The next 10 battles in Modern format
What will the next 10 battles hold?
I've already finished 10 battles with a 6W and 4L record. Made some dumb mistakes and won a few battles that I thought I was going to lose for sure because of substandard cards.
However, I've learned a bit but I'm still in the lowest bronze rank. Can I do a little better with my next 10 battles? Also I just remembered I have an advantage some others might not: I've got gladiator cards. I'll have to see if I can bring them to good use in the upcoming battles.
Let's Find out:
Battle ONE
Seems like he favors death and has used the -1 magic summoner for the last 5 battles. This is non magic battle so that won't help him but lets see. I'll go life and try to take out his backline. He seems to use thorns in front position so I'll go non attacker as front tank.
His lineup was predictable but can I take it?
Win for me. My armor kept my sneakers in the battle long enough to rip apart his backline. Glad he was predictable.
Battle TWO
Have an "opportunity" ruleset. Since everyone has opportunity I'm going martyr and making sure my martyrs die first. Since earth has two martyr units I'll pair them with mylor. Put queen in for armor as opponent seems to prefer melee units. Will put in Djinn Bilka because camoflage will allow him to get buffed without being targeted by opportunity.
Good news. Grund with double strike will get eaten alive by Mylor and thorns.
Result: Another win for me.
Battle Three
No melee battle. Opponent seems to use Antimagic and Djinn with magic resist (water). I'll see how I can do with the general and ranged attack.
Crap. He came out with Llama / Kron. I think I'm screwed.
As predicted. A loss for me.
Battle Four
Ranged only battle. Since fire has a strong ranged unit with close quarters I'll use fire and see how it goes. Put a martyr in front to beef up my main tank.
Tough to call this one. He also took fire but took dragon for the anti ranged.
Hopefully my scatershot will damage his backline without taking out his martyr units.
End result: My halfling weakened his tank and scattershot took out his backline. Wi3n for me.
Battle Five
Another ranged firefight so again with the Fire. Similar to last battle but I'll put in the fire elemental to try and get some blast damage in the backline.
My extra speed boost won the day. My fire elemental attacked fire and took out his with Scattershot. My Halfling hit his tank to cut its damage. After that the battle was decided. Win for me.
Battle Six
I decided to try out a gladiator here. The chain golem in front with shield and Marisol behind for reach. Enough to take out his tank. Result: Another win for me. Horray!
At 5W 1L so far I'm guaranteed to at least come out 50:50 for this batch of 10. Let's see if I can't make it a winning round!
Battle Seven
We have amplify ruleset and he often uses magic. What to use ... Hmmm...
I decided to go with Iziar in the front with armor and a lot of repair. Will have to see how this works out.
Note to self: Diemonshark aren't as tough in bronze. The enemy just wasn't able to get through the repair and healing. Iziar was a beast here.
Battle Eight
I had the amplify ruleset so wanted to make sure I could make use of it. Magic reflect in the front and thorns from my summoner. Sure enough they went with magic boost. Will my magic reflect be enough?
Another win. Magic reflect weakened the backline enough for my healer to keep up. Two battles left.
Battle Nine
I have blast ruleset so need anti blast on my side. I noticed he uses a Blue armor speed summoner and often with melee attackers. Decided to go with thorns. Playing earth I'm hoping my sneaking attackers can use blast to their advantage against the opponents backline.
Bad news. Forgot that the chain golem doesn't have magic resistance in Bronze. Got destroyed by the enemies Djinn.
Battle Ten
13 mana and flat ruleset. What to choose? Dragon, Earth and Fire available. Opponent tends towards death and fire. I'll hope they go with Tarsa and I'll bring out Djinn Chwala for the thorns. Add a halfling in case they bring out a powerful tank up front.
Ohh...Goodie. They took Tarsa. Thorns will do big damage to them and Chwala's attack will overwhelm the monks healing. Halflings armor will make sure it stays in the fight long enough to do good damage.
Another win for me.
Results: 20 Battles in
This set of 10 came out at 8W 2L
The last set of 10 was 6W 4L
Two days of battles won.
Still ranking up very slowly. But have made it to Bronze II now.
SPS rewards have gone up considerably since the first round. I'm now getting 0.15 SPS per battle. Before I barely got that for all 6 wins.
Still have a long way to go before Bronze I (191 points or so) and even further until I can reach Silver (my preferred League).
No progress towards getting any reward chests which kind of sucks. Oh well, Let's see what the next 10 battles bring.
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