Sentinels Deckbuilding, Game Four: Fourth Time Lucky?

General GTG Events
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Roll up, roll up, all are welcome here. The rules are over in the first thread, but the long and short of it is that you pick four heroes, build them into a sort of super-hero (pun intended, and revelled in) and then pit them against the newest monstrosity from the villain corner. And let me tell you, she's a beaut...

 

ROSTER:

Grysqrl: The Naturalist, Legacy, The Sentinels, Chrono-Ranger

Oaktree: Expatriette, Unity, Visionary, KNYFE

luminos: Team Leader Tachyon, The Scholar, Bunker, Nightmist

phantaskippy: Tempest, Fixer, Wraith, Fanatic

Ronway: Omnitron-X, Haka, Ra, Parse

2

I want to try my last deck again.

Naturalist/Legacy/Sentinels/Chrono-Ranger

Opening hand: Temporal Grenade, Displaced Armory, By Any Means, Team Communication

3

I'll pick up pieces after the other "regulars" get their entry made in case they want to give decks a new run. 

Any chance you can keep a roster updated like I did for the start-up for the last game?

 

4

I’m going to go Scholar + Tachyon + 2 others I’ll figure out. I’m going to try for something that draws my entire deck while also feeding cards and plays to other players.

5

Fixer Tempest Wraith Fanatic

Using Tempest's card.

 

Opening hand

Consecrated Ground, End of Days, Localized Hurricane, Micro Targetting Computer.

6

Omnitron-X - Haka, Ra, and Parse. My deck will be only one-shots! As I am curious how exactly that would work...

Opening Hand: Syntactic Analysis, Quick Calculations, Inferno, and Rampage. I'll probably play Syntactic Analysis on myself on first turn! Unless I need to Rampage.

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Using Tachyon, Scholar, Bunker, and Nightmist. Using Team Leader Tachyon’s card.

Opening Hand: Hypersonic Assault, Hypersonic Assault, Flesh to Iron, Blinding Speed.

Bah, none of this gets me into set up mode, but I’m sure Hypersonic Assault will be useful.

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Too slow to get Nightmist - I'll live with it.

Expatriette, Unity, Visionary, KNYFE.

Opening Hand:  Brainstorm, Hairtrigger Reflexes, Stealth Bot, Twist the Ether.

(ooo... Lots of options.)

*- And kudos to the concept in the last game for Expat using Load to play Bots.

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And thusly it began!

 

Round One

The Dreamer - Friendship is Magic

The Dreamer - 6

In Play:  Whipacorn - 7, Dark Hero - 5, Macabre Spectre - 3, Granite Oni - 6, Dark Hero - 5

Trash:

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Start of Turn: 

Play a Card: Macabre Spectre.

End of Turn: Whipacorn deals 5 melee damage to The Naturalist [25]. The Naturalist cannot deal damage.

Macabre Spectre deals 4 psychic damage to each non-villain target.

Granite Oni deals 4 melee damage to The Naturalist [17].

Macabre Spectre deals 4 psychic damage to each non-villain target.

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In Play: Whipacorn - 7, Dark Hero - 5, Macabre Spectre - 3, Granite Oni - 6, Dark Hero - 5, Macabre Spectre - 3

Trash:

Effects: ST: No Projections in play? Destroy 5 hero ongoings and flip!

ET: Whipacorn deals 3 melee damage to the highest-HP hero. A target dealt damage this way cannot deal damage until the start of the next villain turn.

ET: Macabre Spectre deals each non-villain target 2 psychic damage. (x2)

ET: Granite Oni deals the non-villain target with the lowest HP 2 melee damage.

Environment damage dealt to the Dreamer may be redirected to the lowest-HP hero.

Increase damage dealt by villain targets by 2.

Reduce damage dealt to Projections by 2. Reduce damage dealt to Granite Oni by 3.

Whenever a target is destroyed, restore Macabre Spectre to its maximum HP.

Hero HP Naturalist - 13, Expatriette - 21, Tachyon - 20, Tempest - 18, Omnitron-X - 13

 

Two comments:

1) There are enough Projections in this deck for you to win. Just. Since we're going to be playing in The Final Wasteland, be very careful... 

2) Also note that this is not a Suicidal Dreamer deck; that would just be cruel.

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End of days, so be ready folks.  It is coming.

11

Noted. 

And glad to see it coming since that combo of projections is a pretty nasty mix.  First time I've played against the Dreamer with 5 heroes in play.  Only time with 4 heroes we got beat, and I'd rolled her out as a curveball to toss at some relatively new players after they'd trashed 3-4 other villains.

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Well, this is going to hurt a lot. I guess I'll take the Oni damage. Wouldn't mind if we took that Oni out quick, though.

Naturalist

HP: 13

Hand: Temporal Grenade, Displaced Armory, By Any Means, Team Communication

Play:

Trash:

Effects: Can't deal damage until the start of the villain turn

[hr]

Start:

Play: Team Communication - draw Displaced Armory, Sudden Contract, Flying Smash, Deadly Crocodile (great)

Play: Nothing

Play: Displaced Armory - find Jim's Hat in my deck and put it into play; deal no damage

Play: Displaced Armory - find Neuro-Toxin Dart Thrower and put it into play; deal no damage

Power: twiddle thumbs Neuro-Toxin Dart Thrower - deal no damage to the first Macabre Spectre; its damage is reduced by 1

Draw: Fling Into Darkness Team Communication

End:

[hr]

HP: 13

Hand: Temporal Grenade, Sudden Contract, By Any Means, Flying Smash, Deadly Crocodile, Team Communication

Play: Jim's Hat, Neuro-Toxin Dart Thrower

Trash: Displaced Armory (2), Team Communication

Effects: Naturalist can't deal damage; first Macabre Spectre's damage is reduced by 1

Hand: Temporal Grenade, Displaced Armory (2), Sudden Contract, By Any Means, Flying Smash, Deadly Crocodile, Fling Into Darkness

Play:

Trash: Team Communication

Effects: Naturalist can't deal damage

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End of Days comment came up while I was typing my turn. Going to replay if if no one minds.

Edit: I replayed from after my Team Communication and just struck out things that I took back, in case anyone calls shenanigans and wants me to revert.

14

Nah it's cool.  It was a quick turnaround.

15

Oh no! Not the Dreamer! I guess I can't Rampage at all, hopefully I don't end up revealing a Rampage with Timeshift!

16

This is going to be… Interesting. Thank goodness for end of days. I kind of want to hypersonic assault the dreamer, just to shut her up for one round (and since nothing else I can do would be useful)

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Expatriette

Curled in a ball, screaming.  (I suspect that psychic projection damage from The Dreamer really hits hard with Expat.)


HP: 21

In Hand: Brainstorm, Hairtrigger Reflexes, Stealth Bot, Twist the Ether

In Play: (None)

Trash:  (None)

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Start of Turn:  

Play a Card: skip

Power: skip

Draw a Card: (draw 2) - Wrest the Mind, Swift Bot

End of Turn:  

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HP:  21

In Hand: Brainstorm, Hairtrigger Reflexes, Stealth Bot, Twist the Ether, Wrest the Mind, Swift Bot

In Play:  (None)

Trash:  (None)

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Effects:

Start:  

End:

Static:

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Team Leader Tachyon

HP: 20

In Hand: Flesh to Iron, Hypersonic Assault, Hypersonic Assault, Blinding Speed

In Play: (None)

Trash: (None)

Start of Turn:

Play a Card: Hypersonic Assault (punching kids for the greater good!). The Dreamer takes 1 damage [5] and can’t deal damage for one turn.

Power: Team Leader, everyone draws a card. I get Flesh to Iron

Draw a Card: Mistbound

End of Turn:

HP: 20

In Hand: Flesh to Iron x2, Mistbound, Blinding Speed, Hypersonic Assault

In Play: (None)

Trash: Hypersonic Assault

Effects:

Start:

End:

Static:

19

Expat draws Champion Bot thanks to TLT.

20

Naturalist draws The Predator's Eye.