How to play optimally? Which deck should I choose - weak, medium or strong?
Off the top of my head here's what I do:
- Easy deck because it's the most cost efficient
- Always redraw if you get a "vulnerable" card
- Most battles can be won without buying healing but sometimes you have to buy a little bit of healing because you got bad options. Never overbuy healing points. However always make sure you buy enough so that you don't get killed.
- Special cards that give bonus points for grand prize progress are good but cards that only give league points progress are not (if you don't focus on reaching gold league)
- Sacrifice (lose 3 hp and enemy does 2x self damage) is a great basic card, is obtainable early on and is the standard Lancelot-killer. Instant kill cards are even better of course. I never fight Lancelot head on but always kill him with an ability card.
- Heal 5 hp and deal 5 hp damage is a decent card but I never choose its weaker versions.
- The card that lets you loot the enemy 3 times is an instant buy and is worth paying an extra 50 coins for. Use it only on Lancelot.
- The miniboss (the enemy before Lancelot) is quite strong so I often I kill her with an ability card.
- Joan of Arc (enemy number 5 or 6) has 8 hitpoints and packs a punch. You better kill her in one hit with Ulysses or another top card with bonus. That means redrawing often at her encounter.
- If you redraw and get three cards you don't like, pick the card you really don't want to redraw and only then press redraw. That last card will be excluded from your redraw pool. (Handy if you have 2 special ability cards and you want the other one.)
- Play Rival to increase your likelihood to receive special cards (negotiation power), it really helps. And you get battle coins.
- Always pick up all incidents in your city for bonus battle coins.