Advanced Apostate vs. Prime Wardens Fanatic, Chrono-Ranger, The Naturalist, and Prime Wardens Haka in Atlantis.
I had a pretty quick and easy fight with this one - done on Chrono-Ranger's fourth turn, and I made a silly play with Fanatic early in the game. It ended up not mattering much, as I had plenty of damage and destruction to deal with everything that showed up.
Final HP 7 - 16 - 12 - 17
I see John wanted us to get revenge on Apostate for him. Super easy mint at 7/15/11/11. Just make sure to apply sword to book turn one.
Mint. Also won on Chronoranger’s 4th turn. The Environment is mostly fairly helpful, and it’s fairly straightforward to take Apostate down while keeping Relics out of play. This did flag up to me that Concecrated Ground MUST destroy an ongoing or environment card, even if there are only friendly ongoing in play, so that was interesting.
With hind sight, it quickly became clear that you could luck into some really optimal moves, but I don’t actually think it was too important - it’s fairly straightforward to win even without the most efficient plays.
I kept waiting for something really bad to go down, but by the time I hit multiple Leaking Rooms in a row, it didn't matter if I could play cards. Easy Mint.
My only advice is go crazy with Divine Focus once you have an opening. By the time I got it out, Apostate was nearly dead, and the environment ended up taking his last few HP because I was off by just that much. :)
Mint. It’s straightforward and not very scary. Play it like any random Apostate game. You’ll be fine!
5/17/17/18
I couldn't end this as fast as everyone else, and had him flip multiple times. He took out Helena and Jim before the Kraken ate him.
Minty goodness with everyone in the teens except Fanatic cuz yeah. She was around 2 ;)
Super simple Smackdown really, also won on round 4. Just threw damage on any relic that came out and otherwise used Fanatic to hit herself then hit herself some more once Sacrosanct Martyr came out and was doing something like 10 damage a round to Apsotate. Some un-optimal plays with the environment but eh, it didn't matter.
~Komori
Wow, that was... pretty simple, especially after last week.
I feel the fight played out something like this:
Apostate: “Ah, mortals. Tremble in fear before the might of ... “. <WHAP!>
Apostate: <picking himself up and dusting himself off> “Ow. As I was about to say, what do you think of this hoard of demons from the depths of the pit that I have called forth?” <SWISH! POW! THUMP! PUNCH!>. “Okay, you don’t think much of them.”
Apostate: “Foolish mortals, how naive you are to think you can...” <SWISH! POW! BITE! PUNCH!>
Kracken: <CRUSH>
Apostate: “MY SWORD! You stupid calamari! What did you do to my sword?”
Apostate: “Okay! Enough of this! Time to roll up my sleeves and ....” <SWISH! POW-POW! BITEBITEBITE! THUD!>
Apostate: “Mama” <Tips over> <boom>
Fairly simple here, too. Not quite as fast as round 4, but I had Chrono-Ranger pull his damage reduction gun early in the fight to reduce damage. After that, it was really on cruise control as there is nothing in the environment or Apostate's deck that could come close to providing a threat or disrupting the board.
I do need to remember not to play Undaunted and then use Sacrosanct Martyr at the same time, though. :(