Board Thread:Plants vs. Zombies Heroes/@comment-30319281-20161027122234/@comment-30319281-20161027134216

Iamarepeater wrote: Is it possible to let your opponent hit you while you draw cards and try to drain all their cards first before retaliating hard? Sure, but the success of this strategy depends a lot on the decks facing off. I play The Smash a lot and I see this strategy sometimes with semi-experienced players using Green Shadow. They sit on their freeze waiting to topdeck Snowdrop and trusting that Torchwood + Threepeater will handle everything even if they take it really easy. Then when they are at 8 life on turn 4, facing down 4 zombies, it's hard to turn the situation around.

Some decks expect this strategy every time though, like Wall-Knight for example. The let you hit with weenies a couple of times and play some nuts if they can be bothered. Then mid-game, they go at you with something small such as a single Spineapple to make their nuts, well, nuts. Then when they get to round 8 and have exhausted you, they really put the smack down. Of course, if the stars align etc.

Another example is Professor Brainstorm. He can play stall cards like Cell Phone Zombie to kill tempo, or other weenies, all while buying time to play card draw to compensate the card disadvantage from chump blocking. This accoplishes a cost curve shift where the opposing plant deck will most likely be outgunned, unless it too aims for the long game (or the very short game - Brainstorm doesn't do very well against, say, a quick Captain Combustible).