Holy Protection Can Make Low- Mana Battles Longer
Introduction
Hello there! @saydie here, playing Splinterlands everyday!
This will be my second entry for this weeks Battle Mage Secrets with the featured ruleset Heavy Hitters. This is a ruleset were all monsters gain the Divine Shield ability.
Once again, I will be using @bltzr-wizard-726 for this battle which is the scholar account I'm playing from Balthazar Guild in partnership with Side Door Ventures and was currently playing on Diamond League of the Modern format.
But before I reveal the battle, let us learn more about this ruleset.
Holy Protection
 Holly Protection | All Monsters have the  Divine Shield ability.The first time the Monster takes damage it is ignored. |
When it comes to Divine Shield, the summoner Lorna Shine gives this ability to all friendly monsters at the start of the battle. Although monsters do not take damage the first time, Divine Shield does not provide protection against Poison or other debuff skills.
Revealing Battle Conditions and Team Lineup
Ruleset
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 Diamond League Modern Format | 14 Mana Cap Available Elements:  Fire,  Earth,  Life,  Death,  Dragon |
 Rise of the Commons | Only Common and Rare Monsters may be used in battles. |
 Healed Out | All healing abilities are removed from Monsters and Summoners. |
Holly Protection | All Monsters have the Divine Shield ability. |
Opponent's Line- up
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My Team
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This battle comes with a 14 mana cap where the active rulesets were Rise of the Commons, Healed Out and the featured ruleset for this week which was Holy Protection. With this in consideration, my lineup was consist of:
Summoner: Quix the Devious - This summoner the speed and range damage of all opponent monsters by -1 and allows the use of dragon units together with any of the available elements.
- 1st Position: Pelacor Conjurer - A 2- mana no damage card but comes with Flying which increases the evasion chance by 25% together with Magic Reflect which return magic damage to the attacker and Phase that allows it to evade magic attacks. It also have the Divine Shield ability.
2nd Position: Chaos Agent - Another 1- mana no damage card but comes with Dodge which increases the evasion chance by 25% together with Phase that allows it to evade magic attacks and Backfire that will inflict damage to the attacker when they miss their attack on this card.
3rd Position: Stitch Leech - This melee monster has the Sneak ability which allows it to attack backline monsters and comes with Life Leech which gains it health for every successful attack that damage the health of the target.
4th Position: Celestial Harpy - A melee monster that also comes with Flying together with Opportunity which allows it to attack the monster with the lowest health and True Strike for its attack to not miss.
5th Position: Naga Assassin - Also comes with Backfire together with Swiftness which increases the speed of all ally monsters.
Revealing the Battle
Round 1:
8-9/12 Naga Assassin removes the Divine Shield of Vulguine followed by an attack from Celestial Harpy which removes its armor.
9-10/12 The opponent Celestial Harpy removes the Divine Shield of my Chaos Agent.
11-12/12 Stitch Leech removes the Divine Shield of Xenith Archer.
Round 2:
1/6 Naga Assassin inflicts 2 damage to Vulguine which activates its Enrage ability.
2/6 Vulguine attacks Pelacor Conjurer but missed.
3/6 Celestial Harpy inflicts 2 damage to Vulguine.
4/6 Xenith Archer attacks Pelacor Conjurer but missed.
5/6 The opponent Celestial Harpy deals 2 damage to my Chaos Agent.
6/6 Stitch Leech removes the armor of Xenith Archer.
Round 3:
1-2/8 Naga Assassin defeats Vulguine.
3/8 Celestial Harpy removes the Divine Shield of the opponent Chaos Agent.
4/8 Xenith Archer removes the Divine Shield of Pelacor Conjurer.
5-6/8 The opponent Celestial Harpy defeats my Chaos Agent.
7-8/8 Stitch Leech inflicts 4 damage to Xenith Archer and gains 2 health with Life Leech.
Round 4:
1-2/6 Naga Assassin attacks Chaos Agent but missed, resulting for its attack to trigger Backfire and lost its Divine Shield.
3-4/6 Celestial Harpy defeats Xenith Archer.
5/6 The opponent Celestial Harpy removes the Divine Shield of my Celestial Harpy.
6/6 Stitch Leech removes the Divine Shield of the opponent Celestial Harpy.
Round 5:
1-2/5 Naga Assassin attacks Chaos Agent but missed, resulting for its attack to trigger Backfire and lost 2 health.
3/5 The opponent Celestial Harpy deals 2 damage to Naga Assassin.
4/5 Celestial Harpy removes the armor of Chaos Agent.
5/5 Stitch Leech removes the armor of the opponent Celestial Harpy.
Round 6:
1-2/7 Naga Assassin and Celestial Harpy inflicts 4 damage to Chaos Agent.
3-5/7 The opponent Celestial Harpy defeats Naga Assassin.
6-7/7 Stitch Leech inflicts 4 damage to Celestial Harpy and gains 2 health with Life Leech.
Round 7-10:
1/6 The opponent Celestial harpy deals 2 damage to my Celestial Harpy.
2-3/6 My Celestial Harpy defeats Chaos Agent.
4-6/6 Stitch Leech defeats Celestial Harpy and gains 2 health with Life Leech.
With only Pelacor Conjurer the only monster left on the opponent side and have no means of attacking, Continues attack from Stitch Leech and Celestial Harpy finally ended the battle at round 10 with my victory.
Battle Recap
Here is a replay of the battle which at you can watch at Splinterlands.
Did My Strategy Work?
With all monsters having the Divine Shield ability due to the Holy Protection ruleset, even a low mana battle can take many rounds to finish which can be seen in this battle but the strategy by which I was able to win this battle factored with my choice of summoner which allows me to use both dragon and life element monsters by which expand my choice of monsters to use on such a small mana battle and ended up with a monster that can increase my speed which also becomes vital on this battle.
That was it for this post. Thank you and see you at the next one.
Previous Battles
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