Weekly One-SHot #94: RIng of Fire

Challenge Kismet in Magmaria vs. Rook City Wraith, Fugue State Parse, Hunted Naturalist, Setback and K.N.Y.F.E.

There is so much deck manipulation available to the heroes and so much shuffling of the villain deck that I'll bet everyone's experience is going to be different with this one.

Mint for me.  Deck manipulation, well-timed Crafty Assaults and huge gobs of damage from KNYFE kept Kismet from being too pesky.

Hunted Naturalist finished off Kismet with the power of Cornered Beast, so that was fun. Nobody puts croc-y in a corner!

Wraith 9HP, Parse 14HP, Naturalist 8HP, Setback 14HP and KNYFE at 11HP.

So much shuffling and reordering done that I am sure I couldn't remake my game if I tried.

All I know for sure is that Setback ate it early due to holding the Talisman through his turn (Challenge mode hurts) and Kismet's, but the extra card plays he gave to K.N.Y.F.E. managed to mint the day.

Fairly easy mint. Even with me making multiple mistakes, Knyfe and Wraith hammered on Kismet while Naturalist took out most of the ongoings. I felt sure I didn't take advantage of Parse nearly as well as I should have, but it was fairly easy to manage regardless. Everyone was in their mid-teens.

I have never had a challenge with Kismet, and this was no exception.  Double Behemoths certainly made things more interesting--I should have guessed that would happen with Rook City Wraith in the game--but I still finished with everyone fairly healthy.  It was in the middle of a Predator's Eye round, too, so there was plenty more damage where that came from.  Really, any game with Fugue State Parse and Hunted Naturalist is likely to be pretty easy.

makes a note

To quote MigrantP a bit from SentinelsLive

What did you just do Mindwander!

Likely!  I said likely!  Sure, Fugue State Parse, Hunted Naturalist, and Dark Watch Setback vs. Ultimate Cosmic Omnitron would not be easy (or perhaps even possible).  But those two are some of the best heroes on the market.

Easy Mint, same as above, plus Friendly Fire let Setback lay down big hurt.

Biggest thing was killing Lady Luck ASAP. Thankfully this crew has lots of Ongoing destruction.

Both ongoing destruction and deck control, so you can know in advance whether Lady Luck will prevent its own destruction.  Which is good, because I had to dig through quite a number of cards before a Lucky was on top.

Easy Mint, and a bug!

Once the Shaman came out, I used Parse’s hand of several Dodongos to discard and use her power. However, it didn’t trigger the second part of her power, even though I necessarily discarded a card in order to use the power in the first place.

Oh! I had a similar bug! When Parse discarded a Behemoth to Cash Out, it didn’t count as one of the four cards needed, although it did trigger my Critical Multipliers

Mint here!

RC Wraith at 20, Hunted Naturalist at 17, KNYFE at 13 and FS Parse and Setback tied at 9. Setback mostly tanked while Wraith, KNYFE and Naturalist hammered on Kismet. Sadly Parse was the one to take a solid 8 damage from Kismet's flip side but it was worth it. Didn't even need to destroy Lady Luck.  

Near Mint. Took a pounding from the Behemoths, but it's real easy when you don't do a bunch of stupid things in a row! :|

Mint with 3 heroes down. Stupid behemoths.

Easy Mint here with everyone but Naturalist in the teens. Naturalist spent a round with Rhino + Indomitable Force out, so he took the brunt of a Behemoth entry. (On the plus side, people got to use power for free until his turn that way!)