A good son always returns home, again I was away from the Hive for a while. Work, children and studies have consumed almost all of my time these last two months, but I'm returning today. This post is long overdue, I started writing it over a month ago.
Without further ado, today's post is for the Battle Mage Secrets event with the Earthquake rule, the match selected was in the silver league of the modern format, it's very difficult to move up to gold in the modern format, but with these latest updates I'd better start survive in the modern format 😁.

🌟 EARTHQUAKE 🌟

Earthquake is a very cool and different rule, it will cause two damage to all units without the ability to fly at the beginning of each round, so the best strategy for this rule is to give preference to units with FLY 🤣, avoiding as much as possible fragile units without this ability, as they will die quickly due to the damage, it is worth remembering that the damage of the earthquake is physical so armor and shield can help hold this annoying damage every round.

My main strategy is to do the basics, if the unit is fragile it has to have at least the FLY ability, without that it will hardly enter the field, I really like to use units with martyr and protect, as well as summoners that have armor bonuses, because they guarantee at least 1 round of life in this rule, I take a balanced stance.

Best Skills

⚔️ My Team ⚔️

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A game with 29 mana and the fog of war/Earthquake rules, with the fog I knew I could keep my units on the back line very safe, so I focused on a flying team, put a unit to activate the martyr ability, and an excellent tank against magic units, good and cheap 😁.

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🤜The Battle 🤛

Analyzing the match: My opponent focused on the units with martyr and surrounded his main units with them, my harpy will accelerate this buff, Quora should arrive on the front line very powerful, the good thing is that my tank is very strong against magic damage it will return much of this damage, if I pass through Quora the victory will be practically guaranteed.

Round 1 - The first card eliminated was the opponent's rat, which buffed the powerful Quora shortly afterwards. My tank resisted the initial round very well and dealt good damage to the opponent's magic units, it finished the round practically unscathed.

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Round 2 - This round was a bit warm without any eliminations, but things are heading towards the final round, my tank is still firm and strong on the front line and the opposing team is already very weakened due to the earthquake and Magic Reflect.

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Round 3 -And finally the match ends, the earthquake passes and eliminates 3 of the opponent's 4 remaining units, leaving only the Regal Peryton on the field, which despite being super powerful had its damage reflected, dying shortly after from its own attack.

🎊 Conclusion 🎊

My strategy was simple, but it worked, I played according to the rules of the match, taking advantage of the tranquility in the last positions and avoiding fragile units without flying, my tank was excellent being one of the best options for this type of combat, my rat did almost nothing, because the match ended earlier than I expected, the Harpy ended up helping my opponent by speeding up his martyr buff, Adelade managed to keep my tank alive and didn't need to resurrect him, the Pegasus did some good damage and helped well in the match and the Dax didn't do much damage and couldn't cancel Quora's healing.

Earthquake is an easy rule to play, just give preference to units with the fly ability or that are robust enough to last a few rounds, remember that earthquake damage is 2 per turn, any unit with less than 2HP and without Flying will only be able to play the first round.

Game Link: Splinterlands

Battle Link: ZALLIN Vs. ULTRAINFINITY13

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