[Casual] Shadow (Mono White) vs Charnel Mouse ( [Law/Truth]/Discipline)

Shadow_Night_Black · January 17, 2019, 11:11am

As beatiful as this series of plays is, it costs 2 to ready Sparing Partner

charnel_mouse · January 17, 2019, 11:22am

Fixed, I overkilled by 1, so I can just skip sparring with the Twin and it works out the same.

Shadow_Night_Black · January 17, 2019, 11:49am

P2T5

Tech StartingHand Workers

TECH
Glorious Ninja
Bird’s Nest

STARTING HAND
Savior Monk (2/2, Healing 1)
Snapback
Fox’s Den School
Porcupine
Smoker

WORKERS
Fox Primus
Fox Viper
Sensei’s Advice
Morningstar Flagbearer
Smoker

NextHand

Safe Attacking
Grappling Hook
Glorious Ninja
Aged Sensei (1/1)

Discard

Savior Monk (2/2, Healing 1)
Snapback
Glorious Ninja
Bird’s Nest

Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($9)
Worker - ($8)
Porcupine - ($5)
Fox’s Den’s School - ($1)
Sparing Partner spars with Porcupine

Float ($1)
Discard 2, draw 4

Board Info:
In Patrol:

Squad Leader: Porcupine (3/7, Death Touch, Invisible) +
Elite:
Scavenger:
Technician: Rambasa (4/3) +
Lookout:

In Play:

Sparring Partner (2/2)
Fox’s Den School (-/4, Invisible)

Buildings:

Base HP: 20
Tech I HP: 4
Tech II HP: 5 (Ninjutsu)

Economy Info:
Cards:

Hand: 4
Deck: 1
Disc: 4

Gold:

Gold: 1
Workers: 10

charnel_mouse · January 17, 2019, 12:05pm

P1T6

Tech StartingHand Workers

TECH
Reteller of Truths
Spectral Roc

STARTING HAND
Dreamscape
Free Speech
Spectral Tiger

WORKERS
Jail
Porkhand Magistrate
Building Inspector
Bluecoat Musketeer
Traffic Director
Dreamscape

NextHand

Reteller of Truths
Reputable Newsman
Macciatus, The Whisperer

Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($9)
Tower - ($6)
Quince summons a Mirror - ($4)
Spectral Tiger, Mirror copies it - ($1)
Worker - ($0)
Spectral Aven kills Sparring Partner

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

Board Info:
In Patrol:

Squad Leader: Spectral Tiger (Mirror) 5/5+1A (illusion)
Elite:
Scavenger:
Technician: Spectral Tiger 5/5 (illusion)
Lookout:

In Play:

Quince L5 2/1 (+, 5 damage)
Grave L3 3/4 (sparkshot, readiness)
Spectral Aven 2/2 (flying, illusion)

Buildings:

Base HP: 20
Tech I HP: 5
Tech II HP: 5 (Truth)
Tower HP: 4

Economy Info:
Cards:

Hand: 3
Deck: 8
Disc: 0

Gold:

Gold: 0
Workers: 10

Thoughts

Phew, I can count myself lucky, I think. Dreamscape isn’t as useful without Twins out, so I’ll just worker it. Teching hard into Truth now, staying with MT/Twins spam is going to take ages to set back up now. Getting another Reteller because I desperately need to get my hand size back up.

If a Glorious Ninja comes out then it can walk past the patrol after Porcuping kills the mirror. Quince or Grave could go down, but that leaves it on 2 health to get killed by Aven. I think that makes it worth getting the Tower over playing Free Speech to stop targeted kills on the Tigers.

Shadow_Night_Black · January 17, 2019, 12:25pm

EDIT: fixed not moving across a worker after paying for it…

P2T6

Tech StartingHand Workers

TECH
Fox’s Den Students
Fox’s Den Students

STARTING HAND
Grappling Hook
Glorious Ninja
Safe Attacking
Aged Sensei (1/1)

WORKERS
Fox Primus
Fox Viper
Sensei’s Advice
Morningstar Flagbearer
Smoker
Safe Attacking

NextHand

Snapback
Savior Monk (2/2, Healing 1)
Thunderclap

Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid + float - ($11)
Glorious Ninja - ($6)
Setsuki - ($4)
Grappling Hook the Real Fake Tiger, it goes pop as does the Fake Fake Tiger
Porc kills Quince, Tower detects Porc, Sets to lvl 3
Glorious Ninja Kills Grave, Sets to lvl 5
Max Sets - ($3)
worker - ($2)
Rambasa is now a Ninja! - ($0)
Rambasa breaks your Tower, your base to 18

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

Board Info:
In Patrol:

Squad Leader:
Elite:
Scavenger:
Technician:
Lookout:

In Play:

Fox’s Den School (-/4, Invisible)
Porcupine (3/4, Death Touch, Invisible) +
Glorious Ninja (4/3, Swift Strike, Invisible, Haste)
Setsuki (3/4, lvl 6)
Rambasa (4/3, Ninja, Invisible) +

Buildings:

Base HP: 20
Tech I HP: 4
Tech II HP: 5 (Ninjutsu)

Economy Info:
Cards:

Hand: 3
Deck: 7
Disc: 0

Gold:

Gold: 0
Workers: 11

charnel_mouse · January 17, 2019, 12:41pm

P1T7

Tech StartingHand Workers

TECH
Judgment Day
Judgment Day

STARTING HAND
Reteller of Truths
Macciatus, The Whisperer
Reputable Newsman
Manufactured Truth

WORKERS
Jail
Porkhand Magistrate
Building Inspector
Bluecoat Musketeer
Traffic Director
Dreamscape

NextHand

Arrest
Spectral Tiger
Spectral Roc

Discard

Spectral Tiger
Manufactured Truth
Judgment Day
Judgment Day

Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($10)
Technician draw
Macciatus, The Whisperer - ($8)
Reteller of Truths - ($6)
Bigby Hayes - ($4)
Reputable Newsman, naming 4 - ($2)
Spectral Aven hits your Tech II down to 2

Float ($2)
Discard 1, draw 3

Board Info:
In Patrol:

Squad Leader: Reteller of Truths 4/4+1A (Macciatus boost, first two killed illusions return to hand)
Elite: Macciatus, The Whisperer 1+3/3
Scavenger: Reputable Newsman 0/3 (no 4-cost upgrades or spells)
Technician: Bigby Hayes 2/3
Lookout:

In Play:

Spectral Aven 3/3 (flying, illusion, Macciatus boost)

Buildings:

Base HP: 18
Tech I HP: 5
Tech II HP: 5 (Truth)

Economy Info:
Cards:

Hand: 2
Deck: 5
Disc: 4

Gold:

Gold: 2
Workers: 10

Shadow_Night_Black · January 17, 2019, 12:48pm

Manufactored truth only allows you to turn into tech 0/1 units (thankfully, it would be way too good otherwise, this 1 cost 1/1 is now a hyperion!)

charnel_mouse · January 17, 2019, 12:50pm

I’ll just hit Tech II down to 2 HP as Aven, and draw an extra card.

Shadow_Night_Black · January 17, 2019, 12:58pm

P2T7

StartingHand Workers

STARTING HAND
Thunderclap
Snapback
Savior Monk (2/2, Healing 1)
Glorious Ninja
Fox’s Den Students

WORKERS
Fox Primus
Fox Viper
Sensei’s Advice
Morningstar Flagbearer
Smoker
Safe Attacking

NextHand

Sparring Partner (2/2)
Aged Sensei (1/1)
Grappling Hook
Bird’s Nest
Fox’s Den Students

Discard

Fox’s Den Students
Snapback
Thunderclap
Savior Monk (2/2, Healing 1)

Tech 0 card(s)
Get Paid - ($11)
Glorious Ninja #2 - ($6)
Glorious Ninja #2 swiftly kills Macciatus
Glorious Ninja #1 swiftly kills Reteller of Truths
Rook - ($4)
Sets Swiftly kills Bigby, Rook to lvl 3
Poc kills Newsman
Fox’s Den’s Students - ($0)
Rambasa and Alice break your tech 2
Bob, Charles and David deal 3 to your tech 1

Float ($0)
Discard 3, draw 5

Board Info:
In Patrol:

Squad Leader:
Elite:
Scavenger: Rook (2/4, lvl 3)
Technician:
Lookout:

In Play:

Fox’s Den School (-/4, Invisible)
Porcupine (3/4, Death Touch, Invisible) +
Glorious Ninja #1 (4/3, Swift Strike, Invisible, Haste)
Setsuki (3/4, lvl 6)
Rambasa (4/3, Ninja, Invisible) +
Glorious Ninja #2 (4/3, Swift Strike, Invisible, Haste)
Alice (1/1, Invisible)
Bob (1/1, Invisible)
Charles (1/1, Invisible)
David (1/1, Invisible)

Buildings:

Base HP: 20
Tech I HP: 4
Tech II HP: 2 (Ninjutsu)

Economy Info:
Cards:

Hand: 5
Deck: 0
Disc: 4

Gold:

Gold: 0
Workers: 11

charnel_mouse · January 17, 2019, 1:03pm

Yep, that’ll do it, I just drew into a Reversal which doesn’t help me. GG! Should’ve teched in something to deal with Fox’s Den School.

Shadow_Night_Black · January 17, 2019, 1:06pm

P1T1

StartingHand Workers

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

WORKERS
Safe Attacking

NextHand

Morningstar Flagbearer
Snapback
Fox Viper
Aged Sensei
Smoker

Discard

Savior Monk
Sensei’s Advice
Grappling Hook

Tech 0 card(s)
Get Paid - ($4)
Worker - ($3)
Fox Primus - ($0)

Float ($0)
Discard 3, draw 5

Board Info:
In Patrol:

Squad Leader: Fox Primus (2/2, Frenzy, Anti air)
Elite:
Scavenger:
Technician:
Lookout:

In Play:
*

Buildings:

Base HP: 20

Economy Info:
Cards:

Hand: 5
Deck: 0
Disc: 3

Gold:

Gold: 0
Workers: 5

charnel_mouse · January 17, 2019, 1:26pm

P2T1

StartingHand Workers

STARTING HAND
Building Inspector
Manufactured Truth
Traffic Director
Bluecoat Musketeer
Jail

WORKERS
Bluecoat Musketeer

NextHand

Porkhand Magistrate
Spectral Aven
Reputable Newsman
Lawful Search

Discard

Jail
Manufactured Truth

Tech 0 card(s)
Get Paid - ($5)
Worker - ($4)
Building Inspector - ($3)
Grave Stormborne - ($1)
Traffic Director - ($0)

Float ($0)
Discard 2, draw 4

Board Info:
In Patrol:

Squad Leader: Grave L1 2/3+1A (sparkshot)
Elite:
Scavenger:
Technician:
Lookout:

In Play:

Building Inspector 1/1 (your first building each turn costs 1 more)
Traffic Director 1/1 (unstoppable when attacking buildings, untargetable)

Buildings:

Base HP: 20

Economy Info:
Cards:

Hand: 4
Deck: 1
Disc: 2

Gold:

Gold: 0
Workers: 6

Shadow_Night_Black · January 17, 2019, 7:49pm

P1T2

Tech StartingHand Workers

TECH
Bird’s Nest
Sparring Partner

STARTING HAND
Smoker
Fox Viper
Aged Sensei
Morningstar Flagbearer
Snapback

WORKERS
Safe Attacking
Fox Viper

NextHand

Sparring Partner
Savior Monk
Sensei’s Advice
Bird’s Nest
Smoker

Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($5)
Worker - ($4)
Rook - ($2)
Tech 1 - ($0)

Float ($0)
Discard 4, reshuffle, draw 5

Board Info:
In Patrol:

Squad Leader: Rook (2/4 +A)
Elite:
Scavenger:
Technician: Fox Primus (2/2, Frenzy, Anti air)
Lookout:

In Play:
*

Buildings:

Base HP: 20
Tech I HP: 5

Economy Info:
Cards:

Hand: 5
Deck: 4
Disc: 0

Gold:

Gold: 0
Workers: 6

Dreamfire · January 17, 2019, 9:22pm

For charnel_mouse

Could you explain the MTruth/Dreamscape/Rambasa combo you were trying to set up?

charnel_mouse · January 17, 2019, 9:38pm

For Dreamfire

Sure. The original idea for the deck was to use MT to repeatedly turn things into Twins. This would help with early attacks and help prevent Twins from all going to codex, and also could turn powerful Tech I enemies into Twins to easily send them back to codex. Then Mirrors and/or Insurance Agents for even more.

Dreamscape was a snap decision when I went for Reteller as another way to prevent Twins going to codex. I should probably have just scrapped the whole Twins idea at that point in the match and gone for something else.

Dreamfire · January 17, 2019, 11:31pm

For charnel_mouse

Sounds cool! One problem I can see, though, is that MTruth can’t affect enemy units (unfortunately).

charnel_mouse · January 17, 2019, 11:37pm

For Dreamfire

Ugh, I misread that, that’s annoying. I think the other problem at the moment is that I’d need to cycle the deck more quickly. Blue gives decent draw options later, and Martial Mastery sort of helps, but I might need to be more ruthless with MTing non-token units into Twins to thin the deck. I guess that’s closest we can get to a Chapel build in Dominion.

charnel_mouse · January 18, 2019, 10:09am

P2T2

Tech StartingHand Workers

TECH
Rambasa Twin
Sparring Partner

STARTING HAND
Porkhand Magistrate
Lawful Search
Spectral Aven
Reputable Newsman

WORKERS
Bluecoat Musketeer
Porkhand Magistrate

NextHand

Sparring Partner
Jail
Spectral Aven
Arrest
Reputable Newsman

Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($6)
Worker - ($5)
Tech I - ($3)
Tower - ($0)

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

Board Info:
In Patrol:

Squad Leader:
Elite:
Scavenger: Traffic Director 1/1 (unstoppable when attacking buildings, untargetable)
Technician: Building Inspector 1/1 (your first building each turn costs 1 more)
Lookout:

In Play:

Grave L1 2/3 (sparkshot)

Buildings:

Base HP: 20
Tech I HP: 5
Tower HP: 4

Economy Info:
Cards:

Hand: 5
Deck: 3
Disc: 0

Gold:

Gold: 0
Workers: 7

Thoughts

I think the general plan is to worker the more expensive units, and put down the cheap ones as MT fodder. Then they’ll just be removed from the deck, and I can cycle really quickly. Teching in Twins with a Sparring Partner to things stay alive longer.

I could either put a heroes’ hall down, or level up Grave, and run everything into Rook. That just results in Primus killing Grave next turn, though. I could also play a Tower to deal with any birds that turn up. I can always copy Primus to do that, though. On the other hand, it lets my current units trade with Primus, so let’s do that.

… No turn 3 Twins this time, but I’ve got decent worker fodder, and can put out Newsman or Arrest if I get Scavenger gold.

Shadow_Night_Black · January 18, 2019, 10:16am

P1T3

Tech StartingHand Workers

TECH
Whitestar Grappler
Whitestar Grappler

STARTING HAND
Sensei’s Advice
Bird’s Nest
Savior Monk
Smoker
Sparring Partner

WORKERS
Safe Attacking
Fox Viper
Smoker

NextHand

Grappling Hook
Aged Sensei
Morningstar Flagbearer
Snapback

Discard

Sensei’s Advice
Savior Monk
Whitestar Grappler
Whitestar Grappler

Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($6)
Worker - ($5)
Sparing Partner - ($4)
Birds Nest, Tweet and Twoo appear! - ($2)

Float ($2)
Discard 2, draw 4

Board Info:
In Patrol:

Squad Leader: Rook (2/4 +A)
Elite:
Scavenger:
Technician: Fox Primus (2/2, Frenzy, Anti air)
Lookout:

In Play:

Tweet! (1/1, Flying)
Twoo! (1/1, Flying)
Sparing Partner (2/2)
Bird’s Nest

Buildings:

Base HP: 20
Tech I HP: 5

Economy Info:
Cards:

Hand: 4
Deck: 0
Disc: 4

Gold:

Gold: 2
Workers: 7

charnel_mouse · January 18, 2019, 10:38am

P2T3

Tech StartingHand Workers

TECH
Martial Mastery
Tax Collector

STARTING HAND
Arrest
Spectral Aven
Reputable Newsman
Jail
Sparring Partner

WORKERS
Bluecoat Musketeer
Porkhand Magistrate
Jail

NextHand

Building Inspector
Manufactured Truth
Rambasa Twin
Arrest
Lawful Search

Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($7)
Worker - ($6)
Midband Grave - ($4)
Traffic Director and Building Inspector suicide into Rook for 1+1A damage
Grave readily kills Rook, Bird’s Nest disappears, takes 2 damage, hits level 5
Maxband Grave - ($2)
Reputable Newsman, naming 1 - ($0)
Grave swordswipes Sparring Partner

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

Board Info:
In Patrol:

Squad Leader:
Elite: Reputable Newsman 1+0/3 (no 1-cost spells or abilities)
Scavenger:
Technician:
Lookout:

In Play:

Grave L7 4/5 (sparkshot, readiness)

Buildings:

Base HP: 20
Tech I HP: 5
Tower HP: 4

Economy Info:
Cards:

Hand: 5
Deck: 5
Disc: 0

Gold:

Gold: 0
Workers: 8

Thoughts

Bird’s Nest looks like a good excuse to kill Rook to me. I still have 2 gold left over, what to do with it? Pretty much anything in my hand is useful, unfortunately I can’t afford Arrest to get around Technician reshuffle. Aven could block the Birds, but is asking to be kill with spell or Primus. Sparring Partner would be great for Grave, but I don’t think is quite enough to stop a counter attack from Shadow’s units. Reputable Newsman is similar, but would patrol in Elite instead of Squad Leader, and also block Snapback or Safe Attacking. Let’s do that.

Teching in Tax Collector to see if I can catch Shadow floating a ton of gold again.