Texen1982;n10260272 said:
If you win R1 then you're in charge of the game thereafter and can decide how far you want to push R2 (which of course you already know). But this therefor means you can work out how many Nekkers your oppo has left (based on how many you've killed thus far) and your best shot is to try and get your oppo to use all their remaining Nekkers in R2, because the consume deck has no power finisher in R3 - except of course for a massive Nekker.
This consume list is quite comfortable going into R3 with only one Nekker left because there are numerous ways of pulling it - Slyzard, Shadow, Pheonix. If you go to R3 on even cards and oppo has no Nekkers left - you'll win. If you go to R3 and oppo has 1+ Nekker left - you'll probably lose.
By letting oppo win R1, oppo can dictate the play in R2 and decide how many Nekkers to carry over into R3 (one is usually plenty). So to sum up, if you can drain oppo of all Nekkers in R2, you're in great shape.
I just played this game, tell me if you think I did something wrong.
Round one went pretty long. I killed ~2 Nekkers, he played ~2 Warriors. He only played one Vran, which I killed on sight. Ultimately I won on equal cards. Entering round two, we had ~5 cards each left. The last few turns of the game went:
Round 2
Turn 1:
Me: play something generic for 11 points. I wanted to drypass, but also figured that since he has a synergistic deck I should try to make him play some Nekkers and / or enablers, to pass on.
Him: play Vran Warrior. 11-6.
Turn 2:
Again I wanted to pass, but I had a 5-point lead and decided to go for one more card. He played Phoenix bringing out Slyzard bringing out Nekker which got consumed and gave him enough points that I couldn't catch up. So I passed.
Round 3:
He played Whispess, Cockatrice, and Arachas Queen generating over 60 points. I had Scorch for the Arachas Queen but it didn't matter since the Nekkers were worth more than enough points to stomp me to the ground.
I feel like I got outplayed somewhere. It's possible his finishing combo is unbeatable, in which case I really needed more CA from the first round. Or perhaps I should've been killing Nekkers and leaving his Vran Warriors untouched. Or perhaps I should've bled in round 2 till only one card in hand. I don't know. The deck is hard to play against.
At what point would you say using an anti-big unit effect like Scorch, Peter or Iorveth: Meditation is worth it? Should I be saving them till they're worth 30+ points, or is 20+ good enough?