Joined: Feb 09, 2015 Posts: 191
Identity: Curious Cannoli
Meant to help you have a better understanding of board state, damage distribution, card interactions, and intuition of what cards your opponent could have. Feel free to contribute your own. I'll be contributing some as I come across them because I prefer realistic puzzles to idealistic ones.
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Format: Arena Heroes: Paladin, Warlock Paladin has a Truesilver Champion with one charge equipped, and has Shielded Minibot on the field. Warlock has an unstealthed Stranglethorn Tiger on the field, along with a Dragonhawk Rider. Paladin is at 8hp and holding an Antique Healbot. If he plays the Healbot he will be at 16hp. He can only kill one of the creatures, which one should he kill?
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My opponent, the Paladin, choose to kill the Tiger. Unfortunately for him the last card I was holding was a Power Overwhelming. I think the reason it is a tough call is because Tiger is harder to deal with. However, if you attack Tiger you are taking 2 additional unnecessary damage. Also Rider does not only have more damage (6 vs 5), but a lot more potential damage with Warlock's common buff spell (14 vs 9). A Soulfire and Darkbomb could also make up the health difference (13 - 6 - 4 - 3 = 0). An additional reason to kill the Rider is that it can trade with both Minibot and Shieldbot on the resulting field, where Stranglethorn would only have the option to either eat Healbot or pop the shield of Shieldbot, either of which would let the paladin make a trade that results in them having a 2/2 on the board. Based on these arguments I think killing the Rider is objectively the right play.
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Joined: Oct 30, 2013 Posts: 16394 Location: Secret Lair
This isn't exactly a puzzle.
He should kill the 3/3, because he will still have a 2/2 and a 3/3 on the board at 16 health versus the opponent's 5/5 next turn, and he will theoretically take 3 less damage overall. HOWEVER, there are a lot of important factors missing here, such as hand size, deck size left, how much life the warlock is at, etc.
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