LLL 2: EricF ([Blood]/Strength/Growth) vs. Zejety ([Necro]/Blood/Fire)

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P2T7

[details=Turn secrets]* Hand: Thieving Imp, Deteriorate, Lobber, Hooded Executioner, Graveyard

  • garth-drawn card: Nether Drain
  • Worker: Thieving Imp
  • Tech: Doom Grasp, Shoddy Glider
  • Thoughts: Lucky Nether Drain! Letting Arg live without something on the board for him to buff leaves me relatively safe unless I am missing something. He can kill my Drakk if he draw a Dinosize or something comparable, but my buildings are safe!
    I’ve missed another opportunity to play a Graveyard but I’m not sure it would have been worth the risk to keep a bird alive (playing Lobber andCrash Bombing a Bird instead of a Wisp) Worst case, that Bird suddenly deals 10 damage or more.
    [/details]

Turn:

  • Start of turn:

  • Tech 2 cards

  • Collect 9 gold (9)

  • Main phase:

  • Make a Skeleton (8)

  • Sacrifice said Skeleton to draw a card

  • L2 Drakk (5)

  • Nether Drain midbands Rook and Drakk (4)

  • Deteriorate to kill the non-patrolling Bird

  • Garth and Crash Bomber trade with Rook, CB also kills the Scavenger Bird; Arg levels to 3 and you get 1 gold; Drakk max-bands

  • Hooded Executioner (2), gets haste

  • Lobber (1)

  • Worker (0)

  • Lobber kills your Wisp; you draw a card

  • Hooded Executioner destroys your Heroes’ Hall; your base takes 2 damage

  • End of turn:

  • Discard 1, draw 3

  • Float X

Patrol:

  • :psblueshield: Leader:
  • :psfist: Elite:
  • :ps_: Scavenger: MAX Drakk (3/4)
  • :pschip: Technician:
  • :target: Lookout:

Board:

  • Characters:
  • Hooded Executioner (3/3)
  • Lobber (2/2)
  • Buildings:
  • :psgem: Base (12)
  • :ps1gem: T1 (5)
  • :ps2gem: T2 (4)
  • Spec: Blood

Economy:

  • Workers: 10
  • Gold: 0
  • Hand: 3
  • Deck: 0
  • Discard: 12
New hand

Bone Collector, Ogre Recruiter, Crashbarrow

Discard

Crashbarrow, Cinderblast Dragon, Cinderblast Dragon, Pestering Haunt, Skeletal Archery, Skeleton Javelineer, Shoddy Glider, Doom Grasp, Nether Drain, Crash Bomber, Deteriorate, Graveyard

22

Was really hoping you wouldn’t have Nether Drain in hand there…

[details=P1, Turn 8]Stampede
Bloodlust
Bird’s Nest -> Worker
Scorch
Makeshift Rambaster
+Pillage
[/details]
Tech nothing
10 gold (11)
Re-build Hero’s Hall (9)
Max Arg (7)
Scorch your Base for 2 (3)
Pillage your Base for 1 (1)
Worker (0)
Discard 3, Draw 4, rs, Draw 1

SQL - Elemental (3/3 +1)
Scavenger - L5 Arg (1/5)

Base - 17
Hero’s Hall - 4

11 workers, 0 gold
Hand: 5
Deck: 8
Discard: 0

[details=Next hand]Bird’s Nest
Bombaster
Mad Man
Earthquake
Dinosize
[/details]

23

It’s even harsher. I drew it with the Skeleton-sacrifice.

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P2T8

[details=Turn secrets]* Hand: Bone Collector, Ogre Recruiter, Crashbarrow

  • Worker: -
  • Tech: Nether Drain, War Drums
  • Thoughts: 9 HP is scary. I think playing it safe is the right call. Hoping for Dragon draws is kind of too hopeful anyway. Not playing Ogre because he is the scarier thing to get Kidnapped.
    [/details]

Turn:

  • Start of turn:
  • Tech 2 cards
  • Collect 10 gold (10)
  • Main phase:
  • Jaina (8)
  • Bone Collector (6), gets haste
  • Crashbarrow (3)
  • Crashbarrow trades with the Water Elemental and deals 3 damage to Arg
  • Lobber kills Arg, taking 1 damage; you get 1 gold and Jaina levels to 3
  • Hooded Executioner deals 4 damage to your base
  • Bone Collector destroys your Heroes’ Hall; your base takes 2 damage and I get a Skeleton
  • End of turn:
  • Discard 1, reshuffle, draw 3
  • Float 3

Patrol:

  • :psblueshield: Leader: L3 Jaina (2/3A)
  • :psfist: Elite:
  • :ps_: Scavenger: MAX Drakk (3/4)
  • :pschip: Technician: Skeleton (1/1)
  • :target: Lookout:

Board:

  • Characters:
  • Hooded Executioner (3/3)
  • Bone Collector (3/3)
  • Lobber (2/1)
  • Buildings:
  • :psgem: Base (9)
  • :ps1gem: T1 (5)
  • :ps2gem: T2 (4)
  • Spec: Blood

Economy:

  • Workers: 10
  • Gold: 3
  • Hand: 3
  • Deck: 13
  • Discard: 0
New hand

Skeleton Javelineer, Crash Bomber, Deteriorate

[details=Discard][/details]

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[details=P1, Turn 9]Bird’s Nest
Bombaster
Mad Man
Earthquake
Dinosize
[/details]
Tech nothing
11 gold (12)
Max Rook (3)
Bird’s Nest (1)
Mad Man (0)
Discard 3, Draw 5

SQL - L8 Rook (4/6 +1) w/ Bird’s Nest
Scavenger - Mad Man (1/1)

Bird (1/1)
Bird (1/1)

Base - 11

11 workers, 0 gold
Hand: 5
Deck: 3
Discard: 3

[details=Next hand]Stampede
Bloodlust
Makeshift Rambaster
Kidnapping
War Drums
[/details]

26

Correct me if I made a mistake, but I think this is GG:

P2T9

[details=Turn secrets]* Hand: Skeleton Javelineer, Crash Bomber, Deteriorate

  • Garth-draw: Skeletal Archery
  • Worker: -
  • Tech: Shoddy Glider
  • Thoughts:
    [/details]

Turn:

  • Start of turn:
  • Tech 2 cards
  • Collect 10 gold +3 float (13)
  • Main phase:
  • Mid-band Jaina (12)
  • Jaina suicides into Rook, dealing 3-A damage (11)
  • Summon and mid-band Garth (6)
  • Don’t notice I have lethal and do a pointless thing: Make and sacrifice a Skeleton to draw a card (5)
  • Bone Collector trades with Rook’s first live; I get a Skeleton
  • Crash Bomber (4), gets haste
  • Crash Bomber suicides into Rook, dealing 3 damage and killing Mad Man; you get 1 gold
  • Lobber trades with Rook, Garth levels to 6
  • Hooded Executioner deals 4 damage to your base <now at 7>
  • Drakk deals 3 damage to your base <now at 4>
  • Max Garth, summon a Shoddy Glider (3)
  • Shoddy Glider finishes off your base.
27

gg! not landing a Birds Nest on Turn 3 or 4 completely wrecked my gameplan - well played!

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28

It was really tough considering I had two tech levels on you!
Was spending one gold on a Tech I really not worth it for you though? Maybe even just as a scare tactic?

And yes, I was concerned about Bird’s Nests from the very start. Actually workered StW over Skeleton Archery just to have some anti-air. Ended up playing neither (and no Graveyard!) because I had to respect Kidnapping, and to a lesser degree Bloodlust, all the time.

29

I was considering it as a bluff, but I did end up using that gold eventually…

This spec combo really doesn’t have good Tech 1 options.

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30

That was certainly my experience playing with it