IsotopeX (Black) vs Payprplayn (Feral/Anarchy/Present)

Codex Codex play-by-forum
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I didn’t realize that limitation on Vandy’s ability either until I double-checked her card. I was desperate for SOME way to deal with that tiger, and realized that things were going to work out better than I had planned.

P1T7

StartingHand Workers

STARTING HAND
Bone Collector (3/3 makes skeletons)
Dark Pact (Demon Magic)
Sacrifice the Weak
Nether Drain (Necro Magic)
Cursed Crow (Tech II Disease)
Gorgon (2/4+1A Deathtouch Draws card on death)

WORKERS
Skeletal Archery
Summon Skeletons
Poisonblade Rogue
Graveyard
Jandra, the Negator
Skeleton Javelineer (1/1 javelin rune) (exhausted)

NextHand

Shadow Blade (Demon Magic)
Plague Lab
Nether Drain (Necro Magic)
Sacrifice the Weak
Plague Spitter

Discard

Gorgon (2/4+1A Deathtouch Draws card on death)
Dark Pact (Demon Magic)
Bone Collector (3/3 makes skeletons)

Tech 0 card(s)
Get Paid - ($10)
Doomed Plague Spitter blows up
Garth - ($8)
Garth casts Nether Drain, Geiger loses 2 levels, Garth gains 2 - ($7)
Gorgon kills Young Treant
Garth casts Sacrifice the Weak, I sacrifice Gorgon and you sacrifice Centaur. I draw a card
I draw a card
Garth maxbands, summons Plague Spiiter from the grave - ($3)
Cursed Crow - ($0)

Float ($0)
Discard 3, draw 5

[B]Board Info:[/B]
[B]In Patrol:[/B]

  • :psblueshield: [I]Squad Leader[/I]: Plague Spitter (3/3+1A dirty damage)
  • :psfist: [I]Elite[/I]: Garth Lv. 7 (3+1/4)
  • :ps_: [I]Scavenger[/I]:
  • :pschip: [I]Technician[/I]:
  • :target: [I]Lookout[/I]:
    [B]In Play:[/B]
  • Cursed Crow (3/3 flying forces discard on base damage)
    [B]Buildings:[/B]
  • :heart: Base HP: 18
  • :heart: Tech I HP: 5
  • :heart: Tech II HP: 5 (Disease)
  • :heart: Heroes’ Hall HP: 4

[B]Economy Info:[/B]
[B]Cards:[/B]

  • Hand: 5
  • Deck: 6
  • Disc: 3
    [B]Gold:[/B]
  • Gold: 0
  • Workers: 10
    "
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Player 2 Turn 7

[details=Tech StartingHand Workers]

[spoiler]TECH
Temporal Distortion
Sanitorium

STARTING HAND
Rampant Growth
Feral Strike
Surprise Attack
Now!
Feral Strike

WORKERS
Verdant Tree
Tiger Cub
Ironbark Treant
Spore Shambler
Playful Panda

[/spoiler][/details]

[details=NextHand]

[spoiler]Surprise Attack
Feral Strike
Surprise Attack

[/spoiler][/details]
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid + float - ($11)
Calamandra casts Feral Strike (boosted), Fetching a Hyperion and a Tricycloid from my codex and putting them into play. - ($3)
Hyperion kills plague Spitter. I draw a card.
Calamandra casts Rampant Growth on Geiger - ($1)
Geiger casts Now! on Tricycloid - ($0)
Geiger kills Garth, midbands and heals
Cala Breaks your Tech II. Your base to 16
Tricycloid breaks your Tech I. Your base to 14
Tricycloid kills Cursed Crow with Time Runes

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

[B]Board Info:[/B]
[B]In Patrol:[/B]

  • :psblueshield: [I]Squad Leader[/I]:
  • :psfist: [I]Elite[/I]:
  • :ps_: [I]Scavenger[/I]:
  • :pschip: [I]Technician[/I]:
  • :target: [I]Lookout[/I]:

[B]In Play:[/B]

  • Rich Earth
  • Cala lvl 5 (5/2)+
  • Geiger lvl 3 (2/4)
  • Hyperion (1/2 resist 1)
  • Tricycloid (3/3 resist 1)

[B]Buildings:[/B]

  • :heart: Base HP: 18
  • :heart: Tech I HP: 4
  • :heart: Tech II HP: 5 (Anarchy)
  • :heart: Heroes’ Hall HP: 4

[B]Economy Info:[/B]
[B]Cards:[/B]

  • Hand: 3
  • Deck: 14
  • Disc: 0

[B]Gold:[/B]

  • Gold: 0
  • Workers: 10

[details=Thoughts]

This should be GG, if not, I’ll just keep wrecking him until I have lethal (which I almost did this turn)
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23

Yeah, it’s over. I couldn’t recover from double shark turns.

24

I actually thought you were in it right up until the end. If you’d hit Cala with Nether Drain instead of Geiger, you’d have probably won (because no Feral Strike, so the best I can do is something like re-max her, summon a Tiger, and build tech III.), also I’m surprised you opted for Plague Spitter over Gorgon for your Garth resurrect. The Gorgon is better in every way I can think of except damage to buildings and synergy with Plague Lord’s upkeep ability and Orpal’s maxband. If you’d summoned the Gorgon, instead of it dying and Hyperion living, it’s the other way around.

I don’t actually think your problem was Tigers or sharks. It was letting a max-level Cala sit on the board for 4 turns (well, 3 of your turns). I kept expecting Doom Grasp or Sickness+ Spreading Plague. If you let her linger that long, you’re going to get smacked with a Feral Strike eventually. I think, for example, you’d have been in a much better place if on T6, instead of fetching Dark Pact(which is deceptively expensive because it requires exhausting Vandy, so you can’t take advantage of her superior combat stats), you’d deteriorated the Merfolk Prospector, then had Vandy and the haunt kill Cala. Then my Board would be completely wiped, but you’d have a Gorgon and a maxband Vandy (albeit with 1 hp). True, I’d just built Anarchy tech II, so there was a risk of her getting killed by a monkey or a Lizzo, but even if that had happened, you’d still be in decent shape with the Gorgon threatening to kill Geiger (assuming I played him to take advantage of free levels from killing Vandy).

25

In any case, up for round 2? I’ll post my first turn assuming that you are, and if you’re not, you can simply ignore it. Feel free to change codices if you want, I doubt it will change my T1 much.

Player 1 Turn 1

[details=StartingHand Workers]

[spoiler]STARTING HAND
Verdant Tree
Forest’s Favor
Spore Shambler
Young Treant
Merfolk Prospector

WORKERS
Verdant Tree

[/spoiler][/details]

[details=NextHand]

[spoiler]Playful Panda
Rich Earth
Ironbark Treant
Rampant Growth
Tiger Cub

[/spoiler][/details]

[details=Discard]

[spoiler]Young Treant
Spore Shambler
Forest’s Favor

[/spoiler][/details]
Tech 0 card(s)
Get Paid - ($4)
Worker - ($3)
Cala - ($1)
Merfolk Prospector - ($0)

Float ($0)
Discard 3, draw 5

[B]Board Info:[/B]
[B]In Patrol:[/B]

  • :psblueshield: [I]Squad Leader[/I]:
  • :psfist: [I]Elite[/I]:
  • :ps_: [I]Scavenger[/I]: Merfolk Prospector
  • :pschip: [I]Technician[/I]:
  • :target: [I]Lookout[/I]:

[B]In Play:[/B]

  • Cala level 1 (2/3)

[B]Buildings:[/B]

  • :heart: Base HP: 20

[B]Economy Info:[/B]
[B]Cards:[/B]

  • Hand: 5
  • Deck: 0
  • Disc: 3

[B]Gold:[/B]

  • Gold: 0
  • Workers: 5

[details=Thoughts]

Off we go again. I think a weakness of this codex might be that if you spot the strategy, it can potentially be easy to stop. I need to come up with alternate routes of play so that it’s not predictable. I think the “cheat everything into play” idea works well if the opponent isn’t expecting it, but perhaps not so well if they are. I’ll ruminate on that some more when I make my first tech choice.

26

Believability aside, you may want to edit your thoughts.

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27

I did, but apparently I forgot to hit “enter”, so the changes got wiped when I clicked “Discard and Draw”. I’ll fix it.

28

OK, I’m going White.

"P2T1

StartingHand Workers

STARTING HAND
Morningstar Flagbearer
Grappling Hook
Snapback
Aged Sensei
Fox Primus

WORKERS
Morningstar Flagbearer

NextHand

Smoker
Savior Monk
Fox Viper
Sensei’s Advice
Safe Attacking

Discard

Fox Primus
Snapback
Grappling Hook

Tech 0 card(s)
Get Paid - ($5)
Worker - ($4)
Aged Sensei - ($3)
Rook - ($1)

Float ($1)
Discard 3, draw 5

[B]Board Info:[/B]
[B]In Patrol:[/B]

  • :psblueshield: [I]Squad Leader[/I]: Rook Lv. 1 (2/4+1A)
  • :psfist: [I]Elite[/I]:
  • :ps_: [I]Scavenger[/I]: Aged Sensei (1/1)
  • :pschip: [I]Technician[/I]:
  • :target: [I]Lookout[/I]:
    [B]In Play:[/B]

[B]Buildings:[/B]

  • :heart: Base HP: 20

[B]Economy Info:[/B]
[B]Cards:[/B]

  • Hand: 5
  • Deck: 0
  • Disc: 3
    [B]Gold:[/B]
  • Gold: 1
  • Workers: 6
    "
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Player 1 Turn 2

[details=Tech StartingHand Workers]

[spoiler]TECH
Centaur
Gunpoint Taxman

STARTING HAND
Tiger Cub
Rich Earth
Playful Panda
Rampant Growth
Ironbark Treant

WORKERS
Verdant Tree
Rich Earth

[/spoiler][/details]

[details=NextHand]

[spoiler]Tiger Cub
Rampant Growth
Spore Shambler
Forest’s Favor
Ironbark Treant

[/spoiler][/details]
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($5)
Worker - ($4)
Prospector breaks Rook’s Armor and Dies
Cala casts Rampant Growth on herself. - ($2)
Cala kills rook and midbands.
Tech 1 - ($0)

Float ($0)
Discard 3, reshuffle, draw 5

[B]Board Info:[/B]
[B]In Patrol:[/B]

  • :psblueshield: [I]Squad Leader[/I]:
  • :psfist: [I]Elite[/I]:
  • :ps_: [I]Scavenger[/I]:
  • :pschip: [I]Technician[/I]:
  • :target: [I]Lookout[/I]:

[B]In Play:[/B]

  • Cala level 3 (3/4)

[B]Buildings:[/B]

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

[B]Economy Info:[/B]
[B]Cards:[/B]

  • Hand: 5
  • Deck: 5
  • Disc: 0

[B]Gold:[/B]

  • Gold: 0
  • Workers: 6

[details=Thoughts]

So I went with units first this time, since I was so starved for them last game. I’m still headed in the same direction, though, for the most part.

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"P2T2

Tech StartingHand Workers

TECH
Sparring Partner
Rambasa Twin

STARTING HAND
Fox Viper
Sensei’s Advice
Smoker
Savior Monk
Safe Attacking

WORKERS
Morningstar Flagbearer
Savior Monk

NextHand

Snapback
Rambasa Twin
Sparring Partner
Sensei’s Advice

Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid + float - ($7)
Worker - ($6)
Smoker - ($5)
Tech I - ($4)
Aged Sensei attacks Tech I for 1 damage
Fox Viper
Grave

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

[B]Board Info:[/B]
[B]In Patrol:[/B]

  • :psblueshield: [I]Squad Leader[/I]:
  • :psfist: [I]Elite[/I]: Smoker (1/1 Stealth)
  • :ps_: [I]Scavenger[/I]: Fox Viper (2/1 Sparkshot)
  • :pschip: [I]Technician[/I]:
  • :target: [I]Lookout[/I]:
    [B]In Play:[/B]
  • Aged Sensei (1/1)
  • Grave Lv. 1 (2/3 Sparkshot)
    [B]Buildings:[/B]
  • :heart: Base HP: 20
  • :heart: Tech I HP: 5

[B]Economy Info:[/B]
[B]Cards:[/B]

  • Hand: 4
  • Deck: 3
  • Disc: 0
    [B]Gold:[/B]
  • Gold: 4
  • Workers: 7
    "
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Player 1 Turn 3

[details=Tech StartingHand Workers]

[spoiler]TECH
Feral Strike
Now!

STARTING HAND
Tiger Cub
Forest’s Favor
Rampant Growth
Ironbark Treant
Spore Shambler

WORKERS
Verdant Tree
Rich Earth
Tiger Cub

[/spoiler][/details]

[details=NextHand]

[spoiler]Centaur
Merfolk Prospector
Gunpoint Taxman

[/spoiler][/details]

[details=Discard]

[spoiler]Spore Shambler
Forest’s Favor
Rampant Growth
Feral Strike
Now!

[/spoiler][/details]
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($6)
Worker - ($5)
Ironbark Treant - ($2)
Heroes’ Hall - ($0)
Discard 2-> give Cala Stealth
Cala kills Grave and Maxbands

Float ($0)
Discard 1, draw 3

[B]Board Info:[/B]
[B]In Patrol:[/B]

  • :psblueshield: [I]Squad Leader[/I]: Ironbark Treant (1/2+3A)
  • :psfist: [I]Elite[/I]:
  • :ps_: [I]Scavenger[/I]:
  • :pschip: [I]Technician[/I]:
  • :target: [I]Lookout[/I]:

[B]In Play:[/B]

  • Cala level 5 (4/5)

[B]Buildings:[/B]

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

[B]Economy Info:[/B]
[B]Cards:[/B]

  • Hand: 3
  • Deck: 2
  • Disc: 5

[B]Gold:[/B]

  • Gold: 0
  • Workers: 7

[details=Thoughts]

Bad Draw. Oh well. you play with what you’ve got. I hope to play Geiger or Gunpoint Taxman next turn and Build Tech II.

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"P2T3

Tech StartingHand Workers

TECH
Reversal (Discpline Magic)
Bird’s Nest (Strength Magic)

STARTING HAND
Snapback
Sparring Partner
Rambasa Twin
Sensei’s Advice

WORKERS
Morningstar Flagbearer
Savior Monk

NextHand

Grappling Hook
Safe Attacking
Fox Primus

Discard

Snapback
Sensei’s Advice
Sparring Partner
Reversal (Discpline Magic)
Bird’s Nest (Strength Magic)

Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid + float - ($11)
Rook - ($9)
Rook casts Snapback on Cala, summons Zane (NO HASTE FOR YOU!) - ($6)
Rook casts Sensei’s Advice on Fox Viper and Smoker - ($5)
Fox Viper and Smoker kill the Treant
Rambasa Twin+brother - ($1)

Float ($1)
Discard 1, draw 3

[B]Board Info:[/B]
[B]In Patrol:[/B]

  • :psblueshield: [I]Squad Leader[/I]: Rambasa Twin A (3/2)
  • :psfist: [I]Elite[/I]:
  • :ps_: [I]Scavenger[/I]:
  • :pschip: [I]Technician[/I]: Rambasa Twin B (3/2)
  • :target: [I]Lookout[/I]: Aged Sensei (1/1)
    [B]In Play:[/B]
  • Smoker (1/1 Stealth)
  • Fox Viper (2/1 Sparkshot)
    [B]Buildings:[/B]
  • :heart: Base HP: 20
  • :heart: Tech I HP: 5

[B]Economy Info:[/B]
[B]Cards:[/B]

  • Hand: 3
  • Deck: 0
  • Disc: 5
    [B]Gold:[/B]
  • Gold: 1
  • Workers: 7
    "