After our miserable game day yesterday, my wife tried to cheer me up by suggesting we play Unmatched. Well, that always works.
I got to try out a fighter from Battle of Legends Vol. 2 for the first time. I went with Achilles, against her standard Medusa. Achilles has Patroclus as his sidekick, who has a number of cards in the deck that will damage himself, but when he falls, all of Achilles attacks going forward get +2 and he draws a card whenever he wins combat.
My wife targeted Pat right away and took him out in just a few turns, which did remove some of my options, as his cards were now mostly useless. However, having the increased attack and extra card draw really helped. I was able to take out some of Medusa’s Harpies, and was mostly maneuvering around to get more cards, especially defenses, as Medusa has a lot of discard effects and some nasty attacks. But soon I was going on the offensive.
Overall, I got pretty lucky, as when I had to take an undefended attack that is was just a 1 damage Regroup, rather than Gaze of Stone, which would have done 2 and then 8 since she would have won the combat. Meanwhile, with my +2 attacks, I was winning most combats, only taking a bit of damage here and there while really whittling down Medusa and reducing the number of cards she had in hand.
My final turn, I had to draw the last card in my deck to maneuver, Boosting for extra spaces of movement to get adjacent to Medusa, then attacked with a Wily Fighting for 5 which she was unable to defend, winning the game!
So now I have defeated Medusa 3 times, I think. This was my best win as far as remaining health.
Later, we played Red Cathedral, which similar to yesterday took much longer than it should have due to kid interference, but we at least did finish it. My wife was not at her best due to all the distraction, which helped me win 35-29.