[CAMS24] Round3: P1 Moby_Dick [Fire]/Blood/Demon vs P2 Bryce_the_Rice [Finesse]/Discipline/Strength

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23

I was afraid of that. Time to go all out.
Your firebird also has 1 damage.

Turn 8

Hand: Grounded Guide, Brick Thief, Blademaster, Rambasa Twin, Versatile Style
Workers: Spark, Fruit Ninja, Granfalloon Flagbearer, Bloom, Wither

Techs

Turn 2: Rambasa Twin, Nimble Fencer
Turn 3: Leaping Lizard, Nimble Fencer
Turn 4: Maestro, Grounded Guide
Turn 5: Star-Crossed Starlet, Blademaster
Turn 6: Maestro
Turn 7: Versatile Style, Blademaster
Turn 8: Versatile Style

  1. Technician draw
  2. Tech 1 card
  3. Get paid (+$10, $10)
  4. Rebuild Tech 3 ($10)
  5. Summon Grounded Guide ($5)
  6. River attacks Vandy
  7. Summon Grave Stormborne ($3)
  8. Fencer kills Vandy, Grave midbands
  9. Cast Versatile Style, disabling Firebird ($1)
  10. Maestro kills Drakk, you draw, my base takes 2, Grave gains 2 levels
  11. Rook kills a Firebat
  12. Discard 3, draw 5
  • Patrol:
    :psblueshield:Squad Leader: Grounded Guide (4/4+A)
    :psfist:Elite:
    :ps_:Scavenger:
    :pschip:Technician:
    :target:Lookout: Grave Stormborne lvl 5 (3/4)
  • Buildings:
    Tech 1: 5
    Tech 2: 5
    Tech 3: 5
    Tower: 4
  • Units/Heroes:
    Garus Rook lvl 8 (4/2)
  • Base: 7
  • Other:

Economy:

  • Workers: 10
  • Gold: 1
  • Hand: 5
  • Deck: 3
  • Discard: 8
Hand

Blademaster, Older Brother, Nimble Fencer, Timely Messenger, Leaping Lizard

Discard

Maestro, Nimble Fencer, Star-Crossed Starlet, Versatile Style, Versatile Style, Blademaster, Brick Thief, Rambasa Twin

Think

And here we are, at the true knife edge. If I survive this turn with my tech 3 intact, I win. If I survive without my tech 3ā€¦ I have a chance. But above allā€¦ my survival is not certain. There is a very real possibility that they can find 2 base damage from hand.

Very difficult decision here what to use versatile style on (canā€™t wait for codex 2 when it does every option instead of picking one (this is not a joke, it really does all of them)). Iā€™m going to bank on them probably not having teched any jaina spells before their last reshuffle.
Eight teched cards, Iā€™ve seen five (lobber, firebat, firebat, bird, fire) and Iā€™m going to assume thereā€™s a second lobber, kidnapping, and one more card, probably bloodlust. Scorch has probably already been workered, so I think I live here, just. If thereā€™s a crash bomberā€¦ I die. But thatā€™s how it goes.

24

Very well teched and excellent played. It was probably one of my most challenging games, and until turn 8 I was sure that I will lose. I hope I gave you a bit a deja vu on your last finals with Bansa and similar decks. That inspired my play.

CAMS24 P1T9

P1 [Fire]/Blood/Demonology vs. P2 [Finesse]/Strength/Discipline

Tech StartingHand Workers

TECH
Ember Sparks
Ember Sparks

STARTING HAND
Charge
Molting Firebird (4/3)
Mad Man (1/1)
Firehouse (4)

WORKERS
Scorch
Bloodburn
Careless Musketeer (2/1)
Pillage
Makeshift Rambaster (1/2)

NextHand

Mad Man (1/1)
Charge
Ember Sparks
Crash Bomber (2/2)

Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid + float - ($12)
Jaina - ($10)
Firebird - ($6)
Charge on Firebird, who deals 5 to your base - ($4)
Firebat finishes your base, GG - ($3)

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

Board Info:
In Patrol:

  • :psblueshield: Squad Leader: Jaina
  • :psfist: Elite:
  • :ps_: Scavenger:
  • :pschip: Technician:
  • :target: Lookout:

In Play:

  • Hotter Fire
  • Molting Firebird (4/2) disabled
  • Firebat (3/3)
  • Molting Firebird (4/2)

Buildings:

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

Economy Info:
Cards:

  • Hand: 4
  • Deck: 13
  • Disc: 0

Gold:

  • Gold: 3
  • Workers: 9

@Bryce_The_Riceā€™s turn!

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25

Ahā€¦ if you were holding both those cards then no play I couldā€™ve made was correct. I see.

Well played then. I shouldā€™ve listened to my gut that you were going Firebirds and put the other lizard in.

@zango

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26

prob with Lizard is that he could still attack. He would lose the unit, but the dmg to base/tech would go anyway.

27

Certainly, but lizard means a bird only gets one attack.
Itā€™s also very efficient defence, which I sorely needed.

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28

Yes, I was afraid of lizzards. So this was not the base plan. But until turn 4 you killed both firebats, so I had to change the strategy. I hoped you are relying on lizzards and I can constantly break tech 2. With a safe maxband drakk I threw both in. But well, I did not drew them for 2 rounds and could not use dp due to your board presence. So was lucky that drakk survived and no lizzard was played.

29

Birds with the tower would have been even more annoying.