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Ahhh, so second player has an advantage. Thank you! It's unclear to me if the advantage lies with player 1 or player 2. Player 1 has first dibs on taking a card (they usually can pick between the 0-cost or 1-cost slot) while player 2 will get first dibs on the card that was in the 2 star slot and w...

Has anyone ended up scoring all the tiles on the board (so 12 points in a single move)? I just had a game where it lined up so I ended up scoring 11. https://imgur.com/a/4eICUmb

https://boardgamearena.com/9/resarcana?table=175363478#

(Necromancer) dragons lair turn 1 rush beaten with a (witch) alchemist tower +HOP round 1 into a catacombs round two; opponent and I each got reanimate once. The witch and Horn of plenty helped a lot certainly.

I just finished this game with a score of 17: https://boardgamearena.com/table?table=145694580 . There is not much merit in getting such a score, which can only be achieved by scoring at least 8 points in the final round. In this game, I could choose 2 creatures and 3 dragons among my 8 artifacts. ...

I think it may also be worth noting that catacombs of the dead is pretty competitive with dragon's lair in terms of value generated by activating it (every 4 gold usually gives you about 2 points with some minor beneficial effect added on), generates an additional black per turn, can be used as a mo...

Depending on the draft, sometime the opponent can go for an early attack to mess up the lair player if they realize this is happening in time. Most notable is that an elvish bow played before the dragon player discards their last card stops anyone other than healer, witch+reanimate+horn of plenty, o...

https://boardgamearena.com/table?table=148372356 I just now managed to win on round 3 for the first time ever for me and somehow pulled it off two games in a row. My first one (https://boardgamearena.com/table?table=148372356) ties your score of 14, which I would've had 2-3 points less than if not f...