Yeah but the item/ability strategy also helps delay the game, and since I was playing by ear and not looking at the stat sheets, I didn't know which of your stats was good or not; so it was very likely I would choose the wrong stat and get creamed with a -10 to it. My only hope of winning would have been to start off with two of my weaker stats, and save my highest stats for last, but considering MAGD is my second highest stat and I lost that round, I didn't really have much of a chance unless I started the match with Void, but even that skill would have only delayed your ability to use the actions, so it wouldn't have been useful for me. Even delaying your use of a potion doesn't help me because I can't take another action, and with Acid Rain in effect, you had a strong chance of winning or at least minimizing the damage of having to take a STAT action.