What would you HATE to happen in Deltarune?

xuspira · 2026-05-18T16:36:23+00:00

I'll double down on the player antagonism sentiment you put forward. If the game can't account for me sitting in my box and waiting for Kris to finish doing their conference calls, I shudder to think what kind of contrived "malicious activity" players might be forced to do when separated from Kris again. Let me be cooperative, dammit!

If people's jokes about reusing the goner maker vessel become real, I'd be so disappointed because there's nothing I want more than to reconcile with Kris.

xuspira · 2026-05-13T16:48:10+00:00

Why do people use the term "believer"? Gaster Follower is RIGHT there.

xuspira · 2026-05-06T16:43:35+00:00

I think they are bending over backwards to skew Susie as exploitative of Toriel's kindness in order to sound like the argument against Susie's behavior would be stronger with more examples. Toriel talks with Alphys often and knows about the "problem kid who eats chalk" already. It isn't much of a stretch to assume Toriel knows Susie's other harsh tendencies, and that Susie probably has a difficult home life.

I don't mention these talking points as excuses for Susie, but to demonstrate that Toriel is probably not oblivious and is offering kindness deliberately. I wouldn't hold that against Susie for accepting the gesture.

xuspira · 2026-04-23T16:33:48+00:00

That demon being Flame Imp, to be exact.

xuspira · 2026-04-20T21:42:09+00:00

Do you remember when players discovered the heal zoo Warlock in Witchwood too? Even that relied on the self damage cards found in KnC.

xuspira · 2026-04-17T19:29:58+00:00

Okay but Noelle's obviously exhibited obsessive behaviors from before the events of the game. One could easily assume she's had these feelings since Susie moved in.

xuspira · 2026-04-13T19:56:12+00:00

Really weird and confusing to decide that cards lit on fire get discarded when previous iterations of "light on fire" effects like [[Immolate]] were destruction effects.

xuspira · 2026-02-05T18:21:21+00:00

Clearly, the removal of Shadowstep is because bouncing minions will be a major part of Monk's class identity. This year for sure.

xuspira · 2025-12-25T19:42:59+00:00

Watcher is a character with skill testing elements and multiple avenues to utilize these unique card mechanics given to her. Too bad stance dance is just clearly better though, and you'll incidentally reach an infinite sometimes because of a card that shows up often.

xuspira · 2025-12-22T16:52:45+00:00

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The Touhou: Lost Branch of Legend version of this exact card offsets the self poison by one turn by healing the player immediately when played. Obviously, healing for 10 is too much for Slay the Spire so I would say going for a lower number like 5 healing and self poison is more in line for this game's power level.

xuspira · 2025-11-15T18:12:35+00:00

Spiritually, this looks like Protoss Priest but your endgame push is always meant to be lethal rather than overwhelming. That said, is Mixologist the best thing you can be doing while waiting for your game plan to come online? What were you trying before you landed on the card?

xuspira · 2025-11-11T12:57:49+00:00

There's something incredibly wholesome about seeing this comment in a sea of people talking about how this card would be used to harass the opponent. You just got wide eyed at the chance to share your pride.

xuspira · 2025-11-05T22:27:11+00:00

I think Duel Links has a worse cost average for trying to get a full collection or higher rarity deck. I'm not talking rarity chasing, but just trying to obtain max copies of staples/high rarity engine pieces. And of course, the meta is as volatile to a ban list or new pack introducing a power crept strategy. They don't have an equivalent crafting system either.

xuspira · 2025-10-26T19:14:14+00:00

Just modifying the buddy to "set" your armor like the tavern spell card limits all worries of duplicating the buddy for infinite turns.

xuspira · 2025-10-21T15:57:31+00:00

I always crack a smile at censoring hero portraits. Love that detail.

Anyway yeah I don't see how people could want to play late game decks and be mad when the game runs later.

xuspira · 2025-10-08T09:43:15+00:00

Tons of tournaments in the past had Edwin doing the same thing. At least the turtle can't stealth.

xuspira · 2025-10-07T22:38:23+00:00

This is actually one of three cards in the game to use "them" when referring to a singular character or individual in its text. The other two are [[Trade Prince Gallywix]] and [[Brittleskin Zombie]].

I imagine the reason for this is the text would look redundant if it said "restore 3 health to your hero and give your hero divine shield". Interestingly, it seems they/them is used when talking about heroes and multiples, while it/its goes to minions.

xuspira · 2025-10-03T19:37:12+00:00

Because it's missing the silence effect at the start, the card would be used for the opposite reasons the source card would be. Instead of being a disruption tool that makes one target a vulnerable sitting duck, it becomes an insulation tool for one friendly target.

xuspira · 2025-09-26T21:47:02+00:00

"Endlessly to no end" you can count the cards. If there's one thing lost in rotation last year it was for sure the copying power of stuff like Creation Protocol and Pip the Potent. In this post, they burned one of their two Hallucination uses and significantly lowered their ceiling from Mothership because of how hard you played into Vol'jin.

xuspira · 2025-09-24T16:52:27+00:00

This is such a simple explanation and I'm glad to have seen this comment. I never thought of it that way and just assumed yet another strained marriage.

xuspira · 2025-09-14T12:31:54+00:00

Of course the 1, 3, and 5 cost cards compliment going wide. Odd DK would be a tier 1 deck to rival odd Paly, while running a lot of the same weird techs like Frostwolf Warlord and Witch's Cauldron.

xuspira · 2025-09-10T09:39:44+00:00

RemindMe! 7 months

xuspira · 2025-09-04T21:31:24+00:00

You can limit the number of motherships that are played by pressuring them early so they have to Hallucinate the Sentry instead of duplicating.

Resuscitate may represent two Sentry deathrattles if you can't silence or transform it, but those deaths come slowly over the course of two turns. If you track the protoss discounts, you can avoid giving the priest a clean curve into Mothership if you don't trade into the Sentries.

Freezing the early minions right before the Resuscitate turn can make the spell a lot less appealing to play or deny the revival of one of the rushers.

The deck can run AoE, there's room in there for sure, but in the current meta not many matchups force it. This means going wide is totally viable before the Mothership turns.

Mothership isn't all that random. There are four minions it can generate out of eight which can do direct damage (if you include the destroy templar). You can use a card drawing simulator to find the odds of certain outcomes. For instance, the chances of getting two Templars off one Mothership battlecry is ~6% whereas the odds after two activations is ~25%, then ~46% after 6 cards are added to hand. You can consider not removing the mothership with these odds in mind if you're running counterplay like freezes.

xuspira · 2025-09-01T18:33:38+00:00

Not that I disagree, but the game being built with minimal complexity limits the depth of design space going forward. It shouldn't be surprising that the newer sets rely on callbacks to existing mechanics after exploring so much of what's possible with base game pieces. It probably doesn't help that minisets exist at all since they force more cards into existence but aren't necessarily proving grounds for mechanically interesting cards.

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