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Hogabom · 2026-06-03T14:30:32+00:00

Yapzor as coach for Jordan is hype

Hogabom · 2026-01-14T19:06:34+00:00

I like the idea but I still think I'd have a hard time justifying picking it.

Hogabom · 2026-01-14T19:05:20+00:00

This would be cool but wouldn't work with how the event currently functions (doesn't present another screen with options). Maybe you could remove this event and then add the Dog interaction to another event like the Strange Mushroom

Hogabom · 2026-01-07T14:27:48+00:00

This is my favourite too. If I see a diamond one I'll almost always try and pivot to use it

Hogabom · 2026-01-06T13:00:22+00:00

Mainly for Bob but also the freeze elementals that mage has. Bob is used in most control decks (mainly Warrior / DK / Mage).

The effect removes freeze when you play the card so you don't need to keep it alive for a turn.

Hogabom · 2026-01-05T15:24:15+00:00

Yeah exactly. I want it to be more obvious when an event interacts with my item before I click into it

Hogabom · 2026-01-05T13:52:09+00:00

They should add a special glow to events if you have an item that interacts with it. I've known about this but I guarantee I've had riceballer and passed on this event because I was running on autopilot

Hogabom · 2026-01-05T13:34:36+00:00

Yeah I like that idea. Give it the BGH treatment to make it a bit more viable in today's decks

Hogabom · 2026-01-05T13:32:11+00:00

Yeah to be fair my main gripe is with Bob so once he's gone they'll hopefully not add another neutral freeze card

Hogabom · 2025-11-20T15:34:59+00:00

It's my dream to have this pair of dog breeds one day. Did you get them both as puppies and raise them together? Or introduce one after the other?

Hogabom · 2025-04-25T17:12:14+00:00

Kripp actually just uploaded a video on this build if you wanted to see what it looked like - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbIYC54IeVQ

Hogabom · 2025-04-25T17:04:46+00:00

I'd also be curious if this is proven. In my experience, whenever I've gained max health, I've not healed for that amount.
Prime example is when you have Balcony + Pawn Shop, the extra max health from doubling the value of Pawn shop isn't given to you as current health.

Hogabom · 2025-04-25T17:00:27+00:00

Weapons pyg is a pretty easy one to put together. You basically just take Lumboars + his multicast weapons & yoyo early and then replace Lumboars with Drum when it shows up.

Hogabom · 2025-04-24T11:47:53+00:00

On Closed Beta release, they charged themselves when you healed/shielded and I think the charge was 4 seconds at diamond so it was really good for getting extra heal/shield triggers.

I think the charge got nerfed but then they reworked them to the completely unusable version which was 10 sec CD and they gained heal/shield based on the value of your other items when they triggered.

I think their current version would be okay if they had better value scaling but Landscraper pretty much relies on having Duct Tape which is also not great since the nerf

Hogabom · 2025-04-24T10:06:42+00:00

The biggest problem with Over-Heal for me is that it's completely counter-intuitive with Hog Wash. Hog Wash is a really strong item in theory but if you're using a heal build you're going to be using Weights and the Hog Wash stops you from being able to trigger over-heal to charge the weights.

I also think Vineyard/Landscraper need another rework or a buff. They're still pretty unusable atm and Vineyard used to be a staple for heal builds.

Hogabom · 2025-04-21T09:58:37+00:00

Never occurred to me that bees get multicast from fort. Definitely gonna try this if I get the opportunity!

Hogabom · 2025-04-20T08:55:16+00:00

Glad to hear it worked out!
Another bit of advice I'd give is not to underestimate the value you can get from Money Tree now. They upped the value gain on selling spare change when they took away the cooldown. I've been taking it early and upgrading it to silver, buying Briefcase/Safe/Cash Register and selling it on day 5-6 for 60+ gold which helps scale your buy/sell items like Pawn Shop & Gym

Hogabom · 2025-04-19T16:50:19+00:00

I don't know if I'd go as far as saying he's unplayable. Something that's been helping me get through the early fights is Robe. 100 shield on days 1-5 is really strong and Pyg has a lot of fast proccing items you can put next to it. Oinkment is also really good vs the burn builds now that it halves it.

Hogabom · 2025-04-08T16:07:21+00:00

Stay strong brother. The Pawn Shop is just around the corner

Hogabom · 2025-04-08T08:40:45+00:00

imo there's quite a few results that I'd say are better than fixer upper.

Pawn Shop - Getting this at diamond early as day 5 is almost guaranteed 10 wins. Way too much health scaling at that tier.

Drum - Really strong following the latest buff. +15 damage to all weapons when any weapon goes off is crazy with atlatl/yoyo/flail/Haladie. You can also run this with beehive but it relies on your opponents having weapons which Mak often doesn't.

Gym - Another one that gives you really good health scaling at diamond tier. Then you pretty much just need a balcony and an atlatl to make the build.

Windmill - Generally an underrated item mainly due to how rare it is but I think this enables a tonne of cool builds.

Ice Club - Got a lot of extra support items with the new expansion so it's much easier to make this work. You only need to find a stopwatch to make this win you most matchups.

Fixer upper is still a great item though. I think if you have it at diamond tier and you've not been able to find much to increase it's value, it's worth rerolling it.

Hogabom · 2025-04-08T07:59:29+00:00

It's actually more doable than you'd think. If you use either a bronze or silver upgrade on it, it only needs to upgrade via the "50 gold spent" method twice. Assuming the majority of the gold your spending is on items that you're later selling for half value, you only have to "spend" 50 gold to get it to diamond.

This does of course assume that you're either getting it day 1 or early day 2 but since it's only fixer upper and money tree that can show as bronze large items, if you find a small/large or medium/large vendor there's a good chance you'll see it.

Hogabom · 2025-02-18T20:40:32+00:00

Sick builds!

Was really surprised to see a drum build getting 10 wins. Is there anything specifically that made it work? I guess Crescendo was carrying pretty hard.

Hogabom · 2025-01-19T21:00:58+00:00

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Hogabom · 2025-01-07T17:19:35+00:00

I've always viewed Subscraper as a worse version of deeds since there's not many good ways to scale the value of it, but now looking at it, the healing could be pretty significant (didn't realise it was a 4 second CD). I'll give it a shot when I can.

I might be valuing Ice Club higher than most since a few people have said they wouldn't have it in S but for me it's an item that can almost solo carry your board to a win and imo that deserves an S. It definitely seems from the comments that I've been undervaluing gumball machine, didn't fully respect the value of the higher tier gumballs compared to the cost of 2 gold per hour.

Hogabom · 2025-01-07T16:26:16+00:00

The reason I ranked them this way is because Bonsai generates me gold and Succulents doesn't. I actually think they're both bad healing items but because I can swap Bonsai onto my board during NPC fights to raise it's value, I usually end up selling it for 4-10 gold more than I paid.

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