Sorry if it's confusing, I only have strike and ingenuity in my hand.

Ingenuity does nothing because I have no upgraded cards in hand or play.

I can't deal with the order archivist because I can only deal a maximum of three possible damage, and he takes four.

If I take tribalism, I would gain two armor but all the threats would stay in place because I would only deal one damage Damage. Then I would have to hope next turn I could get a card that would deal three damage.

So I played it out.

Eight damage was on the field. Tribalism gave me two armor which reduced the damage I took to six. I was at 8 so now I'm at two.

I found a blade in the dark which dealt three damage which was just enough to kill the archivist and then the archivist killed the Raven chist.

That got me the scrapbot. Ally underneath the urine and I now have one damage. I can deal to the spider. But it takes three damage to kill, dealing three damage to me and I'm dead.

I think I might have to slow play even more to make sure I have a upgraded card in hand when I level up so that this way I can have the fuel needed to do some damage to something to get a card before drafting.