STARTING HAND
Mad Man
Surprise Attack
Lobber
Crashbarrow
Surprise Attack
WORKERS
Scorch
Bloodburn
Careless Musketeer
NextHand
Crashbarrow
Crash Bomber
Crash Bomber
Pillage
Discard
Surprise Attack
Mad Man
Surprise Attack
Crashbarrow
Tech 0 card(s)
Get Paid - ($7)
Surprise Attack - ($2)
Sharks trade with Vir
Mad Man - ($1)
Lobber - ($0)
Zane, Lobbers, Rambaster, and Mad Man break your base, GG WP!
I feel like I need at least one more practice game, since Red’s one of my least-used colors, and when I do play Red, I tend towards strategies that I don’t dare try against Assimilate.
Plasmodium… gotta watch out for it, as it’s caused me problems in the past. But, soonest it can land is T3. What I really want to do here is to set up to break his Tech I next turn so he can’t drop a Seer on T3, but chances are the Mox is gonna get in my way again. Still, it’s worth a try, and my best bet is to drop the Ogre and a hero now. No need to worry about Forgotten Fighter taking the Ogre, so I’ll SQL it to protect against Nullcraft. The hero should be either Drakk or Jaina, but… Drakk is better gives the option to midband to boost the Ogre, but doesn’t have enough attack to sideline a SQL Mox. So, I’ll try Jaina.
STARTING HAND
Nautical Dog
Makeshift Rambaster
Bloodburn
Bombaster
Charge
WORKERS
Careless Musketeer
Bloodburn
NextHand
Makeshift Rambaster
Nautical Dog
Lobber
Mad Man
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($6)
Worker - ($5)
Charge - ($3)
Bloodrage Ogre trades with Fading Argonaut
Jaina kills Tinkerer
Bombaster - ($1)
Tech I - ($0)
Float ($0)
Discard 2, reshuffle, draw 4
Board Info: In Patrol:
Squad Leader:
Elite: Bombaster (3/2) Kamikaze
Scavenger:
Technician:
Lookout:
In Play:
L1 Jaina Stormborne (2/2) Sparkshot
Buildings:
Base HP: 20
Tech I HP: 5
Economy Info: Cards:
Hand: 4
Deck: 5
Disc: 0
Gold:
Gold: 0
Workers: 7
Thoughts
Even without the Mox, it’s still hard to push through: that Argonaut is almost as bad. I don’t see a good option here, but… this seems to be the least bad. At least it guarantees that the Plasmodium can’t kill Jaina next turn, barring Undo…
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($8)
Midband Drakk - ($5)
Lobber trades with Fading Argonaut - ($4)
Bloodrage Ogre - ($2)
Charge - ($0)
Bloodrage Ogre breaks Tech II
Drakk deals 2 damage to Tech I
Float ($0)
Discard 0, draw 2
Board Info: In Patrol:
Squad Leader:
Elite:
Scavenger:
Technician:
Lookout:
In Play:
L4 Drakk Ramhorn (2/4) Explosive, aura
Bloodrage Ogre (3/2) Berserk, frenzy 1
Buildings:
Base HP: 20
Tech I HP: 5
Economy Info: Cards:
Hand: 2
Deck: 0
Disc: 10
Gold:
Gold: 0
Workers: 8
Thoughts
Maybe should have gone with Bloodlust instead of Crashbarrows. Or maybe Desperation followed by Crash Bomber for a rapid deployment of low-cost units. Even if Rewind landed, I could just play them again or leave them in hand to reinvigorate my cycle speed. Well, I guess I still have a turn before the reshuffle, so I may as well go all-in on Tech II Blood now, especially since I’ve taken the initiative and probably won’t have much else to spend gold on besides infrastructure next turn anyway.
WORKERS
Time Spiral
Hardened Mox
Neo Plexus
Forgotten Fighter
Nullcraft
NextHand
Plasmodium
Argonaut
Immortal
Discard
Fading Argonaut
Now!
Temporal Research
Temporal Distortion
Hyperion
Tinkerer
Chronofixer
Research & Development
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid + float - ($10)
Tricycloid - ($5)
Seer, add a rune to Tric - ($4)
Remove 4 runes to break Tower, your base to 18.
Geiger to maxband, flicker Tric - ($2)
Remove a rune to ping tech 2.
Argonaut readily breaks tech 2, your base to 16.
Remove 2 runes to ping tech 1.
Geiger breaks tech 1, your base to 14.
Vir - ($0)
Float ($0)
Discard 1, draw 3
Board Info: In Patrol:
Squad Leader: Seer (3/1A)
Elite:
Scavenger: Argonaut (4/2)
Technician: Tricycloid (3/3)
Lookout:
In Play:
Geiger lvl 5 (3/4)
Vir lvl 1 (2/3)
Battle Suits
Buildings:
Base HP: 18
Tech I HP: 3
Tech II HP: 5 (Present)
Economy Info: Cards:
Hand: 3
Deck: 0
Disc: 8
Gold:
Gold: 0
Workers: 9
Thoughts
Not a bad turn! I’ll play Vir to score levels in case Zane gets traded.
WORKERS
Time Spiral
Hardened Mox
Neo Plexus
Forgotten Fighter
Nullcraft
Plasmodium
NextHand
Chronofixer
Tinkerer
Temporal Research
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid + scav - ($10)
Worker - ($9)
Geiger kills Drakk, Vir to midband, my base to 17.
Immortal - ($3)
Vir to maxband, Mech to forecast 2 - ($1)
Vir hits your base to 11.
Float ($1)
Discard 1, reshuffle, draw 3
Board Info: In Patrol:
Squad Leader: Immortal (5/5A)
Elite:
Scavenger:
Technician:
Lookout:
In Play:
Geiger lvl 5 (3/3)
Vir lvl 7 (3/5)
Battle Suits
Mech, forecast 2
Buildings:
Base HP: 16
Tech I HP: 3
Tech II HP: 5 (Present)
Economy Info: Cards:
Hand: 3
Deck: 11
Disc: 0
Gold:
Gold: 1
Workers: 10
Thoughts
Ouch. At least I get a chance to tech another R&D before the reshuffle.
Somehow I ended up with a duplicate Scorch… well, since it’s just a practice game, I’ll random to determine which is real… and it’s the one in my hand.
STARTING HAND
Temporal Research
Chronofixer
Tinkerer
Seer
Research & Development
Tinkerer
Temporal Distortion
Now!
Hyperion
Tricycloid
WORKERS
Time Spiral
Hardened Mox
Neo Plexus
Forgotten Fighter
Nullcraft
Plasmodium
Tinkerer
NextHand
Temporal Distortion
Research & Development
Argonaut
Temporal Distortion
Fading Argonaut
Tech 0 card(s)
Get Paid + float - ($11)
Mech to forecast 1.
Vir peeks.
Exhaust Geiger and discard to draw.
Vir peeks.
Exhaust Vir to play Argonaut from the top of my deck - ($8)
Vir peeks,
Vir swaps a card - ($7)
Research & Development, I draw 5 - ($5)
Vir peeks.
Seer, Mech arrives - ($4)
Chronofixer - ($2)
Worker - ($1)
Immortal kills Jaina, levels fizzle, you get 1 gold.
Float ($1)
Discard 4, draw 4, reshuffle, draw 1
Board Info: In Patrol:
Squad Leader: Mech (6/7A), untargetable
Elite:
Scavenger: Chronofixer (2/1), untargetable
Technician:
Lookout: Argonaut (4/4)
In Play:
Geiger lvl 5 (3/3)
Vir lvl 7 (3/5)
Immortal (5/2)
Seer (3/1)
Battle Suits
Buildings:
Base HP: 16
Tech I HP: 3
Tech II HP: 5 (Present)
Economy Info: Cards:
Hand: 5
Deck: 5
Disc: 0
Gold:
Gold: 1
Workers: 11
Thoughts
I could trade Geiger for a tech break and dig for cards with Prynn, but all my best cards are Geiger spells. So I’ll make fewer attacks and drop more cards.
…
3rd card from the top is R&D!
Squad Leader:
Elite:
Scavenger:
Technician:
Lookout:
Base HP: 20