BATTLE MAGE SECRETS ✶ ODD ONES OUT

The ruleset for this week's challenge

• Odd Ones Out - Only units with odd mana costs may be used (Summoners are not affected by this rule)

The ruleset that I managed to get

• Rulesets - Odd Ones Out
• Mana Cap - 34
• Active Elements - Fire, Water, Life & Death

Here's my starting lineup

Summoner: Tarsa

• In the elements that were active fire was the one where I felt like I had the best cards for Odd Ones Out ruleset
• Using Tarsa as my summoner I had a vision of going heavy melee damage team as Tarsa gives +1 melee attack
• Even tho Odd Ones Out ruleset was active it dosen't affect summoners so I was able to play 4 mana Tarsa as my summoner

1st Position: Venari Marksrat

• He was the last monster that I picked for this team and as I had 3 mana left and not a good monster to play I decided to play Venari Marksrat for his Martyr ability to buff my Grum Flameblade who was in the 1st position
• Martyr - When a unit with the martyr ability dies in a battle, it gives adjacent characters +1 to all stats
• Also my Grum Flameblade had one speed so my idea was that Venari Marksrat would die before it was Grum Flameblade turn to attack so he wouldn't tank and hits and also get a hit off himself in the 1st round

2nd Position: Grum Flameblade

• He was my main tank and damage dealer as he had Bloodlust and I was hoping he would get some kills
• Bloodlust - This monster revels in the glory of combat and becomes more dangerous as the battle goes on. Every time it defeats an opponent, it gets +1 to all stats

3rd Position: Radiated Brute

• Main reason to play Radiated Brute here was his Reach abilty coupled with his 2 melee damage
• Reach - Melee attack units with the Reach ability may attack from the second position on the team
• As Venari Marksrat died in the 1st position Grum Flameblade took his place and Radiated Brute fell into 2nd position just in time for him to use his Reach abilty and also attack in the 1st round

4th Position: Uraeus

• One of my favorite cards in game as of date
• Just a simple level 2 reward epic gives you 2 melee, 2 speed, 1 armor and 2 hp with Sneak for only 3 mana
• Sneak - Targets the last unit on the enemy Team instead of the first unit

5th Position: Serpentine Spy

• Again another 3 cost 2 melee damage card with Opportunity
• Opportunity - Units with the opportunity ability may attack from any position and will target the enemy unit with the lowest health
• Saddly I only have a level 1 card of him but he still does the job

6th Position: Tenyii Striker

• And for the last one in the lineup is Tenyii Striker
• Also a great card with Sneak and 2 melee but he also has 6 hp so he was perfect for my team to sit in the back and tank if my enemy decided to play and Sneak cards himself

Here's how the battle went

1st Round

• After 1st Round my plan had worked, my Venari Marksrat died in first two hits buffing my Grum Flameblade who also got 1 kill in the first round stacking his Bloodlust buffing him even more

2nd & 3rd Round

• After 2nd and 3rd Round nothing big had happened just regular blow by blow chipping each other's hit points away
• For a bit I was concerned cause my Grum Flameblade was beginning to get quite low and he still had his full support line alive but in the end it all worked out

4th Round

• 4th round was pretty big for both of us
• I lost my Grum Flameblade and he lost both of hes supports so the battle was still quite close

5th Round

• At this point I still had no idea if I was going to win or lose but my Tenyii Striker gave me a big boost in confidence as he still had all his hp

6th & 7th Round

• In the last two round I still managed to clutch up and win this battle
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Summary

• I felt really good about this battle in the team builder but my confidence slowly decreased as rounds were played out and I wasn't winning as easily as I would've liked

• As shown in Splintertools this was a quite close battle with winning chance of 57%
• But in the end all worked out and I managed to bring home the victory
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