This is one of those battles which shows how vital it is in Splinterlands to have a wide card collection. Not only was only the Earth class available, the Earthquake rule on top made you require monsters with the Fly ability and there was not too much mana to spend so you also needed some lower-cost monsters.
I did have the needed cards and in these cases it's not vital to have the highets allowed card levels. This made me play my level 5 Lyanna Natura Beta Summoner which gives all monsters +1 health which is more cost effective and useful compared to the chaos legion Obsidian summoner. I started out with 2 Monsters that have a zero cost in the Furious Chicken and the Fungis Fiend. Since these have no fly ability and are sure to get killed, it's best to have them absorb some initial damage. As my main tank I used the Pelacor Mercenary which has 1 armor, Fly and self-heal which makes it hard to kill with these rules. The Screeching Vulture also is an excellent card in these game rules as it has fly, and is allowed to attack from any position + increases it's heals as the game progresses and monsters die. In the back I did play the Brownie which not only gives the other 2 melee cards +1 attack but also extra speed while being fast itself. So in case an enemy had a sneak attack monster there was still a chance for the attack to miss keeping it alive 1 more round.
This was an easy 100% win accoring to Spintertools as my opponent only had 1 fly monster and a summoner that was more expensive with less benefits. So this one had nothing to do with skill but much more about the pay2win factor which made it nearly impossible for me to ever lose this matchup.
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