Please help me beat The Matriarch

Ra, Expatriette, and Visionary vs. The Matriarch in Insula Primalis. How to win? That order of characters, as I rather think it would be easier if you put Visionary first.

I've suffered four massive defeats in a row. I've tried just focusing fire on The Matriarch. I tried using Twist The Ether and Liquid Nitrogen Rounds to reduce The Matriarch's attacks, but amongst Horrid Cacophany, Huginn, and Primordial Plant Life, couldn't keep them in play. Same thing with Flame Barrier.

I had a great start once, with two useless Darken The Skies and a mostly painless Horrid Cacophany followed by Brain Burning The Mask. It wasn't enough. The Matriarch flipped and started healing when she was only down to the 40s for hit points, but the heroes were already in the low teens.

I tried carefully dealing with each threat as it came out, but of course that just meant that I did a ton of damage to Cohorts and Carrion Fields rather than The Matriarch.

twist, IF, hairtrigger, flesh.  That'll crush matty.

Twist turning all Matty's damage to fire, and ra sitting highest ignores all retaliation damage.  Those 2 cards crush her.

I can't imagine how you could bet Matriarch without Tachyon, Haka, and someone like Tempest, Adept, or Sentinels with some healing mojo. Maybe Fixer for Grease Gun. Without a way to neutralize the damage you take for killing birds, I just can't see how you could win.

We've only played against her twice, but we won the second time, thanks to Tempest's Hypersonic Assault and Haka's Savage Mana keeping the mask and cohorts from coming back into play.

...poison all the birds.

That only works against pigeons. And only in parks.

If you're in a team of three and can get Stealth Bot out early, that really helps since it can cancel out the damage from the Carrion Fields and the Matriarch.

I've tried a few times with that team.  Best game so far I got her down to 44.  

Now what a trick that would be!

It would be quite a good sight to see

to bring out a bot

when the team is not

supposed to include Unity. 

The trick is to put Stealth Bot in the environment deck. It gets played and can automatically start helping the heroes.

Easier said than done, as it's hard to maintain those ongoings given Horrid Cacophany, but on my second try I managed it, helped greatly by an early Volcanic Erruption. Even so Visionary got knocked out and Ra and Expatriette were in single digits at the end. Speed Loading with a couple Liquid Nitrogen Rounds and the Submachine Gun were really useful, too.

That's the best bet, I think:  Ra protecting everyone from fire then a Volcano doing all your dirty work.

Also, off topic, but Visionary lowering enviornment damage is amazingly useful in the Rook City enviornments.

if you have the damage taken care of one of my favorite moves is suggestion putting darken on top and mask on bottom.