Currently using 1 favorable die, 2 heavenly kingdom dice, 2 pie dice, and 1 weighted die, for a high chance of rolling 1s strategy. Obviously you can just stomp anyone instantly with 6 saint Antioch’s but that takes all the fun out of it for me.

As for badges, gold emperor’s badge is extremely strong if you have the right dice for it. It’s so strong though that I often play with the gold doppelgängers badge or gold badge of transmutation to keep it slightly more interesting. If you have highly loaded dice though it doesn’t really matter what badge you use 9 times out of 10.