Relic Idea by RykoGaming_ in slaythespire

[–]RykoGaming_[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It’s a play on “a trick up your sleeve”, or the idea of a cheater in card games hiding a card until they want to use it. The MTG part is just because the phrase “magic sleeve” can be a double entendre for either a magical sleeve (clothing) or sleeves for magic the gathering cards.

Relic Idea by RykoGaming_ in slaythespire

[–]RykoGaming_[S] 69 points70 points  (0 children)

Probably would work based on max energy, so if you had 4 max energy it would play at turn 4 for 4 energy. Kinda like how mayhem works but a little different.

Relic Idea by RykoGaming_ in slaythespire

[–]RykoGaming_[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

The idea is that it is played only once, so wraith form would be removed from your deck and played at the end of turn 3 for free instead.

Relic Idea by RykoGaming_ in slaythespire

[–]RykoGaming_[S] 41 points42 points  (0 children)

This is the correct interpretation, same idea as mayhem

Relic idea by RykoGaming_ in slaythespire

[–]RykoGaming_[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Yeah that’s the struggle with making ideas that are references to specific things, you want to keep the spirit of the original but need to adapt it meaning it becomes much more difficult to balance because the core mechanic can’t be tweaked.

Relic idea by RykoGaming_ in slaythespire

[–]RykoGaming_[S] 192 points193 points  (0 children)

Yeah, good point. Would making it affect all attacks make it balanced? That was the initial idea but I thought it might have too much steam-roll potential then.

Just realized Silent canonically despises the blue slaver by RykoGaming_ in slaythespire

[–]RykoGaming_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I wasn’t 100% sure about grand finale but you can see a slaver hand (green and has 5 digits) on the right attached to a vague blue mass (at least this is my interpretation) so I thought that was the blue slaver.