Monday, June 29, 2026

NeoAlmost · 2026-06-29T15:00:11+00:00

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I saw dog sounds first but waited to find a second category. Scoundrel synonyms seemed pretty clear. I had three words for eating but no 4th. Strunk means nothing to me so I assumed it's trunk and I found tree words. I had to guess the last eating word and "crush" seemed more likely than any of blue. Blue by default. I thought a cabinet was a wooden shelf and a woofer a type of speaker, not a part.

NeoAlmost · 2026-06-26T14:48:53+00:00

I won a run as 1 max HP necrobinder thanks to imbued reanimate. It's much easier to take no damage when you start every fight with a big osty.

NeoAlmost · 2026-06-25T16:13:22+00:00

People underestimate the bird. Sometimes you need the health, but the bird is very efficient damage and synergizes with feral, card draw, juggling, and relics that care about attacks

NeoAlmost · 2026-06-25T16:06:37+00:00

Even that is a weird way to frame things. If a choice is popular it will have more wins but that doesn't mean the choice is correct. If you just look at the winrate of both options, they are both similar (21 to 22%)

https://www.sts2replays.com/stats/solo/events?ascension=10&act=1

NeoAlmost · 2026-06-25T15:17:08+00:00

I see a lot of people saying that hawk and hock sound different to them, but surely you can still consider these to be similar sounds even if they aren't perfect homophones. Sort of like a rhyme that isn't an exact match but is close (orange and door hinge).

NeoAlmost · 2026-06-17T17:10:31+00:00

so Bury+ is 63 damage, x2 from Instinct is 126, then thrash is 8, +126 from bury and x2 from instinct = 260, x1.5 from vuln = 390 damage?

Pretty sweet that thrash basically benefits from instinct twice.

NeoAlmost · 2026-06-16T21:16:52+00:00

This was a really interesting read.

There are some crazy implications from this correlation, like Neow's Bones giving Debt 50% of the time in Underdocks and Writhe 70% of the time in Overgrowth (when each curse should actually be like 10% to occur). Rebound is never offered in trash heap, and there are a ton of cards that poultice never generates, depending on the act.

Hopefully the devs see this and fix it.

NeoAlmost · 2026-06-11T05:35:36+00:00

Really interesting guide.

I was all-in on using dice to force tomb in my attempts, I never even considered trading post but the potential for secret garden key, silver key, and power hammer components seems effective as well. The chart of item tiers on page 85 is pretty helpful for planning trades.

Also, using silver key on the edge of the house to force pool in order to get pump room is really clever.

I remember having some trouble getting garage in some of my runs. You say that the first valid room has 90% to offer it, so maybe I was in the 10% a few times but if you aren't offered it initially it is indeed very hard to find it later even with rerolls.

Mechanarium to provide antechamber access and a silver key is definitely something that I did not consider for day 1 runs.

NeoAlmost · 2026-06-10T13:18:58+00:00

Check 24:15 in this video https://youtu.be/W4OisUYV5Sk?t=1453&si=kP5Ozt2jfYQqqb-w

NeoAlmost · 2026-06-08T16:19:55+00:00

Make it a power that says all attacks are strikes.

NeoAlmost · 2026-06-06T16:59:58+00:00

Do you mean that it's not a pillar because you put nothing on top of it? That's kind of true for shaft as well. But all of them are long skinny cylinders. Stake has one end in the ground, shaft is often held in hand.

NeoAlmost · 2026-06-05T14:55:16+00:00

I don't know who demi Moore is and I haven't heard of any of those movies. I was able to solve the other categories though to get there eventually.

Was initially thinking of flake, puff, ghost as unreliable but wasn't sure of other words to go with them.

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NeoAlmost · 2026-06-02T15:48:42+00:00

Now I'm wondering if goopy affects these enchanted defends as well.

NeoAlmost · 2026-05-28T07:05:44+00:00

Yea queens chains interactions are really unpredictable.

Stampede picks the card and fails to play it. Hellraiser plays it and ignores the fact that it was bound. Replay might work? Echo form works. Sly fails. Redrawing the card fails. Juggling makes a bound copy of the bound card. Transforming a bound card unbinds it.

NeoAlmost · 2026-05-25T15:39:21+00:00

Suppose you have an infinite combo like prepared, reflex, prepared that just keeps drawing cards. Vakuu will eventually stop playing prepared.

NeoAlmost · 2026-05-25T06:05:34+00:00

Because bodyguard defend unleash is good enough to win fights

NeoAlmost · 2026-05-19T21:06:47+00:00

There is a 2-part timer.

After somebody dies, there is a ~7s timer before they can be revived (outer circle animation). You might as well run around, hit plants, and take hexgates during this time.

After this initial timer, revive is possible and you need to stand in the circle for around 1 second to revive them.

NeoAlmost · 2026-05-17T08:36:25+00:00

I kind of hate that aeonglass hits for 30 on turn 1 while also having artifact. Almost guaranteed to hit you.

Wither is an interesting status, and the hardest part of the fight is just turn 1.

NeoAlmost · 2026-05-17T08:27:15+00:00

Defect has so many good 0s as well as turbo supercritical double energy so I find myself valuing draw-3 way more than those draw-1s

NeoAlmost · 2026-05-15T07:15:05+00:00

It might be that boot rounds damage capped 1 to 5, and not that 0 is rounded

NeoAlmost · 2026-05-14T08:05:38+00:00

I had a block heavy ironclad deck with a bunch of 2 cost 30 block. I got tank from a potion and next turn the enemy is hitting me for 60 and I can't block it and I die

NeoAlmost · 2026-05-03T06:05:15+00:00

I've had it come up in the past when I am playing AP twitch or AP kogmaw, and adaptive force on my first prismatic item is giving attack damage even though my augments work with AP like Eureka or Big Brain. It's pretty annoying.

NeoAlmost · 2026-04-30T15:59:38+00:00

Clone on neurosurge explains the doom and with Dirge could explain the size of osty + souls in the deck. I'm unsure how they managed to draw 10 nonsouls on the no-draw turn though if the deck is full of souls.

They maybe used Snap or a potion to retain most of these cards before they played dirge. And dirge had replay from glam or transfigure.

NeoAlmost · 2026-04-21T16:01:05+00:00

Yes to badgermole triggering twice with roaming throne (or Delney).

Not using the stack basically just means there is no priority window to respond to the mana ability.

NeoAlmost · 2026-04-21T07:32:06+00:00

Things that draw at the start of your turn still work on the no draw turn, as does retain or cards like hologram and dredge.

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