"Nice one, Venom!" Almost everyone cheered.
Buying armor was a skill Stark inherently possessed. Since he could not act, he could not buy armor either, which completely disrupted his early-game tempo.
Schiller laughed as well. There was nothing sadder in the world than having money in hand but nowhere to spend it.
Next came Schiller's turn. The three cards in his hand were all mechanic-based monsters with mediocre base stats; they could not kill anyone no matter who they attacked, so there was no point sending them out to pick fights. But he had to carefully consider who to hit with the umbrella.
He could attack people outside the plan, and the characters belonging to those outside the plan did not have much health. Several of them could be killed.
But now that he had allied with Peter outside the plan, Schiller decided to attack Nick. That Jack card was far too frightening. What if he did not kill him, and Jack ended up killing those precious characters protected by the plan?
Schiller gave Moon Knight a smack with the umbrella.
That blow did not kill Jack, leaving him with less than half his health, but Schiller still had character cards capable of attacking. Jack was also afflicted with Armor Break, so three cards took turns making normal attacks and sent Jack straight off the board.
After Jack left, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. They had thought Schiller would keep Jack around so he could attack Stark.
But on second thought, something was off. Why was Schiller not being greedy?
Logically, the most profitable move would have been to pull Nick into the alliance too. Then Jack could have been used as a blade against the other characters. Yet Schiller had removed Jack so cleanly and decisively. Could there