CAMS 2017: FrozenStorm ([Past]/Peace/Anarchy) vs. Jadiel ([Necro]/Anarchy/Blood)

GL HF @Jadiel, my confidence level is low but I scraped a win last round somehow so we’ll see how it goes eh?

Player 1, Turn 1

P1 [Past]/Peace/Anarchy vs P2 [Necro]/Anarchy/Blood

[details=Starting Hand]
Neo Plexus
Time Spiral
Fading Argonaut
Nullcraft
Hardened Mox
[/details]

##Events of Turn:

###Upkeep:

  • Get Gold (4)
  • Tech 2 cards (except turn 1)

[details=All Teched Cards][spoiler]

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###Main:

  • Hardened Mox (1)
  • Worker (0)

[details=Workers]
Time Spiral
[/details]

  • :pspurpleshield: Patrol as below
  • Discard 3 Draw 5
  • Tech 2 cards before my next turn

###Board Info:
####Buildings:

  • :heart: Base HP: 20

####In Patrol:

  • :psblueshield: Squad Leader:
  • :psfist: Elite: Hardened Mox (1+1/1)
  • :pspig: Scavenger:
  • :exhaust: Technician:
  • :target: Lookout:

####In Play:

  • nothing

###Economy Info:

####Cards:

  • Hand: 5
  • Deck: 0
  • Disc: 3

####Gold:

  • Gold: 0
  • Workers: 5

[details=End of Turn Hand]
Forgotten Fighter
Plasmodium
Battle Suits
Tinkerer
Temporal Research
[/details]

[details=End of Turn Discard]
Nullcraft
Fading Argonaut
Neo Plexus
[/details]

[details=My Thoughts]
Well I have options this hand, but basically none for next hand! Yikes! I have Kidnapping to worry about with a power mox strat, but I still think he’s my best investment against Black starter and Red aggro. This is a weird one to play against, it’s all the usual Necro Blood plays to worry about but with the added downside of Zane and Gunships (and Taxman is really bad for Nullcraft…) I’m a bit at a loss for how I play this well, but I think it starts with Battle Suits and Peace Engine generally. Maybe an early Stewardess? I’m really not sure what I do, besides perhaps early HH for Oni and Zane to get a board lockdown…
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I think that wielding the infamous PPA, you’re a formidable opponent!

P2T1


StartingHand Workers

STARTING HAND
Sacrifice the Weak
Deteriorate
Thieving Imp
Summon Skeletons
Jandra, the Negator


WORKERS
Summon Skeletons


NextHand

Poisonblade Rogue
Graveyard
Skeletal Archery
Skeleton Javelineer
Pestering Haunt


Discard

Sacrifice the Weak
Deteriorate
Jandra, the Negator


Tech 0 card(s)
Get Paid - ($5)
Worker - ($4)
Thieving Imp (you discard #2) - ($1)

Float ($1)
Discard 3, draw 5


[B]Board Info:[/B]
[B]In Patrol:[/B]

  • :psblueshield: [I]Squad Leader[/I]: Thieving Imp (2/2A)
  • :psfist: [I]Elite[/I]:
  • :ps_: [I]Scavenger[/I]:
  • :pschip: [I]Technician[/I]:
  • :target: [I]Lookout[/I]:
    [B]In Play:[/B]

[B]Buildings:[/B]

  • :heart: Base HP: 20

[B]Economy Info:[/B]
[B]Cards:[/B]

  • Hand: 5
  • Deck: 0
  • Disc: 3
    [B]Gold:[/B]
  • Gold: 1
  • Workers: 6

I think EricF’s deck is the new Purple Peace engine gold standard. KotC, Assimilate, Garth fetching DS… It’s objectively better at the peace engine plan at least!

Player 1, Turn 2

P1 [Past]/Peace/Anarchy vs P2 [Necro]/Anarchy/Blood

[details=Starting Hand]
Forgotten Fighter
Plasmodium (discarded)
Battle Suits
Tinkerer
Temporal Research
[/details]

##Events of Turn:

###Upkeep:

  • Get Gold (5)
  • Tech 2 cards (except turn 1)

[details=All Teched Cards]
Overeager Cadet, Boot Camp
[/details]


###Main:

  • Worker (4)
  • Tech 1 (2)
  • Feel super limp about this start from both of us

[details=Workers]
Tinkerer, Time Spiral
[/details]

  • :pspurpleshield: Patrol as below
  • Discard 3 rs Draw 5
  • Tech 2 cards before my next turn

###Board Info:
####Buildings:

  • :heart: Base HP: 20
  • Tech1 HP: 5

####In Patrol:

  • :psblueshield: Squad Leader:
  • :psfist: Elite: Hardened Mox (1+1/1)
  • :pspig: Scavenger:
  • :exhaust: Technician:
  • :target: Lookout:

####In Play:

  • nothing

###Economy Info:

####Cards:

  • Hand: 5
  • Deck: 4
  • Disc: 0

####Gold:

  • Gold: 2
  • Workers: 6

[details=End of Turn Hand]
Plasmodium
Temporal Research
Forgotten Fighter
Battle Suits
Nullcraft
[/details]

[details=End of Turn Discard][spoiler]

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[details=My Thoughts]
I didn’t really want to play a card this turn anyway, but man him having Zane and P2 gold is scary… I don’t want to put Oni down if I want to get some Boot Camp down. Which I think I do. Slow Mox growth, tempt a Kidnapping without really giving him a target. If I whiff, maybe I use Prynn to flood the board a bit

And I whiffed lol, so yea at least I didn’t lay Oni down to feed levels.
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imo is a strong deck, but basically runs on peace, and if garrisons get banished things can get nasty

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Garth has good card draw to mitigate that though, and it seems like he can usually build enough pressure via DS + Nullcraft for it not to matter if he loses the Garrison.

Interesting - I hadn’t thought of EricF’s deck as the next evolution of PPA - I’ll have to check out some of his games…

P2T2


Tech StartingHand Workers

TECH
Bone Collector
Bone Collector


STARTING HAND
Skeletal Archery
Poisonblade Rogue
Pestering Haunt
Skeleton Javelineer
Graveyard


WORKERS
Summon Skeletons
Poisonblade Rogue


NextHand

Bone Collector
Jandra, the Negator
Deteriorate
Sacrifice the Weak
Graveyard


Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid + float - ($7)
Worker - ($6)
Garth - ($4)
Skeleton - ($3)
Tech I - ($1)
Haunt

Float ($1)
Discard 3, reshuffle, draw 5


[B]Board Info:[/B]
[B]In Patrol:[/B]

  • :psblueshield: [I]Squad Leader[/I]: Thieving Imp (2/2A)
  • :psfist: [I]Elite[/I]:
  • :ps_: [I]Scavenger[/I]:
  • :pschip: [I]Technician[/I]: Skeleton (1/1)
  • :target: [I]Lookout[/I]:
    [B]In Play:[/B]
  • Pestering Haunt (1/1)
  • L1 Garth (1/3)
    [B]Buildings:[/B]
  • :heart: Base HP: 20
  • :heart: Tech I HP: 5

[B]Economy Info:[/B]
[B]Cards:[/B]

  • Hand: 5
  • Deck: 3
  • Disc: 0
    [B]Gold:[/B]
  • Gold: 1
  • Workers: 7

It’s not so much an evolution of PPA as it is a tighter focused evolution of just the Purple Peace plan PPA runs. It lacks some of the versatility PPA has, but trades it for optimization of the Peace engine.

Player 1, Turn 3

P1 [Past]/Peace/Anarchy vs P2 [Necro]/Anarchy/Blood

[details=Starting Hand]
Plasmodium
Temporal Research
Forgotten Fighter
Battle Suits
Nullcraft
Fading Argonaut
Boot Camp (TR, ugh)
[/details]

##Events of Turn:

###Upkeep:

  • Get Gold (6+2float)
  • Tech 2 cards (except turn 1)

[details=All Teched Cards]
Overeager Cadet, Calypso Vystari
Overeager Cadet, Boot Camp
[/details]


###Main:

  • Prynn (6)
  • Temporal Research, draw 2 (4)
  • Fading Argonaut (2)
  • Worker (1)

[details=Workers]
Plasmodium, Tinkerer, Time Spiral
[/details]

  • :pspurpleshield: Patrol as below
  • Discard 4 Draw 2 rs Draw 5
  • Tech 2 cards before my next turn

###Board Info:
####Buildings:

  • :heart: Base HP: 20
  • Tech1 HP: 5

####In Patrol:

  • :psblueshield: Squad Leader: Hardened Mox (1/1+1armor)
  • :psfist: Elite:
  • :pspig: Scavenger: Fading Argonaut (2/3 fade 3)
  • :exhaust: Technician: Prynn (1/3 lvl 1)
  • :target: Lookout:

####In Play:


###Economy Info:

####Cards:

  • Hand: 5
  • Deck: 4
  • Disc: 0

####Gold:

  • Gold: 1
  • Workers: 7

[details=End of Turn Hand]
Neo Plexus
Overeager Cadet
Temporal Research
Overeager Cadet
Boot Camp
[/details]

[details=End of Turn Discard][spoiler]

[/spoiler][/details]

[details=My Thoughts][spoiler]
This is brutal, I didn’t draw a single blocker. So my options are to leave my tech 1 mostly bare, leave a hero out to dry for free levels to Garth, hope I hit on Fargo / Cadet with a TR + Prynn (and basically forego Boot Camp), or Forgotten Fighter the Imp to beg for going down on cards…

I guess the TR plan sounds least objectionable, so let’s do it… That means teching T1 weanies, don’t want to commit to a Tech 2 just yet… Vystari definitely better than Seer against Black starter and likely Blood pressure that isn’t easily Prynn banish-able

Fargo + BC, boooo. Why you so hard to draw Cadet? So now question is do I want Fargo, or Nullcraft? I guess Fargo? Sure :confused: I don’t think I should skip worker. I also think I should just patrol Prynn anyway, I’d like to protect tech 1 at all costs, and getting a card for Prynn isn’t the worst trade ever for me. This is a shitty start for me though, I don’t like my chances. Could have really used that cadet…

Reshuffle draw isn’t too bad, if I keep Prynn I can TR to recover cards, if not I can flood and tech up.

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P2T3


Tech StartingHand Workers

TECH
Crash Barrow
Shoddy Glider


STARTING HAND
Sacrifice the Weak
Bone Collector
Jandra, the Negator
Graveyard
Deteriorate


WORKERS
Summon Skeletons
Poisonblade Rogue
Jandra, the Negator


NextHand

Skeleton Javelineer
Skeletal Archery
Bone Collector
Shoddy Glider


Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid + float - ($8)
Worker - ($7)
Garth casts Deteriorate on Mox
Imp deals 2 damage to Prynn
Garth kills Prynn, Garth to L3, you draw
Bone Collector - ($5)
Tech II (Blood) - ($1)
Garth makes a Skeleton - ($0)
Haunt deals 1 damage to Tech I

Float ($0)
Discard 2, draw 3, reshuffle, draw 1


[B]Board Info:[/B]
[B]In Patrol:[/B]

  • :psblueshield: [I]Squad Leader[/I]: Bone Collector (3/3A)
  • :psfist: [I]Elite[/I]:
  • :ps_: [I]Scavenger[/I]: Skeleton (1/1)
  • :pschip: [I]Technician[/I]: Skeleton (1/1)
  • :target: [I]Lookout[/I]:
    [B]In Play:[/B]
  • Pestering Haunt (1/1)
  • L3 Garth (1/2)
  • Thieving Imp (2/1)
    [B]Buildings:[/B]
  • :heart: Base HP: 20
  • :heart: Tech I HP: 5
  • :heart: Tech II HP: 5 (Blood)

[B]Economy Info:[/B]
[B]Cards:[/B]

  • Hand: 4
  • Deck: 4
  • Disc: 0
    [B]Gold:[/B]
  • Gold: 0
  • Workers: 8

Yea this is not good…

Player 1, Turn 4

P1 [Past]/Peace/Anarchy vs P2 [Necro]/Anarchy/Blood

[details=Starting Hand]
Neo Plexus
Overeager Cadet
Temporal Research
Overeager Cadet
Boot Camp
Battle Suits
[/details]

##Events of Turn:

###Upkeep:

  • Get Gold (7+1float)
  • Technician draw
  • Tech 2 cards (except turn 1)

[details=All Teched Cards]
Surprise Attack, Marauder
Overeager Cadet, Calypso Vystari
Overeager Cadet, Boot Camp
[/details]


###Main:

  • Worker (7)
  • Tech 2 Anarchy (3)
  • Overeager Cadet
  • Overeager Cadet
  • Pray for mercy

[details=Workers]
Neo Plexus, Plasmodium, Tinkerer, Time Spiral
[/details]

  • :pspurpleshield: Patrol as below
  • Discard 3 Draw 3 rs Draw 2
  • Tech 2 cards before my next turn

###Board Info:
####Buildings:

  • :heart: Base HP: 20
  • Tech1 HP: 4
  • Tech1 HP: 5 ANARCHY

####In Patrol:

  • :psblueshield: Squad Leader: Fading Argonaut (2/3+1 fade 2)
  • :psfist: Elite: Hardened Mox (1+1/1)
  • :pspig: Scavenger: Overeager Cadet (2/2)
  • :exhaust: Technician: Overeager Cadet (2/2)
  • :target: Lookout:

####In Play:


###Economy Info:

####Cards:

  • Hand: 5
  • Deck: 3
  • Disc: 0

####Gold:

  • Gold: 3
  • Workers: 8

[details=End of Turn Hand]
Calypso Vystari
Forgotten Fighter
Nullcraft
Battle Suits
Boot Camp
[/details]

[details=End of Turn Discard][spoiler]

[/spoiler][/details]

[details=My Thoughts][spoiler]
So let’s think this through a bit:

  • He’s laying 8 + Garth
  • He probably didn’t draw a tech 2 unit
  • He brings 3 with Garth and 6 with a Barrow by maxing Garth
  • He brings an extra 4 with just midband Drakk

I’m definitely laying both Cadets, but what else can I do?

  • Maxband Zane and I can get rid of BC and both skeletons, but that doesn’t stop the barrow
  • I can tech 2 + suits, but the suits don’t help any more than I can kill the BC with Mox + FArgo, and that leaves my defense very awful
  • I can just tech 2, float 3, and hope to make that into a formidable counter-attack (perhaps I tech 2x sharks?)

I kind of think the right call here is to tech 2 anarchy, hope to force a tower, tech sharks and maybe marauder, and hope to make it to gunships before Blood pressure leaves my base in shambles. Probably last 2 techs go Tanks x2 then Gunships x2.

I’ll have 4 +1 +2 +2 defense, so he’s definitely killing the tech 2 if he wants to.

Fingers crossed! Who knows he might just 100 to 0 me too who knows…

Wow, neither teched card on the draw, I’m so fucked lol

[/spoiler][/details]

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Might want to add the OCs to your main section for spectators.
Oh, and the starting hand and teched cards need updating. (;

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Sorry, I was never very good at the mercy thing… :wink:

P2T4


Tech StartingHand Workers

TECH
Crash Barrow
Shoddy Glider


STARTING HAND
Skeletal Archery
Skeleton Javelineer
Bone Collector
Shoddy Glider


WORKERS
Summon Skeletons
Poisonblade Rogue
Jandra, the Negator


NextHand

Sacrifice the Weak
Graveyard
Crashbarrow
Deteriorate


Discard

Shoddy Glider
Skeletal Archery
Skeleton Javelineer
Crash Barrow
Shoddy Glider


Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($8)
Maxband Garth, resurrecting Crashbarrow - ($4)
Crashbarrow trades with Fargo, OPs to SCAV, you get 1g
Shoddy Glider - ($3)
Glider kills TECH, you draw a card
Skeleton trades with Mox
Garth & Imp break Tech II, your base to 18
Bone Collector & Haunt break Tech I, your base to 16
Skeleton deals 1 to your base, to 15
Bone Collector #2 - ($1)
Garth makes a Skeleton - ($0)

Float ($0)
Discard 2, draw 4


[B]Board Info:[/B]
[B]In Patrol:[/B]

  • :psblueshield: [I]Squad Leader[/I]: Bone Collector #2 (3/3A)
  • :psfist: [I]Elite[/I]:
  • :ps_: [I]Scavenger[/I]: Skeleton (1/1)
  • :pschip: [I]Technician[/I]: Skeleton (1/1)
  • :target: [I]Lookout[/I]:
    [B]In Play:[/B]
  • Pestering Haunt (1/1)
  • L7 Garth (3/4)
  • Thieving Imp (2/1)
  • Bone Collector #1 (3/3)
  • Skeleton (1/1)
    [B]Buildings:[/B]
  • :heart: Base HP: 20
  • :heart: Tech I HP: 5
  • :heart: Tech II HP: 5 (Blood)

[B]Economy Info:[/B]
[B]Cards:[/B]

  • Hand: 4
  • Deck: 0
  • Disc: 5
    [B]Gold:[/B]
  • Gold: 0
  • Workers: 8

Out of respect that you are insanely ahead on the board, and there’s very little I can do to come back in this game, I think I’ll just concede. I really needed to draw a Cadet on Turn 3, I probably should have teched two of them right there. I suppose Fargo turn 1 might have been better, or Tinkerer turn 2, or I’m not sure what exactly… Maybe just letting my tech 1 die on your turn 3 and like floating a ton for Rewind? or Stewardess perhaps?

@EricF I’m KO’d, GL with the rest of the tournament @Jadiel!

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GG.

I feel for you - I just came out of a game with @zhavier where I started with a tricky split which led to a very unorthodox P! opening, and then it felt like my deck hated me the whole game, and never gave me the cards I needed.

I look forward to seeing you at the next tourney :slight_smile:

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