Puzzle Strike 2’s expansion, called Bold Adventures, has four new community bank decks as well as 10 more characters. The second of these bank decks is Dinosize.
Dinosize is home to big effects. Ridiculously big effects. Let’s start off with a BANG:
Holy moley! A quadruple crash is absurdly powerful. The cost looks prohibitive though. You only get 3 actions per turn by default, though some cards and characters can occasionally give extra actions. When you reach the first and then second “ante up” phase of the game, you get 4 then 5 actions per turn. But still, it’s very hard to afford cards that cost 4.
That’s why Dinosize gives you cards that give extra actions so you can afford huge effects like Meteor Smash.
Some cards explicitly let you play 4-cost cards for free:
What else can 4-action cards do? Check out this juggernaut:
How about a double deep crash and a double deep swap?!
Why bother lining up your gems of a given color? Just crash all gems of a color no matter how jumbled up they are:
Need some defense? How about these:
Maybe blocking 99 and destroying a bunch of gems is enough? Why not have two free actions while you’re at it. Or use Primordial Crash and do your offense, defense, engine, and gem pile manipulation all on the same card.
For a different spin, look at Stalk the Prey:
If you can afford it…it becomes free. Get your 4 actions back (to play some other insane card) and have some swaps and a crash gem while you’re at it.
You won’t find more powerful effects in any other deck. Dinosize truly pushes the limits of the game, and you will honestly wonder if broken things are going on. No other deck will leave you wondering “what just happened?!” than Dinosize. It’s quite a ride.
For some more craziness, check out these two cards:
Enrage adds three gems to your gem pile…which are all the same color…and which are probably the same as the gems you just anted at the start of the turn. It’s setting you up for a massively powerful crash, that will also, by the way, trigger one of your super moves because it’s just so many gems. If you happen to have T-Rex, pile on even more damage you’re heaping out every time you crash more than a single gem.
And speaking of your super meters, how about this jackpot?
The 3 action cost would normally be steep, but it’s very doable with the assistance of other cards in this deck. The crash is worth maybe two of those actions, but the super meter gain is enormous. You have four super meters and that’s adding a gem to each, which can trigger multiple of them to go off. Play that a few times (especially if you are holding The Scepter of Power, which ALSO adds a gem to all your super meters) and you’re poised for a chain reaction of insanity that you will remember for a long time.
Puzzle Strike 2 is generally a system that creates the opportunity of miracle turns and comebacks. Dinosize pushes that so far that you might, if anything, feel overwhelmed by the power of these huge effects and the insane situations they create. Dinosized indeed!