@Persephone [Finesse] / Present / Law vs. @charnel_mouse [Discipline] / Disease / Law

[Persephone]

P1 @Persephone [Finesse] / Present / Law vs.
P2 @charnel_mouse [Discipline] / Disease / Law

Opening hand

• Fruit Ninja
• Spark
• Granfalloon Flagbearer
• Bloom
• Older Brother

Player 1, Turn 1

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Workers make 4g. (4g)

Hire 5th worker for 1g. (3g, 4 cards)

• Fruit Ninja

Recruit an Older Brother for 2g. (1g)

Discard 3, draw 5.

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Patrols:
Squad Leader:
Elite:
Scavenger:
Technician:
Lookout:

Older Brother (2 , 2 )

Base: 20

1g banked, 5 workers.

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5 cards in hand

• Tenderfoot
• Helpful Turtle
• Brick Thief
• Wither
• Timely Messenger

0 cards in deck

3 cards in discard

• Spark
• Granfalloon Flagbearer
• Bloom

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Thoughts

Saving a gold for likely Tenderfoot + Hero + Tech I next turn.

For those curious, the idea behind this deck is that Temporal Distortion has a lot of options on cheap units, with 2g Administrators <–> Virtuosos for comes-into-play effects, and Insurance Agent <–> Other Insurance Agent <–>Leaping Lizard at tech II, not to mention Grounded Guide joining the Hyperion/Triskelion train.

[charnel_mouse]

Have fun!

P2T1

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Starting Hand: 5

Fox Viper
Savior Monk
Sensei’s Advice
Smoker
Aged Sensei

Thoughts

Let’s see how an Orpal opening goes against Finesse. Shame I’ve got Sensei in Monk in my first hand. Perse could kill Orpal here if he skips Tech I, plays River, leaves only River on the board, and goes down on cards. I don’t know if that’s a good tradeoff.

I’m expecting Finesse or Present at Tech II, which I think Disease does OK against, if I can get an Abomination out. Got to be prepared for Tricycloids if I go hard into Orpal, though.

Sensei’s out of patrol to avoid Spark, I think I want him over the Monk so Orpal can do decent damage.

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Get paid - ($5)
Worker - ($4)
Orpal Gloor - ($2)
Aged Sensei - ($1)
Discard 3, draw 5

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Squad Leader: Orpal L1 1/3+1A (deals damage in - runes)

Aged Sensei 1/1

Base HP: 20

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Hand: 5

Morningstar Flagbearer
Fox Primus
Safe Attacking
Grappling Hook
Snapback

Deck: 0

Discard: 3

Savior Monk
Sensei’s Advice
Smoker

Card count check (opponent-viewable)

Expected: 10
1 workered
1 on board
5 in hand
0 in deck
3 in discard
Total: 10

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Gold: 1

Workers: 6

5 x start
Fox Viper

[Persephone]

P1 @Persephone [Finesse] / Present / Law vs.
P2 @charnel_mouse [Discipline] / Disease / Law

Tech two cards. (5 discards)

• Spark
• Granfalloon Flagbearer
• Bloom
• Tax Collector
• Nimble Fencer

Player 1, Turn 2

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1g from last turn.
Workers make 5g. (6g)

Hire 6th worker for 1g. (5g, 4 cards)

• Helpful Turtle

Recruit a Tenderfoot for 1g. (4g, 3 cards)

Begin construction of multicolor Tech I for 2g. (2g)

Summon River Montoya for 2g. (0g)

Tenderfoot patrols in Squad Leader, Older Brother in Technician.

Discard 3, draw 5.

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Patrols:
Squad Leader: Tenderfoot (1 , 2 , 1 , virtuoso)
Elite:
Scavenger:
Technician: Older Brother (2 , 2 )
Lookout:

River Montoya (2 , 3 )

Base: 20

0g banked, 6 workers.

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5 cards in hand

• Bloom
• Granfalloon Flagbearer
• Wither
• Timely Messenger
• Tax Collector

3 cards in deck

• Spark
• Brick Thief
• Nimble Fencer

0 cards in discard

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Thoughts

I can skip Tech I and go down a card to kill Orpal, leaving me with Brother + Messenger + Lv. 3 Hero vs Sensei, but not sure if that’s worth it. Geiger gives me a lot of resilience vs. -1/-1 runes anyway, right?

Discord kills most of White starter outright, and works well against Rambasa Twins… but I don’t have a lot of “punch” factor to take advantage of it yet. Still probably better to threaten Discord/Two-Step, than Present/Law magic turn 3? Maybe? Even though I built Tech I around Temporal Distortion?

Feeling that this build isn’t particularly viable as P1, tbh.

[charnel_mouse]

P2T2

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Starting Hand: 5

Morningstar Flagbearer
Fox Primus
Safe Attacking
Grappling Hook
Snapback

Thoughts

I considered various approaches for using Hook or midbanding Orpal to either kill the Tenderfoot or move him to kill the Brother, then either playing the Flagbearer or midbanding Orpal to sacrifice the Sensei and put a - rune on the surviving unit. However, they all put me down on cards and/or left Orpal easily open to a single Nimber Fencer. The safer way to neutralise one of Persephone’s units is simply to boost Orpal and attack the Tenderfoot. It’ll survive, but have 0 attack while not harming Orpal, and if I can keep Orpal alive it’ll make for easy maxband fodder. I’ll do that. Adding Sickness to slow things down if Orpal survives, and Crypt Crawler for cheap defence if he doesn’t. Giving Orpal a level in case of a Tax Collector.

Teched cards: 2

T2: Crypt Crawler, Sickness

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Get paid + float - ($7)
Worker - ($6)
Tech I - ($4)
Aged Sensei boosts Orpal
Orpal hits Tenderfoot for 1A damage and a - rune
Morningstar Flagbearer - ($1)
Orpal to level 2 - ($0)
Discard 3, reshuffle, draw 5

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Squad Leader: Morningstar Flagbearer 2/2+1A (flagbearer)

Orpal L2 1/3 (deals damage in - runes)
Aged Sensei 1/1

Base HP: 20
Tech I HP: 5

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Hand: 5

Smoker
Crypt Crawler
Safe Attacking
Grappling Hook
Sensei’s Advice

Deck: 3

Savior Monk
Sickness
Snapback

Discard: 0

Card count check (opponent-viewable)

Expected: 10 + 2 teched = 12
2 workered
2 on board
5 in hand
3 in deck
0 in discard
Total: 12

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Gold: 0

Workers: 7

5 x start
T1: Fox Viper
T2: Fox Primus

[Persephone]

P1 @Persephone [Finesse] / Present / Law vs.
P2 @charnel_mouse [Discipline] / Disease / Law

Tech two cards. (2 discards)

• Scribe
• Temporal Distortion

Player 1, Turn 3

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Workers make 6g. (6g)

Hire 7th worker for 1g. (5g, 4 cards)

• Timely Messenger

River Blooms herself for 2g, becoming a 3/4. (3g, 3 cards, 3 discards)
(It only targets “friendly units or heroes”, so Flagbearer isn’t a valid target.)

3/4 River Montoya attacks and kills Morningstar Flagbearer, dealing 2+A damage and taking 2.

River Withers Orpal Gloor for 2g, making him a 0/2. (1g, 2 cards, 4 discards)

Older Brother safely attacks and kills Orpal Gloor, dealing 2 damage and taking none.
River gains two levels, to 3, midband, and heals.

Begin construction of Tech Lab – Law for 1g. (0g)

Discard 2, draw 3, shuffle 6, draw 1.

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Patrols:
Squad Leader:
Elite:
Scavenger:
Technician:
Lookout:

+1 River Montoya Lv. 3 (3 , 5 , sidelines T0/T1s)
Older Brother (2 , 2 )

-1 Tenderfoot (0 , 1 , virtuoso)

Base: 20
Tech I (5 )
Tech Lab – Law (4 )

0g banked, 7 workers.

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4 cards in hand

• Spark
• Brick Thief
• Nimble Fencer
• Bloom

5 cards in deck

• Tax Collector
• Temporal Distortion
• Wither
• Granfalloon Flagbearer
• Scribe

0 cards in discard

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Thoughts

Next turn is Fencer + Tech II, turn after is Geiger + Temporal Shenanigans to regenerate cards? Hopefully charnel_mouse doesn’t play any threats or anything, idk how reactive my deck can be right now.

[charnel_mouse]

P2T3

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Starting Hand: 5

Smoker
Crypt Crawler
Safe Attacking
Grappling Hook
Sensei’s Advice

Thoughts

Ouch. Can I risk going for Tech II here? A Two Step would flatten it plus one more damage for the Sensei would flatten it, I think that’s easier than using River’s midband. Either way I think Perse has to go down on cards again. I’ve got Snapback and Sickness in hand next turn, so maybe now’s the best time to at least pay for it. I’ll just tech one Tier II unit to hedge my bets. I’m not sure what else I want, so a Martial Mastery seems a good way to fish for Perse’s main spec plan. Workering Smoker, since I’m aiming for Abomination. I’m not sure whether to kill the Tenderfoot here or not: he might be non-patrolling as bait to lessen my patrol, but keeping him alive makes it easier to rip through with Two Step. I’m going to kill it anyway, and try to make Perse go down on cards to get the Tech II kill.

Teched cards: 2

T2: Crypt Crawler, Sickness
T3: Gorgon, Martial Mastery

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Get paid - ($7)
Worker - ($6)
Tech II Disease - ($2)
Crypt Crawler - ($0)
Aged Sensei kills Tenderfoot
Discard 3, draw 3, reshuffle, draw 2

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Squad Leader: Crypt Crawler 3/3+1A (sparkshot, can ground fliers)

Aged Sensei 1/1

Base HP: 20
Tech I HP: 5
Tech II HP: 5 (Disease)

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Hand: 5

Savior Monk
Sickness
Snapback
Safe Attacking
Grappling Hook

Deck: 4

Morningstar Flagbearer
Gorgon
Martial Mastery
Sensei’s Advice

Discard: 0

Card count check (opponent-viewable)

Expected: 10 + 4 teched = 14
3 workered
2 on board
5 in hand
4 in deck
0 in discard
Total: 14

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Gold: 0

Workers: 8

5 x start
T1: Fox Viper
T2: Fox Primus
T3: Smoker

[Persephone]

P1 @Persephone [Finesse] / Present / Law vs.
P2 @charnel_mouse [Discipline] / Disease / Law

Tech two cards + Tenderfoot. (3 discards)

• Tenderfoot
• Insurance Agent
• Temporal Distortion

Player 1, Turn 4

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Workers make 7g. (7g)

Hire 8th worker for 1g. (6g, 4 cards)

• Spark

Pay 2g to level River to 5, maxband. (4g)

4/5 River Montoya attacks and kills Crypt Crawler, dealing 3+A damage and taking 3.

Older Brother attacks and kills Aged Sensei, dealing 2 damage and taking 1.

Begin construction of Tech II – Finesse for 4g. (0g)

Discard 3, draw 5.

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Patrols:
Squad Leader:
Elite:
Scavenger:
Technician:
Lookout:

+1 River Montoya Lv. MAX (4 , 2 of 5 , sidelines T0/T1s, discount on T0s)
Older Brother (2 , 1 of 2 )

Base: 20
Tech I (5 )
Tech II – Finesse (5 )
Tech Lab – Law (4 )

0g banked, 8 workers.

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5 cards in hand

• Tax Collector
• Temporal Distortion
• Wither
• Granfalloon Flagbearer
• Scribe

0 cards in deck

6 cards in discard

• Brick Thief
• Nimble Fencer
• Bloom
• Tenderfoot
• Insurance Agent
• Temporal Distortion

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Thoughts

Disease is basically a value gameplan w/ added weenie hate. I think Insurance Agent can outvalue it, unless and until double Abomination shows up. Lawbringer Gryphon is maybe my win condition, but it gets kind of countered by Crypt Crawler? It certainly has answers to Present endgame techs (Gorgon > Hyperion, Abom/Ghoul > Immortal/Warp Gate Disciple). Censorship Council could be good for me here.

Definitely should have patrolled Tenderfoot last turn, don’t know if I just forgot or forgot you had an attacker left.

[charnel_mouse]

I just assumed you were trying to bait the kill, to be honest.

P2T4

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Starting Hand: 5

Savior Monk
Sickness
Snapback
Safe Attacking
Grappling Hook

Thoughts

Not drawing either of my previous techs is a pain. I’d like both Sickness and Snapback here before River’s maxband becomes a problem with Guides out, but I can’t afford that without skipping a worker. Perse has no float, though, so the next turn might not be completely overwhelming. Teching in my beefier ground units in the hopes they’ll be able to trade favourably with virtuosos, and because they’re better under censorship. Putting Grave in Elite to kill attacking unguided Fencers.

Teched cards: 2

T2: Crypt Crawler, Sickness
T3: Gorgon, Martial Mastery
T4: Abomination, Cursed Ghoul

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Get paid - ($8)
Worker - ($7)
Grave Stormborne - ($5)
Savior Monk - ($3)
Snapback swaps River out for Bigby - ($0)
Discard 2, draw 4

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Squad Leader: Savior Monk 2/2+1A (healing 1)
Elite: Grave L1 1+2/3 (sparkshot)

Base HP: 20
Tech I HP: 5
Tech II HP: 5 (Disease)

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Hand: 4

Morningstar Flagbearer
Gorgon
Martial Mastery
Sensei’s Advice

Deck: 0

Discard: 7

Crypt Crawler
Aged Sensei
Abomination
Cursed Ghoul
Snapback
Sickness
Grappling Hook

Card count check (opponent-viewable)

Expected: 10 + 6 teched = 16
4 workered
1 on board
4 in hand
0 in deck
7 in discard
Total: 16

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Gold: 0

Workers: 9

5 x start
T1: Fox Viper
T2: Fox Primus
T3: Smoker
T4: Safe Attacking

[Persephone]

P1 @Persephone [Finesse] / Present / Law vs.
P2 @charnel_mouse [Discipline] / Disease / Law

Tech two cards. (8 discards)

• Leaping Lizard
• Community Service

Player 1, Turn 5

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Workers make 8g. (8g)

Hire a Scribe for 2g. (6g)

Shuffle 8 and draw a card. (5 cards, 7 in deck, 0 discards)

• Insurance Agent

Hire an Insurance Agent, taking out a policy on Older Brother. (5g, 4 cards)

Older Brother attacks Savior Monk, dealing 1+A damage, and taking 2 damage and dying. (1 discard)

Claimant dies, I gain 2g and draw a card. (7g, 5 cards, 6 in deck)

• Bloom

Summon Maxwell Geiger for 2g. (5g)
He casts Temporal Distortion for 2g, returning Insurance Agent to my hand and warping Insurance Agent “Ernie” into play from my codex. (3g, 5 cards, 2 discards)
Insurance Agent “Ernie” takes out a policy on Savior Monk.

Hire a Insurance Agent “Bert” for 1g, also taking out a policy on Savior Monk. (2g, 4 cards)

Bigby Hayes attacks and kills Savior Monk, dealing 2 damage and taking 2.

Claimant dies, I gain 4g and draw two cards. (6g, 6 cards, 4 in deck)

• Tenderfoot
• Nimble Fencer

Recruit a Nimble Fencer for 2g. (4g, 5 cards)
Bigby casts Bloom on Nimble Fencer for 2g. (2g, 4 cards, 3 discards)

3/4 Nimble Fencer attacks and kills Grave Stormborne, dealing and taking 3 damage.
Bigby gains two levels, to 3, midband, and heals.

Recruit a Tenderfoot for 1g. (1g, 3 cards)
She hastily attacks your Tech II for 1 damage, to 4 .

Hire 9th worker for 1g. (0g, 2 cards)

• Wither

Scribe patrols in Squad Leader, Insurance Agents in Scavenger/Technician, and Geiger in Lookout.

Discard 2, draw 4.

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Patrols:
Squad Leader: Scribe (1 , 3 , 1 )
Elite:
Scavenger: Insurance Agent “Ernie” (2 , 2 )
Technician: Insurance Agent “Bert” (2 , 2 )
Lookout: Maxwell Geiger Lv. 1 (2 , 3 , Sparkshot, Resist 1)

Bigby Hayes Lv. 3 (2 , 4 , Stash, sidelines T0/T1s)
+1 Nimble Fencer (3 , 1 of 4 , Haste to virtuosos, virtuoso)
Tenderfoot (1 , 2 , virtuoso)

Base: 20
Tech I (5 )
Tech II – Finesse (5 )
Tech Lab – Law (4 )

0g banked, 9 workers.

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4 cards in hand

• Brick Thief
• Temporal Distortion
• Leaping Lizard
• Community Service

0 cards in deck

5 cards in discard

• Older Brother
• Bloom
• Temporal Distortion
• Tax Collector
• Granfalloon Flagbearer

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Thoughts

Community Service seems like my best answer to Abomination, and the hilarity value of hitting it randomly after Snapbacking into Bigby is too good to pass up.

Got the Insurance agent, awesome. Let’s see how far I can take this~

It’s not insurance fraud, it’s insurance finesse.

edit: listing Tenderfoot on board.
edit2: correct discard counts (contents were correct)

[charnel_mouse]

Ooh, nice.

P2T5

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Starting Hand: 4

Morningstar Flagbearer
Gorgon
Martial Mastery
Sensei’s Advice

Thoughts

Eep. Just block up, I guess. This is not a great patrol, but most of the current attackers are 2 attack or less, so a few heroes with 3 health can stall for a bit, even if it’ll cause an easy flicker.

Teched cards: 2

T2: Crypt Crawler, Sickness
T3: Gorgon, Martial Mastery
T4: Abomination, Cursed Ghoul
T5: Censorship Council, Judgement Day

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Get paid - ($9)
Worker – ($8)
Gorgon - ($5)
Orpal Gloor - ($3)
Bigby Hayes - ($1)
Tech Lab: Law - ($0)
Discard 2, reshuffle, draw 4

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Squad Leader: Gorgon 2/4+1A (deathtouch, draw 1 on death)
Scavenger: Orpal L1 1/3 (deals damage in - runes)
Technician: Bigby L1 2/3

Base HP: 20
Tech I HP: 5
Tech II HP: 4 (Disease)
Tech Lab HP: 4 (Law)

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Hand: 4

Cursed Ghoul
Morningstar Flagbearer
Grappling Hook
Martial Mastery

Deck: 8

Crypt Crawler
Aged Sensei
Abomination
Snapback
Sickness
Savior Monk
Censorship Council
Judgement Day

Discard: 0

Card count check (opponent-viewable)

Expected: 10 + 8 teched = 18
5 workered
1 on board
4 in hand
8 in deck
0 in discard
Total: 18

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Gold: 0

Workers: 10

5 x start
T1: Fox Viper
T2: Fox Primus
T3: Smoker
T4: Safe Attacking
T5: Sensei’s Advice

[Persephone]

Working out my turn & there’s a high probability I’m going to be looking at your hand. Do you have draws for Technician and/or Gorgon?

[charnel_mouse]

Community Service? Let me know if you do look after draws, and I’ll generate them then.

[Persephone]

It’s tricky because I don’t want to attack blind, but I don’t want to attack after I’ve played your Abomination (?) either!

[charnel_mouse]

Editing because Gorgon only has 2 attack, if that changes your mind either way.

[Persephone]

P1 @Persephone [Finesse] / Present / Law vs.
P2 @charnel_mouse [Discipline] / Disease / Law

Tech two cards. (7 discards)

• Injunction
• Grounded Guide

Player 1, Turn 6

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Workers make 9g. (9g)

+1 Nimble Fence and Insurance Agent “Bert” attack Gorgon, dealing 2+A and 2 damage before taking 2 deathtouch each and dying. (9 discards) You draw a card.

Scribe and Maxwell Geiger attack and kill Bigby Hayes, dealing 1 and 2 damage, and taking 2 damage each. Geiger additionally sparks Orpal for 1 damage. You draw a card.
Geiger gains two levels, to 3, midband, and heals.

Insurance Agent “Bert” attacks and kills Orpal Gloor, dealing 2 damage and getting a -1/-1 rune. You get a gold.
Bigby gains two levels, to 5, maxband.

Tenderfoot attacks your Tech II for 1 damage, to 3 .

Bigby sentences a unit from your hand to Community Service for 5g. (4g, 3 cards)

to be continued…

[charnel_mouse]

I drew Snapback and… Abomination. Hellfire.

[Persephone]

…putting your (mine now) Abomination into play! (10 discards)
Scribe and Insurance Agent “Ernie” die instantly. (12 discards)

Bigby Hayes attacks and destroys your Tech II, dealing 3 damage. Your base takes 2 damage, to 18 .

Hire 10th worker for 1g. (3g, 2 cards)

• Brick Thief

Recruit a Leaping Lizard for 1g. (2g, 1 card)

Stash 1, shuffle 12 (!), draw 2.

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Patrols:
Squad Leader:
Elite:
Scavenger:
Technician:
Lookout:

Bigby Hayes Lv. MAX (3 , 4 , Stash, sidelines T0/T1s, draws a card)
Maxwell Geiger Lv. 3 (2 , 4 , Sparkshot, draw/discard)

Abomination (6 , 6 , other units get -1/-1)
Leaping Lizard (2 , 4 , Anti-Air, -1/-1 [Abomination])

Tenderfoot (0 , 1 , virtuoso, -1/-1 [Abomination])

Base: 20
Tech I (5 )
Tech II – Finesse (5 )
Tech Lab – Law (4 )

2g banked, 10 workers.

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3 cards in hand

• Temporal Distortion
• Grounded Guide
• Tax Collector

10 cards in deck

• Bloom
• Older Brother
• Insurance Agent
• Injunction
• Temporal Distortion
• Insurance Agent
• Community Service
• Nimble Fencer
• Scribe
• Granfalloon Flagbearer

0 cards in discard

[charnel_mouse]

Nicely timed Service! I’ll fold there, well played! Looks like we were both considering Censorship Council at some point.
Want to go again?

[Persephone]

Yeah, good game! Seriously considered taking the Ghoul and just letting you discard the Abom, or immediately Temporal Distortioning it back to your hand to hit your Tech I with Hyperion + Brick Thief.

P1 to you, I’ll try [Fire] / Feral / Necromancy

[charnel_mouse]

Sounds good!

P1T1

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Starting Hand: 5

Snapback
Savior Monk
Smoker
Safe Attacking
Sensei’s Advice

Thoughts

No Aged Sensei in hand makes early Orpal aggression a bit limp, with Grave + Smoker with a Hook next turn could be pretty good. Missing the Graveyard in the Black starter, though, I might switch next game.

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Get paid - ($4)
Worker - ($3)
Grave Stormborne - ($1)
Smoker - ($0)
Discard 3, draw 5

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Squad Leader: Grave L1 2/3+1A (sparkshot)
Lookout: Smoker 1/1 (resist 0+1, stealth, bounces when targeted)

Base HP: 20

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Hand: 5

Fox Viper
Aged Sensei
Morningstar Flagbearer
Fox Primus
Grappling Hook

Deck: 0

Discard: 3

Snapback
Savior Monk
Safe Attacking

Card count check (opponent-viewable)

Expected: 10
1 workered
1 on board
5 in hand
0 in deck
3 in discard
Total: 10

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Gold: 0

Workers: 5

4 x start
T1: Sensei’s Advice