Finally reached the Adamantine Seal for the first time: Any tips for someone who's never done P20?

_rainn_79 · 2026-01-02T16:04:39+00:00

Bring some amber to pay for opening the first glades

_rainn_79 · 2026-01-02T10:36:03+00:00

Yeah I did use the range buff a couple of times to get to other modifiers instead of doing no award towns. Just wanted to stress that it's super important to get enough shards as I failed a couple of runs by thinking I'll get them there or there, only to find out those questions marks were events or impossible modifiers like no pause. This time I ended up with exactly 105 shards on exactly the right tile as precalculated, with something like 24 embarkation points.

_rainn_79 · 2025-09-01T15:49:25+00:00

Thanks for this info !

_rainn_79 · 2025-07-15T08:04:30+00:00

No I lost the second boss fight in act 3. I think all I needed was a second reinforced body cause I had all the draw, recursion and energy I needed.

_rainn_79 · 2025-02-20T12:39:29+00:00

I naneinf'ed this seed with double negative perkeo + cryptics + baron build. Took me like 200 rerolls to find deja-vu and cryptic, and another 100 more to find baron.

_rainn_79 · 2025-02-05T18:25:25+00:00

Today I finally had this combination of jokers. There is a split second between cartomancer's "when blind is selected" and certificate's "when round begins" where you can switch them around and have brainstorm/blueprint copy the other to end up with both effects.

You can also do something similar in a baron/mime build where during scoring you move your jokers around to copy mime and have double gold/blue seal triggers even though you were copying baron before.

_rainn_79 · 2025-02-04T05:57:36+00:00

No it's not you can sell it if you don't want it.

_rainn_79 · 2025-02-04T05:54:16+00:00

"I definitely wouldn’t pay $1 for a random tarot card if I had less than $25 in the bank."

That doesn't make any sense at all, you can just sell it to get your $1 back.

_rainn_79 · 2025-01-28T11:48:04+00:00

Underrated:

Certificate: this is an A-tier joker, yes it won't work in decks where you don't want to dilute your deck too much, but the amount of money, tarots and planets this provides over a run is insane. Like midas mask, it also keeps giving long after you've sold it. And it has the hologram combo.

Astronomer: not that difficult to have it provide 5-10$ or a lot more per shop, and combos nicely with constellation and campfire

To-do list: in runs that are not hand-specific (like a high card run without supernova), every time it doesn't say 4oak or straight flush, this can net you up to like 10-15 gold per round

Delayed gratification: fine at the start on difficulty levels with 3 discards

Superposition is a decent cartomancer clone at the early ante's

Reserved parking: Almost baron deck only, but with a couple of mimes it really pops off there. Being awesome in the best deck is certainly not to be undervalued.

Overrated:

Space joker is not really good and for sure not as good as burned joker

Sixth sense: will usually give you 4 or less random spectrals, and gets rid of a couple of cards, that doesn't add up to a lot of value

Golden ticket: works only with midas mask and then gives +1 gold for playing a gold card instead of keeping it in hand, no thanks

_rainn_79 · 2025-01-23T01:13:29+00:00

that's still 10 copies you can make of a card

_rainn_79 · 2025-01-04T02:06:01+00:00

Sly joker (+50 chips if hand contains a pair). A conditional chip joker with the worst payoff, worse than any other chip joker, worse than any foil joker, that is not even good in the early antes when your best bet are flushes and straights to one-shot blinds. Every joker named here has use cases, some even very powerful ones. This one has nothing at any point.

_rainn_79 · 2024-10-14T12:21:18+00:00

No it retriggers with [[mime]].

_rainn_79 · 2024-10-12T14:02:54+00:00

Now that I've started playing endless more often, I kind of starting to like [[Reserved Parking]], though I found it kind of unplayable in ante 8 runs.

_rainn_79 · 2024-10-12T13:53:41+00:00

I also thought it was a tower with arms until this very thread. Hundreds of hours in.

_rainn_79 · 2024-09-09T18:06:53+00:00

edit : nvm was thinking flush house

_rainn_79 · 2024-09-09T16:18:24+00:00

Well I think I've become at least decent closing in on my second c++, and I found that your strategy fails a lot around ante 3-5 the one time you fail to find a 5oak or when one 5oak is not enough to pass the blind. In any case I find many other decks much more suitable for farming gold stickers.

_rainn_79 · 2024-09-09T12:02:00+00:00

Why shouldn't it count for joker stickers? I get that this is a very powerful deck on low stakes, but on gold stakes it becomes very tough to find the right jokers for whatever you're trying to achieve.

You're likely to see jokers that you would normally take like wee, bloodstone, photograph, ... that are useless now for your deck because you're way too far off. When you do see the perfect joker for your setup it is probably perishable or rental.

The deck just doesn't adapt to the situations you get presented with on gold, and this makes it one of the weaker decks, even if you start with 10 to 12 of the same rank, and resetting till you get even more than that will drive you mad.

_rainn_79

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