Diving Into the Flood

[Johnny Chronicle]

My group's next scenario is Here Comes the Flood. We briefly looked over the setup, and it looks like Augury should come in pretty handy. Just wondering, though, whether it would be better to try and pull Allies to the top of the deck, or push Monsters to the bottom.

Any thoughts from adventurers who've waded through?

[csouth154]

Honestly, I don't know how much Augury can really help. If you Augury for allies, it's kinda pointless because you'd be putting allies at the top that were already at the top; but you definitely don't want to augury anything else, because the last thing you want to do is find allies at the top that you then have to shuffle and possibly move closer to the bottom.

[Andrew K]

Monsters all the way. Not only will it push boons to the top, but bad cards will be sent to the bottom. Also, keep track of how many cards are in the deck. After a certain point, you know the monsters are all that's left, and you leave.

[csouth154]

csouth154 wrote:

Honestly, I don't know how much Augury can really help. If you Augury for allies, it's kinda pointless because you'd be putting allies at the top that were already at the top; but you definitely don't want to augury anything else, because the last thing you want to do is find allies at the top that you then have to shuffle and possibly move closer to the bottom.

Thinking on it more, Augury would really shine in combination with a card like Brodert that let's you examine the bottom cards of a deck. If you find allies on the bottom, you can Augury that deck in order to force a shuffle in hopes of getting them closer to the top. You'd need to augury for something you could be confident of not finding three of on top, though.

[Johnny Chronicle]

Thanks for your thoughtful responses, guys.