Weekly One-Shot #46: Something happened on the way to the beach

Kaargra Warfang interrupts Nightmist, Sky-Scraper, TLT, Dark Visionary and Rook City Wraith as they head for a relaxing time in Silver Gultch.

I had a surprisingly fast game, winning in only three rounds. The start is setup for Tachyon to get Chaos Lord by blinking, and Chaos Lord loves cards like Pushing the Limits, Oblivion, and Proportionist (to increase Sky-Scraper's huge power). By her third turn she had 10 bursts in her trash and two Lightspeed Barrages in her hand, and that and the 3-4 Oblivion (which gave Nightmist The Indiscriminate) and a Synaptic Interruption caused Kaargra to flip in the same turn that she entered play, as well as add an amusingly high number of tokens to the hero favor pool, winning us the game.

Meanwhile, Visionary had fun using Turmoil on the Title Deck, and Wraith ended up being a non-damage dealer, due to using Infrared Eyepieces her first turn and not being able to deal damage due to Ashclaw R'velos on her second.

This one was a lot of fun. Title control was key as usual (well, that and Dark Vis keeping Kaargra from ever showing up), and my only mistake was not counting card plays right; Tachyon could have been the Champion, which would have won me the game one attack sooner! :V

Missed my first shot, due to something I hadn't realized before....

When calculating sources of damage for Mindbreaker, each of Sky-Scraper's sizes counts as a different character card. I was at 19 favor, and was counting on winning by Sky-Scraper taking damage from other heroes, but I changed sizes on Sky-Scraper's turn, and the game tracked two different streams for Sky-Scraper's damage sources. She ended up with 2 sources for one size (huge), and then 3 sources for another size (normal). I was surprised and saddened when she didn't pick up Mindbreaker for the win, and then I promptly got stomped on Kaargra's turn.

Here goes try #2! 

Double post, sorry.

Second game went much better. Sky-Scraper had many, many titles. Heroes 20, Kaargra 5.

Near Mint.

That's probably a bug, we'll check with Christopher about it though.

MINTED!  With 31 to 12.

Thanks to a LUCKY fickle fans (17vs 15), and Tachyon getting a perfectly timed Supersonic Assault. 

Someday I will beat Kaargra without her flipping.  Today was not that day.  Got to 18 favor and had put both Get Back In There's on the bottom, so I thought I had it for sure.  The only gladiator left had only 4 HP, but also Stonejaw, so I thought I was safe.  Unfortunately, Tachyon had Chaos Lord, with Supersonic Response on the bottom, so she hit him for 2 when Sustain the Portal came out.  I still thought I was OK (should have been 3 damage), so I was tapping through all those instances of damage pretty quickly, so I was surprised to see him die and Kaargra flip, at 19 favor (like she always does...).

Still went on to win handily, 33 to 12, Mint, with most of the party pretty healthy.  Oblivion got Nightmist a whole mess of titles (and in retrospect, I probably would have won earlier had Thorathian Monolith not been in play, as she would have earned another title or two), and Micro-Assembler on Wraith was beautiful, letting her get out pretty much her whole collection of gear.

After thinking a little bit about my fast game yesterday, I realized the only bloodsworn points came from Kaargra doing damage after flipping. Since I had revealed a Get Back In There and had put that on top of the deck (at the time it seemed like a better play than Orrim Hiveminded), I tried again and put the latter on top this time. I ended up winning with Kaargra never flipping and 0 bloodsworn favor. The gladiators were really bad at their jobs, I suppose.


Wow

0 Bloodsworn? I'm in awe.

This was a really tough Mint for me. Kaargra came out early, but she was taken care of, and we were all set up to win, with us at 19 and them at 11 or so…

But i forgot that she flips if you kill all the gladiators. Then she also played Fickle Fans again, and a Bloodsworn Judgement, giving her Mindbreaker. In the end, it was 27 to 18, with Wraith and Tachyon down. (Tachyon only because she had Death Caller, and I forgot about this when I decided to keep Pushing the Limits.)

Mint.  I let Kaargra come out even though she didn't really have to, reasoning that it was better for her to come out early on then it was for her to come out later when I was about to win.  Then Sky-Scraper proceeded to win all the titles, and then 2 Lightspeed Barrages for 6 each brought Kaargra down, and Wraith finished her off.

Tachyon didn't have nearly enough cards in hand.  When Chaos Lord flipped a Lightning Reflexes while I had one in hand I had the opportunity to play 5 cards (that includes the first Lightning Reflexes) during Tachyon's Start of Turn, with an option of 3 more during her actual play phase.  

Mint, although Nightmist almost killed Skyscraper when she got the Seeker title in the middle of an Obliveon while Thorathian Monolith was out.  Oops.  Sorry Portja.

Won with 20 - 8 in my favor. Used Vis to bury a Get Back In There, so Kaargra never flipped. Tachyon had Chaos Lord, Nightmist earned the Indiscriminate and a voatload of fabor when I threw an Oblivion spell.

The Cactus earned the Stone jaw title.

I was going to make a comment, but something happened on the way to these forums...