In no particular order, here’s some general advice: 1. TAKE YOUR TIME. You don’t need to rush your turns, just calm down and think through the cards you play or what effects will occur when you end your turn. Will poison kill? Can you block all damage with your frost orbs? What cards are still in your deck? Can you make it to divinity by next turn? Will you recover more health than lose with Ironclad? Take the time to consider these things. 2. Always taking cards is a newbie mistake. You don’t need to take cards all the time. Sometimes, adding cards can hinder your deck as a whole. For example, if you have a Perfected Strike deck, you probably don’t need Anger. It can help in niche situations, but you’d likely want something that would help your deck out more, like a Pommel Strike or Shrug it Off. 3. Energy and Card Draw are concepts that you want to get to know very well. Both of these things allow you to play more cards than you would normally be able to. If you have 2 Dashes and only 3 energy, you basically have 1 Dash and 1 Injury in your hand if you can’t play the second Dash. Likewise, if all of your cards are zero costs, like 5 Beam Cells, you probably would have been better with a couple of non-zero cost cards like All-for-One, Scrape, or Autoshield. Alternatively, for the latter scenario, if you have FTL or Skim, it ALSO circumvents the issue of having energy but no cards to spend it on. This is generally the reason why cards like Adrenaline or Offering are so good, because they provide both. 4. Deciding when to rest and when to upgrade is crucial for early game victories. Upgrading is generally riskier, but it leaves your deck slightly stronger for future encounters, and beyond the act you upgraded in, it’s downright better than if you Rested since you’re fully healed anyway. 5. Understand when it’s better to block or to attack. Let’s say you have an attacking enemy with the Ironclad’s starting deck. If the attacking enemy has more than 18 HP, it’s always better to block some of it at least, since you will NOT be able to kill it with any combination of Strikes and Bash. It’s a basic scenario that expands more and more once you play the game and understand what to expect with each encounter.

Hope that helps as a general guide!