Reindeers

[Boy Impregnator]

So, and how to beat them if you can't counter their 8-20 stagger attack in any way and they use it as their ordinar attack?

[Sieg]

Originally posted by ScotchKorean:

You can munch the dice with binah's 3-cost.

it's a ranged attack and consistently bigger than Binah's pillar - it tears through and hits her. Binah's pillar only cheeses melee cards.

[Omega]

I second the notion of someone saying to block it. It does not even have to be a strong block. If you only have energy shield use that, or graze the grass, or absorb impact. Whatever your deck has at the moment. I personally am a big fan of All-out War for this. Its cheap and has a potentially big block. With a blunt resistant key page, the average roll of 15 will turn with even a 5 block to a 10 which is 5 damage. That's completely acceptable for a 3 cost page. I only ever clash with an attack that will loose, if I want to preserve a counter die from emo. turbulence or sharp nails or something.

[snek]

I've done both fights with Geb, which means I go into Reindeer at a disadvantage with a 4-man.
Main thing I found was to just have Mind Hauler to offset the gigantic SP damage somewhat, Blunt resists, and just careful redirection. I've done the fights with deaths only due to proccing Corpses as part of my strat, otherwise I'd have no deaths and no staggers on either fight.
Red Mist/Lowell/Kalo/Esther is the floor setup, Red Mist is a typical setup but the others are singletons that have their specials.
Once Geb gets a 5th I might do a setup of Red Mist/Lowell/Esther/Nikolai/Maxim, considering the sheer damage that'd be coming out thanks to powerstacking by Nikolai and Maxim, I wonder if Corpses would still be worth it?

[Sepherix]

Block as first die, voila, you've countered the thing.
If you can't overwhelm it, just lessen it. b r u h.

[Ekimmak]

I don't get why people say "Block as first die to win!"

It rolls 8-20. The strongest block in the game at the moment is Concentration... dropped BY this reception, and rolling 8-13.

[Ratohou]

this is to dont take the full damage from the attacks, the intention of this isn't to try block the full.

[Arch-Knee]

Originally posted by Ekimmak:

I don't get why people say "Block as first die to win!"

It rolls 8-20. The strongest block in the game at the moment is Concentration... dropped BY this reception, and rolling 8-13.

Would you rather take the full damage?

[Towerdepths]

Unfortunately, Reindeer Act is less about building up on them and more about surviving their Mind Whips. I generally try and handle them with the first floor, then leave one or two for the next floor to build emotion from. They're way less dangerous when there aren't five antler'd maniacs throwing 8-20's with a bonus 8 stagger damage like a bunch of monkeys after all. But yeah, I definitely try and minimize damage rather than clash with Mind Whip when I can. Even Graze the Grass can help quite a bit with preventing stagger.

[Voodoo Child]

Fact: you are more likely to find Bigfoot than to see a reindeer rolling less than 14 on mind whip

Anyways, both Gebura and Exodia Tiphereth can deal with the reception quite easily. As for mind whip, it is very difficult to outroll it (your only chances are things like Transpierce/Focus Fire/Vapour and even then you are at a disadvantage) so you might as well try to mitigate it with block.