STARTING HAND
Careless Musketeer
Bloodrage Ogre
Bombaster
Nautical Dog
Charge
WORKERS
Careless Musketeer
NextHand
Scorch
Pillage
Makeshift Rambaster
Mad Man
Discard
Charge
Bombaster
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($4)
Worker - ($3)
Play Bloodrage Ogre - ($1)
Play Nautical Dog - ($0)
Float ($0)
Discard 2, draw 4
Board Info: In Patrol:
Squad Leader:
Elite:
Scavenger: Nautical Dog (frenzy 1) 1/1
Technician: Bloodrage Ogre 3/2
Lookout:
In Play:
*
Buildings:
Base HP: 20
Economy Info: Cards:
Hand: 4
Deck: 1
Disc: 2
Gold:
Gold: 0
Workers: 5
Thoughts
Nasty pressure deck with some real tempo swings, access to both Graveyard barrow and Graveyard Hyperion. Skeletons will help to protect vital buildings so I need to lean on Lobber and fire spells. Here, Bombaster doesn’t die to Deteriorate, and I can throw out a Dog to guard against StW while also setting up for a burst turn to control the board decisively. Actually, let’s BRO to deal with a potential Jandra.
Tech 0 card(s)
Get Paid - ($5)
Worker - ($4)
Jandra, the Negator - ($1)
Float ($1)
Discard 3, draw 5
Board Info: In Patrol:
Squad Leader: Jandra, the Negator (3/3A) Overpower, cursed
Elite:
Scavenger:
Technician:
Lookout:
Buildings:
Base HP: 20
Economy Info: Cards:
Hand: 5
Deck: 0
Disc: 3
Gold:
Gold: 1
Workers: 6
Thoughts
I’m probably looking at a Zane follow-up here, that’s gonna be rough. If I cast Deteriorate, the best I can do is patrol a Skeleton as Elite and hope he doesn’t have a Mad Man to trade with it, as 2 attack should be enough to give both Zane and the Ogre pause. Alternately, I could drop Jandra, in which case he would presumably have to spend more resources for the trade, or choose not to engage. That certainly seems like the safer play.
STARTING HAND
Mad Man
Scorch
Makeshift Rambaster
Pillage
WORKERS
Careless Musketeer
NextHand
Bloodburn
Ember Sparks
Charge
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($5)
Play Mad Man - ($4)
Mad Man and Ogre trade with Jandra
Summon Zane - ($2)
Zane and Dog hit your base for 4 damage, to 16
Zane casts Pillage on your base, stealing your float and dealing 1 (to 15)
Play Rambaster from hand - ($0)
Rambaster deals 3 to your base (to 12)
Float ($0)
Discard 1, draw 1, reshuffle, draw 2
Board Info: In Patrol:
Squad Leader:
Elite:
Scavenger:
Technician:
Lookout:
In Play:
Makeshift Rambaster (haste) 1*/2
Nautical Dog (frenzy 1) 1/1
L1 Captain Zeno Zane (haste) 2/2
Buildings:
Base HP: 20
Economy Info: Cards:
Hand: 3
Deck: 6
Disc: 0
Gold:
Gold: 0
Workers: 5
Thoughts
I have a few options here, I think I’m in striking distance of just applying heavy burn. This turn I can kill Jandra with BRO and Mad Man, then Pillage for free and have 3 gold to work with, 2 to summon Zane and one to tech 1. seems good. Lobber has haste and I won’t have Drakk out. this gives me 6 damage this turn, spicy. that’s even better than Scorch and Zane, skip worker, trade in Dog. Wait what do you mean Nautical Dog isn’t a pirate? INJUSTICE. Ah never mind let’s just go for broke 8 base damage baby
If he’s going to skip his Tech I to buy extra aggression, I don’t think I have a choice but to follow in kind. One thing’s for sure… I’m not going for Lich’s Bargain.
Makeshift Rambaster
Charge
Ember Sparks
Surprise Attack
Flame Arrow
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($5)
Maxband Zane, shove skeleton into Scavenger, we both get a gold from the kill. - ($1)
Worker - ($0)
Zane kills Garth, levels fizzle
Dog hits your base for 2, down to 10
Float ($0)
Discard 2, draw 4
Board Info: In Patrol:
Squad Leader:
Elite:
Scavenger:
Technician:
Lookout:
In Play:
Nautical Dog (frenzy 1) 1/1
L6 MAX Captain Zeno Zane (haste) 4/2
Buildings:
Base HP: 20
Economy Info: Cards:
Hand: 4
Deck: 2
Disc: 5
Gold:
Gold: 0
Workers: 6
Thoughts
My first line is to trade with Dog, midband Zane, kill Garth and maxband. 3 gold leaves 1 for worker, 1 for tech 1. alternative is to Max Zane, scavenger the skeleton, worker, Zane kills Garth and 2 more damage goes face. Right now I’m leaning into the latter because having 10 health to chew through is pretty doable. I also do need to kill off Zane so I can start with the Fire burn spells. I think that’s fine, Bloodlust or Now means a dead Zane and one of those is surely being teched. I’ve disrupted the plan of Neko’s deck, and gained a significant advantage in base pressure. Tech 2 isn’t coming online soon. I think I value 2 damage now over the promise of future Crash Bombers that I might be able to set up next turn.
Hmmm. I might have thrown the game by not teching Sharks last turn. I knew there was no way Neko could kill Zane, and Sharks here would have murdered the Patrol Zone and let me hit base for 2 this turn, plus 2 if Dog lived and wasn’t deteriorated. That lets me Max Zane later on and more cheaply benefit from the maxband, and I have Sharks available again.
STARTING HAND
Sacrifice the Weak
Jandra, the Negator
Skeleton Javelineer
Bloodlust
WORKERS
Graveyard
Thieving Imp
Sacrifice the Weak
NextHand
Skeletal Archery
Summon Skeletons
Bloodlust
Discard
Skeleton Javelineer
Bloodlust
Jandra, the Negator
Bone Collector
Bone Collector
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid + scavenger - ($8)
Worker - ($7)
Drakk Ramhorn - ($5)
Skeleton Javelineer - ($4)
Bloodlust Javelineer and Nautical Dog - ($2)
Javelineer trades with Zane
Tech I - ($0)
Pestering Haunt drops your base to 19 HP
Bloodlust damage kills Nautical Dog
STARTING HAND
Bombaster
Ember Sparks
Bloodrage Ogre 3/2
Mad Man
WORKERS
Careless Musketeer
Bloodburn
NextHand
Crash Bomber
Pillage
Scorch
Nautical Dog (frenzy 1) 1/1
Ember Sparks
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($6)
Summon Jaina - ($4)
Ember Sparks your base to 7 - ($1)
Tech 1 - ($0)
Float ($0)
Discard 3, draw 2, reshuffle, draw 3
Board Info: In Patrol:
Squad Leader: L1 Jaina 2/3+a
Elite:
Scavenger:
Technician:
Lookout:
In Play:
*
Buildings:
Base HP: 19
Tech I HP: 5
Economy Info: Cards:
Hand: 5
Deck: 9
Disc: 0
Gold:
Gold: 0
Workers: 6
Thoughts
Crash Bomber should finish my core, need those guys for Pillage damage. and they come with free base damage. to that end, I’m building tech 1 instead of a worker because I don’t need all that gold and it’s more important to threaten Bombers
I’ll fold here. I don’t have a way to stop you from piling on base damage from spells, and I don’t see a path to break your base before you can finish off mine. GG WP! @FrozenStorm
GG! My red burn is a precarious mix of opportunism, instinct, and careful calculation. I basically saw the chance to do 8 on turn 2 and went “eh, I think I can close this out before I crumple on tempo”. Then it was just trying to optimize the blazes out of my base damage.
Because I absolutely had to respect the midgame threat posed by Necro/Blood or Necro/Present and decided to make sure the game ended before then.
Just wait until I learn to play Anarchy, then watch out world.
Squad Leader:
Elite:
Scavenger: Nautical Dog (frenzy 1) 1/1
Technician: Bloodrage Ogre 3/2
Lookout:
Base HP: 20