Hello,

A friend of mine and I have played a few times now with the starter decks and we are starting to get to the point that we are replacing cards and even adding cards to our decks. We are both new to this game and I have a question about strategy:

My buddy has beat me most of the time in our games, mostly because he seems to be able to get out a lot of allies and keeps killing off mine all while doing damage to my hero. This is something I have a hard time combating at the moment. I will pull out my seven cards and have a decent mix, and can even get some 1-2 cost allies out on the board, but then he is able to move things out faster. He will also place resources face down a lot that will give him the advantage of more allies out than me.

My question is, do you experienced players do this alot, like maybe laying down that 7 cost ally face down as a resource just to get the jump on your opponent? I have almost always relied on placing my resources face up in hopes of using them. I pretty much never lay anything face down.

Can anyone give me some advice on how what my basic strategy should be, either trying to get my allies out faster than him so I can do more damage or does this all really really depend on the deck and what is is meant to do? Maybe I am just not reading the deck right and playing like ####?

Thanks for any help offered.

Personally I would say if you are only putting down quests as resources you are probably not putting down a resource each turn for the first few. You should be dropping something. In most of my decks I am running 10 quests, and if I do not have one to drop down I am flipping something I think I will not need.

For instance if I am playing a warrior and my opponent seems to not be concentrating on destroying items I will drop a duplicate weapon as a resource.

AHH Perfect, thats exactly what I was asking for. I assume that the bottom lying basic strategy you need is to always be one up on your opponent, and it seems to me at this point that having more allies out there to protect your hero is probably a good starting point.