Hi everyone, Welcome to my BATTLE MAGE SECRETS post. BATTLE MAGE SECRETS itself is a replacement for SHARE YOUR BATTLE CHALLENGE, where if SHARE YOUR BATTLE CHALLENGE takes 1 monster as its weekly theme while BATTLE MAGE SECRETS takes 1 Ruleset as its theme. And the theme for this week is...

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

"The initial Health of all Monsters is equal to that of the Monster on either team with the highest base Health"

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY is a ruleset that gives additional abilities in the form of OPPORTUNITY to all monsters in the battle arena. OPPORTUNITY is an ability that makes the owner attack the target monster that has the lowest Health points. So it is not recommended to use monsters with less than 4 Health points so as not to be defeated in one attack.

But not all monsters with low Health points bring disadvantages when brought into the EQUAL OPPORTUNITY Ruleset. Monsters of this type can also bring benefits, including monsters with abilities such as MARTYR and REDEMPTION .

Monsters with MARTYR ability will give bonus points to all stats of nearby monsters if monsters with this ability are defeated by the opponent's monsters. Meanwhile, monsters with the REDEMPTION ability can deal 1 point of damage equivalent to the attack from Melee or Ranged monsters to all opposing monsters if the monster with this ability is defeated. However, the effect of the REDEMPTION ability will not be felt by monsters that have the SHIELD ability.

RULESET & FORMATION

In addition to EQUAL OPPORTUNITY, the Ruleset in this battle is...

EVEN STEVENS

EVEN STEVENS is one of the rulesets that only allows the use of monsters with even mana. There is no special way to deal with this Ruleset. However, some abilities are only owned or often found on monsters with Even Mana. Some of them are abilities that regulate speed such as SWIFTNESS and SLOW . While the ability that is rarely owned by monsters with Even Mana is the SNEAK ability.

REVERSE SPEED

REVERSE SPEED is a ruleset that has a *"reverse" turn. This means that if in general, the monster with the highest speed gets the first turn, then in the REVERSE SPEED ruleset, the monster with the lowest speed gets the turn to attack first.

Other benchmarks if there are monsters with the same speed are the Rarity (normally: LEGENDARY - EPIC - RARE - COMMON), the level of the monster (highest first), and the attack type (normally: Magic attack - Melee or Ranged attack).

If there are the same monsters (both level, Rarity, and attack type) then the turn to attack will be done randomly.

My Line-Up

Cards	Ability	Reason
	- Give an additional 1 Health point and 1 Melee Attack power to All Allies	I used Tarsa because FIRE SPLINTER has some low-speed monsters that are suitable for the REVERSE SPEED ruleset.
	SHIELD + SCAVENGER	I chose Antoid Platoon to fill the first position because it has the SHIELD ability. Since it is in charge of TANK, Antoid Platoon will likely encounter fellow Melee attack monsters, and this SHIELD ability will be useful to reduce the impact of attacks from opposing monsters.
	VOID + INSPIRE	Tusk the Wide has the lowest speed and will most likely receive the first attack turn in the REVERSE SPEED ruleset. In addition, Tusk the Wide also has the INSPIRE ability which gives an additional 1 Melee attack power to all my monsters after previously getting it from Tarsa. Tusk the Wide also has an initial ability, VOID . This VOID ability can be useful when your opponent uses Magic attack monsters. With VOID , the attack from the opponent's Magic monster can be reduced to only half the damage.
	NONE	I used Xenith Archer because the monster options that have Mana 2 points are very few for FIRE and Neutral Monsters. Besides Xenith Archer, there are Scavo Alchemist and Venator Kinjo* which both have the SLOW ability. The SLOW ability is disadvantageous when used in the REVERSE SPEED ruleset. It will be favorable for the opponent because the reduced speed will make the opponent's monsters get a turn to attack first.
	DEMORALIZE	monsters with 0 points of Mana also fall into the Even Mana category. Therefore, I decided to use Scorch Fiend. Although it has low Health points, at least it can "lure" the opponent's monsters so that they don't attack other monsters first.

BATTLE START !!!

The opponent also used Tarsa as Summoner as well as some of the same monsters as me. The difference is that the opponent uses 1 magic monster (Doctor Blight) because he thinks that Doctor Blight has a low speed and will get the turn to attack first.

In the first round, it was Tusk the Wide who got the turn to attack first. Tusk the Wide targeted the opponent's Scorch Fiend and successfully defeated it. It also made the debuff of 1 Melee attack power reduction disappear. Antoid Platoon, Scorch Fiend, and Xenith Archer target their attacks at the opponent's Antoid Platoon.

While on the opposing side, his Antoid Platoon attacked my Antoid Platoon. Doctor Blight and Xenith Monk managed to defeat Scorch Fiend.

In the second round, the opponent's Antoid Platoon briefly attacked my Antoid Platoon. But he was defeated by Tusk the Wide and my Antoid Platoon. Meanwhile, Xenith Archer attacked Xenith Monk.

Xenith Monk who was now in first place failed to land his attack on Antoid Platoon, while Doctor Blight successfully attacked Xenith Archer.

In the third round, Doctor Blight attacked Xenith Archer. Meanwhile, Xenith Monk was defeated by Tusk the Wide and Antoid Platoon. Xenith Archer failed to land his attack on Doctor Blight who is now in first place.

In the final round, Doctor Blight was defeated by Tusk the Wide.

To see the entire battle, you can watch it at >> FULL BATTLE LINK
And this is the challenge link >> CHALLENGE LINK

Review of this battle

I was able to get the victory this time because my monster selection was more appropriate than my opponent's. Even though we both used the lowest speed monsters (Tusk the Wide and Doctor Blight), their stats were vastly different.

Tusk the Wide memiliki Health point dan attack power yang tinggi serta memiliki INSPIRE ability yang bisa menambah 1 Melee attack power to All Allies. Sedangkan Doctor Blight hanya memiliki 1 magic attack power dan mengandalkan POISON and AFFLICTION ability untuk mengalahkan monster lawan.

That was the post BATTLE MAGE SECRETS for this time. Thank you for visiting and taking the time to read. See you in the next post....

_{Thanks to:}

• @splinterlands
• @thepeakstudio for Dividers