A 12 mana poison ruleset strategy - cleanse, triage, snipe!

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Here's a nice victory against a higher powered opponent (with 9M Power) featuring a low mana poison and magic hits armour ruleset.

Poison is a new rule set which I'm still getting my head around - I'm feeling that you've got to try and go for relatively high health cards and then self-heal, triage and cleanse as much as possible.

The rule set and line ups

  • mana 20
  • magic hits armour
  • poison

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Note how my opponent has opted for a strategy of healing at the front and then strengthen and weaken, which makes sense, with three relatively high health cards.

My own approach was to opt for the Turtle at the front (high shields and reasonable health) and then the Kelp initiate for cleans and triage with the Shark sniping from the back.

And we've both played a few filler cards which played no useful function.

The battle

Looking at our respective line ups - it doesn't look to good for me, does it? But surprisingly I won! See here!

  • Round 1 - Interestingly my Turtle gets cleansed from 'weaken' (that's something I'd forgotten about! We exchange blows, but no losses until poison takes out all our 'filler monsters'
  • Round 2 - My shark gets triaged, nice! No losses.
  • Round 3 - He loses his Spirit, I lose my turtle, Kelp initiate triages himself from poison
  • Round 4 - another triage on my shark, and in conjunction with the poison and sneak attack i take out his haunted spirit .

Game Over

Final thoughts

I'm surprised I won this - and maybe I got a bit lucky with the speeds of the attacks meaning I piled in consecutively BEFORE his tank could heal, but that's all part of the game.

What this does show is the power of cleanse and triage in keep your monsters alive in a poison rule set.



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