Weekly One-Shot #73 - Big Game

Quick and easy Mint here. Take a cue from the Handelabrats and read your opening hands carefully before committing to anything.

In my game, Chrono-Ranger did 19 damage on his final turn to finish Iron Legacy. And I was all set up to use Divine Focus to deal with the flip side Advanced text, too! I think I see a path where Chrono-Ranger can take IL from full to dead in one turn, I'll have to go back in and play around with that.

Mint, baby! Parse and Fanatic died, but not without bringing Legacy to the single digits. Chrono and KNYFE picked up the slack, finishing him off with 2 and 6 hp, respectively.

Tried again, and yep - it's possible to take IL from full to dead just in CR's third play phase. That was fun to watch unfold.

Excuse me, fourth - I miscounted.

You can beat this on KNYFE's second turn. 

I like to try and guess the One-shots from the titles (which I see on the forums, but don't read about, before I go to the game).  For this one, I guessed Ambuscade vs. Hunted Naturalist, Haka, and Legacy.  As you can see, I got it exactly right!  :P

Anyways, mint.  First round mostly turtled until End of Days.  Then I started setting up Chrono-Ranger.  KNYFE was kind enough to pull a Hunter and Hunted from the botton of CR's deck, and on the third round CR kept both Eyes on the Prize, and then a Sudden Contract upped his damage to 6 per shot, and Iron Legacy went down for the count.  No deaths, never saw his backside.

Mint.

Challenge Iron Legacy, specifically his backside, is one of those challenge modes that make me go "why would I ever want to put myself through that", though I guess there isn't really anything else you can do with the difficulty 4 villians. Of course, the one shot is pretty much set up as the perfect heroes and hands for such a scenario, so it wasn't bad at all. I'm just glad Legacy starts off with a discard because I probably would have forgotten to check for End of Days and not remembering that would have ruined everything.

Funnily enough I never used KNYFE's base power. Parse died fairly quickly, Fanatic had 1 HP and was slated for death from the New Jersey Devil that also killed Legacy, while the other two had comfortable high single digit HP. (That's what qualifies as "high health" in an Iron Legacy fight.)

I think you mean Advanced Iron Legacy, not Challenge

I think I went three rounds? It probably comes from lots of IL games and knowing how to get around his advanced rules: don't let him flip.

But yeah, even not considering what was in their hands, I had no problems. One round spent drawing cards so Fanatic could wipe Paul's stuff, one round of By Any Means to soften him up, down to 21, and then one round of merciless shooty murder that overkilled him by 3 on Fanatic's turn. I mean, she coulda done it herself, but Chrono-Ranger did get the +1 from Critical Multiplier...

Mint.

This one's all about Chrono-Ranger.

I did let Iron Legacy flip--and it wasn't so bad, because the heroes (particularly Chrono-Ranger) have multiple instances of damage per round, and lots of damage boosts. Everyone else let Chrono-Ranger play cards and use powers....Paul didn't last too long.

Parse ended at 7HP, Fanatic at 13HP, and Chrono-Ranger and KNYFE had 14HP.

Surpringly easy Mint. I had an atrocious start. Used the wrong abilities twice, and lost a bounty because I played to quickly. But an End of Days helped out, and I just made quick use of the Cowboy and ex-agent.

not as scary as I thought

Near Mint, because I let IL flip the first time and didn't get enough recurring damage going. Second time, Chrono-Ranger brought him from ~25 HP to dead (each "1 projectile damage" having been jumped to something like 5-6 due to the bounties and a KNYFE-d Hunter and Hunted).

Actually, I say I let IL flip first game, but the biggest thing I did wrong first game wasn't simply that, it was not End of Days-ing IL's entire starting suite. I had an idea to use Critical Multiplier/Segfault to deal with Ongoings, but it didn't quite pan out. Plus, with Fanatic as the last hero, and CR and Parse getting "you can't deal damage" effects first tutn, it's just a matter of taking an early breather while you wait for the wave of destruction.

Relatively easy mint, even with a flip.

Lost Parse on the last Environment round.  Paul didn't last past the beginning of KNYFE's turn, when she Prime Punched an Amphibious Chupacabra with "The Whole Gang" while Paul was at 3 HP. 

Mint, even though I was careless and let Legacy flip (somehow I thought the flip theshhold was lower).  But still, the multiple instances of damage punched through.  Parse would have gone down, but was saved by Con's Bunker to end at 1 HP.  Finished him off by killing a Chupacabra with The Whole Gang on it.

Nice and easy Mint in what must've been Chrono Ranger's finest hour, dropping Iron Paul on his third turn with dual Eyes on the Prize, a Sudden Contract and a standard power use. Easiest Iron Legacy fight I've ever been in, I think :)

Mint.  End of Days was the key; without his opening salvo of multiple nasty Ongoings, even Advanced Iron Legacy isn't that hard to deal with.  I mostly concentrated on using Fanatic and KNYFE's powers (and a Syntactic Analysis from Parse) to get multiple draws/plays from CR's deck.  Once Ultimate Target and By Any Means were on Legacy, and the Compounded Bow came out, it was over.  KNYFE finished him off on her third turn with a Servo-Gauntlet punch.   Heroes were at 10HP (CR), 4 (KNYFE), 2 (Parse) and 7 (Fanatic).