Let’s see how much the results change based on how we fight this battle against a bone ogre:

Auto Resolve results:

Next: Into Tactical and just hitting the auto-play:

Next: I personally play the tactical battle to see if I can do better

Now, I burned a ton of mana in my battle but suffered no damage at all.

So the question is, why did auto-resolve do so poorly? We’ll have to evaluate that as we go on.