User blog comment:Sol Kage/My Spear is the Spear that shall pierce the heavens!/@comment-1755882-20140123044436/@comment-11454852-20140123155619

Keep in mind I said "If" I obviously wouldn't expect to have a spare all the time, even at 4 copies, ideally you'd have a second Medusa to replace the first one that got destroyed, otherwise just having a similar replacement is good enough. I find that if my monster is going to be destroyed, I'd prefer to have the left/right instead of the center, because the opponent will have to destroy the center too and will often miss their chance to attack directly and deal damage.

From my limited testings, I find that games become short if you focus entirely on attacking the center and dealing damage, you hit the opponent but often don't get rid of Left/Right monsters (again unless you use destruction effects, which isn't guaranteed to happen every turn), making it easier for the opponent to counterattack and reduce your life faster too. Targeting the Left/right monsters to reduce the opponent's own attacks tends to make the game longer.