CAMS 2017: zhavier ([Discipline]/Present/Anarchy) vs. petE ([Discipline]/Blood/Necro)

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P2 Turn1 take2

[details=StartingHand Workers][spoiler]
STARTING HAND
Aged Sensei
Snapback
Grappling Hook
Morningstar Flagbearer
Safe Attacking

WORKERS
Morningstar Flagbearer

[/spoiler][/details]

[details=NextHand][spoiler]
Savior Monk
Fox Primus
Fox Viper
Sensei’s Advice
Smoker

[/spoiler][/details]

[details=Discard][spoiler]
Snapback
Grappling Hook
Safe Attacking

[/spoiler][/details]
Tech 0 card(s)
Get Paid - ($5)
Worker - ($4)
Aged Sensei - ($3)

Float ($3)
Discard 3, draw 5

[B]Board Info:[/B]
[B]In Patrol:[/B]

  • :psblueshield: [I]Squad Leader[/I]:
  • :psfist: [I]Elite[/I]:
  • :ps_: [I]Scavenger[/I]: Aged Sensei (1/1 + 1)
  • :pschip: [I]Technician[/I]:
  • :target: [I]Lookout[/I]:
    [B]In Play:[/B]

[B]Buildings:[/B]

  • :heart: Base HP: 20

[B]Economy Info:[/B]
[B]Cards:[/B]

  • Hand: 5
  • Deck: 0
  • Disc: 3
    [B]Gold:[/B]
  • Gold: 3
  • Workers: 6
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P1T2

Tech StartingHand Workers

TECH
Rambasa Twin
Sparring Partner

STARTING HAND
Aged Sensei
Safe Attacking
Sensei’s Advice
Grappling Hook
Fox Primus

WORKERS
Fox Viper
Fox Primus

NextHand

Snapback
Sensei’s Advice
Sparring Partner
Grappling Hook

Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($5)
Worker - ($4)
Safe Attacking - ($3)
Aged Sensei - ($2)
Tech 1 - ($0)
Smoker safely kills Aged Sensei
Grave hits base for 2

Float ($0)
Discard 2, reshuffle, draw 4

[B]Board Info:[/B]
[B]In Patrol:[/B]

  • :psblueshield: [I]Squad Leader[/I]:
  • :psfist: [I]Elite[/I]:
  • :ps_: [I]Scavenger[/I]: Aged Sensei 1/1
  • :pschip: [I]Technician[/I]:
  • :target: [I]Lookout[/I]:
    [B]In Play:[/B]
  • Grave 2/3, lvl 1
  • Smoker 1/1
  • Safe Attacking
    [B]Buildings:[/B]
  • :heart: Base HP: 20
  • :heart: Tech I HP: 5

[B]Economy Info:[/B]
[B]Cards:[/B]

  • Hand: 4
  • Deck: 3
  • Disc: 0
    [B]Gold:[/B]
  • Gold: 0
  • Workers: 6
23

P2 Turn2

[details=Tech StartingHand Workers][spoiler]
TECH
Bone Collector
Lich’s Bargain

STARTING HAND
Sensei’s Advice
Savior Monk
Fox Primus
Smoker
Fox Viper

WORKERS
Morningstar Flagbearer
Fox Viper

[/spoiler][/details]

[details=NextHand][spoiler]
Safe Attacking
Aged Sensei
Snapback
Bone Collector

[/spoiler][/details]
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid + float + scav - ($10)
Worker - ($9)
Garth - ($7)
Skeleton - ($6)
Saviour Monk - ($4)
Smoker - ($3)
Tech 1 - ($1)

Float ($1)
Discard 2, reshuffle, draw 4

[B]Board Info:[/B]
[B]In Patrol:[/B]

  • :psblueshield: [I]Squad Leader[/I]: Skeleton (1/1 + 1)
  • :psfist: [I]Elite[/I]:
  • :ps_: [I]Scavenger[/I]: Saviour Monk (2/2)
  • :pschip: [I]Technician[/I]: Smoker (1/1)
  • :target: [I]Lookout[/I]:
    [B]In Play:[/B]
  • Garth lvl 1 (1/3)
    [B]Buildings:[/B]
  • :heart: Base HP: 18
  • :heart: Tech I HP: 5

[B]Economy Info:[/B]
[B]Cards:[/B]

  • Hand: 4
  • Deck: 4
  • Disc: 0
    [B]Gold:[/B]
  • Gold: 1
  • Workers: 7

[details=Thoughts][spoiler]

My having Saviour Monk rather than garbage Fox Viper (as in previous game) makes the difference between Garth being safe and not. (Reversal excepted.)

Teching Bone Collector and Lich’s Bargain. Small unit spam with Drakk mid and Heroes Hall is a possible alternative to Tech2.

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P1T3

Tech StartingHand Workers

TECH
Tricycloid
Hyperion

STARTING HAND
Snapback
Sparring Partner
Grappling Hook
Sensei’s Advice

WORKERS
Fox Viper
Fox Primus
Snapback

NextHand

Savior Monk
Tricycloid
Rambasa Twin
Morningstar Flagbearer

Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($6)
Worker - ($5)
Sparring Partner - ($4)
Sensei and Smoker safely kill SQL skeleton
Grave kills Savior Monk, Sparks Smoker
Midband Grave heals - ($2)

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

[B]Board Info:[/B]
[B]In Patrol:[/B]

  • :psblueshield: [I]Squad Leader[/I]: Sparring Partner 2/2+A
  • :psfist: [I]Elite[/I]:
  • :ps_: [I]Scavenger[/I]:
  • :pschip: [I]Technician[/I]:
  • :target: [I]Lookout[/I]:
    [B]In Play:[/B]
  • Grave 3/4, lvl 3
  • Smoker 1/1
  • Safe Attacking
  • Aged Sensei 1/1
    [B]Buildings:[/B]
  • :heart: Base HP: 20
  • :heart: Tech I HP: 5

[B]Economy Info:[/B]
[B]Cards:[/B]

  • Hand: 4
  • Deck: 3
  • Disc: 0
    [B]Gold:[/B]
  • Gold: 2
  • Workers: 7
25

P2 Turn3

Presuming Smoker doesn’t get returned to hand by sparkshot – but let me know if that’s not right and I’ll redo.

[details=Tech StartingHand Workers][spoiler]
TECH
Crashbarrow
Rambasa Twins

STARTING HAND
Aged Sensei
Bone Collector
Snapback
Safe Attacking
Grappling Hook

WORKERS
Morningstar Flagbearer
Fox Viper
Aged Sensei

[/spoiler][/details]

[details=NextHand][spoiler]
Crashbarrow
Smoker
Sensei’s Advice
Lich’s Bargain
Fox Primus

[/spoiler][/details]
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid + float + scav - ($9)
Tech draw
Worker - ($8)
Garth to max, Rambasa Twins from discard - ($2)
Bone Collector - ($0)
Garth kills Sparring Partner

Float ($0)
Discard 3, draw 3, reshuffle, draw 2

[B]Board Info:[/B]
[B]In Patrol:[/B]

  • :psblueshield: [I]Squad Leader[/I]: Rambasa Twin (3/2 + 1)
  • :psfist: [I]Elite[/I]:
  • :ps_: [I]Scavenger[/I]: Bone Collector (3/3)
  • :pschip: [I]Technician[/I]: Rambasa Twin (3/2)
  • :target: [I]Lookout[/I]:
    [B]In Play:[/B]
  • Garth lvl 7 (3/2)
    [B]Buildings:[/B]
  • :heart: Base HP: 18
  • :heart: Tech I HP: 5

[B]Economy Info:[/B]
[B]Cards:[/B]

  • Hand: 5
  • Deck: 4
  • Disc: 0
    [B]Gold:[/B]
  • Gold: 0
  • Workers: 8

[details=Thoughts][spoiler]

Well this is turning out a whole lot better than the last one. Think these White starter games have a fair amount of early draw variance, makes a big difference if you’ve Aged Sensei vs Smoker P1T1, Saviour Monk vs Viper/Primus/Flagbearer when defending, Grappling Hook when you need it.

…

Unfortunately drawing Crashbarrow T4, so may get an uninspiring T5 hand. So will most likely drop Lich’s Bargain next turn, look to Garth to frenzy the troops T5.

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From the database:

Sparkshot doesn’t [target]. — sharpo

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27

smoker died, yes.

P1T4

Tech StartingHand Workers

TECH
Immortal
Temporal Distortion

STARTING HAND
Morningstar Flagbearer
Savior Monk
Rambasa Twin
Tricycloid

WORKERS
Fox Viper
Fox Primus
Snapback
Morningstar Flagbearer

NextHand

Smoker
Grappling Hook
Sensei’s Advice
Hyperion

Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid + float - ($9)
Worker - ($8)
Rambasa Twin, less zombified version - ($4)
Tech 2 Present - ($0)
Grave kills SQL
Smoker and Sensei trade with Technician, he goes to discard

Float ($0)
Discard 2, draw 3, reshuffle, draw 1

[B]Board Info:[/B]
[B]In Patrol:[/B]

  • :psblueshield: [I]Squad Leader[/I]:
  • :psfist: [I]Elite[/I]:
  • :ps_: [I]Scavenger[/I]: Rambasa Twin 3/2
  • :pschip: [I]Technician[/I]: Rambasa Twin 3/2
  • :target: [I]Lookout[/I]:
    [B]In Play:[/B]
  • Grave 3/1, lvl 3
  • Safe Attacking
    [B]Buildings:[/B]
  • :heart: Base HP: 20
  • :heart: Tech I HP: 5
  • :heart: Tech II HP: 5 (Present)

[B]Economy Info:[/B]
[B]Cards:[/B]

  • Hand: 4
  • Deck: 6
  • Disc: 0
    [B]Gold:[/B]
  • Gold: 0
  • Workers: 8
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P2 Turn4

[details=Tech StartingHand Workers][spoiler]
TECH
Crashbarrow
Kidnapping

STARTING HAND
Lich’s Bargain
Sensei’s Advice
Fox Primus
Crashbarrow
Smoker
Safe Attacking

WORKERS
Morningstar Flagbearer
Fox Viper
Aged Sensei

[/spoiler][/details]

[details=NextHand][spoiler]
Smoker
Snapback
Crashbarrow
Grappling Hook
Saviour Monk

[/spoiler][/details]
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($8)
Worker - ($7)
Lich’s Bargain - ($5)
Safe Attacking - ($4)
Tech 2 Blood - ($0)
Bone Collector kills scav Twin, makes a Skeleton

Float ($0)
Discard 3, draw 3, reshuffle, draw 2

[B]Board Info:[/B]
[B]In Patrol:[/B]

  • :psblueshield: [I]Squad Leader[/I]: Horror (3/3 + 1, deathtouch)
  • :psfist: [I]Elite[/I]: Skeleton (2/1)
  • :ps_: [I]Scavenger[/I]: Skeleton (1/1)
  • :pschip: [I]Technician[/I]: Horror (2/2)
  • :target: [I]Lookout[/I]:
    [B]In Play:[/B]
  • Safe Attacking
  • Bone Collector (3/2)
  • Garth lvl 7 (3/2)
    [B]Buildings:[/B]
  • :heart: Base HP: 14
  • :heart: Tech I HP: 5
  • :heart: Tech II HP: 5 (Blood)

[B]Economy Info:[/B]
[B]Cards:[/B]

  • Hand: 5
  • Deck: 5
  • Disc: 0
    [B]Gold:[/B]
  • Gold: 0
  • Workers: 8

[details=Thoughts][spoiler]

Prefer to give him scav rather than tech bonus, to lower the chance he draws a Tricycloid which I think would be the most damaging unit to me.

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Bone Collector is definitely 3/1. 3+A vs 3 leaves 1.

P1T5

Tech StartingHand Workers

TECH
Surprise Attack
Ready or Not

STARTING HAND
Grappling Hook
Hyperion
Sensei’s Advice
Smoker
Temporal Distortion

WORKERS
Fox Viper
Fox Primus
Snapback
Morningstar Flagbearer

NextHand

Sparring Partner
Savior Monk
Tricycloid
Aged Sensei
Immortal

Discard

Grappling Hook
Ready or Not
Surprise Attack
Temporal Distortion
Smoker
Sensei’s Advice
Hyperion

Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid + Scav - ($9)
Grappling Hook moves Horror to Lookout
Surviving Rambasa trades with Horror, joins other rambasa in codex
Hyperion, kills Elite Skeleton, lucky draw - ($4)
Geiger - ($2)
Temporal Distortion, Hyperion back in hand, Tricycloid comes out - ($0)
Tricycloid removes 3 runes to kill BC and Garth, Geiger to lvl 3
Grave trades with tech and sparks scav

Float ($0)
Discard 3, draw 5

[B]Board Info:[/B]
[B]In Patrol:[/B]

  • :psblueshield: [I]Squad Leader[/I]: Tricycloid 3/3+A
  • :psfist: [I]Elite[/I]:
  • :ps_: [I]Scavenger[/I]: Geiger 2/4, lvl 3
  • :pschip: [I]Technician[/I]:
  • :target: [I]Lookout[/I]:
    [B]In Play:[/B]
  • Safe Attacking
    [B]Buildings:[/B]
  • :heart: Base HP: 20
  • :heart: Tech I HP: 5
  • :heart: Tech II HP: 5 (Present)

[B]Economy Info:[/B]
[B]Cards:[/B]

  • Hand: 5
  • Deck: 0
  • Disc: 7
    [B]Gold:[/B]
  • Gold: 0
  • Workers: 8
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P2 Turn5

Easy come easy go with that big board !

[details=Tech StartingHand Workers][spoiler]
TECH
Bloodlust
Land Octopus

STARTING HAND
Grappling Hook
Saviour Monk
Snapback
Crashbarrow
Smoker
Sensei’s Advice

WORKERS
Morningstar Flagbearer
Fox Viper
Aged Sensei
Smoker

[/spoiler][/details]

[details=NextHand][spoiler]
Kidnapping
Lich’s Bargain
Crashbarrow
Rambasa Twin

[/spoiler][/details]

[details=Discard][spoiler]
Bone Collector
Sensei’s Advice
Grappling Hook
Crashbarrow
Saviour Monk
Snapback
Bloodlust
Land Octopus

[/spoiler][/details]
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid + scav - ($8)
Tech draw
Worker - ($7)
Grave - ($5)
Grappling Hook Tricycloid to lookout
Crashbarrow - ($2)
Sensei’s Advice on Crashbarrow - ($1)
Crashbarrow kills Tricycloid, overpower kills Geiger, Grave to lvl 3

Float ($1)
Discard 2, draw 4

[B]Board Info:[/B]
[B]In Patrol:[/B]

  • :psblueshield: [I]Squad Leader[/I]: Grave lvl 3 (3/4 + 1)
  • :psfist: [I]Elite[/I]:
  • :ps_: [I]Scavenger[/I]:
  • :pschip: [I]Technician[/I]:
  • :target: [I]Lookout[/I]:
    [B]In Play:[/B]
  • Safe Attacking
    [B]Buildings:[/B]
  • :heart: Base HP: 18
  • :heart: Tech I HP: 5
  • :heart: Tech II HP: 5 (Blood)

[B]Economy Info:[/B]
[B]Cards:[/B]

  • Hand: 4
  • Deck: 0
  • Disc: 8
    [B]Gold:[/B]
  • Gold: 1
  • Workers: 9

[details=Thoughts][spoiler]

Quite happy that Rambasa Twins stayed in my deck (coming next hand) – with Zane haste/spells and Hyperions in his deck I’ll need bodies to leave in patrol while throwing the ephemeral Blood units.

[/spoiler][/details]

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P1T6

Tech StartingHand Workers

TECH
Now!
Warp Gate Disciple

STARTING HAND
Savior Monk
Tricycloid
Aged Sensei
Sparring Partner
Immortal

WORKERS
Fox Viper
Fox Primus
Snapback
Morningstar Flagbearer
Savior Monk

NextHand

Surprise Attack
Warp Gate Disciple
Aged Sensei
Now!

Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid + Scav - ($9)
Worker - ($8)
Tricycloid, knocks Grave to 2 - ($3)
Zane trades with Grave - ($1)
Sparring Partner - ($0)

Float ($0)
Discard 2, reshuffle, draw 4

[B]Board Info:[/B]
[B]In Patrol:[/B]

  • :psblueshield: [I]Squad Leader[/I]:
  • :psfist: [I]Elite[/I]:
  • :ps_: [I]Scavenger[/I]: Sparring Partner 2/2
  • :pschip: [I]Technician[/I]: Tricycloid 3/3
  • :target: [I]Lookout[/I]:
    [B]In Play:[/B]
  • Safe Attacking
    [B]Buildings:[/B]
  • :heart: Base HP: 20
  • :heart: Tech I HP: 5
  • :heart: Tech II HP: 5 (Present)

[B]Economy Info:[/B]
[B]Cards:[/B]

  • Hand: 4
  • Deck: 8
  • Disc: 0
    [B]Gold:[/B]
  • Gold: 0
  • Workers: 9
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P2 Turn6

[details=Tech StartingHand Workers][spoiler]
TECH
Reversal
Martial Mastery

STARTING HAND
Crashbarrow
Lich’s Bargain
Kidnapping
Rambasa Twin

WORKERS
Morningstar Flagbearer
Fox Viper
Aged Sensei
Smoker
Lich’s Bargain

[/spoiler][/details]

[details=NextHand][spoiler]
Bone Collector
Kidnapping
Martial Mastery

[/spoiler][/details]
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid + float - ($10)
Worker - ($9)
Crashbarrow kills scav, overpower kills tech - ($6)
Rambasa Twins - ($2)
Drakk - ($0)

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

[B]Board Info:[/B]
[B]In Patrol:[/B]

  • :psblueshield: [I]Squad Leader[/I]: Rambasa Twin (3/2 + 1)
  • :psfist: [I]Elite[/I]:
  • :ps_: [I]Scavenger[/I]:
  • :pschip: [I]Technician[/I]: Rambasa Twin (3/2)
  • :target: [I]Lookout[/I]: Drakk lvl 1 (1/3)
    [B]In Play:[/B]
  • Safe Attacking
    [B]Buildings:[/B]
  • :heart: Base HP: 18
  • :heart: Tech I HP: 5
  • :heart: Tech II HP: 5 (Blood)

[B]Economy Info:[/B]
[B]Cards:[/B]

  • Hand: 3
  • Deck: 9
  • Disc: 0
    [B]Gold:[/B]
  • Gold: 0
  • Workers: 10

[details=Thoughts][spoiler]

Teching Grave spells – Martial Mastery to help with my low card number, and Reversal to take out a patroller or sideline an Immortal.

[/spoiler][/details]

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Feels like a more even match, eh?

P1T7

Tech StartingHand Workers

TECH
Rambasa Twin
Martial Mastery

STARTING HAND
Surprise Attack
Warp Gate Disciple
Now!
Aged Sensei
Smoker

WORKERS
Fox Viper
Fox Primus
Snapback
Morningstar Flagbearer
Savior Monk

NextHand

Immortal
Tricycloid
Hyperion
Temporal Distortion
Sensei’s Advice

Discard

Tricycloid
Sparring Partner
Disguised Monkey
Now!
Surprise Attack
Smoker
Aged Sensei
Martial Mastery
Rambasa Twin

Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid + Scav - ($10)
Geiger - ($8)
Warp Gate Disciple - ($4)
Now! on Disciple - ($3)
Disciple summons… Disguised Monkey who kills Drakk, Geiger to lvl 3, base dmg - ($2)
Max Geiger, blink Monkey who then trades with SQL Rambasa - ($0)

Float ($0)
Discard 3, draw 5

[B]Board Info:[/B]
[B]In Patrol:[/B]

  • :psblueshield: [I]Squad Leader[/I]: Geiger 3/4+A, lvl 5
  • :psfist: [I]Elite[/I]:
  • :ps_: [I]Scavenger[/I]:
  • :pschip: [I]Technician[/I]:
  • :target: [I]Lookout[/I]:
    [B]In Play:[/B]
  • Safe Attacking
  • Warp Gate Disciple 1/1
    [B]Buildings:[/B]
  • :heart: Base HP: 19
  • :heart: Tech I HP: 5
  • :heart: Tech II HP: 5 (Present)

[B]Economy Info:[/B]
[B]Cards:[/B]

  • Hand: 5
  • Deck: 2
  • Disc: 9
    [B]Gold:[/B]
  • Gold: 0
  • Workers: 9
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P2 Turn7

[details=StartingHand Workers][spoiler]
STARTING HAND
Bone Collector
Kidnapping
Martial Mastery
Bloodlust
Land Octopus

WORKERS
Morningstar Flagbearer
Fox Viper
Aged Sensei
Smoker
Lich’s Bargain

[/spoiler][/details]

Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($10)
Grave - ($8)
Martial Mastery, discard 1, draw 2, check out your hand (!!!) - ($7)

-> whiff x 2 (missed Crashbarrows, Snapback) means I can’t kill either WGD or Geiger. And have just seen your powerhouse hand, Temporal Distortion + flicker + WGD summon next hand.

Can safely say GG !

That was a beautiful combo and great Present teching and play.

And not very smart of me to bring out Drakk last turn, should have delayed bringing him out until he could make a good play. Still, close game up till then, and glad to see my deck doesn’t necessarily crumble against a strong P1 hero open.

[details=Thoughts][spoiler]

Very nice combo ! Was probably bad play by me to bring out Drakk last turn, should have kept him safe from Present shenanigans until he could arrive with a big play. Only saving grace is he skipped a worker for the second time this game.

Problem is that max Geiger and WGD both feel like “must kills”. I can kill one or the other but not both by maxing Garth to summon a Shoddy Glider. Alternatively, play Grave and Martial Mastery for 2 draws and hope to hit a good card out of the 9 in deck:

  • either of the 2 Crashbarrows is great -> kill both Geiger + WGD.
  • Snapback also good -> switch Geiger for lvl 1 Grave/Zane, then Rambasa Twin kills WGD
  • Reversal allows me kill Geiger along with Rambasa Twin, but leaves WGD alive. I guess he summons a solid unit with WGD (eg Mind Parry Monk, Kidnap-proof), builds Tech3, and I’m as good as dead from Gunships.

With 3 good cards to aim for, there’s a 58% chance of hitting at least one.

Compromise approach is to mid Garth, make and sac a Skeleton for draw, 33% chances of drawing a good card, if not can max Garth for the Glider and still be just in the game.

tbh, think I really need to kill both Geiger and WGD or this game is going to run away, so let’s go for Martial Mastery, odds are not bad.

…

Big whiff – drew Bloodlust and Land Octopus ! Bloodlust, Kidnapping and Octopus, all great Drakk cards when Drakk is out, feel dumb for playing him last turn. Lesson learned!

[/spoiler][/details]

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I threw in now and wgd the turn before thinking I might be able to make use of either. Imagine my surprise when I immediately drew them both perfectly. If I hadn’t, I dont know if a different hand would have been any good. And by my math you had a halfway decent chance of a crashbarrow. If Drakk hadn’t been out, Im not sure what I would have done as a kidnapped wgd is pretty bad and I didn’t have a way to keep mind parry alive enough to block you using kidnapping.

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