Reverse Speed must be one of my least favourite rulesets... which I fortunately haven't had to endure the last 3 days or so :-)
My Ruler of the Seas is more often than not a game changer when I'm playing almost any ruleset and questing the Water splinter (and with it's swiftness giving all my monsters a speed boost, it's almost as bad as playing ooze in ones team for the Reverse Speed ruleset).
This was a low mana cap game as well, so my options were even further limited.

My opponent's healing made light work of my attempt, and my ass was handed to me properly ;-)