Tech 0 card(s)
Get Paid - ($5)
Worker - ($4)
Build a Graveyard - ($2)
Summon Oni - ($0)
Float ($0)
Discard 3, draw 5
[B]Board Info:[/B]
[B]In Patrol:[/B]
[I]Squad Leader[/I]:
[I]Elite[/I]:
[I]Scavenger[/I]:
[I]Technician[/I]: Onimaru, Lv. 1 (2/3, Frenzy 1)
[I]Lookout[/I]:
[B]In Play:[/B]
Graveyard HP: 3
[B]Buildings:[/B]
Base HP: 20
[B]Economy Info:[/B]
[B]Cards:[/B]
Hand: 5
Deck: 0
Disc: 3
[B]Gold:[/B]
Gold: 0
Workers: 6
[details=Thoughts][spoiler]
So the stupid idea behind this deck is really cheap units: Haunt, Knight of the Conclave, Overeager Cadet. Secondarily, I want to experiment with Disease’s discard. Maybe Omegacron and Mech for an endgame? Or Plague Lord (though I hate that guy) or Gryphon? I dunno.
I got a really awkward split for what I want to do. I want Graveyard to collect and replay my cheap units. I wanted to hit with Imp as soon as possible. But I was really hoping for one of my cheapies (Skele-Javeli or haunt) on my first turn, and Graveyard and/or Imp on my second. I would have just dropped Orpal and a bunch of removal spells if Kaelii had played any units, but nope. I could play imp and nothing else, and that might hurt, but I’m worried the money will just go into heroes.
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[details=Thoughts]
I totally forgot about Assimilate. I should have played Vir as soon as I saw Rich Earth. Now it’ll take me an extra turn to get him out. And Kaelii will take advantage of Rich Earth on the most crucial money-hungry turns. And I’ll have to choose between Earth and Tree. Man, I like the way Kaelii plays. It’s crazy, but like a Fox’s Den Student, not like a Mad Man. Putting in Assimilate is really slowing down my KotC/OC plan, but I need to steal that stuff as soon as possible. I may just skip the second KotC and do Cadets next turn.
And… I didn’t draw the KotC or the Assimilate, so I didn’t really need my Tech I or my HH. Boo. Well. I can spend my money on heroes and removal next turn, I guess.
I’m still not quite sure what you’re up to, but so far it looks kinda awesome!
I’m pretty sure I’m losing, and I’ll probably want a rematch. (:
P2T3
Tech StartingHand Workers
TECH
Overeager Cadet
Overeager Cadet
STARTING HAND
Jandra, the Negator
Deteriorate
Sacrifice the Weak
Poisonblade Rogue
WORKERS
Summon Skeletons
Skeletal Archery
Jandra, the Negator
NextHand
Thieving Imp
Assimilate
Deteriorate
Knight of the Conclave
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($7)
Worker - ($6)
Summon Orpal to midband - ($1)
Exhaust Graveyard to play Skele-Javeli - ($0) Sacrifice Skele to Orpal to put a -1/-1 rune on Basilisk; back to Graveyard for the Javelineer! Orpal casts Deteriorate on Basilisk, killing it Haunt trades with Panda; to the Graveyard!
Float ($0)
Discard 2, draw 3, reshuffle, draw 1
[B]Board Info:[/B]
[B]In Patrol:[/B]
[I]Squad Leader[/I]: Orpal Gloor (2/4+a, Hits with -1/-1 runes)
[I]Elite[/I]:
[I]Scavenger[/I]:
[I]Technician[/I]: Onimaru, Lv. 1 (2/3, Frenzy 1)
[I]Lookout[/I]:
[B]In Play:[/B]
Graveyard 3 HP
In Graveyard: Skeleton Javelineer, Pestering Haunt
[B]Buildings:[/B]
Base HP: 20
Tech I HP: 5
Heroes’ Hall HP: 4
[B]Economy Info:[/B]
[B]Cards:[/B]
Hand: 4
Deck: 4
Disc: 0
[B]Gold:[/B]
Gold: 0
Workers: 8
[details=Thoughts]
Definitely crazy like a Fox’s Den Student. I was originally going to play out my whole hand, but then I decided that having cards and a big Orpal is better. I’m digging this Graveyard full of cheap units. Next turn I’ll probably do something similar again with max Orpal (if he’s around), or play out my hand, take the tree, use Imp to keep Kaelii low on cards.
STARTING HAND
Thieving Imp
Knight of the Conclave
Assimilate
Deteriorate
WORKERS
Summon Skeletons
Skeletal Archery
Jandra, the Negator
NextHand
Sacrifice the Weak
Overeager Cadet
Poisonblade Rogue
Discard
Assimilate
Deteriorate
Cursed Crow
Cursed Crow
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($8) Skip worker Oni kills Treant in a Frenzy
Exhaust Graveyard for Haunt
Summon Weird Garbanzobean - ($6) Weird casts Assimilate and takes your Weird Ant Tree - ($3) Recruit Thieving Imp; Random.org sez: “discard card number 2 of 3” - ($0)
Recruit Knight of the Conclave
Float ($0)
Discard 1, draw 3
Board Info: In Patrol:
Squad Leader:
Elite:
Scavenger: Thieving Imp (2/2)
Technician: Vir Garbarean, Lv. 1 (2/3)
Lookout: In Play:
Onimaru, Lv. 1 (2/3, Frenzy 1)
Pestering Haunt (1/1, Unstoppable, Can’t Patrol)
In the Future: Knight of the Conclave (4/4, Resist 1) @3 Time Runes
Graveyard 3 HP
In Graveyard: Skeleton Javelineer
Verdant Tree 3 HP, Healing 1 (Used to be yours! Mine now!) Buildings:
Base HP: 20
Tech I HP: 5
Heroes’ Hall HP: 4
Economy Info: Cards:
Hand: 3
Deck: 1
Disc: 4 Gold:
Gold: 0
Workers: 8
[details=Thoughts][spoiler]
I still have no idea what I’m doing, but it’s a lot of fun. I thought I was going to tech Omegas, and probably should, but I decided I want to go all in on discard instead.
Is it worth skipping a worker to take a Tree, or discard my opponent to 2 cards? Probably not. But so fun! And on Turn 7 I get a 4/4! Wooooooo!
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Spectral Flagbearer
Tiger Cub
Macciatus, the Whisperer
Discard
Playful Panda
Young Treant
Tiny Basilisk
Tiny Basilisk
Reteller of Truths
Spectral Roc
Free Speech
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($8)
Mirror #1 - ($6)
Tech 2, Truth - ($2)
Create Basilisk Mirror from mirror #2 - ($0)
Basilisk and mirror kill Oni and Vir
Worker
Float ($0)
Discard 1, draw 3
[B]Board Info:[/B]
[B]In Patrol:[/B]
[I]Squad Leader[/I]: Quonce Level 5 (1/5+A)
[I]Elite[/I]:
[I]Scavenger[/I]: Mirror #1 (0/1)
[I]Technician[/I]: Merfolk Prospector (1/1)
[I]Lookout[/I]:
[B]In Play:[/B]
Rich Earth
Verdant Tree 3 (ASSIMILATED BOO)
[B]Buildings:[/B]
STARTING HAND
Overeager Cadet
Sacrifice the Weak
Poisonblade Rogue
WORKERS
Summon Skeletons
Skeletal Archery
Jandra, the Negator
NextHand
Assimilate
Gorgon
Overeager Cadet
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($8)
KotC to 2 runes Skip worker
Summon Orpal - ($6) Imp hits Quince, survives; Quince takes 1 after armor Orpal casts Sacrifice the Weak, which skips over Haunt and hits Imp (to Graveyard!) and makes you sac your Mirror; you get $1 - ($4) Exhaust Graveyard to recruit Imp (Where have I seen this guy before?); Random.org sez: “discard card 3 of 3 this time” - ($1)
Recruit Overeager Cadet Haunt hits your base for 1
Float ($1)
Discard 1, draw 1, reshuffle, draw 2
Board Info: In Patrol:
Squad Leader: Thieving Imp (2/2+a)
Elite:
Scavenger: Overeager Cadet (2/2)
Technician: Orpal Gloor, Lv. 1 (1/3, Hits with runes)
Lookout: In Play:
Pestering Haunt (1/1, Unstoppable, Can’t Patrol)
In the Future: Knight of the Conclave (4/4, Resist 1) @2 Time Runes
Graveyard 3 HP
In Graveyard: Skeleton Javelineer
Verdant Tree 3 HP, Healing 1 (Used to be yours! Mine now!) Buildings:
@Kaelii Okay, fixed. I’m down a card because I had to use Sac the Weak (and I re-drew), and Orpal is smaller at Lv. 1, and Random.org said Card #3 this time for your discard.
Summon Skeletons
Skeletal Archery
Jandra, the Negator
NextHand
Deteriorate
Boot Camp
Sacrifice the Weak
Cursed Crow
Discard
Gorgon
Assimilate
Boot Camp
Carrion Curse
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid + float - ($9)
KotC to 1 rune Skip worker Thieving Imp suicides into Troq, knocking off armor and dealing 1 Exhaust Graveyard to resurrect Imp. So cheeky! Random.org sez: “Discard card #2” - ($6)
Max Orpal - ($1)
Recruit a second Overeager Cadet Orpal midband: sacrifice the fresh Cadet (to Graveyard) to put a -1/-1 rune on Prospector, killing it Orpal maxband: both Mirrors die; you get a card and $1 Veteran Cadet trades with Troq Orpal hits Quince for 2, taking 1; Quince now 0/2 Haunt hits Quince for 1; Quince now 0/1
Quince lives!
Float ($1)
Discard 2, draw 4
Board Info: In Patrol:
Squad Leader:
Elite:
Scavenger: Thieving Imp (2/2)
Technician:
Lookout: In Play:
Orpal Gloor, Lv. 6 (2/4, Hits with runes)
Pestering Haunt (1/1, Unstoppable, Can’t patrol)
In the Future: Knight of the Conclave (4/4, Resist 1) @1 Time Runes
Graveyard 3 HP
In Graveyard: Skeleton Javelineer, Overeager Cadet, Overeager Cadet
Verdant Tree 3 HP, Healing 1 (Used to be yours! Mine now!) Buildings:
Base HP: 20
Tech I HP: 5
Heroes’ Hall HP: 4
Economy Info: Cards:
Hand: 4
Deck: 2
Disc: 4 Gold:
Gold: 1
Workers: 8
[details=Thoughts]
Well, I just have to hope the Imp hit Kaelii’s Gryphon. If not? Well… I have a hand full of removal, and Boot Camp counts as Gryphon removal. I don’t think I’m dead this turn.
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid + Scavenger + Technician Draw - ($11)
Son Mirror - ($9)
Free Speech is not for Orpal or you - ($7)
Midori - ($5)
Macciatus, the Whisperer - ($3)
Tower - ($0)
Float ($0)
Discard 1, draw 3
[B]Board Info:[/B]
[B]In Patrol:[/B]
[I]Squad Leader[/I]: Macciatus, the Whisperer (3/3+A)
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid + float - ($9)
The future is now! KotC arrives.
Weird Ant Tree heals Orpal back to 2/5
Worker - ($8)
Exhaust Graveyard to recruit Cadet: dead, but still Overeager! (Now eager for brains, but whatcha gonna do?) Thieving Imp suicides into Macciatus, dealing 1 after armor Orpal kills Macciatus, taking 3 damage, plus 1 from Tower Pestering Haunt kills Quince; you’re back to 4 cards in hand! Haunt dies to Tower and Graveyard overflows
Exhaust Verdant Tree to build buildings instantly
Build Tech II (Disease) - ($4)
Recruit Cursed Crow - ($1)
Float ($1)
Discard 2, draw 2, reshuffle, draw 2
Board Info: In Patrol:
Squad Leader: Knight of the Conclave (4/4+a, Resist 1)
Elite:
Scavenger: Overeager Cadet (2/2)
Technician: Cursed Crow (3/3, Causes discard on hitting base)
Lookout: In Play:
Orpal Gloor, Lv. 6 (2/1, Hits with runes)
Verdant Tree 3 HP, Healing 1 (Used to be yours! Mine now!) Buildings:
Base HP: 20
Tech I HP: 5
Tech II HP: 5 (Disease)
Heroes’ Hall HP: 4
Economy Info: Cards:
Hand: 4
Deck: 11
Disc: 0 Gold:
Gold: 1
Workers: 9
[details=Thoughts]
No spells or Orpal abilities! Denied! Teched in a Death and Decay on the odd chance that Orpal’s still at max when I draw it. If I’d have teched 2x, then it looks I would have drawn one. I just don’t know what Kaelii will hit with Gryphon. Thankfully, no new mirrors next turn, so if I can kill the first, the Gryphon will be targetable. EDIT: HAH!
Tiny Basilisk
Merfolk Prospector
Trojan duck-duck
Trojan duck-goose
Free Speech
Playful Panda
Macciatus, the Whisperer
Spectral Flagbearer
Tech 0 card(s)
Get Paid - ($10)
LIBERTY I JUST WANT TO BE FREE - ($7)
LIBERTY, EVERYONE WANTS TO BE ME - ($4)
Liberate Knight of the Conclaive
Liberate Orpal, Midori to 3
Midori kills OE cadet, you gain a gold
Midband Midori - ($2)
Reteller of Truths - ($0)
Float ($0)
Discard 1, draw 3
[B]Board Info:[/B]
[B]In Patrol:[/B]
[I]Squad Leader[/I]: Reteller of Truths (3/3+A)
[I]Elite[/I]:
[I]Scavenger[/I]:
[I]Technician[/I]: Son Mirror (1/2)
[I]Lookout[/I]:
[B]In Play:[/B]
Rich Earth
Midori level 5 (3/4)
Verdant Tree 3 (ASSIMILATED BOO)
Liberty: ““I just want to be Free”” Griffon (5/5) unstoppable, untargetable, unattackable while I have illusions, Flying Haste
Liberty: ““Everyone wants to be Me”” Griffon (5/5) unstoppable, untargetable, unattackable while I have illusions, Flying Haste
[B]Buildings:[/B]
Oh, I done goof’d a long time ago. You’re just seeing the results now.
More recently, I goofed in that I didn’t notice the Tower last turn. So my Haunt should be dead, Orpal should have been a 2/1 (not 2/2), and I should have an overfull graveyard in my discard pile before my shuffle/redraw.
I’m going to fix it real quick, but it looks like mighty long odds that I can survive.
Is your mirror really still 1/2? I thought Macciatus granted a continuous bonus to all illusions while he’s around, then they lose it when he dies. Otherwise the +1/+1 would have been an “Arrives” ability, right?
Let me know if you want to change your turn at all (though I can’t imagine you would).
@Kaelii All fixed, though by chance, I drew exactly the same hand.
I think the mirror is a 1/2 because of Midori midband – mirror illusion 0/1 with no abilities. Quonce has abilities that care about the mirror, but the mirror doesn’t appear to have any abilities itself I think.
Only thing I might do different is trade Son Mirror for orpal and do 5 to your face parts instead – IF it doesn’t force me to target my griffons that is; not entirely sure about that interaction, and even then I might still not want to. My current line is still pretty solid so I’ll keep it.
So I’ll just keep my turn with slightly less embelishment basically.
I can kill the Reteller with Crow, and I can play a Plague Lab, but with the buff from Midori Son Mirror won’t die, so the Gryphons aren’t even targetable. AND I don’t have anything to target them with if they were. I pulled out Vir and peeked just in case something interesting was on top, but it was Graveyard.
Good game, and well played!
This was my first time trying out Black Starter, my first time trying out Disease, and my first time trying out Future. Also my second time with Peace, if you count our Free for Draft. Thanks for making it so fun!
Orpal is better than I thought he’d be, though there were several times when I had my turn lined up, then realized his mid and max can’t hit heroes and had to redo.
I know that with Peace Engine and Omegas/Hive/Voidstar available to me, Disease was the last place I should have gone, but I was hoping to draw the Crows early enough to keep pressure on your hand, and the discard and Haunt were the main reasons I went with Disease. I’m guessing it works better with Mono Black so ye can throw Shadow Blades into the mix.
Is there a specific concept to your deck? Were you just going to throw an army of Basilisks at everything? I like it, and you played a hell of a Truth game, but I’m curious to read why you put those together.
I just wanted to get as many 0-cost units as possible; pretty sure it wouldn’t go well, but wanted to try it anyway. Got further than I thought I would. (:
[I]Squad Leader[/I]:
[I]Elite[/I]:
[I]Scavenger[/I]:
[I]Technician[/I]:
[I]Lookout[/I]:
Base HP: 20
[I]Squad Leader[/I]:
[I]Elite[/I]:
[I]Scavenger[/I]:
[I]Technician[/I]:
[I]Lookout[/I]:
Base HP: 20
[I]Technician[/I]: Onimaru, Lv. 1 (2/3, Frenzy 1)
3 HP
3 HP, Healing 1 (Used to be yours! Mine now!)