unlikely that i’d be able to reach a building inspector next turn with no unit in my hand this turn, whereas now i can dump both soldiers and a hero on the board, aven will be a problem though, might aim to Now! it, as vortoss emblem is too unlikely to be otherwise useful whereas a Now! will be good ot have in my deck anyway
early teched Now! is also not a bad idea as i may not have a tech building on turn 3 if they knock it down
STARTING HAND
Building Inspector
Jail
Traffic Director
Manufactured Truth
Arrest
WORKERS
Bluecoat Musketeer
Traffic Director
Next Hand
Spectral Flagbearer
Porkhand Magistrate
Manufactured Truth
Scribe
Lawful Search
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid + float - ($6)
Worker - ($5)
Hire a Building Inspector. - ($4)
Build Tech I. - ($3)
Spectral Aven attacks your Tech I for 2.
Summon General Onimaru. - ($1)
Float ($1)
Discard 3, reshuffle, draw 5
Board Info: In Patrol:
Squad Leader: Onimaru (1) 2/3A
Elite:
Scavenger:
Technician: Building Inspector 1/1
Lookout:
In Play:
Spectral Aven 2/2
Buildings:
Base HP: 20
Tech I HP: 5
Economy Info: Cards:
Hand: 5
Deck: 3
Disc: 0
Gold:
Gold: 1
Workers: 6
Thoughts
Scribe for cards and Spectral Flagbearer to wreak havoc on targeting.
The rule changes are:
Pirate Gunship:
Loses Obliterate 2.
Vandy Anadrose:
Loses Resist 1 at midband.
Garth Torken:
Midband 2/4 → 2/3.
Lich’s Bargain:
Base damage 4 → 6.
Might of Leaf and Claw:
If you have no units in play, remove all runes from this.
STARTING HAND
Lawful Search
Spectral Flagbearer
Scribe
Manufactured Truth
Porkhand Magistrate
Reputable Newsman
Jail
Arrest
WORKERS
Bluecoat Musketeer
Traffic Director
Porkhand Magistrate
Next Hand
Arrest
Building Inspector
Jail
Manufactured Truth
Lawful Search
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid + float - ($7)
Hire a Scribe and draw a card. - ($5)
Worker. - ($4)
Onimaru performs a Lawful Search of your hand and draws a card. - ($3)
Onimaru Arrests the Fading Argonaut, disabling it. - ($1)
Onimaru kills Geiger and gains 2 levels.
Hire a Spectral Flagbearer. - ($0)
Spectral Aven kills the Nullcraft.
Float ($0)
Discard 3, reshuffle, draw 5
Board Info: In Patrol:
Squad Leader: Scribe 1/3
Elite:
Scavenger: Spectral Flagbearer 2/2
Technician:
Lookout:
In Play:
Spectral Aven 2/1
Onimaru (3) 2/1
Buildings:
Base HP: 20
Tech I HP: 5
Economy Info: Cards:
Hand: 5
Deck: 3
Disc: 0
Gold:
Gold: 0
Workers: 7
Thoughts
This seems pretty fine.
The rule changes are:
Pirate Gunship:
Loses Obliterate 2.
Vandy Anadrose:
Loses Resist 1 at midband.
Garth Torken:
Midband 2/4 → 2/3.
Lich’s Bargain:
Base damage 4 → 6.
Might of Leaf and Claw:
If you have no units in play, remove all runes from this.
STARTING HAND
Lawful Search
Jail
Manufactured Truth
Building Inspector
Arrest
Reputable Newsman
WORKERS
Bluecoat Musketeer
Traffic Director
Porkhand Magistrate
Building Inspector
Next Hand
Hallucination
Reputable Newsman
Macciatus, The Whisperer
Jail
Dreamscape
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($7)
Worker - ($6)
Onimaru performs a Lawful Search of your hand and draws a card. - ($5)
Build Tech II - Truth. - ($1)
Onimaru casts Manufactured Truth on the Spectral Flagbearer, turning it into a Spectral Aven. - ($0)
Onimaru trades with the Neo Plexus.
Spectral Aven, Scribe, and Manufactured Aven destroy your Tech II.
Float ($0)
Discard 3, draw 2, reshuffle, draw 3
Board Info: In Patrol:
Squad Leader:
Elite:
Scavenger:
Technician:
Lookout:
In Play:
Spectral Aven 2/1
Spectral Flagbearer 2/2
Scribe 1/3
Buildings:
Base HP: 20
Tech I HP: 5
Tech II HP: 5 (Truth)
Economy Info: Cards:
Hand: 5
Deck: 4
Disc: 0
Gold:
Gold: 0
Workers: 8
Thoughts
I like this a whole lot less.
The rule changes are:
Pirate Gunship:
Loses Obliterate 2.
Vandy Anadrose:
Loses Resist 1 at midband.
Garth Torken:
Midband 2/4 → 2/3.
Lich’s Bargain:
Base damage 4 → 6.
Might of Leaf and Claw:
If you have no units in play, remove all runes from this.
STARTING HAND
Stewardess of the Undone
Forgotten Fighter
Immortal
Now!
Time Spiral
WORKERS
Plasmodium
Hardened Mox
Tinkerer
Forgotten Fighter
NextHand
Temporal Research
Immortal
Nullcraft(1/1) flying, no buff/deuff
Discard
Neo Plexus(3/2a)
Time Spiral
Now!
Immortal
Hyperion
Temporal Distortion
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($8)
Worker - ($7)
Stewardess, tries to bounce aven and kills it - ($4)
Hire Max Geiger - ($2)
Max Now!s your flagbearer, it dies - ($1)
Fargo kills scribe
Time Spiral fargo up a rune - ($0)
Float ($0)
Discard 1, draw 3
Board Info: In Patrol:
Squad Leader:
Elite:
Scavenger:
Technician:
Lookout: Stewardess of the Undone(3/3) + r1
In Play:
Battle Suits
Fading Argonaut(3/2) fading 2
L1 Max(2/3)
Buildings:
Base HP: 18
Tech I HP: 3
Tech II HP: 5 (Present)
Economy Info: Cards:
Hand: 3
Deck: 0
Disc: 6
Gold:
Gold: 0
Workers: 9
Thoughts
i like this, okay to go down on cards as next turn i can immortal, and this way i get another tech before reshuffling so will almost certainly get at least one TD or hyperion even with small draw - if they have both macciatus and spectral roc in hand, well, i guess i really have to kill macciatus so another reason to keep fargo alive
STARTING HAND
Immortal
Nullcraft(1/1) flying, no buff/deuff
Temporal Research
WORKERS
Plasmodium
Hardened Mox
Tinkerer
Forgotten Fighter
Nullcraft(1/1) flying, no buff/deuff
NextHand
Now!
Temporal Distortion
Hyperion
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($9)
Worker - ($8)
Immortal - ($2)
Stewardess hits bigby
Max kills bigby, Max midbands and heals
maxband max, flicker stewardess, it bounces your illusion but no scavenger because macciatus stops it dying - ($0)
Fargo trades with macciatus
Float ($0)
Discard 1, reshuffle, draw 3
Board Info: In Patrol:
Squad Leader: Immortal(5/5a) indestructible
Elite:
Scavenger:
Technician:
Lookout: Stewardess of the Undone(3/3) + r1
In Play:
Battle Suits
L5 Max(3/4)
Buildings:
Base HP: 18
Tech I HP: 3
Tech II HP: 5 (Present)
Economy Info: Cards:
Hand: 3
Deck: 7
Disc: 0
Gold:
Gold: 0
Workers: 10
Thoughts
tech tricycloid for easy targeting and temporal distortion for cards and getting a Future flier out of my immortal if need be
STARTING HAND
Dreamscape
Manufactured Truth
Arrest
Lawful Search
Reteller of Truths
Spectral Flagbearer
Macciatus, The Whisperer
WORKERS
Bluecoat Musketeer
Traffic Director
Porkhand Magistrate
Building Inspector
Jail
Manufactured Truth
Next Hand
Liberty Gryphon
Spectral Roc
Eyes of the Chancellor
Liberty Gryphon
Discard
Lawful Search
Dreamscape
Arrest
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid + float - ($10)
Quince performs a Lawful Search of your hand and draws a card. - ($9)
Hire a Spectral Flagbearer. - ($8)
Hire Macciatus, The Whisperer. - ($6)
Hire a Reteller of Truths. - ($4)
Quince creates a Mirror Illusion. - ($2)
Worker. - ($1)
Float ($1)
Discard 2, draw 4
Board Info: In Patrol:
Squad Leader: Mirror Illusion 1/2A
Elite: Quince (1) 2/3
Scavenger: Spectral Flagbearer 3/3
Technician: Reteller of Truths 4/4
Lookout:
In Play:
Macciatus, the Whisperer 3/3
Buildings:
Base HP: 20
Tech I HP: 5
Tech II HP: 5 (Truth)
Economy Info: Cards:
Hand: 4
Deck: 4
Disc: 3
Gold:
Gold: 1
Workers: 10
Thoughts
We are going to die so hard.
The rule changes are:
Pirate Gunship:
Loses Obliterate 2.
Vandy Anadrose:
Loses Resist 1 at midband.
Garth Torken:
Midband 2/4 → 2/3.
Lich’s Bargain:
Base damage 4 → 6.
Might of Leaf and Claw:
If you have no units in play, remove all runes from this.
STARTING HAND
Hyperion
Now!
Temporal Distortion
Time Spiral
WORKERS
Plasmodium
Hardened Mox
Tinkerer
Forgotten Fighter
Nullcraft(1/1) flying, no buff/deuff
NextHand
Temporal Research
Fading Argonaut(3/2) fading 2
Neo Plexus(3/2a)
Tricycloid
Discard
Temporal Distortion
Now!
Time Spiral
Hyperion
Tech 0 card(s)
Get Paid - ($10)
Hire Vir - ($8)
Peek
Stewardess kills illusion, takes 1
Hire Hyperion - ($3)
Hyperion kills Reteller, i draw, you draw, reteller to your hand
Temporal Distortion Hyperion into Void Star - ($1)
Max kills flagbearer, takes 3, you get gold, sparkshots Quince
Now! Void Star - ($0)
Void Star kills Quince, overpower kills Macciatus, Vir to lvl 3
Immortal breaks your tech 2
I don’t think there’s anything I can do to stand in your way. I’ve always found this matchup so difficult as Blue. I haven’t won it a single time! Well done, buttercup!
Why didn’t you go here for arrest neo + double tech break with midband Oni in SL being relatively safe? You could even put him in elite so that a now’ed max would have to suicid in order to kill him?
I’m not even following what you’ve suggested enough to answer that. Let’s settle for the answer I gave you when you asked me to join: I am extraordinarily bad at this game.
No worries, I’m not making myself smaller by acknowledging that I’m hot garbage at playing this game so I’m all good on that front. I have plenty of marvelous qualities that I love a lot. Being bad at this game is not a thing that’s gonna get me down.