The game is somewhat buggy. After doing the very first encounter my game froze at the black screen. Had no other issues until the last batter. Non-regs, phantom hits etc. I guess Gazzen hacks? (though it didn't seem to work in his favor in the last fight) Somewhat of a let down to get that far and have it glitch out.
Fun game otherwise, would definitely play any future iterations of it.
Deck to get a legit score of 4500+
9 gold mines
6 crystal mines
2 reaper's bounty
5 orc scouts
3 mud golems
25 portal growths
Certainly possible to get a couple more portal growths in there, but then it really is just refreshing until you get the starting hand you want.
To avoid getting overrun, never send more than 1 or 2 or scouts, otherwise they will push to the portal and cause the ai to send a larger wave against you.
The save at checkpoints is very problematic later. If you get to a checkpoint with low health and have to reload it takes time to respawn all the bots and you'll lose out a lot of life that you wouldve gotten back right after a checkpoint.
No restart is pretty bad. Especially when I had to reload the game thanks to a bot getting stuck in the corner. Good otherwise but can be frustrating. 3/5