This week's Battle Mage rule set challenge was Rise of the Commons in which only common, and somewhat confusingly, also rare monsters may be used.
You may, however, use epic and legendary summoners.
Rise of the commons general strategy....
If the mana allows, using legendary summoners could EASILY tip the battle in your favour if your opponent doesn't also have these summoner beasts.
Besides this it is a matter of just using the splinter with the best array of rare and common cards. Fire springs to mind immediately.
Dragon is probably not worth using as these have very few common and rare cards.
EVENS carnage battle exemplar
The battle below shows you how to do it with the Fire Splinter for this rule set!
Mana and rulesets:
- Mana 16 (quite low!)
- Ruleset - Rise of the Commons only!
** Summoner - Tarza** - Plus one health and melee!
- Zenith Monk - a useful low mana tank with decent health and heal.
- Ant Miners - nice second tank with scavenge.
- Serpentine Spy - opportunity and good damage for the mana
- Elven Cutthroat - nice low mana sneak card.
- Chicken - 0 mana sneak soak (sorry chicken!)
The battle...
- round 1 - Boom! Straight off the bat my Spy takes out the Ooze which is crucial as I get one speed back and then two misses on the cutthroat! I do lose my Chicken, however!
- round 2 - Boom! Spy takes out the Kobold Miner and the Elf takes out the radiated scorcher, or that may have been the other way around! I lose my Spy.
- round 3 - I return the favour and take out my opponent's spy, now it's all over... with Antminers on 9 health already and I end up with 3 monsters left!
Final battle analysis
OK maybe I got a tad lucky with the two misses, but I think I still would have been victorious, I had 9 health the play with the with antminers, after all!
Rise of the Commons final thoughts...
Keeping it simple seems to work, FIRE seems to work well!
