Introduction & Basics | Part 1 | Let's Play: Artifact (Casual Play) | How to Play Artifact Gameplay
hello everybody welcome to a brand new
what might be a miniseries we're gonna
be playing some artifact which is a new
or at least at the time of the video
newly released card game collectible
card game kind of ala hearthstone
with some very obvious differences and
quirks made by valve actually it
is in the dota universe which I'm like
not really that familiar with but I'm
moderately so but let's get into a game
here I did I'm a a filthy netdecker
here for right now because I'm not
really familiar with the game it from an
advanced strategic level I played a
little bit to get used to the mechanics
so that I can help explain them as I go
here if you know a lot about like
hearthstone you'll be pretty good like
if you know about Magic the Gathering
this was actually one of the lead
designers on this was one of the lead
designers or creators of Magic the Gathering actually which is pretty exciting
and I think this helps to show why it's
a why I think it's so good but it's very
different than a normal collectible card
game in one quick way you might have got
a glimpse of something we're playing
three games at once so basically we got
a real quick do some basic since we
can't do anything here we'll let the
time run out we are playing against a
real person here so I'm probably gonna
lose we have three boards here each one
has their own health and mana which is
basically what you can use to spend your
cards when this 40 goes down to zero
your little tower dies if you lose two
out of three of these games then you
lose the game or once this 40 goes down
to zero another health bar comes out an
80 and if you can give that down to zero
you also win the game so you either need
to win one two out of three of these
games basically you need to win two out
of three of these games or you need to
win one so bad they want to cry to their
mother
to prove myself so one big quirk is
we've got heroes here you have a team of
five heroes I like a MOBA okay what do
we let's think here for a second deal
three damage you know what let's do that
no accident we got a special little card
there that is actually a hero skill
heroes come with their own set of stats
and a special activatable or passive
ability which either does something when
you click it after certain amount of
turns or just does something inherently
they also come with a set of cards that
is exclusive to their character you
can't have them in your deck unless you
have that hero so my deck we got let's
see this is one of my heroes right here
we got phantom assassin you can double
click cards to see him real quick and
see even like what their special ability
is so she's got six attack eight health
health does a keep overtime you know
what let's play this down this is
actually a permanent ability get three
gold after the combat base that is
permanent for the rest of the run for
the rest of the game this this deck is
focused around getting a lot of money
and playing with it
so I'm gonna not talk about the shopping
phase for a moment I'm just gonna do
something and just pretend you don't see
what I'm doing there we'll get to that
in a moment that's a little bit that's
like that step step three okay so the
phase happens we play the boards from
left to right here one two three and
then we go shopping which I'll talk
about later and then we get to deploy a
hero we have five heroes we get to
deploy two more because we start with
one on each field I'm gonna put this boy
right here cuz it is currently
completely unguarded and I want to make
sure that we can keep that alive at the
very least I don't know which deck like
which board I'm gonna focus on or if I'm
gonna go for all in one kind of thing
we'll see but for now let's just spread
out our resources there's other cards
you might have noticed here and that is
going to be these bad boys these melee
creeps every turn every time you go
through all set all three of these in
addition to shopping you then deploy
your heroes and two creeps gets deployed
ran the
there's a decent amount of randomness in
that phase that and that's another thing
I'll talk about in a minute so let's say
let's put this equipment on here this is
what something we spent our money on so
that all increases health by four and
gives him the active ability which lets
us choose the combat target for our
character because that is another thing
that is assigned randomly if there's
nothing directly in front of them it's a
sign randomly and that's that's one
thing that I'm still getting used to
that fact right there but we're gonna do
eight damage to him here would we got a
pretty good hold on this this board
right now but alas
yeah so we got our hero here when the
hero dies they go back into our fountain
which is gonna be you know if you're
familiar with MOBAs like after one one
turn goes by where you haven't he's gone
he's dead like then the next turn like
he does not you cannot deploy him but
then the next turn you can deploy him
wherever you want so there's actually
some scenarios and this is interesting
where you want your hero to die because
maybe you ball out of control in one of
the lanes and you want him in another
Lane coming up so we can't actually do
anything here because of one thing I'll
say right here each hero has their own
color
we got a there's the black color there's
the green color in fact it looks like
we're fighting another black and green
colored deck
you can only play spells of the color of
heroes in this field so we can only play
green the colored ones and since we only
have four mana
we can't play anything at all right here
because these cost five we can however
deploy a green and a black hero in here
and then we would be able to play
anything in my deck because those are
the only two colors I have in my deck
right now we're just gonna pass here
you're gonna notice there's since
there's three boards going on I think
they wanted to have it be like a
slightly more passive thing you're gonna
there's gonna be a lot of turns where
you do like the best thing is just to
pass like you're gonna want to save your
resources for another lane or something
do two piercing damage to the enemy
tower before the action phase so right
here that's gonna be slowly ticking this
down so this might be a one we want to
focus a little bit of Defense's on
that's something we'll just have to keep
in our mind because we're multitasking
three games at once we're kind of we got
the slight advantage advantage on the
left one here we have a slight
disadvantage on the middle very very
minor advantage on this one here so
double our goal that seems like it would
be an awful idea because we have one so
basically right now we can do we could
do no accident on this sucker right here
we could kill him get him out of the way
after the end of this turn cuz you can
see down here the amount of damage
that's going to be applied here there's
various factors that change the amount
of damage they're going to take such as
healing and armor that's something we
can get into later as well but I think
I'm gonna pass I don't think we want to
heal anything and I'd honestly I think
we can have a we'll find a better use
for this no accident than just killing
this one minion like this boy right here
so he played a savage wolf you can play
your own minions as well there's fearo's
and there's minions minions you can get
in your or I guess they're probably
called something else
they're called creeps but you know what
I'm saying we do want to kill this
because it ramps up over time I know
that for a fact because I have one of
those in my deck see there we go you
take turns back and forth I play one
card he plays one card I play one card
he plays one card or activated ability
or so on I do one action he does one
action and then we take turns and then
now if I pass my turn that means that
it's gonna be his turn next so when we
go over to the board on the left there
all right so the shop every time you
kill a creep you get either 1 or 2 gold
I can't remember every time you kill a
hero you get 5 in addition to other
various things throughout the game like
we have this thing over here that gives
us 3 you can spend that money on
equipment which does not cost mana to
play so this is a whole nother resource
to think about I'm gonna get this
because you we can put that on our hero
gives us +2 attack on one of our heroes
you cannot put equipment on minions you
can only put it on heroes so they are
very very important resource okay so
this is gonna be really interesting so
he has two heroes he's playing this turn
I have two heroes I'm playing this turn
we can put him in any Lane but we don't
know where he's playing his we do know
where our minions are going in his
minions are going and that's it so I'm
thinking oh I'm thinking let's try to
focus a little bit on that oh boy oh boy
let's and then let's get a little bit of
coverage here so the way this works is
it fills up any empty slots so if you
see there's an enemy than they're
unopposed your minions or heroes will go
there first
other than that then they'll start on
the right you'll go on the right that's
it's another complicated little thing
but like I said if you've no card games
you probably will understand the basic
mechanics here of you see those like
these little arrows you just you don't
get it assign your own attacks it
happens as it happens right here like
during the shopping phase all of your
enemy your allies and the enemies pick
their targets for you it's random to an
extent you can predict it if there's
somebody standing across the line from
them to that's about it move a unit to a
random other Lane so that could be
something we could apply to one of our
guys or one of theirs do four damage to
a unit in any lane is another good one
I think maybe we want a grazing shot
this guy cuz that will do two damage to
him so he should die this turn unless he
does something that's just one man and
we didn't really we didn't go all in or
anything we can still play something
else here but that'll get his
Bloodseeker which will give us five gold
which like I said that's one of the
resources our deck likes to focus on
okay so purge your opponent's effects
let's see
purge your opponent's effects from a
unit give that unit +2 armor and plus he
retaliate so he got rid of the the you
got rid of nothing we just did damage
but he gave him two armor which means
that he's gonna block two damage coming
in and it also gave him retaliate which
was basically like imagine he's wearing
spiky armor that hurts us hurts us when
we attack him so now at this point we
can either choose to go all-in on the
idea that we wanted to pick him off and
literally use pickoff we could kind of
just let this happen and let this four
mana go unused or we could use our man
on some other Lane entirely let's do it
let's kill this boy give this boy
because I didn't really want that mana
to go wasted see there we go he was
gonna apply armor on him anyways which I
think would have kept him alive
regardless so the question here is do we
want to use flasks on either of these I
don't think so
oh but you know what we could do we
would die if we did it never mind we
could choose a target for a character we
can make him attack this guy instead but
since he's spiky that would kill us and
he's gonna get fully healed after he
kills this anyways apparently because
that's a Bloodseeker ability I haven't
actually seen this card yet let's just
pass lets we've spent enough time on
that dad over there we'll figure things
out here so we're gonna kill this sniper
if nothing changes
another cool thing I am really big fan
of this card I have right here the dark
seer because he has an ability that is
pretty pretty valuable
you can move an ally to a completely
other Lane so we need to get a move on
though because we are taking forever
let's actually throw our convoy hearing
and let's call it a turn because we
we're letting the timer run down too
much because I'm well I'm recording a
video
I apologize to this other person someone
fat if you are watching this I apologize
for being the pokey is son-of-a-gun in
town from this point here I've kind of
explained the basics let's go a little
bit more in I don't want to play the
armor let's just we wipe their board
we're all good there so that caravan is
super good because its attack is half of
our gold and if we get a lot of gold it
can basically win the game for us so
what is the max health here max health
is eight I feel I think I want to keep
it alive I want to keep alive and then
when we come back I will probably get
this I'll put the short sword on there
as well because we want her to be
attacking the hero directly because she
does an extra four damage to the hero or
to the tower I guess move winter flavor
into an empty combat position yeah
alright well let's end this we are
running out of time here oh boy
okay so we can either spend our gold or
we can have our guy in the middle get
stronger I think we're gonna pass on
this stuff or no let's get the piercing
let's get the piercing we'll call it
their piercing ignores the enemy's armor
basically it kind of like what it sounds
pierce through the armor we get an extra
two in two minutes oh cool we get extra
time every turn good good good good I
was gonna say giving you a minus for
attack you've another one plus for
attack let's give that - give this plus
I want Abaddon out of the way and then
so that'll do seven of keep my guy alive
you can also give him +2 attack and
Pierce so that'll basically be giving
him plus three attack bring us up to ten
then we can play no we can't play no
accident we don't have any enough mana
move a unit to AB random other Lane that
could be really useful if we get like
start to get bombarded somewhere try the
board's looking we are about to be
destroyed over on the right lane like
we're very close but we're about to
destroy sort of in the middle sort of
all right what can we do here
we could kill bloodseeker I think that's
a good call now he gets to retaliate I
mean I'm not literally because there is
a route retaliate ability in the game I
shouldn't use that word he's gonna say
okay he's gonna let that happen we're
gonna get that money alright this is the
field that we kind of have our advantage
this is sort of where things are going
well that being said I should maybe use
my seeker
to help ourselves out in this lane over
here I'm not so sure
ah should we throw somebody over there
who'd we throw there would we throw our
convoy let's do it we don't have as
strong of a stranglehold on this one
nearly any more but I think that we need
to do that I don't know wearing okay
good he moved exactly where I was
actually hoping so now if we double our
money that will give him 14 damage
that'll let him kill that guy over there
I think that might be a good idea I
think that might be a good idea let's
double our gold puts us at 24
so yeah his attack is half of our gold
so that puts him
all right puts us at 28 whoops math is
hard so we could no accident on this but
I think that's a waste we could put on
attack for our guy here but you know I
think that's a waste too to be honest we
kind of got a stranglehold there and
just like that we kind of brought this
back we can lose a tower we can lose a
tower it won't really matter oh shoot oh
shoot no accident sure your turn
so we could put the daggers I think I'm
going to put my daggers on the phantom
of SAP oh no I'm not no I'm not gonna
die okay let's just if he's cool with
that turn any I'm cool with that turn
ending because that is pretty good
outcome for me to be honest
turn allied here to a fountain so that's
can be like if you have a hero over
there that should like I wish they were
over here instead he can do that I'm
gonna call that there cuz we need we
want we want money money is also power
for this deck and that's like different
decks are gonna be you're gonna focus on
different resources as different amounts
this one we do gain a little bit by
hoarding money am I being too greedy
with it I might be I might be so he's
throwing his sniper over there so he
really really wants to get that deck
there that that field covered which is
fine by me I mean we can't do that
honestly should we just give up this
field
so what else are we gonna do we could
intimidate him to a different Lane I
don't that could go wrong if he moved
over here I would love that but I just
don't think that's gonna happen 15
seconds remaining shoot all right let's
just let's Pierce feast every two turns
you can fully hear and heal him and give
him damage unity though I think this is
honestly I think this is gonna be a
rough lane for us at this point I don't
know that we should have even bothered
putting the sword on him
hopefully he just lets this let this be
okay I mean this yeah it's not good
DeGraw the ax for piercing damage to a
unit in any length for piercing damage
is handy stuff
Gupta Grod scarred a random card condena
hero condemned means to kill
first of all let's put that on there I
don't think we really want to do
anything else Oh steam cannon is a oh
wait a minute yeah let's do that
it's an ability right here so we can do
that every turn Oh
oh boy let's uh let's actually wipe out
the guy in front of our phantom assassin
so we can get right into that that
health fair holy moly maybe we shouldn't
have done that
like I mean oh we probably did a dumb I
think we did a dumb I forgot that we are
really not in a good spot in the left
lane we do get our Bounty Hunter back
next turn
scart a random card to condemn a hero
let's do that okay so we killed that
hero there you got money
this is looking looking good over here
we kind of want to get like a full heal
potion know so we can heal this convoy
up cuz it's kind of our big boy on the
streets here look we're gonna probably
win that Lane and we're probably gonna
win this Lane never mind that's a big
deal that's a big deal
one minute until fourth surrender that's
a big deal
alright we're still in an OK spot over
here and we're still probably gonna win
in the middle but let's uh let's spend
some of our money we don't have the
convoy out even anymore
just buy a whole bunch of stuff
we'll buy that much I mean we can still
get a convoy oof
that was lucky that is a lucky get over
there so I wish we had a green hero so
we could play the intimidation but at
least we're gonna have some protection
here okay that worked out oh pretty
alright I think that we can I think we
can stack this guy up here can give him
armor so now he gets +1 armor then every
turn he gets more armor I believe when
he dies that extra armor does go away
okay so now we're gonna add four health
I know and this equipment is kind of
like the the MOBA aspect there's a lot
of interesting things that tie in from
MOBA and a lot of interesting things
that tie in from other elements as well
so he went for the protection route we
can condemn a creep we could kill a
creep but
I don't know
uh geez Louise I think we want to keep
our healing salves I don't there's no
point to use it anywhere else and then
throw our short sword on it just for
later see what he's gonna do maybe he's
got something some other thoughts here
yeah I'm pretty confident about the
middle lane being one of our towers I'm
gonna call that I'm gonna call that so
we can deal for piercing damage to
someone honestly I think we're good in
this lane so I'm going to help ourselves
in a different one I think these will
help me in my service
but what I mean I guess let's
let's get rid of something over there we
need to keep ourselves alive over there
so
if we
we want to get this out of this way we
need to get it out of this lane
I wish it didn't go to that one and
maybe it wasn't necessary to do that
because maybe we would have been fine
anyways I just got a little nervous
there we can surge somebody over there
which would be a risky play okay him
doing that makes me think that makes me
think that possibly he doesn't have
anything else to do so I'm gonna move
this one minute until for surrender I'm
gonna move this over to match it please
tell me you're done oh yes okay so we
got that tower that doesn't mean we
can't lose our tower in this lane too
though so we have to be careful all
right so we can condemn a creep which I
would probably go with the big boy to be
honest or should I go with this he can
choose the target
first of all let's keep that thing alive
we need a we need to protect ourselves a
bit
and then let's let's lay this thing he
can choose the target of it so maybe he
would swap it over to our phantom
assassin to kill her just say alright
draw a card cool
the clipped euros plus three armor and
Rapid Deployment your Tower has plus
three armor that sounds handy it's
really expensive but that's okay
Tower has armor that can be really nice
alright so we won in the middle but that
doesn't mean we can't can give it up
completely like I think it's a lost
cause in the right lane I think we're
done there
so I think that maybe we deployed the
black hero and the green hero
respectively like nads to keep a little
bit of protection here and that way we
can play green cards in this lane and we
can play black cards in that Lane all
right so Lycan does not have any armor
on him so we can put this on him I don't
know what rapid deployment is when here
with rapid deployment dies it's
immediately ready for deployment oh
that's actually awesome
I'll carve them into Crimson's yet
pierce somewhere
his oh yes permanent Pierce okay
let's draw a card it's kind of like a oh
so we can mark him for bounty that means
to when he dies we get 10 gold and then
we can coop DeGraw him he probably
doesn't expect me to have something to
kill him but this guy's cause in the
real ruckus and I want him gone it's
worth getting rid of yeah it's
definitely worth getting rid of that
card to finally add that son of a gun
out of here it actually this guy doesn't
get armor anymore because he's dead
which means he's gonna die - all right
that doesn't immediately swing this Lane
in our favor but it definitely helps so
we have four piercing damage to deal
somewhere
we might want to just steal it to blame
ooh
especially now that hurts no no no we
need to we need to get something going
over there because all three of our
lanes are pretty close to screwed the
one on the far left is very close to
being in our favor we do have a card we
can play in there I'm I don't know this
is gonna be really really close in the
end he doesn't have any towers dead yet
but he is not far from it
yeah he's close to getting this light I
think we just I mean we can't do
anything so we have to let him double
your goals okay all right if that's it
this Lane is dead next turn if I can't
do anything
chalk card thank you each item in your
secret shop cost X less gold I that's
not gonna help us out all right
okay so you got a minion in this lane
hopefully it does not block my heroes
won't be the end of the world if it does
all right it's gonna block it doesn't
lock my heroes okay it's not the end of
the world if it would have but okay do
you for damage to a unit in any Lane
all right I'm just trying to see
right lanes screwed middle lane is about
to be screwed
cuz we don't even have any heroes there
15 hark the shark card I needed I need
more time to think ooh ooh rebel decoy
really good so he/she is one of the few
things that actually lets you swap
character placement
however winter wyvern can move around
the board pretty freely so whoops so we
would need a dead light now
I'm lucky I survived this
yeah
basically it's just
how do I I can't play any cards in the
middle so do we want to
which lane do we want to focus on I mean
we have to win this Lane right like this
has to be the we're not gonna get past
that barricade over there
it's dunzo okay let's let that just
happen this we can't do anything which
sucks I mean we can the longer ice we
can kill this guy right there but should
we even like maybe we focus on
maybe focus on clearing this if we get
that out of the way
anything we your deploy over there will
not be fighting an enemy which could be
I think we can hold out in this lane
until next turn because if we we're done
here like this is we lost this Lane
acceptable like I'll take it peekaboo
hopefully he doesn't I mean it doesn't
really matter what he does he's not
gonna deal eighty damage to the actual
thing before anything yeah yeah he's not
gonna deal that eighty damage before the
end of the game there we go +5 siege is
damage to the tower okay we go all in on
the left we go all in on the left we
have to win this left lane and I think
he knows that too if we win this left
lane it's the one that goes first so if
we went over here we win
yep he knows that he got pretty lucky
with the minion drawers there he got
really lucky oh you got really lucky
with the minion drawers oh but I got
luckier I really wish I didn't spend my
money now okay so that's gonna heal
behind damage really wish I didn't spend
my money because that would have done a
lot more damage this is down to the wire
we have to basically basically win this
turn otherwise he has to not be able to
beat us in this lane which is possible
so let's double check what's when
blocked it in addition to the battle
damage to the blocking unit does
decision so it's kind of like trampled
the sister stream so that's gonna deal
some damage up there
it's thinking here
here as for health he's already got back
there we can change our targets
I don't know that we need to but we're
getting damaged he does that I'm gonna
do that - this is like Oh discard a
random card condemn a hero that's a big
deal if we had the mana for it that's
why you draw your cards first everybody
that's why you play your card draws
first by that would have been a really
big deal shoot
should we tax somebody else
has Pierce so six damage wouldn't be
enough but we do have that for piercing
damage over there whatever let's just
put this on here now I guess we aren't
getting we're not gonna win this Lane
this turn
shoot if we would have got the coop to
growl right away we could have got rid
of Abaddon that would have been really
nice so what I mean insufficient me oh
we do have to mana boots
so we can swap places with this that
might be a good idea actually
because we're gonna kill Abaddon next
turn with coupe de Gras
so it doesn't really matter how much
damage we deal to him this kills another
minion over here which means more direct
damage anything that dies over here on
the left means more direct damage next
turn he's got a he's using he does one
card in his hand I don't think he can
win this lay in this turn I think we are
going to win unless he can deal 80
damage over here this is where the magic
is this is the this is the end this is
the coop to drive if you will all right
big boom lot just happened there he's
got a lot of direct damage on me I
didn't think about that though but we do
have to coop to draw we don't even have
to get rid of Abaddon if that's you know
not the one to get rid of but big deal
here we can get rid of winter wyvern
which is 13 damage guys I think we did
it I think we're good
okay sweets New Deal nine to me I mean
if we don't win this turn
he will well I think that is just a fact
we do get to deploy Lycan again because
of that fast
fast acting business
all right let's get down here all the
magic is happening over here right like
we got 46 damage on the board I have no
idea how he could swing this
and we have the convoy on top of that
and we have that let's just he's
probably going to surrender but let's
just play our potion of knowledge
okay give it damage immunity that does
not give it coupe degrom unity you won't
see anything Oh baby
can even do this
get extra damaged guaranteed on him I
mean it's all unnecessary but especially
because we could have like even put the
convoy over there like that all right
I mean we're we're just styling on him
now but if because the way this game
works if he has something up his sleeve
I could be screwed over by not playing
something I don't know if I mean I think
it's pretty safe to say he's done zone
but
okay
he keeps passing so I guess I am just
being rude okay good good good good oh
boy
in the end mixer II so that was artifact
that was our first on-camera game
Martinek time absolutely so excited that
I won I thought I was gonna get styled
on but I we held out pretty well I know
we made some obvious mistakes not
claiming to be good at this game
I have probably played it for a couple
hours to be honest I just my knowledge
comes from other games and from picking
up through the tutorial which I'll be
honest the tutorial to this game is not
amazing so you probably will have
learned more from what I just told you
there for sure but yeah there's the
there's a lot of stuff to this for the
fact that it just came out it's pretty
pretty dang cool I've been really quite
into it I'll probably be playing some
more I don't know that I'm like I said
it might be a miniseries I'm not sure
that I'm gonna play a lot maybe I will
who knows I used to play a lot of car
games on my channel haven't so much
recently ever since the researches of
the engine the new big update but let me
know if you are new here let me know
that you're new here and you're excited
about artifact like the video if you
like it cuz that shows me that you liked
it those are some ways to let me know
you want more like quite literally it
sounds prepared like perplexing that I
would have to say it but you know it it
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hopefully can do some artifact as well
let me know what you liked what you
didn't like thank you thank you see you
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