WORKERS
Forgotten Fighter
Plasmodium
Time Spiral
Hardened Mox
Neo Plexus
NextHand
Sentry
Temporal Research
Fading Argonaut
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid + float - ($11)
Prynn fades, 3 runes remain.
Worker - ($10)
Play Argonaut “Bravo” (3/4, Readiness) - ($7)
Begin constructing Tech II building… PAST! - ($3)
Build a Tower - ($0)
Exhaust Tinkerer to add a time rune to Prynn. Four runes remain.
Nullcraft pew pews your base to 18.
Float ($0)
Discard 1, draw 1, reshuffle, draw 2
Board Info: In Patrol:
Squad Leader: Argonaut “Alpha” (3/4+A, Readiness)
Elite:
Scavenger:
Technician: Argonaut “Bravo” (3/4, Readiness)
Lookout:
In Play:
Nullcraft (1/1, Flying, Haste)
L1 - Prynn Pasternaak (1/3, Fading ****)
Tinkerer (1/2)
Buildings:
Base HP: 20
Tech I HP: 5
Tech II HP: 5 (Past)
Tower HP: 4
Economy Info: Cards:
Hand: 3
Deck: 5
Disc: 0
Gold:
Gold: 0
Workers: 10
Thoughts
2 turns, no cards played from hand… hmm, very curious to find out what codexnewb’s up to here.
Growth eh? Smells like a Tech III rush to me. But teching Assimilate and Rewind to counter Tech II Growth, just in case. And Prynn can trash Tech III, if she’s around… but Cal can essentially assasinate at any time… Tower will detect, but only if Stalking Tiger hasn’t already triggered detection… That’d be pretty expensive to pull off, so I’ll build a Tower for now and see what happens.
Hahaha! I got the sense you might be keen when you replied with your turn 3 minutes after I’d posted mine!
Tbh, I thought after you cleared my board on T3 I was sunk, but I’ve had a couple of turns to recover and feel a bit steadier (stunned that Tinkerer is around to activate his ability!). Seems like Origin Story might have been well timed and/or the shuffler took pity on me, and I got a little breathing room.
And I am surprised to see (2!) Blooming Elms - figured you were shaping to rush Tech III. But I did tech Assimilate last turn when I saw you’d gone Growth, and just have to hope I can sift through my deck to find it…
P2T6
Tech StartingHand Workers
TECH
Assimilate
Shimmer Ray
STARTING HAND
Temporal Research
Fading Argonaut
Sentry
Yesterday’s Golgort
Yesterday’s Golgort
Assimilate
WORKERS
Forgotten Fighter
Plasmodium
Time Spiral
Hardened Mox
Neo Plexus
NextHand
Yesterday’s Golgort
Rewind
Shimmer Ray
Origin Story
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($10)
Prynn fades, 3 runes remain.
Prynn hunts through the archives looking for Temporal Research. I draw 2 - ($8)
Temporal Research draws
Yesterday’s Golgort aaand…
Yesterday’s Golgort
Booo!
Summon Vir Garbarean (2/3) - ($6)
Vir peers into the mists of future time… and pays to swap soon for now. - ($5)
Peekaboo
Assimilate
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Vir Assimilates a Blooming Elm - ($2)
I am wondering about arrival fatigue and if I can immediately exhaust the Elm to add runes to something.
Based on that, I’m going to proceed as if I can use the Elm now, but we can retcon if required.
Activate Elm to put three +1/+1 runes on Nullcraft.
So, reading Nullcraft closely, my take is that it can take +1/+1 runes from the Elm as Elm’s using an ability, rather than a (buff or debuff) spell. Again, if I’ve screwed this up we can retcon.
Nullcraft’s new smartbombs target Cal, with 1 overpower damage hitting the Tower. Nullcraft takes 1 damage from Tower. Levels to Prynn
Tinkerer adds a time rune to Prynn - 4 runes remain.
Play Sentry (3/2, Anti-air, Sparkshot) - ($0)
Float ($0)
Discard 2, draw 3, reshuffle, draw 1
Board Info: In Patrol:
Squad Leader: Argonaut “Alpha” (3/4+A, Readiness)
Elite:
Scavenger: Sentry (3/2, Anti-air, Sparkshot)
Technician: Argonaut “Bravo” (3/4, Readiness)
Lookout:
In Play:
Nullcraft (4/3, Flying, Haste, three +1/+1 runes, 1 damage)
Tinkerer (1/2)
Blooming Elm HP: 4, Assimilated
L3 - Prynn Pasternaak (1/3, Fading ****)
L1 - Vir Garbarean (2/3)
Buildings:
Base HP: 20
Tech I HP: 5
Tech II HP: 5 (Past)
Tower HP: 4
Economy Info: Cards:
Hand: 4
Deck: 5
Disc: 0
Gold:
Gold: 0
Workers: 10
Thoughts
Blooming Elms… uh didn’t see that coming! Greens’s got lotsa ways to get +1/+1 runes out… I’m really hoping to fish Assimilate out of my deck and snatch one before things get too out of hand. I’ll play Temporal Research first, and then peek with Vir - which’ll give me a little better than 50/50…
OK, no dice on TR… and now I come to it, Vir’s only 1 in 3 to fish up Assimilate… I think I’d still better try it.
Woo! \o/
I think I can use Nullcraft to destroy the other Elm - would be a strong counter to the Elms, but leaves Tech III as a threat. If I kill Calamandra instead, that leaves an Elm to each of us, and a buffed up tiger can’t get through both Argonauts. Leaving the other Elm on the table means I could potentially Assimilate that too… greedy… seems riskier but let’s try it.
Ah. Hmm. So Kidnapping’s relevant to units, and the rulebook is a bit more specific about units and heroes and when they can attack. Here’s the full sentence I quoted from.
So based on that, as Elm is not attacking, and it is now the following turn, seems like abilities could be activated?
Looking at the Rules Questions thread, it seems folks tend to agree that without haste the arrival fatigue continues to apply to assimilated buildings. But I’m not sure I agree, otherwise the rules would read
I might ask the question (again) in that thread to see if/where I’m going wrong.
Having said that I’d like to just play on per the current community consensus on the rules so will retcon my turn.
In the end Nullcraft pinged your base for 1 instead of attacking Cal, and I played Fargo instead of Sentry. Here’s the updated turn.
P2T6
Tech StartingHand Workers
TECH
Assimilate
Shimmer Ray
STARTING HAND
Temporal Research
Fading Argonaut
Sentry
Yesterday’s Golgort
Yesterday’s Golgort
Assimilate
WORKERS
Forgotten Fighter
Plasmodium
Time Spiral
Hardened Mox
Neo Plexus
NextHand
Assimilate
Origin Story
Yesterday’s Golgort
Rewind
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($10)
Prynn fades, 3 runes remain.
Prynn hunts through the archives looking for Temporal Research. I draw 2 - ($8)
Summon Vir Garbarean (2/3) - ($6)
Vir peers into the mists of future time… and pays to swap soon for now. - ($5)
Vir Assimilates a Blooming Elm - ($2)
Tinkerer adds a time rune to Prynn - 4 runes remain.
Play Fading Argonaut (2/3, Fading ***) - ($0)
Nullcraft pings your base for 1 damage.
Float ($0)
Discard 2, draw 3, reshuffle, draw 1
Board Info: In Patrol:
Squad Leader: Argonaut “Alpha” (3/4+A, Readiness)
Elite:
Scavenger: Fading Argonaut (2/3, Fading ***)
Technician: Argonaut “Bravo” (3/4, Readiness)
Lookout:
In Play:
Nullcraft (1/1, Flying, Haste)
Tinkerer (1/2)
Blooming Elm HP: 4, Assimilated
L1 - Prynn Pasternaak (1/3, Fading ****)
L1 - Vir Garbarean (2/3)
Buildings:
Base HP: 20
Tech I HP: 5
Tech II HP: 5 (Past)
Tower HP: 4
Economy Info: Cards:
Hand: 4
Deck: 5
Disc: 0
Gold:
Gold: 0
Workers: 10
Thoughts
Even with an incoming Blooming Elm activation, I don’t think it’s economical to trade into that Stalking Tiger. So I’ll sit tight for now.
i guess i just thought the Elm’s were worth it. let’s see if i was wrong to temp it against Vir.
[b]P1T7[/b]
StartingHand Workers
STARTING HAND
Galina Glimmer (2/2)
Spore Shambler
Blooming Ancient
Merfolk Prospector (1/1) resist 1
WORKERS
Ironbark Treant
Rich Earth
Young Treant
Verdant Tree
Circle of Life
Tiger Cub
NextHand
Artisan Mantis
Forest’s Favor
Nature Reclaims
Discard
Spore Shambler
Tech 0 card(s)
Get Paid - ($10)
blooming ancient - ($6)
tap Elm, 3 runes to Ancient
galina glimmer, +1r - ($5)
merfolk prospector, +1r - ($4)
Cal runs into SQL Argo, prynn to lvl 3
Arg, wisp, +2r - ($2)
Ancient moves 3 runes to tiger
tiger (7/7) kills SQL Argo, overpower 4 to kill Tech Argo, takes 4 damage
Ancient moves 4 runes to wisp
wisp kills fargo, takes 3, overpower 1 to prynn
midori kills prynn, takes 2, gains to level 3
midband midori, heals - ($0)
Float ($0)
Discard 1, draw 3
Board Info: In Patrol:
Squad Leader: Merfolk Prospector (1/1+A)
Elite: Wisp (2/2)
Scavenger: Arg, lvl 1 (1/3)
Technician: Galina Glimmer (2/2)
Lookout:
In Play:
Assimilated: Blooming Elm 4HP
Blooming Elm 4HP
Midori, lvl 5, (3/4) boosts units with no abilities
Stalking Tiger (7/3)+3r
BA (2/4)
Wisp (5/3)+4r
Buildings:
Base HP: 15
Tech I HP: 5
Tech II HP: 5
Tower HP: 4
Economy Info: Cards:
Hand: 3
Deck: 4
Disc: 1
Gold:
Gold: 0
Workers: 10
Thoughts
welll, let’s see who can use Elm better. hopefully i draw the nature reclaims next hand. i need galina and midori to survive so i can circle of life into a fairy dragon.
runed NC will OP me no matter what. so next turn im looking at 3 attackers, possibly 4 if he drops Geiger and NOW.
not too worried about losing my tech 2. moreso midori, which can’t be stopped due to NC.
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid + Scavenger + Technician draw - ($11)
Worker - ($10)
Vir peeks at top card… and pays to switch it with one from hand - ($9)
Peek
The other Assimilate … putting Origin Story back on the deck.
Play Yesterday’s Golgort “Alpha” (6/4, Fading **) - ($6)
Play Yesterday’s Golgort “Bravo” (6/4, Fading **) - ($3)
Vir Assimilates the other Blooming Elm - ($0)
Activate Blooming Elm “Alpha” to buff Nullcraft.
Nullcraft destroys Blooming Ancient, suffers 1 damage from Tower.
Nullcraft (4/3, Flying, Haste, three +1/+1 runes, 1 damage)
Blooming Elm “Alpha” HP: 4, Assimilated
Blooming Elm “Bravo” HP: 4, Assimilated
Buildings:
Base HP: 20
Tech I HP: 5
Tech II HP: 5 (Past)
Tower HP: 4
Economy Info: Cards:
Hand: 3
Deck: 1
Disc: 7
Gold:
Gold: 0
Workers: 11
Thoughts
OK, I think codexnewb can come through and knock over one Blooming Elm. But Nullcraft is going to be an issue here moving forward if I get to buff it again.
I will have a couple of decent value blockers in my next hand I think, and this may go to Tech III, so I’ll put the Archon in.
STARTING HAND
Artisan Mantis
Forest’s Favor
Nature Reclaims
WORKERS
Ironbark Treant
Rich Earth
Young Treant
Verdant Tree
Circle of Life
Tiger Cub
NextHand
Circle of Life
Playful Panda (2/2)
Discard
Spore Shambler
BA (2/4)
Merfolk Prospector (1/1+A)
Stalking Tiger
Forest’s Favor
Blooming Elm 4HP
Galina Glimmer (2/1)
Tech 0 card(s)
Get Paid - ($10)
galina gold - ($12)
nature reclaims, trash blooming elm, trash nature reclaims - ($10)
max arg, summon water elemental - ($6)
buffed up wisp trades with sql golgort
tiger trades with tech golgort
tap arg, boost galina, she trades with vir, midori to lvl 7
merfolk and wisp trade with tinkerer
forest favor midori
midori breaks blooming elm, returns to my discard, takes 1
max midori, heals - ($5)
artisan mantis base heals to 18 - ($1)
Tech 1 card(s)
Get Paid + Scavenger + Technician Draw - ($12)
Summon Prynn Pasternaak (1/3, Fading ****) - ($10)
With the Conclave’s fate in her hands, Prynn buries herself in Temporal Research - ($8)
Temporal Research draws...
Rewind (ouch) and … Rememberer (double ouch).
Yeah, my Past deck building needs some work methinks.
Prynn weaves the tale of Midori’s Origin Story - ($5)
Play Sentry (3/2, Anti-air, Sparkshot) - ($3)
Play Shimmer Ray (3/4, Flying, Fading **) - ($2)
Summon Max Geiger (2/3, Sparkshot) - ($0)
Float ($0)
Discard 2, draw 4
Board Info: In Patrol:
Squad Leader: Sentry (3/2+A, Anti-air, Sparkshot)
Elite:
Scavenger: Max Geiger (2/3, Sparkshot)
Technician: Prynn Pasternaak (1/3, Fading ****)
Lookout:
In Play:
Nullcraft (4/3, Flying, Haste, three +1/+1 runes, 1 damage)
Shimmer Ray (3/4, Flying, Fading **)
Buildings:
Base HP: 20
Tech I HP: 5
Tech II HP: 5 (Past)
Tower HP: 4
Economy Info: Cards:
Hand: 4
Deck: 5
Disc: 4
Gold:
Gold: 0
Workers: 11
Thoughts
Much (as in, the outcome of the game “much”) will depend on the cards that come off the deck for Termporal Research here methinks. Rewind sounds good, but I don’t think I can afford it. Prynn, maxband, TR, Rewind = 2 + 6 + 2 + 4 = 14 - ewf. Midori is pretty threatening with 5 ATK and flying, so probably need to Origin Story there. Prynn + Origin Story + TR = 2 + 3 + 2, leaves 5 for whatever comes off the deck Fargo + Golgort would be nice… too many units in there cost 3. It’s tempting to tech even more things because of the reshuffle. Like… Stewardess would be spot on. #whatcouldgowrong
AAAND…Rewind and Rememberer. Balls. Both perfectly useless. Deck building game needs work I think - Remember and Reaver… they read quite well, but getting them into play effectively is another matter. Still, TR at least helps with hand draw, and I think I can hold out for another turn, but wow, woulda been good to have the cards to defend Tech III this turn. At least if I do pull the archon I can discard for a time rune on Shimmer Ray.
STARTING HAND
Yesterdays Golgort
Argonaut
Ebbflow Archon
Assimilate
Yesterdays Golgort
WORKERS
Forgotten Fighter
Plasmodium
Time Spiral
Hardened Mox
Neo Plexus
Assimilate
NextHand
Ebbflow Archon
Yesterdays Golgort
Stewardess of the Undone
Fading Argonaut
Argonaut
Tech 0 card(s)
Get Paid + Technician draw - ($11)
Shimmer Ray fades - 1 rune remains.
Begin constructing Tech III building - ($6)
Summon Vir Vanderbean (2/3) - ($4)
Vir peeks at the top card of my deck, and pays to exchange it with one in my hand. - ($3)
Peek and Exchange
Tinkerer comes into hand, Ebbflow Archon onto the deck.
Play Yesterday’s Yohgurt (6/4, Fading **) - ($0)
Shimmer Ray kills Artisan Mantis.
Nullcraft destroys the Heroes’ Hall, your base to 14.
Discard a card Add a time rune to Shimmer Ray - 2 runes remain.
Nullcraft (4/3, Flying, Haste, three +1/+1 runes, 1 damage)
Shimmer Ray (3/4, Flying, Fading **)
Buildings:
Base HP: 20
Tech I HP: 5
Tech II HP: 5 (Past)
Tech III HP: 5
Tower HP: 4
Economy Info: Cards:
Hand: 5
Deck: 7
Disc: 0
Gold:
Gold: 0
Workers: 11
Thoughts
So codexnewb just teched 2 cards, and has not teched anything for the previous two turns. 1/11 of drawing one of those. Actually hoping to see Guargum come out so the Archon can trash it.
STARTING HAND
Rampant Growth
Blooming Ancient
Feral Strike
Moss Ancient
WORKERS
Ironbark Treant
Rich Earth
Young Treant
Verdant Tree
Circle of Life
Tiger Cub
NextHand
Merfolk Prospector (1/1+A)
Playful Panda (2/2)
Circle of Life
Discard
Artisan Mantis
Feral Strike
Rampant Growth
Blooming Ancient
Tech 0 card(s)
Get Paid + float - ($11)
tech lab feral was broken, base to 14
boosted feral strike - ($3)
…add moss ancient and galina glimmer to hand from codex
…put x2 moss ancient from hand into play, summon 6 squirrels
galina glimmer - ($2)
squirrel 1 gets caught by tower, runs into sql golgort
5 other squirrels invisible break your tech 3, your base to 18
rampant growth water elemental, trades with sql golgort - ($0)
Cal kills vir, levels fizzle, takes 3
Float ($0)
Discard 1, draw 3
Board Info: In Patrol:
Squad Leader: Moss Ancient (8/9+A) untargetable
Elite:
Scavenger: Moss Ancient (8/9) untargetable
Technician: Galina Glimmer (2/2)
Lookout:
In Play:
Arg, lvl 5, (1/5)
Cal, lvl 5, (4/2)
Squirrel (1/1)
Squirrel (1/1)
Squirrel (1/1)
Squirrel (1/1)
Squirrel (1/1)
Buildings:
Base HP: 14
Tech I HP: 5
Tech II HP: 5 (Growth)
Tech III HP: 5
Economy Info: Cards:
Hand: 3
Deck: 6
Disc: 4
Gold:
Gold: 0
Workers: 10
Thoughts
lucky draw on my part should do it for me. tough to see them recovering from here.
Oh, OK, yeah. Just casting an ultimate to put two Tech III units into play. Cool. Coolcoolcool. Sure, I mean, I guess you could do that. Like, if you want.
Going to be a big finish here, one way or another. Have you got me on your next turn?
P2T10
StartingHand Workers
STARTING HAND
Ebbflow Archon
Stewardess of the Undone
Argonaut
Fading Argonaut
Yesterdays Golgort
Assimilate
WORKERS
Forgotten Fighter
Plasmodium
Time Spiral
Hardened Mox
Neo Plexus
Assimilate
NextHand
Argonaut
Tinkerer
Origin Story
Rememberer
Discard
Yesteday’s Golgort
Ebbflow Archon
Assimilate
Stewardess of the Undone
Tech 0 card(s)
Get Paid + Technician draw - ($11)
Shimmer Ray fades - 1 rune remains.
Rebuild Tech III building.
Play Yesterday’s Golgort (6/4, Fading **) - ($8)
Play Argonaut (3/4, Readiness) - ($5)
Play Fading Argonaut (2/3, Fading ***) - ($3)
Summon Prynn Pasternaak (1/3, Fading ****) - ($1)
Nullcraft and Shimmer Ray fly a sortie over your base, dealing 7 damage, your base to 7.
Discard a card Add a time rune to Shimmer Ray - 2 runes remain.
Nullcraft (4/3, Flying, Haste, three +1/+1 runes, 1 damage)
Shimmer Ray (3/4, Flying, Fading **)
Buildings:
Base HP: 18
Tech I HP: 5
Tech II HP: 5 (Past)
Tech III HP: 5
Tower HP: 4
Economy Info: Cards:
Hand: 4
Deck: 2
Disc: 4
Gold:
Gold: 1
Workers: 11
Thoughts
OK. I thought maxbanding Prynn to trash one of these Moss Ancients might be an idea, but they’re Untargetable. So that’s that.
Can I survive long enough for Shimmer Ray and upgraded Nullcraft to take down the base? Seems iffy.
Have a pretty decent hand for walling up… Stewardess, Golgort, Argonaut, Fargo = 3 + 3 + 3 + 2 = 11 - is affordable, and a fair few hit points. 3 + 4 + 4 + 3 = 14 health to wade through. Plus SQL Armour and Max Geiger is still hanging in there, we’re up to 18. I can calculate it out (further) but I don’t see too many other options here, so I’ll just go for it and hope codexnewb doesn’t have too many more surprises for me.
Argh, wait, Cal has applied resist 1 to all the squirrels (remembered her midband this time, heh), and I can’t afford to both bounce one and play Fargo. Not sure it’ll make a huge difference, but maybe better to play Prynn, float the gold and keep the extra card to discard.
Squad Leader: Stalking Tiger (4/4+A) invisible
Elite:
Scavenger:
Technician: Wisp (0/1)
Lookout:
Base HP: 19
Base HP: 19
Nullcraft (1/1, Flying, Haste)
Nullcraft (4/3, Flying, Haste, three +1/+1 runes, 1 damage)
HP: 4, Assimilated
Add a time rune to Shimmer Ray - 2 runes remain.