Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-24053603-20140105065340/@comment-20426317-20140106031058

The game heavily favors those who spend a lot, just live with it & remember they pay the bills at Zynga.

But it should still be possible to have some chance will a good defense from just free cards - are you trying to mix types or do you have a single type defense with mostly boosters? Try to aim for that, it will still be beaten by casher teams often but you could get lucky with skill activations. Also be on the lookout for chances to grab good defensive event daemons, eg. Tendo from this CQ has nice defense - if you could get to lvl 100 or so, u could have tried for her by farming a bit first then reaching 100 before FH end.

Donating silver is the best option though, remove the reason why anyone would want to attack multiple times in the first place.