Sure, I know I just explained how to have a better chance against white, but I’m curious to try playing Blue. I haven’t played with Blue much, but I’d like to try it out.
This is my general philosophy for Codex, but keep in mind it doesn’t really take combos into account and I’m not a fantastic Codex player: [Strategy] Codex Roles P1 vs. P2
That’s fine
I rolled an 85 to go first
One way of thinking about Rich Earth is that if you play it as Player 1 you’re essentially letting the other player be Player 1 while still having one more worker than you to start with.
Good point. I’ll be more careful with it from now on
Btw is it alright if I switch to Purple?
No problem!
GLHF
P1t1
Neo plexus
Time Spiral
Temporal Research
Nullcraft
Forgotten Fighter
Forgotten Fighter
Get paid ($4)
Worker ($3)
Hire Nullcraft ($1)
Nullcraft Hits your base
Float 1 gold
In play: Nullcraft (1/1)
Base: 20
5 workers
Hand: 5
Deck: 0
Discard: 3
Battle Suits
Tinkerer
Plasmodium
Fading Argonaut
Hardened Mox
P2T1
STARTING HAND
Porkhand Magistrate
Bluecoat Musketeer
Building Inspector
Traffic Director
Jail
WORKERS
Traffic Director
Lawful Search
Arrest
Reputable Newsman
Spectral Aven
Manufactured Truth
Porkhand Magistrate
Building Inspector
Jail
Tech 0 card(s)
Get Paid - ($5)
Worker - ($4)
Hire Bluecoat Musketeer - ($2)
Summon Onimaru - ($0)
Float ($0)
Discard 3, draw 5
Board Info:
In Patrol:
Squad Leader: Bluecoat Musketeer 1/2
Elite:
Scavenger:
Technician:
Lookout:In Play:
Buildings:
Base HP: 19Economy Info:
Cards:
Gold:
Here goes nothing! Nullcraft stops me from wanting to make Traffic Director OR Building Inspector, but Building Inspector seems like a great card later while Traffic Director is so-so. Rather have Oni than anyone else, though I thought about trying to get crazy with Quince’s mirrors.
P1t2
Battle Suits
Tinkerer
Plasmodium
Fading Argonaut
Hardened Mox
Plasmodium
Argonaut 2x
Get paid + float ($6)
Worker ($5)
Build Tech 1 ($4)
Research Battle Suits ($2)
Nullcraft slaps Onimaru
Hire Geiger ($0)
Squad leader: Geiger (2/3)
In play: Nullcraft (1/1) Battle Suits
Base: 20
Tech 1: 5
6 workers
Hand: 5
Deck: 3
Discard: 0
Hardened Mox
Neo plexus
Fading Argonaut
Tinkerer
Argonaut
Hyperion shenanigans are the plan.
b]P2T2[/b]
TECH
Spectral Hound
Scribe
STARTING HAND
Spectral Aven
Reputable Newsman
Lawful Search
Arrest
Manufactured Truth
WORKERS
Traffic Director
Arrest
Scribe
Building Inspector
Lawful Search
Manufactured Truth
Spectral Hound
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($6)
Worker - ($5)
Musketeer shoots Geiger for 1 at long range
Oni frenzies and trades with Geiger, levels fizzle.
Hire Spectral Aven - ($3)
Summon Bigby - ($1)
Build Tech 1 - ($0)
Float ($0)
Discard 3, reshuffle, draw 5
Board Info:
In Patrol:
Squad Leader: Bigby 2/3 Elite: Scavenger: Technician: Lookout: Spectral Aven 2/2, flying, illusionIn Play:
Buildings:
Base HP: 19 Tech I HP: 5Economy Info:
Cards:
Gold:
I’m happy trading off Oni here. Teching Hound/Scribe split here as I want to try cards out. Let’s see what I draw?! Choosing a worker was hard this round…
P1t3
Hardened Mox
Neo plexus
Fading Argonaut
Tinkerer
Argonaut
Hardened Mox
Now! 2x
Get paid ($6)
Worker ($5)
Hire Argonaut ($2)
Hire Fading Argonaut ($0)
Squad leader: Nullcraft (1/1)
Scavenger: Fading Argonaut (2/3)
Technician: Argonaut (3/4)
In play: Battle Suits
Base: 20
Tech 1: 5
7 workers
Hand: 4
Deck: 3
Discard: 0
Argonaut
Time Spiral
Now!
Temporal Research
I can haste Argo or kill an illusion with Now!.
P2T3
TECH
Brave Knight
Injunction
STARTING HAND
Manufactured Truth
Building Inspector
Spectral Hound
Scribe
Lawful Search
Jail
WORKERS
Traffic Director
Arrest
Building Inspector
Lawful Search
Manufactured Truth
Reputable Newsman
Porkhand Magistrate
Brave Knight
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($7)
Worker - ($6)
Hire Scribe, draw a card - ($4)
Hire Spectral Hound - ($3)
Spectral Aven kills nullcraft SL, takes 1
Build a Tower - ($0)
Float ($0)
Stash 1, Discard 2, draw 2, reshuffle, draw 2
Board Info:
In Patrol:
Squad Leader: Scribe 1/3 Elite: Scavenger: Technician: Spectral Hound 3/3 Lookout: Bluecoat Musketeer 1/2In Play:
Buildings:
Base HP: 19 Tech I HP: 5 Tower HP: 4Economy Info:
Cards:
Gold:
Ooh, drew them both! That’s pretty neat, they both seem worth playing. His board got really good really fast. So he has a 4/4 and a 3/3 against my twerpy blue guys. Hopefully no FF for him next turn…
Nice illusion you’ve got there. It’d be a shame if someone were to…pop it
P1t4
Argonaut
Time Spiral
Now!
Temporal Research
Time Spiral
Hyperion 2x
Get paid ($7)
Worker ($6)
Hire Geiger ($4)
Cast Now! on Spectral Hound. It turns out it wasn’t real after all ($3)
Build a tower ($0)
Squad leader: Fading Argonaut (2/3)**
Scavenger: Argonaut (3/4)
In play: Geiger (2/3) Battle Suits
Base: 20
Tech 1: 5
8 workers
Hand: 4
Deck: 5
Discard: 0
Tinkerer
Hyperion
Now!
Neo Plexus
Anything that attacks is just going to die. Therefore he probably won’t use Bigby to attack. He may well just not attack at all.
Purple illusion-popping watch-makers!
P2T4
TECH
Insurance Agent
Insurance Agent
STARTING HANDManufactured Truth
Porkhand Magistrate
Reputable Newsman
Brave Knight
Lawful Search
Jail
WORKERS
Traffic Director
Arrest
Building Inspector
Porkhand Magistrate
Lawful Search
Brave Knight
Spectral Hound
Insurance Agent
Injunction
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($8)
Draw for my poor Hound Tech.
Worker - ($7)
Bibgy casts Manufactured Truth, turning a scribe into a Spectral Aven for the turn! - ($6)
Spectral Aven and Scribe Aven both attack your Argonaut. Tower kills Spectral, Scribe takes 1.You get a gold!
Hire Reputable Newsman, set to 2 - ($4)
Build Tech II (Law) - ($0)
Float ($0)
Stash 1, Discard 2, draw 1, reshuffle, draw 3
Board Info:
In Patrol:
Squad Leader: Bluecoat Musketeer 1/2, long-range Elite: Scavenger: Technician: Reputable Newsman 0/3, set to 2 Lookout:In Play:
Buildings:
Base HP: 19 Tech I HP: 5 Tech II HP: 5 (Law) Tower HP: 4Economy Info:
Cards:
Gold:
Ooh, we are both turtling up! This turn was a head-scratcher, lots of options. I might regret not just killing Geiger here, but with Newsman set to 2, I think his options are somewhat limited. I would love to bring on Brave Knight, but I’m 1 gold short. Maybe I shouldn’t have built a tower? 1st game as Blue in forever, gonna make mistakes! Of courese the beauty of the stash is I can make sure I play a Brave Knight NEXT turn with my stash…
Edit: Ok, it should be fixed now.
Hang on, I shouldn’t have 10 workers. I’m pretty sure this turn is valid in terms of what I did, but some of the spreadsheet numbers got mixed up. I think I put a card I should have discarded into my worker column. I’ll fix it!
Edit: Should be good to go now!
Well, here’s my response. Thanks for the opportunity. Battle Suits was a big help.
P1t5
Tinkerer
Hyperion
Now!
Neo Plexus
No worker
R&D 2x
Get paid + scavenger ($9)
Build Tech 2: Present ($5)
Hire Neo Plexus ($3)
Cast Now to hasten Plexus ($2)
Midband Geiger ($0)
Fading Argonaut kills the Musketeer
Plexus kills the Newsman
Geiger kills Bigby. Levels to Geiger. Flickers Fading Argonaut
Squad leader: Fading Argonaut (2/3)***
In play: Geiger (3/4) Neo Plexus (2/1) Battle Suits
Base: 20
Tech 1: 5
Tech 2: 5
8 workers
Hand: 4
Deck: 1
Discard: 6
Argonaut
Now!
Nullcraft
Temporal Research
Hyperion beatdown imminent. Not in my hand? I have Temporal Research, I’ll just draw it. Either worker or illusion popping.
Nice! I guess I should have been more worried about the 2nd copy of ‘Now’ than Forgotten Fighter/Temporal Distortion. Present is pretty scary…
P2T5
TECH
Lawbringer Gryphon
Lawbringer Gryphon
STARTING HANDBrave Knight
Injunction
Lawful Search
Insurance Agent
Spectral Hound
WORKERS
Traffic Director
Arrest
Building Inspector
Porkhand Magistrate
Lawful Search
Insurance Agent
Spectral Aven
Lawbringer Gryphon
Jail
Manufactured Truth
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($9)
Worker - ($8)
Hire Brave Knight - ($5)
Build Tech III - ($0)
Float ($0)
Discard 3, draw 4, reshuffle, draw 1
Board Info:
In Patrol:
Squad Leader: Elite: Scribe 1/2 Scavenger: Technician: Brave Knight 3/3 Lookout:In Play:
*
Buildings:
Base HP: 19 Tech I HP: 5 Tech II HP: 5 (Law) Tech III HP: 5 Tower HP: 4Economy Info:
Cards:
Gold:
By going Present, I think Lawbringer Gryphon is mostly a lock for the win? If I can get it in hand with 10 gold of course. My math says I’ve got a 2 out of 7 chance of drawing 1 as my 5th card, but if it’s not in my hand for next turn, the following it definitely will be. Can he react in time? Or is there a counter I haven’t thought of…
Hope you weren’t about to play Lawbringer Griffins!
crosses fingers aggressively
P1t6
Argonaut
Now!
Nullcraft
Temporal Research
Nullcraft
Immortal and Warp Gate Disciple
Get paid ($8)
Cast temporal Research ($6) I draw
Hire Hyperion ($1)
Neo plexus trades with scribe
Fading Argonaut trades with Brave Knight
Geiger hits your base
Hyperion flattens your tech 3. I draw
Worker ($0)
In play: Geiger (3/3) Hyperion (4/4) Battle Suits
Base: 20
Tech 1: 5
Tech 2: 5
9 workers
Hand: 5
Deck: 5
Discard: 3
Argonaut
Now!
Hyperion
R&D
Immortal
Griffins denied! I’ll continue the beatdown and add a second Hyperion. I really hope he doesn’t have GotG