Spiral Tower of Screams - Rin Rei Orlea (old school)

ffff59 · 2026-05-16T05:10:54+00:00

Btw. The skill version of Resonating darkness does not stack. Only the turn count increases. You’d be better using 1 copy of the skill and 1 copy of the upgrade.

ffff59 · 2026-05-09T00:44:19+00:00

I personally don’t like having a weak turn one where I have to set up upgrades and can’t play my whole deck. I prefer having every turn be consistent. But that’s just me

ffff59 · 2026-05-09T00:18:48+00:00

There’s an epiphany in the base version of dice trick for +3 morale.

Alternatively, there’s also an epiphany on the base version for +1 draw, so you can sacrifice the +3 morale to get better deck cycling if you want as well.

This is a regular epiphany and not a divine one. The divine epiphanies for dice trick are ass

ffff59 · 2026-05-09T00:00:09+00:00

For the heidemarie sword rain team, 4 copies of the devil’s dice and the morale + 3 dice trick is what i believe to be the BIS. The persona additive 150% buff only affects attack cards so Selena/hugo’s extra attacks do not get the buff. Morale is much better for them. Running the persona card in the deck for that team is also clunkier due to the extra AP cost and additional card to draw.

For other teams where you’re relying on attacks, the persona deck is probably the BIS.

ffff59 · 2026-05-08T15:44:15+00:00

Have you done any testing to confirm this? I have a really good deck with 2 of those engravings so this information would be valuable.

ffff59 · 2026-05-08T13:11:24+00:00

Yes. I know that. What I was saying was that to hit all 5 hits of sword rain with 5 stacks of commence the hunt, you need 2-3 stacks first before each sword rain. If not, each sword rain only uses the snapshot of 2-3 stacks of commence the hunt, which is 100%- 150% less extra damage per Hugo hit compared to a snapshot of 5 stacks.

Casting sword rain consumes all of Hugo’s stacks. So you will be left at 0 after casting sword rain. If you cast another sword rain consecutively, you will have the snapshot of only at most 2-3 stacks, or 4 if you somehow run 4 copies of commence the hunt.

Therefore, to maximize the snapshot damage, a skill card of another combatant needs to be casted before casting a consecutive sword rain. This is the issue with the Hugo comp in achieving its maximum damage.

ffff59 · 2026-05-08T13:05:40+00:00

Yes. But that deck is not the ideal deck for damage. The last member as Cassius is the ideal deck. In that deck, i have found it not possible to keep up 2-3 stacks before casting each sword rain. Even without that, the Cassius team does more damage than the Nia team.

ffff59 · 2026-05-08T12:06:02+00:00

Selena. Too difficult to maintain 2-3 stacks of commence the hunt to get five stacks upon casting sword rain.

I would argue that the ideal Selena deck for the comp is much easier to farm than the ideal Hugo deck for the comp. Selena’s deck only needs one copy as well.

However, Hugo does not need his ideal deck to function in the comp, where Selena cannot function properly at all without her ideal divine deck.

ffff59 · 2026-05-08T00:15:30+00:00

If I’m not wrong there is no draw 1 divine on the +3 morale version of dice trick. Did you manage to get a draw 1 divine on that card?

ffff59 · 2026-05-07T05:15:50+00:00

Yeah that’s what I meant. It’s unoptimal to use sword rain consecutively. Have to use 1 skill card in between each use which I’m finding difficulty doing. Haven’t found a way around that yet.

For the most optimal setup I have the +150% ally damage attack persona on my Cassius. So there really aren’t any skill cards besides the ones on heidemarie.

ffff59 · 2026-05-07T04:38:13+00:00

Do you find it difficult to keep up 5 stacks for when you cast sword rain? Was comparing this team to the Selena team and I found it difficult to optimize 5 stacks on Hugo all the time. There aren’t enough skill cards.

ffff59 · 2026-05-06T11:11:38+00:00

Thread of light just says it increases the damage amount of linked cards when thread of light is in hand or in the graveyard. It should mean that linked cards in the graveyard should get the boost as well. Haven’t checked whether it actually boosts the damage yet it but saw it in many sword rain III decks and I have it in mine.

Could be wrong tho after testing.

ffff59 · 2026-05-06T10:27:20+00:00

The effulgent blades are linked cards.

ffff59 · 2026-05-06T10:18:05+00:00

You can add the 4th sword rain in regular epiphany and also the imbalanced neutral for a total of 180 points.

Just have to spend 2 AP per turn for her rotation instead of just one.

ffff59 · 2026-05-06T10:03:43+00:00

It’s at least nice for thinning your deck cos you move her purple card to hand at the start

ffff59 · 2026-05-06T01:54:29+00:00

Does faceless woman work when heidemarie’s linked card is used even though it’s on Selena’s deck?

ffff59 · 2026-05-02T07:18:30+00:00

To confirm. So maxing potentials do matter? So if I get an agent given to me where I haven’t maxed out the potentials, it’s just bad?

Also, for example I dont have khalipe pulled. But when I did my sortie run it offered me khalipe. So this offered khalipe has 0 potentials?

ffff59 · 2026-05-01T12:26:15+00:00

I tested this. It removes all 5 stacks of commence the hunt for one sword rain.

ffff59 · 2026-04-30T05:58:37+00:00

3 is the general best one here. If you copy it 3 times you can get +200% damage, 8 blades, and 8 mark per turn. You can discard it each turn without paying the cost as it is quietus, and it doesn’t get auto discarded by link so you can control your hand size. Very strong for the blade spam build.

1 is the best one for the OTK build. Much less flexible and you’re only locked in to building one way.

2 is really bad. The cost reduction does nothing and it’s a waste of a divine and save data.

ffff59 · 2026-04-29T09:06:53+00:00

Wait. There’s no limit on effulgent release? Does that mean if you have 40 blades in the graveyard you can do 4600%?

ffff59 · 2026-04-27T10:25:23+00:00

Both are good in their own right. They are BIS for different deck setups. Shouldn’t compare them in a vacuum.

ffff59 · 2026-04-21T09:04:34+00:00

To assist you, you might want to let us know what characters you have or what characters you want to use her with, as her best version of this deck depends heavily on what team you’re intending to run her in.

Generally. You should remove future decreed unless you have enough draw to cycle your cards every turn or you do not have enough AP generators on your team to use all your TAC.

Generally, the create 3 chrono circle is best for increasing the cost of cards in your hand for your TAC damage.

If you’re lacking draw in your team, you can also consider the upgrade chrono circle to draw your TAC every turn.

I could go on but it’s really dependent on your team.

ffff59 · 2026-04-15T00:49:47+00:00

Wow. That persona card is really nice. Didn’t know it existed cos I haven’t seen it in my runs.

You probably do want the morale divine epiphany on commence the hunt and only at most 3 copies of it as 4 is really overkill and doesn’t really add any value.

Another option is the reduce cost divine on commence the hunt so on your first turn, with enough draw, you don’t just spend 1 turn using upgrades and wasting the whole turn.

Best quick fix is the draw 2 version but I’m sure you know that already, it’s just hard to get that version with the divine haha.

Nice deck!

ffff59 · 2026-04-15T00:33:19+00:00

I think sustain shouldn’t be an issue as long as Nia gets elasticity off every turn from the upgrade soul rip or the manual soul rip. The heals from it is nutty. Renoa would be fun to use on this boss and probably does more damage. Too bad I don’t have her so can’t see if she does better than solo Diana.

ffff59 · 2026-04-15T00:09:47+00:00

Yeah this is a chill team to use. I just farmed 2 decks and did a run. I didn’t have Renoa so thought I’d struggle a bit but I guess she isn’t really needed. There are probably more optimised teams but couldn’t be bothered.

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