I have cheated at the game with mana burn / full hand.

**WolfCyr** · 11-21-2015, 01:31 AM

Hi all, I'm a new player (2 days old) of SE.
As I've got only basic cards, I made a deck exploiting a (bad ?) rule to win in ranked games.
I play a mage (the cute girl that do 4 damages to a mob which cost 4 or less) with almost no creatures, but lots of aoe, direct damage abilities damages and tempo.
My deck is a 40 cards to optimize the draw of 3 specific cards :
(I don't remember the names, sorry)
- 4 cards that poison 1 per turn
- 4 cards that burn 1 per turn
- 4 cards that made me draw a card at a cost of 2 manas

I need 1 of each, the extra ones are for a fast early drawing and are used as sacrifice, so it let me 30 cards with no sacrifice.

Now the thing is that I stack poison + burn to deal 2 per turn when tempo / kill / disable oponent allies.
I deaw a lot with the artifact card I don't remember the name, and when I'm near of empty deck, for the longer fight I simply let my hand full so no mana burn.

And here is the problem. I think we should have 10 cards hand, or stay with 7 cards but you draw a card even if you have a full hand, and if you have 8 cards of the end of your turn you are forced to sacrifice ond.

What do you think ?

**Gondorian** · 11-21-2015, 01:59 AM

Hi. Welcome to the game. It's not cheating to wait with 7 cards in hand and empty deck. And I don't think that's as strong as you think it might be. What rating are you at so far?

**Kip thorp** · 11-21-2015, 04:43 AM

I've got to agree w Gondo. It's not cheating at all, it's avoiding a 1 health penalty for every card you cannot draw. (Only happens when you have no cards in your deck left).

But welcome to the game, and keep it up as long as you can, if you have no cards , most players will have something to cast against you, and boom. It's over.

**Kosmiker** · 11-21-2015, 06:48 AM

We don't call it mana, we call it resources.

**WolfCyr** · 11-21-2015, 08:35 AM

Ok, no I don't think it is strong at all, but it's a very quick and cheap starter deck more for fun. I was just surprised by this mecanic.

Oh and really great game so far, just need a card library inplemented in game.

Have a good day all.