Casual: petE (Black) vs Shadow (Purple)

[Shadow_Night_Black]

That would be the case if the xenostalker was to attack the void blocker, rather then garth.

[petE]

Very well played !

[Shadow_Night_Black]

@petE

If you broke my Tech3 to stop a second Zarramonde, wouldn’t be necessary as it’s Legendary so I can’t have two in play.

Yes, but you could play the second to kill something after attacking with the first to give yourself a fresh blocker and to blow up something else. (I didn’t want to have to chew threw an 11/12 to blow up your tech buildings/your base)

@Jadiel

I still think you would have been better playing Geiger on T2. There was no way he could kill him in SQL, and you would have had an unkillable 2/3 without spending a card, instead of a 3/2 which cost a card and he killed at the cost of a 0-cost spell.

I agree that Neo was probably not the right card there. TBH I should have probably playing Fargo T1 and Mox T2 rather then Battlesuits into Nullcraft/Neo.

@Jadiel

Geiger still heals whenever he levels which gives you a lot of option on the offence, and makes your opponent play around them, makes suiciding heros (such as Zane!) a lot more costly, and Geiger’s maxband is pretty good, especially with Nullcraft on the table.

Agreed, but there is very little he can actually fight and live at this point. Skeletons are dealt with by Nullcraft/Stewardess (and I want her in the deck as an answer to Lich’s Bargain). Plus I really don’t have the gold in the first 3/4 turns to level him with when going first as purple, esp if I want to float any to keep Glax’s around (and the blockers were about to become 3/3 in taxman/bone collectors by my reckoning). Finnally I find that Geieger normaly dies then around Turn 4/5, right when I want to use him for Now! and Temporal Distortion.[quote=“Jadiel, post:99, topic:3171”]
But, the game has different play styles, and maybe you just don’t like early purple heroes…
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And that’s why I like it, thanks for the thoughts, it is always helpful to see another’s perspective on what you should/shouldn’t do. It is something that I should definitely try again at some point to see if my old observations still hold now I might be slightly better at the game.

[Jadiel]

@Shadow_Night_Black

And that’s why I like it, thanks for the thoughts, it is always helpful to see another’s perspective on what you should/shouldn’t do. It is something that I should definitely try again at some point to see if my old observations still hold now I might be slightly better at the game.

No problem. I can see where you are coming from, and I think it’s very game-state dependent. I certainly wouldn’t suggest playing heroes every game, or even every game your opponent plays Garth, but I think there are definitely game states where an early hero is the right play. Heroes are high risk/reward plays, and can lose you games, but they can also win them, and they usually give your opponent a lot more to think about, so I certainly wouldn’t dismiss them out of hand.