Except that everyone keeps stating you are playing another opponent, you are NOT.
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- The attacker is generally smarter than the AI. As the attacker, you can choose how to play the board. Do you want to work one side to avoid charging mana on the other? Can you create a diamond or a shield? Do you want to match a vertical column of tiles to only charge one opponent, or go horizontally to charge 3 a little bit each? Do you want to explode a diamond or wait? Do you want to ghost tiles to charge your specials?
The AI both creates the board AND operates the enemy team. If it creates the board it is in the position of setting up what you can and canāt do in the game. Yes, there are slight differences in how you can play one or the other, but like a card dealer stacking a deck of cards in favour of the dealer, the game can stack the board so that it can know with certainty that it will kill x number of your players before you can kill any of your opponents, by limiting the damage you can inflict on your opponents.
Iāve had boards where i literally only had 2 moves, both of which were to attack the same colour as the player, if you start off in that situation, you DO NOT have the option of attacking with either a strong enough attack in the first place, or being able to build up your own mana before youāve already built up your opponentās mana. So before you make any moves, if you look at the board you can work out and see that you will do little damage, and which opponent will build up mana. The only thing you canāt predict is which of your characters the mana will be used to attack (or if itās a healer, to heal), but you know that before you even get a chance to kill one of your opponentās characters, x number of yours will already be dead. Thatās why i say the board is rigged.