Weekly One-Shot #109: Adventures in Space

After the one-shot was de-bugged (and to tell the truth, part of me was wishing that the "bug" was the start of a new Oblivaeon-preview ARG), we get Challenge Infintor in the Enclave of the Endlings vs. Rogue Agent KNYFE, Omnitron-X, Fugue State Parse and XPW Captain Cosmic.

Mint.

Challenge Infinitor brings extra damage reduction to the Manifestations, but I hardly noticed, because Parse had Reveal the Flaws active for what seemed like the whole game.

There's quite a bit of random deck peeking and reshuffling with KNYFE and Parse and Omnitron-X, so everyone's game will play out differently. The heroes scraped out a win thanks to Parse's flaw-revealing ways, making hero damage irreducible. Honorable mention to Omnitron-X's Reactive Plating Subroutine. Combined with Elemental Exochassis and Reveal the Flaws, I was very pleased everytime the Recalescent Hellion tartgeted the robot (which was many, many times). Take that, Infinitor!

Ended with KNYFE at 3HP, Omnitron-X at 6HP, Parse at 4HP and Captain Cosmic at 5HP.

Near Mint.

Got run over the first time, due to foolishly neglecting to kill all his starting manifestations ASAP (what was I thinking?) but beat him on the second attempt by controlling his damage and just enough of his plays. Parse didn't get to do much since she had 2-3 Crushing Cages stuck on her for most of the game, but Omnitron-X was surprisingly effective.

Yeah, I got roasted on my first try in three rounds. I tried to set it up as the Parse show, but all of the stuff that makes FS Parse great is buried in the middle of her deck, thus wasting a couple rounds of powers from O-X and KNYFE. I'll give it another go later and try doing things differently.

Near Mint. Made some critical errors on the first go - mainly around not playing Cosmic Crest early and screwing up by not killing the Occular Swarm first when AOE killing a load of manifestations which let Infinitor do a big chain early. Second attempt was much easier - extreme Captain Cosmic could keep enough constructs in play to be relevant and I just burned most of Knyfes cards for quick damage. He still did his big chain, but later and to much lower impact (Big blast of energy damage into Captain Cosmic for no effect).

Mint.

A lesson to remember, NEVER allow the game to “Choose for me” when an ocular swarm is in play. Knyfe was wiping the field with Incidental Contact, and by the time Infinitor was done, he’d played most of his deck.

Survived that, and everyone was in the low teens. The rest of the details are fuzzy, as I was with my dart team and finished the game in between rounds at the board.

Finished the game with a double Primed Punch, courtesy of Slamara. Parse and Cosmic were down, and Knyfe and Omnitron were on less than 5.

Challenging, but fun.

OK, I'm stumped.

Following the advice here still got me killed in 3 maybe 4 turns.

Near Mint. First try Infy was at 1 HP when my last character (KNYFE) went down, just a couple of misplays. Second time, well. One or two minor differences were enough to win.

Comfortable Near Mint when I looked at the situation again and did two things: 1) I didn't use anyone's extra card play powers on Parse since I already knew that would be useless, and 2) I decided to wipe Infinitor's board in round 2, which is something I normally don't even consider doing. I don't typically like taking him back to his front side, but if you open by nuking the field with KNYFE in round 2, this team has just enough damage between KNYFE and XPW CC to punch him down before he gets a megaturn. Plus, on Infinitor's front side, XPW CC can easily end up being the highest HP hero and soaking a lot of energy damage.

Near Mint with lots of rewinding to maximize card plays. <.< Especially with Slamara. I never once saw Exochassis, though, where the heck do you get it?

Mint, but just barely.  KNYFE at 1, OX at 2, Parse and CC both dead.  I made the mistake of not playing Reveal the Flaws the first turn, and then letting Parse get Caged.  Got out by having Infinitor blow up the Cage, even though there was an Ocular Swarm out.  Got lucky when Slamaara tripped a Technological Singularity while Reveal the Flaws was out.  That wiped the field, but cost me Captain Cosmic.  Targeting Arrow + Defensive Blast is fun!  KNYFE's Primed Punch did the final blow, after Bloogo was nice enough to cover her from a Lambent Reaper.

On the first round play the bottom card of Omnitron-X’s deck which will get you a reset and the draw you get is a Technological Advancememt which you can pull Elemental Exochassis from. 

Mint... Just. 

Knife: 1, Omitron: Dead, Parse: 1 CC: 5

Through sheer luck, I kept hitting buffer overflows with parse and knifes power alternating. Omnitron did amazing duty wiping the 9 Manifestations off the board on turn 2. 

Otherwise, it was just CC and Knife repeatedly punching him in the face with deck control from Parse and Omnitron facilitating out of turn card play. 

Got CC to land the final blow slowly chipping away at the whole kill 10 nemesis with there nemesis... or however, that is meant to be worded

Oh, that's so weird. If you just play Reset from his hand, you only get another Reset! I figured there was no point, but I can see how that would change things.

No big deal, though, I ended with everyone at at least 4 HP, even the constructs! :V

Minty with everyone ~5 hp
For those having trouble, set up with the first round (plinking away at infinitor directly if you deal any damage), and play Focusing Blade on KNYFE and Reveal the Flaws on Parse. Second round everyone should be mid-low teens from all the manifestations. Put any crushing cages on anyone but KNYFE then play Incidental Contact to deal 2+2 irreducible energy damage to every manifestation and wipe the board. After that focus fire everything possible on Infinitor and ignore any manifestations that come out. Play Cosmic Crest for tanking and everything should be alright in another 2-3 rounds.

~Komori

Near Mint.
Have I mentioned that I HATE Infinitor?

Finally got to this after missing out on the week when it was up. With all the damage reduction out, I figured the best bet was to use Captain Cosmic and let everyone focus on Infinitor. A big race to the finish to see who could do the most damage the fastest.

Infinitor won that race.

Next game I decided to dump all the free card plays on to Parse instead. I used Reveal the Flaws, Focusing Conduit-Blade and Incidental Contact to wipe all the manifestations off the board. But my hit points were all in the low 10s at this point. Omnitron-X didn't get much out of his components, but Disruptive Flechettes helped a few times to clear out Manifestations. Exploit Vulnerability helped mitigate the damage reduction from Infinitor and Parse also kept trying to removing damage reduction or add damage as much as possible.

All of the heroes were down to their last hit points, at 3 hit points or less. Slamara came out and I would say it was more help to me than it was to Infinitor. The manifestations all targeted the constructs since they came out at 4 hp. Cosmic Crest helped absorb more damage and Destructive Response helped ping Infinitor a little more. Just as the heroes were about to start getting KO'd, Bloggo came out and saved KNYFE. That gave just enough time to deal out the 20 or so damage I needed to barely squeak out a win.