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There are many solitary/black cards for sale in the card tableau, do you ever buy any?

The only time I have ever bought any was when I was stuck with so many fire varans I couldn't do anything else, and the black cards at least give decent bonuses.

Maybe I'm just paranoid: should I buy them more often? Do you every buy them?

you can buying black card.... First, the spider. 4 trees acan be a solution when you have no tree for buying. But généraly, do it with one white card (spider with mokey -3 ytrees cans bee a good strategy). The owl can be interesting, for have movement too.

OK it's interesting to know that you buy black cards sometimes. I'm still a bit hesitant haha.

White cards, on the other hand, always seem very good when I manage to get them.

Yes blacks cards can be bought. it gives plenty of ressources but reduce your deck cycling. a gregarious animal and fragments can mitigate this issue. Or sometimes it is not necessary, a 6 solitaries deck can be fine.

Also Black cards are interesting in a game when you do not want to cycle your ceck because it is full of fire varan
It is better to get trees/water/sun for a black card you buy than drawing a varan. the cards you buy aare guaranteed ressources for your next turn. With lot of varan, you cannot rely on your deck anymore. And the more stuff you put in your deck, even black cards, the more it dilutes your varan.

White cards are not always good. I almost never buy the one that gives -2 trees or the one that gives -3 wind, the cycling bonus they give is not worth the loss of important ressources.

With the kodama expansion, I'm wanting to build a deck that can draw a lot of cards every turn, so I never by solitary animals. Without the expansion, I like the spider quite a lot, it's very cheap and 4 trees is no joke. I'll also buy the cobra if it shows up early and I'm going for a flower win. Other than that, unless buying something can ensure my win next turn, I won't buy the other solitary animals.

Yeah they can be handy when you deck is full of varans and the spider is good. Here's the main thing though. Most of them are really bad. Most have only 1 seed. Making them worse than half the solitary cards in the deck you start with. And their bonuses are all over the place, you only get two actions so getting a mixed bag of sun, water, seed, and speed, instead of one or two really high values just isn't that helpful.

That's why the spider is good, but the others really only up for purchase if you're trying to end it with some fire tokens.