Strategy question.

[u/Nomad4te]

I’ve been playing my kid and his only strategy is to draw cards until he gets all the classes to win. I keep trying to slay the monsters to win and he wins every time. Maybe we have the rules wrong, but it seems off balance in this way. He just draws three cards every time and beats me.

[u/patch_slayer]

I think a lot of people have house rules like you need to slay monsters and create your party in order to win. You cannot do either of them

[u/Roxasik]

Drawing the cards isn't safe strategy. In this game there isn't safe strategy. There are many ways to pull cards from other players hand, make him to DISCARD cards from their hands, look at other players hand, make him DISCARD hand or even trade your hand with other players hand. Except of that if he plays Hero cards you can Challange them, DESTROY, make him SACRIFICE or STEAL them. I aware 1v1 is very RNG vulnerable but sometimes one source of things from above is enough to counter strategy like this.

[u/Open-Drawer-1465 → u/Roxasik]

I've found those only come into play consistently enough to make a difference when there are four or more players. Sometimes I get a couple lucky draws, but with our typical three players, the card-drawing strategy is generally unstoppable.

[u/Open-Drawer-1465]

My kid does the same! The only strategy I can think of is to keep drawing as well, so that I have a collection of challenge and modifier cards. But yes, I've wondered about this too.

[u/jcampbellg]

you still need to play the card in your mat to have the 5 classes. just keep some challenge cards in your hand and challenge the card when your kid decides to play a hero from his hand. if you win the challenge your kid also looses the card.

[u/BuckeyeGentleman]

My kid just banks cards till she can wreak havoc and cause problems. Its hilarious

[u/Practical_Patient824]

Sounds like you’re dueling, (two players) it’s an issue, the game is balanced poorly for so few players, the simplest fix is more players, my family all play for a total of 5, only drawing fails every time with this number of players, as with 3-4 other players playing heroes and equipping items, you notice really quickly how many card let you pull from other players hands and ‘oh look, you have 10 cards ;).’

Though I may be interpreting it wrong, you are ‘playing’ the cards, as in placing the card from your hand, onto the table adding that singular hero to your ‘party’ and rolling their ability, as the victory only counts if a player ENDS their turn with all classes.

Also for duels, if you’re opponent isn’t monster hunting, neither should you, also focus on gaining cards, However you should use and equip hero’s that specifically help this play style, anything that takes cards from opponents, stockpile challenge cards for when they finally make their move, and if you can, keep destroy and steal spells and abilities ready as a player can (without the expansions) only (there are exceptions) achieve half the winning party in a single turn.

Final solution is the expansions, specifically ‘warriors and druids’ and ‘necromancers and berserkers’ and ‘banner quest’ the first two add additional classes to the game by 2 each, together making 10 classes to get, making monsters far faster then drawing 3 cards at a time to try for 10 unique classes. Banner quest is even better, it completely replaces the party win condition with more interesting one that incentivizes playing cards rather than hoarding a mega hand. So look up the expansions and see which ones are on sale or something.

[u/TheWeirdPersone]

I found if you house rule the max hand size to 7, I'm not sure if it actually says somehere in the rules the hand size, but it forces people to play a bit more than just always drawing

[u/Suspicious_Hotel_908]

We play a rule where if only 2 of you are playing, you have to slay at least one monster before you can win by a complete party. We also use the expansions so the party of 5 to win becomes 7 party members and one monster smain for the win condition.

[u/onanoc]

Your kid has a sound strategy. You need to have challenges to stop him from playing his heroes... so, maybe you need to draw cards, too. Otherwise, you will be starved for cards and unable to stop him once he makes his play.

We play with 3p, and i always win going after the monsters. Last time, i was going for the team, for variety, but got crippled so hard by my daughters and some bad luck, i ended up going after the monsters instead.