RACE #3: Hobusu (Mono Red) vs. lettucemode ([Disease]/Discipline/Fire)

Hobusu · November 23, 2016, 6:35pm

Somehow didn’t notice the Tower! Fixed.

lettucemode · November 24, 2016, 5:14am

P2T3

Tech StartingHand Workers

TECH
Versatile Style
Crypt Crawler

STARTING HAND
Graveyard
Summon Skeletons
Deteriorate
Rambasa Twin
Sacrifice the Weak

WORKERS
Pestering Haunt
Skeletal Archery
Graveyard

NextHand

Versatile Style
Flame Arrow
Poisonblade Rogue
Thieving Imp

Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($7)
Rebuild Tech I
Worker - ($6)
Orpal - ($4)
Jandra trades with Drakk, Orpal to 3
Summon Skeletons - ($1)
Deteriorate the Rambaster

Float ($1)
Discard 2, draw 3, reshuffle, draw 1

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

[I]Squad Leader[/I]: Skeleton (1/1A)
[I]Elite[/I]:
[I]Scavenger[/I]: Skeleton (1/1)
[I]Technician[/I]: Orpal 1 (1/3)
[I]Lookout[/I]:
[B]In Play:[/B]

[B]Buildings:[/B]

Base HP: 16
Tech I HP: 5
Tower HP: 4

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

Hand: 4
Deck: 7
Disc: 0
[B]Gold:[/B]
Gold: 1
Workers: 8

Hobusu · November 24, 2016, 6:24pm

Player 1 Turn 4

Tech, Starting Hand, and Workers

TECH

Gunpoint Taxman
Kidnapping

STARTING HAND

Bombaster
Chaos Mirror
Mad Man
Lobber
Nautical Dog
Flame Arrow

WORKERS

Careless Musketeer
Scorch
Pillage
Nautical Dog

[details=Next Hand]Mad Man
Bloodburn
Bloodrage Ogre
Charge
Lobber

[/details]
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid + float - ($8)
Worker - ($7)
Recruit Lobber - ($6)
Recruit Mad Man - ($5)
Level Zane to Lv. 4, healing him - ($2)
Summon Jaina - ($0)
*Lobber trades with Squad Leader Skeleton
Mad Man trades with Scavenger Skeleton, you gain a gold
Zane kills Orpal and takes 1 from him and 1 from tower, we both draw a card
Jaina gains 2 free levels
Patrol as shown below

Float ($0)
Discard 3, draw 4, reshuffle, draw 1

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

[I]Squad Leader[/I]: Jaina Stormborne Lv. 1 (2/3) [Sparkshot]
[I]Elite[/I]:
[I]Scavenger[/I]:
[I]Technician[/I]:
[I]Lookout[/I]:
[B]In Play:[/B]
Captain Zane Lv. 4 (2/1) [Haste] {-1/-1}
[B]Buildings:[/B]
Base HP: 20
Tech I HP: 5
Heroes’ Hall HP: 4

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

Hand: 5
Deck: 7
Disc: 0
[B]Gold:[/B]
Gold: 0
Workers: 8

Thoughts

Wiped his board, though I wasn’t able to get his Tech I again… Probably will sac Zane next turn. It’s a shame my new hand has none of the spells I’ve teched, but so it goes… It’s a bit risky to go without Tech II, but we’ll see how it goes!

Jadiel · November 24, 2016, 7:07pm

Who got the levels from killing orpal?

Hobusu · November 24, 2016, 7:07pm

That would be Jaina. Sorry about that!

lettucemode · November 25, 2016, 1:03am

P2T4

Tech StartingHand Workers

TECH
Sickness
Abomination

STARTING HAND
Flame Arrow
Thieving Imp
Poisonblade Rogue
Versatile Style
Summon Skeletons

WORKERS
Pestering Haunt
Skeletal Archery
Graveyard
Poisonblade Rogue

NextHand

Skeleton Javelineer
Deteriorate
Jandra, the Negator
Rambasa Twin

Discard

Flame Arrow
Summon Skeletons
Versatile Style
Sickness
Abomination

Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid + float + scav - ($10)
Worker - ($9)
Jaina - ($7)
Flame Arrow your Jaina, mine to 3 - ($3)
Thieving Imp, you discard #5 (random.org) - ($0)

Float ($0)
Discard 2, draw 4

Board Info:
In Patrol:

Squad Leader: Thieving Imp (2/2A)
Elite:
Scavenger:
Technician: Jaina 3 (2/3)
Lookout:
In Play:

Buildings:

Base HP: 16
Tech I HP: 5
Tower HP: 4

Economy Info:
Cards:

Hand: 4
Deck: 2
Disc: 5
Gold:
Gold: 0
Workers: 9

Hobusu · November 26, 2016, 3:18am

Right, you’re not playing Mono-Black… I’m just so used to dying from Black shenanigans alone, I guess!

Player 1 Turn 5

Tech, Starting Hand, and Workers

TECH

Captured Bugblatter
Crashbarrow

STARTING HAND

Bloodburn
Bloodrage Ogre
Charge
Lobber
Mad Man (discarded by Thieving Imp)
Lobber (drawn by Zane)

WORKERS

Careless Musketeer
Scorch
Pillage
Nautical Dog
Bloodburn

[details=Next Hand]Gunpoint Taxman
Chaos Mirror
Kidnapping
Flame Arrow

[/details]

Discard

Lobber
Charge
Mad Man
Captured Bugblatter
Crashbarrow
Lobber

Discard card #5 due to Thieving Imp
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($8)
Worker - ($7)
Summon Drakk - ($5)
Level Zane to max, healing damage from him - ($3)
Zane shoves Theiving Imp to Lookout, dealing 1 damage to it
Zane trades with Jaina, we both draw a card and Drakk gains 2 free levels
Recruit Lobber - ($2)
Lobber trades with Theiving Imp
Recruit Bloodrage Ogre - ($0)
Patrol as shown below

Float ($0)
Discard 2, draw 4

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

[I]Squad Leader[/I]:
[I]Elite[/I]:
[I]Scavenger[/I]:
[I]Technician[/I]: Bloodrage Ogre (3/2)
[I]Lookout[/I]:
[B]In Play:[/B]
Drakk Ramhorn Lv. 3 (1/3)
[B]Buildings:[/B]
Base HP: 20
Tech I HP: 5
Heroes’ Hall HP: 4

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

Hand: 4
Deck: 3
Disc: 5
[B]Gold:[/B]
Gold: 0
Workers: 9

[details=Thoughts][spoiler]OK, so he killed Jaina with his own Flame Arrow… But that cost him 4 gold to remove what I payed 2 gold for. Probably should have patrolled her in Scavenger or Technician, but it still was not bad for me. Got some good value out of Zane, since the 2 gold I put into maxing him transferred to Drakk and maxing him let me kill his Jaina. Now he has the double threat of Bloodrage Ogre and either mid- or max-band Drakk to respond to.

I’m teching for Blood Tech II now, since I should be able to build the Tech II building next turn and draw them next cycle. Hoping this works out![/spoiler][/details]

Edit: Fixed to compensate for forgotten discard and draw from Thieving Imp and Zane midband, respectively.

cstick · November 26, 2016, 4:36am

I think you forgot to discard to Imp and/or forgot to draw from Zane. I think that the current number of cards in hand is right, but I believe that there should be one less card left in your deck.

EricF · November 26, 2016, 4:59am

That looks right, though he didn’t play the card that got hit, so he can just move 1 random card from deck to discard pile, and carry on.

Hobusu · November 26, 2016, 5:24am

Sorry! I totally did forget, so I’m glad I accidentally didn’t use that card!

I’ll fix it in the morning, since I’m about to go to bed. Since it doesn’t affect my turn, lettucemode can go ahead and take his turn whenever.

lettucemode · November 29, 2016, 3:04am

Sorry for the delay again.

P2T5

Tech StartingHand Workers

TECH
Gorgon
Gorgon

STARTING HAND
Skeleton Javelineer
Deteriorate
Rambasa Twin
Jandra, the Negator
Sacrifice the Weak

WORKERS
Pestering Haunt
Skeletal Archery
Graveyard
Poisonblade Rogue
Jandra, the Negator

NextHand

Thieving Imp
Crypt Crawler
Sacrifice the Weak
Deteriorate

Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($9)
Worker - ($8)
Orpal - ($6)
Sacrifice the Weak - ($4)
Rambasa Twins - ($0)

Float ($0)
Discard 2, draw 1, reshuffle, draw 3

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

[I]Squad Leader[/I]:
[I]Elite[/I]:
[I]Scavenger[/I]: Rambasa Twin (3/2)
[I]Technician[/I]: Rambasa Twin (3/2)
[I]Lookout[/I]:
[B]In Play:[/B]
Orpal 1 (1/3)
[B]Buildings:[/B]
Base HP: 16
Tech I HP: 5
Tower HP: 4

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

Hand: 4
Deck: 8
Disc: 0
[B]Gold:[/B]
Gold: 0
Workers: 10

Hobusu · November 30, 2016, 4:25pm

Honestly, there’s no way I can complain about anyone taking too long to take their turn…

Player 1 Turn 6

Tech, Starting Hand, and Workers

TECH

Captured Bugblatter
Surprise Attack

STARTING HAND

Gunpoint Taxman
Kidnapping
Chaos Mirror
Flame Arrow
Bombaster

WORKERS

Careless Musketeer
Scorch
Pillage
Nautical Dog
Bloodburn
Bombaster

[details=Next Hand]Lobber
Mad Man
Makeshift Rambaster
Surprise Attack
Lobber

[/details]
Tech 2 card(s)
Draw from Techician
Get Paid - ($9)
Worker - ($8)
Build Tech II Blood - ($4)
Drakk casts Kidnapping on your Technician Twin - ($0)
Rambasa Twins tragically kill each other over a simple misunderstanding (or something), you gain 1 gold, my Twin returns to your codex, and your Twin returns to your codex.
Patrol as shown below

Float ($0)
Discard 3, draw 1, reshuffle, draw 4

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

[I]Squad Leader[/I]:
[I]Elite[/I]:
[I]Scavenger[/I]:
[I]Technician[/I]: Drakk Ramhorn Lv. 3 (1/3)
[I]Lookout[/I]:
[B]In Play:[/B]

[B]Buildings:[/B]

Base HP: 20
Tech I HP: 5
Tech II HP: 5 (Blood)
Heroes’ Hall HP: 4

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

Hand: 5
Deck: 9
Disc: 0
[B]Gold:[/B]
Gold: 0
Workers: 10

Thoughts

That was an interesting interaction with Rambasa Twin and Kidnapping… At least this should buy me a turn to get geared up for a real assault. Sadly missed drawing a Tech II unless I get lucky with the Technician draw (and that’s assuming Drakk dies). Still, I’ve got my win condition in the deck now! If this goes on long enough for me to cycle again, I might add Bloodlust and a Land Octopus.

lettucemode · November 30, 2016, 10:31pm

P2T6

StartingHand Workers

STARTING HAND
Crypt Crawler
Thieving Imp
Sacrifice the Weak
Deteriorate

WORKERS
Pestering Haunt
Skeletal Archery
Graveyard
Poisonblade Rogue
Jandra, the Negator

NextHand

Versatile Style
Sickness
Skeleton Javelineer
Gorgon

Discard

Sacrifice the Weak
Deteriorate

Tech 0 card(s)
Get Paid - ($10)
Theiving Imp, you discard #4 (random.org) - ($7)
Crypt Crawler - ($5)
Tech II - Disease - ($1)

Float ($1)
Discard 2, draw 4

Board Info:
In Patrol:

Squad Leader: Crypt Crawler (3/3A)
Elite:
Scavenger: Thieving Imp (2/2)
Technician: Orpal 1 (1/3)
Lookout:
In Play:

Buildings:

Base HP: 16
Tech I HP: 5
Tech II HP: 5 (Disease)
Tower HP: 4

Economy Info:
Cards:

Hand: 4
Deck: 4
Disc: 2
Gold:
Gold: 1
Workers: 10

Hobusu · December 1, 2016, 3:33am

I really hate Thieving Imp now. Both because it just made my turn way harder to figure out (seriously, I could have done it in a fraction of the time originally) and because I keep wanting to swap the i and e when I type it…

Player 1 Turn 7

Starting Hand and Workers

STARTING HAND

Makeshift Rambaster
Surprise Attack (Discarded by Thieving Imp – this is what showed as #4 on the spreadsheet itself…)
Lobber
Mad Man
Lobber
Gunpoint Taxman (Drawn by Zane midband)

WORKERS

Careless Musketeer
Scorch
Pillage
Nautical Dog
Bloodburn
Bombaster
Mad Man

[details=Next Hand]Chaos Mirror
Kidnapping
Bloodrage Ogre
Crashbarrow

[/details]

Discard

Surprise Attack
Lobber
Lobber
Makeshift Rambaster
Gunpoint Taxman

Tech 0 card(s)
Discard card #4 from Thieving Imp (worst luck possible…)
Get Paid - ($10)
Summon Zane and level him to max - ($3)
Zane shoves Crypt Crawler to Lookout and does 1 damage to it
Zane attacks Orpal and takes a -1/-1 rune from him and 1 damage from Tower, Drakk gains 2 free levels and we both draw a card
Recruit Lobber #1 and Lobber #2 - ($1)
Lobber #1 trades with Crypt Crawler
Lobber #2 trades with Thieving Imp, you gain 1 gold
Worker - ($0)
Patrol as shown below

Float ($0)
Discard 2, draw 4

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

[I]Squad Leader[/I]:
[I]Elite[/I]:
[I]Scavenger[/I]:
[I]Technician[/I]: Drakk Ramhorn Lv. 5 (2/3)
[I]Lookout[/I]:
[B]In Play:[/B]
Zane Lv. 6 (3/2) [Haste] {-1/-1}
[B]Buildings:[/B]
Base HP: 20
Tech I HP: 5
Tech II HP: 5 (Blood)
Heroes’ Hall HP: 4

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

Hand: 4
Deck: 4
Disc: 5
[B]Gold:[/B]
Gold: 0
Workers: 11

Thoughts

Wow, that would have been way easier if he hadn’t managed to get Surprise Attack with that discard. Midband Drakk, summon Zane and cast the spell, wipe his board with 7 gold and 1 card. The remaining 3 gold could have been used to have Makeshift Rambaster break his Tower and either hire a worker or chip at a building. Instead, I had to use all but 1 of my gold just to wipe his board, and I decided to get the extra gold and thin my deck instead of doing 2 to some building (though maybe I should have had Mad Man attack his Tower instead of turning it into a worker). I do have a Crashbarrow in hand, so as long as he doesn’t have two Abominations in hand things aren’t looking horrible…

lettucemode · December 1, 2016, 3:37am

Zane’s still alive as a 3/2, right?

Hobusu · December 1, 2016, 3:38am

Oh… Right, he would be alive, wouldn’t he? That’s kind of leftover from an earlier version of the turn where I only midbanded him. I’ve fixed that now.

lettucemode · December 1, 2016, 3:50am

Looks good. I’ll have to see what the Imp got after the game, hopefully Kidnapping?

P2T7

Tech StartingHand Workers

TECH
Abomination

STARTING HAND
Gorgon
Sickness
Versatile Style
Skeleton Javelineer
Abomination

WORKERS
Pestering Haunt
Skeletal Archery
Graveyard
Poisonblade Rogue
Jandra, the Negator
Versatile Style

NextHand

Thieving Imp
Gorgon
Flame Arrow
Summon Skeletons

Tech 1 card(s)
Get Paid + float + scav - ($12)
Worker - ($11)
Abomination - ($5)
Gorgon - ($2)
Grave - ($0)

Float ($0)
Discard 2, draw 3, reshuffle, draw 1

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

[I]Squad Leader[/I]: Gorgon (1/3A)
[I]Elite[/I]: Grave 1 (3/3)
[I]Scavenger[/I]:
[I]Technician[/I]:
[I]Lookout[/I]: Abomination (6/6)
[B]In Play:[/B]

[B]Buildings:[/B]

Base HP: 16
Tech I HP: 5
Tech II HP: 5 (Disease)
Tower HP: 4

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

Hand: 4
Deck: 6
Disc: 0
[B]Gold:[/B]
Gold: 0
Workers: 11

Hobusu · December 1, 2016, 4:37am

Things would have played out quite differently if that had been Kidnapping… For starters, I wouldn’t have just won the game.

Player 1 Turn 8

Tech, Starting Hand, and Workers

TECH

Shoddy Glider
Shoddy Glider

STARTING HAND

Crashbarrow
Bloodrage Ogre
Chaos Mirror
Kidnapping
Captured Bugblatter (Draw from Gorgon)

WORKERS

Careless Musketeer
Scorch
Pillage
Nautical Dog
Bloodburn
Bombaster
Mad Man

[details=Next Hand]Captured Bugblatter
Flame Arrow
Bloodrage Ogre
Charge

[/details]
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($11)
Drakk casts Kidnapping on Gorgon - ($7)
Gorgon trades with Abomination, I draw a card
Zane trades with Grave, Drakk reaches max level for free
Recruit Captured Bugblatter and give it haste from Drakk’s maxband - ($4)
Recruit Crashbarrow - ($1)
Crashbarrow does 7 damage to your base (9 HP remains) and takes 1 damage from Tower
Bugblatter does 5 to your base (4 HP remains) and takes 1 damage from Tower
Drakk does 3 to your base (1 HP remains) and takes 1 damage from Tower
Crashbarrow dies from ephemeral
Bugblatter’s ability does 1 damage to your base (0 HP remains)
Good game, @lettucemode!

Float ($1)
Discard 2, draw 3, reshuffle, draw 1

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

[I]Squad Leader[/I]:
[I]Elite[/I]:
[I]Scavenger[/I]:
[I]Technician[/I]:
[I]Lookout[/I]:
[B]In Play:[/B]
Captured Bugblatter (4/1)
Drakk Ramhorn Lv. 6 (3/3)
[B]Buildings:[/B]
Base HP: 20
Tech I HP: 5
Tech II HP: 5 (Blood)
Heroes’ Hall HP: 4

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

Hand: 4
Deck: 10
Disc: 0
[B]Gold:[/B]
Gold: 1
Workers: 11

Thoughts

Welp, that all lined up perfectly. I guess I had even better luck with that draw than he did with the Thieving Imp discard! Hasted Bugblatter + Crashbarrow is scary, especially when the opponent’s patrol just got wiped. Ironically, it would have been better for him to put Gorgon in Lookout in this case. Not that it would have mattered, since I had 1 gold left at the end of this play, but that’s the one I ended up wanting to steal! Still, that was a well played game on his part. I didn’t see any glaring mistakes anywhere in his play, so I’m especially happy I was able to win a real match!

@EricF, I did it! I figured out how not to lose!
I wonder what it says that I’ve only won with Red when playing online…

lettucemode · December 1, 2016, 4:42am

GG! wp for sure. I’ll have to review that later.

Ah, so I got sharks with Imp that turn. Yea, that would have been game too probably, you could have gotten Tech II.

And you got the Bugblatter from Gorgon, nice. It didn’t really matter where I patrolled the Gorgon or Abom, if you had kidnapping my board was cleared anyway. I mean sure you got a card, but the end result would probably be the same.

Hobusu · December 1, 2016, 4:47am

At the very least not drawing that would have reduced the damage to your base by 6 that turn. Hardly insurmountable, but it would have delayed it by at least one turn. My next hand did have another Bugblatter, Charge and Flame Arrow guaranteed, and before I saw that I had lethal I teched both Shoddy Gliders, so I could have chipped you out in a turn or two unless you got something seriously good out there. Still, that was a great game! Now that I know I didn’t mess up the math anywhere (neither you nor EricF has jumped on anything), I can finally go to bed… Good night!