be used in the battle, and Deflection Shield - monsters do not get any counter damage.

• Only Light Splinter can be used in this battle

With these rulesets, I don't have so many choices. I needed to choose a low-mana summoner and monsters to have more cards on the battlefield. It could increase my winning chances. That led me to the team lineup below.

Summoner		Chuul JuJinchi - he only costs 3 mana, lowest cost for a summoner and it helped me to spend more mana on monsters
1st position		Nimbledook Explorer - he can give 2 additional armors to all monsters, which is very helpful
2nd position		Moxian Rebel - I chose him because of Weapon training skill, which can give 1 magic attack to the 1st and 3rd position monsters at this level
3rd position		Conclave Artificer - he costs 4 mana and has 5 HP. There is no monster better than him in this position for this battle

With this lineup, I only used 15 mana, but I didn't have any 2-mana monster to use up all the mana in this battle.

My opponent chose level 4 - Bella Ratajowlski as the summoner. It seemed Even Stevens is a challenging ruleset in this battle. It limited the options, and my opponent could put 2 monsters on the battlefield. Both of them are higher-level than mine.

And here is the battle. You can click on this link to watch the battle.

Halfshell Seer couldn't cause any damage to my team. Only an 8-mana monster - Conclave Tracker did 1 magic attack each round, while all 3 of my monsters could attack. However, Conclave Tracker has higher speed and made the 1st attack to kill my Moxian Rebel. It made the battle tougher, and I had a very close win after 6 rounds.

And here is the 2nd battle with the following rulesets

• 34 mana cap

• Wands Out - Only Magic monsters can be used in this battle and Heavy Hitters - attackers can give double damage to stun targeted monsters

• Earth and Death Splinters can not be used in this battle

Here is my team lineup

Summoner		Prunda Undervesch - I want to use both Life and Water Splinter in this battle because I have strong magic monsters in both splinters
1st position		Janni Rebel - I chose her because she has the highest HP among my magic monsters. So she is suitable to be a tanker in this battle
2nd position		Olivia of the Brook - she has 2 types of attacks and can get 1 additional melee attack from Janni Rebel skill
3rd position		Thanalorian Archer
4th position		Meriput Magician - I need this monster because of Tank Heal skill
5th position		Shock Trooper - a very high magic attack monster, and I see him a lot in the Modern format battles

My opponent chose level 7 Dolfar Darflak as the summoner. She (based on the avatar) also put higher-level monsters on the battlefield.

And here is the battle. You can click on this link to watch the battle.

Even though my opponent put stronger summoner and monsters on the ground, my team won her team after 3 rounds.

Both battles showed the possibility that you can still win against the stronger opponents if you choose the right strategy.

I hope you enjoy these battles, find some useful information in this post.

Have a nice weekend!

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