u/Redshift11100

This is Tahm's winrate against Janna in diamond+. Is she really a good matchup? How do you beat her? I am thinking about new champs to add to my support pool and I was looking at Janna counters.

This was the fist challenging challenge, took a loot of tries to catch a good start.

• First shop had a Constellation and a random planet card (Saturn) so I figured I might as well try to go for straights with having that many discards. Saturn cards are probably the best planet cards value wise anyway.
• Then got a Fortune Teller which was an OK growing mult source and I was planning on buying tarots anyway.
• Then soon after I found a Blueprint and a Mail-In Rebate and went into the negatives to buy them. Blueprint, as usual, did the work, flexibly copying Mail-In Rebate when discarding and initially Fortune Teller, later Constellation when scoring.
• I was oscillating around $0 for a short while but holy shit I did not expect Mail-In Rebate to generate that much cash. Bolstered with Blueprint it got me through the early-mid game and had my economy set for the entire game pretty fast, it was probably the MvP of the run.
• Somewhere along I picked up the Runner since I was going for straights anyway.
• Later it got replaced by a foil Vampire, because the economy could already sustain itself and my deck was full of random enchantments anyway.
• Spam buying the tarots (thanks to the infinite cash from Mail-In Rebate) turned out to be huge as they boosted Fortune Teller, also generated planet cards via High Priestesses for Constellation and later they fed the Vampire.
• I was feeling pretty confident, I was generating over 300k score around ante 4 when the requirement was like 10k and even ante 8 had 100k requirement. Then in one of the runs I selected the cards to play too fast, missed the 5th card of the straight and accidently played a lvl 1-2 high card instead of the level 10something straight. BOY, MY HEART SANK as I watched the animation. But I generated 4-5 times the required score even with that. I was both relieved and a lot more relaxed about going into ante 6 and seeing the boss there being The Water (0 discards).
• The Verdand Leaf at ante 8 did pretty much nothing.
• Mail-In Rebate came back to say hi in the ante 9 shop.

Now I'll see how far I can take this then 2 more challenges to go.

Boss is Cerulean bell.
I have a High Card build.
I can close my eyes, empty my brain of thoughts and just keep clicking "Play Hand".
#feelsgoodman

PhotoChad happened in my Mad World challenge run. I already won, but wanted to keep on going. Should I ignore Soul here? The only thing I could potentially sell is Scary Face.

Maybe I should just double Hanged Man to thin the deck?

Finally got the last missing gold stake win for the achievement. Erratic deck.

• First joker was Zany Joker, I quickly checked the deck whether I can make it work. The deck had like 10+ 3s right from the start. It'd be real stylish to play 3 of a kind with 3s, so let's go.
• Then came a square joker which was a perfect compliment for the hand.
• The Eye came fairly early and I could get away with random hands.
• Then came the Hologram which had to wait a bit wih coming online till I could afford to start buying packs.
• Then my old friend Mr. Space Man came together with Supernova in the shop. The build was complete.
• The two +1 hand size vouchers helped a lot with the 3oaK consistensy.
• Fitting to finish the achievement with my favorite joker.

Also here:

• THREE of a kinds...
• with THREEs.
• Hand level got upgraded to 13.
• The multiplier for it was 270 x 27 = (3^3)*10 x 3^3
• The number of times I played 3oaKs was 48 = 3 * 2^3
• Space Man = Gordon Freeman
• Square Joker --> half man --> Half-Life!

Half-Life 3 confirmed!

After todays earlier Space Man slander. Those 2 OA6s just randomly happened. Then 2 rounds later Space Man popped up. MAYBE NOW HE WILL ACTUALLY PROC IN A FLUSH RUN!

Was doing a flush run. Out of 20-something flush plays he triggered ZERO times. The two times I was forced to play a non-flush hand, once a pair, once a two pair hand, he triggered both times. He costed me a promising run.