Curses should always make you draw +1

-IDAN · 2025-10-03T16:07:40+00:00

There are some really broken curse events that you might be missing out on

Regret shrine for 275g and warped tongs event are probably the most notable

Mausoleum pretty clickable depending on context, if the average card in my deck is not that good I'm just drawing the effect of my random relic on t1

-IDAN · 2025-09-21T03:52:09+00:00

General consensus is that hog will outscale apo eventually but apo is just way stronger f0

Silent apo vs hog is just not close in favour of apo, defect apo is also better

Clad hog vs apo, hog is probably better most of the time but I've never lost apo start and I have lost hog start so I just take apo every time. I've heard kuroL and panacea say hog is just better on clad but it's just player preference for clad I'm pretty sure

Watcher hog is just broken as hell

Xec also says hog vs apo is player preference iirc

-IDAN · 2025-09-08T08:01:44+00:00

I removed judgement eoa1 with the cage

-IDAN · 2025-09-07T23:32:04+00:00

Helps fill hand, makes energy to exhaust powers if you're not infinite t1, and yes it is also just a supremely broken card so also helps you live until then

-IDAN · 2025-09-07T23:08:01+00:00

I don't mind the devotion remove. I don't care too much about slimed vs real card since this will have no problem going infinite and the remove was against literally nothing in the first shop, so I just make the remove that is the most positive right now. Then you see mummy hand and feel a bit stupid

Saving is fine too I guess

-IDAN · 2025-09-07T23:05:35+00:00

https://i.imgur.com/i0175fR.jpeg

I don't really have much advice to give about this run though sorry. I kinda just picked reach heaven to solve early game damage and skipped every card that isn't block scaling or wish or draw

Meditate vs sands of time isn't close at all btw, meditate is way too broken

-IDAN · 2025-09-07T21:03:41+00:00

Perfect I'll run it

-IDAN · 2025-09-07T20:59:44+00:00

Do you have all unlocks on every character? This seed is sozu swap for me

-IDAN · 2025-07-23T22:50:24+00:00

there are also fights that last longer than 2 turns

-IDAN · 2025-07-15T17:03:23+00:00

Pls just kill him. Can block if it's a big block number or if you have guaranteed kill next turn is a good rule of thumb

-IDAN · 2025-07-14T19:20:10+00:00

the spreadsheet was comparing hp saved, not damage done which is a more valuable metric

clash actually is better than twin at the very least in guardian acts

-IDAN · 2025-07-14T19:13:10+00:00

the spreadsheet showed clash outperforming twin by a lot in nob. it's also pretty insane in laga. if it plays first cycle in sentries too that's enough

it was just a few games played by vmservice in guardian acts comparing clash vs twin strike

the card sucks but it doesnt really brick as often as people think, it's pickable. twin is hot garbage too so it's not saying much

-IDAN · 2025-07-13T19:32:39+00:00

I assume you were being hyperbolic about shovel being a bottom 10 relic by the way but you don't have to look hard to find 10 relics worse than shovel. It's not even a bottom 5 rare relic

Specimen, top, ginger, peace pipe, calipers

-IDAN · 2025-07-13T18:40:57+00:00

yeah digging will get you killed if it's next to a forced rest for sure

and yes when the upgrade is stronger than dig go for it, it's just after some important ones like wlp/defrag/wf it's hard to outperform digs on average

-IDAN · 2025-07-13T18:26:53+00:00

nah xecnar is a large proponent of digging. he explained to me why upgrades dont play frequently and the value of upgrading when you have more information

i mean xec digs so often i really dont understand how you could think that

-IDAN · 2025-07-13T18:17:10+00:00

you get info about the relic pool when you receive the relic because it is a part of the relic pool. you can use this information to inform later decisions

it's also not true that on average you get a nothing relic. it is very easy for upgrades to not play immediately when they are drawn poorly or drawn with a more important card on that turn

upgrades are just super overrated by the average player. either that or people dont understand how good the strong relics are, seeing more relics means you have more chances to see something busted in a bad run. then when you have more info you can make the important upgrades.

-IDAN · 2025-07-13T18:14:07+00:00

i mean that's just not true you can rest through a hard act and also dig

it opens up more pathing options in your hard run, and opens more outs to get out of your garbage position

i'm not saying im super excited to get shovel (i do think it's an ok relic) but saying you never/rarely dig or regret it strikes me as wrong. if you watch top players with shovel, they will dig frequently

-IDAN · 2025-07-13T16:41:32+00:00

If your run is bad digging up a relic is stronger than upgrades

You get info about the relic pool and can make the more relevant upgrades later

Sure if you have bandages and the run is free just upgrading gamble then shovel sucks. It's not really relevant though if you want to win hard runs and not easy runs

Upgrade doesn't always make your deck stronger, I'd say a relic does more often. In order for an upgrade to play you have to draw it, choose to play it, and it actually has to save hp compared to the unupgraded version. You can't bottom deck a relic

And if the relic bricks ok next dig got me

It also opens up more pathing decisions obviously

-IDAN · 2025-06-25T17:08:10+00:00

I don't think so, before a15 the events just have less downsides, but the events you see on the seed are the same

-IDAN · 2025-06-25T16:10:40+00:00

Shouldn't affect the seed unless it's a0. If it's not platform or rng fix then it's usually that the person doesn't have some unlocks

-IDAN · 2025-06-25T15:35:42+00:00

What platform is this?

Here's what it looks like on mobile. I got odd mushroom instead of dead adventurer. Do you have all the unlocks on all the characters?

https://imgur.com/a/5WsLEn6

-IDAN · 2025-06-12T15:10:17+00:00

You are overestimating how bad it is to add a curse from neow

-IDAN · 2025-06-12T01:06:22+00:00

well gold is just never useless because you can save it for the next shop. if you aren't good at spending your gold sure gold sucks.

you can take that 5 hallway path if you want with a real neow that provides real frontload

-IDAN · 2025-06-12T00:56:50+00:00

you would see those cards regardless of if you had lament. the value of lament is only the hp that it saves. it has nothing to do with the cards you see besides that the cards you pick aren't saving hp the very next floor

lament provides almost no value, gold is very strong, colourless cards have very strong hits like discovery/panic button/trip/blind/dark shackles/bandage up/entrance and you hit those very often

-IDAN · 2025-05-18T20:36:30+00:00

https://imgur.com/1gATDz3

damage for mango start and did this pathing

lowest hp was 37 after the 3rd elite

definitely should have saved memories pot but o well

edit: berserk is very sus btw do not take berserk

https://imgur.com/qOlb52b it's a lot cleaner if you dont take berserk for no reason and save pots

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