Day 1-3
O: 3-2, 5-0, 4-1 (12-3)
D: 4-3, 5-2, 5-1 (14-6) B-A-A
I have no idea how or why my defense is doing so well, no Kunchen, no healers, no taunters, no revivers. I guess Alfrike in no-yellow rush is a giant pain in the ■■■ no matter what, but hey I’m not complaining about an A defense.
Mercifully only 5 Alfrikes so far, but also faced 2 Hels. Here’s the really funny thing: none of my losses were against Alfrike tanks! Here are the 3 losses:
Kunchen tank was a bad board, but did the best I could with what I was given and actually managed to take out two.
Heimdall tank was an autofill, and I got a big fat 0 against it. Why? You’d think any normal person who sees a green tank+flank would heavily stack red right? Well apparently I’m not normal, because for some reason I decided to use my usual Alfrike team against this, which is 3 purple + 1 green 1 red/2 greens. Predictably opening board had almost no green or purple tiles, but a yellow diamond and blue dragon ready to be made. Also had 6 red tiles right under Heimdall, as if it was mocking me for not stacking red. Let’s just say Heimdall went off twice and I had no chance.
Last one against a Freya tank was also a big fat 0. How does someone manage such an incredible feat? Well opening board sucked, but I managed to (or I thought I did) play it right and got the tiles I needed and everybody was charged up. Then a rogue cascade happened, and charged up literally the entire defense. So between Krampus’s buff and the double hit from Karnov and Killhare I was instantly wiped out.
Btw my two Alfrike teams:
cMelendor comes along if the flank is a taunter. There is very little in the way of direct damage, but having 3 mana controllers more than makes up for that. Obviously it’s starting board dependent, but I’ve found the key is managing and timing of specials. Basically don’t use Proteus/Hansel/cMel if not absolutely necessary, even if it means “wasting” some tiles because you can’t charge above 100%. As long as the board spits out some purple and green tiles at me, between Proteus, Alfrike, and Hansel I can usually manage to shut down the entire defense, even if monks withstand or clerics manashield once or twice.