Surviving Fire... Forest Style

I played Birdie21 just a bit later that same day. Having had a nice break from Naroom, I opted to go back to the first of my test decks for Twilight War. Magam Flamesmith would start things for Birdie21, playing a Braggle and Arbolit. It was one massive Braggle and would be devastating to my Naroom deck. Tryn would help against the pressure of Magam's effect. She would play out a Flying Hinko, Leaf Hyren, Flame Rudwot, and then went nuts on the add energy powers for a little. After that, she used Bythan's Gift to return the Flying Hinko to my hand. It would be a hard fought battle between Tryn and Magam Flamesmith for many turns. Magam would burn some and do devastating damage with the Braggle, she even healed it up more at one point with a Giant Arboll. Unable to do much against the Braggle, I had to play enough creatures and create enough energy to not only counter the effect of Magam, but to allow for a total creature lost to the Braggle. Really, I was quite pleased that Tryn held out until I finally netted a Giant Carillion. Goodbye Braggle. While Magam did make sure that the Weebo wouldn't survive, and immediately destroyed Tryn's Flute as soon as it was her turn, Tryn would defeat Magam with the Giant Carillion as a massive beast, crushing Magam's creature with Poad's Secret Sauce in play, in addition to her own power and Energy Band. Barak Leader would use his power to attack the Giant Carillion right off the block. This reduced it from twelve to six energy. With a Granas, Arbolit, and Lava Balamant, Barak put out a decent creature shield. Arbolit used its power for the Granas. With Brushfire from the discard pile, Barak burnt the Giant Carillion some more in addition to playing out Barak's Ring. However, Barak Leader had also spent all his energy in the process of the turn. Tryn powered up the Giant Carillion between her power and the Energy Band. With the "Sauce" still in play, this gave enough energy to stomp the Granas. Back down to three energy, it wasn't big enough to get the Lava Balamant, so I opted to use Crushing Roots to bring it down to one energy. Barak didn't survive. Raega would take up the final spot for Cald. I wasn't looking forward to Braggle again. Scroll of Fire and Brushfire took out the Giant Carillion without leaving any doubt. Braggle, two Arbolits, and an Ergar looked like a good toss down for Cald. Thermal Blast would finish off Tryn. Now, it would up to Pruitt to survive the Braggle tactics. With another large Braggle in play, Pruitt would follow Tryn's early example and tossed down big. Flying Hinko, two Balamant Pups, and two Leaf Hyren. A good source of add energy powers. One Leaf Hyren was dumped into the Flying Hinko, as well as Pruitt's own power. It would take several turns, but she would find another Giant Carillion. Of course, this time, Cald would choose to eliminate the Carillion instead of the Flying Hinko. The screen shot here is the beginning of the final turn. Raega had tossed down a Giant Arboll the turn before and moved two of its energy back to herself. While this was a good move to try and buy some time, the fact that I had a Lumber Hyren in hand would negate it. Flying Hinko would attack to take out the creature and Lumber Hyren ended the game.