[details=Thoughts]
I knew Free Speech was coming at some point, and I thought the tree might come back (though hoped it had been workered). Well, not much I can do but tech up. I have to waste a bunch of my board, and Zane, to take out his Tree. If I don’t, he can go straight to Gryphons next turn. Since Zane is going to die in this attack no matter what, I’m EDIT: NOT going to get a card out of it so that I have a better chance of getting a good card next turn (3 wild cards instead of just 2: right now my deck is Plexus, Argo, sharks). DAMN FREE SPEECH. [/details]
P1T7
Tech StartingHand Workers
TECH
Hyperion
Tricycloid
STARTING HAND
Nullcraft
Tricycloid
Chaos Mirror
Hyperion
Chaos Mirror
WORKERS
Temporal Research
Plasmodium
Forgotten Fighter
Chaos Mirror
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($7)
Fargo fades to 2 runes
Worker - ($6)
Build Tech II (Present) - ($2)
Recruit Nullcraft - ($0) Nullcraft kills Mirror, dies to Tower Mox and Calypso team up tto take out Quince; Calypso dies Fargo kills Treant, takes 1; you get $1 Zane trades with Panda; YOU draw, I don’t Argo readily breaks Verdant Tree and takes 1
Float ($0)
Discard 3, draw 3, reshuffle, draw 2
[B]Board Info:[/B]
[B]In Patrol:[/B]
[I]Squad Leader[/I]:
[I]Elite[/I]:
[I]Scavenger[/I]: Argonaut (4/2, Readiness)
[I]Technician[/I]:
[I]Lookout[/I]:
[B]In Play:[/B]
Battle Suits
Hardened Mox (2/1, Indestructible)
Fading Argonaut (3/2, @2 runes)
[B]Buildings:[/B]
Base HP: 20
Tech I HP: 5
Tech II HP: 5 (Present)
[B]Economy Info:[/B]
[B]Cards:[/B]
Hand: 5
Deck: 9
Disc: 0
[B]Gold:[/B]
Gold: 0
Workers: 8
[details=Afterthoughts]
Calypso, Tricycloid, Argonaut, and Plexus are available to me. Not as good as Hyperion, probably, but we’ll see.
Sorry, I should have noted it. On T5, you’ll see I had 0 in deck at the end of turn. So when we both drew from Zane taking Geiger on my T6, it triggered a reshuffle. I’ll edit to note it for future spectators, though @EricF can verify that my thoughts for that turn noted that I traded Nullcraft for Prospector first specifically so I had a chance of drawing it again when Zane took Geiger.
Apologies for not making it obvious, and I hope it didn’t affect your plays.
STARTING HAND
Reteller of Truths (4/4 + A)
Spectral Tiger (5/5)
Centaur
Macciatus, The Whisperer (3/3)
Macciatus, The Whisperer (3 + 1/3)
Merfolk Prospector (1/1)
Tiger Cub (2/2)
Forest’s Favor
Liberty Gryphon
Free Speach
Reteller of Truths
Discard
Verdant Tree (-/3, Healing 1)
Young Treant (0/2)
Playful Panda (2/2)
Macciatus, The Whisperer (3/3)
Macciatus, The Whisperer (3 + 1/3)
Reteller of Truths (4/4 + A)
Liberty Gryphon
Spectral Tiger (5/5)
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($10)
Scav + Tech - ($11)
Rebuild Tech 2
Centaur - ($8)
Merfolk Prospector - ($7)
Max Cal - ($1)
Float ($1)
Discard 3, draw 5
[B]Board Info:[/B]
[B]In Patrol:[/B]
[I]Squad Leader[/I]: Centaur (3/4 + A)
[I]Elite[/I]:
[I]Scavenger[/I]: Merfolk Prospector (1/1)
[I]Technician[/I]: Cal (4/5, lvl 5, Units have Resist 1)
[details=Thoughts]
Really wish I’d drawn Hyperion instead of Tricycloid, but this isn’t too bad. I’m not hopeful about my chances here, since he has $7 after building Tech III, but let’s see how it plays out. [/details]
P1T8
Tech StartingHand Workers
TECH
Now!
Temporal Distortion
STARTING HAND
Argonaut
Surprise Attack
Neo Plexus
Calypso Vystari
Tricycloid
WORKERS
Temporal Research
Plasmodium
Forgotten Fighter
Chaos Mirror
Neo Plexus
NextHand
Time Spiral
Nullcraft
Entangling Vines
Tinkerer
Tricycloid
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($8)
Worker - ($7) Mox hits Centaur for 1 after armor Fargo trades with Centaur Argo suicides into Cal for 4 damage
Summon Geiger - ($5)
Recruit Tricycloid; Mox is trashed - ($0) Remove a rune from Tricycloid to kill Cal; you draw; Prospector loses Resist; Geiger to midband Remove a rune to kill Prospector; you get $1
Float ($0)
Discard 3, draw 5
[B]Board Info:[/B]
[B]In Patrol:[/B]
[I]Squad Leader[/I]:
[I]Elite[/I]:
[I]Scavenger[/I]: Tricycloid (4/4, including 1 time rune)
[I]Technician[/I]: Max Geiger, Lv. 3, (2/4, Sparkshot)
[I]Lookout[/I]:
[B]In Play:[/B]
Battle Suits
[B]Buildings:[/B]
Base HP: 20
Tech I HP: 5
Tech II HP: 5 (Present)
[B]Economy Info:[/B]
[B]Cards:[/B]
Hand: 5
Deck: 4
Disc: 7
[B]Gold:[/B]
Gold: 0
Workers: 9
[details=Afterthoughts]
Another Tricycloid. Well, if he unit spams, I can pop a lot of illusions, especially with max Geiger (praying he didn’t draw another Free Speech, but it seems unlikely given his thin deck and that he still has Treant). I also have Rook + Entangling Vines as an alternative if another Centaur pops out with no Free Speech, and Nullcraft. If I spend all my time runes and Nullcraft I can break Tech III, so there’s that.
I believe someone was looking for a back and forth games with lots of swingy exciting stuff right? This looks like one (even if I have made more mistakes than swiss cheese has holes). P2T8
StartingHand Workers
STARTING HAND
Free Speach
Reteller of Truths
Tiger Cub (2/2)
Forest’s Favor
Liberty Gryphon
Free Speach
[details=Thoughts][spoiler] sigh Without Free Speech, I could have done the same stuff, plus maybe skipped worker to Time Spiral for an extra rune of damage, and flickered for 3 more, which would have been enough to kill Quince and hit a building.
Oh, right. Quince’s midband is going to have me eat a face full of Trycloid Runes, to at least kill Geiger and one of my Tryc’s huh?
[/spoiler][/details]
P1T9
Tech StartingHand Workers
TECH
Pirate Gunship
Pirate Gunship
STARTING HAND
Nullcraft
Entangling Vines
Time Spiral
Tinkerer
Tricycloid
WORKERS
Temporal Research
Plasmodium
Forgotten Fighter
Chaos Mirror
Neo Plexus
Tinkerer
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($9)
Worker - ($8)
Max Max Geiger (boo, no flicker) - ($6) Geiger kills cub, taking 2+1 from Tower
Recruit Tricycloid #2 - ($1) Tricycloid #2 removes a rune to kill Mirror; you draw Tricycloid #2 removes a rune to kill Reteller (expensive), who returns to your hand - ($0) Tricycloid #1 hits Tech III for 4 damage, taking 1 from Tower Tricycloid #1 removes a rune to break Tech III; you base takes 2
Float ($0)
Discard 3, draw 4, reshuffle, draw 1
[B]Board Info:[/B]
[B]In Patrol:[/B]
[I]Squad Leader[/I]:
[I]Elite[/I]:
[I]Scavenger[/I]: Tricycloid #2 (4/4, includes 1 time rune)
[I]Technician[/I]:
[I]Lookout[/I]:
[B]In Play:[/B]
Battle Suits
Tricycloid #1 (3/2, no runes)
Max Geiger, Lv. 3, (3/1, Sparkshot)
[B]Buildings:[/B]
Base HP: 20
Tech I HP: 5
Tech II HP: 5 (Present)
[B]Economy Info:[/B]
[B]Cards:[/B]
Hand: 5
Deck: 11
Disc: 0
[B]Gold:[/B]
Gold: 0
Workers: 10
[details=Afterthoughts]
Lots of options with Surprise Attack, CM, double Hyperion, Calypso, and Zane. Again, I have to hope for no Free Speech, otherwise it’s just 2x Hyperion and attacking with both Tryc’s and Geiger.
[details=Thoughts][spoiler]
Ug. Double Hyperions it is. If I break Tech III, he’ll just play the same hand again, and I’ll have less board to work with.
If I kill Macciatus, he’ll play Gryphon(s) and Retellers, likely breaking my Techs and still putting up a defense.
If I break Tech II, he plays Gryphons, but at least can’t play Retellers. Yuck. I’ll do #3 and release my sweet demise.
Wait… I could build Tech III… but not Tech Lab. His Gryphon will just break it, though. And I don’t have much to do from there. Here goes nothing.
[/spoiler][/details]
P1T10
StartingHand Workers
STARTING HAND
Hyperion
Hyperion
Surprise Attack
Chaos Mirror
Calypso Vystari
Time Spiral
Argonaut
WORKERS
Temporal Research
Plasmodium
Forgotten Fighter
Chaos Mirror
Neo Plexus
Tinkerer
Tech 0 card(s)
Get Paid - ($10) Skip worker Tricycloid #2 takes out Cal; levels fizzle; survives with 1 HP
Recruit Hyperion - ($5) Hyperion takes out Lookout Reteller, which returns to your hand; Hype dies to Tower; I draw Tricycloid #2 removes a rune (dying) to deal 1 damage to Scavenger Reteller Tricycloid #1 trades with Scavenger Reteller, which returns to your hand; you get $1** Geiger trades with Quince; you draw
Recruit Hyperion #2 - ($0) Hyperion breaks Tech II, taking 1 from tower; your base takes 2 No more Retellers. Bring on the Gryphons!
Float ($0)
Discard 5, draw 5
[B]Board Info:[/B]
[B]In Patrol:[/B]
[I]Squad Leader[/I]:
[I]Elite[/I]:
[I]Scavenger[/I]:
[I]Technician[/I]:
[I]Lookout[/I]:
[B]In Play:[/B]
Battle Suits
Hyperion (5/4, Haste)
[B]Buildings:[/B]
Base HP: 20
Tech I HP: 5
Tech II HP: 5 (Present)
[B]Economy Info:[/B]
[B]Cards:[/B]
Hand: 5
Deck: 4
Disc: 8
[B]Gold:[/B]
Gold: 0
Workers: 10
[details=Afterthoughts]
Nullcraft is good. Sharks are good. TD is unfortunate. Fargo is okay. Well. Maybe I’ll get really lucky and both of his Gryphons are still in his deck after drawing from Technician.
STARTING HAND
Playful Panda (2/2)
Verdant Tree (-/3, Healing 1)
Macciatus, The Whisperer (3/3)
Liberty Gryphon
Merfolk Prospector (1/1)
Liberty Gryphon
Macciatus, The Whisperer (3/3)
Young Treant (0/2)
Spectral Tiger (5/5)
Free Speach
Free Speach
Tech 0 card(s)
Get Paid + float - ($12)
Scav + Tech - ($13)
Rebuild Tech 2
Liberty Gryphon #1 - ($10)
Liberty Gryphon #2 - ($7)
Both Gryphons and macciatus deal 15 to your base
Max Geiger, flicker gryphon #1 - ($1)
Gryphon deals the last 6 to your base GG!
Wow! Yar, great game! I should have maybe played and patrolled Nullcraft, but if I did, I could have popped your Tech II with all 4 runes, but couldn’t have wiped you board as nicely. I had to hope you didn’t have them in hand.
Ironically, if you’d have had one more illusion out, the Gryphons would be untargetable and Geiger wouldn’t have been able to flicker one.
I thought about killing Macciatus, but the Gryphons still would have come out. I thought about breaking Tech III, but then you just would have replayed the same turn, and I’d have less board. Macciatus+double Reteller is rough.
I guess it was good I had played Calypso the turn before. Wasn’t enough to take the match for me, but it did let me break both Tech buildings.
By the way, big kudos, @Shadow_Night_Black for sticking it out after both buildings went down and relying on the huge econ advantage I had left you, not to mention solid hero, spell, and tech play. You went all-in on a VTree rush to Tech II and Tech III, and the whole plan got de-railed, and you still managed to pull it out. Nicely-nicely done.
Why does everyone talk about Ready or Not and Elephants? Given it’s already attacked twice, the third attack seem much less useful, surely that on a gigadon etc would be much more effective?
You mention quince midband using tricycloids in your thoughts. While quince can make a mirror copy a tricycloid, the mirror would not get any time runes, and so the tricycloid is a very good option for dealing with mirrors on many levels.
[I]Squad Leader[/I]:
[I]Elite[/I]:
[I]Scavenger[/I]: Argonaut (4/2, Readiness)
[I]Technician[/I]:
[I]Lookout[/I]:
Base HP: 20
[I]Squad Leader[/I]:
[I]Elite[/I]:
[I]Scavenger[/I]: Argonaut (4/2, Readiness)
[I]Technician[/I]:
[I]Lookout[/I]:
Base HP: 20
[I]Technician[/I]: Cal (4/5, lvl 5, Units have Resist 1)
(even if I have made more mistakes than swiss cheese has holes).