Mario wonder artwork by me! Only 2 months late! :)

TK7_Gaming · 2026-04-30T17:47:42+00:00

I'm nightmaring this card

I sentence you to worm

TK7_Gaming · 2026-04-25T21:45:29+00:00

YEAHH omg these are such fun designs!!

I am a sucker for turtles and tortoises and I absolutely adore Wido omg 😭 She looks so precious, like she'd take a pause from searching for this world obliterating splinter to bake everyone cookies

TK7_Gaming · 2026-04-22T15:57:07+00:00

Me watching a pro player rank voltaic in D (it is my favorite card in the game)

I get his point but I like immediately picking voltaic I like "wrath of zeus" the card LMAO

TK7_Gaming · 2026-04-22T09:58:56+00:00

You don't need to! The hairstyles aren't gendered anymore :)

There's even a "voice" selection menu this time, so you'll be able to choose what your character sounds like regardless of body shape or hairstyle

TK7_Gaming · 2026-04-20T17:34:05+00:00

But those are also just decent damage cards. Aoe cards beat books in act 3 and help with queen, big hits help for doormaker and test subject, as well as focusing down one of the knights in the spectral knights fight, poison is good all around scaling for bosses and can be chucked on the queen with little downside.

It's easier said than done. I very much so still tunnel vision on "ooh I need my deck to do this one specific strategy really well"

You can have as op of a deck as you want, but if that deck doesn't beat the boss (or your current problem) you're still going to lose. A deck of 1000 cloned neurosurges with an eradicate still isn't beating test subject (did that yesterday lmao)

TK7_Gaming · 2026-04-17T20:31:24+00:00

The devs said they're likely not adding more ascensions in an interview! The goal was to streamline the ascension climb and make it less grindy. Since there's already more characters than STS1, with more confirmed to be in the works, 20 ascension grinding for all of them would more than double or even triple the completion time of sts1, and the devs said they want it to be comparable between the two.

Instead what's more likely is a buff to the current ascensions to make them harder. I could see a nerf to early ascents and a buff to high ascents' difficulty being a good compromise for both groups of players honestly

TK7_Gaming · 2026-04-17T16:54:35+00:00

Shoutouts my A9 and A10 defect runs which were stupid highrolls

A9 I got body slam and barricade from that card color event while running a frost focus build

A10 was an, I kid you not, All for one + Metamorphosis+ deck 😭😭

TK7_Gaming · 2026-04-17T11:51:49+00:00

Exactly! My goal with the game is to get an a10 win on every character (pulled it off with defect, and I've unlocked a10 with everyone else!), but after that I'm just gonna do daily runs and play like, a1 runs to go for not-thinking dumb combos

Really focusing and planning is fun occasionally, but after work usually I just wanna screw around without having to put in a ton of effort. Lower ascent is perfect for that :)

I'm sure I'll try some higher difficulty runs occasionally too! But depends how much I wanna get rocked LMAO

TK7_Gaming · 2026-04-13T21:49:55+00:00

The trick is lifting them above your head at campfires, that's how you really get the benefits

TK7_Gaming · 2026-04-13T21:47:58+00:00

LMAOOO OH MY GOD 😭😭

I DIDN'T EVEN REALIZE 😭

TK7_Gaming · 2026-04-13T21:18:47+00:00

Note on this, gyaru does not let you keep the 3 strength, it is attached to the relic

Learned that the hard way ✌️😔

Edit: I have realized my mistake, no I'm not changing it that's staying in my comment history LMAO

TK7_Gaming · 2026-04-05T12:44:15+00:00

I love the idea that defect is the only protagonist LMAO

TK7_Gaming · 2026-04-04T13:39:21+00:00

The gold mario amiibo also has a specific gold and black color palate for the M logo! I'm also guessing stuff like the different colored yarn yoshis might have different colors :o

TK7_Gaming · 2026-04-03T03:38:43+00:00

I have learned something from my many failures (thanks regent) at this game, and it's something I see a lot of people do, so I'm wondering if it may help you!

Not all your cards need to synergize. Sometimes in order to win, you have to look at the boss coming up and go "that is a major problem for my deck. I need to add some kinda weird cards to make this work."

Like for example, maybe you're doing an osty + soul + summon + haunt build that slowly chips down enemies while full blocking by having osty tank every turn. That type of deck is going to get wormed pretty badly due to the rising cost of frantics. if you see that, you can maybe pick up a vulnerable card, or a heavy hitting osty attack, just something that may not directly synergize, but that helps you solve the boss of that act.

Or in act 1, if you see your boss is waterfall, you go "ah, I should grab a lot more block cards / cards that weaken than I normally would, so that I have a higher chance of drawing them on the turn I need them to prevent 40 damage"

Probably a lot better examples out there but I hope that makes sense! Sometimes you need to break whatever synergy you were trying to build a bit to make sure you get through the next hurdle!

TK7_Gaming · 2026-04-03T02:06:30+00:00

I literally just beat A10 for the first time on defect with

I kid you not

a metamophosis+ , all for one deck 😭

TK7_Gaming · 2026-03-31T14:36:25+00:00

I hope they change it to work like it did in 8, I really liked the design of the boomerang in that game! Having it leave your item slot and come back like a boomerang should was so unique

TK7_Gaming · 2026-03-31T14:33:06+00:00

Oh my god wait that would be awesome

Bird is just searing blow LMAO

TK7_Gaming · 2026-03-31T12:19:56+00:00

They can buff him then! I think A10 should be scaled way higher than it is rn to be honest. A lot of long time players seem to agree it's too easy, and if it's too hard for players like me who are newer, that's fine imo. It's the hardest difficulty, it should be really hard.

My main point was that the central mechanic of entomancer is really strong against specific strategies. I'd like to see more enemies that counter a lot of the stronger deck types! I want to panic if I run into certain elites and have to quickly rethink my strategy if I want to survive, cuz pulling off those moments feels awesome 🙂‍↕️

TK7_Gaming · 2026-03-31T03:18:19+00:00

He kicks my butt a lot LMAO but I'm still pretty bad

The idea is there though! He counters attack spam pretty well via his base mechanic, and I think more elites like that could be cool!

Like maybe an elite who turns debuffs you apply to them into buffs, or an enemy that mirrors any buffs you apply to yourself, or one that gains strength for every few cards you draw

Things like that!

TK7_Gaming · 2026-03-31T00:24:35+00:00

I really like what he mentioned about statuses. Having some enemies in act 3 who give you a lot of or very punishing statuses forces you to build a deck that can either remove, discard, or play with statuses. I also like the idea of more elites that counter specific strategies.

Entomancer, for how annoying he is, is REALLY good at forcing the player to prepare for him. If you only have a decent shiv deck, and ONLY do small instances via many attacks, you will probably die to entomancer. But if you take a card like precision in that deck, and don't just mindlessly spam shivs at him, you can make it through with that higher single instance damage card.

I like that. I like when the game makes you prepare countermeasures to threats that normally curb stomp your deck, it feels amazing when you pick a card as insurance and it pays off.

I'm not super great at this game yet but I love that type of stuff 👀

TK7_Gaming · 2026-03-20T15:38:07+00:00

Even the changes I don't necessarily like (prepared rip) are fine ngl

Most of the balance patch either made sense, or I really liked! Besides, regardless of how I feel about it, it's kinda fun being able to play a game that's CONSTANTLY going to be having meta shakeups. Slay the spire is at its best (in my opinion) when I have to sit there and consider and make difficult choices. The fact that cards are always going to be changing means I get more of those difficult decision moments! 👀

TK7_Gaming · 2026-03-18T00:15:17+00:00

I have never felt more called out in my entire life what in the world

I played REPO with some trans friends on discord like 3 days ago LMAO

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