@@brendenwright4209 watch out! You may try to force animal and get water instead 😝

Sure playing on the App is nice, clean , pretty and accessible but Stranded Shroud is what Shroud should have been from the jump. If you have tried Shroud before without Stranded I URGE anyone whom hasn't TRIED Stranded as it just solves some of Shrouds worst matchups. Triangle trade ? done , England stupid builds ? , Done ! , HLC gathers? , Done ! , Russia while sacrificing a single fear prevents the pushing of an explorer? {with added bonus of preventing a fear BOMB} , Done! <to possibly prevent that ,Which can be Great since denying a push can be so helpful against a Russia 3 three explorer Ravage> , and just about any other advisory vs. Stranded with an isolate is SOO much better ! Turn one , two or three , isolate win can save your cloudy ass vs. just about any advisory especially against the highest difficulties if the cards turn up right!

Town in B1, good catch!

Fangs is amazing! How do you rank it vs it's 2 aspects?

@@mattstebbins7033 nominally Sweden is the easiest, England and Russia are the hardest. What spirits do you want to play?

@ryanlackie1129 we kind of try different ones and just go for it. We probably have 30-40 games total. Last night I played transformation wildfire and he played Roots. We randomly picked Russia 5 and no idea how we won that game. He generally likes more offensive spirits like dances, volcano and darkness. I play more of the defensive style or dahan spirits like nourishing and eyes. Although I really enjoy transforming and wounded waters.

Which means with England you need to generate more fear and get fewer fear effects.

7:14 The quick answer is that it's too expensive and does too little In this moment, we want to draft and play any animal card so that we can use the left innate to clear up the LC. With 3 energy, we can either grow top track for +3 up to 6 energy, which would allow us to afford plague that turn, or we can grow bottom track, which will leave us 1 energy short, forcing us to play Fiery Vengeance. Yes, playing Fiery Vengeance and growing bottom would give us the right innate, but that's just one measly damage. We also would do less damage in H4 in the fast phase (3 vs 5 damage). So taking Plague and growing bottom track means we don't get the play the major immediately, which undermines the point of playing a major, and we're just worse off overall Let's say we go top track to play plague, what's the card going to do anyways? Defend 3 in and around H2? That doesn't accomplish anything, still have to take a blight or burn a disease in H2. Ideally we would be able to threshold the major and do tons of damage with it, however we're now 3 presence away from the 3 card plays on bottom track, this will take 2 turns of growth + 1 turn of reclaim to get there, so we're much slower, and we will be too late Compare all of this to tigers hunting which is half the price, meets all the short term needs of the game, and can be thresholded without a 3rd card play if we draft a lucky tri-element card (though this last point is the least important). Tigers hunting is much more effective than plague without the threshold. Hitting 3 card plays is a really big deal on vengeance since the left innate doubles in damage and the right innate triples (ignoring badlands). So cheap cards are going to hold more weight since we can afford them on a lower budget

@@ryanlackie1129 Thank you!

I really appreciate it! That's the primary reason this whole channel exists, and I'm happy to see it's working for someone :)

I see, that feels like getting away with something that you shouldn't, but technically correct is the best kind of correct

Isn't volcano a badlands spirit? Lots of instances of damage combined with badlands placement

We havs the same comment haha

I did this matchup with stranded 2 months ago around Halloween time: kzbin.info/www/bejne/boLEh5aPo8qpgtk

@ryanlackie1129 thanks, mb!

@@JolNarBinks always gotta keep you on your toes 😎

at zero cost!

Sure you got a bad initial explore but Pandy lightning strife is soo Sweden Kryptonite. it would seem to take a monumental amount of bad explore card and event deck luck to make this matchup sweaty. only worst bad initial explore and just about almost every ignore strife event in the deck could possibly tilt the table enough

@@nicholasliu5788 I just want to be greedy and fear farm the whole board 😜

ahh yes nullifying a possibly game ending town mega build in W5 was the the less aggressive play , and probably the right choice. Just when I play Shroud or Vengeance I get super aggressive and it seems the more aggressive i play the better it end up working out (usually)

@@celestialspark5697 yeah this matchup always rides on the knife’s edge, I definitely could have played sharper at the end

hedging forced blight with infinite vitality would have been the choice if he couldnt have killed the 2 cities in the slow