GUDNAK GAUNTLET GAME 4

0:00 And then I'm going to plop a bolt golem.

0:03 Yo.

0:04 You may deploy the fighter to an unoccupied square adjacent to an attachment you control. Put the attachment on this fighter. You may use its ability.

0:11 That was flick.

0:12 Yes, you get to activate again and shut down a different. Luckily, you've already used deploy.

0:16 Yeah, so deploy still so can't attack and let's say abilities.

0:21 Can't use abilities. I can't attack or use an ability this turn. Okay, great.

0:25 Oh, that's nice.

0:26 Yeah.

0:27 hate to admit it.

0:56 What is Good Knock?

0:59 How you doing this boy if you want to hear here at Good Time Society and we're playing a bunch of Good Knock. We're back with Good Knock.

1:05 And I'm here with none other than one of the creators, Ian Oliver. How you doing?

1:10 Also host of Last War Good Knock.

1:12 Yeah, coming soon.

1:14 Yeah, yeah. That was that was If you follow it, it's a great pun.

1:17 Uh yeah, so look we next in the gauntlet. I'm scared. We talked through some of the things I was doing with my decks before and now this time I went in solo because we wanted to keep it fair and surprising.

1:28 Yeah.

1:29 We'll see. We'll see if

1:30 I've learned enough from you.

1:31 Yeah, and I'm excited to be your final boss in this gauntlet. Technically in the contract it said as long as you don't lose you advance. So you got through on a technicality here.

1:38 Okay.

1:38 Yep.

1:39 All right.

1:39 Uh and you still have some great prizes if you want to talk about those.

1:43 Yeah, I I would love to.

1:44 Do you recall a text you got from me asking what your favorite card is?

1:47 Yes.

1:48 Do you remember what you said?

1:50 I said a bunch. I was like the Delgoan, I said the Iroxy which I'm bringing out right here.

1:55 Yeah, do you remember the card that you highlighted from Uroxi?

1:58 The Bolt Beast or the No, the basically the one column. Yes, the that I got from you.

2:02 Yeah, yeah. And uh so I had some exclusive alternate art drawn up of your favorite card. And uh that will be the reward for the winner and the loser. They will just be in different physical states. Um so, you know.

2:16 Okay.

2:16 No pressure.

2:17 Yeah, yeah. Just based on the the match against Alex, I can see how jacked up it can

2:23 Yeah, we're getting a little more evil every round, I think.

2:25 Yeah, I see. I'm like, "Okay. All right. Either I'm happy or really sad."

2:29 Yeah, perfect.

2:30 All right. Well, I already said it. I'm playing with the Uroxi. They're really cool, you know, nomadic. And I like that when you get to the gates, you can start moving strongholds around. But you have the Gloaming, which is another

2:42 Now, why are you assuming that? There are no context clues lying around that

2:46 that give you the impression

2:48 Yeah.

2:50 Yeah, look at that.

2:53 Yeah, so anyway, I'll be playing a Refractory deck. Yeah, no, of course I'm going going the other way.

2:58 As we we always say, when you playing Gloaming, you going to be gloating. All right, that Is that what they always say? Yeah, yeah. I'm trying I keep saying it in the Discord and people ask me to stop.

3:07 Yeah.

3:08 All right. Well, we're going to roll it up, see who goes first. That is going to be eight.

3:14 Okay. See.

3:17 Six.

3:17 All right.

3:18 Good start for you. I'll kick this thing off. Let's draw up and get ready to go.

3:24 I think I'm going to go ahead and kick this off with my Bolt Bearer for my first action. It has overtune. If I put an attachment on an adjacent fighter I control, swap this fighter with a Bolt Beast from outside the game. Who knows to say what kind of creature it is. It could be another one.

3:40 It's just a little one, so it can't Nothing bad can come of this, surely.

3:44 I'm going to start real strong with a draw.

3:46 Mhm.

3:47 Yeah, I'll draw a card for action. And then I will play a two hunter.

3:50 Nice alt art.

3:51 Yeah, nice alt art. Yeah, I'm good.

3:53 You know, I think I'm going to since you got the hunters out, bring out my wolf pack soldier.

3:59 It has plus one against attacking hunters. And then I am going to go ahead and just jump into putting the firebolt on my wolf pack soldier, which gives me the ability to destroy target one or two that is adjacent and not in the stack once per turn. Attached soldiers may use this ability after it enters a new square. So, that's going to be great. And oh.

4:20 Yikes.

4:21 Overtuned. If you put an attachment on an adjacent fighter you control, swap this fighter with the bolt beast from outside the game. So, now my bolt beast has turned into a three-power brute. Feed me bolts. At the end of your turn, if this fighter is not adjacent to an attachment you control, swap this fighter with a bolt bearer from outside the game. So, I need to always be around these attachments to really beast out.

4:44 Yeah. I like that the little the little bolt bearer is uh stuck in there.

4:47 Yeah, yeah, he's like

4:48 still he's still hanging out.

4:50 "Oh, help. Help, guys."

4:51 All right. And that's your turn?

4:52 Yeah, that is my turn.

4:53 Okay. All right. Let's see here. All right, my hunter at least is preventing your bolt beast from coming to hang, but the soldier is is a problem. All right, here's what we're going to do. We're going to play the invisible advisor. He has an action ability called diplomacy that lets him relocate target enemy fighter that is not in the opponent's gate on top of a fighter adjacent to it with the same owner. So, he can really mess you up if you give him the chance.

5:16 Yes.

5:17 And then I'm going to play tactic, neutral tactic called cannon shot that is unfortunately for your wolf pack soldier going to destroy a soldier one or two in your back row.

5:25 All right. So, it's going to be this guy.

5:26 All right.

5:27 Rip.

5:28 That was all good. And then the attachment goes with him, right?

5:31 Very fun. And

5:33 Is this the end of my turn?

5:34 Perfect. I'm going to play fists of fabric. And as long weave, this fighter may target fighters or squares that are four or less squares away with his action abilities. And then next up, I think I'm going to ring out just another Horn Tusk Hunter as well. And my Bolt Beast will return to its Bolt Bear form. He's back. And it's your turn. I like that kid.

5:59 Yeah.

5:59 I like him more than the other side of him.

6:01 All right.

6:02 We'll draw for turn. All right, now do I start getting real annoying with Invisible Advisor or not? Is my question. I think I do. I think I'm going to use this to relocate the Fist of the Fabric on top of the Bolt Bear. Okay. I think that's enough of Invisible Advisor for now. So, I'm actually going to cover that with Ladies in Waiting, who has a ability that lets heroes I put on the battlefield use their action ability for free, right away.

6:27 Oh, nice. All right. I'm going to draw and I'm going to play a Wolfpack Soldier, another one.

6:35 Mhm.

6:37 And then I'm just going to move the Horn Tusk Hunter forward.

6:40 All right, I was hoping you wouldn't.

6:42 Yeah, yeah.

6:43 It's okay. This guy's going to come up here.

6:44 All right.

6:45 Play a Brute 2 in my back row, and that's me.

6:49 All right. Going to draw. I am going to trade with Horn Tusk Hunter and your Hunter.

6:56 Okay.

7:00 And then I'm going to play Bullish Brute. That's plus one when attacking soldiers, and that's my turn there.

7:08 All right, okay.

7:09 Draw for turn. All right, we're going to play Spectral Hunter here, just a one. Just a lowly one, nothing to be nothing to be worried about. And now I'm going to do a three.

7:18 Oh, nice.

7:19 You can tell I prioritize the alt arts more than things like logical deck construction or you know, whatever. And I think that's my turn. I pass to you.

7:30 All right. Oh, draw for turn. I think I'm going to play Bullish Brute on top of this one, and then I will use my next action to draw.

7:41 Okay. Searching for answers.

7:43 Mhm.

7:44 Okay. Okay.

7:45 I draw. All right, first action I'm going to draw a card.

7:48 Okay.

7:50 Here we go. That's interesting. Okay, and now I'm going to move up here. Got to get a little aggro about it.

7:56 All right.

7:57 Okay, I'm going to draw for turn and I'm going to move forward with my Wolf Pack Soldier and then play a Bolt Bind Aura.

8:08 Yeah. It has a tune put an attachment from your hand onto this fighter. Swap instead if it has an attachment already. Use this action ability on that attachment. Do not fatigue this fighter.

8:18 Yikes. Okay.

8:20 Yes.

8:21 I didn't know you were bringing him. All right, I will draw. Now, I really don't want to lose my ladies. So, what I'm going to do is put another fancy altar exalted of the Ever King.

8:34 Okay.

8:35 He's on my shirt. He's on my deck box.

8:36 Yeah.

8:37 He's on this reference card that I

8:39 Yes.

8:39 have conveniently nearby.

8:41 Yes.

8:41 And of course, he has an action ability called decree. Lets me turn everything into ones during combat until my next turn. But that doesn't matter yet. Or maybe ever. Okay. And then I'll just take the free money here.

8:53 Okay.

8:55 And pass.

8:56 Okay. We're going to draw here. I think I'm going to move forward with Fist of Fabric in place of Horntusk Howler here. That would be the two actions that I can do.

9:09 Okay. Getting kind of gridlocked over here. I could just trade trade, which I might have to. Yeah, I think I got to do it. Think I'm going to take the Fist of Fabric out with the Spectral Hunter.

9:19 Okay. I'm just not going to trade cuz it doesn't have the ability. So, you get to just kill it. You just get a free

9:24 Mhm. Another free one for now.

9:26 Okay.

9:27 I'll take out the Bolt Bear.

9:28 Okay.

9:29 I never want to see Oh, wait, he lives. I never want to see that Bolt Beast again. So, that will do. And I'm sure that Brutal will be fine next turn.

9:37 That's it. Thanks for playing.

9:38 It was indeed, yeah.

9:40 Going to draw this right here. I have to go ahead and do that trade-zy there. And then it's going to move up. And then after that, my next move will be

9:54 Another Wolf Pack Soldier. What? Endless. Okay. I draw. I think I'm just going to go here.

10:03 Okay.

10:03 Really sad losing my shiny one, but you know. All right, now if that hunter is not fatigued cuz it did none of the fighting, did not help its friend. I mean, you're going to get a plus one against it if I don't, so I guess I got to do something. We'll go here. We'll trade here.

10:17 That's good. All right, we're going to draw for turn. I'm going to play Time Weaver. Oh, no. Time Weaver, the reason that you heard oh, no is while this fighter occupies your gate, you gain one additional action at the start of your action phase.

10:34 That's good for you.

10:35 Yeah.

10:35 Oh, yeah.

10:36 Mhm. And then I'm going to move the Wolf Pack Soldier over here. Just remind you a little bit more, you know.

10:41 Do you have the option of giving me the extra actions?

10:43 Oh, yeah. I think I'm going to pass, but then

10:46 Okay, something to consider. All right, draw one. I think I need to lean into intimidation, so I'm going to play two ones this turn.

10:52 Ooh.

10:53 Yeah.

10:53 Okay. All right.

10:54 All right, there you go. A brute and a hunter. That is some intimidation. Pretty scary. We're playing golf rules this game, where the ones are the strongest on the field. Just waiting for the ball better to pop off. It's It's stressing me out.

11:08 Well, speaking of which, I will use attuned to use Fate Woven Tapestry. I choose a type of action that I haven't chosen this game until my next turn, opponents may not take that type of action. The way attunement works, I get to use this ability on attachment, so I don't have to use the weaver because it has where if it goes on the weavers, you use it right away, but

11:26 You get it right away, huh?

11:27 Yes.

11:27 Oh, man. What am I going to choose? Deploy. And I don't want you to deploy. That's one. I have two more actions I can do. I'm going to go ahead and do this trade here. Ouch. Okay. Okay. And then I'm going to move up bullish freight.

11:46 [sighs]

11:47 All right. Draw. Mhm. Mhm. Go for it.

11:51 I see it now. I see it now. And then we'll take the trade out. We'll do this. Gloomhaven's all about value. So that that's not too bad. Uh I don't have many other options cuz you uh stopped me from deploying. So that's unfortunate. Maybe I go here with the Everking.

12:08 I'm going to draw for turn. Everking

12:11 The Lady in Waiting and the Invisible Advisor.

12:13 Yes, sir.

12:13 Stacking three heroes that you only get the uh ability of one is a it's a bold choice I made. Yeah. Um I may may now be regretting.

12:21 Yes. Yep.

12:22 You have how many actions again?

12:23 Three. Yeah. Six. So first action, you can't attack.

12:28 So you're using the tapestry to stop me from attacking?

12:31 Yes. All right. Cuz he gains an ability. So yeah.

12:34 I'll be honest. I was going to attack.

12:36 I was going to.

12:37 I felt like you were.

12:38 Yeah.

12:38 Then I'm going to use thread the needle. Each fighter you control with an attachment may consider each square that is two squares away from it as adjacent until end of turn. And then I'm going to plop a bolt golem.

12:52 Yo.

12:53 You may deploy the fighter to an unoccupied square adjacent to an attachment you control. Put the attachment on this fighter. You may use its ability.

13:00 That was slick. I'll be honest.

13:02 Yeah.

13:02 And this is why he's he's your favorite.

13:04 This is why.

13:06 Yeah. And so I just use it again?

13:09 I think so. Yeah, you may use this ability. Yes. So you get to activate again and shut down a different Luckily you've already used deploy.

13:14 Yeah. So deploy still So can't attack. And let's say abilities.

13:19 Can't use abilities. I can't attack or use an ability this turn. Okay. Great.

13:23 Ah, that was nice.

13:24 Yeah. I was going to hate to admit it. All right. Yeah. I don't feel hamstrung at all. All right. Cool, cool, cool. I think I just have to play some defense right now. Yeah. All right, we're going just straight-up soldier. Do I move? I can move. It's one of the few things I can do.

13:39 Yes.

13:40 Thanks for leaving with that one.

13:42 That was generous of you.

13:42 Yeah.

13:43 I'm a little scared, so I'm going to go here.

13:45 Okay.

13:45 Just start threatening the gates. The Time Weaver is really putting in work, so their time has come.

13:51 Yeah.

13:53 Right. All right, I am going to draw for a turn.

13:59 You once again have three actions.

14:00 Yes.

14:01 Hate that for me.

14:02 So, the only actions left is going to be draw.

14:06 Draw, move, defend, which could be

14:09 Yeah.

14:10 nasty in the right circumstance.

14:11 Yeah. I think I'm going to use one of my actions to draw.

14:15 Okay.

14:15 My next action will be placing a bullish brute here, and

14:22 What do I have here?

14:22 A three and a one and a two. Okay, so siege just

14:25 Still an option.

14:26 I think I'm just going to trade right here. Just got to

14:31 Did you draw for action? Oh, we have three. God.

14:33 Yeah.

14:34 This Time Weaver, man. All right. I'll draw. Wow, my struggle is already empty. Time flies.

14:40 And you have so many cards in hand.

14:42 I do.

14:42 still very much in the game.

14:44 Mhm, mhm. I have a lot of tricks. Just need to plan, I think. I think I want the value of a three-for-three trade, so I'm going to disorder in the ranks. Just as is it makes you swap the positions of each fighter you control, and they cannot wind up in the same spot.

14:59 I guess what I'll do is

15:01 I think I maybe I miss lethal there, and that's okay. I don't want it. I don't want it.

15:09 Okay.

15:10 And now I get to attack here.

15:11 Mhm. Trade there.

15:14 Goodbye, Everking.

15:15 Mhm.

15:15 They're going to come here.

15:16 All right.

15:17 And that is my turn.

15:20 All right, so we're going to siege, and that's my last card which was the Earth Bolt.

15:24 Oh, one of the best bolts.

15:26 I'm going to trade with Time Weaver okay, and then I'm going to use Bolt Bender to kill the Invisible Wizard.

15:34 Yeah, that's fair.

15:35 And then that is my turn.

15:37 All right, let's start doing cool stuff. I'm going to play Beyond the Grave for zero. Let's me put a one from my graveyard into my hand. That's going to be Ladies in Waiting.

15:46 Mhm.

15:47 Just love her so much. And with my two actions that I still have, I Ladies in Waiting

15:56 Mhm.

15:57 and I Necromancer. Necromancer gets to activate his action ability

16:01 Mhm.

16:02 because of Ladies in Waiting. It's deploy a one from your graveyard to an empty square that is not an opponent's gate. So, it's going to be this guy.

16:09 Mhm.

16:10 Nothing to worry about with him.

16:11 All right, so I'm going to for my turn, I think I'm going to attack that guy.

16:17 Mhm.

16:19 Bring him forward.

16:21 But he just got here.

16:22 Mhm.

16:22 And then I'm going to bring out a War Tusk Hunter.

16:27 Okay.

16:27 Really wish I had played Echoing Specter previously so I could bring him back from the dead, but he's just kind of alive.

16:36 Yeah.

16:36 As alive as the Gloaming get. I do still have a cool play though. We're going to drop an Amalgam Brute three. Cool alt art, again really it's my priority. And then I'm going to do Soul Swap for zero. Destroy target fighter you control that is not in a stack, then deploy another fighter with equal printed power from your graveyard to that square. You know who it's going to be. You know he's coming back. Ever King's back. Because he just came came into play

17:01 Mhm.

17:02 Ladies in Waiting activates his action ability as you can see on this lovely alt art by Mark Pool. Shout out Mark Pool. All fighters become ones when attacking or being attacked until your next turn.

17:11 Got it.

17:11 So this Necromancer and the Bolt Bender are going to trade evenly with my second action.

17:15 Okay. All right. Fun.

17:18 Sounded sarcastic, but okay.

17:19 Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're going to do it.

17:21 Going to play Malicious Brute.

17:23 And then I believe we'll move up the Horn Tusks Hunter. And then

17:29 Pasture.

17:30 Let's

17:31 Let's go Echoing Specter here.

17:33 Mhm.

17:34 That will let me bring someone back from my graveyard. It's him again.

17:39 Oh, nice.

17:40 Third time's a charm.

17:41 Mhm.

17:42 See if we can do some cool stuff. Uh that's my first action. I think I'm going to decree.

17:48 Mhm.

17:48 All fighters are ones when attacking or being attacked until my next turn.

17:53 All right.

17:54 How many cards you got left? One?

17:55 Just one.

17:56 Yeah. Yes, I had thought you had more cards on hand where Living Stronghold would be real scary.

18:01 But I don't. I think I'm going to trade here with Horn Tusks Hunter.

18:07 So that

18:07 Mhm.

18:08 these ladies can stop what they're doing.

18:10 And then I'm going to move my Stronghold into an empty space and make my Stronghold a Living Stronghold.

18:16 It has only moved during my action phase while this fighter is not fatigued. Uh squares adjacent to it are considered my gates and if it's destroyed, I lose the game.

18:25 Can I do that? Can I just

18:26 No.

18:26 Can I bring

18:27 No, it seems like yeah.

18:28 It seems maybe exclusive to Araxi.

18:30 Yeah.

18:31 So I just have to not let you get here.

18:33 Yeah.

18:34 And feeds me with that.

18:35 Yeah.

18:35 Okay. You do have one card left. I don't know what the card is. All right. I could decree and then get a nice trade up there, but I think I want to mobilize people instead. So I think I'm just going to take trade even here. And then go here.

18:52 Okay.

18:53 More skeletons.

18:54 Yeah, then I'm pretty sure that's going to be game because either I'm just waiting for you to come. If I come here, you can do that and that's game. So, yeah, that about does it.

19:04 [sighs]

19:05 GG.

19:05 GG.

19:06 GG.

19:07 Yeah, no, all I had left in my hand was Died in the Wool.

19:09 Oh.

19:10 You know, it's very interesting. I think with this I was really trying to capitalize on the bolt abilities. You know, [clears throat] it's almost like when you do that, all your tactics should be bolts or you just really don't have enough.

19:23 Right. And you didn't bring any of the heroes that like bring attachments back or anything.

19:28 Yeah, I that was a whiff on my part. I thought I had them in here, but I didn't cuz I was definitely waiting for them to come back, but I think that is a whole another hero.

19:38 Space Weaver? Is that the one that brings it back?

19:40 Yeah.

19:40 Which um

19:41 Which really I probably should have had space instead of time just because of

19:45 Time Weaver he put in work for you though.

19:46 I know.

19:47 Quick lore drop for you. Space Weaver? You know who his bodyguard is?

19:50 Who?

19:51 It's the uh This guy right here. Which is this is the

19:55 Yeah, yeah.

19:56 the alternate art.

19:57 Mhm. Yeah.

19:58 That's your dude.

19:59 Yeah, yeah. What what's the version I'm getting?

20:01 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You still get it. I wouldn't worry about it. Um it just is in the poster tube if you want to

20:07 Oh, okay.

20:08 I mean on the side, yeah.

20:11 [sighs and gasps]

20:12 Oh, no.

20:13 You know?

20:14 What happened?

20:14 You know?

20:15 No.

20:16 I you know, that's

20:17 Maybe. What happened?

20:19 That's you know, that's

20:21 Look, with enough tape and determination anything is

20:26 possible. Look, lucky for you I can't put this in my suitcase. You still get the good prize. You still get it. Come on, man.

20:33 Look, look at that. You see? Sometimes size is on your side. That's that's kind of my whole motto.

20:40 And if you And if you play roughly 100 games of Good Knight in one day, you deserve

20:44 a poster at the end of it.

20:47 Well, it was a good time.

20:48 fun. Thank you for for running the whole gauntlet.

20:50 I mean, it was so fun. I think at you know, the whole thing about this gauntlet was me seeing how my friends play in this game and then now I've like seeing how you play I think opened my mind. That was real nasty moving things around stacking it. I didn't realize the level of control glooming cards can have.

21:11 Yeah, it's brutal. If I If I recall correctly, when we first played,

21:14 uh was it PAX West? I think you beat me. So, this is all just

21:19 You're all You're like, all right, I'm going to show you. This is just a little demo deck. So, when I show you my real glooming

21:24 Yeah, you did.

21:25 Yeah. But, and also I think it was a double disrespect cuz I think I did use the glooming. So, I didn't make Yeah, yeah. I took your favorite and

21:32 Since then, I've been counting the days.

21:34 Yeah, yeah. It's built up to this moment here.

21:35 Revenge.

21:36 Yeah. As they say, you've won this battle, but not the war.

21:39 Not the good night.

21:40 Not the good night.

21:42 You won the now knock, not the good night. Thanks, man.

21:47 Yeah, of course. Thank you for coming through. Uh yeah, I Thanks for watching. This has been fun. I could just sit here forever just uh talking about what could have, should have, would have went, but I love the just the deck building that I've been doing and coming down in this new art.

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