Jasmine: cast when you want to keep an advantage or are playing against a melée class who also wants board control. Good baiting tool for mages too, so you have 1 less fireball to worry about. Next turn you can cast another ally or weapon.
rusty longsword: honestly a good equip all around. However you must use your shadow energy when you do...and you might want to save it for Jewelers dream, so you can do some double casting. I'd use this purhaps when you have a puwen on the board already. But it does give you some real room to cast allies after equipped.
Aldon/
War Banner:
Aldon is a body on the field and war banner is an everylasting boon which people rarely bother messing with. Many don't include war banner scenes it screws up their tempo or they don't have room. I've worked it in and found it works best when you go first (obviously...though 2nd is still very workable), and have a puwen on the board. Assuming you opponent puts down a puwen or whatever, you're ready to put down either and get rid of it. OR if you have 2 3cc allies, war banner, and JD, put down any 3cc ally, equip JD next turn, and the turn after that, cast war banner, use resource acceleration, then cast a 3cc card of your choice like war banner.
Blood frenzy: this should be last priority. ESPECIALLY if you have JD. casting this if you have puwen down (you honestly should have a puwen down period. Put in 4x puwen and 1 or 2 dirk to assure you have a 2cc drop.) is fine ONLY if the opponent has nothing down. I'd only cast I'd you have a terrible hand. But other than that, cast later.
You'll eventually get a feel for what you want to do when. It's not that hard. Just remember, When in doubt throw down a 3cc ally. Like in chess, development (getting your pieces out, before the opponent) is important.
Just remember, the turn after JD is equipped, you can cast 2 3cc cards even if you skip sacrificing and stay @ 4 resources. If you have war banner, cast war banner first, attack w/allies & your JD, then cast your second card, which should be blood frenzy. Good luck!
P.S. I'll try to include a game I played so you can see what I'm talking about.
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