SHARE YOUR BATTLE Weekly Challenge! TIME MAGE

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Time Mage is one of my favorite Life Splinter monsters. And I play Life Splinter all the time, so I suggest you see how good Time Mage is when playing in a gold league! This post is written for SHARE YOUR BATTLE Weekly Challenge! TIME MAGE. The Challenge is held weekly, so if you'd like to participate, you can join at the link above. And to make sure you don't miss future Challenges, subscribe to Splinterlands community.

THEME CARD INFORMATION: TIME MAGE
EDITION	CHAOS
RARITY	RARE
ELEMENT	LIFE
LEVEL	5
MANA COST	4 POINT
ATTACK	MAGIC
ABILITIES	SLOW, RUST

Time Mage is a mage for 4 mana that slows the enemy, and from level 5 removes all shields from the enemy monsters while she is on the battlefield. Rust is exactly the ability I love this monster for, and so I use it all the time. As a result, using Time Mage in a gold league, we get an opponent with reduced speed (i.e. misses if it's not a mage), no shields (i.e. our hits go straight to health) and for sure the right to go first every round. If that's not enough to try it in your battles, check out how I use it!

Splinter	Mana Cost	Position	Reason
	3	Summoner	Shields all the monsters of our team.
	10	1st	Lots of armor, 6 health and a melee attack of 5 is what we need for this battle
	6	2nd	It strengthens the melee attack of all our monsters and backs up the first position if it is quickly eliminated.
	7	3rd	Plus 1 to the health of all our monsters and a 3 point magic attack to pierce monsters not ready for magic.
	4	4th	Removes all enemy shields, slows and hides behind Djinn Renova, so that the enemy snipers can not get to us too quickly.
	7	5th	Restores the armor of our monsters, resurrects if someone dies, and also hides behind Djinn Renova from enemy snipers to stay in formation as long as possible.
	11	6th	Protects from enemy sneaks, as it has a lot of armor and a lot of health.
Total Mana:	48		I didn't use all my mana, but I think it's enough to win this battle.

Rulesets exclude monsters with the Heal ability, which will not allow you to restore the health of monsters. And Fury will give a head start to mages or fast melee monsters. Mages can't miss melee monsters, and melee monsters increase their speed, making it harder for other monsters besides mages not to miss them.

A video of the battle that I uploaded to YouTube can be seen below👇

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Let's see how my round-by-round strategy worked out.

My monsters eliminated the first enemy position without loss.

The enemy loses two more monsters, as my goblin is already in a rage, and behind him mages with the support of the shield and the whole team dominates the speed.

We eliminate the remaining three enemy monsters without losing any of our team. So a dry victory this time!

Did my team play the way I planned?

Yes, even better than I expected! My plans could only be spoiled by strong enemy mages in large numbers. But there were none! Time Mage did a great job of removing my opponent's shields and slowing him down so much that every round was behind me in terms of speed. And since I went first, I had a very big advantage, which turned into a defeat.

Will I do something differently next time?

It's very difficult to take apart a fight when you've won. You may not notice the moments where it was played badly. You can also ignore the fact that you just got lucky with your opponent, like I did this time. But I like to take fights apart from the point of view of: what if the opponent had a mirror team, what could I have done to beat them? In this case I would have taken another summoner, most likely it would have been CHANSEUS THE GREAT, since it would have restored the shield and resurrected, and then I could have taken another strong monster instead of ADELADE BRIGHTWING.

That's all for now, hope this was as useful for you as it was for me!

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