Expected an easy win and did eventually get it, although I miscalculated slightly on my first try and fell just barely short of the expected Mint (I know, him being at 11 doesn’t seem like a narrow loss, but that’s because when I realized I couldn’t kill him in time, I stopped bothering to try). This party includes a lot of fun heroes, but every single one of them with the debatable exception of Wraith opened on a severely suboptimal hand, and he came out the gate with the dreaded double Mobile Defense Platform, so it’s not surprising that I struggled a bit…still, only sheer carelessness on my part actually caused me to miss the mark, as I was sure that I had another full round in which to utterly devastate him. I’m not sure how he crossed 15 cards without my noticing, but such little surprises keep this classic Core Set scenario from getting too old, as Handelabra obviously makes an effort to repeat the original 16 v/e combos with fair regularity (as well they should, for the benefit of players who’ve yet to buy the expansions).
As an aside, I’ve always hated the canard this Weekly is named after; trying something multiple times to see different outcomes is literally the scientific method in a nutshell, and thus rather the opposite of insane. Even if the universe is deterministic and a person could literally flip a coin twice at the exact same angle with the exact same force, the outcome might be different due to minute air currents and similar such variables. I will admit that the title is fitting for a mad scientist, but I still consider it to be as absurdly untrue and damaging as whatever folksy wisdom an 1830s Georgia plantation owner might have had about how to best prevent your slaves from causing trouble. Just because a saying is clever and catchy doesn’t mean it’s true; Facebook and similar things seem to be causing people to forget this truth.