Long overdue game log

The first couple lines of this log were cut off somehow, so just figure that setup went about as it usually does for an Akash’Bhuta game.

Akash’Bhuta plays Ensnaring Brambles, moving Hallway Collapse from the environment deck to the trash. Tempest cannot deal damage.

Absolute Zero plays & uses the power on Glacial Structure.

Absolute Zero draws Sub-Zero Atmosphere, Coolant Blast, & Onboard Module Installation. Draws another OMI in his draw phase.

Ra plays Summon Staff, draws another one, plays that too, draw (???), plays Imbued Fire, deals Ensnaring Brambles 3 Fire damage {6}, and draws Flame Spike.

Tempest plays Elemental Subwave Inducer, drawing another one after skipping his power (since he’s Brambled).

The Scholar did not play a card or use a power this turn. Draws Mortal Form to Energy and Truth Seeker.

Ruins of Atlantis plays Mystical Defenses; Akash’Bhuta plays Earth’s Sacrifice. This destroys Imbued Fire, then moves Toxic Seaweed from the environment deck to the trash. Mystical Defenses deals Akash’Bhuta 2 Energy damage {198}, then hits the Brambles {4}, F6AZ {25}, Ra {28}, Tempest {24}, and Scholar {27}.

Mountainous Carapace is played, discarding another Hallway Collapse; Tempest still cannot deal damage.

AZ plays Onboard Module Installation, draws it again, searches out Null-Point Calibration Unit, plays the second one, draws Cryo Chamber, fetches Isothermic Transducer, plays a third OMI, draws Focused Apertures, grabs another NPCU, and plays the Apertures. F6AZ deals Mountainous Carapace 3 Cold damage {8} and draws Glacial Structure.

Ra plays Living Conflagration, dealing Mountainous Carapace 2 Fire damage {6}, and Pyres it for another 2 {4}. Draws Wrathful Gaze.

Setting the ESI to Energy, Tempest skips his turn to draw Aquatic Correspondence and Grievous Hail Storm; Scholar then plays Mortal Form to Energy, heals {28}, and zaps Mystical Defenses {14}. Draws Transmutive Recovery.

The Pillars of Hercules enters play; the Defenses shoot AB for 1 {197} through the Carapace {2}, then blasts Ensnaring Brambles {2}. The heroes fall to {23}, {26}, {23}, and {26}, with Tempest taking only 1 due to ESI.

The Pillars of Hercules plays Living Rockslide, discarding Phosphorescent Chamber, then Abby plays Rejuvenating Entropy. ESI and Focused Apertures die, and the two Limbs heal to full ({11} and {9}), with even the Defenses regaining the point they lost {15}. The Rockslide slams F6AZ {21}, Ra {24}, Tempest {21}, Scholar {24}, and the Defenses {13}. Moving on to AZ’s turn, the Pillars play Arboreal Phalanges, another Mystical Defenses is discarded, and Zero skips the turn to destroy the Pillars.

Ra plays The Staff of Ra, healing to {27}, and Pyres the Carapace {8}. Draws Scorched Earth.

Tempest plays Grievous Hail Storm, using it to deal 1 to Abby {196}, the Phalanges {10}, Brambles {7}, Rockslide {8}, Carapace {6}, and Defenses {11}. Draws Flash Flood.

Scholar discards Truth Seeker, then plays Grace Under Fire, dealing 6 to the Rockslide {2}. Healing to {25}, he shoots the Carapace {5}, and draws Flesh to Iron.

Leaking Room enters play. The Defenses hit AB {195}, the Phalanges {8}, the Brambles {5}, the Carapace {3}, and kills the Rockslide. Abby takes 9 through the Carapace {186}, and the heroes fall to {19}, {25}, {19}, and {23}.

AB plays Earth’s Sacrifice; this destroys the Conflagration, the Hail Storm, and Mortal Form, discarding Toxic Seaweed, Leaking Room, and Phosphorescent Chamber. Zero is Brambled, Phalanges deal 3 to Ra {22}, and AZ skips his turn to draw Thermal Shockwave and Hoarfire.

Unable to play a card, Ra uses Pyre to reduce the Brambles to {2}, and draws Flame Barrier. Tempest throws a Squall, hitting the Phalanges {7}, Brambles {1}, Carapace {2}, and Defenses {10}, and Draws Electrical Storm. Scholar doesn’t bother to heal, drawing Mortal Form and Get Out of the Way.

Atlantis plays The Kraken; AB plays Living Rockslide, discarding another Kraken. Mystical Defenses shoots the Carapace to death, making AB deal herself 11-1 damage {176}, then shoots her directly {174}, before moving on to the Phalanges {5}, the Rockslide {8}, and killing the Brambles, so AB takes another 9 {165}. AZ falls to {17}, Ra {20}, Tempest {17}, and {21}. Then the Kraken takes out the Phalanges , and AB falls to {153}. Living Rockslide reduces the heroes to {15}, {18}, {15}, and {19}, plus hitting the Defenses {8} and Kraken {13}.

Zero plays Isothermic Transducer, fires ice at the Carapace {9}, and draws Focused Apertures.

Ra plays Flame Spike, dealing 2 to the Carapace {7}, then hits it with Pyre {4}, and then for some reason throws the Staff at Abby, dealing 3 {150} through the armor. Draws Fire Blast.

Tempest plays Grievous Hail Storm, using it to deal 1 cold to AB {149} and 2 to Carapace {2} and Rockslide {6} as well as the Defenses {6} and Kraken {11}. Draws another Hail Storm.

Scholar plays Flesh to Iron, heals to {20), & draws Expect the Worst.

Another Kraken enters play; AB plays Mountainous Carapace, then reshuffles Atlantis and flips, discarding the Font. Mystical Defenses kills Mountainous Carapace, making AB take 11-2 damage {140} and discard the Kraken; Living Rockslide falls to {4}, Abby takes another point {139}, and the new Carapace falls to {9}. Scholar resists, but AZ and Tempest fall to {13} and Ra to {16}. The first Kraken takes out the Rockslide; Toxic Seaweed is discarded, and AB deals herself 10-1 {130}. The Kraken deals Mountainous Carapace 5 Melee damage {4}.

AB plays Disrupt the Field; with her being on side 2, this is going to be disastrous. She destroys the first Kraken, plays Rejuvenating Entropy, which destroys Isothermic Transducer, healing the Carapace from 4 to {11}, and also healing the two remaining environment targets, not that they’ll get to enjoy it. The second tentacle is slain, all 15 HP of it, and Abby plays Entomb. Then the Defenses go down, and because she hasn’t played enough cards this turn, she goes for Primeval Eruption. Another Disrupt the Field and two more Eruptions tease us from within the revealed cards, but thankfully only a Living Rockslide actually comes out, along with an Ensnaring Bramble(s). Finally Disrupt the Field plays Allies of the Earth and Hallway Collapse; 2 rocks bounce off her Carapace, cracking it {8} and leaving her at {128}; the new Brambles fall to {6}, the Rockslide at {7}, and the heroes are knocked down to {10}, {13}, {10} and {19} as Scholar shrugs off most of the blow to himself. All that from just one play…

…and she isn’t done. Living Rockslide slams Zero {8}, Ra {11}, and Tempest {8}, with only Scholar being safe. Adding insult to injury, Zero is Brambled, so all he can do on his turn is play and use Glacial Structure, drawing NPCU, Coolant Blast, Cold Snap, and OMI at the end of the turn.

Ra plays Flame Barrier, Pyres the Brambles {4}, and draws Drawn to the Flame.

Tempest plays Into the Stratosphere, buying a turn until Entomb will fire, and plinking her for 1 {127} through the Carapace. Activating Grievous Hail Storm, he deals her another 1 {126}, cuts the Brambles in half {2}, retaliates against the Rockslide {5}, and dings the Carapace significantly {6}. Draws Aquatic Correspondence.

Discarding Expect the Worst, Scholar plays Alchemical Redirection to try and save the team, healing to {20} and drawing Transmutive Recovery.

Atlantis plays Leaking Room, and Hallway Collapse belatedly destroys itself. Entomb is replayed on Abby’s turn, but Scholar blocks all the rocks, and Zero is Brambled again, skipping his turn to draw Cryo Chamber and NPCU. Ra does not skip his power for an extra draw; he Pyres the Rockslide {3} and draws Living Conflagration. Grievous Hail Storm is an even better power, so Tempest also doesn’t hold out for a card; he deals 1 to AB {125} through what remains of her Carapace {4}, leaves the Rockslide at {1}, and kills the Brambles. AB discards Toxic Seaweed and takes 8 {117}; Tempest draws Electrical Storm.

Scholar discards Mortal Form to keep Flesh to Iron, then draws another one plus Keep Moving.

No longer in a Leaking Room, our heroes now stumble into The Pillars of Hercules! Akash’Bhuta begins her turn with Entomb, dealing 4 to Ra {7}, who retaliates with Flame Barrier for net 1 {116}. AZ is bisected like an AmongUs character {4}, and Tempest gets that reference {4}. Only Scholar is relatively unaffected {18}, but not completely so, and thus Entomb goes away. The Pillars then immediately play another one, and both of our non-sus Imposters are wiped out, leaving Ra at {3} and Scholar at {16}; at least the thing doesn’t stick around.

Arboreal Phalanges comes into play in the mid-turn; the Rockslide batters Ra down to {1} but dies to the Flame Barrier afterward, and Abby discards Phosphorescent Chamber before taking 9 {107}. The Phalanges deal 1 net damage to Scholar {15}, and that would be the end of it, if not for how hax the Pillars of Hercules is. Entomb enters play on AZ’s first incap turn before he can skip to destroy the Pillars; he wastes no time doing so, but Ra is now clearly doomed unless something nigh-miraculous happens.

The Staff enters play and heals Ra to {4}, not yet enough to survive Entomb; breaking the Staff kills Mountainous Carapace, and Abby takes 10 as it protects her one last time {97}, discarding Hallway Collapse from the environment deck to the environment trash. Ra draws Excavation.

Dead Tempest grants immunity to psychic damage for the team, ensuring Entomb won’t kill Ra immediately, but also won’t go away because of this. Scholar discards Keep Moving, then plays Alchemical Redirection, determined not to let Ra die this round; Better Living heals him to {16} and he draws Don’t Dismiss Anything, always a fun card to have when half your team is down already.

Mystical Defenses enters play, healing AB to {112}; they then bring her down to {110}, the Phalanges to {10}, and bounce off Scholar as he defends Ra.

Entomb damages the Mystical Defenses {4} and nothing else; more Phalanges enter play and Scholar gets a deep-tissue massage twice over, ending at {14}.

AZ turns the Environment off for a round; Ra plays another Staff, bringing him up to {7}, Pyres a Phalange to {7}, and draws Scorched Earth. Tempest keeps up the Psychic immunity. Scholar discards Flesh to Iron from hand in order to keep it in play, then Doesn’t Dismiss Anything. Ra recycles his Staff, and Scholar gets back Truth Seeker since he needs cards. Scholar heals to {15} and draws what he didn’t dismiss.

Atlantis fires on Abby {108} and both of her hands {5 and 10}, also blasting Ra {5}, who blasts back hotter {8}. Scholar shrugs it off and the “frozen” Atlantis turn ends.

Mystical Defenses gets bisected by the otherwise useless Entomb {4}, then Ensnaring Brambles comes out and makes Ra feel useless as well as doomed, while Scholar gets his usual roughing-up from the Fingers {13}.

Needing those Brambles to go away before Scholar becomes their only target, dead AZ makes them freeze themselves {8}; every little bit helps.

Ra plays Excavation, since what else is he going to do; he retrieves the Atlantean Font of Power, a Phosphorescent Chamber, and Mystical Defenses to draw Summon Staff, Flame Barrier, and The Staff of Ra. With no useful power, he simply draws Flame Spike.

Tempest does as he has been doing, and Scholar discards “Get Out of the Way!” before playing and using Truth Seeker, putting the Brambles down to {6}. Draws Solid to Liquid and Bring What You Need.

Phosphorescent Chamber enters play; the Defenses blast AB to {105}, Phalanges to {2} and {7}, Brambles to {3}, Ra to {2}, and Scholar to {12}. Ra discards Flame Barrier. The Scholar discards Solid to Liquid.

Entomb destroys Mystical Defenses, prompting a card play; Abby is forced to reshuffle, playing Earth’s Sacrifice. Flame Barrier, Flesh to Iron, and Truth Seeker are destroyed; Leaking Room and the first two of Ra’s Excavated cards are discarded. Mountainous Carapace enters play; the Phalanges each deal 4 to the unprotected Scholar, leaving him with {4} left; thankfully that ends the villain turn.

AZ again hits the Brambles, whose self-damage is increased by the Chamber, leaving it at {1}; though still brambled, Ra can play and activate Wrathful Gaze to destroy what’s left of them, dealing 9 gross and net damage to Abby {96} as she discards Mystical Defenses, the last Excavation card. Draws Flame Spike.

Tempest keeps everyone from being Entombed; Scholar plays “Get Out of the Way!”, dealing 1 net to Abby {95} and killing the first Phalanges; this triggers a reshuffle of Atlantis, flipping Abby back to side 1, and discards Hallway Collapse. Abby takes 12 net {83}, and Scholar’s flames go on to reduce the other Arbor to {5}, deal 2 to the Carapace {9}, and heal himself by 5 for having damaged 4 targets {9}. Better Living then gives him another 2 HP {11} and he draws Truth Seeker.

Ra discards Flesh of the Sun God and Scholar discards Truth Seeker; the Chamber is just far too dangerous. Alas, even more dangerous is Atlantis playing a Kraken, which makes Abby play Disrupt the Field, destroying the Kraken and playing Living Rockslide. The Font of Power again fails to show up; Toxic Seaweed is then played, Allies of the Earth adds the short-lived Kraken’s HP to Abby’s {98}, and Ra discards his hand of 9 cards to get rid of the Seaweed, since the Rockslide is about to kill him anyway.

Playing another Entomb, Abby fingers the Scholar {8}, then rocks fall and everyone dies, or at least everyone named Ra. Left with {6} HP, Scholar isn’t doomed yet, but as soon as a Bramble comes out, he’ll be rendered helpless, and the odds of him dealing nearly 100 damage before that happens are nearly zero. So now begins the real heart of this game log: Scholar’s long, lonely, and usually paralyzed struggle against the destroyer of his entire team.

Dead AZ prohibits Environment plays, then Ra destroys Allies of the Earth, and Tempest keeps up the Psychic immunity. Scholar plays Transmutive Recovery {8}, draws Know When to Turn Loose and Keep Moving, heals to {9}, and draws another TR.

After a totally uneventful environment turn, AB fails at Entombing the Scholar twice over, then plays Rejuvenating Entropy. The Phalanges heal from 5 up to {12} and the Carapace regains the couple HP it had lost; Scholar is fingered to {6} and rockslid to {4}, but that could have been a lot worse.

AZ freezes the Environment again; Ra destroys an Entomb, and rather than keep negating the other one, Tempest gives Scholar back Flesh to Iron from his trash. Before playing this, Scholar Keeps Moving, getting one from the deck before playing the other. Healing to {5}, he draws “Get Out of the Way!”

Bringing out another Mountainous Carapace and thankfully discarding The Pillars of Hercules, Abby fails entirely at damaging the Scholar.

Keeping the Environment locked down and destroying the other Entomb, the downed characters are almost entirely repeating themselves, but one new thing does happen, as Tempest grants immunity to Melee damage.

One copy of Flesh to Iron destroys itself; Scholar discards Know When to Turn Loose to keep the other. Transmutive Recovery causes The Scholar to regain 2 HP {7}, and he draws Proverbs and Axioms and Grace Under Fire, uses Better Living {8}, and draws Know When to Hold Fast.

The Environment turn passes completely without incident; AB plays Ensnaring Brambles, discards The Kraken, ineffectually Phalanges the Scholar, bounces some rocks off him, and renders him helpless with the Brambles as usual.

AZ has the Brambles freeze themselves {8}, then Ra gives Scholar more Better Living {9}, and Tempest keeps the Melee immunity on. Scholar discards Grace Under Fire to keep iron form, then plays Know When to Hold Fast to draw Mortal Form to Energy, Expect the Worst, Bring What You Need, Offensive Transmutation, and Don’t Dismiss Anything. Leaking Room then enters play.

Primeval Eruption happens, fortunately revealing two other copies, Earth’s Sacrifice, and Rejuvenating Entropy, none of which go into play. Less lucky is the second Ensnaring Brambles that comes out after that; Scholar isn’t going to be damaging anything for a looong time.

AZ slightly stiffens the marginally less healty Bramble {7} and Ra heals Scholar again {10}; where’s the Kraken when you need it. Remaining Melee-immune and discarding Bring What You Need, Scholar skips his power since he can’t play anything, and draws Keep Moving as well as Proverbs and Axioms. Phosphorescent Chamber enters play, and Scholar discards Expect the Worst.

More Arboreal Phalanges enter play, and Mystical Defenses are discarded. With the damage bonus from the Chamber, Scholar actually feels the Rockslide this time {9}, but the healing bonus should make up for that for once; if only he wasn’t discarding!

Phosphorescent Chamber makes AZ a little better at his job; the Brambles he’s very slowly freezing drop from 7 to {5}. The Power which Ra lets Scholar use is also improved, so he heals to {11}. Melee immunity is continued, and the Scholar discards Offensive Transmutation to keep Flesh to Iron, playing Transmutive Recovery. He heals to {14}, draws Know When to Hold Fast and Solid to Liquid, then heals again to {16} and draws Grace Under Fire.

Choosing to keep the Chamber Phosphorescent, Scholar is glad of Tempest’s protection when Hallway Collapse happens, dealing 4 to everything that isn’t him. The partly frozen Bramble is left at {1}, the others at {5}, and Bhuta takes 2 through her double Carapaces, left at {96}. Each Phalange is reduced to {8}, the Rockslide to {6}, and the Carapaces to {7}. Scholar discards Solid to Liquid.

Abby plays Living Rockslide, discarding another Mystical Defenses; Scholar is pebbled a couple times, down to {14}, and triple-brambled one more time.

AZ manages to finish freezing a Bramble, and Abby takes 8 net damage {88}. Scholar heals back from the last round’s damage {16}, and then Tempest grants him a second Power rather than the immunity, bringing him all the way to {18}. He discards Mortal Form to Energy. Finally a safe distance from death’s door, Scholar tries playing and using Bring What You Need, quasi-drawing Know When to Turn Loose and Keep Moving and putting Solid to Liquid under the deck. Draws Offensive Transmutation.

Staying in the Chamber, Scholar runs into a Leaking Room (that should have been reconsidered when designing the deck IMO). He discards Offensive Transmutation, then Abby plays Mountainous Carapace, discarding Toxic Seaweed. The Phalanges now hurt the Scholar significantly, dropping him to {16}, with the Rockslide making that {15}, more Phalanges {13}, and another Rockslide {12}.

AZ zaps one of the Hallway-crushed Brambles down to {3}; Ra heals Scholar by 2 {14}, and Tempest goes back to making him Melee-immune. Discarding as decent a card as Proverbs and Axioms (even at 1/4 its full strength, it’s still quite good, giving most of the effect of Transmutive Recovery, with an alternative to activate Bring What You need or Truth Seeker if at full HP and/or double-Ironed), Scholar draws Solid to Liquid, reshuffles 29 cards from his trash, and draws Expect the Worst. Phosphorescent Chamber stays and stops leaking; Atlantis reshuffles, Abby flips, and another Phosphorescent Chamber comes out, making Scholar discard his other Proverbs and Axioms as well as Expect the Worst.

Disrupt the Field is played; the Chambers stop being Phosphorescent, and another Rockslide comes out, followed by the Pillars of Hercules. Scholar is undamaged, but before AZ can skip a turn to destroy the pillars, they play Entomb.

Ra lets Scholar Bring what he Needs, which is Expect the Worst and Keep Moving, but not Alchemical Redirection. Tempest keeps the Melee immunity up; discarding Know When to Turn Loose, Scholar instead Knows When to Hold Fast, and he draws Don’t Dismiss Anything, Transmutive Recovery, Flesh to Iron, and Mortal Form to Energy x2 in a row. Atlantis now plays The Kraken, which kills the slightly frozen Brambles and discards Leaking Room. With three Carapaces out, Abby takes 6 from the Bramble’s death, and is left at {82}.

Successfully dealing 2 to the Scholar {12} with Entomb, and also hitting the Kraken {11}, Abby gives it up. AB reshuffles herself (17 cards; the other 8 are in play), and sticks out another Entomb, with the Rockslides pelting the Kraken down to {9} and then {7} and then {5} while Scholar ignores them and the Phalanges.

Finally out of Brambles, AZ freezes a Rockslide down to {5}, rendering it Kraken bait; Ra lets Scholar Bring What He Needs, which is Transmutive Recovery and Know When To Turn Loose, but not Mortal Form to Energy. Tempest also gives Scholar that Power, giving him Grace Under Fire and Alchemical Redirection rather than Solid to Liquid.

Discarding Alchemical Redirection to stay tough, Scholar finally takes a Form that isn’t just Iron or More Iron; Keep Moving fetches him Mortal Form to Energy, then he Keeps Moving some more to become Solid to Liquid, continues to Keep Moving to become more Solid to Liquid, and from his hand plays Mortal Form to Energy. So now, with one Better Living, he regains 3 HP {15} and blasts a Mountainous Carapace down to {8}, then {5}. Draws “Get Out of the Way!”

Mystical Defenses enters play rather than the second Kraken Scholar hoped for; the first Kraken then smashes the Carapace, discarding Leaking Room, and Abby takes 8 {74} as her armor is first cracked. The Defenses still can’t get through to her, but Scholar is safe from them too, and they devastate the Limbs; both Arboreal Phalanges fall to {6}, the Rockslides to {8}, {8}, and {3}, and the Carapaces to {5} and {5}.

Bhuta deals 2 net to Scholar {13}, the Defenses fall to {11}, and the Kraken barely survives {1}; Entomb has done its job, and more gorram Brambles appear. Brambles finger Scholar down to {12}, then a Rockslide kills the Kraken, playing Earth’s Sacrifice. Scholar ditches all the Forms he just played, and The Kraken, Toxic Seaweed, Hallway Collapse, and Atlantean Font of Power are discarded. Mystical Defenses is pelted down to {9}, Scholar is Phalanged to {11}, the other Rockslides takes the Defenses to {7} and then {5}, and Scholar is Brambled again.

AZ freezes the Brambles again {8}, then Ra Brings what Scholar Needs, which is not Truth Seeker but rather Transmutive Recovery and Know When to Hold Fast. Tempest grants Melee immunity again, then Scholar discards Know When to Turn Loose, plays Know When to Hold Fast, and draws Keep Moving, Offensive Transmutation, Bring What You Need, “Get Out of the Way!”, and Proverbs and Axioms.

Another Kraken appears; the Defenses bounce of Abby, but reduce the Phalanges to {4} and {4}, the Brambles to {6}, the Rockslides to {6} and {6} and {1}, and the Carapaces to {3} and {3}. The Kraken’s mighty wrath is tragically vented on the nearly-dead Rockslide; Mystical Defenses are discarded, and Abby takes 8 {66}.

Allies of the Earth enters play; at this point the Kraken is tougher than Scholar, so the Phalanges hit that , taking it to {12} and then {9}, while the Rockslides bring it gradually down to {5} and the Defenses to {1}.

AZ zaps a Carapace, leaving it at {2}; Ra puts a stop to this Allies of the Earth nonsense, and Tempest grants Melee immunity again. Scholar discards Offensive Transmutation, plays Transmutive Recovery, heals to {13}, draws Alchemical Redirection and another OT, and then Brings What He Needs. Truth Seeker goes to his hand, as does Grace Under Fire, with the Flesh To Iron that was between them landing under his deck. Draws Truth Seeker.

Hallway Collapse is played; even the less damaged Carapace dies to that, discarding Toxic Seaweed, and Abby takes 9 net damage {57}. The next Carapace falls off, dealing another 10 {47}, then Abby reshuffles Atlantis and flips, discarding Leaking Room. Mystical Defenses break, not triggering a card play now that she’s flipped; Abby is now totally unprotected and takes 3 {44}, and the pair of Arboreal Phalanges is left at {1} apiece, with Ensnaring Brambles and two Rockslides at {3}; the Kraken survives at {2} and is then able to kill a Phalange, dropping Abby to {32}. Scholar probably should have consented to take 1 damage in exchange for all that, but Tempest protected him completely.

Abby tries one last Primeval Eruption, revealing Disrupt the Field, Ensnaring Brambles, Arboreal Phalanges and Entomb. Already doomed to Brambling and immune to the damage from the AP, Scholar is nonplussed; even a second Eruption doesn’t faze him, as the third Primeval Eruption, two Rejuvenating Entropies and an Earth’s Sacrifice are discarded without effect. Disrupt the Field does annoy him however, as the Kraken dies and Entomb and Mystical Defenses are played; the Kraken was much more useful. More Brambles are played by the Defenses, and Pillars of Hercules fortunately goes to the trash. The first Arboreal Phalanges targets Mystical Defenses {12}; the others ineffectually grope the melee-immune Scholar, and the Rockslides bounce off him as usual, but he is doubly immobilized by Brambles as always, and meanwhile the Defenses descend to {10} and then {8} HP under the avalanche.

AZ’s corpse deals 1 cold damage to Ensnaring Brambles {2}. Dead Ra allows Scholar to use a power; Better Living heals him to {14}. Dead Tempest allows Scholar to bring Expect the Worst from trash back to hand. Ditching the Flesh to Iron, Scholar plays EtW, heals to {15} and draws Flesh to Iron again.

Phosphorescent Chamber enters play to seal Abby’s doom. The Defenses kill the first Rockslide and the Brambles; AB deals herself 10+1 {21} and then 9+1 Energy damage {11}. The other Rockslide then takes 2+1 Energy damage to kill it, and AB finally self-destructs.

Gorram consarned frelling WHEW, am I right?