Episode 31 - Dawn of Discord

29 is running down and 30 is done.  Time for #31!

And we spin the Randomizer and get ---

Citizen Dawn (adv)

Realm of Discord

Heroes:

Fanatic              (Powerhound_2000)

Setback             (PlatinumWarlock)

Tachyon             (Matchstickman)

Omnitron-X         (grysqrl)

Parse                 (dpt)

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Looks like a fun mix actually.  Step right up!

This looks fun. I'll take Omni-X.

Tachyon sprints onto the field... and then sprints off to get her deck

I like all of the remaining options but I think I'll go Fanatic

I'll take Parse.

Chalk me up for Setback, then!

Starting Hand:  Fumbling Fool (x2); Cause and Effect; Plucky Break

And away we go...  Fanatic is up after the initial barrage of damage headed the heroes way.

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CITIZEN DAWN - ROUND 1

Citizen Dawn (80) [Leader of the Citizens of the Sun]

In Play:
Citizen Blood (5)
Citizen Winter (4)
Citizen Anvil (7)
Citizen Assault (4)

Start of Turn:
   
Play: Return With the Dawn (ongoing)

End of Turn:
Citizen Dawn hits Setback for 4 Energy damage
Citizen Blood hits Omnitron-X for 2 Melee damage
Citizen Winter hits all hero targets for 3 Cold damage
Citizen Assault hits all hero targets for 2 Melee damage

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Effects:
- Increase damage dealt by citizens by 1. (Advanced Citizen Dawn)

(Start of Turn)
- If there are five or more villains in the villain trash; flip Citizen Dawn's card.  
  (She may only flip once this way per game.) (Citizen Dawn)

(End of Turn)
- Citizen Dawn deals the hero target with the highest HP 3 Energy damage (Citizen Dawn)
- Citizen Blood deals the hero target with the lowest HP 1 Melee damage (Citizen Blood)
- Citizen Winter deals each hero target 2 Cold damage (Citizen Winter)
- Reduce damage dealt to citizens by 1 (Citizen Anvil)
- Citizen Assault deals each hero target 1 Melee damage (Citizen Assault).  
- Shuffle the villain trash and reveal cards from the top until a citizen is revealed.  Put it in play. (Return With the Dawn)

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Citizen Dawn  (80)  (DR -1)
Citizen Blood (5)   (DR -1)
Citizen Winter (4)  (DR -1)
Citizen Anvil (7)   (DR -1)
Citizen Assault (4) (DR -1)

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Fanatic    - 25
Setback    - 22
Tachyon    - 22
Omnitron-X - 18
Parse      - 21

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(none)
 

Setback:  A Change From Better to Worse
 
HP: 22
Hand: Fumbling Fool (x2); Cause and Effect; Plucky Break
Play: 
Trash:
Effects: Unlucky Pool (0)
 
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Start
Play: Plucky Break:  Setback regains 3 HP (25)
Power: Risk:  I add 1 token to my pool (1) and play Silver Lining
Draw: Whoops, Sorry!
End
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HP: 25
Hand: Fumbling Fool (x2); Cause and Effect; Whoops, Sorry!
Play: Silver Lining
Trash: Plucky Break
Effects:  Unlucky Pool (1)

Tachyon

Let's get this done quick, I have an experiment running back at the lab and need to be there!
 
HP: 22
Hand: Sonic Vortex, Pushing the Limits, Supersonic Response, Quick Insight
Play: 
Trash:
Effects:
 
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Start
Play: Pushing the Limits enters play, followed by a Quick Insight. Lightspeed Barrage, Blinding Speed & Hypersonic Assault are drawn, discarding Sonic Vortex and Supersonic Response
Power: Rapid Recon reveals Hypersonic Assault, keep it
Draw: Hypersonic Assault and Fleet of Foot
End
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HP: 22
Hand: Lightspeed Barrage, Blinding Speed, Hypersonic Assault, Hypersonic Assault, Fleet of Foot
Play: Pushing the Limits
Trash: Sonic Vortex, Supersonic Response, Quick Insight (2 Burst cards)
Effects:  Play 1 extra card, Draw 1 extra card, Start of turn take 2 sonic damage or destroy PtL
 

Wow! I completely changed my hand, I don't remember doing that before.

I can now clear out Return with the Dawn next turn (Oh, I see Setback can too).

Omnitron-X

HP: 18
Hand: Disruptive Flechettes, Reset, Bio-Engineering Beam, Reactive Subplating Routine
Play:
Trash:
Effects:

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Start:
Play: Reset - draw Technological Advancement
Play: Technological Advancement - find Elemental Exochassis and put it into play; draw Disruptive Flechettes
Power: Timeshift myself - Reveal Electro-Deployment Unit and put it into play
Draw: Innervation Ray
End:

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HP: 18
Hand: Disruptive Flechettes (2), Bio-Engineering Beam, Reactive Subplating Routine, Innervation Ray
Play: Elemental Exochassis, Electro-Deployment Unit
Trash: Reset, Technological Advancement
Effects: DR2 for fire, cold, lightning, energy damage; play or draw at start of turn

Return of the Dawn isn't doing anything until we kill some guys (which I don't think we're doing this round). I'm happy to pop it next round.

I can pop return of the dawn as well if needed.  Though I can also take out the environment as well next turn.  I could also End of Days my next turn and wipe out everything currently.  Otherwise, I could hold onto it for when Dawn flips back.  

Parse

HP: 21

Hand: Recompile (x2), Critical Multiplier, Impossible Shot

In play:

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Start of hero turn:

Play a card: Impossible Shot. Deal 3 irreducible projectile
damage to Anvil (3). Draw Reveal the Flaws.

Use a power: Deal net 1 projectile damage to Anvil (2).

Draw a card: Extrasensory Awareness

End of hero turn:

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HP: 21

Hand: Recompile (x2), Critical Multiplier, Reveal the Flaws, Extrasensory Awareness

In play:

Trash: Impossible Shot

Environment - The Realm of Discord

In Play: (none)

Start: (none)

Play: Imbued Fraility (distortion)

End: (none)

Effects:

- increase all damage dealt by 1 (Imbued Fraility)

CITIZEN DAWN - ROUND 2

Citizen Dawn (80) [Leader of the Citizens of the Sun]

In Play:
Citizen Blood (5)
Citizen Winter (4)
Citizen Anvil (2)
Citizen Assault (4)
Return With the Dawn (ongoing)

Start of Turn:
   
Play: Citizen Battery (7)

End of Turn:
Citizen Dawn hits Setback/Fanatic for 5 Energy damage
Citizen Blood hits Omnitron-X for 3 Melee damage
Citizen Winter hits all hero targets for 4 Cold damage (Omnitron-X takes 2, but its deployed component goes BOOM)
Citizen Assault hits all hero targets for 4 Melee damage
Citizen Battery hits Setback/Fanatic for 7 Energy damage

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Effects:
- Increase damage dealt by citizens by 1. (Advanced Citizen Dawn)

(Start of Turn)
- If there are five or more villains in the villain trash; flip Citizen Dawn's card.  
  (She may only flip once this way per game.) (Citizen Dawn)

(End of Turn)
- Citizen Dawn deals the hero target with the highest HP 3 Energy damage (Citizen Dawn)
- Citizen Blood deals the hero target with the lowest HP 1 Melee damage (Citizen Blood)
- Citizen Winter deals each hero target 2 Cold damage (Citizen Winter)
- Reduce damage dealt to citizens by 1 (Citizen Anvil)
- Citizen Assault deals each hero target 1 Melee damage (Citizen Assault).
- If Citizen Battery is in play increase damage dealt by Citizen Assault by 1. (Citizen Assault)  
- Shuffle the villain trash and reveal cards from the top until a citizen is revealed.  Put it in play. (Return With the Dawn)
- Citizen Battery deals the hero target with the highest HP 3 energy damage (Citizen Battery)
- If Citizen Assault is in play increase damage dealt by Citizen Battery by 2 (Citizen Battery)

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Citizen Dawn  (80)  (DR -1)
Citizen Blood (5)   (DR -1)
Citizen Winter (4)  (DR -1)
Citizen Anvil (2)   (DR -1)
Citizen Assault (4) (DR -1)
Citizen Battery (7) (DR -1)

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Fanatic    - 12/10
Setback    - 10/12
Tachyon    - 14
Omnitron-X -  9 (DR -2 for cold, fire, lightning, energy)
Parse      - 13

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(none)
 

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Need decision on who takes the 5 damage between Fanatic and Setback.  The other takes the 7 damage at the end of the turn from Battery.

Villain damage is +2 due to (advanced Dawn) + (Imbued Fraility).  Assault and Battery synergy added 1 to the mass attack and 2 to Battery's attack.

A thumping by the villains, but the +1 DR from the environment means that even without Anvil being taken out Tachyon will be able to hit everyone with Hypersonic Assault.

If we're going to hit everyone with Hypersonic Assault, I guess we might as well leave Imbued Frailty out? Or is that too dangerous?

It seems like deck control from me is going to be most useful; I'll plan to put out Extrasensory Awareness this turn.

We can leave Imbued Frailty out for a turn if Hypersonic Assault is used.   I'd like to take out her Ongoing card then since I can actually deal damage then.  

I'll plan to use flechettes to kill the ongoing and hit them all for 2 on my turn (3 if the environment card is still out). That should be a good step in the right direction. Alternately, I could bio-beam the environment, but my preference is to keep Timeshifting for a bit.

Are we going to try to avoid flipping her? If so, we want to avoid all-target damage. But maybe it's hopeless to avoid a flip at this point.

I don't know that we can avoid flipping her.  Either way this it's going to be rough

Also I'll take the 7 damage for what it's worth

With 2 Hypersonics in hand I can keep them from dealing damage for a round or two, I say let it ride.

Now do we try to burn down Dawn or take out Citizens to cause a flip?

If we can 'turn off' the villains for a turn with the Hypersonic Assault, let's focus on Dawn for the time being.

Anvil is down so damage is buffed by one now.  

Setback:  A Change From Better to Worse
 
HP: 12
Hand: Fumbling Fool (x2); Cause and Effect; Whoops, Sorry!
Play: Silver Lining
Trash:
Effects: Unlucky Pool (1)
 
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Start
Play: Fumbling Fool:  Everyone discards the top card of their deck.  (My discard was another Whoops, Sorry!).  I put 5 Unlucky tokens into my pool (6)
Power: Risk:  I add 1 token to my pool (7) and play Karmic Retribution.  Having exactly 7 tokens in my Unlucky Pool, I clear the pool and hit Citizen Dawn for net 8 melee damage! (66)
Draw: Looking Up
End
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HP: 12
Hand: Fumbling Fool; Cause and Effect; Whoops, Sorry!; Looking Up
Play: Silver Lining
Trash: Plucky Break; Whoops Sorry, Fumbling Fool, Karmic Retribution
Effects:  Unlucky Pool (0); Everyone discards the top card of their deck.

Omni's discard is Self-Sabotage.

Tachyon

Nice work team! Concentrate fire on her while I tie up her minions...

Discard Sonic Vortex for Fumbling Fool (not even a Burst card)

HP: 14
Hand: Lightspeed Barrage, Blinding Speed, Hypersonic Assault, Hypersonic Assault, Fleet of Foot
Play: Pushing the Limits
Trash: Sonic Vortex, Supersonic Response, Quick Insight, Sonic Vortex (2 Burst cards)

Effects:  Play 1 extra card, Draw 1 extra card, Start of turn take 2 sonic damage or destroy PtL
 
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Start: Take the 3 damage to keep PtL around (11)
Play: Fleet of Foot allows everyone to draw a card and also allows me to play the Blinding Speed I just drew, killing off Return with the Dawn. Play the Hypersonic Assault and deal 2 to all targets except our team (66,3,2,2,5) The Citizens can't deal damage

Power: Rapid Recon reveals Synaptic Interruption, ditch it
Draw: Synaptic interruption and Nimble Strike
End
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HP: 11
Hand: Lightspeed Barrage, Blinding Speed, Hypersonic Assault, Synaptic interruption, Nimble Strike
Play: Pushing the Limits
Trash: Sonic Vortex, Supersonic Response, Quick Insight, Sonic Vortex, Fleet of Foot, Hypersonic Assault, Synaptic Interruption (5 Burst cards)

Effects:  Play 1 extra card, Draw 1 extra card, Start of turn take 2 sonic damage or destroy PtL

Sooooo, we can do 64 damage in the next 2 rounds, right team?

Setback pulls Friendly Fire from Tachyon's Fleet of Foot.

Draw Gaussian Coil Blaster from Fleet of Foot

Omnitron-X

HP: 9
Hand: Disruptive Flechettes (2), Bio-Engineering Beam, Reactive Plating Subroutine, Innervation Ray, Gaussian Coil Blaster
Play: Elemental Exochassis
Trash: Reset, Technological Advancement, Electro-Deployment Unit, Self-Sabotage
Effects: DR2 for fire, cold, lightning, energy damage

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Start:
Play: Innervation Ray
Power: Timeshift myself - reveal Reset and put it into play; shuffle; draw Defensive Blast; play Gaussian Coil Blaster
Draw: Temporal Shielding
End:

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HP: 9
Hand: Disruptive Flechettes (2), Bio-Engineering Beam, Reactive Plating Subroutine, Defensive Blast, Temporal Shielding
Play: Elemental Exochassis, Innervation Ray, Gaussian Coil Blaster
Trash: Reset
Effects: DR2 for fire, cold, lightning, energy damage; at start of turn, heal 3 hero targets 1 each and deal 3 targets 1 lightning damage each

Citizen Dawn's current HP is 66.  (Setback made a minor math error.)

Typical. 

Parse discards Exploit Vulnerability to the Fumbling Fool, and draws Syntactic Analysis.

Parse

HP: 13

Hand: Recompile, Recompile, Critical Multiplier, Reveal the Flaws, Extrasensory Awareness, Syntactic Analysis

In play:

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Start of hero turn:

Play a card: Extrasensory Awareness.

Use a power: Extrasensory Awareness. Reveal the top 3 cards of the villain deck, discard 1 of them, and put the other two back in any order. You may shuffle the villain deck.

Draw a card: Data-Mining

End of hero turn:

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HP: 13

Hand: Recompile, Recompile, Critical Multiplier, Reveal the Flaws, Syntactic Analysis, Data-Mining

In play: Extrasensory Awareness

Trash: Impossible Shot, Exploit Vulnerability

Additional effects: Do the ESP thing.

I'm hoping we don't get three manageable Citizens here, but the chances are not so high, I think.

Devastating Aura, Blinding Blast, and Citizen Dare.

Environment - The Realm of Discord

In Play: Imbued Fraility (distortion)

Start: (none)

Play: Explosive Bubbles (5)

End: Bubbles zap Citizen Dawn [63], Parse [10], Setback [9], Tachyon [8], and Fanatic [7] for 3 energy damage each

Effects:

- increase all damage dealt by 1 (Imbued Fraility)

I would think (though the decision obviously belongs to Parse) that we discard Devastating, put Dare on top and Blinding beneath that.

Let's just discard that Devastating Aurora, shall we.

Citizen Dare on top, then Blinding Blast.

CITIZEN DAWN - ROUND 3

Citizen Dawn (63) [Leader of the Citizens of the Sun]

In Play:
Citizen Blood (3)
Citizen Winter (2)
Citizen Assault (2)
Citizen Battery (5)

Start of Turn:
   
Play: Citizen Dare (3)

End of Turn:

Citizens mill about and act threatenly, but seem incapable of damaging the heroes

Citizens in Trash: 1
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Effects:
- Increase damage dealt by citizens by 1. (Advanced Citizen Dawn)
- Increase damage done to hero targets by 1 (Citizen Dare)
- When Citizen Truth enters play, Citizen Dare deals each hero target 1 irreducible psychic damage and destroys Citizen Dare's card.

(Start of Turn)
- If there are five or more villains in the villain trash; flip Citizen Dawn's card.  
  (She may only flip once this way per game.) (Citizen Dawn)

(End of Turn)
- Citizen Dawn deals the hero target with the highest HP 3 Energy damage (Citizen Dawn)
- Citizen Blood deals the hero target with the lowest HP 1 Melee damage (Citizen Blood)
- Citizen Winter deals each hero target 2 Cold damage (Citizen Winter)
- Citizen Assault deals each hero target 1 Melee damage (Citizen Assault).
- If Citizen Battery is in play increase damage dealt by Citizen Assault by 1. (Citizen Assault) 
- Citizen Battery deals the hero target with the highest HP 3 energy damage (Citizen Battery)
- If Citizen Assault is in play increase damage dealt by Citizen Battery by 2 (Citizen Battery)

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Citizen Dawn  (63)  (cannot deal damage)
Citizen Blood (3)   (cannot deal damage)
Citizen Winter (2)  (cannot deal damage)
Citizen Assault (2) (cannot deal damage)
Citizen Battery (5) (cannot deal damage)
Citizen Dare (3)

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Fanatic    -  7
Setback    -  9
Tachyon    -  8
Omnitron-X -  9 (DR -2 for cold, fire, lightning, energy)
Parse      - 10

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Explosive Bubbles (5)
 

Aiiiiiiie! Flee in fear! Return with the Dawn has returned- presumably with the Dawn.

Good one.  Missed it in the text file I keep of villain status.

Im at the Origins game fair, so my posting will be sporadic, but here’s enough to keep rolling:

Setback:
Play–Looking Up
Power–Looking Up. I deal net 4 melee damage to Dawn (53) and add 3 to my Unlucky Pool (3).
Draw–Exceeded Expectations

Setback draws "Exceeded Expectations".

Also, I thought you drained the Unlucky Pool to zero last turn with the Karmic Redistribution attack.  So is it at 3, or 4?

Setback would be at three tokens

Tachyon

Hmmm, there are no Pizza shops in this realm, where do I get my usual mid-fight snack from? Finding it hard to keep up my energy levels.

HP: 8
Hand: Lightspeed Barrage, Blinding Speed, Hypersonic Assault, Synaptic interruption, Nimble Strike
Play: Pushing the Limits
Trash: Sonic Vortex, Supersonic Response, Quick Insight, Sonic Vortex, Fleet of Foot, Hypersonic Assault, Synaptic Interruption (5 Burst cards)

Effects:  Play 1 extra card, Draw 1 extra card, Start of turn take 2 sonic damage or destroy PtL

 
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Start: I can't go halving my HP to keep it around, lose PtL
Play: Keep up the assault on the Citizens and play the Hypersonic Assault and deal 2 to all targets except our team (51,1,X,X,3,1,3) Winter and Assault go down in a Flurry of blows, the remaining Citizens and the Bubbles can't deal damage

Power: Rapid Recon reveals Research Grant, ditch it
Draw: HUD Goggles
End
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HP: 8
Hand: Lightspeed Barrage, Blinding Speed, Synaptic interruption, Nimble Strike, HUD Goggles
Play: 
Trash: Sonic Vortex, Supersonic Response, Quick Insight, Sonic Vortex, Fleet of Foot, Hypersonic Assault, Synaptic Interruption, Pushing the Limits, Hypersonic Assault, Research Grant (5 Burst cards)

Effects:

Yeah... not really how much more I can contribute before I fall, avenge me!

Omnitron-X

HP: 9
Hand: Disruptive Flechettes (2), Bio-Engineering Beam, Reactive Plating Subroutine, Defensive Blast, Temporal Shielding
Play: Elemental Exochassis, Innervation Ray, Gaussian Coil Blaster
Trash: Reset
Effects: DR2 for fire, cold, lightning, energy damage; at start of turn, heal 3 hero targets 1 each and deal 3 targets 1 lightning damage each

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Start: Innervation Ray restores 1 HP to Setback [10], Tachyon [9], Omni-X [10]; Gaussian Coil Blaster blasts for 2 Dawn [49], Dare [X], Bubbles [1]
Play: Bio-Engineering Beam (going to leave frailty out for a round, but I can kill it next time)
Power: Timeshift Parse (see post below)
Draw: Reset
End:

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HP: 10
Hand: Disruptive Flechettes (2), Reactive Plating Subroutine, Defensive Blast, Temporal Shielding, Reset
Play: Elemental Exochassis, Innervation Ray, Gaussian Coil Blaster, Bio-Engineering Beam,
Trash: Reset
Effects: DR2 for fire, cold, lightning, energy damage; at start of turn, heal 3 hero targets 1 each and deal 3 targets 1 lightning damage each

Parse plays Targeting Arrow from her deck. Deal 2 projectile damage to Citizen Dawn (47). Damage dealt to Dawn is increased by 1 until the start of my turn (which unfortunately isn't far away).

Yeah. I wasn't really thinking about turn order. Parse is one of those characters who, when I play her, I always want to play every card in my hand. Usually a safe Timeshift, but this might not be the ideal sequence for it.

Parse

HP: 10

Hand: Recompile (x2), Critical Multiplier, Reveal the Flaws, Syntactic Analysis, Data-Mining

In play: Extrasensory Awareness

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Start of hero turn: Targeting arrow expires

Play a card: Syntactic Analysis on Parse. Put Updated Intel into play and draw Data Mining.

Use a power: Pinpoint Shot. Deal 3 projectile damage to Dawn (44).

Draw a card: Buffer Overflow.

End of hero turn:

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HP: 10

Hand: Recompile (x2), Critical Multiplier, Reveal the Flaws, Data-Mining (x2), Buffer Overflow

In play: Extrasensory Awareness, Updated Intel

Trash: Impossible Shot, Exploit Vulnerability, Targeting Arrow, Syntactic Analysis

Additional effects: Whenever a villain card enters play, you may look at the bottom card of a deck, then put it on the top or bottom of that deck.

Environment - The Realm of Discord

In Play: Imbued Fraility (distortion), Explosive Bubble (1) [cannot do damage]

Start: (none)

Play: Negative Energy Field

    - Imbued Fraility is destroyed

End: Bubble sends out a small spark that does nothing.

Effects:

- whenevef a card is played deal the 5 targets with the highest HP 1 infernal damage each (Negative Energy Field)

- At the end of the Environment turn, the Explosive Bubbles deal 2 energy damage to the X non-environment cards with the highest HP, where X = the HP of the Explosive Bubbles.

CITIZEN DAWN - ROUND 4

Citizen Dawn (44) [Leader of the Citizens of the Sun]

In Play:
Citizen Blood (1)
Citizen Battery (3)

Start of Turn:
   
Play: Blinding Blast

        - Citizen Dawn deals each hero no energy damage

        - Each player discards 2 cards

        - Citizen Dawn [43], Setback [9], Omnitron-X [9], Parse [9], and Tachyon [8] each take 1 infernal damage from the Negative Energy Field

End of Turn:
The citizens ineffectively flail at the heroes (again)

Citizens in Trash: 4

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Effects:
- Increase damage dealt by citizens by 1. (Advanced Citizen Dawn)

(Start of Turn)
- If there are five or more villains in the villain trash; flip Citizen Dawn's card.  
  (She may only flip once this way per game.) (Citizen Dawn)

(End of Turn)
- Citizen Dawn deals the hero target with the highest HP 3 Energy damage (Citizen Dawn)
- Citizen Blood deals the hero target with the lowest HP 1 Melee damage (Citizen Blood)
- Citizen Battery deals the hero target with the highest HP 3 energy damage (Citizen Battery)
- If Citizen Assault is in play increase damage dealt by Citizen Battery by 2 (Citizen Battery)

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Citizen Dawn  (43)  (cannot deal damage)
Citizen Blood (1)   (cannot deal damage)
Citizen Battery (3) (cannot deal damage)

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Fanatic    -  8
Setback    - 9
Tachyon    -  8
Omnitron-X - 9 (DR -2 for cold, fire, lightning, energy)
Parse      - 9

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Explosive Bubbles (1) (cannot deal damage)

Negative Energy Field (distortion)
 

Parse discards Recompile and Data-Mining. When Blinding Blast is played, Updated Intel lets me look at the bottom of Dawn's deck; what do I find?

Discarded Sacrosanct Martyr and Prayer of Desperation

Bottom card is Luminous Leadership (ongoing, at start of villain turn each citizen regains 1 HP)

Post Fanatic turn and effect of Negative Energy field.  (Is Consecrated Ground destroying Negative Energy Field as well?)

Fanatic - 7; Setback - 8;  Tachyon - 8; Omnitron-X - 8; Parse - 8

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sigh Discarding Blinding Speed and Nimble Strike

Destroying? Do you think the one damage to Dawn from Negative Energy Field is worth the damage to us or was that a typo and it was destroyed?

I would presume Negative Energy Field is being destroyed and that it is a typo - the only other eligible target is The 1 HP Explosive Bubbles - and in its current condition it will only hit Citizen Dawn.

I updated my turn.   Meant to put in that I was destroying negative energy field

We'll take Luminous Leadership on top, that one definitely helps us.

Omni-X discards Ablative Coating and Self-Sabotage

Setback discards Friendly Fire and Whoops, Sorry

Play--Fumbling Fool.  Everyone discards the top card of their deck.  I add 5 tokens to my unlucky pool (8)

Power--Looking Up.  I deal net 3 melee damage to Dawn (36) and add 3 tokens to my pool (11).  I deal myself 3 damage (5)

Draw--Little help here, guys?

Tachyon

What's going on? I was distracted by Science!

Discard Sucker Punch for Fumbling Fool

HP: 8
Hand: Lightspeed Barrage, Synaptic interruption,  HUD Goggles
Play: 
Trash: Sonic Vortex, Supersonic Response, Quick Insight, Sonic Vortex, Fleet of Foot, Hypersonic Assault,  Synaptic Interruption, Pushing the Limits, Hypersonic Assault, Research Grant,  Blinding Speed,  Nimble Strike, Sucker Punch  (8 Burst cards)

Effects:

 
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Start: 
Play: Put on my snazzy HUD Goggles, play a Synaptic Interruption (If I’m still the highest come Battery I’ll redirect it to Dawn)

Power: Rapid Recon reveals Sucker Punch(!) , ditch it
Draw: Pushing the Limits
End
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HP: 8
Hand: Lightspeed Barrage, Pushing the Limits
Play: HUD Googles, Synaptic Interruption

Trash: Sonic Vortex, Supersonic Response, Quick Insight, Sonic Vortex, Fleet of Foot, Hypersonic Assault,  Synaptic Interruption, Pushing the Limits, Hypersonic Assault, Research Grant,  Blinding Speed,  Nimble Strike, Sucker Punch, Sycker Punch  (9 Burst cards)

Effects:

Wait … Damnit Ronway Setback! You just discarded the harmless card we put on top of the Villain Deck!

Hey! What got discard from the Villain and Environment decks when the first Fumbling Fool was played?

Discard Reckless Rush due to Fumbling Fool.

Draw Exceed Expectations.

Hand:Cause and Effect, Exceed Expectations, Exceed Expectations

Play: Silver Lining, Looking up

Also Setback is still at 8, you don't deal yourself damage until the start of your turn.

Omni discards Rocket Punch to Fumbling Fool

Omnitron-X

HP: 8
Hand: Temporal Shielding, Disruptive Flechettes (2), Reset, Defensive Blast, Reactive Plating Subroutine
Play: Elemental Exochassis, Innervation Ray, Gaussian Coil Blaster, Bio-Engineering Beam
Trash: Reset, Rocket Punch, Ablative Coating, Self Sabotage
Effects: DR2 for fire, cold, lightning, energy damage; at start of turn, heal 3 hero targets 1 each and deal 3 targets 1 lightning damage each

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Start: Innervation Ray restores 1 HP to Fanatic [8], Tachyon [9], Setback [9]; Gaussian Coil Blaster deals 1 damage to Dawn [35]
Play: Reset - shuffle, draw Rocket Punch, play Reactive Plating Subroutine
Power: Timeshift myself - reveal and play Electro-Deployment Unit
Draw: Slip Through Time
End:

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HP: 8
Hand: Temporal Shielding, Disruptive Flechettes (2), Defensive Blast, Slip Through Time, Rocket Punch
Play: Elemental Exochassis, Innervation Ray, Gaussian Coil Blaster, Bio-Engineering Beam, Reactive Plating Subroutine, Electro-Deployment Unit
Trash: Reset
Effects: DR2 for fire, cold, lightning, energy damage; at start of turn, heal 3 hero targets 1 each and deal 3 targets 1 lightning damage each, play or draw a card
 

Parse discards Updated Intel.

Parse

HP: 8

Hand: Recompile, Critical Multiplier, Reveal the Flaws, Data-Mining, Buffer Overflow

In play: Extrasensory Awareness, Updated Intel

[hr]
Start of hero turn:

Play a card: Critical Multiplier

Use a power: Extrasensory Awareness. Reveal the top 3 cards of the villain deck, discard 1 of them, keep the other two.

Draw a card: Quick Calculation

End of hero turn:

[hr]
HP: 8

Hand: Recompile, Reveal the Flaws, Data-Mining, Buffer Overflow, Quick Calculation

In play: Extrasensory Awareness, Updated Intel, Critical Multiplier

Trash: Impossible Shot, Exploit Vulnerability, Targeting Arrow, Syntactic Analysis, Recompile, Data-Mining, Updated Intel

Additional effects: Whenever a villain card enters play, you may look at the bottom card of a deck, then put it on the top or bottom of that deck.
Whenever you discard a card from hand, select a Hero target. Increase the next damage dealt by that target by 1.

Fanatic discards Aegis of Resurrection

OK.  I'll take out top card of villain deck and Environment deck for previous Fumbling Fool:

Portal Fiend (environment) and Channel The Eclipse (villain) are discarded

For Fumbling Fool played this turn:

Positive Energy Field (environment) and Luminous Leadership (villain) are discarded

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Parse's ESP reveals the following three cards:

Citizen Tears, Citizen Sweat, and Citizen Truth

Environment - The Realm of Discord

In Play: Explosive Bubble (1)

Start: (none)

Play: Ethereal Bonds (9)

End: Bubble zaps Citizen Dawn [33] for 2 energy damage.

        Ethereal Bonds zap Setback for 2 energy damage.  They cannot deal damage.

Effects:

- At the end of the Environment turn, the Explosive Bubbles deal 2 energy damage to the X non-environment cards with the highest HP, where X = the HP of the Explosive Bubbles.

- At the end of the Environment turn, the Ethereal Bonds deal the hero target with the highest HP 2 Energy damage.  A target dealt damage this way cannot deal damage until the start of the next environment turn.

So long as it's not Truth we got this wrapped up

EDIT: Ah nooooooooooo! one of the two damage dealers just got prevented from dealing damage. Crap.

Double EDIT: If I take it I can't redirect the battery damage, up to you Setback

I also noted that if Omnitron-X had healed heroes differently so that it was tied for high HP it could have taken and ignored the Ethereal Bonds attack due to the current plating card.  The environment has been consistently tossing curveballs at the heroes this game.

I will take the Ethereal Bonds damage so that Tachyon can deal damage this turn (and so I don’t kill myself off).
Thanks for the assist, MM!

There's unfortunately another issue: I'm forced to discard one of the Citizens, which will then make Dawn flip. Arr...

Discard Sweat, put Tears then Truth on top of the villain deck.

Urg, the hits just keep on a comin' … On the plus side we're at 5 citizens at the end of the turn, so long as we don't kill any of them she'll flip back next turn (unless Parse shuffles the villain deck as a result of her power).    Nope, no plus side, I'm remebering the old verion

Non-advanced she would have just flipped back right away.  With advanced the requirement is 6 Citizens.  Thus the difficulty of the decision on which citizen to discard and what order to put the other two in.  Especially with the synergy damage from Blood already being out and then possibly bringing both Sweat and Tears into play.  Truth, at least, is not going to inflict more damage.

Order of the two kept doesn't matter that much either.  Dawn's flipped side plays an extra villain card every turn - so both of the "kept" citizens are coming into play in any case.

I was thinking of getting rid of Truth when my next turn comes around.

New Intel for initial villain play is Blinding Blast - top or bottom of deck?

And Tachyon is due to get hit for 4 energy by Assault.  Given the way the turn is forming up it can be redirected to Citizen Truth, Ethereal Bonds, or the Explosive Bubble. Or she can take the hit and keep the ongoing in play.

Well I guess we hope Parse stays alive and is able to get some less dangerous citizens out.  

Omni could also Timeshift a citizen into play so she'll flip faster.

Wait, so if we leave it like it is she'll play both of them? In that case, on the first villain card play (Sweat), I'll check out the Environment deck, and let Truth come out. On the second villain card play (Truth), I'll take a look at the bottom of Dawn's deck, which is Blinding Blast. I think I will move Blinding Blast to the top of the villain deck; it's bad, but could be worse, and I'll use my Extrasensory Awareness if I can anyway.

(Updated Intel lets me look at the bottom card of any deck when a villain card is played.)

So we just need to survive this round, ideally getting Truth down to 1HP. I'll make sure the environment doesn't kill off any Citizens.

CITIZEN DAWN - ROUND 5

Citizen Dawn (33) [Leader of the Citizens of the Sun]

In Play:
Citizen Blood (1)
Citizen Battery (3)

Start of Turn:
Citizen Dawn flips to [Merged With The Power of the Sun]
   
Play: Citizen Truth (7)
      - Updated Intel for Parse - bottom card of environment deck is Portal Fiend

End of Turn:
Citizen Tears (5) enters play
      - Updated Intel for Parse - bottom card of villain deck is Blinding Blast (moved to top)
Citizen Blood hits Setback [5] for 2 Melee damage
Citizen Battery hits Truth [4] for 3 Energy damage as he attempts to hit Tachyon and the attack is redirected via Synaptic Interruption
Each player discards a card due to Citizen Tears, if they do they take 1 melee damage.
 

Citizens in Trash: 5 (Sweat, Dare, Anvil, Assault, Winter)
Citizens in Play:  5

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Effects:
- Citzen Dawn is immune to damage (Citizen Dawn)
- At the end of the villain turn play the top card of the Villain deck (Citizen Dawn)
- If Citizen Sweat is in play, Citizen Blood deals each hero target 1 melee damage (Citizen Blood)
- If Citizen Tears is in play, increase damage dealt by Citizen Blood by 1 (Citizen Blood)
- Villain targets other than Citizen Truth are immune to damage (Citizen Truth)
- Reduce damage down to Citizen Truth by 1 (Citizen Truth)

(Start of Turn)
- If there are six or more citizens in play, flip Citizen Dawn's card [Citizen Dawn - Merged With the Power of the Sun side]

(End of Turn)
- Citizen Blood deals the hero target with the lowest HP 1 Melee damage (Citizen Blood)
- Citizen Battery deals the hero target with the highest HP 3 energy damage (Citizen Battery)
- If Citizen Assault is in play increase damage dealt by Citizen Battery by 2 (Citizen Battery)
- Each player discards one card (Citizen Tears)
- If Citizen Blood is in play, Citizen Tears deals each hero melee damage equal to the number of cards discarded by their players this turn (Citizen Tears)


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Citizen Dawn  (33)  (immune)
Citizen Blood (1)   (immune)
Citizen Battery (2) (immune)
Citizen Truth (4)   (DR -1)
Citizen Tears (5)   (immune)

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Fanatic    -  7
Setback    -  4 (cannot deal damage)
Tachyon    -  8
Omnitron-X -  7 (DR -2 for cold, fire, lightning, energy)
Parse      -  7

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Explosive Bubbles (1)
Ethereal Bonds (9)

Player decisions:
1) Portal Fiend on bottom of environment deck; left there, or moved to top? (A: left on bottom)
2) Tachyon redirecting Battery's attack - if yes, then to what target?
 

My question is for my is should I destroy Ethereal Bonds or play the Aegis just to make sure I survive?   Either way I'm not able to deal damage to much outside the environment cards because of the DR in place.  

Another piece to think about is that I can play End of Days next turn after she flips if we don't have the damage to take her out.  

Arrrg!

My monitor "gone done busted", it'll be a few days before I am able to go get it replaced, can someone step in for me?

Ah, I miscounted. We still need one more Citizen for her to flip back. I'll hope to find Citizen Spring or something. I also missed that Citizen Blood was in play! Fortunately their synergy isn't too terrible.

Portal Fiend is pretty bad right now, leave it where it is. Even if Fanatic plays an End of Days it will still hurt a lot.

Fanatic, I'd suggest letting someone else take care of the environment. For instance, Omnitron-X has a Bio-Engineering Beam handily in play.

We might consider killing of Citizen Truth and hoping that I find two more Citizens, either on top of the deck or in the new bottom card of the deck.

Also, who wants a damage boost when I discard a card (Quick Calculation)? I might end up taking it myself and saving up for the finale.

Why would we kill Citizen Truth? While we're waiting for her to build up citizens to flip, he's the only one that doesn't do anything to us. If we can get a citizen on top of her deck before my turn, I'll timeshift it into play so she flips on her next turn.

Too bad Parse isn't before OmnitronX

Don't forget the discard due to Citizen Tears.  I already accounted for the 1 melee damage in the hero status block.

Only open question from the villain turn is whether Tachyon is going to use Synaptic Interruption and redirect the 4 points of damage.

Omni-X discards Rocket Punch

Missed that one.  I discarded Divine Focus and updated my turn.  So should I hold onto End of Days or not?  If we don't think it's needed after Dawn flips I'll just discard for the next time.  

Setback:

Play–cause and effect. I destroy Portal Fiend and deal no damage anywhere.
Power: Looking Up. I deal no damage but add 3 to my Unlucky Pool (14).
Draw: Something? (Little help here? I get back from Origins tomorrow night…)

@Setback: Portal Fiend is not in play. Ethereal Bonds is, maybe that's what you want to take out.

@Everyone: Matchstickman asked for help running Tachyon, can anyone step up? In particular, I think we should let the damage be redirected to Truth.

Yes, destroy the Ethereal Bonds.

I can take over for Matchstickman, but it'll be a bit before I can get set up. I'll do it if no one else has posted for him when I'm ready to go.

I’ll go ahead and give the Critical Multiplier boost to myself, to make it easier to store up for after the flip.

Setback will need to do a discard for Tears still.

For now I will record the redirect as targeting Truth and doing (4-1) damage to him.

Tachyon redirects Battery's damage to Truth and discards Pushing the Limits for Tears.

Tachyon

HP: 8
Play: HUD Goggles
Hand: Lightspeed Barrage
Trash: Blinding Speed, Fleet of Foot, Hypersonic Assault (2), Nimble Strike, Quick Insight, Sonic Vortex (2), Sucker Punch (2), Supersonic Response, Research Grant, Synaptic Interruption (2), Pushing the Limits (2) - 9 Bursts

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Start:
Play: skip
Power: skip
Draw: Pushing the Limits and Nimble Strike
End:

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HP: 8
Play: HUD Goggles
Hand: Lightspeed Barrage, Pushing the Limits, Nimble Strike
Trash: Blinding Speed, Fleet of Foot, Hypersonic Assault (2), Nimble Strike, Quick Insight, Sonic Vortex (2), Sucker Punch (2), Supersonic Response, Research Grant, Synaptic Interruption (2), Pushing the Limits (2) - 9 Bursts

Omnitron-X

HP: 7
Hand: Temporal Shielding, Disruptive Flechettes (2), Defensive Blast, Slip Through Time
Play: Elemental Exochassis, Innervation Ray, Gaussian Coil Blaster, Bio-Engineering Beam, Reactive Plating Subroutine, Electro-Deployment Unit
Trash: Reset, Rocket Punch
Effects: DR2 for fire, cold, lightning, energy damage; at start of turn, heal 3 hero targets 1 each and deal 3 targets 1 lightning damage each, play or draw a card

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Start: Innervation Ray restores 1 HP to Setback [5], Omnitron-X [8], Fanatic [8]; Gaussian Coil Blaster deals 1 damage to Ethereal Bonds [6/3] (3 if Setback hits them); Electro-Deployment Unit draws Technological Advancement
Play: Slip Through Time
Power: Timeshift Tachyon - reveal Nimble Strike and play it, deal 1 damage to Ethereal Bonds [5/2] and draw Lightning Reflexes
Draw: Focused Plasma Cannon
End: Play Focused Plasma Cannon; no power usage

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HP: 8
Hand: Temporal Shielding, Disruptive Flechettes (2), Technological Advancement, Defensive Blast
Play: Elemental Exochassis, Innervation Ray, Gaussian Coil Blaster, Bio-Engineering Beam, Reactive Plating Subroutine, Electro-Deployment Unit, Slip Through Time, Focused Plasma Cannon
Trash: Reset, Rocket Punch
Effects: DR2 for fire, cold, lightning, energy damage (taking one of these kinds of damage lets Omni-X deal 1 target 2 damage of that type); at start of turn, heal 3 hero targets 1 each and deal 3 targets 1 lightning damage each, play or draw a card, deal 2 irreducible fire damage to 1 target

I thought Setback destroyed Etheral Bonds using Cause and Effect.

Setback had to discard an Exceeded Expectations, so there's that...

And I did destroy the Ethereal Bonds with Cause and Effect, as the Portal Fiend was already toast.

(For the record, I'm back from Origins now, so I can actually post and focus on what I'm doing...)

Rather, the Portal Fiend never was: that was the threat on the bottom of the environment deck. It sounds like maybe I should let it come out next time around.

Ok. Updated to remove the Bio Beam

Parse

HP: 7

Hand: Recompile, Reveal the Flaws, Data-Mining, Buffer Overflow

In play: Extrasensory Awareness, Updated Intel, Critical Multiplier

[hr]
Start of hero turn:

Play a card: Recompile. Discard my hand. Draw Updated Intel, Gauge, Buffer Overflow, Snap Decision, Syntactic Analysis, Between the Lines. Next damage dealt by Parse is increased by another three (now at +4).

Use a power: Extrasensory Awareness. Reveal the top three cards of the villain deck and do the stacking thing.

Draw a card: Targeting Arrow

End of hero turn:

[hr]
HP: 7

Hand: Updated Intel, Gauge, Buffer Overflow, Snap Decision, Syntactic Analysis, Between the Lines, Targeting Arrow

In play: Extrasensory Awareness, Updated Intel, Critical Multiplier

Trash: Impossible Shot, Exploit Vulnerability, Targeting Arrow, Syntactic Analysis, Recompile, Data-Mining, Updated Intel, Quick Calculation, Recompile, Reveal the Flaws, Data-Mining, Buffer Overflow

Additional effects: Whenever a villain card enters play, you may look at the bottom card of a deck, then put it on the top or bottom of that deck.
Whenever you discard a card from hand, select a Hero target. Increase the next damage dealt by that target by 1.
Next damage dealt by Parse is increased by 4.

ESP reveals Blinding Blast, Return With the Dawn, and... Citizen Spring.

Environment - The Realm of Discord

In Play: Explosive Bubble (1)

Start: (none)

Play: Time Crawls

End: Bubble zaps Citizen Dawn [33] for 0 energy damage.

Effects:

- At the end of the Environment turn, the Explosive Bubbles deal 2 energy damage to the X non-environment cards with the highest HP, where X = the HP of the Explosive Bubbles.

- Each hero turn that hero's player must skip either their play or power phase. (Time Crawls)

- Reduce all damage dealt by villain targets by 1 (Time Crawls)

Since Dawn won't flip this turn I'd say with ESP to discard Return With the Dawn, Put Citizen Spring on top then Blinding Blast, and hope after Spring is played if we have a better option at the bottom of Dawn's Deck.  If not, we will have some awfully small hands.  

I feel like Blinding Blast is substantially worse than Return with the Dawn. We have multiple ways to kill ongoings. If we go End of Days, it'll get taken out as well. Whereas Blinding Blast will hurt us all (and none of us is particularly healthy) and force us to discard.

Villian damage is reduced by 1 due to the environment and we have potential for more damage or more DR from the citizens in the trash.  I'd rather deal with one new citizen rather then two since we will be dealing with them another round. 

Edit: I'll still hold onto End of Days no matter what as I think after Dawn flips it's the best option for pulling this out. If others disagree I don't mind dropping it for a discard.  

I realize this is a weird thing to say, but please make sure that Setback dies before End of Days goes off.  I'm at 4 hp now, but I should be sitting at 15 Unlucky Tokens or so if Silver Lining is still in play when I die.  That'll definitely give me a much needed boost.

The Extrasensory Awareness went off before we knew about the damage reduction. So I'm going to go with discarding Blinding Blast, putting Citizen Spring then Return with the Dawn on top.

After Citizen Spring is played I will look at the bottom of the villain deck.

Yeah I would agree with that since we didn't know about Time Crawls.  Forgot about the order

Edit: I'll try my best to kill Setback 

And here we go...

CITIZEN DAWN - ROUND 6

Citizen Dawn (33) [Leader of the Citizens of the Sun]

In Play:
Citizen Blood (1)
Citizen Battery (3)
Citizen Truth (7)
Citizen Tears (5)

Start of Turn:
(Nothing happens)
   
Play: Citizen Spring (6)
      - Updated Intel for Parse - bottom card of villain deck is Healing Light (moved to top of deck by Parse)

End of Turn:
Healing Light is played - Dawn gains 10 HP and other citizens healed to full points
      - Updated Intel for Parse - bottom card of environment deck is Portal Fiend (moved to top of deck by Parse)
Citizen Blood hits Setback [4] for 1 Melee damage
Citizen Battery hits Omnitron-X for (2-2) Energy damage
Each player discards a card due to Citizen Tears, if they do they take 0 melee damage.
Citizen Spring heals Citizen Dawn for 1 HP.
 
Citizens in Play:  6

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Effects:
- Citzen Dawn is immune to damage (Citizen Dawn)
- At the end of the villain turn play the top card of the Villain deck (Citizen Dawn)
- If Citizen Sweat is in play, Citizen Blood deals each hero target 1 melee damage (Citizen Blood)
- If Citizen Tears is in play, increase damage dealt by Citizen Blood by 1 (Citizen Blood)
- Villain targets other than Citizen Truth are immune to damage (Citizen Truth)
- Reduce damage down to Citizen Truth by 1 (Citizen Truth)

(Start of Turn)
- If there are six or more citizens in play, flip Citizen Dawn's card [Citizen Dawn - Merged With the Power of the Sun side]

(End of Turn)
- Citizen Blood deals the hero target with the lowest HP 1 Melee damage (Citizen Blood)
- Citizen Battery deals the hero target with the highest HP 3 energy damage (Citizen Battery)
- If Citizen Assault is in play increase damage dealt by Citizen Battery by 2 (Citizen Battery)
- Each player discards one card (Citizen Tears)
- If Citizen Blood is in play, Citizen Tears deals each hero melee damage equal to the number of cards discarded by their players this turn (Citizen Tears)
- At the end of the villain turn, each citizen regains 1 HP (Citizen Spring)

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Citizen Dawn  (44)  (immune)
Citizen Blood (5)   (immune)
Citizen Battery (7) (immune)
Citizen Truth (7)   (DR -1)
Citizen Tears (5)   (immune)
Citizen Spring (6)  (immune)

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Fanatic    -  8
Setback    -  4
Tachyon    -  8
Omnitron-X -  8 (DR -2 for cold, fire, lightning, energy)
Parse      -  7

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Explosive Bubbles (1)

----- Player actions to be done:

a. Decide who takes hit from Citizen Battery (3 if Fanatic or Tachyon; 1 if Omnitron-X) [Done]

b. Each player discards a card for Citizen Tears effect. [in progress]
 

Given that wish I half-expected you to say something about Omnitron-X healing you last round.  Because barring that and the effects of Time Crawls Setback was going to go down between Citizen Blood's damage and the self-inflicted damage from Looking Up.

I will take Healing Light to the top of the villain deck.

When Healing Light gets played, I will move the Portal Fiend from the bottom of the environment deck to the top, as I plan to do Extrasensory Awareness anyway.

Villain turn edited to complete it and take Parse decisions into account.  Please note further player decisions to be made to complete the turn.

Damage is reduced by one from Time Crawls and Dawn is not increasing damage on this side so Battery is only doing 2 damage.  So OmnitronX should take Battery damage for nothing.  

On a side note Setback can take himself out by the damage from Looking Up Pyschic damage from the start of his turn and next turn if a villain can't take him out.  At which point you have 18 tokens for Silver Lining

Correct.  And I will assume that is what is done.  Not sure why I thought it was 4, probably from what you mentioned above.

Omni will dake the Battery damage.

I think the citizen HP might be off. Truth definitely took some damage.

Omni discards Disruptive Flechettes. Tachyon discards Nimble Strike.

Setback discards what I believe to be the only card in his hand (Exceeded Expectations).

Start of turn:  I deal myself 3 psychic damage [1].

Play:  n/a

Power:  I deal Citizen Truth net 2 melee damage [5] and put 3 tokens into my Unlucky Pool (17).

Draw:  Looking Up (oooh, a replacement for after End of Days!)

Status Effects:  At the start of Setback's turn, he's dealing himself 3 psychic damage.  If Setback is brought to 0 hp, clear the Unlucky Pool and restore him to that many hit points.

Tachyon

HP: 8
Play: HUD Goggles
Hand: Lightning Reflexes, Lightspeed Barrage, Pushing the Limits
Trash: Blinding Speed, Fleet of Foot, Hypersonic Assault (2), Nimble Strike (3), Quick Insight, Sonic Vortex (2), Sucker Punch (2), Supersonic Response, Research Grant, Synaptic Interruption (2), Pushing the Limits (2) - 11 Bursts

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Start:
Play: skip
Power: skip
Draw: Accelerated Assault and Lightning Reflexes
End:

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HP: 8
Play: HUD Goggles
Hand: Accelerated Assault, Lightning Reflexes (2), Lightspeed Barrage, Pushing the Limits
Trash: Blinding Speed, Fleet of Foot, Hypersonic Assault (2), Nimble Strike (3), Quick Insight, Sonic Vortex (2), Sucker Punch (2), Supersonic Response, Research Grant, Synaptic Interruption (2), Pushing the Limits (2) - 11 Bursts

Omnitron-X

HP: 8
Hand: Temporal Shielding, Disruptive Flechettes, Technological Advancement, Defensive Blast
Play: Elemental Exochassis, Innervation Ray, Gaussian Coil Blaster, Bio-Engineering Beam, Reactive Plating Subroutine, Electro-Deployment Unit, Slip Through Time, Focused Plasma Cannon
Trash: Reset, Rocket Punch, Disruptive Flechettes
Effects: DR2 for fire, cold, lightning, energy damage (taking one of these kinds of damage lets Omni-X deal 1 target 2 damage of that type); at start of turn, heal 3 hero targets 1 each and deal 3 targets 1 lightning damage each, play or draw a card, deal 2 irreducible fire damage to 1 target

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Start:

• Innervation Ray restores 1 HP to Omnitron-X [9], Tachyon [9], Parse [8]
• Gaussian Coil Blaster deals no damage to Dawn, Blood, or Battery
• Electro-Deployment Unit plays Technological Advancement; find Electro-Deployment Unit and put it into play; draw Ablative Coating
• Slip Through Time destroys itself
• Focused Plasma Cannon deals 2 damage to Citizen Truth [3]
• Electro-Deployment Unit plays Defensive Blast

Play: skip
Power: Timeshift Setback - reveal Friendly Fire and put it into play
Draw: Self Sabotage
End:

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HP: 9
Hand: Ablative Coating, Temporal Shielding, Disruptive Flechettes, Self Sabotage
Play: Elemental Exochassis, Innervation Ray, Gaussian Coil Blaster, Bio-Engineering Beam, Reactive Plating Subroutine, Electro-Deployment Unit, Focused Plasma Cannon, Electro-Deployment Unit, Defensive Blast
Trash: Reset, Rocket Punch, Disruptive Flechettes, Technological Advancement, Slip Through Time
Effects: DR2 for fire, cold, lightning, energy damage (taking one of these kinds of damage lets Omni-X deal 1 target 2 damage of that type); at start of turn, heal 3 hero targets 1 each and deal 3 targets 1 lightning damage each, play or draw a card, deal 2 irreducible fire damage to 1 target, play or draw a card

All Citizens other than Dawn were restored to full HP by Healing Light.

I guess we decided to leave Time Crawls in play? Fanatic, maybe you could keep Consecrated Ground to destroy it first thing next turn?

Parse discards Gauge; the damage from Citizen Blood is reduced to 0. The next damage dealt by Parse is increased by 5 (from Critical Multiplier).

Timeshift puts Friendly Fire into play.

Ooh, Friendly Fire isn't bad.

Parse

HP: 7

Hand: Updated Intel, Buffer Overflow, Snap Decision, Syntactic Analysis, Between the Lines, Targeting Arrow

In play: Extrasensory Awareness, Updated Intel, Critical Multiplier

[hr]
Start of hero turn:

Play a card: Skip

Use a power: Extrasensory Awareness. Reveal the top 3 cards of the villain deck, discard 1, put the other two back in either order.

Draw a card: Reveal the Flaws

End of hero turn:

[hr]
HP: 7

Hand: Updated Intel, Buffer Overflow, Snap Decision, Syntactic Analysis, Between the Lines, Targeting Arrow, Reveal the Flaws

In play: Extrasensory Awareness, Updated Intel, Critical Multiplier

Trash: Impossible Shot, Exploit Vulnerability, Targeting Arrow, Syntactic Analysis, Recompile, Data-Mining, Updated Intel, Quick Calculation, Recompile, Reveal the Flaws, Data-Mining, Buffer Overflow, Gauge

Additional effects: Whenever a villain card enters play, you may look at the bottom card of a deck, then put it on the top or bottom of that deck.
Whenever you discard a card from hand, select a Hero target. Increase the next damage dealt by that target by 1.
Next damage dealt by Parse is increased by 5.

My plan was to play End of Days next turn since Dawn will flip so that we can clear out all the Citizens in play.  

We may not need it. If we can take out Truth, Omni can hit them all with Disruptive Flechettes and Defensive Blast, which should more or less clear the board and just leave us with Dawn.

What about the Portal fiend we have coming up?

It's going to hit someone; probably one of us. But I feel like End of Days will be more disruptive to us than is necessary. Extrasensory Awareness can help to keep anything too horrible from coming out of Dawn's deck - nuking that might actually hurt us more than it helps. If Fanatic and Setback can get Truth down to 3HP, then Omni will be able to kill him with Plasma Cannon and the first hit from Disruptive Flechettes, dealing 6 to everything else. If not, it might be worth having Tachyon Lightspeed Barrage him and just let Fanatic and Setback get set up a bit.

Actually, I'm realizing that Time Crawls is going to be a problem. We would have to deal with that as well.

Alright I'll edit my turn to keep onto Consecrated Ground and discard End of Days instead.  I'll destroy Time Crawls next turn and ultimately deal the Portal Fiend 3 damage since I won't be able to get through Truth's DR

It's too bad I didn't get a card play this turn, I could have boosted our power against Truth. But the -1 damage for the villains is big.

How come OmnitronX didn't use the Plasma Cannon on Citizen Truth?   He is not in danger of going down before Dawn flips

I have a new monitor, huzzah!

I can take Tachyon back now, much thanks to the elusive Grey Squiggle for filling in for me.

You're just in time to see Dawn flip back and hopefully we can finish her off from here.  

Because I didn't realize that he'd been healed and I was worried about killing him. I'll go back and edit if no one minds.

Good point about Omnitron's damage. There's also the Focused Plasma Cannon. We're guaranteed no damage on the environment turn, so taking him down to 1HP is fine.

Remind me why we decided to trash End of Days?  I thought the whole plan was to use it to wipe the whole group of Citizens as soon as Dawn flipped back?

Omni can pretty much wipe them out with Flechettes and Defensive Blast, so we don't need to lose all of our stuff in the process.

I think it’s better to just kill them all. Omnitronks is pretty set up.

Parse's ESP reveals...

Return With the Dawn

Channel the Eclipse

Devastating Aurora

Environment - The Realm of Discord

In Play: Explosive Bubble (1), Time Crawls (distortion)

Start: (none)

Play: Portal Fiend (17)

End: Bubble zaps Citizen Dawn [44] for 0 energy damage.

Effects:

- At the end of the Environment turn, the Explosive Bubbles deal 2 energy damage to the X non-environment cards with the highest HP, where X = the HP of the Explosive Bubbles.

- Each hero turn that hero's player must skip either their play or power phase. (Time Crawls)

- Reduce all damage dealt by villain targets by 1 (Time Crawls)

- At the start of the environment turn, Portal Fiend deals the non-environment target with the 2nd highest HP X Psychic damage, where X = the number of cards in the environment trash.  (Currently 5)

Current target HP track - and a few comments.  Just a summary for setting up the next round.

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Citizen Dawn  (44)  (immune)
Citizen Blood (5)   (immune)
Citizen Battery (7) (immune)
Citizen Truth (3)   (DR -1)
Citizen Tears (5)   (immune)
Citizen Spring (6)  (immune)

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Fanatic    -  8
Setback    -  1
Tachyon    -  9
Omnitron-X -  9 (DR -2 for cold, fire, lightning, energy)
Parse      -  8

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Explosive Bubbles (1)
Portal Fiend (17)

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1. Villians other than Citizen Dawn were fully healed up by Healing Light.  (And Truth has since then been knocked back down.)

2. Citizen Blood hit Setback for 1 HP.  His attack got +1 from Citizen Tears being present, and -1 from Time Crawls.

3. Battery's attack on OX was negated between -1 for Time Crawls and -2 for OX's plating.

4. After Dawn flips the villains will be getting +1 due to advanced Citizen Dawn effect.  Plus Dawn will attack the high HP hero target.  On the plus side she won't play an extra villain card on this side.

nods I wasn’t recognizing OX’s ability to wipe the board there. No worries!
Let’s do this!

Neither did I. Don't worry setback will still get killed off

Prep for Round 7 (e.g. hero decisions that appear obvious to be coming up)

1. Will post villain turn once dpt indicates how Dawn's deck is to be stacked.  Also need an indication of which deck(s) Updated Intel should be used on.

2. Dawn is going to shoot Tachyon or OX for 3 energy damage (OX would only take 1 though due to plating)

3. Citizen Tears will do her thing and force all the heroes to discard a card.  Any who do will also take 1 (1 +1 -1) melee damage.

I think that is it - ESP placement, Updated Intel decision, OX/Tachyon damage decision, and then hero discards.

So either Tachyon takes 3 from Dawn or (as the highest after that attack goes to O-X) 3 from Battery? Not really much of choice you're giving me there chief!

I'll take the 3 energy damage please.

I disagree with that assessment.  Citizen Blood will have something to say about it. 

Whichever one hits OX, Reactive Plating Subroutine will deal net 1 to Truth.

OX's discard for Tears will be Self-Sabotage.

Also, recommend Channel the Eclipse on top since Flechettes will kill it before it does anything.

Fanatic discards Chastise due to Tears.

Sorry for the delay! I forgot that Channel the Eclipse does its extra thing at the beginning of the villain turn. So it will be: Discard Devastating Aurora; put Channel the Eclipse on top, and Return with the Dawn below that.

I'd like to see the bottom of my own deck.

I think I should have taken 1 damage from Citizen Blood last turn, since I did discard. I think I should be at 7HP before Dawn plays: 7HP before the last villain turn, lose 1 life to Blood, then get healed for 1 by Omnitron-X. I'm about to lose another 1, down to 6HP.

This turn, Updated Intel reveals Data-Mining on the bottom of my deck. I leave it there. I also discard Updated Intel for Citizen Sweat. The next damage I deal is now increased by 6. Strike that, I'm boosting Fanatic's damage this time; her next damage is increased by 1. It's not much, but we need damage at the beginning of the next round.

If I hold back damaging from Consecrated ground and deal damage with Exorcism does the damage for the melee and radiant each get increased by one? Since I know Truth will gain a HP from Spring before I can hit him.   If it doesn't then I'll just hit him with the first instance of damage from consecrated ground.  

I think it would just increase the melee.

That's what I was afraid of.  Oh well I'll still get down to one

Citizen Tears was causing the discard and then 1 damage melee if you discarded.  That damage was negated by the environment due to Time Crawls.

Citizen Blood die one damage to lowest HP character.  1 +1 (Citizen Tears being in play) -1 (Time Crawls).  That was dealt to Setback.

CITIZEN DAWN - ROUND 7

Citizen Dawn (44) [Merged With The Power of the Sun]

In Play:
Citizen Blood (5)
Citizen Battery (7)
Citizen Truth (3)
Citizen Tears (5)
Citizen Spring (6)

Start of Turn:
Citizen Dawn flips to [Leader of the Citizens of the Sun]
   
Play: Channel the Eclipse
      - Updated Intel for Parse - bottom card of her deck; kept on bottom

End of Turn:
Citizen Dawn hits Tachyon [6] for 3 Energy damage
Citizen Blood hits Setback [0] for 2 Melee damage
(Setback restores to 17 HP via Silver Lining - Unlucky Pool to zero and Silver Lining is destroyed)
Citizen Battery hits Setback [14] for 3 Energy damage
Each player discards a card due to Citizen Tears, if they do they take 1 melee damage.
Citizen Spring heals Citizen Truth [4] and Citizen Dawn [45] for 1 HP each.
Citizen Dawn inflicts 2 Cold damage [43] to herself.
 
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Effects:
- Increase damage dealt by citizens by 1. (adv Citizen Dawn)
- At the end of the villain turn play the top card of the Villain deck (Citizen Dawn)
- If Citizen Sweat is in play, Citizen Blood deals each hero target 1 melee damage (Citizen Blood)
- If Citizen Tears is in play, increase damage dealt by Citizen Blood by 1 (Citizen Blood)
- Villain targets other than Citizen Truth are immune to damage (Citizen Truth)
- Reduce damage down to Citizen Truth by 1 (Citizen Truth)

(Start of Turn)
- If there are six or more citizens in play, flip Citizen Dawn's card [Citizen Dawn - Merged With the Power of the Sun side]
- Play the top card of the villain deck. (Channel the Eclipse)

(End of Turn)
- Citizen Dawn deals the hero with the highest HP 3 energy damage (Citizen Dawn)
- Citizen Blood deals the hero target with the lowest HP 1 Melee damage (Citizen Blood)
- Citizen Battery deals the hero target with the highest HP 3 energy damage (Citizen Battery)
- If Citizen Assault is in play increase damage dealt by Citizen Battery by 2 (Citizen Battery)
- Each player discards one card (Citizen Tears)
- If Citizen Blood is in play, Citizen Tears deals each hero melee damage equal to the number of cards discarded by their players this turn (Citizen Tears)
- At the end of the villain turn, each citizen regains 1 HP (Citizen Spring)
- Citizen Dawn deals herself 2 Cold damage (Channel the Eclipse)

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Citizen Dawn  (43)  (immune)
Citizen Blood (5)   (immune)
Citizen Battery (7) (immune)
Citizen Truth (4)   (DR -1)
Citizen Tears (5)   (immune)
Citizen Spring (6)  (immune)

Channel the Eclipse (ongoing)
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Fanatic    -  7 (+1 damage next damage dealt)
Setback    -  13
Tachyon    -  5
Omnitron-X -  9 (DR -2 for cold, fire, lightning, energy)
Parse      -  7 (+5 damage next damage dealt)

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Explosive Bubbles (1)
Portal Fiend (17)

Time Crawls (distortion)
 

Don't forget that when Dawn flips back, damage dealt by citizens is +1.

That was referring to Round 6.  Note that in Round 7 that was just posted the damage bonus was taken into account and Blood did 2 damage to Setback, and the heroes took 1 damage from Tears in addition to the discard.

Ah. My mistake.

Setback:  A Change from Better to Worse

Start of Turn:  n/a

Play:  n/a (no cards to play!)

Power:  Looking Up--I punch Citizen Truth for net 2 melee [1] and put 3 Unlucky Tokens in my pool (3)

Draw:  Cause and Effect

O-X!  Get 'em!

Anyone can decide to punch Setback in the face with Friendly Fire, restoring his health and giving him some unlucky tokens.

Does anyone have an argument that they should be a target for Syntactic Analysis (play, discard, or draw the top two cards of your deck)? Targetting Arrow would also be good (+1 damage to a target for a turn).

I already died and resurrected on the Villain turn.  Please, no more punching me!

Also, I'm probably the least tactical choice for a Syntactic Analysis.

Discard Accelerated Assault for Tears

Tachyon

Hmm, I ran so fast it almost seemed like I had a new personality for a short time there!

HP: 5
Hand: Lightspeed Barrage, Pushing the Limits, Lightning Reflexes (2)
Play: HUD Googles
Trash: Sonic Vortex, Supersonic Response, Quick Insight, Sonic Vortex, Blinding Speed, Fleet of Foot, Hypersonic Assault, Synaptic Interruption, Pushing the Limits, Hypersonic Assault, Research Grant, Blinding Speed, Nimble Strike, Sucker Punch Sucker Punch, Synaptic Interruption, Pushing the Limits, Nimble Strike, Nimble Strike, Accelerated Assault (13 Burst cards)

Effects: Play one extra card

 
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Start: I'm really not sure what to do this turn, I use my start of turn to spend 5 minutes considering my play. With Time Crawls I could happily skip and draw 2, with that gone I'm not so sure any more.
Play: I think I play Pushing the Limits and no more cards

Power: I reveal... Fleet of Foot, put it back.
Draw: I'm torn here. With Syntatic Analysis coming up I'm half tempted to put Fleet of Feet back on top and not draw... ... ... Nah, draw it and one other... well wrong choice there! Another Fleet of Foot!
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HP: 5
Hand: Lightspeed Barrage, Lightning Reflexes (2), Fleet of Foot (2)
Play: HUD Googles, Pushing the Limits
Trash: Sonic Vortex, Supersonic Response, Quick Insight, Sonic Vortex, Blinding Speed, Fleet of Foot, Hypersonic Assault, Synaptic Interruption, Pushing the Limits, Hypersonic Assault, Research Grant, Blinding Speed, Nimble Strike, Sucker Punch Sucker Punch, Synaptic Interruption, Pushing the Limits, Nimble Strike, Nimble Strike, Accelerated Assault (13 Burst cards)

Effects: Play two extra card, draw one extra, Take damage or destroy PtL.

Dawn should still be at 45, she's immune to the damage from Channel the Eclipse right now.

Syntatic Analysis... I really can't decide who would be best right now. If Omnitron is about to wipe the board with Disruptive Flechettes, I think the only bad thing that could happen would be from Setback destroying our stuff, and PtL is there as a sacrifice if that happens; I think the best choice is your choice, whomever you want to see do stuff.

Omnitron-X

HP: 9
Hand: Ablative Coating, Temporal Shielding, Disruptive Flechettes
Play: Elemental Exochassis, Innervation Ray, Gaussian Coil Blaster, Bio-Engineering Beam, Reactive Plating Subroutine, Electro-Deployment Unit, Focused Plasma Cannon, Electro-Deployment Unit, Defensive Blast
Trash: Reset, Rocket Punch, Disruptive Flechettes, Technological Advancement, Slip Through Time, Self Sabotage
Effects: DR2 for fire, cold, lightning, energy damage (taking one of these kinds of damage lets Omni-X deal 1 target 2 damage of that type); at start of turn, heal 3 hero targets 1 each and deal 3 targets 1 lightning damage each, play or draw a card, deal 2 irreducible fire damage to 1 target, play or draw a card

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Start:

• Innervation Ray restores 1 HP to Omnitron-X [10], Tachyon [6], Parse [8]
• Gaussian Coil Blaster deals 1 lightning damage to Portal Fiend [13]
• Electro-Deployment Unit plays Disruptive Flechettes; destroy Channel the Eclipse and hit all the things for 2: Truth [x], Dawn [43], Blood [3], Battery [5], Tears [3], Spring [4], Bubbles [x], Portal Fiend [11]
• Focused Plasma Cannon deals 2 damage to Citizen Battery [3]
• Electro-Deployment Unit draws Reset

Play: Reset - shuffle trash; draw Reactive Plating Subroutine; skip the play
Power: Defensive Blast - discard Temporal Shielding and deal 1 x 4 elemental damage to all the things: Dawn [39], Blood [x], Battery [x], Tears [x], Spring [x], Portal Fiend [7]
Draw: Slip Through Time
End:

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HP: 10
Hand: Ablative Coating, Reactive Plating Subroutine, Slip Through Time
Play: Elemental Exochassis, Innervation Ray, Gaussian Coil Blaster, Bio-Engineering Beam, Reactive Plating Subroutine, Electro-Deployment Unit, Focused Plasma Cannon, Electro-Deployment Unit, Defensive Blast
Trash: Reset, Temporal Shielding
Effects: DR2 for fire, cold, lightning, energy damage (taking one of these kinds of damage lets Omni-X deal 1 target 2 damage of that type); at start of turn, heal 3 hero targets 1 each and deal 3 targets 1 lightning damage each, play or draw a card, deal 2 irreducible fire damage to 1 target, play or draw a card

Ok. Go have fun.

Fanatic destroyed Time Crawls so you can play cards and use powers if you wanted.   In regards to Syntatic Analysis I'm fine with whoever it's played on though if you want cards that have an instant affect I imagine Tachyon would be the best.  

I'd probably use the Syntactic Analysis on Parse. A good damage boost or two could set us up for a nice round.

Right, and I did. I was saying that while Time Crawls was in play I had a "no brainer" choice, skip and draw 2, Fanatic destroying the Environment card forced me to use my brain and weigh my options, curse you Fanatic!

I'll go ahead and play Syntactic Analysis on Tachyon. Tachyon, after Omnitron-X's turn, if you get a chance to play your Lightspeed Barrages, I think that will take Dawn down to be the second-highest HP so she can get munched by the Portal Fiend.

EDIT: Also, I can do 7 damage during my power phase, if you can pull off a little more damage.

sorry, I really should be awake for a while longer before I post as it makes more sense reading that again.  

No idea how much I could do, you're relying on me drawing one of two Lightspeed Barrages left in my deck (I've no Lightning Reflexes or Fleet of Foots left in my deck, the only two cards that would get me a card play from my hand), if you think those odds are worth it I'll be happy to try but if you can do more, do it.

OK, I’ll go with the Syntactic Analysis on myself.

Parse

HP: 7

Hand: Buffer Overflow, Snap Decision, Between the Lines, Targeting Arrow, Reveal the Flaws, Syntactic Analysis

In play: Extrasensory Awareness, Updated Intel, Critical Multiplier

[hr]
Start of hero turn:

Play a card: Syntactic Analysis on Parse. Hoping for something good…
Reveal Impossible Shot and Quick Calculation.
Play Impossible Shot, deal Portal Fiend 3+5 irreducible projectile damage (X). Draw Between the Lines.
Play Quick Calculation. Reveal Extrasensory Awareness, Snap Decision, and Segmentation Fault. Put Extrasensory Awareness on bottom of my dack, draw the other two.

Use a power: Quick Shot. Deal 2 projectile damage to Dawn (37).

Draw a card: Recompile

End of hero turn:

[hr]
HP: 7

Hand: Buffer Overflow, Snap Decision (x2), Between the Lines (x2), Targeting Arrow, Reveal the Flaws, Segmentation Fault, Recompile

In play: Extrasensory Awareness, Updated Intel, Critical Multiplier

Trash: Impossible Shot, Exploit Vulnerability, Targeting Arrow, Syntactic Analysis, Recompile, Data-Mining, Updated Intel, Quick Calculation, Recompile, Reveal the Flaws, Data-Mining, Buffer Overflow, Gauge, Updated Intel, Syntactic Analysis, Impossible Shot, Quick Calculation

Additional effects: Whenever a villain card enters play, you may look at the bottom card of a deck, then put it on the top or bottom of that deck.
Whenever you discard a card from hand, select a Hero target. Increase the next damage dealt by that target by 1.

Environment - The Realm of Discord

In Play: (none)

Start: (none)

Play: Explosive Bubbles (5)

End: Bubbles zaps Citizen Dawn [35], Setback [11], Parse [6], Fanatic [5] for 2 energy damage; 0 to Omnitron-X due to plating.

Effects:

- At the end of the Environment turn, the Explosive Bubbles deal 2 energy damage to the X non-environment cards with the highest HP, where X = the HP of the Explosive Bubbles.

CITIZEN DAWN - ROUND 8

Citizen Dawn (35) [Leader of the Citizens of the Sun]

In Play:
(none)

Start of Turn: (none)

Play: Return With the Dawn
      - Updated Intel for Parse - what deck to peek at?

End of Turn:
Citizen Dawn hits Setback [7] for 4 Energy damage
Return With the Dawn resurrects Citizen Dare (3)
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Effects:
- Increase damage dealt by citizens by 1. (adv Citizen Dawn)
- Increase damage dealt to hero targets by 1. (Citizen Dare)

(Start of Turn)
- (none)

(End of Turn)
- Citizen Dawn deals the hero with the highest HP 3 energy damage (Citizen Dawn)
- At the end of the villain turn shuffle the villain deck and reveal cards until a citizen is revealed.  Put it into play and shuffle the other villains back into the villain trash. (Return With the Dawn)

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Citizen Dawn  (35)  
Citizen Dare  (3)
Return With the Dawn (ongoing)
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Fanatic    -  5
Setback    -  7
Tachyon    -  6
Omnitron-X -  10 (DR -2 for cold, fire, lightning, energy)
Parse      -  6

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(none)
 

I'll peak at Omnitron-X's deck, for a possible Timeshift.

Bottom card is Self Sabotage. I'll end up drawing it via EDU, but it might be a good end-of-turn play with Slip Through Time. On top sounds fine.

OK, Self Sabotage on top it is. We ought to be able to take Dawn out this turn.

I will be traveling tomorrow - so next environment and villain turn processing might not be until very late on Saturday or some time on Sunday.

Parse, you get to look at a card for Dare entering play too, which deck?

I'll take a look at Tachyon's deck, to get a chance for another Lightspeed Barrage. (She'll be drawing the top of deck with the Fleet of Foot, I presume.)

WooHoo!

Lightspeed Barrage, I'd like that on top please!

And you have it! Thanks, Citizen Dare!

(Edit out mistake on my part)

...in other news.  More travel the next two days.  If you finish off Dawn this round than well and good.  Otherwise, I might be tardy in getting things done until things settle down and I get computer/internet time.

Sorry for the late turn.  I was out of town this weekend and did not have the internet or cell access I thought I would

Setback:  A Change from Better to Worse [7]

Play:  Cause and Effect:  I destroy Return with the Dawn, then deal myself [4] and Dawn [29] 3 melee damage each.

Power:  Looking Up:  I punch Dawn for net 3 melee [26] and add 3 tokens to my Unlucky Pool (6).

Draw:  Cash Out.

Let her have it, Tachyon!

Tachyon

Dawn: "Heroes! Why are you fighting against me? T*ogether we can take over this world and rule it as the strongest should"

Dawn crumples to the floor at the end of her speech.

*Tachyon moves so quickly no one sees her taking her turn between the Tt and Oo sounds.

HP: 6

Hand: Lightspeed Barrage, Lightning Reflexes (2), Fleet of Foot (2)

Play: HUD Googles, Pushing the Limits

Trash: Sonic Vortex, Supersonic Response, Quick Insight, Sonic Vortex, Blinding Speed, Fleet of Foot, Hypersonic Assault, Synaptic Interruption, Pushing the Limits, Hypersonic Assault, Research Grant, Blinding Speed, Nimble Strike, Sucker Punch Sucker Punch, Synaptic Interruption, Pushing the Limits, Nimble Strike, Nimble Strike, Accelerated Assault (13 Burst cards)

Effects: Play two extra card, draw one extra, Take damage or destroy PtL.

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Start: Let PtL lapse

Play: Fleet of Foot lets everyone draw a card, mine is Lightspeed Barrage, (aces!) and lets me play Fleet of Foot again to let everyone draw a second card, Sucker Punch here. Use time to calculate if I can Sucker Punch Dawn out of the game, pout when realising I can't. Play Lightning Reflexes off of Fleet of Foot's play, giving me 2 more plays and then having measured things so precisely using the scientific methods I am known for, play Lightspeed Barrage for 13 to Dawn and then a second Lightspeed Barrage for another 13 to Dawn, taking here to exactly 0.

Use my play for HUD Googles to go get Pizza for everyone.

Power: Glare at Citizen Dare until he promises to be our waiter for the party.

End: Start celebration

Whew.   Good game.  

Indeed!

There were several turns where I thought we were done for, and other turns were I couldn't see how we would lose. As always, SotM is a fun roller coaster ride.

Thanks for running the game Oaktree

Yes thanks Oaktree for running this.  

Glorious victory!  Nice job all!

Great game everyone! Thanks for running the show, Oaktree.

Nice finish! I liked the narration there.

Glad to see things finished up without needing me.

Thanks for running it.