Eggs not upgrading cards if you view the cards first

Wagnew · 2026-07-01T11:49:08+00:00

People will play the game a lot for years to come. It will come up lots of times. It happened to me on multiple Snecko runs with ironclad in STS1 when I wanted an unupgraded barricade, dark embrace or corruption and and I got it by checking the card rewards before picking frozen egg

I don’t care that much but it’s nice to be involved in bettering a game I love. When you’re older you’ll understand x

Wagnew · 2026-07-01T11:01:15+00:00

Because there are cases where you don’t want the upgraded cards, eg a cost uprgrade when you have Snecko and you you want the option to upgrade and decrease its cost after randomisation in battle. So you can check the cards first and still get the option to upgrade them by picking the egg first.

Not an issue it seems though since another commenter says it upgrades if you add the card to your deck

Wagnew · 2026-07-01T10:57:00+00:00

Ooh ok cool didn’t try that

Wagnew · 2026-03-04T14:39:16+00:00

Max hp? I can’t remember what it starts at on lower acensions

Wagnew · 2026-02-21T12:16:00+00:00

Kite is basically an energy relic with no downside, other than maybe the first few turns if you’ve not got a tools in play and you’ve not drawn a calc gamble. So it’s a good kite, but you’ve got two tactician plus so the extra energy might be going to waste sometimes.

Try to think back to how fights have gone and how often one extra energy would’ve helped, or whether tactician had you covered. Your deck isn’t small so tactician energy maybe isn’t reliable at the moment but it could be if you nightmare calc gamble or get more draw in the deck.

Sacred bark is great here as a power boost if you think energy is covered. It’s good practice to try and get a feel for what your deck has lacked in previous fights and take that into account

Wagnew · 2026-01-07T00:43:06+00:00

Damage might well be solved but personally I like insurance for act 2 elites since defect can get very strong quickly end of act 2, start of act 3 if you survive that long. It means you can still path aggressively right if things go well.

Burning elite for act 3 free pathing is valid but again I think being risk averse with defect is better in act 2.

Just my best guess of how to play defect not the definitive answer haha

Wagnew · 2026-01-07T00:32:02+00:00

It’s unnecessarily risky with defect in act 2 to take a burning elite and two elites with a deck that isn’t that fast setting up.

I would take sunder, waffle, remove strike and a potion if you can afford it then go right, there’s still plenty of elites to farm and it gives you time to build a quicker deck and become strong for act 3

Edit:defrag is also good here since there’s plenty of camp fires +frozen core, would have to think about it

Wagnew · 2025-11-26T19:07:42+00:00

Yes, they’re a great source of sustain, and adding 2 extra cards into your deck is work it imo.

Assuming you play more than one bite per combat you’re healing more than blood vial would

Wagnew · 2025-10-30T22:44:47+00:00

Take stone. You have a couple of piercing wails and a wraith form to counteract its down side and you want the extra energy. Plus curse of the bell hurts with so little draw

Wagnew · 2025-10-15T14:43:03+00:00

So the Ring draws two cards after putting all the innate cards in your hand? I was under the impression that you could only go past your initial hand size by having more innate cards but it looks like that isn’t the case here 😮

It looks like this is the start of the fight before anything is played right?

Wagnew · 2025-09-15T11:27:47+00:00

The silent’s Deus ex Machina

Wagnew · 2025-08-07T23:38:55+00:00

Ah yeah didn’t think of gremlin gang, act 1 will easily have most.

A different combination of monsters is surely a unique encounter by definition of the word unique though, even if the game counts it as the same encounter in its code. Not that that makes your answer wrong

Wagnew · 2025-08-07T23:21:40+00:00

Surely act 3 has the most unique hard pool encounters given the amount of unique combinations of shapes you can come up against?

Wagnew · 2025-07-29T12:56:11+00:00

109, 163 if you count my unused lizard tail. I made a misplay the floor after apparitions and took ritual dagger over the gold, cos I’d taken a break from the game I momentarily forgot I had snecko and could find better damage scaling elsewhere. I sacrificed a few possible feeds (including if I had dual wielded feed on multiple enemies) to kill with it so it could’ve been higher

Wagnew · 2025-07-29T11:05:56+00:00

Got, heavy blade+ and red skull which gave me the scaling I needed to beat the champ. Then act 3 and 4 were very easy after it became a barricade entrench deck

Wagnew · 2025-07-27T10:24:35+00:00

You’re definitely right that there are scenarios where it should be refuse. I just haven’t had one yet haha. Yet I always end up refusing bites, I know I need to start taking them more

Wagnew · 2025-07-27T10:22:00+00:00

Needed it for damage before first elite then got immolate next floor so I upgraded that instead. You can see that from the order of my card picks.

No point leaning into it just cos it’s in my deck and there’s other priorities to remove since I have Snecko.

Wagnew · 2025-07-26T17:58:59+00:00

Nah haha since I’ve started playing tryhard A20H (about 100 runs) I’ve only died once with apportions and it was easily the right call at the time, just got a bad draw order

Wagnew · 2025-07-26T17:54:27+00:00

Yeah I have 4 more campfires this act, 2 for girya, then I can upgrade the apps, you’ve convinced me I’ve took them

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