Unlucky Losses

I forget what team it was, but it was Matriarch in Atlantis. Long story short, she had a crapload of birds out and Collapsing Ceiling comes out. Kills all the birds, and the retribution damage just wrecked my already-low-HP party.

Had another loss against Gloomweaver when he played the Cursed Acolyte early, doing 6 damage to everyone. Killed him, then almost immediately he played his other Cursed Acolyte. Killed him, too, then the very next turn is Vast Following. Just the 24 damage from those two jerks alone basically killed me.

Five heroes vs. Akash'Buta.  Doing ok, then she plays Primeval Eruption which brings out 4 limbs.  The end of Primeval Eruption is to play another villain card which is... another Primeval Eruption, bringing out 4 more limbs.  This is pretty devasting but somehow, I manage to survive the ordeal and eventually take them all out.  Everyone's in single digit HP, but I do have healing available, so I feel like I may still be in fine shape.  Then Akash reshuffles her deck and soon enough, she plays Primeval Eruption, bringing out 4 limbs, followed immediately by.... yes, another Primeval Eruption, bringing out 4 more limbs.  Needless to say, I did not survive the second, double Primeval Eruption.

My friends first game against Omnitron started with a double EPE play, it didn't get any better after that.

Of course, that's easily fixed with one Wrest the Mind card.  Now that I think about it, many of my unlucky losses are things that could've been avoided if Visionary had been on the team.

Sorta related -- was playing Ennead in Silver Gulch and wasn't tracking what the environment was doing carefully. Got Lost in the Past!

Easily fixed by the roughly 15% chance of having the right card in hand? :)

Visionary wasn't on the team, IIRC it was Legacy, Wraith, Haka and Ra.

But we love you!

GROUP HUG!

I get that (and that her having Wrest the Mind isn't guaranteed).  My point was more about the realization of just how often Visionary would provide the answer to unlucky loss situations. 

Though I do agree that double EPE on the opening draw is pretty freaking rough (even if there are a few cards that could easily deal with it)

Today I played with Pydro! (that wasn't the bad luck part)

We played a 3 player game against Cosmitron, we lost.

Then we played the same set up again... and encountered a game stopping bug.

Then we added a forth player against Cosmitron... and still lost.

Then Pydro had to leave and we decided to play a Blade game to make us feel better.

Then I encountered a game stopping bug that kicked me out as the battle was loading.

Then I started my own Baron Blade game which filled to 3 players... and lost.

It was not a good day.

Today I played with Matchstickman! (that wasn't the bad luck part)

We played a 3 player game against Cosmitron, we lost.

Then we played the same set up again... and encountered a game stopping bug.

Then we added a forth player against Cosmitron... and still lost.

Then I had to leave.

I played a game against Cosmitron and we stomped him into tiny little space dusticles.

Earlier we were trying to fight Advanced Ennead but the power went out. So I went and played games and drank beer at a cafe instead.

Not a bad day =)

I'd recently been on a few pick-up teams that had been smashed by Voss, and felt I owed him a beating. Wound up as Nightmist, teamed with Ra and Absolute Zero.

It was a bad-draw game all around. Nightmist never drew her Starshield Necklace or Master of Magic, and was reduced to 2 hp and driven into Mistform before drawing her reflecting amulet. Ra never drew a staff, nor any of his funky cards that might have turned the tide -- mostly he made do with "1 fire damage to everything" cards while Voss countered with damage-reducing Guards. The environment forced us to throw away entire hands of cards three times. AZ got some equipment into play, but was fighting alone after Ra fell. Eventually I chose my moment to solidify Nightmist and play the amulet, but Voss put into play two minions that targeted me, and I could only reflect one.

It was like one of those comedy movies where the bumbling heroes can't do anything right but somehow pull it off in the end, except we'd wandered into a History Channel World War II documentary instead of a comedy.

We tripped, we quipped, and then we flipped.

I've been recording videos of the game for my gaming channel. My very first match was Omnitron in the Ruins of Atlantis (I forget the heroes). I was doing OK, about set up... then it happened. Atlantis played the Pillars, Omnitron's card play brought out a Terraforming, which destroyed the Pillars and got it another card out; Technological singularity. Then it's Omnitron's turn; Sedative Fletchettes. The party wiped soon after.

Not so unlucky? Perhaps. But when I finished the first season by having a rematch against Cosmic Omnitron, and much the same thing happened? That's unlucky.

A 3 player game with at least one other forum member tonight. Voss started with a ship (the one that destroys ongoings and the city (no, not that one; the other one) played 2 hostage suituations. Suffice to say, it didn't end well.

That is one extremely effective dropship

Apologies if mentioned already, but I had Atlantis pull an EPE out during the environment turn. Omnitron was only at 5HP, but my whole team got wiped out from the EPE.

I posted this already, a while back, but it fits the topic.

Twice in one game I was a turn away from killing Dawn when Sustain the Portal ruined everything.  The first time by flipping Dawn, and the second time by blowing up two Explosive Wagons.