Bone dragon, apoptosis, Crow, Keeper of souls
Need lots of luck still.
Match blue, brown to fill crow and focus to kill their keeper. Pray for no wright spawn on their side and wright needs to spawn on your side. Deny their red if you have no mana matches.
I did not miss this aspect of pure delve runs. The massive amount of luck involved.
I’ve gotten Keeper of the Souls down to 1-2 skull hits, then he wipes my team because of uncontrollable skyfall skulls. This has happened 3 runs in a row. 
. How fun. Much tactics.
Apparently I missed this sort of torture, because I spent a few hours reliving that experience. Just like in the luck-based delves, I don’t feel like I earned my final victory. Some lucky 4-matches allowed me to loop and kill their final 2 troops.
I still need an extra pet for Sword Edge for power levels, to reach 30, so I will try to get 1 every kingdom and use orbs on them. For me, just one doesn’t seems that hard getting just 1 pet until now and using GAPs still an alternative. That will be like getting the anchievements for arena, I will barely do it then I will ignore it.
hahaha Perfect description! I was calling it a skull slot machine. I like yours better.
I had ignored challenges and am doing all low level trials now. I can gladly say Kethar is second hardest. Next week have pan’s vale, that is completely impossible. All other kingdom’s seem difficult but doable
What worked for me is to use Crow and kill his KoS. Keep their first 2 troops alive as much as you can. I think i only used the other troops once, to try to get my KoS to spawn a new troop (and gladly that worked). From there, was able to finish. But still took a lot of tries! There were games where i retreat after 30s, as their turn just killed my 2 troops quickly.
No matter what strategy I employ, the enemy team has too much opportunity to annihilate me before I can execute it.
Even after playing a round for 10 minutes and grinding it to its last troop, Super AI RNG “luck” kicks in and I am destroyed.
THIS GAME MODE IS BROKEN. PERIOD.
It has become the latest “last straw” for more than one members of my guild who quit entirely after spending hundreds on the game.
Way to go.
The only good thing about the Trails is that naive players can now see for themselves that they were wrong about the CPU and how it operated, that a fair square RNG never existed in GoW. 
Doesn’t help that the AI cheats when it comes to summoning wights, I started to keep track of how often it got one, and so far it have successfully summoned a wight 28 out of 40 times, the odds of summoning that many or more with a base chance of 50% is 0.8295%
Which is statistically unlikely.
Don’t search for a black cat in a dark room. Especially when there’s no cats at all. It’s not cheating, that’s how random works.
