If you needed more fear, I would have suggested going for the Talons threshold. Destroy 3 towns = 9 fear??? You have the elements and card plays, just need to save your cards

a narrow victory, but a victory nonetheless 😅

10:10 If you really wanted that free card, you could have let one of your presences be pushed via Dark Fire's special rule. Two damage in the wetland is pretty tempting, so I'm not sure I would have played it differently.

Spooky week hype!

The Fog Closes In has a mandatory Dahan push on it, which would have affected some of the later turns (though you had Dahan pushes from the right innate that you kind of just used "wherever" and could have reversed this pushing instead.)

I believe elemental boon's elements counts as how ever many or how ever few you want it to. P16 in branch and claw rulebook states that for events. I am guessing that extends to shroud getting an extra energy or not

Stranded Shroud should be BASE Shroud , and I will broke no arguments on this matter. there is no other Shroud

Solid win!

Devouring Teeth when it's able to actually draft some cards that do damage: :D Devouring Teeth when Ryan accidentally calls it Sharp Fangs again: D: (Humor me and imagine those faces are toothy.)

@0:08 "today we are playing everyone's very first spirit, River" Fun Fact my first family Sunday game of Spirit Island: none of us chose River. Ms. took Lightning , I went Shadows and Son took Earth(shockingly we won even playing half the game with Pandemic double blight overflow rules! [all a joining territories get a blight] . So River wasn't anyone's first spirit in our group. In fact I think I have only played River once or twice (counting aspects) and the others have never played River. I don't know why but none of us ever bonded with River. Which is odd considering I LOVE Finder and control . less odd I have only ever played Vital twice once in a solo game against vanilla beginner no adversary just to get a win with every spirit and My second ever game of SI with my group where I learned that stalling too long will loose you games. Sure we were ambitious in trying an adversary and the other two chose higher complexity spirits but it was definitely me playing Vital that lost us that game.

Pretty sure you had the TL3 win at 22:00 by placing presence into your C8 and Storm Swathing origin and target in the same land. You wipe out both cities in C8 with your majors and handle C6 with your innate ✌

Imagine being a random goat herder from Austria, you get sent to settle on a cool new island, wow, so neat! And all you can find everywhere you go are shittons of horrific spiders and Sarlaac pits chasing you around

such a cozy W against an adversary that can otherwise feel like the final boss of si

I've never quite understood why Teeth is so widely disliked. There was a reddit poll about favorite/most fun spirits and Teeth ended up in F tier along with Earth and Shadows.

Love seeing the draft on T1! Resisting the urge to play into the loop really raises the ceiling on the spirit.

I've beaten England 6 at the following Terror Levels with the following spirits: TL 1. Starlight (early draws of Jungle Hungers and Razor-Sharp Undergrowth for easy thresholding, a fear card removed the inland town, so explores were skipped very early on). TL 1. Fractured (Vigor is busted, as you can quickly corral the invaders to the coast and coast only) TL 2. Keeper (need to be lucky with explores and draws to win at TL 2, but I've done it a few times) TL 2. Serpent (Unrelenting Growth turn 2 meant I ignored all of the ravages and unlocked 5cp/6 energy on like turn 4 slow. Having 10 presence on the island meant max-tier Serpent Rouses in Anger can actually clear the island in two uses) TL2. Lightning + River (pocket one board so hard with the slow-to-fasts and River's control, Raging Storm makes Massive Flooding useful, and the constant Boon of Vigor allows Lightning to go straight for 5/6 plays and 1 energy, clearing its board very quickly) TL2. Wildfire + Green (Green prolifs allow Wildfire to actually clear its board very quickly, and having two airs allows Wildfire to keep its board clean with just its innate, so it very quickly becomes a 2v1 on one board) TL2. Thunderspeaker + Lightning; fast Manifestations = fast landwipes, which is insane value, especially if the inland town explores on turn 1, you nuke it, and pockets the remaining lands on your bond. Lightning also provides free Dahan movement. TL2. Wounded Waters Bleeding. Serene downgrades so much that fear is hard to come by, but the cheap town removal, and eventual replacing of cities with Dahan, make this a very potent spirit for beating England at TL2. You should try it! Beating England 6 at terror level 2 is doable, and feels great when you do, as it's a big middle finger to England's main mechanics. Beating England 6 at terror level 1 feels like cheating.

Your videos are inspirational. Keep it up.

Playing all my favorite spirits lately my guy

A suggested alternate series of moves at about 19:40: Use reclaim to move incarna into ravaging Mountain, escape pieces into sands with presence Play Reach from Infinite Darkness instead of quicken would've hit the Swallowed By the Endless Dark threshold allowing fast abduction of Explorer+City 3 levels of left innate would kill one town and abduct the second

At 26:39, when you get blight in the land with your Incarna, I noticed the incarna survived. Just wondering, was that intentional?

I am blown away by every single turn you played

this one may combo with violence aspect BoDan. May generate a lot fear if combo them correctly. However, this theoritical combo need to be tested

ggs, rising heat is such a smooth-sailing spirit so long as you keep bangin that g3 drum

oops no wilds at 12:48

the classic "oh right, slave rebellion" undo 😅😅

Very cool game!

I love this! Please do more high diff matchups. Doesnt have to be 6/6 to be interesting

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we need more of double adverseries content!

Call me crazy but I feel like combining Tactician with Warrior into a single variation would make a lot of sense.

For france 6 rule regarding fear card not removing explorer, you can choose whether or not to push the explorer. It is a “may instead push” on france 6 rule

Hey Ryan, thanks for your videos. I have never played Ember Eyed Behemoth before, maybe I misunderstand the cards. But from what I read on the wiki, your actions at minute 07:00 seem confusing: Terrifying Rampage reads push 3 Dahan, doesnt seem to be optional. So you shouldnt be able to do damage in Wetlands 2 during the ravage step? Probably only a minor difference though. Blazing Intimidation reads "Push 2 things into a land without Incarna" on the wiki. You pushed one into Wetlands 2, the other into Sands 4. That does not seem quite correct to me as your Incarna was in Sands 4? That may have changed the flow of the game as either you push both explorers into Wetlands 2, causing it to blight (and Mining Rush) or keep one explorer in the Jungle 3, causing it to build and be a problem next round?

I thought because Royal Backing specifically says "during setup after adding all other invaders", it would trigger after France's Persistent Explorers, meaning you cannot put the extra explore and the royal backing town into the same land. Not that that would have changed much, I'm just wondering.

Great game! Thanks for uploading it! A tip, regarding presence destruction: With a lot of Incarna spirits, you can often safely sacrifice your Incarna instead of other presence, when having to destroy presence. Specifically, at 25:00 you could destroy your Incarna, as Behemoth's special rule can also add it to a land with their sacred site. It wouldn't matter here, but it's good to keep in mind.

Oddly this game felt almost entirely too comfy as a fangs vs. england 6 game. only a very small portion in the very middle did the CBC meter (Clenched Butt Cheeks) hit a 5+.

so i gave to see who was being "too noisy" cause that sure sounded like a pupper with a squeaky toy !

Clean game! Thanks for uploading.

At 32:17 you could have killed your own presence before adding the blight, keeping all your beasts around.

What happened to the Behemoth vs 6/6 video? Was looking forward to seeing it but it disappeared. :/

The usual BoDaN game

I would have picked Gift of Power for sure in the first round. Extra cards is always great to delay your reclaim + it has nice elements.

What a climax. Great game.

See enticing splendor but takes razor sharp instead. Absolutely built different

Also, seeing that big stack of presence in the ocean makes me want to see this aspect played with Finder so it can use its “push half the presence in a land” power/innate on such a large stack. Not sure if that’s better than base ocean in that combo, which is already pretty crazy. Creating an inland dump land, temporarily making it adjacent to the ocean (and therefore coastal), and putting deeps tokens there to whittle down the big stack of invaders seems like it could be really strong. You’d be giving up a lot of land drowning for that though, and if you drown the dump land before the coastal explore comes up, you’d have a really rough time 😅

Haha, I’m glad I’m not the only one bothered by the ordering of the deeps innates.

"We need to hold onto this card if only for the sake of energy" - he said, sitting in 11 energy with a deck of minors :P

Last turn of the game, you could have event-proofed yourself by just playing Hazards Spread for a badlands and getting that last city kill. With a whole turn left, there's probably literally zero chance of losing at that point, though.

did you not have to discard your hand after using call of dahan ways or do you just choose the bullet points you want to do

i love deeps because you can go g2 to get the elements for repeat drowning. base there is almost no reason

deeps gotta be a top 3 spirit, so fun