I really hummed and hawed over my selection for a recent 15 mana battle with the Rebirth and Return Fire rulesets.
TBH I was mainly focused on the Rebirth ruleset, for which I was absolutely determined to play a scavenge card with a healer behind...
The rationale behind scavenge being ESSENTIAL for this ruleset is, well, every monster dies twice meaning there's potential for 20 health points be gained during the course of the match!
And if you play a healer with a scavenge monster, you get some large heals when the health creeps up!
My line up...
I opted for the line up below...
summoner - Raith mainly for the Void armour, but this was nullifed by the opposition playing rust.
- Chaos agent
- Soul Fiend
- Blight - the main scavenge card
- Venari CyrstalSmith - the healer
- Eleanor Bravefoot
NB the main cards in here are Blight and the Healer.
I had initially planned to get a repair card in there, thinking that the Crystalsmith was 3 mana, but it was 4 so I then had to stack the other 3 slots with only 1 mana remaining! But thankfullyh I have some decent low mana cards.
This, and the fact that the main utility of the shields from the summoner was nullified, meaning I effectively wasted 2 mana on the summoner just goes to show how useful the scavenge ability is with this ruleset!
The battle...
- round 1 - I lose my Chaos Agent, twice!
- round 2 - I lose my scorch fiend twice, my opponent loses his VC once.
- round 3 - My opponent loses his VC a second time, his Pelacor and I lose Ellie to reflect.
- round 4 - No loss
- round 5 - He loses his Pelacor for a second time....
- round 6 - I lose my VC and he loses his Time Mage. He loses his Time Mage again
NB this is the state of play after round 6...
- round 7 - He loses his scorch fiend, twice
- round 8 - he loses his chaos agent, twice...
And this is where we end up...
Final battle analysis
It was defo that scavenge plus heal wot won it, although my opponent did himself no favours by boosting his ranged attack with that return fire ruleset?!?
So at the end of the day if you get a rebirth ruleset, Scavenge and Heal!!!
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