Briar Patch: Rule Set Born from Thorns

Rule Set Name	Icon	Description
Briar Patch		All Monsters have the Thorns ability.

Briar Patch is a Rule Set that is based on the Thorns ability which deals up to -2 damage when a monster with this ability is attacked with melee damage. Because of this, both players will avoid using melee monsters as much as possible and instead use range and magic monsters for it's team. With this consideration, we can then build a team that will counter either range or magic attacks.

• If the opponent will use range monsters, we can use the summoners Lir Deepswimmer or Iltain that gives Return Fire that returns range damage towards the attacker or go for summoners Quix the Devious, Contessa L'ament and Mimosa Nightshade that reduce range damage by -1. We can also use monsters with Headwinds ability which reduces range damage by -1. Using monsters with Shield ability also helps to reduce range damage by half.

Ability	Description
Return Fire	When hit with a Ranged attack, Monsters with Return Fire will return reduced damage back to their attacker. Damage returned is equal to damage of attacker divided by 2, rounded up.
Headwinds	Reduces the Ranged attack of all enemy Monsters. -1 to ranged attack, it cannot be less than 1
Shield	Reduced damage from Melee and Ranged attack. Attack damage gets halved (rounded up), except attack 1 which deals 0 damage Reduces the Thorns damage to 1 Cancel Redemption damage

• If the opponent will use magic monsters, we can use the summoners Mimosa Nightshade that gives Void which halves magic damage or with Grandmaster Rathe that gives Void Armor where magic attacks needs to hit armor before the health. We can also Bortus and Thaddius Brood that gives -1 magic to the opponent or go with Owster Rotwell with the Magic Reflect ability which returns magic damage back to the attacker. The use of monsters with Silence also reduce the magic damage of the opponent by -1.

Ability	Description
Void	Reduced damage from Magic attacks. Attack damage gets halved (rounded up), except attack 1 which deals 0 damage.
Void Armor	Magic attacks hit this Monster's armor before its Health.
Silence	Reduces the Magic Attack of all enemy Monsters
Magic Reflect	When hit with Magic damage, does reduced Magic damage back to the attacker. Deals damage equivalent to the attacker's damage divided by 2, rounded up. The damage is reflected even if the attacker does not hit.

• We can also rely on RNG against this monsters by using summoners Brighton Bloom with the Flying ability that gives 25% dodge chance against non- magic attacks and is similar to Dodge and Stispa with the Phase ability can cause Magic attacks to miss it's target. The Backfire with Aquatus also does work similar to Return and Magic Reflect that it does damage back to the attacker but this was on the condition that the opponent miss the target.

Ability	Description
Flying	Has an increased chance of evading Melee or Ranged attacks from Monsters who do not have the Flying ability. +25% chance of evading.
Dodge	Has an increased chance of evading Melee or Ranged attacks. +25% Dodge vs melee/ranged
Phase	Magic attack can miss this Monster (using the same hit/miss calculation as for Melee and Ranged attacks.
Backfire	If an enemy misses this Monster with an attack, the attacker takes 2 damage.