Just want to say something about not overanalyzing. I recently played a game with your buddy Mithrophon in the ascension forum tournament organized by our friend IronCub over here. It was game 3 of our best of 3 opening round playoff match, and to be honest, I thought he had already won the game by like round 6 or 7, as despite my first turn advantage, he got an early loamspeaker (5 cost hero for 3 runes) and then a next cycle oras (7 cost hero that gives 4 runes and honor equivalent to the honor value of any hero you buy that turn), and I had a bunch of crap. But due to lucky center card flips and whatnot, I was able to get the tablet (4 energy, acquire or kill anything on the board), some banishers, lots of energy, and eventually a transformed jakeb (6 honor, double the amount of honor you get this turn).
Anyways, the point of the story is in what could have been the final turn (I believe there was 9 honor left in the pool), I had Jakeb in my hand for an easy 6 points. The problem was I still felt I was behind some, and draining the pool to 3 might have allowed him to end the game next turn, which to me would have resulted in a loss for yours truly. I knew I’d be cycling next turn, and there’d be a chance I could draw Jakeb again with some other combination of cards that could have netted me a lot more points. The normal play would be playing jakeb anyway, because there was no guarantee I’d be able to draw him the next turn, take the 6 points, and hope the game was tight enough that the 6 points would put me over the top, or that he couldn’t end the game, and I’d be able to go again.
After some analysis paralysis, I decided to punt Jakeb, and as luck would have it, I was able to pull off a 60 point turn on my final turn and win by approximately 50 points (Jakeb + using tablet to kill over an ender of days that Mithrophon unluckily flipped up definitely contributed haha). I told a buddy of mine that game 3 vs Mithrophon was probably my best game of all time, and although I definitely got lucky, I created my own luck by not doing the obvious (I’m fairly certain almost everyone would have played Jakeb that turn). I’m not saying MicroAdayu is right this game, or that you’re right, and I’m not trying to rub it in Mithrophon’s face (although it kinda sounds like it haha), but sometimes analyzing the so called obvious move allows us to find a better hidden move. I’m looking forward to seeing how the hive votes this game!
Also, Ironcub, RE multiple accounts - this isn’t Brady and deflategate, ya know!
