BATTLE MAGE SECRETS Weekly Challenge! - Silenced Summoners Ruleset

Hi Guys! In this post we are exploring on another Splinterlands ruleset. The ruleset we are focusing today is Silenced Summoners.

In a Silenced Summoners ruleset, summoners do not give any buffs/debuffs or grant/use abilities. It is thus better to use your lowest cost and highest level summoner within this ruleset.

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The match that I am showing here is not the usual Modern Silver league match but rather a Silver leagued brawl match with Silenced Summoners as one of the ruleset.

The battle restrictions are:
Briar Patch, Holy Protection and Silenced Summoner with a max mana of 20. Only Fire, Water, Earth and Dragon splinters are allowed in this battle.

Another important restriction is this brawl is that only Alpha and Beta cards can be use. As I don't own any Alpha or Beta set cards, I can only rent or have these cards delegated to me to participate in this brawl category.

The Video for the Full Battle can be seen here:
https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sm_734DYMgQSA9xLFwLR2Wq&ref=genming

Splinter	Mana Cost	Position	Reason
Xia Seachan	2	Summoner	Because Silenced Summoner was one of the ruleset here, the first thing I did was to select the lowest mana summoner I can find. Xia Seachan was my lowest mana summoner at only 2 mana to summon and thus would be my summoner for this brawl.
Lord Arianthus	5	1st	My best tank in my small Alpha/Beta cards. Lord Arianthus has Shield, Void and Magic Reflect. It practically can defend against all 3 different types of attack. Briar Patch ruleset with the Thorn ability given to every units also make Lord Arianthus even more tanky. Lord Arianthus has no attack so it doesn't suffer from Thorn damage while enjoy giving Thorn damage to any melee units that hit it.
Prismatic Energy	8	2nd	I put Prismatic Energy in here because I was expecting to face Magic and Ranged units given that Briar Patch was one of the ruleset. Prismatic Energy would be my 2nd tank in case Lord Arianthus fell and Prismatic Energy's Magic Reflect would cause problem for enemy magic units.
Crustacean King	3	3rd	What would be more frustating than hitting Lord Arianthus would be a Lord Arianthus that is getting healed.
Mermaid Healer	3	4th	My small little back tank with Triage. I doubt I would be facing any sneak melee unit though. Still Triage was good to have in in case any of my back units get hit.
Total Mana:	21		In case you are wondering why my total mana can exceed 20 in this brawl, it was because my guild barrack is already level 5 and I have home advantage.

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Opponent Lineup:

My opponent went with a Earth splinter lineup with Lyanna Natura as the summoner. Lyanna Natura is also a low cost summoner at only 3 mana cost. The rest of the lineup consists of Flesh golem as the tank and Gelatinous Cube as secondary tank. Flesh golem has healing ability and high health making it a tough tank to take down.

End of Round 1:

My opponent was unable to do any damage to my lineup. Whatever little damage that was done to my tank was in the end all healed up by my healer. Meanwhile my opponent tank was hurt not only by my backline but also the Thorn damage that was inflicted when it tried to hit my tank.

End of Round 2:

After 2 round and my lineup was still intact while I slowly chipped away the opponent tank. Meanwhile my opponent Mushroom Seer was also dying from the Magic Reflect damage threw back by my tank. At this point there was no doubt I am winning this brawl.

End of Round 4:

The opponent lost the Mushroom Seer through my tank's Magic Reflect in round 4.

End of Round 5:

This was quickly followed up by my opponent losing the Fresh Golem in round 5.

End of Round 11:

Fast forward to round 11 where I killed off all my opponent units and my lineup was still retained their full health and armor.

KEY STRATEGY
My strategy was to simply used Lord Arianthus' Shield and Magic Reflect abilities to hold off my opponent's attack. As this was only a 20 mana match, it would be very hard to come up with enough offensive power to break through Lord Arianthus especially when I added a healer to my lineup.

TIPS
Go with low mana summoner in Silenced Summoner ruleset. Whatever summoner abilities doesn't apply anyway so no point using a high mana summoner with lots of abilities. Units' abilities are much more critical in this ruleset. The other point is your summoner level will still affect on what level units you can summoner so summoner level is still important in this ruleset.

To any new players who wish to explore the world of Splinterlands, do feel free to sign up with my REFERRAL LINK 😊.

My guild, The Guild of Kingshaven, is also looking for new members. For added incentive to joining us, our guild leader will also be assigning Runi to any new member that can actively participate in brawl battles and give donation to our guild buildings. Runi is extremely powerful and is the only unit that has the Rebirth ability.
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