Hello everyone! And welcome back to my blog, I'm a bit late this week with my posts due to family / real life things but for the first time since a week I've got some web 3 time again 😊.
This weeks Battle Mage Secrets Challenge requires us to make a post about the 'Stampede' ruleset, in which the trample ability can retrigger over an over. I guess this is more of a higher leagues thing, I'm a Silver player and only have 1 trampling monster I can think of, Diemon Shark, and while it's an awesome card, I've never had it trample multiple units so it's very niece I think, therefore, for me this is more like a secondary ruleset so when it's combined with others they have priority and if it's the only ruleset, it's more of a 'standard' match for me.

Trample will retrigger infinitely as long as the trampling unit keeps killing other units.
Prime use case for Summoner Possibilus the Wise.

And I don't own Possiblus, not that I think he's a bad summoner, but there are so much choices in this game, and he's not cheap, around $30 for a level 2 so yeah... we just can't have everything!

By the way, did you guys participate in the Rebellion pre-sale? I bought 10 packs to support the team, but at the same time, there are so much nice older cards, like the Naga Windmaster I pickup up recently so I need to spread funds a bit...

Todays battle I want to share is a 41 mana Stampede / Earthquake battle, so pretty much just a Earthquake battle, that's how I made my team. It's in Wild League, where I still fight most of my battles, Modern is so damn though lately so although my rewards in Wild are lower, my winrate is much higher, so it's more fun and still rewarding because I'm getting more chests and still 0.2-0.4 SPS every win. This battle only had the Water, Life and Death splinter open to be chosen, both Life and Death has a lot of flying monsters.

I didn't expect a heavy magic team against me because there aren't a lot of flying magic monsters out there except in the Dragon team, so I picked the Death team with Astral Entity as my summoner, it's resurrect is nice to benefit twice from the martyr boost but it happens often that another monster gets killed first, and that's fine also. The Dodge ability combines with Riftwing's Backfire ability is very nice too.

First look at the battlefield:

Looking at the name, it's a bot, but bots pick strong teams too sometimes, higher in the rankings I see more human players in Wild League now. I think I'm OK, not a lot of flyers in the other team and no martyr, it's a bummer that my star, Usut's damage is getting nerfed by Thadius, hopefully he get's boosted by the martyr soon so the bloodlust snowball can start rolling, talking about trampling, this is just like it and even worse sometimes 😆.

My Line-Up:

• Summoner: Astral Entity - reason: In this case a better choice as Thadius.
• First position: Gargoya Lion - reason: Some protection against magic, and he's flying.
• Second position: Pelacor Deceiver - reason: Fast, flying, nice with dodge!
• Third position: Usut - reason: Bloodlust, flying.
• Fourth position: Venari Marksrat - reason: Martyr to boost position 3 and 5.
• Fifth position: Gargoya Devil - reason: Flying, good ranged damage.
• Sixth position: Riftwing - reason: Scavenge, Flying, Backfire is nice too but the enemy Silent Sha-Vi is pretty fast so it might still be able to hit it.

The Battle:

Round 1: Riftwing backfired twice and killed Uraeus that was without armor because of Astral Entity, the Nightgoul is at half life already, it's Taunt isn't very bad because my team was already firing at the first position, focusing your fire can be helpful sometimes to quickly kill monsters.

Round 2: This time the martyr / resurrect play worked fine, my tank died but I picked a double tank for this fight, and Usut is a force on it's own, this fight won't be a problem.

Round 3: At the start of this round, the Earthquake damage killed the last melee attacker, bringing a ranged attacker to the first position, so he's useless, and then got killed, so now there's only a toothless Riftwing to be dealt with, without the backfire ability he's a sitting duck, and even with it he didn't stand a chance, GG!

0.33 SPS for a Wild League fight, pretty nice! yesterday, my Wild League winrate was 69.7% while my Modern League winrate was only 33%!

Did you know?

Just a little tip (it's basic math really) you can calculate your winrate yourself by checking your performance on the leaderboard, here you can see how much battles you had, and how much wins.

WINS x 100 / NUMBER OF MATCHES = WINRATE %

Well this is it for my first post of this week, I still need to make another, I'm not sure if it's going to be another Battle Mage Secrets post or that I'm going to think of a nice subject to make a Social Media Challenge post about...

Thank you for reading!!!

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Have a great day!

Sources: For my thumbnail I used a background from @golemoverlord, when you're not playing this game as a splinterlands player, you're missing out!
I made a post with more info about Golem Overlord here.