Wingspan Online Daily Game Commentary - February 10, 2024

  Starting Birds, Food, and Bonus

Birds

• Magpie Lark - for game end power
• Black Tern - for star nest
• Turkey Vulture - for more food
• Chipping Sparrow - for egg while gaining food

Food

• Nectar
• Worm

Bonus Card: Mechanical Engineer - Sets of the 4 nest types

Round 1

1. Draw Birds - California Condor (from tray, for another bonus card)
2. Play Bird - Turkey Vulture in Wetlands (for potential between turns food)
3. Play Bird - California Condor in Grasslands (Prairie Manager - Birds that can only live in Grasslands, other option was Enclosure Builder - Bird with a cluster nest)
4. Draw Birds - Red-Backed Shrike (from tray, for Prairie Manager) and Spangled Drongo (from deck)
1. Fish from Turkey Vulture's power
5. Play Bird - Spangled Drongo in Woodlands (for potential between turns Nectar)
6. Lay Eggs - 2 eggs
1. Nectar from Spangled Drongo's power
7. Play Bird - Chipping Sparrow in Woodlands (for egg while gaining food)
1. Nectar from Turkey Vulture's power
8. Play Bird - Black Tern in Wetlands (star nest for Mechanical Engineer)

Round End: none

Round End Goal - Brown Powers: 0 points (tied for 2nd w/ 2 birds) 

Round 2

1. Draw Birds - Common Kingfisher (from tray, for Mechanical Engineer) and Willie-Wagtail (from deck), Black-Headed Gull (from deck) using Black Tern's power (discarded Willie-Wagtail)
1. Nectar from Spangled Drongo's power (before turn)
2. Draw Birds - Griffon Vulture and Swainson's Hawk (both from tray for Prairie Manager), Brown-Headed Cowbird (from deck) using Black Tern's power (discarded Common Kingfisher)
3. Gain Food - Nectar and Worm from bird feeder (for Brown-Headed Cowbird and Black-Headed Gull), Egg from Chipping Sparrow's power
1. Nectar from Spangled Drongo's power
4. Play Bird - Brown-Headed Cowbird (for Prairie Manager and potential between turn eggs)
5. Lay Eggs - 3 eggs (discarded Nectar for 3rd egg)
1. Egg from Brown-Headed Cowbird's power
6. Play Bird - Black-Headed Gull in Wetlands (for food while drawing birds)
7. Draw Birds - Spotted Owl (from tray, for another bonus and Mechanical Engineer) and Blue-Winged Warbler (from deck), Rat from Black-Headed Gull's power, Black Skimmer (from deck) using Black Tern's power (discarded Griffon Vulture)

Round End: none

Round End Goal - Cards in Hand: 1 point (3rd w/ 6 cards)

Round 3

1. Play Bird - Spotted Owl in Woodlands (Backyard Birder - Birds worth less than 4 points, rarely choose this bonus but only needed 1 more bird to max versus 3 for the Diet Specialist - Birds with a food cost of 3 food)
1. Nectar from Spangled Drongo's power (before turn)
2. Egg from Brown-Headed Cowbird's power
2. Gain Food - 2 Nectar from bird feeder (for Magpie Lark and Swainson's Hawk), Egg from Chipping Sparrow's power
1. Nectar from other player's Lewin's Honeyeater
2. Nectar from Spangled Drongo's power
3. Draw Birds - Common Buzzard (from tray, for Magpie Lark's game end power) and Dunnock (from deck), Nectar from Black-Headed Gull's power, American Goldfinch (from deck) using Black Tern's power (discarded Dunnock)
1. Berry from other player's Baltimore Oriole
4. Play Bird - Red-Backed Shrike in Grasslands (for Prairie Manager and round end goal)
1. Egg from Brown-Headed Cowbird's power
5. Play Bird - American Goldfinch in Grasslands (for Prairie Manager, Backyard Birder, and round end goal, 3 Wheat)
1. Nectar from Spangled Drongo's power
2. Egg from Brown-Headed Cowbird's power
6. Play Bird - Magpie Lark in Grasslands (for Prairie Manager, game end power and round end goal)

Round End: none

Round End Goal - Birds in Grasslands: 6 points (1st w/ 5 birds)

Round 4

1. Lay Eggs - 4 eggs, Red-Backed Shrike's power successful (Worm cached)
1. Berry from other player's Baltimore Oriole
2. Nectar from Spangled Drongo's power
2. Play Bird - Black Skimmer in Wetlands (used Berry and Wheat for 2nd Fish, for Mechanical Engineer)
1. Nectar from Spangled Drongo's power
3. Play Bird - 
1. Egg from Brown-Headed Cowbird's power
4. Draw Birds - Savi's Warbler, Galah, and Golden-Headed Cisticola (all from deck), Black Skimmer's power successful w/ 1 die (Fish cached), Nectar from Black-Headed Gull's power, Carrion Crow (from deck) using Black Tern's power (discarded Golden-Headed Cisticola)
1. Berry from other player's Baltimore Oriole
2. Berry from other player's Many-Colored Fruit-Dove
3. Nectar from Spangled Drongo's power
5. Play Bird - Carrion Crow in Wetlands (for round end power and goal
1. Egg from Brown-Headed Cowbird's power
2. Rat from Turkey Vulture's power

Round End: 2 Rats on Carrion Crow

Round End Goal - Cubes on Play a Bird: 5 points (tied for 1st w/ 3 cubes)

Game End: No eggs to use Magpie Lark's power

Nectar

Woodlands - 1 point (tied for 2nd w/ 4)

Grasslands - 5 points (1st w/ 8)

Wetlands - 5 points (1st w/ 5)

Game End - Won

Final Score - 99

• Bird Points - 49
• Bonus Cards - 22
• End of Round Goals - 12
• Eggs - 1
• Food on Cards - 4
• Tucked Cards - 0
• Nectar - 11