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DrZaius
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So, what do you think about Cardian? I personally liked it a lot eventough it's hard to coordinate after a while because you just get too many cards.

My strategy:
10 gold mines
3 iron mines
3 crystal mines
2 sacred pacts
2 dwarven mines

Some siege engines, portal growth and very important: repairs!

If you know, you have repais somewhere in your deck, you can afford to lose 90 lives at the beginning and you can invest all your money in mines and new cards until you have a gold income of ~30. Once you are that far it comes to your combination of summons, I went for:

4 Epics (you normally can't afford more) - Necromancer, McNeely, Taylana, Demon Knight
8 Ranged attackers (ascended archers are nice if you don't need crystals for anything else, the fire warden is imo the best card in game)
3 lancer
2 scout/runner-types
8 creeps (peasants or similar)

You can easily crush the enemies portal with a load of creeps + fire warden/necromancer, but most of the time you should try to keep creeps and rangers balanced (6:1) and use meelees for defense only.

This game needs to be MP! And it should last longer...


Has anyone yet gathered 10 siege engines? Seems like a straight forward tactic.^^

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XxProNoobxX
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Whats a siege engine?

DrZaius
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Peasant

Siege Engine: 200 Gold, 2 Souls - Instantly deals 10 damage to your enemies summoning portal.

So if your deck consists of 10 Siege Engines, 1 Reaper's Bounty (Legendary Card - +25 Souls) you just need 2000 gold, meaning 22 Dwarven Boons (Legendary Card - +150 Gold).
You would have 33 cards, meaning 25 in your deck, which means it takes you 1250 gold to draw them, 2000 to play the Engines = 3250 while you get 3300 from the Boons. Meaning you can as fast as you can click.^^

DrZaius
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It's a shame noone talks to me.^^ According to the comments, Cardian has a pretty good base of people who love it...

So tell me all: how quick can you win?

kiraice
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I do use 10 siege engine.

Believe or not, the most important resource is GOLD. Nothing else is important, and if you try to summon those units which need iron/soul/crystal, that isn't a good idea.

kiraice
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Gold Mine x24
Reaper's Bounty x4
Dark Merchant x5
Dwarven Boon x1
Mud Golem x3
Orc Scount x3
Siege Engine x10

kiraice
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Nomad

Next I am willing to try rush. Is it possible to rush? Since there is no lower limits for the deck size. :3

kiraice
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After several trying, I figured out two things.

1. Bots seem not have resource limits, or, they have more initial resource than player.

2. Dwarven Boon gives +150 gold, and to draw this card needs 50 gold. Which means each Dwarven Boon gives players 100 gold. Then if we are going to deal 10 Siege Engine, that is 2000 gold and 50 soul in total, we need Reaper's Bounty x2 and Dwarven Boon x24. If any player achieves this requirement, he could beat bot in less 30 seconds. (In theory it is only one second, if there is not any time wasted on control.)

"Ultimate"(?) DD deck
Reaper's Bounty x2
Dwarven Boon x24
Siege Engine x10

However, to have this set isn't easy I think.

DrZaius
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You only need 22 Boons (already calculated that in my second post).

Currently I'm playing with:
10 Siege Engines
23 Gold Mines
3 Ancient Mines
2 Reaper's Bounty
6 Dwarven Boons ^^
2 Bags of Crystals
2 Surplus Requirements
1 Repairs

My fastest games lastet not even 2 minutes. There is, however, an even quicker way, but I haven't tried yet with so many Boons:
Kamikaze, 3 Peasents, Dwarven Boons, Resources for Kamikaze.

DrZaius
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Make it 4 Ancient Mines - for a total of +69 Gold per second

kiraice
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kiraice
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Nomad

So the real superior card is...Dwarven Boons? Too bad it is rare. Or player can be very imba. muhaha.

jakeup
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jakeup
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I wish the game was multilayer because that would make this game so great. And also the time limit should be longer.

montyjj
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i dont understand why there is practically no "help" button in the game. there's a short tutorial that explains almost nothing, and you cannot call it back when you read it once.
my question is: what are those numbers in the boxes in the upper left corner for?

kiraice
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Nomad

Use broswer function you'll see what it means.

kiraice
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Nomad

I wish the game was multilayer


Do you see that DD deck we discussed in page one? This game is far imbalance to play in multiplayer.
DrZaius
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If you think about my deck... I can crush you in at most 3 minutes and within 3 seconds - that wouldn't be fun. But there should be a sequel that is more balanced (I still laugh at the fact, that the uncommon "Sacred Pact" costs more than the common "Dark Merchant" (20/15 Souls for +2 Gold per second)), especially Kamikaze, Siege Engine and Dwarven Boon are too strong (eventough the Boon is ok as it is legendary), there should be a cap on how many legendary cards are allowed in a deck.

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