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...

EQUALIZER

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

EQUALIZER is a ruleset that can make the Health points of all monsters in the battle arena equal to the monster that has the highest base Health point. EQUALIZER is a ruleset that is very suitable for monsters that have low Health points but with considerable Attack Power.

Some of the monsters above are examples of monsters that you might be able to bring and use in the EQUALIZER Ruleset. These monsters have Attack power and abilities that are quite useful. However, if they are not in the EQUALIZER Ruleset, they will be defeated in one attack by the opponent's Magic attack Monsters (Magic attack monsters can directly attack the target's health points regardless of the amount of ARMOR owned by the target).

You are also required to bring monsters with high Health points if you want monsters like the examples above to last longer to withstand attacks from the opponent's Magic monster. At least monsters with a Health of 6 points or more are needed so that some of the monsters above can last for at least 1 to 2 rounds.

Even if you don't use monsters like the example above, at least choose monsters with a large Attack power (try to have an Attack power of 3 points, whether Melee, Ranged, or Magic monsters) because it is likely that the opponent will bring monsters with high Health. If the use of Magic monsters is prohibited (due to WEAK MAGIC or LOST MAGIC Ruleset), use monsters that have the RUST ability (if the number of ARMOR of the opponent's monsters is not more than 2) or SHATTER (if the number of ARMOR is more than 2) to remove the opponent's ARMOR so that the attacks from our monsters can directly hit their Health points.

RULESET & FORMATION

In addition to EQUALIZER, the Ruleset in this battle is...

EVEN STEVENS

EVEN STEVENS is a Ruleset that only allows the use of monsters that have even Mana. This restriction only applies to Monster Cards, while Summoners are still allowed to use cards that have odd Mana.

There is no specific way to overcome this ruleset. It all depends on the other rulesets that accompany the EVEN STEVENS ruleset. However, there is one "keyword" for the EVEN STEVENS Ruleset, which is that in the EVEN STEVENS ruleset, there are no "SNEAK and MARTYR " monsters unless DRAGON SPLINTER is included in the list of available elements.

SUPER SNEAK

SUPER SNEAK is one of the Rulesets that gives additional abilities to all monsters in the battle arena. This ability is in the form of SNEAK . SNEAK ability can only be given to Melee attack monsters, while Ranged and Magic attack monsters do not get this additional ability.

My Line-Up

Cards	Ability	Reason
	- Give a reduction of 1 Health point and 1 Magic Attack power to All Enemies	Since the only element available is Death Element, I chose to use Thaddius Brood (instead of Astral Entity). Thaddius Brood will grant 1 Health point reduction as well as reduce the attack power of Magic monsters by 1 Attack point.
	HEAL + VOID	I'm using Xenith Monk because he has the VOID ability that can reduce the damage from Magic monster attacks. If added with the reduction of ATTACK POWER done by Thaddius Brood before, then the damage that will be received will be less or even none at all. In addition to VOID , Xenith Monk also has the HEAL ability at its first level. This ability is very necessary when you want to heal yourself after getting attacked by the opponent's monsters (especially if the opponent uses Ranged monsters in this battle).
	RETURN FIRE + BLIND	Ahna-Chei Botanist is reserved for when Xenith Monk might be defeated by an attack from the opponent's Ranged monster. RETURN FIRE ability serves to provide a counterattack when hit by an attack from the opponent's Ranged monster.
	PROTECT	Ravenhood Warden is needed to provide additional support by granting 2 ARMOR (PROTECT ability) to all my monsters. These 2 ARMOR are needed to withstand attacks from 1 or 2 of your opponent's Melee or Ranged monsters.
	REACH + AFFLICTION	Since I knew that if there was a Melee monster with even Mana that had the HEAL ability, I used Shadow Snitch that had the AFFLICTION ability to prohibit the monster from using its healing ability.
	THORNS + HEAL	I use Cursed Windeku to at least provide resistance to Melee monsters that have received the additional SNEAK ability from the SUPER SNEAK ruleset by giving them THORNS when they attack Cursed Windeku. In addition, Cursed Windeku is also equipped with the HEAL ability to heal itself after receiving an attack from an opposing Melee monster.
	AFFLICTION + CAMOUFLAGE + POISON	Despite being in the very last position, Doctor Blight will not be targeted by SNEAK monsters because he has the CAMOUFLAGE ability. In addition, Doctor Blight has AFFLICTION and POISON abilities which are both useful against monsters that have HEAL abilities.

BATTLE START !!!

Although they both use Thaddius Brood, the opponent focuses more on using Magic monsters. Unfortunately, the attack power of the opponent's Magic monsters must be reduced by 1 point.

In the first round, Wily Coyotian failed to land his attack on Xenith Monk. Meanwhile, the attacks from the opponent's Magic monsters (Venari Bonesmith, Usut, and Skok Duskblight (as well as Riftwing who received ATTACK POWER from Skok Duskblight)) did not deal any damage to Xenith Monk. Venari Bonesmith only gives poison effect to Xenith Monk which can still be resisted with HEAL ability. Meanwhile, Venator Kinjo managed to attack the ARMOR of Cursed Windeku and avoid THORNS because he has REFLECTION SHIELD .

Xenith Monk, Ravenhood Warden, and Doctor Blight successfully attacked Wily Coyotian and cast AFFLICTION on him. the attack from Shadow Snitch successfully hit Riftwing while the attack from Cursed Windeku was successfully dodged.

In the second round, the attack from Wily Coyotian successfully hit Xenith Monk. Meanwhile, all of the opponent's magic attack monsters still couldn't deal any damage.

Although Xenith Monk's attack failed to hit Wily Coyotian, the attacks from Wardenhood Raven and Doctor Blight managed to hit him and give him a poison effect. My 2 Melee monsters (Cursed Windeku and Shadow Snitch) successfully attacked Riftwing.

In the third round, Cursed Windeku managed to defeat Riftwing despite the previous attack from Shadow Snitch failing to hit him. Attacks from Xenith Monk and Ravenhood Warden managed to hit Wily Coyotian while Doctor Blight failed to hit him.

In the fourth round, Wily Coyotian lost to poison, Venator Kinjo who replaced him was attacked by Xenith Monk, Ravenhood Warden, and Doctor Blight. Cursed Windeku and Shadow Snitch attacked Skok Duskblight who was now in last place.

In the fifth round, Cursed Windeku and Shadow Snitch defeated Skok Duskblight. Meanwhile, Venator Kinjo lost to attacks from Xenith Monk, Ravenhood Warden, and Doctor Blight.

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

My victory this time can be said to be due to luck. The opponent prefers to use Magic attack monsters even though summoner Thaddius Brood is intended to weaken their attacks. In addition, I was lucky because I placed Xenith Monk who has VOID ability in the first position so that the Magic attack monsters did not do any damage to him.

Another opponent's mistake is choosing to use Venari Bonesmith to poison monsters that have the HEAL ability. Even though there are still better options such as Doctor Blight which in addition to having POISON , it also has AFFLICTION which stops healing (but it could be that the opponent does not have or did not hire Doctor Blight).

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