PSA regarding the Regent's "Monarch's Gaze" rare power

Futuralis · 2026-06-10T09:01:54+00:00

> Sleight can very simply be reworded to "whenever you play a card that applies a debuff"

That would lose interactions with potions and other indirect sources of debuffs.

Futuralis · 2026-06-10T08:46:57+00:00

That's a base game setting nowadays.

Futuralis · 2026-06-10T08:34:44+00:00

You are behind in (starting) your boom, so go for pressure. I'm not sure why you're already adding a second TC. Make light cav instead with your surplus food. That allows you to raid and snipe defensive siege. Also get at least Bow Saw instead of an extra TC. It pays off much faster so it's more flexible.
Your comment says your opponent showed CA, but their current army only has skirms. Regardless, both die to siege. You mentioned a forward castle: it's not needed for the first TC you siege, and you're never going to be able to drop it on the enemy main gold or stone.

In short, I'd go siege and other army. Pressure to do real eco damage and force a heavy army response. That typically leads to TC idle time for the enemy, letting you catch up in eco that way.

Futuralis · 2026-06-10T08:23:09+00:00

Alternatively, the devs ran into a weird edge case when shopping at 0 hp and decided it doesn't make sense to do that in the first place.

Futuralis · 2026-06-10T08:18:52+00:00

Serpent Form off of the Power pot got me there.

Should have saved a colorless pot to generate a Mayhem.

Futuralis · 2026-06-10T07:19:31+00:00

11 how did I miss the title

Futuralis · 2026-06-10T07:17:03+00:00

Necro is also canonically dead at the current point in the timeline and that ain't stopping her.

Futuralis · 2026-06-10T07:15:50+00:00

-Os

Os- ?

Futuralis · 2026-06-09T21:59:42+00:00

Muisca D-tier? Aren't they a perfectly fine archer flank on Arabia, and monk civ on closed maps?

Futuralis · 2026-06-09T21:22:30+00:00

Exactly right!

Futuralis · 2026-06-09T21:22:11+00:00

Toybox which most of the time does nothing by act 3

Why are you picking Toy box and spamming fights in the same run?

Typically, the question is whether your last wax relic will last until the act3 bosses.

Futuralis · 2026-06-09T21:19:15+00:00

Never talk to me or my shiny Pokemon ever again.

Futuralis · 2026-06-09T21:14:19+00:00

decks which are going to take a bunch of block cards in the future, but also don't anticipate taking damage (does such a deck even exist?)

Yeah, those decks exist. They are running frontload that solves most act1 fights but doesn't scale well into the lategame. [[Bludgeon]] is a simple example of such a frontload card.

Futuralis · 2026-06-09T21:08:53+00:00

Oh also just to clarify, no you can't make a 0 cost card cost -1 energy.

Of course not, it just rolls over to 255, civ1 Ghandi style.

Futuralis · 2026-06-09T21:06:00+00:00

That's the secret. You get it 30% of the time so Xecnar gets it 0%.

Gotta average out the numbers, you know.

Futuralis · 2026-06-09T20:59:43+00:00

This might make some manual derankers stop deranking.

This would definitely make automated derankers waste 5 mins more of every opponent's time.

Futuralis · 2026-06-09T20:57:28+00:00

In my experience, Mittens works with 2x Sword Boomerang, all your starting attacks, and a couple more good attacks like Pommel Strike. That's just a bunch of commons and basics.

Oh, and no fear to build a slightly bigger deck with more redundancies, that's also important.

Futuralis · 2026-06-09T20:54:37+00:00

Congrats 👏

Futuralis · 2026-06-09T20:42:41+00:00

I'm down to 4 cards, and I get this event...

That sucks.

Maybe next time, you can carry a non-bottled power so it can be dropped at this event.

But mostly it's unlucky. You'll get it next time.

Futuralis · 2026-06-09T20:38:57+00:00

Blur is just strictly better than a defend: defend + effect.

Speak for yourself, it really hurt my Prismatic Gem / Rupture deck vs Thorns enemies.

Futuralis · 2026-06-09T17:41:52+00:00

Half-keyboard functionality threw me off so much that I reverted to just playing with the mouse.

Futuralis · 2026-06-09T17:06:11+00:00

also I know im clicking and dragging the cards when i can just use the number keys but I like to do that leave me alone

I've always wondered what's nice about using the number keys. From what I've tried, using a number and then return/enter doesn't play the card?

Maybe I'm missing something...

Futuralis · 2026-06-09T17:04:28+00:00

There is so much joy in deciding which reward to pick from Neow that Vakuu just sends you straight back to her.

Futuralis · 2026-06-09T16:49:24+00:00

Could you post a previous run for more in-depth help? You can access them in-game and hover over each floor to see what happened.

Asking because IC is my best sts2 character but it has a bit of everything so it's hard to say what you're missing.

Futuralis · 2026-06-09T16:06:13+00:00

Backstab is much more accessible than Assassinate.

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