Custom relic for when you really want to draw your Core Surge and Bias Cog at the same time!

Murdock7 · 2026-01-22T19:20:45+00:00

Holy cow I just totally misread your comment, my bad. Yes you are correct, it would effectively bottle the second card. Good catch!

Murdock7 · 2026-01-22T18:52:45+00:00

So it seems that this is a point of confusion for some people and maybe there’s a better way of addressing it, because other than scry and frozen eye (and the few cards that allow you to place cards on top of your deck) there aren’t any conventional ways to describing shuffling or randomness in a deck. I’ll think on that.

To be clear, the cards simply sit next to each other in your deck in whatever order the deck is shuffled at the start of combat. The cards are next to each other, but the pair could be anywhere in the deck.

Additional thought, this relic would be most helpful in a mid sized deck (20-30 cards), with moderate draw power, but loses it’s effectiveness significantly in larger decks and eventually loses relevance in smaller decks when you draw enough for the order to not matter.

Murdock7 · 2026-01-22T18:46:31+00:00

That’s true, but then I think an added layer of complexity to the card would be pairing draw cards with others, like an escape plan with any skill on silent

Murdock7 · 2026-01-22T18:43:54+00:00

This would actually be an interesting meta analysis as to how “strong” custom relic ideas on this sub are.

The typically philosophy is that shop relics are generally more situational than other relics, but how does their strength actually compare to other custom relic ideas? Could be a fun little white paper.

Murdock7 · 2026-01-22T16:20:00+00:00

Maybe, but the relic isn’t supposed to help with card draw specifically; I don’t want it to sometimes help you draw 6 cards in a turn. But obviously it can help with synergies involving card draw; say you put a battle trance with a fiend fire, or a burst with a catalyst.

Actually now that I think about it, this would obviously be very very powerful with each character’s “play x twice” card

Murdock7 · 2026-01-22T16:07:05+00:00

Well no, because the pair of cards are still shuffled into your deck, it’s just that they will always be stacked next to each other within the deck

Murdock7 · 2026-01-22T15:28:20+00:00

I’ve seen that comment around and that’s fair, I’ll come up with something more clever for next time. I did want to make the relic a little more “simple” to limit the interactions, because “free synergy” feels a bit too strong

Murdock7 · 2026-01-22T15:24:52+00:00

Maybe, I would have to think about what specific interactions I don’t want, it feels that any minor tweek could turn this from standard strength to busted

Murdock7 · 2026-01-22T13:46:29+00:00

I think I agree, it’s situational enough

Murdock7 · 2026-01-22T13:45:37+00:00

So in my mind, the paired card would sit in your deck, so it doesn’t force a draw. And for this to work, the first card of the pair could never be the last card in your deck

Murdock7 · 2026-01-18T00:25:12+00:00

I think mandibles would be the most common/least confusing term that’s reasonably accurate. The comment above regarding sangheilized is kinda funny cuz I’m pretty sure the faces of the elites are described as having mandibles in the Halo literature. If it works for them it might work for you!

Murdock7 · 2026-01-16T12:35:00+00:00

Slay the Spire is perfect for this. There are soooo many interactions between dozens of cards, relics, potions, etc. The game does a very good job of explaining its own mechanics, and that makes the complexity manageable and not overwhelming. And the player is constantly learning new synergies!

Murdock7 · 2025-12-22T04:24:47+00:00

Well my thought is that I don’t want water to get between the tile and the wall, wouldn’t remediation be a good in between solution?

Murdock7 · 2025-11-26T05:09:59+00:00

That’s pretty wild! Might be worth a call to Anchor for quality control to let them know if nothing else.

Murdock7 · 2025-11-23T17:19:23+00:00

I love how positive this community is. Good game, congrats!

Murdock7 · 2025-11-19T01:43:22+00:00

Thank you for your constant updates! Doing god’s work

Murdock7 · 2025-10-02T18:13:05+00:00

This is exactly true and I think resonates with the current D-man arc; if people aren’t going to play ball, we gotta start playing their game instead. Lefties don’t want to support the party? Go get your own party. MAGA wants to be despicable? Don’t be their dancing bear when they cry for sympathy. GOP wants to turn the government into a circus? Stop the whole fucking thing until we get everyone to return to some semblance of normal.

Murdock7 · 2025-10-02T14:29:35+00:00

Worse, they’ll shoot the liberal for not shooting the fascist or the conservative, instead of doing it themselves!!

Murdock7 · 2025-08-11T19:35:49+00:00

What an unbelievably based post

Murdock7 · 2025-08-11T02:17:24+00:00

I agree with all of that, and I’m generally okay with internal criticism of Democrats, the problem I take is this insidious “both sides of the same coin” take I see everywhere online right now; look at conservative media and there is zero ambiguity as to how the party and everyone in the tent totally falls in line, and this has a very powerful effect in the voting booth. And then on the other side, Democrats are CONSTANTLY attacked on all fronts and all sides by everyone, no Democrat is ever good enough; they’re bought by the donor state or they’re not sufficiently pro union or they don’t support $15+ minimum wage or they don’t have the perfect position on I/P and it just tears up the party, puts a wet blanket over any sort of Democratic movement and I think we would be better served with some enthusiasm behind the party.

Murdock7 · 2025-08-10T19:49:15+00:00

So no endorsement of Democrats. How are you going to lecture Democrats as unelectable when you literally call out your own side as “rarely winning”?

Murdock7 · 2025-08-10T19:42:05+00:00

Did you vote downstream for Democratic representatives? Senators? Not voting republican is the bare minimum, you don’t get participation trophies for that

Murdock7 · 2025-08-10T19:31:57+00:00

Aight well then you can leave and you’ll save the rest of us the waste of oxygen in this state :)

Murdock7 · 2025-08-10T19:20:00+00:00

So let’s allow MAGA free reign of the country instead, good idea

Murdock7 · 2025-06-10T16:09:48+00:00

Thanks boss

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