[CAWS19] Round1 zhavier [Balance]/Growth/Finesse vs CarpeGuitarrem [Necro]/Blood/Present

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@CarpeGuitarrem

turn to come

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glhf! I’ll set up my spreadsheet in anticipation!

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P1T1

StartingHand Workers

STARTING HAND
Young Treant
Verdant Tree
Forest’s Favor
Playful Panda
Rich Earth

WORKERS
Rich Earth

NextHand

Ironbark Treant
Tiger Cub
Merfolk Prospector
Spore Shambler
Rampant Growth

Discard

Forest’s Favor
Verdant Tree
Young Treant

Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($4)
Worker - ($3)
Playful Panda - ($1)

Float ($1)
Discard 3, draw 5

Board Info:
In Patrol:

  • :psblueshield: Squad Leader:
  • :psfist: Elite:
  • :ps_: Scavenger: Wisp 0/1
  • :pschip: Technician:
  • :target: Lookout:

In Play:

  • Playful Panda 2/2

Buildings:

  • :heart: Base HP: 20

Economy Info:
Cards:

  • Hand: 5
  • Deck: 0
  • Disc: 3

Gold:

  • Gold: 1
  • Workers: 5
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ugh I forgot to watch this topic. Turn incoming!

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P2T1

StartingHand Workers

STARTING HAND
Pestering Haunt
Skeleton Javelineer
Poisonblade Rogue
Graveyard
Thieving Imp

WORKERS
Skeleton Javelineer

NextHand

Skeletal Archery
Sacrifice the Weak
Deteriorate
Jandra, the Negator

Discard

Graveyard
Poisonblade Rogue

Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($5)
Worker - ($4)
Thieving Imp, you discard #1 of 5. - ($1)
Pestering Haunt

Float ($1)
Discard 2, draw 4

Board Info:
In Patrol:

  • :psblueshield: Squad Leader: Thieving Imp 2/2+a
  • :psfist: Elite:
  • :ps_: Scavenger:
  • :pschip: Technician:
  • :target: Lookout:

In Play:

  • Pestering Haunt (unstoppable) 1*/1

Buildings:

  • :heart: Base HP: 20

Economy Info:
Cards:

  • Hand: 4
  • Deck: 1
  • Disc: 2

Gold:

  • Gold: 1
  • Workers: 6
Thoughts

Troublesome opening. I do have Deteriorate ready, though, so I think I deploy Haunt and Imp, then Deteriorate and Haunt to trade with Panda next turn if it stays behind backlines. Thing about zhavier’s Codex is that I’m safe from Calamandra in exchange for being vulnerable to tempo swings from Fencers. Argonauts seem like the order of business to double my effective tempo-holding abilities.

@zhavier’s turn!

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[b]P1T2[/b]
Tech StartingHand Workers

TECH
Nimble Fencer
Spirit of the Panda

STARTING HAND
Ironbark Treant
Merfolk Prospector
Spore Shambler
Rampant Growth
Tiger Cub

WORKERS
Rich Earth
Spore Shambler

NextHand

Merfolk Prospector
Verdant Tree
Young Treant
Spirit of the Panda
Forest’s Favor

Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid + float - ($6)
Worker - ($5)
Argagarg - ($3)
Tech 1 - ($2)

Float ($2)
Discard 3, reshuffle, draw 5

Board Info:
In Patrol:

  • :psblueshield: Squad Leader: Wisp 0/1
  • :psfist: Elite:
  • :ps_: Scavenger: Playful Panda 2/2
  • :pschip: Technician: Wisp 0/1
  • :target: Lookout:

In Play:

  • Argagarg 1/3

Buildings:

  • :heart: Base HP: 20

Economy Info:
Cards:

  • Hand: 5
  • Deck: 4
  • Disc: 0

Gold:

  • Gold: 2
  • Workers: 6
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P2T2

Tech StartingHand Workers

TECH
Argonaut
Argonaut

STARTING HAND
Deteriorate
Skeletal Archery
Sacrifice the Weak
Jandra, the Negator

WORKERS
Skeleton Javelineer
Jandra, the Negator

NextHand

Skeletal Archery
Thieving Imp 2/2
Deteriorate
Summon Skeletons

Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid + float - ($7)
Worker - ($6)
Summon Garth - ($4)
Cast Deteriorate on the Squad Leader; it dies
Imp trades with Panda
Haunt kills the other Wisp
Tech 1 - ($2)
Garth makes a skeleton - ($1)

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

Board Info:
In Patrol:

  • :psblueshield: Squad Leader: Skeleton 1/1+a
  • :psfist: Elite:
  • :ps_: Scavenger:
  • :pschip: Technician: L1 Garth Torken 1/3
  • :target: Lookout:

In Play:

  • Pestering Haunt (unstoppable) 1*/1

Buildings:

  • :heart: Base HP: 20
  • :heart: Tech I HP: 5

Economy Info:
Cards:

  • Hand: 4
  • Deck: 5
  • Disc: 0

Gold:

  • Gold: 1
  • Workers: 7
Thoughts

Fencers imminent, that’s the main play I see here. Either that or Spirit of the Panda. Gonna hulk up behind Argonauts, and I think Haunt + Deteriorate is how I kill the Panda. 2 gold for a hero, 2 gold for tech 1, leaves me 2 gold to spend on something else. I think I just skeleton up with Garth. Midgame I can transition into Drakk and Kidnapping if I see Panda. Or, alternate line: I think it’s better if I Deteriorate Squad Lead, Imp trades, Haunt kills, Garth puts a skeleton up in patrol, and Green doesn’t get to play buff spells. I like that much better. It’s a little weak to double Fencer or Fencer + Rampant Growth, but double Fencer is a less likely draw. And I can use Patrol Zone bonuses to mitigate it.

@zhavier’s turn!

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P1T3

Tech StartingHand Workers

TECH
Star-Crossed Starlet
Leaping Lizard

STARTING HAND
Young Treant
Merfolk Prospector
Verdant Tree
Spirit of the Panda
Forest’s Favor
Nimble Fencer
Rampant Growth

WORKERS
Rich Earth
Spore Shambler
Merfolk Prospector

NextHand

Rampant Growth
Leaping Lizard
Ironbark Treant
Tiger Cub

Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid + float + scav tech - ($9)
Young Treant - ($7)
Nimble Fencer - ($5)
fencer kills skeleton
Rampant Growth on Argagarg, kills Garth, to lvl 3 - ($3)
Verdant Tree - ($1)
Worker - ($0)

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

Board Info:
In Patrol:

  • :psblueshield: Squad Leader:
  • :psfist: Elite:
  • :ps_: Scavenger:
  • :pschip: Technician: Young Treant 0/2
  • :target: Lookout:

In Play:

  • Argagarg 1/4, lvl 3
  • Nimble Fencer 2/2
  • Verdant Tree :heart: 3

Buildings:

  • :heart: Base HP: 20
  • :heart: Tech I HP: 5

Economy Info:
Cards:

  • Hand: 4
  • Deck: 4
  • Disc: 0

Gold:

  • Gold: 0
  • Workers: 7
Thoughts

Taking a chance he wont have bloodlust or now yet, which seems reasonable

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Bummer, you had one of the two things I was afraid of. The other being double Fencer.

P2T3

Tech StartingHand Workers

TECH
Tricycloid
Temporal Distortion

STARTING HAND
Summon Skeletons
Deteriorate
Thieving Imp 2/2
Skeletal Archery
Graveyard

WORKERS
Skeleton Javelineer
Jandra, the Negator
Skeletal Archery

NextHand

Sacrifice the Weak
Poisonblade Rogue
Argonaut
Temporal Distortion
Argonaut

Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid + float, technician draw - ($8)
Worker - ($7)
Summon Geiger - ($5)
Geiger casts Deteriorate on Nimble Fencer - ($4)
Pestering Haunt trades with Nimble Fencer
Build Tech 2 – Present - ($0)

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

Board Info:
In Patrol:

  • :psblueshield: Squad Leader:
  • :psfist: Elite: L1 Max Geiger (sparkshot) 3/3
  • :ps_: Scavenger:
  • :pschip: Technician:
  • :target: Lookout:

In Play:
*

Buildings:

  • :heart: Base HP: 20
  • :heart: Tech I HP: 5
  • :heart: Tech II HP: 5

Economy Info:
Cards:

  • Hand: 5
  • Deck: 6
  • Disc: 0

Gold:

  • Gold: 0
  • Workers: 8
Thoughts

I can Deteriorate and Haunt to kill off the Fencer, which seems really important! That’ll leave just Arg plus the Treant, and the Treant can’t attack. That leaves me with 6 gold. I can Tech 2 and hero, seems good! Geiger is probably better to bring in here? I’ll prep Tricycle and TD, then. Tricycle can get past annoying blockers. Patrolling so that Geiger trades with Fencer.

@zhavier’s turn!

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P1T4

Tech StartingHand Workers

TECH
Grounded Guide
Nimble Fencer

STARTING HAND
Ironbark Treant
Tiger Cub
Rampant Growth
Leaping Lizard

WORKERS
Rich Earth
Spore Shambler
Merfolk Prospector
Tiger Cub

NextHand

Spirit of the Panda
Star-Crossed Starlet
Playful Panda
Forest’s Favor

Discard

Nimble Fencer
Rampant Growth
Ironbark Treant
Leaping Lizard
Grounded Guide
Nimble Fencer

Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($7)
Worker - ($6)
Tap, insta build Tech 2 Finesse - ($2)
Rampant Growth, arg kills Geiger, max, get water elemental - ($0)

Float ($0)
Discard 2, draw 4

Board Info:
In Patrol:

  • :psblueshield: Squad Leader: Young Treant 0/2+A
  • :psfist: Elite:
  • :ps_: Scavenger:
  • :pschip: Technician: Water Elemental 3/3
  • :target: Lookout:

In Play:

  • Verdant Tree :heart: 3
  • Argagarg 1/5, lvl 3

Buildings:

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

Economy Info:
Cards:

  • Hand: 4
  • Deck: 0
  • Disc: 6

Gold:

  • Gold: 0
  • Workers: 8
Thoughts

This is a bad spot. I could kill Geiger, get a water elemental and hope for the best, or build my tech 2 and get a leaping lizard instead of elemental, but leave geiger up :confused:

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P2T4

Tech StartingHand Workers

TECH
Kidnapping
Tricycloid

STARTING HAND
Argonaut
Poisonblade Rogue
Argonaut
Sacrifice the Weak
Temporal Distortion

WORKERS
Skeleton Javelineer
Jandra, the Negator
Skeletal Archery

NextHand

Summon Skeletons
Graveyard
Tricycloid
Pestering Haunt (unstoppable) 1*/1
Thieving Imp 2/2

Discard

Kidnapping
Tricycloid
Argonaut
Temporal Distortion
Argonaut
Poisonblade Rogue
Sacrifice the Weak

Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($8)
Summon Garth - ($6)
Maxband Garth, pulling a Tricycloid - ($0)
Tricycloid removes all runes to kill Elemental

Float ($0)
Discard 5, draw 5

Board Info:
In Patrol:

  • :psblueshield: Squad Leader:
  • :psfist: Elite:
  • :ps_: Scavenger: Tricycloid 3/3
  • :pschip: Technician:
  • :target: Lookout:

In Play:

  • L7 MAX Garth Torken 3/4

Buildings:

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

Economy Info:
Cards:

  • Hand: 5
  • Deck: 1
  • Disc: 7

Gold:

  • Gold: 0
  • Workers: 8
Thoughts

Really should have just patrolled in scavenger so I could max Garth this turn. My options are double Argo, tech lab/float; max Garth and skip worker to draw and kill Treant with Hyperion (or Ele with Tricycle); one Argo, Garth, Drakk. Max Garth into worker skip yields the most tempo and I think it’s worth. My next turn will not be strong, so I need to put up significant pressure here.

@zhavier’s turn!

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P1T5

Tech StartingHand Workers

TECH
Stampede
Two Step

STARTING HAND
Forest’s Favor
Playful Panda
Spirit of the Panda
Star-Crossed Starlet
Nimble Fencer

WORKERS
Rich Earth
Spore Shambler
Merfolk Prospector
Tiger Cub
Playful Panda

NextHand

Rampant Growth
Grounded Guide
Nimble Fencer

Discard

Forest’s Favor
Stampede
Two Step

Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($8)
Nimble Fencer - ($6)
Star-Crossed Starlet - ($4)
Spirit of the Panda on Star Crossed - ($0)
Argagarg buffs Nimble
Nimble kills Tric
Star Crossed Breaks Tech 2, panda gives Gold - ($1)
Worker - ($0)

Float ($0)
Discard 1, draw 3

Board Info:
In Patrol:

  • :psblueshield: Squad Leader:
  • :psfist: Elite:
  • :ps_: Scavenger:
  • :pschip: Technician: Young Treant 0/2
  • :target: Lookout:

In Play:

  • Verdant Tree :heart: 3
  • Argagarg 1/5, lvl 5
  • Nimble Fencer 2/1
  • Star-Crossed Starlet 5/4, Spirit of the Panda
  • Spirit of the Panda

Buildings:

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

Economy Info:
Cards:

  • Hand: 3
  • Deck: 2
  • Disc: 3

Gold:

  • Gold: 0
  • Workers: 9
Thoughts

This is still bad, but hey, gotta go for it

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P2T5

Tech StartingHand Workers

TECH
Kidnapping
Immortal

STARTING HAND
Summon Skeletons
Graveyard
Thieving Imp 2/2
Tricycloid
Pestering Haunt (unstoppable) 1*/1
Deteriorate

WORKERS
Skeleton Javelineer
Jandra, the Negator
Skeletal Archery
Pestering Haunt (unstoppable) 1*/1

NextHand

Summon Skeletons
Tricycloid
Tricycloid 3/3
Temporal Distortion

Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid, scavenger - ($9)
Worker - ($8)
Garth makes a skeleton and eats it to draw - ($7)
Garth Deteriorates the Nimble Fencer; it dies
Garth casts Summon Skeletons - ($4)
Summon Thieving Imp, you discard #2 of 3 - ($1)
Rebuild Tech 2

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

Board Info:
In Patrol:

  • :psblueshield: Squad Leader: Skeleton 1/1+a
  • :psfist: Elite: Thieving Imp 3/2
  • :ps_: Scavenger:
  • :pschip: Technician: Skeleton 1/1
  • :target: Lookout:

In Play:

  • L7 MAX Garth Torken 3/4

Buildings:

  • :heart: Base HP: 18
  • :heart: Tech I HP: 5
  • :heart: Tech II HP: 5 (Present)

Economy Info:
Cards:

  • Hand: 4
  • Deck: 10
  • Disc: 0

Gold:

  • Gold: 1
  • Workers: 9
Thoughts

Wow that went horribly. Worker, Skeleton and eat to draw Deteriorate, Summon Skeletons leaves me with 3 gold. I guess that’s Thieving Imp? Gotta turtle up here and rebuild. Can’t even break Tree. This all went sideways fast, and my next draw is so uneven. Kidnapping might help me steal away that Starlet, though.

@zhavier’s turn!

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P1T6

Tech StartingHand Workers

TECH
Blademaster
Maestro

STARTING HAND
Rampant Growth
Nimble Fencer
Grounded Guide

WORKERS
Rich Earth
Spore Shambler
Merfolk Prospector
Tiger Cub
Playful Panda
Rampant Growth

NextHand

Leaping Lizard
Ironbark Treant

Discard

Forest’s Favor
Stampede
Two Step
Nimble Fencer
Grounded Guide
Blademaster
Maestro

Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid, starlet damage then 2 healing - ($9)
Worker - ($8)
Nimble Fencer - ($6)
Fencer kills SQL
Starlet kills Imp - ($7)
Arg kills tech
Midori - ($5)
Tech 3 - ($0)

Float ($0)
Discard 0, draw 2

Board Info:
In Patrol:

  • :psblueshield: Squad Leader: Young Treant 0/2+A
  • :psfist: Elite:
  • :ps_: Scavenger:
  • :pschip: Technician: Midori 2/3
  • :target: Lookout:

In Play:

  • Verdant Tree :heart: 3
  • Argagarg 1/4, lvl 5
  • Star-Crossed Starlet 8/1, Spirit of the Panda
  • Spirit of the Panda
  • Nimble Fencer 2/2

Buildings:

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

Economy Info:
Cards:

  • Hand: 2
  • Deck: 0
  • Disc: 7

Gold:

  • Gold: 0
  • Workers: 10
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I just looked at my spreadsheet and realized I have one too many Tricycloids in the deck because I forgot to clear the Tricycloid I teched and then fetched with Garth on Turn 4 out of the discard pile. I’m not sure what to do now.

@FrozenStorm?

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@CarpeGuitarrem Can you DM me w/ a link to the spreadsheet or screenshot? I’m not sure either but I feel like seeing the card pile current states will help inform

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well, he reshuffled and drew 4, so take one out and redraw?

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DM sent away

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Yea no Zhav is right, I didn’t notice you’d just fresh reshuffled. Toss the extra out, put your hand in your draw pile, then draw a fresh four and continue. Having had it in the past turn isn’t a huge enough deal and is caught late enough that I think it’s fine to write off and play through

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Well, the only other effect it had was to delay his reshuffle by 1, so, he might have reshuffled a turn sooner?