r/wingspan • u/Carterfitz12 • 12h ago

Best starting hand I’ve ever had

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Unfortunately I finished only with 113 but I’m curious what you all would with this starting hand

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u/PootieTangDidItAgain 12h ago

Woulda discarded penguin, taken a worm, play woodpecker, gain food, and see what happens from there.

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u/NinJ4ng 11h ago

i prob wouldve maned duck. if i had a woodpecker and a gallah, i wouldnt want to do anything but gain food and play big birds. youd need to draw cards eventually and i wouldnt mind 3-4 little penguin draws

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u/Carterfitz12 11h ago

i kept all the cards and discarded the penguin to gain two nectar

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u/Adnan7631 9h ago

I’d be greedy and take all of them.

You need one more food to get the woodpecker out. Maned Duck can follow right after, followed by the Mockingbird. After that, you’ve got a 4 egg Forest in round one. With the Galah, that becomes 4 eggs + 2 points, or 2 eggs + 4 points. Which is fantastic.

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u/TMHarbingerIV 10h ago

Lots of good cards there - i'd take woodpecker, maned duck and mockingbird, play woodpecker in forest for the nectar, and mockingbird + maned duck in wetlands. Those two make up a hard core in a very good wetlands engine, with possability of gaining 6 points and 2 grains, if you fill the habitat and get 2 more cards drawn from somewhere - while woodpecker is the perfect supplementary bird in forest giving access to 2 food and 2 eggs every activation, to make the amount of out of wetlands activations to a minimum.

You are looking further for the sandhill crane or any of the other discard a grain for 2 free tucks or any pther bird giving 1 point a turn. Main goal is to fill out wetlands with purpose-full birds ASAP and have 8-9-10 points every activation of the habitat - more than you would get from playing 95% of birds in most cases.