Forest Hyren Conspires With K'teeb

For my second game tonight, I thought I would honor Crust357's play of the Flying Hinko and those three Magi by playing my own Flying Hinko deck, although I use those same three Magi in the opposite order. I would go first again, this time starting with Tryn and a random set of five cards. Tryn would get lucky with a K'teeb and Forest Hyren in the opening hand. This would not bode well for Crust357. She played out the powerful opening with the K'teeb dreamcrossing the Forest Hyren. Pruitt would make a decent showing herself by playing a Glade Hyren, Flying Hinko, and Poad's Secret Sauce. With a good roll on Grow and using Pruitt's Power, that would become one large hyren. I would later end up telling Crust357 that putting a little of that grow into the Flying Hinko would've made things a little more difficult for me. At three energy still, it was easy to use Crushing Roots and begin overwhelming Pruitt with the K'teeb-Forest Hyren energy combo. By the time Poad faced off against Tryn, it wasn't looking to good for the little cook. Poad would toss down real good with Weebo, Leaf Hyren, Flying Hinko, and Tree Hinko. A real good lineup. The only problem was that Tryn was already in a strong position. While Crushing Roots would make the Forest Hyren too small to use its own power, the K'teeb would remedy the situation by using its copy. After the attack step and eliminating the much healthier Flying Hinko, Tryn would add a Weebo and Tree Hinko to her side of the field. This allowed the K'teeb to gain more powers by dreamcrossing with the Weebo and later with the Tree Hinko as well. With the Forest Hyren still in play and plenty of add energy or revitalizing powers to go around, Tryn was certainly in control. When Poad would play out his own copy of Forest Hyren, it looked like he would have a comeback until Tryn cut it short with a Giant Carillion. While it would come down to Tryn versus Tryn, Crust357 chose not to play anything out against the Naroom swarm already in play. Afterwards, I think Crust357 was going to take out the Glade Hyren and put in some K'teeb after learning that dreamcrossing would keep the powers of the other creatures as long as the other creatures it got its powers from stayed in play. While these were both crushing losses for Crust357, they showed great sportsmanship in these games. I was impressed.