Hello everyone! This is my second entry for this week's Splinterlands Social Media Challenge. Today, I'm sharing a battle of mine in Modern Champion Ranked.

Several days ago, I played a game against @bravetofu in Modern Champion. Sadly, I didn't save the link to the game, but I took a screenshot of my opponent's team:

I don't remember the exact rule sets, but I believe it had none. At least, not any important ones. I'm also not sure what splinters were available, but Life and Earth were used by BraveTofu, so those certainly were. It was a 51 mana game because I saved the file as "51 mana". My team was very similar to his, but it had another Ulund, which I'm 100% sure was Mystic Mudbinder, instead of Sylvaran Sentinel, his only Earth card. I don't remember what Tactics he used, but it had to be three Divine Shields, since it would be difficult to get value out of Triage. As I started watching the game, I thought I would have a pretty good chance. Getting three buffs to four units is equivalent to four buffs to three units. However, the extra speed, not only from the buffs but also from Sylvaran Sentinel's Slow, turned out to be pretty good. More importantly, the multiple Divine Shields that I had to deal with before I could damage the HP were amazing. His Moribund Arrowbait came back three times, which meant I had to take it out four times, plus twice from the following two units. Losing sucks but I decided to take something out of it and saved his team so that I could try it out. A few days later, I had the chance and I took it!

Here's the battle: https://splinterlands.com/battle/sl_8acf914486905e77f6cab346de875626

This game had the following rule sets: Armored Up and Fire & Regret. It was a 50 mana cap game, and only Life, Earth, and Dragon were available. I went with a team very similar to the one used by BraveTofu. However, since this game had 50 instead of 51 mana, I couldn't replicate the team exactly. It was Eternal Tofu as my Archon, with Moribund Arrowbait in front, followed by Commander Goff and Sylvaran Sentinel as the revivers. In the last three spots, I placed my Ulunds (and Shapeshifter): Mystic Mudbinder, Thunderous Herald, and Arcane Skinwalker. I was very happy to see my opponent going with an Ulund team with Bella Ratajowlski as the Archon, allowing me to test it out in a different mana cap and rule sets. Moribund Arrowbait and Commander Goff were the first two. The rest were units that could receive the buffs: Mystic Mudbinder, Arcane Skinwalker, Thunderous Herald, and Calabash Sage.

I gave Divine Shield and Corrosive Ward to the Moribund, the Sentinel, and the Mudbinder. Commander Goff already had Divine Shield, so there was no need to give it to him. However, I believe the one on the Sentinel is wasted because of the Fire & Regret rule set. This means that just one successful attack from the Sentinel, makes it lose the Divine Shield.

Round 1

I was able to kill their Moribund three times, while they only killed mine twice.

Round 2

My Moribund went down twice more, and I was able to take out their Goff.

Round 3

With all buffs in effect, on both sides, it was time to see which team performed better. Because I had the speed advantage, their Mudbinder lost all its armor and went down to 4 HP. Their Herald finished my Goff with the Execute, and their Mudbinder recovered all its HP before the Sage got my Sentinel.

Round 4

I killed the Mudbinder and put their Skinwalker to 3 HP. Their attacks took out my Mudbinder's armor, but they were unable to do anything else.

Round 5

The Skinwalker had been partially Healed, but it wasn't enough to survive just one attack. My two other units took out the Herald, leaving them with just the Sage, unable to attack.

Round 6

Two attacks were enough to close the game.

I'm very glad I managed to test this Tofu Ulund double-Resurrect strategy against the more usual Bella Ulund Resurrect one, in a slightly different mana cap. It was just a difference of one mana, but it was significant, because I couldn't use Gramel the Hunger. It was also nice to see that the Fire & Regret didn't affect it in any meaningful way. If it were Magic Reflect, I believe Bella would be necessary. After the game, I even messaged BraveTofu on Discord letting him know I had lost to him, learned something, and won a later game because of that!

What do you all think about this game? Would you have done anything different? Let me know in the comments! Thank you for reading!!

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