GL HF @charnel_mouse !
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XCAFS2022 Round 1 Player 1, Turn 1
P1 Peace/Anarchy/Future vs P2 Peace/Blood/Growth
Starting Hand
Spectral Aven
Arrest
Lawful Search
Manufactured Truth
Traffic Director
Events of Turn:
Upkeep:
- Get Gold (4)
- Tech 2 cards in except turn 1
All Teched Cards
Main:
- Spectral Aven (2)
- Traffic Director (1)
- Worker (0)
Workers
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Patrol as below
- Discard 2 Draw 4
Board Info:
Buildings:
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Base HP: 20
In Patrol:
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Squad Leader:
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Elite:
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Scavenger:
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Technician: Traffic Director (1/1)
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Lookout:
In Play:
Economy Info:
Cards:
Gold:
End of Turn Hand
Reputable Newsman
Bluecoat Musketeer
Building Inspector
Porkhand Magistrate
End of Turn Discard
My Thoughts
No idea about this! We’ll see I spose!
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And to you!
Relevant changes:
- Pirate Gunship doesn’t have Obliterate 2;
- Might of Leaf and Claw loses all growth runes if you have no units in play.
P2T1
Starting hand: 5
Spectral Aven
Porkhand Magistrate
Jail
Arrest
Lawful Search
Thoughts
Interesting match-up, looks like we both want to go for Peace unit spam. Frozen’s specs aren’t so good at Tech I, outside of Zane, so I could also try to get something going a little earlier.
Porkhand Magistrate can be killed efficiently with Zane, even in Squad Leader, and Frozen could still tech up. I think I have three good options:
- Midband Argagarg standing behind his Wisp, threatening to pop the Aven.
- Argagarg standing behind his Wisp and Spectral Aven. Aven goes in Squad Leader, so Frozen’s Aven can’t kill the Wisp, and let Zane + Traffic Director kill Argagarg. Frozen could also pop my Aven with Arrest, but he’d be skipping Tech I, so I doubt it.
- With Spectral Aven in Squad Leader / Lookout, I could have a different hero behind. If Frozen techs up, best he can do is play Zane, or Manufactured Truth if he skips a worker. Zane can allow a trade with Onimaru or Elite Drakk, but that’s not worth it for Frozen.
The main question is whether I want Argagarg, to threaten an Aven pop, or Oni/Drakk, to threaten other sources of damage. I’d really like to get rid of that Aven. Oni and Drakk both have cheap spells to get rid of it (Boot Camp and Bloodlust), but they take up a tech choice, and I have to draw them. I think I go with Argagarg: he doesn’t scale up mass weenies as quickly as Drakk, and can’t bring in as many tokens as Onimaru for Ancients, but I do still get the Water Elemental and the threat of Stampede.
Hanging onto Jail over Porkhand Magistrate: it slows down Peace unit spam a little bit, if not Sergeant runes, and could also be nice if Frozen goes for the large Tech II/III units in the other specs.
Get paid - (5)
Argagarg Garg, Wisp arrives - (3)
Spectral Aven - (1)
Worker - (0)
Discard 3, draw 5
Spectral Aven 2/2+1A (illusion; flying)
Wisp 1+0/1
Argagarg L1 1/3
Base HP: 20
Hand: 5
Building Inspector
Traffic Director
Reputable Newsman
Bluecoat Musketeer
Manufactured Truth
Deck: 0
Discard: 3
Jail
Arrest
Lawful Search
Card-count details (opponent-viewable)
Expected: 10
1 on board
5 in hand
0 in deck
3 in discard
1 in workers
Gold: 0
Workers: 6
5 x start
T1: Porkhand Magistrate
Ooof Arg, boo
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XCAFS2022 Round 1 Player 1, Turn 2
P1 Peace/Anarchy/Future vs P2 Peace/Blood/Growth
Starting Hand
Reputable Newsman
Bluecoat Musketeer
Building Inspector
Porkhand Magistrate
Events of Turn:
Upkeep:
- Get Gold (5)
- Tech 2 cards in except turn 1
All Teched Cards
Overeager Cadet, Gunpoint Taxman
Main:
- Onimaru (3)
- Worker (2)
- Tech 1 (0)
Workers
Bluecoat Musketeer, Arrest
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Patrol as below
- Discard 3 Draw 1 rs Draw 4
Board Info:
Buildings:
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Base HP: 20
- Tech1 HP: 5
In Patrol:
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Squad Leader: Traffic Director (1/1a)
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Elite:
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Scavenger:
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Technician: Onimaru (2/3 lvl 1)
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Lookout: Spectral Aven (2/2)
In Play:
Economy Info:
Cards:
Gold:
End of Turn Hand
[spoiler]
Jail
Gunpoint Taxman
Building Inspector
Reputable Newsman
Manufactured Truth
[/spoiler]a
End of Turn Discard
My Thoughts
Was hoping to win the 50/50 no aven for Charnel, Arg as an answer likely to pop with a midband. Guess I’ll go for resist and Oni to hit back, GPT and Cadet for Peace Engine is the play I think. Could do Boot Camp to pop the Aven but hopefully I can deal with it another way, we’ll see I spose
Oof indeed.
P2T2
Starting hand: 5
Building Inspector
Traffic Director
Reputable Newsman
Bluecoat Musketeer
Manufactured Truth
Thoughts
Manufactured Truth lets me kill both Onimaru and the Aven here at a +3g/-1c trade. Is that good? I think it is. It leaves me a little thin on units, but if there’s no Building Inspector next turn I can play Cadets and Water Elemental while still taking Tech II.
Teched cards: 2
Get paid - (6)
Worker - (5)
Expensive Manufactured Truth, Wisp becomes a Spectral Aven - (3)
Spectral Avens kill Onimaru, you draw, Argagarg to level 3 (midband)
Argagarg expensively boosts your Aven, it bursts with appreciation - (2)
Expensive Tech I - (0)
Discard 3, reshuffle 9, draw 5
Wisp returns to normal
Argagarg L3 1/4 (exhaust: +1/+1A to target unit this turn)
Spectral Aven 2/2 (illusion; flying)
Wisp 0/1
Base HP: 20
Tech I HP: 5
Hand: 5
Arrest
Overeager Cadet
Building Inspector
Traffic Director
Reputable Newsman
Deck: 4
Jail
Lawful Search
Overeager Cadet
Manufactured Truth
Discard: 0
Card-count details (opponent-viewable)
Expected: 10 + 2 teched = 12
1 on board
5 in hand
4 in deck
0 in discard
2 in workers
Gold: 0
Workers: 7
5 x start
T1: Porkhand Magistrate
T2: Bluecoat Musketeer
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Yeah not a great start lmao
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XCAFS2022 Round 1 Player 1, Turn 3
P1 Peace/Anarchy/Future vs P2 Peace/Blood/Growth
Starting Hand
Jail
Gunpoint Taxman
Building Inspector
Reputable Newsman
Manufactured Truth
Porkhand Magistrate (techn)
Events of Turn:
Upkeep:
- Get Gold (6)
- Tech 2 cards in except turn 1
All Teched Cards
Overeager Cadet, Flagstone Garrison
Overeager Cadet, Gunpoint Taxman
Main:
- Gunpoint Taxman (4)
- Building Inspector (3)
- TD kills wisp, takes 1
- Worker (2)
Workers
Porkhand Magistrate, Bluecoat Musketeer, Arrest
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Patrol as below
- Discard 3 Draw 2 rs Draw 3
Board Info:
Buildings:
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Base HP: 20
- Tech1 HP: 5
In Patrol:
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Squad Leader: Gunpoint Taxman (3/3a)
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Elite:
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Scavenger:
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Technician: Building Inspector (1/1)
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Lookout:
In Play:
Economy Info:
Cards:
Gold:
End of Turn Hand
[spoiler]
Overeager Cadet
Lawful Search
Jail
Flagstone Garrison
Manufactured Truth
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End of Turn Discard
My Thoughts
yyyck, that sucks to lose oni, at least GPT can hopefully deal with Aven… Float some gold to either Zane retalliate or tech up I think
P2T3
Starting hand: 5
Arrest
Overeager Cadet
Building Inspector
Traffic Director
Reputable Newsman
Thoughts
Hmm, Building Inspector. Do I want to sacrifice the Aven to afford Water Elemental this turn? I think so, I need something that can stand up to Gunpoint Taxman, and possibly Zane. Zane can’t do too much if Frozen also techs up, at least, even if Frozen steals gold off of a shove.
He could also bring Oni back out for Elite Training, which would at least take out my units, but I think Argagarg would be safe. Oh, maybe not with the sparkshot.
Patrollers have 6 health, attackers have 5 attack, 6 more needed for Argagarg kill. Frozen has 9 gold, 4 left if he wants to tech up.
- Elite Training costs 4 gold, gives up to 1 (armour-pierce) + 2 (attack bonus) + 2 (sparkshot) attack. Not enough.
- Zane costs up to 5 gold after gold share and steal, gives up to 6 attack if he shoves SQL. Technically enough, but I don’t think Frozen could split the damage up properly. If I put the Elemental in SQL, he’d have 4+3+1+1 against 2+2+5, which I don’t think can be done. If I put the Cadet there, it’s against 1+3+5, which he can manage, but he would lose all of his current units.
- Arrest costs 4-5 gold, gives up to 4 health for Arresting SQL Elemental, plus another 2 if cast by Zane. That’s just enough to take out Argagarg, losing either Zane or his 1-cost units in the process. However, he’d only be left with 4 gold before worker, so couldn’t tech up. Does he still want to do it? Possibly: he’d have a Gunpoint Taxman and a Level 3 Zane on the board, plus 3 gold more, against my disabled Water Elemental. The threat of maxband Zane might be enough to dissuade me from going for Garrison, in his eyes. If I put Overeager Cadet in SQL, Arrest + Zane gives 5 attack, which isn’t quite enough.
- Surprise Attack gives 8 attack, which is clearly enough. It lets Frozen keep most of his material, too. I’ll just need to hope he hasn’t taken this.
Allowing a maxband Zane kill on Argagarg is far more dangerous than allowing a Zane + Arrest kill, so the Elemental goes in front. Overeager Cadet goes in Elite: if Gunpoint Taxman kills it after Zane shares Scavenger gold for the Elemental, then it at least has to trade.
Tech-wise, I definitely want at least one Garrison. I’m leaning towards two: if I can quickly flood the board, then Argagarg’s or Drakk’s ultimates should let me snowball quickly without the need for Sergeants. I can also tech in Crash Bombers for more cheap flood.
Teched cards: 2
T2: 2 x Overeager Cadet
T3: 2 x Flagstone Garrison
Get paid - (7)
Worker - (6)
Spectal Aven kills Building Inspector, you draw, dies to Gunpoint Taxman
Tech II: Peace - (2)
Overeager Cadet
Maxband Argagarg, Water Elemental arrives - (0)
Discard 3, draw 4, reshuffle 6, draw 1
Water Elemental 3/3+1A (anti-air)
Overeager Cadet 1+2/2
Argagarg L5 1/5 (exhaust: +1/+1A to target unit this turn)
Base HP: 20
Tech I HP: 5
Tech II HP: 5 (Peace)
Hand: 5
Jail
Lawful Search
Overeager Cadet
Manufactured Truth
Flagstone Garrison
Deck: 5
Flagstone Garrison
Spectral Aven
Building Inspector
Traffic Director
Reputable Newsman
Discard: 0
Card-count details (opponent-viewable)
Expected: 10 + 4 teched = 14
1 on board
5 in hand
5 in deck
0 in discard
3 in workers
Gold: 0
Workers: 8
5 x start
T1: Porkhand Magistrate
T2: Bluecoat Musketeer
T3: Arrest
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XCAFS2022 Round 1 Player 1, Turn 4
P1 Peace/Anarchy/Future vs P2 Peace/Blood/Growth
Starting Hand
Overeager Cadet
Lawful Search
Jail
Flagstone Garrison
Manufactured Truth
Reputable Newsman (techn)
Events of Turn:
Upkeep:
- Get Gold (7+2float)
- Tech 2 cards in except turn 1
All Teched Cards
Flagstone Garrison, Drill Sergeant
Overeager Cadet, Flagstone Garrison
Overeager Cadet, Gunpoint Taxman
Main:
- TD hits your tech2 to 4
- Onimaru (7)
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Reputable Newsman, block 1 (5)
- Overeager Cadet
- Worker (4)
- Tech 2 Peace (0)
Workers
Porkhand Magistrate, Bluecoat Musketeer, Arrest
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Patrol as below
- Discard 3 Draw 2 rs Draw 3
Board Info:
Buildings:
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Base HP: 20
- Tech1 HP: 5
- Tech2 HP: 5 PEACE
In Patrol:
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Squad Leader: Overeager Cadet (2/2a)
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Elite:
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Scavenger: Reputable Newsman (0/3, blocking 1)
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Technician: Gunpoint Taxman (3/3)
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Lookout:
In Play:
- Traffic Director (1/1)
- Onimaru (2/3 lvl 1)
Economy Info:
Cards:
Gold:
End of Turn Hand
[spoiler]
Overeager Cadet
Spectral Aven
Lawful Search
Manufactured Truth
Flagstone Garrison
[/spoiler]a
End of Turn Discard
My Thoughts
Oook hope we can get an edge here might be tough though!
P2T4
Starting hand: 5
Jail
Lawful Search
Overeager Cadet
Manufactured Truth
Flagstone Garrison
Thoughts
Hmm, that Reputable Newsman is pretty rough with this hand. Hoping for a good Garrison draw.
Teched cards: 2
T2: 2 x Overeager Cadet
T3: 2 x Flagstone Garrison
T4: Crash Bomber, Stampede
Get paid - (8)
Flagstone Garrison - (5)
Overeager Cadet #2, I draw
Spectral Aven, I draw - (3)
Traffic Director, I draw - (2)
Thoughts
That’s pretty good. Do I want to attack? No point just killing the Cadet, but I could get that Taxman killed off, and make it more difficult for Frozen to steal my float. He’s likely to have a Garrison in hand anyway, so giving him a card probably won’t do much.
Cadet goes in Elite to discourage midband Zane / base Onimaru, or some mixture to be cleaned up by the Aven.
Worker - (1)
Water Elemental kills Overeager Cadet, takes 2 damage
Argargarg boosts Overeager Cadet #1 to 3/2+1A
Overeager Cadet #1 trades with Gunpoint Taxman, you draw
Discard 3, draw 2, reshuffle 6, draw 3
Traffic Director 1/1+1A (untargetable; unstoppable when attacking a building)
Overeager Cadet 1+2/2
Argagarg L5 1/5 (exhaust: +1/+1A to target unit this turn)
Spectral Aven 2/2 (illusion; flying)
Water Elemental 3/1 (anti-air, 1 damage)
Flagstone Garrison HP: 4 (play unit from hand: draw 1)
Base HP: 20
Tech I HP: 5
Tech II HP: 4 (Peace)
Hand: 5
Building Inspector
Reputable Newsman
Overeager Cadet
Lawful Search
Manufactured Truth
Deck: 3
Crash Bomber
Stampede
Flagstone Garrison
Discard: 0
Card-count details (opponent-viewable)
Expected: 10 + 4 teched = 14
4 on board
5 in hand
3 in deck
0 in discard
4 in workers
Gold: 1
Workers: 9
5 x start
T1: Porkhand Magistrate
T2: Bluecoat Musketeer
T3: Arrest
T4: Jail
Game’s about to get spicy!
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XCAFS2022 Round 1 Player 1, Turn 5
P1 Peace/Anarchy/Future vs P2 Peace/Blood/Growth
Starting Hand
Overeager Cadet
Spectral Aven
Lawful Search
Manufactured Truth
Flagstone Garrison
Building Inspector (techn)
Drill Sergeant (OC1)
Flagstone Garrison (DS)
Overeager Cadet (BI rs)
Knight of the Conclave (OC2)
Gunpoint Taxman (KotC)
Events of Turn:
Upkeep:
- Get Gold (8)
- Tech 2 cards in except turn 1
All Teched Cards
Detonate, Knight of the Conclave
Flagstone Garrison, Drill Sergeant
Overeager Cadet, Flagstone Garrison
Overeager Cadet, Gunpoint Taxman
Main:
- Flagstone Garrison (5)
- Overeager Cadet, draw 1
- Drill Sergeant, draw 1 (2)
- Building Inspector, DS+1 rs draw 1 (1)
- Overeager Cadet, DS+1 draw 1
- Knight of the Conclave, DS+1 draw 1
- DS gives a rune to Aven, whoops popped it
- DS gives two runes to Newsman
- Oni kills SQL, takes 1
- Newsman kills your cadet, takes 3
- TD trades with WE
- Worker (0)
Workers
Lawful Search, Jail, Porkhand Magistrate, Bluecoat Musketeer, Arrest
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Patrol as below
- Discard 4 Draw 1 rs Draw 4
Board Info:
Buildings:
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Base HP: 20
- Tech1 HP: 5
- Tech2 HP: 5 PEACE
In Patrol:
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Squad Leader: Overeager Cadet (2/2a)
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Elite:
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Scavenger: Overeager Cadet (2/2)
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Technician: Building Inspector (1/1)
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Lookout:
In Play:
- Onimaru (2/2 lvl 1)
- Drill Sergeant (3/3)
- Reputable Newsman (2/2, ++, blocking 1)
- Knight of the Conclave (forecast 3)
- Flagstone Garrison (4hp)
Economy Info:
Cards:
Gold:
End of Turn Hand
Detonate
Flagstone Garrison
Traffic Director
Manufactured Truth
Gunpoint Taxman
End of Turn Discard
My Thoughts
This looks pretty good actually, Drakk could be a problem (why not tech lab blood there?), KotC gives me a 50/50 for an extra rune and maybe even 2 extra, that’d mean I could worker instead of MTruth to kill the cadet and WE. Could do 2 KotC but I think I’ll stack a detonate so I have it right away next turn
…
#theDream draw nice! In hindsight 2x KotC probably would have made more sense but w/e
Well, that’s a draw and a half.
P2T5
Starting hand: 5
Building Inspector
Reputable Newsman
Overeager Cadet
Lawful Search
Manufactured Truth
Thoughts
Ooh, I don’t know if I’ll be able to stand up to that.
Teched cards: 2
T2: 2 x Overeager Cadet
T3: 2 x Flagstone Garrison
T4: Crash Bomber, Stampede
T5: Crash Bomber, War Drums
Get paid + float - (10)
Overeager Cadet, I draw
Expensive Flagstone Garrison #2 - (6)
Building Inspector, I draw 2 - (5)
Crash Bomber, reshuffle 5, draw 2 - (4)
Crash Bomber #2, draw 2 - (3)
Spectral Aven
Traffic Director
Worker - (2)
Traffic Director, draw my last card - (1)
Overeager Cadet #2
Discard 5, reshuffle and draw them again
Overeager Cadet #1 2/2+1A
Building Inspector 1+1/1 (your first (re)build each turn costs 1 more gold)
Crash Bomber #1 2/2 (dies: your base takes 1)
Crash Bomber #2 2/2 (dies: your base takes 1)
Overeager Cadet #2 2/2 (resist 0+1)
Argagarg L5 1/5 (exhaust: +1/+1A to target unit this turn)
Traffic Director 1/1 (untargetable; unstoppable when attacking buildings)
Flagstone Garrison #1 HP: 4 (play unit from hand: draw 1)
Flagstone Garrison #2 HP: 5 (play unit from hand: draw 1)
Base HP: 20
Tech I HP: 5
Tech II HP: 4 (Peace)
Hand: 4
Reputable Newsman
Manufactured Truth
War Drums
Spectral Aven
Stampede
Deck: 0
Discard: 0
Card-count details (opponent-viewable)
Expected: 10 + 8 teched = 18
8 on board
5 in hand
0 in deck
0 in discard
5 in workers
Gold: 0
Workers: 10
5 x start
T1: Porkhand Magistrate
T2: Bluecoat Musketeer
T3: Arrest
T4: Jail
T5: Lawful Search
It was indeed, we’re at the point where the draws don’t matter cuz we’re just drawing everything now. Except I can make a lotta dead draws for you next turn XD
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XCAFS2022 Round 1 Player 1, Turn 6
P1 Peace/Anarchy/Future vs P2 Peace/Blood/Growth
Starting Hand
Detonate
Flagstone Garrison
Traffic Director
Manufactured Truth
Gunpoint Taxman
Aven + KotC (TD)
BI + OC (KotC)
OC + Vystari (OC1)
Events of Turn:
Upkeep:
- Get Gold (9)
- Tech 2 cards in except turn 1
All Teched Cards
Knight of the Conclave, Calypso Vystari
Detonate, Knight of the Conclave
Flagstone Garrison, Drill Sergeant
Overeager Cadet, Flagstone Garrison
Overeager Cadet, Gunpoint Taxman
Main:
- Oni trades w/ SQL, levels fizzle
- BI trades with yours
- OCs trade with techn and Lookout, my base to 19
- Flagstone Garrison (6)
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Zane + midband, kill scav, we both get 1g, my base to 18 (2)
- Traffic Director, DS +1, draw 1 rs draw 1 (1)
- Knight of the Conclave, DS+1 draw 2
- Overeager Cadet, DS+1 draw 2
- Overeager Cadet, DS+1 nothing to draw
- Calypso Vystari, DS+1 (0)
- DS breaks your tech1, your base to 18
- Move two runes to Newsman, he breaks your tech 2, your base to 16
Workers
Lawful Search, Jail, Porkhand Magistrate, Bluecoat Musketeer, Arrest
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Patrol as below
- Discard 5 rs Draw 5
Board Info:
Buildings:
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Base HP: 18
- Tech1 HP: 5
- Tech2 HP: 5 PEACE
In Patrol:
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Squad Leader: Overeager Cadet (2/2a)
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Elite:
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Scavenger: Overeager Cadet (2/2)
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Technician: Calypso Vystari (2/2)
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Lookout: Traffic Director (1/1)
In Play:
- Drill Sergeant (6/6, +++)
- Zane (3/1 lvl 4)
- Reputable Newsman (4/4, ++++, blocking 1)
- Knight of the Conclave (forecast 2)
- Knight of the Conclave (forecast 3)
- Flagstone Garrison (4hp)
- Flagstone Garrison (4hp)
Economy Info:
Cards:
Gold:
End of Turn Hand
Detonate
Manufactured Truth
Gunpoint Taxman
Spectral Aven
Building Inspector
End of Turn Discard
My Thoughts
Okay if I murder patrol + mid zane for the scav, tech KotC and a Vystari, then go Garrison + TD, I’m guaranteed to draw down. That’ll give me 5 DS runes to work with, I can double tech break, then worry about detonate for the garrisons later (shouldn’t have gone detonate lol I don’t need it, DS woulda been better to have here. Oh well
@charnel_mouse *poke wondering if I have found a way to victory here or not, lmk!
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I think you have, yeah. GG! I was hoping I could get a Stampede or War Drums going before Drill Sergeants would matter.
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GG WP! I realized too late detonate was not a needed tech, I needed to have more faith in the peace engine. Gl next round!
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Thanks, and you! I’ve tried taking Detonate against Peace before, it didn’t go well 
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Its expensive and not what you want to use Zane for! Doesn’t leave gold for dealing with the board presence and that’s especially a problem against stampede threat
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