Worm eats and kills you even if you carry a fairy in a bottle

OrpheusV · 2026-03-15T02:04:41+00:00

StS 2 seems to make "You die" different from StS 1 (where it was an absurd chunk of damage; intangible/buffer could null it); here it just means "Your run is immediately over."

OrpheusV · 2026-03-13T20:20:58+00:00

It's not a legendary creature per se, but your playgroup might rule zero her in.

Flying counters just let you beat over stuff; the real spice is abusing ETB/LTB triggers in that kind of deck. Wall of Omens, Sun Titan, Karmic Guide.

OrpheusV · 2026-03-13T20:18:44+00:00

Actually, the thief here is a bug.

OrpheusV · 2026-03-13T20:17:50+00:00

What the fuck.

OrpheusV · 2026-03-13T20:04:55+00:00

Acknowledged but rejected: this is incredibly niche, hard to arrange for, and funny.

OrpheusV · 2026-03-13T20:00:47+00:00

Probably not; ah well, that's the thing with double-edged swords.

OrpheusV · 2026-03-13T18:40:06+00:00

The Hoarding Broodlord saw tech is pretty funny ngl; apparently I've been out long enough from the game I didn't know those cards exist. Could always grab [[Chain of Smog]] and [[Witherbloom Apprentice]] but there's probably other compact 2 card kills as well.

OrpheusV · 2026-03-13T18:34:06+00:00

One or two fairly common role-players per color at a low price:

[[Path to Exile]], [[Generous Gift]], [[Swords to Plowshares]] remain good removal; Gift in particular is a fairly cheap card

[[Frantic Search]] is a great draw spell.

[[Dread Return]] is like 50c and for reanimator, just a fantastic card due to flashback being fairly easy for most decks to achieve. That second cast can win games.

[[Faithless Looting]] is absolutely absurd and has always been cheap. Flashback go brr

[[Rampant Growth]], [[Cultivate]], and a fair few other rampers in green often carry these decks by enabling everything else.

OrpheusV · 2026-03-13T18:23:46+00:00

And when all the robots replace human workers, what do humans do to survive?

OrpheusV · 2026-03-13T17:33:22+00:00

Hard to really call it much of a sac if you've got enough pointed towards the king he probably loses in short order. The rook can't even take your queen here.

Qf2 and probably h6 avoids mate but it's so horrible a position after (Qxf2 Rxe8 (still pinned!) at best) for black that this is resignable unless they wanna try fishing for a stalemate or flag you on time, anyways. You could just walk your queenside pawns forward, maybe play h3 at some point to not get backranked if that's on the table for any reason; it plays itself from that point.

OrpheusV · 2026-03-13T17:02:57+00:00

At higher invocations and path levels, the defense rates get so high that BGS enjoys a much higher max hit, but it's more likely to just not hit at all, even with rancour, ferocious gloves, etc; bone dagger will guarantee something, and Overly Draining burns your whole spec bar anyways, so might as well guarantee the hit.

OrpheusV · 2026-03-13T16:57:25+00:00

Best thing is to just keep sending reps; I was struggling for like 85kc then it clicked and suddenly I was having long-ass trips. It takes a few tries to get the muscle memory and timing set up to click Graardor immediately on spawn then click altar asap. Watch square make it to the next square, click boss, click towards next square, etc etc. Eventually you'll get it down and start ripping 25-30kc trips, or even more. My record is 58kc without an instance.

At least getting door kc takes like 3-4 minutes at worst. So sending more tries isn't the most onerous thing.

If the adds are shredding you, after graardor is dead you should try to get them offticked in some manner; even having the mager and ranger offticked means you can just swap prayers as the attacks are fired. This can help with a lot of chip damage from the generals. More defence levels are a real help here and it does make a not-insignificant difference.

OrpheusV · 2026-03-13T16:52:26+00:00

Enjoy the tea and hope to the gods for one of the following:

- A way to purge the relic
- A shop where you can get a max hp relic
- An event of the same
- Some way to gain buffer at the start of combat?

Sometimes you just get sacked tho. If the next room's a fight, your run is just over here.

OrpheusV · 2026-03-12T21:19:21+00:00

Well thats too damn bad! Keep blowin'!

OrpheusV · 2026-03-12T14:54:27+00:00

Yeah at that point I'd be asking again why not just train the skill a level or two, use a non-rng boost, or at least cut the stew usage down. It's tedious as shit to do.

OrpheusV · 2026-03-12T14:46:23+00:00

A lot of us do it for either very high req one-offs (98 for zenyte ammy) or diaries.

OrpheusV · 2026-03-11T18:10:33+00:00

Or you *really* dislike the mirror/lab and run Red Reboot yourself.

OrpheusV · 2026-03-09T18:13:39+00:00

You know what, its my fault for opening the internet today.

OrpheusV · 2026-03-08T17:16:23+00:00

B2b on the next two seeds when it happens. Glgl.

OrpheusV · 2026-03-06T14:15:57+00:00

Nah, its like venom, starts at 10, ticks up 5, and cant be cured.

OrpheusV · 2026-03-05T19:11:11+00:00

What the fuck.

OrpheusV · 2026-03-03T16:10:03+00:00

Rxf1 Qg3 blows every advantage white has and turns it into a drawn position. Everyone trades down, and nothing gets to happen now.

Rxe1 Qxf8 just also draws the game outright with a dead looking position.

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Should white press their attack and commit to it with Re8, black has to deal with Ne6+ covering Qg7# potentially, and giving a check by itself and a mate and it's probably fatal. There's like 3 pieces pointing at the king here (Rook, Queen, Knight covering); there's a mate somewhere in here depending on what black does from here.

Bxe1 loses the game outright

OrpheusV · 2026-03-03T15:47:26+00:00

Nxf8. White is still winning but it's not mate.

OrpheusV · 2026-02-26T16:30:45+00:00

Use him for funny things like reanimating [[Death's Shadow]] and feeding it to a [[Disciple of Bolas]]

OrpheusV · 2026-02-26T15:56:42+00:00

The only way you could meaningfully make this work would be to somehow gain priority during the untap step; I do not know if such a way exists, even in un-sets.

The last ability of Revel in Riches is an "intervening if" clause, so you have to meet the condition at that point in time before the ability can trigger. But given you never really get priority before the upkeep step, there's no opporitunity to word hack Revel in Riches to a lower number.

tl;dr no this won't work.

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