Battle Mage Secrets: Reverse Speed - Be Careful of The Low Level

Prelude
Hello everybody, how is it going? It's time for more Battle Mage Secrets. Last week's sharing was on a ruleset half our arsenal to be only able to use odd mana cards. This week the ruleset is something that reverses the norm of play.

The ruleset of the challenge this week is: Reverse Speed

Ruleset Spotlight

Reverse Speed
Units with lower speeds will attack before units with higher speeds. Attack Accuracy based on speed will also be reversed.

Units with the Bloodlust ability will increase speed after killing a unit.
Avoid using Slow as this will help your opponent.

Abilities/Cards that get shutdown with this rule set
Since today we are talking about reverse speed, swiftness becomes an ability that one should avoid since being faster here is not effective. Blood Lust as mentioned above should also be avoided since upon killing a unit, stats is boosted and cards with blood lust become "slower" due to the increased speed stat they gained. Coincidentally, Slow should not be played because you accelerate your opponent if you play this.

What thrives with this ruleset?
Anything that is slow become really awesome here. Cards like the almighty Sand Worm becomes crazily good, but the catch is, it needs to be at level 1, else its speed will no longer be at 1. Avoid speed increase summoners as well, Kelya, Quix might be good in normal day context but becomes a disadvantage here.

Remember, slow is good here. If they include snipe, sneak or opportunity, they will do well too.

With these in mind, let's start to talk about the battle proper.

The Battle
Link: https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_94f3a25196f425c715a3ea109221042f&ref=vaynard86

Rules

Reverse Speed
Mana Limit: 13

Splinter	Mana Cost	Position	Reason
Tarsa	4	Summoner	More health more damage, one good fire summoner
Antoid Platoon	4	1st	Tank with shield and relatively slower speed
Scorch Fiend	0	2nd	Defence padding
Tenyii Striker	5	3rd	Backline sneaker
Total Mana:	13

Opponent Lineup

• Summoner - Tarsa
• Position 1 - Antoid Platoon
• Position 2 - Radiated Brute

Prediction before pressing rumble
When I saw my opponent and his/her lineup, this match is gonna be tough for me. While I picked relatively "slower" cards in my arsenal, they are still "faster" than my opponent's cards.

Battle Synopsis

Round 1, No casualties this round.

Round 2, Again no casualties, but I saw potential problems coming up with Tenyii Striker missing a hit on Radiated Brute. A speed 2 card missing a hit on a speed 1 card, not a good sign.

Round 3, Both Antoid Platoon and Scorching Fiend fell, leaving me to my last card.

Round 4 and 5, Another miss from Tenyii Striker spelled the downfall of my lineup and in round 5, I lost the match.

Post Battle Summary
It's saddening to see a loss when it is almost a mirror match. And this loss was due to my cards being at a higher level or slightly higher speed.

Did my strategy work? While I picked the slowest I had in my arsenal, my opponent was even slower. This was due to the level differences between our cards. My Tenyii wasn't levelled yet as I am still collecting one more copy of it before upgrading. My own Radiated Brute is also at speed 2, hence I chose my Tenyii whom is not levelled instead, but little did I know I will face a Level 1 Radiated Brute, which caused my Tenyii Striker to miss hits. Strategy didn't work fully to what I want it to be, but this essentially becomes tougher as we level up our cards up.

What's the Battle Mage Secret?
There is only one phrase, the slower the better. Even 1 speed difference, it also made a difference, where hits will be missed as seen in my matchup. My personal take is that, we might need to keep some cards not levelled to prepare for this ruleset such as Sand Worm which is one beast during reverse speed. Let me hear your thoughts or you got a better way to handle this level difference problem.

Wrap Up
I hope you guys enjoyed reading my sharing on the rule set Reverse Speed. I would really appreciate it if you liked and/or commented to let me know what are you thoughts.

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