Reversal, Speed of the Fox
Martial Mastery, Sparring Partner
Fox’s Den School, Bird’s Nest
Glorious Ninja x2
Ardra’s Boulder, Sparring Partner
Main:
Glorious Ninja kills your SQL, takes 1 from tower, my base to 15
Glorious Ninja (we’ll call the new one Scorpion and the old one Sub-Zero) arrives, it kills Bugblatter, takes 1 from tower, my base to 14, you get a card (4)
Snapback Jaina for Zane, clearing the patrol (1)
Sparring Partner trains Grave to be a true shoto master, he breaks your tech 2, takes 1 damage, your base to 16
Worker (0)
Workers
Bird’s Nest, Savior Monk, Grappling Hook, Fox Viper, Fox Primus
Patrol as below
Discard 2 Draw 4
Tech 2 cards before my next turn
Board Info:
Buildings:
Base HP: 14
Tech1 HP: 5
Tech2 HP: 5 NINJUTSU
Tower HP: 4
In Patrol:
Squad Leader: Ardra’s Boulder (0/6+1armor)
Elite:
Scavenger:
Technician:
Lookout:
In Play:
Sparring Partner (2/1)
Grave (5/5 lvl 7 no sword)
Glorious Ninja Scorpion (4/2 swift strike)
Glorious Ninja Sub-Zero (4/2 swift strike)
Safe Attacking
Economy Info:
Cards:
Hand: 4
Deck: 1
Disc: 5
Gold:
Gold: 0
Workers: 10
End of Turn Hand
Sparring Partner
Smoker
Fox’s Den School
Martial Mastery
End of Turn Discard
Snapback
Reversal
Speed of the Fox
Morningstar Flagbearer
Aged Sensei
My Thoughts
With just Zane and no tech 2, I think I should be able to lock him down permanently from here!
Sparring Partner
Smoker (discarded to MM then redrawn lol)
Fox’s Den School
Martial Mastery
Sensei’s Advice + Smoker (MM draw 1 rs draw 1, lol)
Events of Turn:
Upkeep:
Get Gold (10)
Tech 1 card in
All Teched Cards
Fuzz Cuddles
Reversal, Speed of the Fox
Martial Mastery, Sparring Partner
Fox’s Den School, Bird’s Nest
Glorious Ninja x2
Ardra’s Boulder, Sparring Partner
Main:
Martial Mastery, dc 1 draw 1 rs draw 1, peek at your hand (9)
Rook (7)
Fox’s Den School (3)
Sparring Partner (2)
Sensei’s Advice to GN Scorpion and hurt sparring partner(1)
Hurt sparring partner trades with Zane, Rook to level 3
Grave kills Taxman and Sparkshots Dog, takes 4, you get a gold and a card
GN Scorpion breaks your tech 2, spotted by tower but armor absorbs 1, your base to 14
GN Sub-Zero breaks your tower, isn’t spotted doing so, your base to 12
Workers
Bird’s Nest, Savior Monk, Grappling Hook, Fox Viper, Fox Primus
Patrol as below
Discard 1 Draw 3
Tech 2 cards before my next turn
Board Info:
Buildings:
Base HP: 14
Tech1 HP: 5
Tech2 HP: 5 NINJUTSU
Tower HP: 4
In Patrol:
Squad Leader: Rook (2/4+1armor lvl 3)
Elite:
Scavenger: Grave (5/1 lvl 7 no sword)
Technician: Ardra’s Boulder (0/6)
Lookout: Sparring Partner (2/2)
In Play:
Glorious Ninja Scorpion (4/2 swift strike invisible)
Glorious Ninja Sub-Zero (4/2 swift strike invisble)
Fox’s Den School (4hp invisible)
Safe Attacking
Economy Info:
Cards:
Hand: 4
Deck: 1
Disc: 5
Gold:
Gold: 1
Workers: 10
End of Turn Hand
Speed of the Fox
Aged Sensei
Morningstar Flagbearer
End of Turn Discard
Snapback
Reversal
Speed of the Fox
Morningstar Flagbearer
Aged Sensei
My Thoughts
Yup, took a lot of cards but I can lock him off my ninjas! He’s floating a boat-load so he’ll be able to Kidnap + Bloodlust Drakk and whatever his technician is, but I’ll still have both ninjas invisibly ready to strike!
ill gg it there. that was the strategy i was trying to pull off, just didnt cycle it as well. i think ill need a break after all these trouncings. thanks for playing!
GG WP! The Ninja Strat almost did work for you, too. That game was tough for me!
In this game, I think if you’d gone crashbarrows or gliders first instead of bugblatters, you would have had me. It was nerve-wracking trying to figure out how best to patrol and spend gold to keep the edge!
Totally understand wanting a break, let me know if you wanna pick things back up otherwise hope all outside the virtual table!
STARTING HAND
Manufactured Truth
Porkhand Magistrate
Arrest
Spectral Aven
Building Inspector
WORKERS
Porkhand Magistrate
NextHand
Bluecoat Musketeer
Lawful Search
Reputable Newsman
Traffic Director
Discard
Manufactured Truth
Arrest
Tech 0 card(s)
Get Paid - ($5)
Worker - ($4)
Spectral Aven - ($2)
Building Inspector - ($1)
Float ($1)
Discard 2, draw 4
[B]Board Info:[/B]
[B]In Patrol:[/B]
[I]Squad Leader[/I]:
[I]Elite[/I]:
[I]Scavenger[/I]:
[I]Technician[/I]: Building Inspector (1/1)
[I]Lookout[/I]:
[B]In Play:[/B]
Spectral Aven (2/2)
[B]Buildings:[/B]
Base HP: 20
[B]Economy Info:[/B]
[B]Cards:[/B]
Hand: 4
Deck: 1
Disc: 2
[B]Gold:[/B]
Gold: 1
Workers: 6
Thoughts
Grave and Sensei, the classic agro opening. Not sure if I can safely bring out a hero at the moment. Dropping building inspectorand just going for rewards. aven can hit his hero moving forward.
newsman and traffic director hopefully next turn, along with quince.
Stupid Aven… Going Bird’s nest and Sparring Partner, safe attacking eliminates the Inspector without issue, he’ll kill Sensei to trade back, and hopefully I draw birds (best case I draw both!). If I miss on either, I’ll lay Monk or Smoker and level Grave to just trade well or something.
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Got both, woo!. That should be productive for next turn and shutting down the damn Aven.
Since he’s going to have thise heavy hitting hero’s, i think Brave Knight and a Cadet or Free Speech combo should work nicely.
TD is a good patroller as he is untargetable, that elminates all but SH.
going cadet and knight, basically i think i need to have good trades all game to make a comeback against his hero’s rush. definnitely eliminating 2 cost spells becaus eof birds. that should give me some solid value from aven for the next turn or two.
not patroller illusion just in case i get manufactred truth and i can double aven on a hero.
Didn’t think about Newsman, combined with TD in the way and I’m super-fucked right now… MTruth is going to get a kill, so I might as well try to maximize my benefit out of that. I don’t want Rook out b/c I want to lay birds as soon as I get them. Teching up might be the smart way to handle this, but I’m going to try to maximize ground tempo and go Twins. Not sure that’s the right call but not sure how else to approach…
Training Grounds, Young Lightning Dragon
Rambasa Twin, Bird’s Nest
Bird’s Nest, Sparring Partner
Main:
Grappling Hook BK to Lookout
Grave kills OC, sparkshots 1 to BK, takes 2 back, you get a card
Maxband Grave and Huck a sword at Quince, he dies, Sets to level 3 (3)
Midband Sets, swift strike BK dead (2)
Smoker (1)
Worker (0)
Workers
Savior Monk, Bird’s Nest, Fox Viper, Fox Primus
Patrol as below
Discard 2 Draw 4
Tech 2 cards before my next turn
Board Info:
Buildings:
Base HP: 20
Tech1 HP: 5
Hero’s Hall HP: 4
In Patrol:
Squad Leader:
Elite:
Scavenger: Smoker (1/1)
Technician:
Lookout:
In Play:
Grave (4/5 lvl 7, no sword)
Setsuki Hiruki (2/3 lvl 4)
Safe Attacking
Economy Info:
Cards:
Hand: 4
Deck: 0
Disc: 6
Gold:
Gold: 0
Workers: 8
End of Turn Hand
Rambasa Twin
Aged Sensei
Bird’s Nest
Snapback
End of Turn Discard
Sparring Partner
Training Grounds
Young Lightning Dragon
Grappling Hook
Morningstar Flagbearer
Sensei’s Advice
My Thoughts
Well, I’m pretty stoutly abandoning my primary strategies for dealing with Aven with this move… Which isn’t great. I’m almost hoping for him to go after Sets now. However, if he doesn’t I suppose that isn’t the worst thing for me to have her able to be maxbanded. I kind of want to tech up AND lay either Birds or Twins next turn, so I’m going to throw smoker in front and hope he either kills Smoker or Sets with an MTruth. Going Discipline b/c Training Grounds just feels so right, and I can fall back on YLD to deal with the Aven if I can’t get Birds down (and now can’t use a sword…)
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($8)
tech draw
knight returns to hand
worker - ($7)
Bigby - ($5)
tech 2 peace - ($1)
aven taps grave for 2
stash a card
Float ($1)
Stash 1, Discard 3, draw 4
[B]Board Info:[/B]
[B]In Patrol:[/B]
[I]Squad Leader[/I]: Illusion (0/1+A)
[I]Elite[/I]:
[I]Scavenger[/I]: Reputable Newsman (0/3)
[I]Technician[/I]:
[I]Lookout[/I]: Bigby (2/3)
[B]In Play:[/B]
Spectral Aven (2/2)
[B]Buildings:[/B]
Base HP: 18
Tech I HP: 5
Tech II HP: 5 (Peace)
[B]Economy Info:[/B]
[B]Cards:[/B]
Hand: 5
Deck: 0
Disc: 5
[B]Gold:[/B]
Gold: 1
Workers: 9
Thoughts
ugh, how did i miss that? this is why im not good at codex. well, im not sure if there was a way to avoind it anyways. not my fault i go for quince to use MFT, and i wiff it. but i should have probably gone oni to threaten more board clear.
well, bigby to stash the garrison i have (should have thought of that sooner). garrison next turn, maybe a free speach if i can
[I]Squad Leader[/I]: Brogre (3/2+A)
[I]Elite[/I]:
[I]Scavenger[/I]: jaina (2/3)
[I]Technician[/I]: Captuerd Bugbladder (4/2)
[I]Lookout[/I]:
[I]Squad Leader[/I]: Brogre (3/2+A)
[I]Elite[/I]:
[I]Scavenger[/I]: jaina (2/3)
[I]Technician[/I]: Captuerd Bugbladder (4/2)
[I]Lookout[/I]:
Base HP: 18
Base HP: 18
Patrol as below
Base HP: 14
Squad Leader: Ardra’s Boulder (0/6+1armor)
Elite:
Scavenger:
Technician:
Lookout: