Hello there! **@saydie** here, playing **Splinterlands** everyday!
The number of rulesets in Splinterlands modifiers keeps increasing, and recently, three more rulesets have been added to the game. But that's not all, because once we get to the Dragon Feast event, we will also get a new time-limited modifier to further spice up the game. As we know, game modifiers change the conditions of how a battle could be won. Sometimes it gives abilities. Sometimes it gives different debilitations. Sometimes it restricts the use of cards. Depending on which modifier combination is active in the battle, players can quickly adjust their lineup to increase their odds of winning the battle.
But now, we also have a modifier that reverses the effect of certain abilities and makes using them disadvantageous to the player.
Plague Rot
With the addition of the new modifiers and the upcoming new season modifier, there are now a total of 88 rulesets in the game, if we also include the modifiers that can only be used on Seasonal events, as well as the rulesets that were sunset due to a variety of reasons. During a match, there could be up to three rulesets that players can encounter, where they usually need to adjust their lineup to these rulesets to increase the chance that they will win the match. One of the new rulesets, Plague Rot, reverses the effects of two abilities, named Life Leech and Scavenger.
Plague Rot is a modifier that reverses the effects of Life Leech and Scavenger and applies negative permanent health gain instead of positive gain. Maximum health cannot fall below 1.
So with this ruleset, Life Leech, which used to increase the health of the attacker by 50% of the damage it inflicted, will instead reduce the attacker's health by the damage it inflicted, while instead of gaining 1 health for every unit that gets defeated, Scavenger will instead result in the unit losing 1 health, both of which are permanent. So this will quickly make you refrain from using cards with these abilities during battle. Some of the cards with Life Leech and Scavenger were:
Life Leech Units
Scavenger Units
It was still possible to use them because the unit's health would not go below 1. But of course it will involve a much heavier risk, given that your unit only has 1 health, so it can be an easy target for Opportunity attacks. Here is an example.
Battle Showcase
As you can see, this battle has the Plague Rot as one of its active rulesets, but for some reason, I have chosen the Archon Lorkus, which gives the Life Leech ability to Kelan Gaines and Graverand Warlock, and I also have Arachne Weaver, which has the scavenger ability.
Honestly, I was not really paying attention during that time, and I have rather chosen my team based on which element was available, and by doing so, I have given my opponent a big handicap.
Whenever I inflict damage to an opponent with a unit that has Life Leech, my health will continuously drop, and instead of getting more health when a unit is defeated, my card loses health instead.
And at the end of the battle, Kelan Gaines' health has dropped to 1 from its original health of 9, Graverand Warlock's health has dropped to 4 from its original health of 7, same with Arachne Weaver that from 7 health, only has 2 health when the battle ended.
Closing
And that was it for the new ruleset Plague Rot. Honestly, I'm not really a fan of this ruleset since I often use cards with Life Leech and Scavenger in my battles, which has helped me to win a lot of battles that it was almost muscle memory for me to use it whenever the elements that they belong to was active, much like the game above. But now, I may have to think more with my strategies and may need to add some new cards in my deck.
Thank you, and see you on the next post!
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