Friday - Tips & Strategies

Cards with the “x1 Destroy” power can be very useful, but you probably don’t want more than a pair, with the second one being added shortly before the pirates arrive if possible. They let you gracefully remove aging and other poor cards and if you use the “sort 3” ability often, you can frequently avoid these if they are unwanted. The version with 3 attack is the best of them.

Remember, these cards cannot destroy themselves or other destroy cards.

Using the Vision card’s ability to sort 3 cards and discard one can be a great way to avoid nasty aging cards waiting for you. Add a couple of visions cards to your deck to have this option.

You only lose the game when you need to lose a life, and don’t have any left. Going from one to zero life does not do this. Don’t be afraid to go down to zero life.

As you go through the Hazard deck during the first round, always take the +X life cards when given the choice, and fight to gain these. Not only are these amongst the easiest (only 1 of them is a 2-value hazard, the rest are 1- or 0-value) but they will ensure you can recycle life points early on.

The life points are necessary to draw more cards when you need to win a card and also needed to strategically lose fights and pay for the destroyed cards.

When I first played the game I found that it was very difficult to win and, while I don’t mind difficult games or losing more often than winning, I found this game a bit too difficult for the type of game it was. So, to make a bit easier to win, I have implemented the following rule:
Every time I win a “battle” against a card, I get to take back life that I have lost equal to the difference between what was needed and how much I beat it by. I cannot intentionally keep adding cards – a soon as I have defeated the card, I must stop. This means I usually don’t get to take back any lost life because I usually end up getting the exact number needed.