No Prospector P1T1 so we just play Vandy and see what comes our way. Got to put pressure on him to try and prevent a big Present Tech II burst. Chronofixer also a great counter to meta.
Forgotten Fighter is surprisingly strong vs Green starter, so I have to use two patrollers and the Elite slot to play around it. Tiger + Prospector makes the most sense after Tech I and with Grave having Sparkshot I can’t use my preferred Scavenger slot so we’ll put Prospector in Technician. He can still trade Fargo then FF/Nullcraft Prospector and mid Grave to kill Vandy but he forgoes Tech I in those lines so I don’t think I’d necessarily mind unless I Tech a Vandy spell and it ends up being a dead draw. Best I avoid that risk and go with units instead. Gargoyle + Crash Bomber will build towards an aggressive push on his board.
These draws were absolutely awful. Best I can do here is get rid of Fargo and put Ironbark in patrol.
Reversal is the absolute worst case for me as it lets him trade away my whole board and tech up, unless I patrol Ironbark in Lookout to make it more expensive. Looking up his past games with Present and DIscipline he doesn’t tend to go for spells super early so I think it’s an ok risk to take. He also really likes to trade in his first hero and switch to a second one so this patrol makes that really annoying and he has to choose between killing Ironbark and Teching up.
Given that risk I think I’ll slightly hedge my Tech choices with Bloodlust and a second Crash Bomber. Worst case my board is still ok and Bloodlust is a dead card. I’m probably ok in that world and I can always speed up my cycle with Young Treant or tutoring for Dark Pact.
Well I was right he wanted to trade in Grave, I’m just unlucky he hadn’t workered FF already! I suspect he’s trying to set up a big value Tech I Temporal Distortion, which I assume is for a Twilight Baron. I think this patrol makes that somewhat annoying to pull off for big value, even if he also has Now! in hand. I think should leave me in a decent position to Tech up and/or counter attack. I guess he can patrol Nullcraft to block the Gargoyle but if I have a surviving Crashbomber that I can trade in I can kill it. Teching in more counter play in the form of Drakk spells and Blood Tech II units.
STARTING HAND
Battle Suits
Sparring Partner
Neo Plexus
Dark Pact
Tinkerer
Forgotten Fighter
WORKERS
Time Spiral
Temporal Research
Plasmodium
NextHand
Sparring Partner
Temporal Distortion
Nullcraft
Fading Argonaut
Dark Pact
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($8)
Vandy - ($6)
Dark Pact, my base to 18, I draw 2 - ($5)
Twin 1 kills Merfolk.
Twin 2 trades with scavenger, you get 1 gold, my base to 17.
Battle Suits - ($3)
Mox kills technician, you draw, my base to 16.
Sparring Partner - ($2)
Heroes’ Hall - ($0)
Skip worker.
@Dreamfire Apologies again for the delay. I’m actually finalising my PhD thesis for submission, so I had a few other priorities these last few days. I’ve only got a little bit more to tweak before I submit so no more delays!
P1T5
Tech StartingHand Workers
TECH
Shoddy Glider
Dark Pact
STARTING HAND
Verdant Tree
Rampant Growth
Spore Shambler
Bloodlust
WORKERS
Rich Earth
Playful Panda
Forest’s Favor
Ironbark Treant
NextHand
Crash Bomber
Merfolk Prospector
Rampant Growth
Verdant Tree
Tech 2 card(s)
Technician Draw
Get Paid + Scavenger - ($9)
Drakk - ($7)
Spore Shambler, arrives with runes - ($4)
Rune to Gargoyle - ($3)
Activate Gargoyle, kills Vandy, Drakk to level 3 - ($2)
Bloodlust Shambler and Rambasa - ($0)
Shambler trades with Spartner
Rambasa dies at end of turn, returns to codex
Float ($0)
Discard 2, reshuffle, draw 4
Board Info: In Patrol:
Squad Leader:
Elite:
Scavenger:
Technician: L3 Drakk Ramhorn 1/3
Lookout:
In Play:
Gargoyle 4/3 [Flying, +]
Buildings:
Base HP: 20
Tech I HP: 5
Economy Info: Cards:
Hand: 4
Deck: 9
Disc: 0
Gold:
Gold: 0
Workers: 8
Thoughts
I’m not quite sure what he’s up to, since Vandy clearly isn’t part of his plan A. I’m a bit concerned its a juggermox strat so we need to kill Spartner. That means Bloodlust or getting Drakk to maxband for haste. Bloodlust is 1 gold cheaper than midband and lets me send his second Rambasa back to codex so that seems optimal.
There’s a decent chance he kills Drakk next turn (only needs Reversal, or Now! and a 2 attack unit) and it’ll take me at least a couple of turns to cycle through. Probably a Dark Pact and a second Shoddy Glider make sense, that way my chances of drawing 2x Tech IIs next turn stays pretty low and I can cycle through faster either with Tech II, HH or Drakk dying.
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid + scav - ($9)
Worker - ($8)
Grave - ($6)
Nullcraft - ($4)
Mox and Nullcraft kill Drakk, you draw, Grave to midband, my base to 15.
Tech 2 (Discipline) - ($0)
D’oh! I forgot about the easy Nullcraft line to kill Drakk. At least it helps my hand size. Obvious play is Midori, Rampant Growth Gargoyle, break Tech II or kill Grave. Grave can kill my Gargoyle, so let’s get rid of him, build Verdant Tree and be threatening multiple flyers
That may have been one of the few times where I screwed up by workering instead of playing a Crash Bomber. I now get the feeling I’m probably done for. Going to be hard to get Tech II up under this pressure. He’s clearly aiming to use training grounds to keep up constant meta threat, which means I will need extra gold for a tower and at least one copy of Nature Reclaims to get rid of it. My other tech choice is Moment’s Peace to stop him patrolling with units. That should help get my Gargoyle through.
Pretty relaxed usually, but there have been exceptions. Yours?
P2T7
Tech StartingHand Workers
TECH
Versatile Style
Mind-Parry Monk
STARTING HAND
Sparring Partner
Dark Pact
Training Grounds
Sparring Partner
Fading Argonaut
Forgotten Fighter
WORKERS
Time Spiral
Temporal Research
Plasmodium
Temporal Distortion
Fading Argonaut
NextHand
Versatile Style
Neo Plexus
Now!
Discard
Forgotten Fighter
Dark Pact
Versatile Style
Mind-Parry Monk
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid + technician draw - ($9)
Doom exhausts Mox and Gargoyle.
Worker - ($8)
Expensive Forgotten Fighter bounces Tiger - ($5)
Grave - ($3)
Vandy kills Drakk, you get 1 gold, my base to 14, Grave to midband.
Sparring Partner X2 - ($1)
Training Grounds - ($0)
Float ($0)
Discard 1, draw 3
Board Info: In Patrol:
Squad Leader:
Elite:
Scavenger:
Technician: Nullcraft (1/1)
Lookout:
In Play:
Vandy lvl 5 (5/4)
Grave lvl 3 (4/4)
Sparring Partner (2/2)
Sparring Partner (2/2)
Hardened Mox (2/1)
Training Grounds (4)
Battle Suits
Buildings:
Base HP: 14
Tech I HP: 5
Tech II HP: 5 (Discipline)
Heroes’ Hall HP: 4
Economy Info: Cards:
Hand: 3
Deck: 3
Disc: 4
Gold:
Gold: 0
Workers: 10
Thoughts
Interesting that hug0 skipped another worker, and still hasn’t teched up. Is the plan to ping me to death with Crash Bombers? I AM losing base health, but without Bugblatters it’s a slow grind.
I was planning to tech up, but maybe I just flood the board? Meta threat can’t be ignored forever.
We have a viva with 3 people, one external, one internal and a chair. It’s basically all dependent on the people involved. Can be a nightmare if they’re overly nitpicky.
The folks they’ve lined up for me are very reasonable, so I think mine will be fine
Unlike this game for me
P1T8
Tech StartingHand Workers
TECH
Moment’s Peace
Shadow Blade
STARTING HAND
Bloodlust
Shoddy Glider
Crash Bomber
Young Treant
Rampant Growth
Shadow Blade
Kidnapping
Tiger Cub
Crash Bomber
Verdant Tree
Discard
Rampant Growth
Shoddy Glider
Bloodlust
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid + float + Scavenger - ($11)
Young Treant, I reshuffle and draw 1 card - ($9)
Crash Bomber - ($8)
Tower - ($5)
Tech II Blood - ($1)
Activate Gargoyle, kills Nullcraft, takes 1, you draw - ($0)
Float ($0)
Discard 3, draw 5
Board Info: In Patrol:
Squad Leader:
Elite:
Scavenger: Young Treant 0/2
Technician: Crash Bomber 2/2
Lookout:
In Play:
Gargoyle 4/2 [Flying, +]
Buildings:
Base HP: 20
Tech I HP: 5
Tech II HP: 5 (Blood)
Tower HP: 4
Economy Info: Cards:
Hand: 5
Deck: 8
Disc: 3
Gold:
Gold: 0
Workers: 9
Thoughts
Think I’m probably done for now with that big meta threat. Just not got a way to get to Vandy. Tower and Tech up, hope to still be alive to play Moment’s Peace
This has been kind of a weird game throughout, but yeah, I think at this point things have turned against you.
P2T8
Tech StartingHand Workers
TECH
Metamorphosis
Martial Mastery
STARTING HAND
Versatile Style
Now!
Neo Plexus
Hero’s Monument
WORKERS
Time Spiral
Temporal Research
Plasmodium
Temporal Distortion
Fading Argonaut
NextHand
Tinkerer
Dark Pact
Zarramonde, the Obilterator
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid + technician draw - ($10)
Mox kills Bomber, you draw, my base to 13.
Spartner #1 kills Young Treant, you get 1 gold.
Grave readily breaks Tower, your base to 18.
Exhaust Training Grounds to maxband Grave.
Exhaust Grave and spend sword to kill Gargoyle.
Vandy breaks tech 2, your base to 16.
Geiger - ($8)
Neo Plexus - ($6)
Now! on Plexus - ($5)
Plexus and Spartner #2 break tech 1, your base to 14.
Versatile Style heals my base to 15 - ($3)
Squad Leader: L1 Vandy Anadrose 2/3A [Sparkshot]
Elite:
Scavenger:
Technician:
Lookout:
Base HP: 20
