Economy
A lesson in economy. No, not THAT economy…
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So it’s a combination of yugioh and magic? Yugioh as benji specified attack position for his card
Magioh?
Doctor Benji is in,
detailing a powerful deck.
It’s heavy with power
and, thus, needs some Shreck.
Cheap and strong to win
Or, at least to build strength.
You need a fair mix of skills
if you’re playing at any length.
The heart of the card is aces
but they can’t be all you show.
You need to fill all the spaces.
That’s how your wins will grow.
Diolch yn fawr iawn.
Oh, yes, the classic TCG mistake. “This creature [type] is awesome; I’m gonna build my deck around it.” Which is great… if that creature [type] is practical and your deck shuffles ideally. But you got no guarantee of that, and even when you do, you’re still amplifying the strengths and weaknesses of that creature [type].
I played three different TCGs in my teens. I’m not totally sure I recognize the card layout of Phoebe’s phoenix, but I definitely recognize the pitfall.
The “immortal creature” effect is a big trap for most new players. Having a creature that comes back can be handy, but you’re still playing the same creature over and over just to get back to where you were a turn or two ago. If that’s your whole deck, that means you’re not developing your board and moving toward victory, you’re treading water while your opponent is making progress. If your deck’s gimmick is that your creatures don’t stay dead, you need to get VALUE from them DYING, not just use them as “disposable” beatsticks.
I don’t even have to pick a specific game for this to be true. Card advantage and managing whatever resource you use to bring back your dead critters is universal.
An immortal creature that deals its attack damage again as it dies seems like they give value in dying. Unfortunately, that value needs to consider how they match up against other cards of similar or lesser value. When their base attack damage is barely over half of a comparable non-immortal creature, that value does not seem to be worth it, especially when it takes so long to bring them into play already. Also, note that this extra damage is fire damage, which may be particularly helpful against decks weak to fire, but particularly underwhelming against a deck full of creatures immune to fire.
In general, if a particular sort of card seems particularly relevant to you, it can blind you to that card being relatively weak or situational. It doesn’t necessarily mean that the card is worthless, but it may mean that it’s a poor choice to build your deck entirely around them. I personally suspect that Kai’s deck contains at least one dragon (who will be particularly bad for Phoebe’s deck, because it’s immune to fire damage). However, the deck isn’t *just* dragons, it’s in fact mostly not dragons because dragons have the same main issue that Phoebe’s phoenixes have: they are big expensive cards. Having said that, it may be notable that many of the creatures Kai’s zerging Phoebe with are dragonkin. That doesn’t really give them a particular advantage right now, but once Kai’s dragon warlord comes out giving bonuses to all dragonkin on his side or getting bonuses based on the count of dragonkin out, suddenly that flavor attribute isn’t just flavor.
Disclaimer: I am guessing wildly based on having played a more than healthy amount of MtG many years back and applying that to what feels like it would be natural here. I do recognize that in universe, Phoebe’s feathers do not emit enough energy to ignite much of anything around her, but that doesn’t mean that the phoenixes in her deck work the same way.
I’m not sure where Kai’s coming from in your hypotheses, Phoebe’s playing against Benji.
I honestly do not know either. I usually do a couple rounds of sanity check reviews before i post, but they usually do not catch anything this egregious. Today, I was writing this shortly before a meeting and somebody came to me about something or other and I decided to post without any review rather than risk having it be another comment never posted because I got too distracted from it before posting and then it was days later. I probably would have been better off following the usual process.
If a creature’s value is that it can do heavy damage while it’s alive and costs the ennemy to destroy it, that itself can give a good enough reason to call for it again and again, as long, as it costs more the removal than the deployment. It causes problems to the enemy either if they are neglect it or take care of it. The problem is, that such creatures are costs a lot from the start, so building around them requires some other type of cards for early defense and just endure it, until the main cards kicks in. This is the same with real-time strategy games, where the worst enemy of those type of factions are the swarms too. You need to destroy those type of enemies as fast as possible, because if you let the main units being deployed, they becomes nearly indestructible.
I wonder what it’s like for bird hybrids to learn to speak. As Irene Pepperberg noted, regarding her work with her parrot Alex, “it’s very hard to say P if you don’t have any lips”. Several other consonants also depend heavily on the lips.
LOL! I can’t understand any of that. This Card Wars stuff has always been beyond my ability to understand. I tried to learn Magic: The Gathering in high school but I just couldn’t.
And the lesson begins. Take notes Phoebe, Benji’s a great teacher.
Phoebe’s deck theme is Phoenixes, a little too on the nose, er, beak. She’s well on her way to becoming a YuGiOh character.
So the first problem with Phoebe’s deck is that she’s too focused on energy building and is slow to react to the opponents? That makes it hard to attack and defend, so she should use cards with a lower energy cost? That makes sense, good thing she has Benji to explain it to her. He’s putting his experience tutoring younger players to good use!
I wonder if Benji is aware of who Phoebe is, I doubt he’s aware she’s a Mythical Hybrid, though the phoenix deck gives it away. XD I’d love to see the look on Benji’s when he learns that she’s not only a recurring character on Jesse’s Adventure, but a legendary Phoenix herself!
I wonder if there’s a deck that specializes in having an empty hand. The card game I play has one that’s really risky but strong. Every card makes you discard when it plays out, then does the rest of its stuff if you have 4 or less in your hand. It’s got a heavy metal concert theme to the archetype, so I interpret it as freeing your hands to rock out once the band is set up.
I believe the proper plural is “phoenices”.
Not entirely wrong this time, but it is the much less used plural form so you are therefore wrong enough I’m afraid.
The most common and accepted plural of phoenix is phoenixes, because it originates from Latin and Greek.
I’m not into D&D or any card games like this, I was big on shooters and RPG’s. But my son was and he was making the same mistake, focused too much on setting up his power players and getting his butt handed to him. Watched too much of the Yugioh TV show I guess. He switched to COD2 with me after I showed him the zombie mode, the kid was obsessed with the coming zombie apocalypse… Yeah, he’s in his 30s now, he has a gun safe filled with guns for when they show up, even put a star-shaped blade on my weed-eater…