[XCAPS20] ROUND4 Shadow_Night_Black Monopurple vs Dwarddd Monopurple

damn, forgot elites effect. and this is why you make sure you do everything you can before you gain more information. fixing turn

Sorry for that, normally Iā€™d put a 2+1 like the ā€œaā€ for SQL but seems I got lazy! Hereā€™s to hoping it was the Now! which you drew beforeā€¦ :joy:

Unfortunetly not, and I may have drawn a much better card this time aroundā€¦
Also kinda wish I had hit your base for 1 point of damage at any point this game, being 1 off leathal is painful.

P1T7


Tech StartingHand Workers

TECH
Promise of Payment
Undo


STARTING HAND
Hyperion
Now!
Temporal Research
Warp Gate Disciple
Stewardess of the Undone
Temporal Distortion
Glaxx(4/4, Canā€™t be bounced)


WORKERS
Hardened Mox
Forgotten Fighter
Time Spiral
Plasmodium
Neo Plexus


NextHand

Unphase
Undo
Tinkerer (1/2)
Now!
Temporal Distortion


Discard

Hyperion
Now!
Temporal Distortion
Stewardess of the Undone
Glaxx(4/4, Canā€™t be bounced)
Warp Gate Disciple
Temporal Research
Tricycloid (3/3)


Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid + float - ($10)
Hyperion - ($5)
Hyperion trades with golgort, I reshuffle and Draw
Max Geiger, flicker Tric - ($3)
Tric pings Seer
Now! Tric - ($2)
Tric breaks tech 2, your base to 18
Geiger + a tric ping breaks tech 3, your base to 16
Tric pings your base for 1, your base to 15
Temporal Distortion Tic into a Hyperion - ($0)
Hyperion breaks your tech 1, I Draw, your base to 13

Float ($0)
Discard 5, draw 5


Board Info:
In Patrol:

  • :psblueshield: Squad Leader: Nullcraft (1/1)
  • :psfist: Elite:
  • :ps_: Scavenger:
  • :pschip: Technician:
  • :target: Lookout:

In Play:

  • Battle Suits
  • Geiger (3/3, lvl 5)
  • Hyperion (5/4, Haste)

Buildings:

  • :heart: Base HP: 20
  • :heart: Tech I HP: 5
  • :heart: Tech II HP: 5 (Present)

Economy Info:
Cards:

  • Hand: 5
  • Deck: 3
  • Disc: 8

Gold:

  • Gold: 0
  • Workers: 9
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Ouchhhh, yeah thats GG, well played! It was always going to be close trying to keep my tech buildings up against present and between poor cards and good plays from you I couldnt keep up

@zhavier they win

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That Emblem was such a good call. it stopping geiger flicker + my tric shots was very annoying (I had to debate playing vir to give my stewardess invisibility to kill it against the argo as well as all the lines you mentioned).
I think the only thing I might have done differently is making sure I had teched double rememberer double stewardess. the fact that you dont need to draw the archons (effectively giving you 3 shots to hit a tech 3) is a really big draw to them.
Either way though, I was just really lucky that both archons where at the bottom of the deck. I messed up badly in the opening turns (note to self, every normally good card in purple starter is a lot worse in the mirror). I probs should have teched harder into gieger spells once I saw you go past, but I was so worried about my chances after he died, that I forgot that I had to win before tech 3 :stuck_out_tongue: , so it really didnt matter.
Probably the game where I had to think the hardest about so many of my turns, would be really interesting to do again at some point ! (although maybe not when weā€™re both terrified about losing our spell casters!)

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Yeah I think purple is gonna be one of the multicolours with the most odd interactions, i.e. using cards not for their usual purpose, so it was fun! Yeah iā€™m annoyed at how little impact my tech 2 had, rarely seemed to have the right cards in hand so need to look at my teching and hand-size i think. Id be up for another match of this, i donā€™t mind if you want to wait until after tourney or start now? And yh letā€™s try with no map either way?

Iā€™m happy to start now :slight_smile: its almost the weekend so should have more time. I went first the game, so do you want to go first? otherwise rnd# 40

Past is definetly an oddball. Iā€™ve found it the hardest of the three specs to play well. The lack of interaction/fast plays really hurts, and its engine is not as resilient to being blown up as say Peace. Iā€™ve heard other players say it can be unstoppable, but Iā€™ve never managed it, nor really managed to dig into why they said so ( I imagine its the sudden tech 3 potential, or just theyā€™ve played against lines that I havenā€™t explored yet, maybe slow time generator is actually just a monster?).

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Iā€™ve had mixed results, I find one of the things it needs most is loads of cards; I managed an 18hp to death once with 2 now!ed Golgurts from a RnD play for example. And I guess part of what slow-time does is mean that peopleā€™s hands stay big because they can only manage to play cards every other turnā€¦
main time iā€™ve lost to Past that springs to mind was an Archon, but a lone Archon actually wouldnā€™t be instant game-over against Present anyway, youā€™d certainly have a nice hand the turn after Archon came out!

Anyway, letā€™s see how this goes:
Mono Purple Mirror match, no map
P1T1


StartingHand Workers

STARTING HAND
Nullcraft
Forgotten Fighter
Time Spiral
Tinkerer
Fading Argonaut


WORKERS
Forgotten Fighter


NextHand

Temporal Research
Plasmodium
Neo Plexus
Hardened Mox
Battle Suits


Discard

Time Spiral
Nullcraft
Fading Argonaut


Tech 0 card(s)
Get Paid - ($4)
Worker - ($3)
Hire Tinkerer - ($1)

Float ($1)
Discard 3, draw 5


Board Info:
In Patrol:

  • :psblueshield: Squad Leader:
  • :psfist: Elite:
  • :ps_: Scavenger:
  • :pschip: Technician:
  • :target: Lookout: Tinkerer(1/2) time-rune-tap

In Play:
*

Buildings:

  • :heart: Base HP: 20

Economy Info:
Cards:

  • Hand: 5
  • Deck: 0
  • Disc: 3

Gold:

  • Gold: 1
  • Workers: 5
Thoughts

hmm i think tinkerer wouldbe the meta play here but fargo is just so much more solidā€¦ iā€™m tempted to try tinkerer and then plasmodium next turn, iā€™d need them to not be agressive at all for that to work

GL HF!
P2T1


StartingHand Workers

STARTING HAND
Fading Argonaut
Tinkerer
Forgotten Fighter
Temporal Research
Nullcraft


WORKERS
Forgotten Fighter


NextHand

Battle Suits
Time Spiral
Plasmodium
Hardened Mox
Neo Plexus


Discard

Nullcraft
Fading Argonaut
Temporal Research


Tech 0 card(s)
Get Paid - ($5)
Worker - ($4)
Tinkerer - ($2)

Float ($2)
Discard 3, draw 5


Board Info:
In Patrol:

  • :psblueshield: Squad Leader: Tinkerer (1/2 + A)
  • :psfist: Elite:
  • :ps_: Scavenger:
  • :pschip: Technician:
  • :target: Lookout:

In Play:
*

Buildings:

  • :heart: Base HP: 20

Economy Info:
Cards:

  • Hand: 5
  • Deck: 0
  • Disc: 3

Gold:

  • Gold: 2
  • Workers: 6
Thoughts

Nullcraft or tinkerer? Im second, so just counteracting their turns leads to my advantage so tinkerer to stop a time rune senagens is good. Nullcraft is better if I want early seers (for really rushing tech 3 past.)

Thing game plan is going to be as follows
Stewardesses, Glaxx,
Golfort, SlowTime
Second Chances, Golgort,

P1T2


Tech StartingHand Workers

TECH
Unphase
Seer


STARTING HAND
Hardened Mox
Battle Suits
Temporal Research
Neo Plexus
Plasmodium


WORKERS
Forgotten Fighter
Hardened Mox


NextHand

Time Spiral
Unphase
Fading Argonaut
Temporal Research
Neo Plexus


Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid + float - ($6)
Worker - ($5)
hire plasmodium - ($3)
build tech 1 - ($2)
tap tinkerer for Plas
Hire Vir - ($0)

Float ($0)
Discard 3, reshuffle, draw 5


Board Info:
In Patrol:

  • :psblueshield: Squad Leader: Vir(2/3) sees the future
  • :psfist: Elite:
  • :ps_: Scavenger:
  • :pschip: Technician:
  • :target: Lookout:

In Play:

  • Plasmodium(4/4) haste forecast 2
  • Tinkerer(1/2) time-rune-tap

Buildings:

  • :heart: Base HP: 20
    Tech 1 5ph

Economy Info:
Cards:

  • Hand: 5
  • Deck: 3
  • Disc: 0

Gold:

  • Gold: 0
  • Workers: 6
Thoughts

hmm i think tinkerer wouldbe the meta play here but fargo is just so much more solidā€¦ iā€™m tempted to try tinkerer and then plasmodium next turn, iā€™d need them to not be agressive at all for that to work

P2T2


Tech StartingHand Workers

TECH
Stewardess of the Undone
Gilded Glaxx


STARTING HAND
Plasmodium
Time Spiral
Hardened Mox
Battle Suits
Neo Plexus


WORKERS
Forgotten Fighter
Hardened Mox


NextHand

Battlesuits
Nullcraft
Fading Argonaut
Temporal Research
Gilded Glaxx


Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid + float - ($8)
Tinker Readds rune to plasmo
Neo - ($6)
Tech 1 - ($5)
vir - ($3)
Worker - ($2)

Float ($2)
Discard 3, reshuffle, draw 5


Board Info:
In Patrol:

  • :psblueshield: Squad Leader: Neo Plexus (2/2)
  • :psfist: Elite:
  • :ps_: Scavenger:
  • :pschip: Technician: Vir (2/3, lvl 1)
  • :target: Lookout:

In Play:

  • Tinkerer (1/2 )

Buildings:

  • :heart: Base HP: 20
  • :heart: Tech I HP: 5

Economy Info:
Cards:

  • Hand: 5
  • Deck: 3
  • Disc: 0

Gold:

  • Gold: 2
  • Workers: 7
Thoughts

They opened Vir, so dont really want to risk the battlesuits atm. argos etc having 5 attack is really scary. Not yet deceided on Future/Past yet

Thing game plan is going to be as follows
Stewardesses, Glaxx,
Golfort, SlowTime
Second Chances, Golgort,

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P1T3


Tech StartingHand Workers

TECH
Argonaut
Promise of Payment


STARTING HAND
Unphase
Time Spiral
Temporal Research
Fading Argonaut
Neo Plexus
Nullcraft
Battle Suits


WORKERS
Forgotten Fighter
Hardened Mox
Battle Suits


NextHand

Neo Plexus(2/2)
Time Spiral
Seer
Argonaut
Unphase


Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid, plasmo goes to 2 runes again - ($6)
Worker - ($5)
Peek with Vir
Hire Fargo - ($3)
Temporal Research draw 2 - ($1)
Tinkerer taps and I use Time spiral to bring Plasmodium to the present, he kills your Neo Plexus - ($0)

Float ($0)
Discard 3, draw 1, reshuffle, draw 4


Board Info:
In Patrol:

  • :psblueshield: Squad Leader:
  • :psfist: Elite:
  • :ps_: Scavenger:
  • :pschip: Technician:
  • :target: Lookout: Fading Argonaut(2/3) fading 3 +r1

In Play:

  • Plasmodium(4/2) haste forecast 2
  • Tinkerer(1/2) time-rune-tap
  • Vir(2/3)

Buildings:

  • :heart: Base HP: 20
    tech 1 5hp

Economy Info:
Cards:

  • Hand: 5
  • Deck: 3
  • Disc: 0

Gold:

  • Gold: 0
  • Workers: 7

P2T3


Tech StartingHand Workers

TECH
Slow-Time Generator
Yesterdayā€™s Golgort


STARTING HAND
Fading Argonaut
Battlesuits
Gilded Glaxx
Temporal Research
Nullcraft


WORKERS
Forgotten Fighter
Hardened Mox
Temporal Research


NextHand

Plasmodium
Time Spiral
Stewardess of the Undone
Slow-Time Generator
Neo Plexus (2/2)


Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid + float - ($9)
Worker - ($8)
Tech 2 (Past) - ($4)
Glaxx - ($1)
Tinkerer Removes a rune from your Fargo

Float ($1)
Discard 3, draw 3, reshuffle, draw 2


Board Info:
In Patrol:

  • :psblueshield: Squad Leader: Gilded Glaxx (3/4 + A)
  • :psfist: Elite:
  • :ps_: Scavenger:
  • :pschip: Technician: Vir (2/3, lvl 1)
  • :target: Lookout:

In Play:

  • Tinkerer (1/2 )

Buildings:

  • :heart: Base HP: 20
  • :heart: Tech I HP: 5
  • :heart: Tech II HP: 5 (Past)

Economy Info:
Cards:

  • Hand: 5
  • Deck: 4
  • Disc: 0

Gold:

  • Gold: 1
  • Workers: 8
Thoughts

Lets go Past. See if we can make some fun stuff happen :slight_smile:

Thing game plan is going to be as follows
Stewardesses, Glaxx,
Golfort, SlowTime
Second Chances, Golgort,

P1T4


Tech StartingHand Workers

TECH
Hive
Omegacron


STARTING HAND
Seer
Neo Plexus(2/2)
Time Spiral
Argonaut
Unphase


WORKERS
Forgotten Fighter
Hardened Mox
Battle Suits
Neo Plexus(2/2)


NextHand

Temporal Research
Promise of Payment
Hive
Argonaut
Nullcraft


Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($7)
Peek with Vir
Worker - ($6)
Hire Seer, rune to Fargo - ($5)
tap tinkerer, fargo to 3 runes
Tech 2 future - ($1)

Float ($1)
Discard 3, draw 3, reshuffle, draw 2


Board Info:
In Patrol:

  • :psblueshield: Squad Leader: Plasmodium(4/2) haste forecast 2
  • :psfist: Elite:
  • :ps_: Scavenger:
  • :pschip: Technician: Seer(2/1)
  • :target: Lookout: Fading Argonaut(2/3) fading 3

In Play:

  • Tinkerer(1/2) time-rune-tap
  • Vir(2/3)

Buildings:

  • :heart: Base HP: 20
  • :heart: Tech I HP: 5
  • :heart: Tech II HP: 5 (Future)

Economy Info:
Cards:

  • Hand: 5
  • Deck: 3
  • Disc: 0

Gold:

  • Gold: 1
  • Workers: 8

P2T4


Tech StartingHand Workers

TECH
Second Chances
Shimmer Ray


STARTING HAND
Time Spiral
Plasmodium
Stewardess of the Undone
Neo Plexus (2/2)
Slow-Time Generator


WORKERS
Forgotten Fighter
Hardened Mox
Temporal Research
Plasmodium


NextHand

Battlesuits
Fading Argonaut
Nullcraft
Yesterdayā€™s Golgort


Discard

Tinkerer (1/2 )
Neo Plexus (2/2)
Time Spiral
Second Chances
Shimmer Ray


Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid + float - ($9)
Worker - ($8)
Slow-Time Generator, lets slow this match down shall we? - ($3)
Stewardess, bounce Plasmo - ($0)
Glaxx kills Fargo
Tinkerer kills Seer
Vir kills Tinkerer

Float ($0)
Discard 2, draw 4


Board Info:
In Patrol:

  • :psblueshield: Squad Leader: Stewardess of the Undone (2/3)
  • :psfist: Elite:
  • :ps_: Scavenger:
  • :pschip: Technician:
  • :target: Lookout:

In Play:

  • Gilded Glaxx (3/2)
  • Vir (2/2, lvl 1)
  • Slow-Time Generator (-/2)

Buildings:

  • :heart: Base HP: 20
  • :heart: Tech I HP: 5
  • :heart: Tech II HP: 5 (Past)

Economy Info:
Cards:

  • Hand: 4
  • Deck: 0
  • Disc: 5

Gold:

  • Gold: 0
  • Workers: 9
Thoughts

Okay, plan is enacted, they cant play big things and haste them now. Grabbing a flyer for the void rays that are coming

Thing game plan is going to be as follows
Stewardesses, Glaxx,
Golfort, SlowTime
Second Chances, Shimmer Ray,

Hnnrn 7 cards and not much gold, im gonna need a loan

P1T5


Tech StartingHand Workers

TECH
Omegacron
Temporal Distortion


STARTING HAND
Temporal Research
Promise of Payment
Nullcraft
Argonaut
Hive
Omegacron


WORKERS


NextHand

Unphase
Promise of Payment
Argonaut
Time Spiral
Plasmodium(4/2) haste forecast 2


Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid + float, tech draw - ($5)
peek cos y not
hire omegacron - ($3)

tap tinkerer to remove rune (come to think of it, omegacronā€™s untargetable might be part of why tinkerer doesnt target)

Vir uses Promise of Payment to take a loan from his future self

Hive Arrives (Vir really is a managerial genius to get this off the ground so quickly) - ($-3)

I match your ā€œno more than 4 gold a turnā€ and raise you a ā€œno more than 4 workersā€: omegacron sacrifices 4 of my workers and a stinger to arrive

Omegacron kills Stewardess, my Vir kills your Vir, both take 2 dmg

buy that stinger back (i actually still have 3g before this but wanted to see if you can use negative float on the spreadsheet for PoP) - ($-4)

Float ($-4)
Discard 4, draw 2, reshuffle, draw 3


Board Info:
In Patrol:

  • :psblueshield: Squad Leader: stinger(1/1a)
  • :psfist: Elite:
  • :ps_: Scavenger: stinger(1/1)
  • :pschip: Technician:
  • :target: Lookout:

In Play:

  • Tinkerer(1/2) time-rune-tap
  • lvl3 Vir(2/1)
  • Omegacron(9/5)untargetable
  • Hive(0/6) flying resist 1
  • 3 x stinger(1/1)

Buildings:

  • :heart: Base HP: 20
  • :heart: Tech I HP: 5
  • :heart: Tech II HP: 5 (Future)

Economy Info:
Cards:

  • Hand: 5
  • Deck: 6
  • Disc: 0

Gold:

  • Gold: -4
  • Workers: 4
Thoughts

so I could do a big turn and get out omegacron and hive and break the slow-time; but they could alnost definitely manage to protect their tech 3 afterwards and get a full reshuffle hand. i could also use 4 workers to get the omegacron out (and possible still PoP the hive) and play this game with 4g per turn( and make sure i dont lose that tech 2)

Edit: previous odd formatting didnt make that top paragraph v easy to read xd

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ā€¦ My Glaxxā€™s commitment to not blowing up my own buildings is going to be a problem I see.

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Yeah Iā€™ve never actually known for sure but i always assumed that thereā€™s no friendly attacking in this game (from the way that no one has done it to remove their own hero when they wanted a different one). As far as I can tell the only way u can remove that building is with a traitorous tricycloid

sorry for the delay, been a busy few days for me,
EDIT: @dwarddd turns out I had the time during lunch.
P2T5


Tech StartingHand Workers

TECH
Sentry
Sentry


STARTING HAND
Fading Argonaut
Battlesuits
Yesterdayā€™s Golgort
Nullcraft


WORKERS
Forgotten Fighter
Hardened Mox
Temporal Research
Plasmodium
Nullcraft


NextHand

Sentry
Neo Plexus (2/2)
Battlesuits
Stewardess of the Undone (2/3)
Fading Argonaut


Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($4)
Worker - ($3)
Tower - ($0)

Float ($0)
Discard 3, reshuffle, draw 5


Board Info:
In Patrol:

  • :psblueshield: Squad Leader: Gilded Glaxx (3/2 + A)
  • :psfist: Elite:
  • :ps_: Scavenger:
  • :pschip: Technician:
  • :target: Lookout:

In Play:

  • Slow-Time Generator (-/2)

Buildings:

  • :heart: Base HP: 20
  • :heart: Tech I HP: 5
  • :heart: Tech II HP: 5 (Past)
  • :heart: Tower HP: 4

Economy Info:
Cards:

  • Hand: 5
  • Deck: 6
  • Disc: 0

Gold:

  • Gold: 0
  • Workers: 10
Thoughts

Okay, plan is enacted, they cant play big things and haste them now. Grabbing a flyer for the void rays that are coming

Thing game plan is going to be as follows
Stewardesses, Glaxx,
Golfort, SlowTime
Second Chances, Shimmer Ray,

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thanks for finding the time! iā€™m in no rush though so no worries if a turn takes a while

P1T6


Tech StartingHand Workers

TECH
Promise of Payment
Temporal Distortion


STARTING HAND
Time Spiral
Unphase
Promise of Payment
Argonaut
Plasmodium(4/2) haste forecast 2


WORKERS


NextHand

Fading Argonaut(2/3) fading 3
Temporal Research
Omegacron
Nullcraft
Seer(2/1)


Discard

Plasmodium(4/2) haste forecast 2
Time Spiral
Argonaut
Promise of Payment
Unphase
Promise of Payment
Temporal Distortion


Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid and use all of it to pay off my debts
3 stingers trade with Glaxx
Omegacron and tinkerer and one stinger deal 11 to your base (stinger dies)

Float ($0)
Discard 5, draw 5


Board Info:
In Patrol:

  • :psblueshield: Squad Leader: stinger(1/1a)
  • :psfist: Elite:
  • :ps_: Scavenger: lvl3 Vir(2/1)
  • :pschip: Technician:
  • :target: Lookout:

In Play:

  • Tinkerer(1/1) time-rune-tap
  • Omegacron(9/4)untargetable
  • Hive(0/6) flying resist 1

Buildings:

  • :heart: Base HP: 20
  • :heart: Tech I HP: 5
  • :heart: Tech II HP: 5 (Future)

Economy Info:
Cards:

  • Hand: 5
  • Deck: 1
  • Disc: 7

Gold:

  • Gold: 0
  • Workers: 4
Thoughts

main aim: get Omegacron through to base next turn, not gonna use PoP this turn so I can temporal distortion hive into another Omega next turn with Max (5/6 chance of drawing it)
some thoughts later: canā€™t TP into an omegacron because I have teched both but i can at least get a hyperion out which could trade with a golgurt or something (or, and this is a good example of when I overthink this, I can just hire the omegacron I teched like a normal player)