PBF Mage Knight

[Benkyo]

Keep defender: heroes

City defenders: utem swordsmen, altem freezers, golems

[yashima]

So I need to block 2 attacks and do 5 damage and have 1 card for move left. All that with access to 1 white mana.

So I use the Promise played sideways for 1 move
I really cannot block the attacks because if I do, I won‘t do enough damage. However, I can use the white mana crystal to use call for arms and use the Foresters to for their block 3–which should leave me with the 2 attack unblocked which gets me 1 wound if I understand this correctly.

Then I use Improvisation throw away Determination which gives me 3 Attack plus 2 from Ambush.

[Benkyo]

The heroes are swift, which means block is halved against them.

[yashima]

Block halfed rounded up? I mean the Foresters could block the 2 attack then instead? If rounded down, I guess I just won‘t block. I need Improvisation for the attack 3. There is no other attack 3 I can access and no matter how I turn there is no extra card to be found in my hand.

[Benkyo]

(effectively) rounded down, because 1.5 block is not 2. So, are you keeping call to arms, promise, or determination in hand?

[yashima]

Games that round down are not my friend
Meh. This turn is also not my friend.

I really have no idea what my next turn might be like. Can I use influence here for anything other than recruiting units? If not I think I won‘t be keeping Promise in hopes of something more useful coming up.

[Benkyo]

Only for recruiting units.

[yashima]

Then get rid of Promise. I don‘t think I‘ll get a full turn out of what remains in my deck anyway.

[Benkyo]

Over to @Marx

[Marx]

For starters, I’ll play Swiftness to explore.

[Benkyo]

Wolfhawk has found our first tomb: fight a draconum underground (night rules) without units, get an artifact and a spell as a reward.

[Marx]

Whelp. Nothing I can do from where I am with the resources I have (Move 3 doesn’t get me anywhere, Attack 8 doesn’t beat the Physical Resistant Dragon, Influence 3 doesn’t hire anyone…)

So I’ll just use my “Heal Gain 1 Blue Crystal” ability and end my turn.

[Benkyo]

Over to @Lordof1

[Lordof1]

Nothing I can do here but wait and get my crystal. I’m unsure of the strategy for ending a round, perhaps we should be doing it earlier, but this way costs me nothing and I get a crystal out of it? Anyway, done.

[Benkyo]

Goldyx now has no cards in hand or deck, and must declare end of round next turn.

Back to @yashima

[yashima]

I cannot see a way to heal anything. The units on display arent going to be helpful in any way. I use Crystallize with the blue mana from the source to gain a crystal. That’s my turn.

[Benkyo]

There is only gold mana in the source, so I assume you use that. You can choose any colour of crystal.

[yashima]

I use the gold but I still want blue.

[Benkyo]

Back to @Marx

[Marx]

I’ll declare end of turn, thank ya.