Splinterlands holds a weekly event called the Community Engagement Challenge, which aims to encourage players of this NFT card game to comment on a specific topic, sharing their perspectives with the rest of the community. This week's theme is #RulesetRumble. Unlike past events, which focused on a specific ruleset, this one allows players to choose between: Fog of War, Little League, or Up Close & Personal.
We'll cover the details of the strategy used in the Fog of War rule, which was chosen for this event, and then a practical example of a match using this rule, analyzing my team and my opponent's. Come find out now!
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Strategy vs. Fog of War
As an initial context, we should fully understand the "Fog of War" ruleset. When this rule is active in the game, all monsters with Sneak and Snipe lose these abilities, leaving only monsters with Opportunity as a threat to be considered. When faced with a situation where this ruleset appears, such as the number of monsters attacking the team's backline or midline is drastically reduced, the best strategy for the player is to choose a great tank, spend enough mana to add a tank capable of withstanding a good amount and variety of damage (melee, ranged, and magical) to the lineup, because attacks will be largely concentrated on your team's frontline.
One way to build your team after choosing a tank is to focus the composition around the tank, as the team's main card. To do this, you should consider forming protection for the tank, such as a healer who will heal the damage taken, but also units that provide extra defenses such as protect and repair to add a shield, add health with Strength, or increase speed with Swiftness. However, this strategy has a weakness: an Opportunity composition. If your supports are fragile, if the enemy chooses Opportunity monsters, they will be quickly eliminated and the tank will fall soon after.
It's precisely from this weakness of the previous strategy that another possible strategy emerges for Fog of War. It maintains the core of choosing a good Tank for your team, but instead of running the composition with resources for the Tank, it will be used only to hold out as long as possible, while the protagonists with Opportunity completely defeat the enemy team. These two strategies are like two sides of the same coin: you either win in protection or in attack; whoever makes the best choices wins.
Example Match with Fog of War
Among the three rule possibilities available in the Rumble Ruleset, the rule that appeared in a recent match was Fog of War. Previously, two strategies that are commonly used when this rule is available were mentioned, with the common thread being A good tank. Now we'll see this applied in practice in this 50-mana match, with three elements available (fire, water, and life). In addition to the Fog of War, there was also an amplify, which, by the way, ended up not being used much by either team.
The strategy for both sides was to focus on the tank. On my team, the choice was Djinn Oshannus, who has a great speed of 5, a considerable HP of 11, magic damage, and protection against magic damage with his Void. There was a greater focus on Speed, with Kelya's +1 and Supply Runner's +1 Swiftness. Furthermore, to make up the rest of the more defensive composition, we have Merdaali Guardian, guaranteeing healing for the tank and also repairing armor, which Kelya will provide +1, along with Vernari Wavesmith, which will add +2 armor for everyone. The idea here is to help the tank, but also protect the other cards from a potential Opportunity. Finally, River Hellondale provides +1 melee damage for the Flying Squid and also revives a support unit or the tank. Finally, the Flying Squid provides damage and assumes the role of second tank, but helps with the Djinn's blind to avoid further attacks.
On the enemy team's side, the main objective was to improve the damage of the tank DiemonShark and the off-tank Coastal Sentry with the +1 from River and +1 from Demented Shark. Luckily, I had plenty of armor and repair. Their strategy was to eliminate my tank while the Wave Brood held off all attacks with Taunt.
