Alright, so I'm not sure which forum would be the best for general strategy discussion, so I figured I'd just toss this in the general forum...

A friend of mine recently got the Ivy starter deck, and pretty much smashed my face in with the Switching Weapon Styles action card, with Ivy's powers fueling it.

Basically, he'd play Switching Weapon Styles, then unload with 3-difficulty attacks that do 3 damage or less. Since whenever he does 3 or less damage he can commit a foundation to draw another two cards, usually getting yet another 3-difficulty attack in the process, it pretty much completely wrecks me before I can stop it. Pretty much the only way I've figured to stop this onslaught is to keep him from playing the action, or kill him before he gets a chance to. Since I'm planning on running a wind deck, and I'm not having much luck finding a wind card that can stop him, I'm pretty much stuck with somehow killing him before turn 2-3.

Any advice?

SoC is pretty much the only thing i can think of

Block the attacks (completely). If they don't deal damage, she can't draw more cards.

DR will also do the trick really well since Ivy generally doesn't run damage buffs or Holding Ground/Healer.

Off of Air you get access to Tag Along, which just tells Ivy to shut up. You can also block her attack, Reversal, and then Enhance with Chinese Boxing or something to deplete her foundations she needs to draw more cards.

Block any of her attacks, reverse with shadowblade, commit them out so they cant draw anymore.

Tough outer shell

Seal of cease

Secret project can help

Also, if your main character shares any symbols with Kung-Fu Training, you can use that... it'll remove itself from your cardpool as a cost so after you play it you can chain off of Air as you normally would for blocking and such.

Block the attack is the easiest way .

For action negation there is Kung ku training , yoga adapt , and SOC

Other ways are negating ivy so she cant draw attacks- Inhuman perception , mac , tough outer shell ,

Finally find ways of commiting her on her turn with thinks like assasnation arts and manifest destiny.

Alright, thanks for the ideas, guys! Kung-Fu Training and Tag Along will probably be my best bets (thanks for the advice on not needing to match my primary symbol, I didn't know about that little rules bit).

Although, I'm kinda new to the game, so I don't recognize some of the abbreviations. I'm assuming SoC is Seal of Cessation (another card I may have to get), but I don't know what DR or Mac refers to.

Also, for Chinese Boxing - can't I just use the enhance during the enhance step during my opponent's attack, instead of blocking and playing a reversal to use the enhance? Or am I missing something in the rules here?

Regardless, thanks a lot for the tips. I'll have to find some of these cards...

DR= Damage Reduction

MAC= Martial Arts Champion (I think)

Chinese Boxing recently got an errata where it is only playable on your own attack, thus the need for Reversals. For a cheap Reversal with Air, look into Hakkei or Rolling Buckler Uppercut, both have 3ccs and are decent attacks.

Ahh, didn't know that, thanks.

Alright, with a few changes to the deck, I should be fairly decently equipped to deal with her. Still need to make the deck itself better, but... eh, one step at a time.

pump the damage of the attack so they can't draw

LinkN said:

if you post your deck in the deck forums im sure theres someone who would be willing to give you some advice on what you can do to make it better

Eh, well really, my "deck" is just the Zi Mei starter. But, I looked at the "theme" of the different symbols that someone posted a while back, and figured that Air sounded like the best "fit" for me (at least until I learn the game better), so I'm going with that for now.

well once you get more cards and incorporate them into the deck then itll get better for you and you can ask about what to trade for and what to take out that you already have and such

its helped me build better decks and even become better at building them because i look at things from more then just my own prospective now and see different strategies in cards