Your goal: Get your opponent's avatar closer using various hook / drag effects and go to town.

If that turns out to be tricky, just bring the fight to them by connecting the opposite edges of the realm or taking advantage of extra movement.

If you got a trigger or two off your Avatar and the board state allows for it, draw & play a site next turn. You'll quickly push to 6 or even more mana, allowing you to double spell consistently. Drawing many spells early on is nice, but keep in mind that you are drawing for card selection in that case. If you don't need it, go for sites and push ahead on curve.

If you see one of the hard counters, such as [[Garden of Eden]], [[Root Spider]], [[Bottomless Pit]], [[The Void]], [[Gnome Hollows]], ... shift your game plan to a standard Steam aggro-y midrange plan. If they spend their defensive tech on their home site, just go for regular site damage.

Hear me out on [[Mirage]]: Worst case, just play it as a vanilla fire site. But it's wonderful with [[Heirloom Lost]], because you return a site you OWN. Additional targets include shifting a [[River Rapids]] out of a silence effect or another chance at [[Darkest Dungeon]].

Update: Out again for now to include Tri-sites and include [[Mesmerism]]. Still a valid choice I think, will keep testing.

[[Aino]] is generally busted and combos very well with [[Polar Explorers]] or [[Ruler of Thul]].

[[Sir Agravaine]] plus [[Plague of Frogs]] is a devastating all time classic, especially with our [[Interrogator]] ability. Note: They need to have 3 life to prevent you from drawing. So put them to death's door and draw some more cards for your efforts!

Speaking of [[Plague of Frogs]], it's very juicy with [[Kiss of Judas]]. Thoughts: It's too "win-more" but the fantasy is great. I've chosen to replace it with more removal.

[[Coy Nixie]] combos very well with [[Thin Ice]], which is further enhanced by our [[River Rapids]] package.

Speaking of [[River Rapids]], the main idea is to push your minions with Charge one step forward off the River so they can directly attack their avatar. Pushing into [[Thin Ice]] feels great, too.

Considerations:

* I reaaally want to play [[Mimic]], but it's a dead card if they don't have an artifact. I feel like in the long run, people will not just play out artifacts unless they immediately gain value from them. Considered a [[Silver Bullet]] package but that makes the collection much weaker I think.

* Currently testing the exclusion of [[Joyous Garde]] etc. [[Earthquake]] seems very strong due to many new strong sites with Gothic. It also helps against the Omphalos.

Update: Decided to include the tri-sites to be a little greedier with threshold.

Notes on Collection

[[Lure]] can pull up [[Root Spider]]s - keep it for that, because a Spider under their avatar ruins our whole plan.

[[Extinguish]] - Keep it for [[Jihad]] and [[Great Famine]]

[[Minor Explosion]] - Our main finisher. Also great if they play [[Lilith]] or [[Morgana]].

[[Hamlet's Ablaze]] - Main targets are [[Gnome Hollows]] and [[Thin Ice]]

Interrogator River Snag

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