interesting opening. ogre is a relatively easy counter, even with wither it kills the Ninja. more like he blocks and ogre gets to trade or maybe mad man helps me get a hero kill. floating the other 2 gold to make zane extra scary. but really I want to tank and rush tech 2 growth. wither on rook here would suck, but that’s blocked easily with lookout at least at this stage. probably his ideal play is just tenderfoot hero tech 1. I can expect fencers I think, but really his only chance is breaking my tech 2. and even then I have zane shenanigans.
STARTING HAND
Pillage
Careless Musketeer
Charge
Nautical Dog
Mad Man
WORKERS
Bloodburn
Pillage
NextHand
Careless Musketeer
Blooming Ancient
Bird’s Nest
Bloodrage Ogre
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid + float + scav - ($9)
Worker - ($8)
Tech 1 - ($6)
Mad Man - ($5)
Nautical Dog - ($4)
Argagarg - ($2)
Float ($2)
Discard 2, reshuffle, draw 4
[B]Board Info:[/B]
[B]In Patrol:[/B]
[I]Squad Leader[/I]: Mad Man 1/1+A
[I]Elite[/I]:
[I]Scavenger[/I]: Wisp 0/1
[I]Technician[/I]: Nautical Dog 1/1
[I]Lookout[/I]:
[B]In Play:[/B]
Argagarg 1/3, lvl 1
[B]Buildings:[/B]
Base HP: 20
Tech I HP: 5
[B]Economy Info:[/B]
[B]Cards:[/B]
Hand: 4
Deck: 4
Disc: 0
[B]Gold:[/B]
Gold: 2
Workers: 7
Thoughts
hmm there’s enough haste options for him to do a real number on any defenders I aim for. I could kill river and tenderfoot, but it’s pretty costly. either 2 or 3 cards. so rook as defense. I need to make sure anything he uses to kill rook also dies, barring wither. Midband rook is really expensive though. throwing out 2 1/1s and an arg though, Guess I’m betting for fencers over discord…
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($6)
Nimble Fencer - ($4)
Nimble Fencer kills Mad Man
Timely Messenger - ($3)
Timely Messenge kills Wisp, you get 1 gold
Tenderfoot kills Nautical Dog, you get 1 card
Bloom on River - ($1)
River kills Argagarg, River to level 3 midband
Worker - ($0)
STARTING HAND
Older Brother
Brick Thief
Nimble Fencer
WORKERS
Granfalloon Flagbearer
Helpful Turtle
Fruit Ninja (2/2+1Armor)
Older Brother
NextHand
Nimble Fencer
Star-Crossed Starlet
Wither
Bloom
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($7)
Nimble Fencer and Timely Messenger trade with Bloodrage Ogre
River attacks Rook down to 1
Tenderfoot trades with Rook, River up to level 5 maxband, you get 1 gold
Worker - ($6)
Tech II Peace - ($2)
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($8)
Might of Leaf and Claw - ($5)
Mad Man, BA+1 - ($4)
Zane, BA+1 - ($2)
Nautical Dog, BA+1 - ($1)
Blooming Ancient kills Onimaru, MOLAC+1, Zane to lvl 3
Move 3 Runes to Bombaster, kills River, Zane to lvl 5, MOLAC+1
Wisp kills Scav, MOLAC+1
Zane kills Technician, we both draw a card too, MOLAC+1
Maxband Zane, move Elite to scav, we both get 1g
Makeshift Rambaster breaks tech 2, MOLAC ACTIVE
Arg breaks Tech 1
Mad Man hits base to 8
Worker - ($0)
Just realized there was a winning play there. I thought I was one short of lethal, but I could have killed blooming and moved the last rune to get the lethal.
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($9)
Scavenger - ($11)
Rebuild Tech 1
Quince, Mirror Illusion - ($9)
Tenderfoot - ($8)
Brick Thief, your base down to 19, my base up to 17 - ($6)
Timely Messenger - ($5)
Surplus - ($0)
That may be, but it’s also a hard match-up. MoLaC on its own is really tough to deal with without some explicit upgrade removal (Versatile Style/Assimilate). Add in Blooming Ancient on cheap red critters and Arg’s inate freebie critters, and early MoLaC triggers from hasty red and Rook’s birds, and getting Tech II up is almost an auto-win for him.
I don’t know if there’s anything you could have done to break his Tech before then, given that you only drew 1 fencer on Turn 3. Arg made for solid defense (and having Rook as backup didn’t hurt).
Maybe starting with Oni instead of Fruit Ninja/River, and teching Bootcamp or Elite Training to help you break through early? He might not have been able to handle an early Max Oni, either (if you could get him there incrementally with some hero kills), and Art of War would stop that Tech II nonsense. The trick would be getting him to survive Zane/red.
Discord is also pretty potent. But the main point to be made is growth engine is generally faster than peace engine, so you have to plan on tripping up the growth engine while still setting up the peace engine. Ideally you setup for a double tech kill, but with Zane retaliation that can have a bit of backfire.
[I]Squad Leader[/I]: Fruit Ninja (2/2+1Armor)
[I]Elite[/I]:
[I]Scavenger[/I]:
[I]Technician[/I]:
[I]Lookout[/I]:
[I]Squad Leader[/I]: Fruit Ninja (2/2+1Armor)
[I]Elite[/I]:
[I]Scavenger[/I]:
[I]Technician[/I]:
[I]Lookout[/I]:
Base HP: 20
Base HP: 20