OK - attack is reduced to 0, and health drops by 4.
Back to @Assussanni.
Castle: J♥ attack 0 health 7, + 10 more
Current damage done: 9♠ 4♠
Discard: 10♥ 7♦ 7♣ A♠ 2♦ 3♠ 5♥
Tavern: 23
Assussanni hand: 8♦ 3♣ 7♥
lalunaverde hand: 8♥ 5♦
Captbnut hand: 8♣ 4♦
GeeBizzle hand: 7♠ 2♣ 9♦ A♣So I could kill exactly with the 7♥, but playing the 8♦ for card draw looks to me like a better idea. Any objections?
Your cards. It might make sense as you or lalunaverde are most likely going to take damage.
I think if you get a kill you get a repeat turn. Exact kills put the bosses in our tavern deck which makes us more powerful later. You could drop the 8 on your next turn?
Great thing about this game is that all the choices are difficult.
Both of these things are correct in my understanding.
Okay, I’ll play the 8 of Diamonds.
If my understanding of how the draw effect works is correct, then we would each get 2 cards but since GeeBizzle is at the hand limit of 5 after the first draw they are skipped for the second card and I get it instead?
OK. There are 8 card draws. By player initial letter, they go to:
a l c b (hand counts now 3 3 3 5)
a l c (4 4 4 5)
a
8 damage finishes off J♥, but it’s not an exact kill, so it goes to discard.
Castle: J♣ attack 10 health 20, + 9 more
Current damage done:
Discard: 10♥ 7♦ 7♣ A♠ 2♦ 3♠ 5♥ J♥ 9♠ 4♠ 8♦
Tavern: 15
Assussanni hand: 3♣ 7♥ J♦ 4♥ 10♦
lalunaverde hand: 8♥ 5♦ 2♥ 6♠
Captbnut hand: 8♣ 4♦ 10♠ 6♣
GeeBizzle hand: 7♠ 2♣ 9♦ A♣ A♥
@Assussanni to play again.
Dear god I think I’m starting a zoo.
Hi Phil! Yeah the animal companions are just different to everyone else. To be fair, if you are playing 3 aces together you’re probably in a terrible position so doubt that it’s inflating any win rates 
In the combo rules we state all the legal combinations since it is a little confusing.
Fair call on the rulebook. We were pretty limited to the 12 pages (manufacturing restrictions etc) but it could have been a little bigger. The learn to play video can fill up your whole screen though which is nice! As a fellow wearer of glasses I’ll keep that in mind for the next round.
I’ll play the 4 of Hearts, then defend the ten damage with the 3 of Clubs and the 7 of Hearts.
OK, 4h does 4 damage, and transfers four random cards from discard to the bottom of Tavern.
@lalunaverde to play.
Castle: J♣ attack 10 health 16, + 9 more
Current damage done: 4♥
Discard: 3♣, + 8 more
Tavern: 19
Assussanni hand: J♦ 10♦
lalunaverde hand: 8♥ 5♦ 2♥ 6♠
Captbnut hand: 8♣ 4♦ 10♠ 6♣
GeeBizzle hand: 7♠ 2♣ 9♦ A♣ A♥6♠️. Discarding 5♦️
Just to butt in here, from my understanding of the rules, the 2 and A of Clubs would be 6 damage ((2 + 1) * 2).
Also, doesn’t the person who defeats one of the castle cards pick who goes next?
Figure with the designer coming in now and then, it’d be good to confirm. I already learned that the spade defense lasts until the card is defeated by reading through this thread.
I don’t believe so. My rule book says the same player faces the new opponent from step 1. If you play a Jester then you do pick who goes next, though – perhaps you’re conflating those two things?
I think you did pretty well to win a game without using that. You could probably mentally upgrade that to a Silver victory : )
Yep, that’s exactly what I was doing! Only played solo, so it has not mattered yet. And since the Jester rules are completely different in solo as well, I was not remembering where I read that rule.
6♠️ knocks down attack to 4 and health to 10.
@Captbnut to play.
Castle: J♣ attack 4 health 10, + 9 more
Current damage done: 4♥ 6♠
Discard: 3♣, + 9 more
Tavern: 19
Assussanni hand: J♦ 10♦
lalunaverde hand: 8♥ 2♥
Captbnut hand: 8♣ 4♦ 10♠ 6♣
GeeBizzle hand: 7♠ 2♣ 9♦ A♣ A♥I’ll go for another exact kill, 10 of spades please
OK, attack reduction is irrelevant. J♣ goes to top of Tavern.
You now face:
Castle: J♠ attack 10 health 20, + 8 more
Current damage done:
Discard: 4♥, + 12 more
Tavern: 20
Assussanni hand: J♦ 10♦
lalunaverde hand: 8♥ 2♥
Captbnut hand: 8♣ 4♦ 6♣
GeeBizzle hand: 7♠ 2♣ 9♦ A♣ A♥8 of clubs please for 16 damage
Discard other 2 cards (unless that means I die)
It’s fine to have no cards in hand (so long as this isn’t still the case when you next need some : )