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Thank you for playing and leaving a comment! You are correct that there is no way to prevent damage from poisoning - which can lead to some deadly encounter e.g. if rolling 3x Spider. Poison effect can be cleansed (there are some cards that cleanse all or specific negative statuses), or prevented by having stack of 'Safeguard' status - which will block an application of negative status or stat debuff.

How the individual classes will play out is of course dependent on card choices offered/made as battle rewards, but generally speaking:

• Warrior
  • Access to good strength / toughness / vitality scaling - this leads to generally more damage, shield and healing
  • Passive effect provides some shield at start of combat, making first turn potentially less punishing
  • Access to good variety of debuffs to apply to enemy, as well as shield removal

• Rogue
  • Access to high amounts of poison damage, giving good scaling damage
  • Strong discard synergies and good card draw
  • Access to multiple cards that grant damage mitigation
  • Passive provides card selection at start of combat

• Wizard
  • More chards with a 'chaotic' (random) nature, but with various synergies - volatile cards / expend
  • Arcane card synergy - arcane cards are ones which cost mana - there are a number of cards which reward playing lots of Arcane cards - conversely, if using this strategy more mana regeneration cards are also needed
  • Risk/reward - generally Arcane cards have higher output compared to a similar card, e.g. Magic Sword vs Slash - however if a deck has no other damage sources and mana is not managed well Arcane cards actually expend if drawn with no mana

I will need to start a dev log to talk about these subjects more and explain some of the slightly obtuse / hidden mechanics.

Thanks again for trying!