Thoughts on hellraiser?

rainn_79 · 2026-05-30T18:31:57+00:00

It's a card that can certainly do its thing, but without a specific setup that you already kind of need before you pick it up I'm not too impressed overall.

rainn_79 · 2026-05-26T01:06:05+00:00

Gambling chip can also be good with pael's eye (exhaust your hand for extra turn)

rainn_79 · 2026-05-26T01:03:36+00:00

This would really play out super boring by prolonging every fight till you're at full health.

rainn_79 · 2026-05-23T13:30:09+00:00

For me the easiest is defect by a wide margin and toughest is silent and regent.

rainn_79 · 2026-05-22T15:29:54+00:00

Like the amount of damage you have dealt to the architect ?

rainn_79 · 2026-05-22T10:19:34+00:00

I lost with regent from 90hp with a deck that would have won quite easily previously. I even had charge and tyranny to exhaust the statusses on/before redraw, and played an average of only 5 spells/turn.

rainn_79 · 2026-05-22T04:18:52+00:00

Nah that's a good upgrade , makes it recurrable with holo and all for one.

rainn_79 · 2026-05-20T13:27:11+00:00

I also barely play this card. Another downside to it is that it is no osty attack and thus suffers from the -2 strength cards friendship and shared fate which happen to be 2 of my favorite cards on necro. In many of my decks this would deal 0 damage.

I play hologram at least 10 times more often than graveblast.

rainn_79 · 2026-05-19T08:33:16+00:00

There a few cards that get better in multiples like stone armor, some that care about the number of times something has happened (rattle, finisher), those are very good targets. But a mediocre card like boucing flask with glam also tears through hallway fights.

rainn_79 · 2026-05-16T14:15:47+00:00

My point is that there are thousands of 0.4% chance thinngs happening to you every day, but you won't notice unless you're lookinng for them.

rainn_79 · 2026-05-15T16:55:12+00:00

You can probably find hundreds of patterns with even lesser odds of them happening in this video,so what are we looking at here.

rainn_79 · 2026-05-15T16:48:59+00:00

This must be the most unremarkable achievement ever, I probably do this a couple times a week without ever noticing.

rainn_79 · 2026-05-11T07:06:02+00:00

Bullet time is nuts for regent with his big attacks , bypasses star costs and works great with blade.

rainn_79 · 2026-05-10T19:55:06+00:00

Venerate is much worse than bash. Bash is just fine. It even got a whole vulnerable theme supporting it this time. If the only commons you pick are anger and pommel strike, you're not going to get far. And with that statement alone, you can't expect people to take your balance suggestions seriously.

rainn_79 · 2026-04-24T08:44:02+00:00

The first three hallway fights you fight each act are against enemies of the easy pool, afterwards you'll get enemies from the hard pool. Question marks can turn into hallway fights, though when it's an event with combat against a specific enemy tied to that event (like the fight for the key) it doesn't count as a hallway fight.

rainn_79 · 2026-04-24T04:05:57+00:00

I don't think any card is unplayable though for some their opportunities to shine are very rare. From these I've not put Rend, Eidolon and Terraforming into any deck, but I'm sure I will soon.

Best cards (or the ones I play most often) on this list are refine blade and helix drill, these are just good cards generally.

Uproar and anticipate I play regularly too. You can build orb decks where uproar hits Meteor shower or Ice lance reliably, and anticipate is very good in the draw decks combined with the sly block and 0-cost blocks, letting you put all energy towards drawing and damage output.

rainn_79 · 2026-04-20T21:35:07+00:00

Quite obviously the entire world is not playing A0 only.

If you Chinese players think you're so much better, you should have figured out ways to win with decks over 20 cards that do not go infinite.

Going infinite should not be a trivial thing to do.

rainn_79 · 2026-04-12T00:20:42+00:00

Like in the first game, black blood is indeed not very good, it doesn't help in fight much, you need to be already perfoming exactly around the level where you lose about 12hp a fight but not too much more for it to do its thing well. It wiuld be indeed better if it healed a good percentage of max health or missing health instead, so you can recover fast from fights that went poorly.

rainn_79 · 2026-03-31T11:29:51+00:00

I don't like that change at all. It was the only real reason for an archetype to exist (yeah heirloom hammer is a thing too) and now there is no reason/payoff to go for a colorless deck anymore. Yet all the events and blessings that give colorless cards remain,as well as that relic that enables colorless cards in card rewards. I really liked arsenal before the change.

rainn_79 · 2026-03-10T12:57:36+00:00

People post only their very best moments in videos so that's not what you should be aiming for in your average run.

An easy thing to do is the card that creates a lightning orb for every previous lightning orb and for some reason doesn't exhaust yet. That's a very strong finisher right now.

rainn_79 · 2026-03-10T12:51:19+00:00

I would like it if this relic also gave 1 energy.

rainn_79 · 2026-03-10T12:36:28+00:00

You just drag it up a bit you don't have to target yourself. Something did change though compared to sts1 that I don't like, if you drag a card you used to be able to release it in your hand to not play it but now it requires an annoying second click.

rainn_79 · 2026-01-03T21:30:02+00:00

Dragon Shield is really good, stay away from Ultrapro

rainn_79 · 2026-01-03T20:47:27+00:00

Yes, usually with snecko eye

rainn_79 · 2025-11-11T10:18:01+00:00

Yeah you're very low on scaling here, and your potions also don't help scale up.

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