## This week's Splinterlands [battle challenge](https://steempeak.com/@splinterlands/3qzgqt-share-your-battle-weekly-challenge-win-upvotes) theme is Rexxie.
I don't often use Rexxie. I like the trample ability though and the high melee attack so sometimes I use Rexxie in melee mayhem or super sneak.  I had the Earth Splinter yesterday for my daily quest and came across a perfect battle to use Rexxie. I had selected this team before I knew that Rexxie was the theme for this week's battle challenge.

The battle can be found [here](https://steemmonsters.com?p=battle&id=8a7c9c1fbd8e0e20764ff0c7afcb544556f617e4&ref=golddeck)
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## <center>Rules were Super Sneak and Lost Legendaries</center>
#### <center>With a 31 mana cap</center>

**Super Sneak:** Means All melee attack monsters have the sneak ability.
**Lost Legendaries:** Means legendary monsters may not be used in battle. 

### Summoner Selection:
I was trying to complete my Earth splinter quest so I had 3 choices of summoners to use. Lyanna for the +1 health, Wizard of Eastwood for -1 opponents armor, or Xander for 1 less mana cost. I went with Lyanna for the +1 health. 
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## Monster Selection

**1rst Position:** I choose the Unicorn Mustang to act as my tank because it has 3 melee, 11 health, and pretty fast speed at 4. The high health makes a great tank and it also has the void ability which helps with magic attacks.
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**2nd position:** I choose Rexxie for this position because of the 5 melee attack and the trample ability. I was thinking Rexxie would make a great backup tank as well if my Mustang died.
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**3rd position:** I put my Wood Nymph in this position to protect it from attacks from my opponent. I also chose the Wood Nymph for it's tank healing cababilities and magic attack also it has more health than my Khmer Princess which is my other healer.
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**4th Position:**
I choose the furious chicken for this position because I had an open space left in my line-up and the chicken has a melee which will attack the rear of my opponents team during these rules. 
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**5th Position:**
I choose the Earth Elemental for this position because it has self heal, I was hoping it would act as a secondary rear tank if my flesh golem died. It also puts more pressure on my opponents front tank because of the 2 ranged attack. I like that the earth elemental also only has a 3 mana cost!
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**6th Position** 
I picked the flesh golem as my rear tank because of the self heal ability.
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**Conclusion:**
My strategy worked very well for this battle, as we can see none of my monsters died.
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In hindsight I probably should have reversed the order and put flesh golem 5 and earth elemental 6 because flesh golem has a 3 melee and earth elemental has a 2 ranged. I would have prefferred that the earth elemental died first so I could get more damage from the flesh golem, but for this battle it did not matter. 
### I also learned that Rexxie's trample doesn't work in super sneak if Rexxie is sneaking.😢    I always thought it would trample to the next monster going reverse but it doesn't.