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Every battle inMonster Train 2begins with a Deployment Phase during which players will play their first batch of units, and maybe even some Equipment and Room cards. While there is nothing particularly confusing about the playing of those cards, there are some subtleties to the Deployment Phase that are worth understanding. This guide is here to elaborate upon those subtleties, and it will give players a good sense of exactly what is happening duringMonster Train 2’s Deployment Phase.
While this guide briefly touches upon the act of playing cards during the Deployment Phase, it does not go into how to do so strategically. Instead, the primary focus here is on how the cards that are drawn during the Deployment Phase are determined and what happens to undeployed cards when the phase ends.
Monster Train 2 - Deployment Phase, Explained
Drawing
Players areguaranteedto draw several types of cards from their decks duringMonster Train 2’s Deployment Phase, and they are as follows:
Furthermore, the cards are drawn in theaforementioned order, with cards augmented by Artifacts being drawn first and Deployable Equipment and Room cards being drawn last. This is important to understand because the maximum hand size inMonster Train 2is 10, which means that players will not draw more than 10 cards during the Deployment Phase. As such, if a player has a ton of banner units in their deck, they could technically hit the 10-card maximum before they draw all of them, preventing them from drawing any Deployable Equipment or Room cards.
Playing Cards
While players will have a lot of decisions to make when choosing how to play their cards during the Deployment Phase, there are only a couple of limitations to know about:
Ending Phase
After a player has played their cards, they can end the Deployment Phase by pressing “End Turn” in the bottom-right corner of the screen. Upon ending the turn, all the cards that were still in hand areshuffled back into the deck. This means that players could draw undeployed banner units and Deployable Equipment/Room cards as soon as the first wave, but they are certainly not guaranteed to do so. Additionally, it is possible to draw an undeployedChampion inMonster Train 2immediately after the Deployment Phase, though players are very unlikely to be ending the setup phase with that type of card in hand.
