Splinterlands Battle Mage - Target Practice

[mypathtofire]

Hello Splinterfans!

This week we have the new Battle Mage Secrets weekly challenge with the ruleset Target Practice.

This ruleset is one that can be tricky and cause a few problems. It gives ranged and magic attack the snipe ability, so that they can pick off the weakest monsters.

Some tactics to use for this ruleset are to use high mana monsters, or lay some low mana monsters as bait for your opposition, such as a Venari Marksrat who will buff those around him.

The alternative is to counter this and not use any ranged or magic attack 😉.

In today's battle, I decide to avoid mostly ranged and magic attack and try to pick off my opponent with a sneak attack.

Let's check this week's battle.

My Team

This is a high-mana battle, but little league.

Summoner/ Monster	Reason
Kelya Frendul	Shield and speed buff
Cruel Sethropod	Strong tank with shield
Xenith Monk	Backup tank with heal
Feasting Seaweed	Strong opportunity melee attack
Musa Saline	Shatter ability and decoy
Uraeus	Sneak attack
Pelacor Bandit	Sneak attack

My opponents

Summoner/ Monster
Thaddius Brood
Xenith Monk
Shadow Snitch
Uraeus
Venari Marksrat
Venari Bonesmith
Ravenhood Warden

Battle

Watch the Battle direct here

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ROUND 1 - Cruel Sethropod vs - Xenith Monk

Round 1 starts off well for me with my faster sneak attack taking out Ravenhood Warden and Venari Marksrat.

I am hoping Musa Saline can build up some health and distract my opponent.

Is my sneak attack strong enough to outlast the sniping of my opponent?

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ROUND 2

Sadly, Musa falls after being poisoned despite gaining some health. My sneak, combined with opportunity attack shows it's strength though.

Feasting Seaweed strikes the killer blow against Venari Bonesmith and this deals a deadly blow to my opponent.

In the meantime, our tanks are holding each other off, but slowly Cruel is losing the battle as he doesn't have heal like Xenith Monk.

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ROUND 3

Round 3 proceeds and I lose Pelacor Bandit against my opponent's Uraeus.

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ROUND 4 & 5

Cruel finally falls after the onslaught from Xenith Monk and Shadow Snitch with his reach ability. Up steps a fresh Xenith Monk from my side.

Round 5 concludes with Shadow Snitch being disposed and this is the beginning of the end for my opponent.

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Summary:

Target practice can be good for placing low mana decoys like Venari Marksrat who buff your remaining monsters, but you need to be careful that your low mana monsters don't get picked off.

I try to avoid magic and ranged attack so that I can target an attack on the tank or sneak attack from the rear so the attack is more concentrated.

How do you play the Target Practice ruleset?

Thanks for reading.

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Comments

[ironshield]

Game has changed alot from the old steem monsters days

[mypathtofire]

Yeah, it changes pretty quickly. Its really surprising.

[emjeak]

Sounds like you had fun with those battles cos I think you are very skillful. All the best.

[mypathtofire]

Thanks, it was a great battle and good fun.

[ijelady]

You are doing very well in this game, and your team too.

[mypathtofire]

Thanks, its going well so far! 😀

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Thank you!

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You are welcome

[elcholitosanto]

Hi, I like your strategy with "opportunity" and "sneak" in "Target Practice", nice game.👍👍👍

[mypathtofire]

Thanks, it worked out pretty well this time 😀

[rafzat]

I can see that you have great skills
Keep it up!

[mypathtofire]

Thanks, I try to grow them.

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Happy weekend and happy gaming.

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Thank you. You too.

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Great use of cruel sethropod in the front from the beginning, it gave you the needed firepower in the later rounds

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