Quick winning principles
- Buy movement and skill before heavy clank cards.
- Retrieve artifacts before dragon attacks escalate.
- Remove clank cubes when market offers boots or skill.
- Depth rewards points but increases dragon damage risk.
Ideal strategy
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Clank noise budget: every clank card adds dragon damage potential. Keep clank below 8 cubes until you're ready to exit with an artifact.
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Dragon attack timing: attacks happen on dragon card reveals. Track clank in the bag — more clank means higher hit probability on your color.
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Market efficiency: boots and skill are tempo; swords and gold are situational. Buy movement to reach artifacts before opponents.
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Depth risk: level 3 artifacts score more but require deeper clank investment. Go deep only with teleport or heavy movement.
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Exit timing: retrieve artifact and head to surface before second major dragon attack. Surface scoring requires surviving the final attack.
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Monkey idol and minor artifacts: sometimes a fast minor artifact outscores a slow major when dragon is aggressive.