My BATTLE MAGE SECRET Weekly Challenge! Going the Distance

My Strategy

Since this was only a 28 mana cap battle with a very restrictive ruleset of only ranged attackers allowed. I wanted to punish all those ranged attackers and it can be done when you use units with 'Return Fire' ability. So, I used the Ilthain which gave all my friendly units the aforementioned ability. Equipped with 'Return Fire' my opponent's units with get punished and receive damage with each attack they do.

Now, I used Gargoya Devil in the first position so it could attack from this position and supported it with healing provided by Venari Crystalsmith from the back.

Halfing Alchemist was placed in my lineup to reduce the attacking strength of my opponent. Along with units which deal a good amount of damage like Pelacor Arbalest.

This strategy, as you will see, worked in my favour and gave me a comfortable win at the end.

My opponent went with an interesting strategy of increasing the ranged attack of all their units by 1. But I was prepared for this and as more damage was dealt by them they would receive even more damage back because I had the 'Return Fire' ability on all my units.

Unfortunately for them, they didn't have any units with 'Close Range' ability and they didn't even use a strong tank at the front of the lineup.

Zenith Archer was the first one to go and soon Aria Bandit followed it too. This was a great start for me.

But wait, it went from bad to worse for my opponent as their Pelacor Arablast died from the return damage after hitting my Gargoya Devil. All this happened in the first round must be tough to see for my opponent.

In the next few rounds, their Venari Crystalsmith tried to save the day but it was too little too late.

This was an easy win in the end and it was possible partly due to my better-level units and partly because of my strategy of using Ilthain and punishing the ranged attackers.

Conclusion

Going the Distance is a challenging ruleset as you would find yourself with a lack of choices and less number of units to form a lineup. And ranged attackers don't usually attack from the first position unless they have special ability so it makes this ruleset a bit harder to come up with a good lineup. But since we know that they can only use ranged attackers we can use this to our advantage just like I did in the above battle and punish them for using more attacking power by giving back damage. Having 'Fire return' or abilities which give debuffs to all the enemy units is recommended.

However, there should be a good balance of attack and defence, especially in low to mid-mana cap battles.

There could be multiple strategies in this ruleset and it is all based on what type of deck you have. Let me know which one you prefer in this ruleset.

Thanks for reading...

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