Hold your horses, @FrozenStorm, I still need to redo. I haven’t looked, are you killing the Golem or not?
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No but if you haven’t figured your stuff out that shouldn’t affect your decision ya? 
Well, if you’re happy to go after the Golem, I’m happy to call a non-aggression.
Banefire Golem’s ability is not optional. So long as the Golem survives until my upkeep, stuff is gonna burn whether I want it to or not, even if I have to sacrifice the Golem in the process.
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Yep, I understand, my bird will volunteer as tribute as your wisp did XD
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The horror, the horror!
P2T6
Starting hand: 4
Lobber
Reputable Newsman
Insurance Agent
Insurance Agent
Technician draw: 1
Manufactured Truth
Thoughts
Damn, I gambled on keeping the Ancients up, and got blown up for my troubles. The Black starter is so nasty in FFA. I don’t see any outstanding targets out for the Insurance Agents, either.
The choice is between sidelining Carpe’s Mox to kill off the Plasmodium, which is only worth 2 gold per agent, or insuring the Banefire Golem and hoping FrozenStorm can’t kill both the Agents and the Golem. Might be able to do both, actually: double insurance on the Golem loses 2 gold to the gold limit, so I can insure it, have that Agent copy the Lobber and survive sidelining the Mox, then have the other Agent insure the Plasmodium before my true Lobber kills it. That’s 2g+3c, then I can still worker and maxband Argagarg for a Water Elemental on patrol.
Alternatively, I have something copy the Plasmodium! That gives me 2 (Lobber) + 4 (Plasmodium) + 1 (Arg attack/boost), which is unfortunately not quite enough to take down the Golem myself. However, it lets me get Plasmodium insurance while also hitting a more immediate neighbour hard. I could trade Lobber / Plasmodium into Argagarg, which costs 1g+3c with full insurance, and gets Argagarg to midband. Arg could then kill Frozen’s Wisp, which rebates all my spent gold. I’ll still go down on cards once I get a worker + whatever else, depending on which card I draw post-reshuffle, but I’d be in really good shape for gold. I wouldn’t get a massive insurance bonus from the Golem, but I don’t really have good ways to spend that much, unless I go for Tech III and invite Prynn to banish my Gryphons all day. I’m strongly considering teching in Community Service, to see if I can pinch that Golem, but I don’t want to get caught drawing that along with my Ancients, even if my cheap units would provide a lot of Golem ability fuel. I’ll go for another Scribe, and for Stampede, in case I can make my small units stick but not my Ancients.
… Killing Argagarg doesn’t quite work, because my Plasmodium doesn’t trade in the process. I’ll go for Carpe’s stuff as originally planned, then. I do need to play Manufactured Truth on the Newsman, in that case. What should I block? 6 might be a good idea, in case of Stampede / Double Time.
Teched cards: 2
T2: 2 x Lobber
T3: Blooming Ancient, Insurance Agent
T4: Blooming Ancient, Insurance Agent
T5: Scribe, Tax Collector
T6: Scribe, Stampede
Get paid - (9)
Lobber - (8)
Reputable Newsman, blocking 6 - (6)
Manufactured Truth, Newsman copies Plasmodium - (5)
2 x Insurance Agent, insuring real Plasmodium - (3)
Plasmodium (Reputable Newsman) sidelines Hardened Mox, takes 1 damage
Lobber trades with Plasmodium, Carpe draws - (4)
2 x Insurance, reshuffling 12 after first draw - (8)
Building Inspector
Lawful Search
Lawful Search, I draw... - (7)
Manufactured Truth
… and look at Carpe’s hand
Building Inspector - (6)
Manufactured Truth, Building Inspector copies Plasmodium (Reputable Newsman) - (5)
Plasmodium (Building Inspector) kills Carpe’s Prynn, takes 2 damage, my Argagarg hits level 3 (midband)
Maxband Argagarg, Water Elemental arrives - (3)
Bigby Hayes - (1)
Discard 0, draw 2
Plasmodiums become Reputable Newsman and Building Inspector again, latter dies
Water Elemental 3/3+1A (anti-air)
Bigby L1 1+2/3 (stash 1)
Insurance Agent #1 2/2
Reputable Newsman 0/2 (you can’t player 6-cost spells/upgrades; 1 damage)
Insurance Agent #2 2/2 (resist 0+1)
Argagarg L5 1/5 (exhaust: allied unit gets +1/+1A this turn)
Base HP: 18
Tech I HP: 5
Tech II HP: 5 (Growth)
Tech Lab HP: 4 (Law)
Hand: 2
Lobber
Traffic Director
Deck: 8
Scribe
Tax Collector
Arrest
Blooming Ancient
Blooming Ancient
Scribe
Stampede
Lobber
Discard: 3
Lawful Search
Manufactured Truth
Building Inspector
Card-count check (opponent-viewable)
Expected: 10 + 10 teched = 20
3 on board
2 in hand
8 in deck
3 in discard
4 in workers
Total: 20
Gold: 1
Workers: 9
5 x start
T1: Porkhand Magistrate
T2: Jail
T3: Bluecoat Musketeer
T4: Spectral Aven
Let me know what your Technician draw was @CarpeGuitarrem, but it doesn’t affect the rest of my turn. Your turn now, @FrozenStorm 
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$6 blocks Double Time and Metamorphosis, nice. And so long as Vir remains on the field, I can’t afford to cast Sacrifice the Weak either, sux2BVandy, lol. Stampede too, I suppose.
Also, it occurs to me that even when facing Assimilate, Might of Leaf and Claw can score an OTK with sufficiently large board presence. Something to keep an eye on, I suppose.
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Does… does that work?
Yep. For all intents and purposes, my Newsman is physically a Plasmodium card at that point.
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Technician Draw for charnel_mouse
Rewind 
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Well now, Prynn is dead! Maybe I will
FFA G3 Player 3, Turn 6 REDUX
P1 (Carpe) Mono Purple vs
P2 (charnel) [Law]/Fire/Growth vs
P3 (Frozen) [Finesse]/Growth/Strenght vs
P4 (Neko) [Demon]/Growth/Strength
Starting Hand
Bloom
Nimble Fencer
Timely Messenger (techn)
Events of Turn:
Upkeep:
- Get Gold (8)
- Tech 2 cards in (except turn 1)
All Teched Cards
Discord, Dinosize
Blooming Ancient, Might of Leaf and Claw
Earthquake x2
Bird’s Nest, Blooming Ancient
Nimble Fencer x2
Main:
- Arg buffs wisp, it and WE trade with Charnel’s WE (9)
- Rook + maxband (0)
- Fencer trades with charnel’s lookout Agent (1)
- Bird trades with Carpe’s Nullcraft (2)
- Worker (1)
Workers
Timely Messenger, Granfalloon Flagbearer, Fruit Ninja, Older Brother
-
Patrol as below - Discard 2 Draw 4
Board Info:
Buildings:
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Base HP: 18
- Tech1 HP: 5
- Tech2 HP: 5 GROWTH
- Tower HP: 4
In Patrol:
-
Squad Leader: Rook (4/6+1armor lvl 8)
-
Elite:
-
Scavenger: -
Technician:
-
Lookout:
In Play:
- Arg (1/5 lvl 5)
Economy Info:
Cards:
- Hand: 4
- Deck: 1
- Disc: 12
Gold:
- Gold: 1
- Workers: 9
End of Turn Hand
Spark
Blooming Ancient
Earthquake
Earthquake
End of Turn Discard
My Thoughts
Prynn’s down! I probably can’t effectively protect Rook still, but I can limit how effective Charnel is. I’m not sure if that just paints a giant target on me and perhaps it’d be better to keep a buffer in front of Rook… but I think I look non-threatening enough that I might live. Idk though Golem’s gonna do work
What unbelievably fortuitous turns of events! Now I can do the thing!
P4T6
Tech StartingHand Workers
TECH
Guargum, Eternal Sentinel
Zarramonde, the Obliterator
STARTING HAND
Deteriorate
Terras Q, the Shackled
Summon Skeletons
Voidblocker
WORKERS
Skeleton Javelineer
Skeletal Archery
Graveyard
Pestering Haunt
Poisonblade Rogue
Summon Skeletons
NextHand
Banefire Golem
Dinosize
Sacrifice the Weak
Voidblocker
Discard
Jandra, the Negator
Guargum, Eternal Sentinel
Zarramonde, the Obliterator
Deteriorate
Voidblocker
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid + float - ($11)
Sacrifice Wisp to burn stuff
Worker - ($10)
Terras Q, the Shackled, summon 4 Warlocks for Carpe - ($4)
Argagarg, Rook, Banefire, and Bird walk past Carpe’s empty patrol zone to kill Warlocks - ($7)
Vandy Anadrose - ($5)
Float ($5)
Discard 2, draw 4
Board Info:
In Patrol:
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Squad Leader: Terras Q, the Shackled (15/15A) Resist 3, obliterate 2 -
Elite: -
Scavenger: Bird (1/1) Flying -
Technician: L1 Vandy Anadrose (2/3) Sparkshot -
Lookout:
In Play:
- L1 Argagarg (1/3)
- L1 Garus Rook (2/4)
- Bird’s Nest
- Banefire Golem (7/7A)
- Bird (1/1) Flying
Buildings:
-
Base HP: 20 -
Tech I HP: 5
-
Tech II HP: 5 (Demonology)
-
Heroes’ Hall HP: 4
Economy Info:
Cards:
- Hand: 4
- Deck: 2
- Disc: 5
Gold:
- Gold: 5
- Workers: 11
Thoughts
Summoning Vandy in case Terras Q gets bounced or something. Also, to prevent Rook walk-byes. Okay, Carpe doesn’t have enough gold to max Prynn and cast Rewind, but he could get the $2 he’s missing from bounties, so I’ll hold off on playing my newly drawn Voidblocker.
@CarpeGuitarem’s turn!
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For Carpe
Put Rewind on top, Stewardess bounces Newsman, I replay it on 5 in case of Earthquake, Prynn comes back in for Rewind. Thoughts?
Hold up, I forgot to do my technician draw.
Okay, ended up not doing anything with the drawn card. Post and board state updated.
I forgot to do my update to board state Fam, Neko did you cover me?
I did indeed.
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Sorry, forgot to check back in here!
P1T7
StartingHand Workers
STARTING HAND
Now!
Origin Story
Void Star
Stewardess of the Undone 2/3
Rewind
WORKERS
Tinkerer
Forgotten Fighter
Temporal Research
Stewardess of the Undone
Battle Suits
Time Spiral
Stewardess of the Undone 2/3
NextHand
Neo Plexus 3/2
Hyperion
Void Star
Rewind
Discard
Plasmodium (haste) 4/2
Nullcraft (flying, haste) 1/1
Now!
Assimilate
Origin Story
Tech 0 card(s)
Get Paid, mech arrives - ($10)
Worker - ($9)
Mox kills Insurance Agent - ($10)
Vir peeks
Play Void Star, trash Mox - ($5)
Summon Geiger - ($3)
Geiger casts Now! on Void Star - ($2)
Void Star kills Nekoatl’s scavenger bird, overpowers 4 damage to base ($3)
Vir swaps a card - ($2)
Float ($2)
Discard 2, draw 4
Board Info:
In Patrol:
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Squad Leader: Mech (untargetable) 6/7+a
-
Elite:
-
Scavenger: L7 MAX Vir Garbaren 3/4
-
Technician:
-
Lookout:
In Play:
- Void Star (flying) 5/3
- L1 Max Geiger (sparkshot) 2/3
Buildings:
-
Base HP: 18
-
Tech I HP: 5
-
Tech II HP: 5 (Present)
-
Tech Lab HP: 4 (Future)
Economy Info:
Cards:
- Hand: 4
- Deck: 2
- Disc: 5
Gold:
- Gold: 2
- Workers: 11
Thoughts
Sooooo that’s terrifying and I really need to make sure Nekoatl can’t just steal the win here. To do that, I think I need to unload base damage onto Nekoatl. Geiger, Now, Void Star. Void Star kills bird and overpowers onto base. Can’t spare the gold for much else, hmm. 2 gold left, 1 left after worker, I can use Mox to get another gold. That’s enough to Prynn (2), maxband (7), rewind (4), 11 + 2.
@charnel_mouse’s turn!
Oh, my Newsman couldn’t have been in patrol after it attacked, could it? Does that change anyone’s turn?
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