Strategy Corner #56- Equal Opportunity Ruleset - Quora is still too strong :)

Is it a full bull run already? As always there is no certainty in the crypto market, but one thing is sure, we could see very positive sentiment around gaming cryptocurrency. And how about Splinterlands? Hmmm, not perfect :). There is a very old ongoing discussion about listening SPS on major crypto exchanges. For sure it gives us more visibility on the broader market, but on the other side it could bring more speculating capital, which is not always a good idea. I will try to k keep on my toes around that topic. And today, we have a ruleset: Equal Opportunity, something which changes quite a lot of targeting rules. Let's jump to the definition:  

Description: All units gain the Opportunity ability which allows them to attack the unit with the lowest health on the enemy team.

Firstly, the description of the ruleset in the game is not perfect, sometimes you got just general information which not giving you all information you need. Best way to read the full description as above from the game documentation at least once. You can check all here.

I seriously encourage you guys to check this site, here is the precise [link](https://support.splinterlands.com/hc/en-us/articles/12250779063956), even more, advanced players could find something interesting there. For example, you can find a very useful cheat sheet, in my prediction stream, people always forgot how different targeting abilities work with each other. Here is a simple table that could be useful:  Equal opportunity is another ruleset like in the previous week's equalizer, which seems quite straightforward. Of course with a high mana match sometimes you can completely ignore it and just play your best units, you just need to pay more attention to order. I think still the most obvious and often strategy is to play the taunt monster, which just protects any other low-health units. Until the new martyr units were released, I think playing without a taunt unit was a mistake in 95% of cases. But now, I think there are some good setups that utilize martyr ability with very high effectiveness. You can find some of examples in the blog prediction game at the end of this post. Let's see what I chose for today's battle.   Today's [battle ](https://splinterlands.com/?p=battle&id=sm_mR8R333thjSbqKArlCDY) is Modern Silver Tier Brawl match. I think right now it's the most competitive mode in the game, so let's see what we got here.  The plan was quite obvious to me, Mycelic Splipspawn as a taunt unit, some cannon fodder around, and of course, the main threat: Quora the Towershead. Goblin Psychic is always good support for the Quora. Obviously, I cannot forget about Immortalis the King, void ability and shatter are just amazing. The opponent went with a hazardous gladiator unit: Ketralba and a full squad of good melee monsters. Thane Newsong is a great addition to that kind of strategy. You still need to be careful about targeting, you can check the table above because sneak ability still takes priority over equal opportunity.  Round 1, is still the first round, I wanted to just show how important could be the taunt monster. If you cannot eliminate Ketralba that round, It could be a disaster :)  Round 3, we lost a bunch of cannon fodder after our Myclecic Slipspawn was killed, but still our main cannon is in the game, In Quora we trust :)  Round 4, now it will be very difficult to lose that battle, Bloolusted Buffed Quora is almost unstopable,  Final Blow - Round 5 - 6/6 and after that killed another buff :). Game over :D Ketralba was dangerous but this time our taunt setup with Quora was just better :).   The Quora Towershead was still too strong :). The opponent got a nice plan and a very massive damage output. Additionally, most of his/her units have higher speed. The only problem was any defense all the monsters were very fragile and easy to eliminate with an opportunity ruleset. Sometimes a taunt unit is a must. I think the better result could be accomplished with some martyr units as cannon fodder to buff those great damage dealers. All-in strategy wasnt the best solution here, but as you could see the Ketralba with 9 melee damage was quite scary. One more thing I want to address is targeting. It wasn't so much important in that battle, because we had taunter, which helped my opponent a little bit. Otherwise, some of his/her monsters would attack the last unit, some just the lower HP unit. This is not an easy situation to assess, due to many factors, but usually spread damage is not the most effective strategy.  

IMMORTALIS, the King, of course. We talked about this card so many times, but for anything related to armor, Immortalis is always a great solution. Shatter is a powerful ability and it works even without doing any damage. The really important thing to remember. I haven't check the new summoners from Rebellion, but Immortalis still is the number one summoner for me in new modern format. Bye. bye Kittie :).  GOBLIN PSYCHIC is the very versatile card. It can be played at any speed, sometimes it's even better to have that tank heal at the end of the round, but as we could see in today's battle he could heal so much damage with a good tank choice. Affliction helps to deal with some annoying healers, and higher level Psychic gets a very useful abilities: Silence and Dispel. The last one is recently quite important, because of martyr meta :).  QUORA TOWERSHEAD, it has been a while, since we last saw Quora in Core Team section. I could probably put her here every time, and I still think that the nerf could be a better way to deal with that card. On the bronze level with lower mana , the card is almost unbeatable. Great damage, annoying heal, and a lot of HP. And it's interesting for super sneak, where magic damage could be big surprise. You do not need anything else, oh no sorry on the silver level we got an additional Immunity ability and later dispelled. No more comments :).   Let's back to our today ruleset: opportunity. As I mentioned it seems not so complex in general concept. Usually, you have to use a taunt unit, and support for it is usually a good choice. You can compare a battle, where a no-taunt option was deliberately chosen with some martyr units setup. I think it could be a very nice surprise for opponents who expect a standard taunt setup. Let me know in the comments below if you see any other good setup which could be effective here :)  I hope you like this kind of report, battle, and strategy presentation. More strategy analysis, discussion, and prediction games you can find on my Wednesday [Twitch Channel](https://www.twitch.tv/maxmaka) stream. There will be schedule soon :) If you have any comments, please do not hesitate. Do you think I could improve anything just tell me :)  If you wish to try out Splinterlands you can use my reference [link](https://splinterlands.com?ref=maxmaka). Thumbnails and other pictures borrowed with permission from the Splinterlands team or made in [Cooltext](https://cooltext.com/)