Under which circumstances is picking Whispering Earring ever an option?
>>740075685Every time if you're not a whiny baby. Let Vakuu do the work. What do you have to lose?
>>740075840the entire fucking run?
>>740075685I picked it on a necrobinder run where my entire deck was block and didn't suffer much desu. Though I never got to play sacrifice because it somehow always showed up in my opening hand every single fight.
When you're Ironclad with a handful of bloodlettings, cascades and stokes.
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>safe, minor upgrade>total gamble that never pays off but would be awesome if it didyes, garçon, more of the latter, please
>>740075840When you have enough turn 1 energy that it doesn't matter what order he plays stuff in.
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>>740075685if your first turn is pretty much retard proof, worked for this run.>several innate powers>mummified hand>generally low cost cardspretty much guranteed that I played my whole first hand, got at least some block and set myself up for the rest of the battle. the only gamble here was shadow step but it never fucked me over
>>7400783632/4
>>740075685If you have a lot of innate, those are probably cards you want to play turn 1 anyways and he will end up playing them.
>>740075840By the time you can eat such a downside you could beat the game without the earring. Same with parasol.
>>740078363starting it in 5 waiting for the last anon
>>740078787The other assumption I'm making here is you have a lot of 0 or 1 cost cards, which is how I tend to make decks. If your hand costs regularly exceeds your energy by a factor of 2 or 3, that would change things I guess.
>>7400783633/4 come on anon step up
>>740078608This>necro>mummified hand >two inmate powers that cost one each>lantern relic>relic that makes you draw when a power is played>vakuu plays like 6 cards minimum every time leaving me with several powers, 50 block, a bunch of doom on the enemy, and maybe a bit of status and damageEz
>>740079227ah shit too late
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>>740079903ay yo maybe we remake for him
>>740080009don't bother if you got a thing going
>>740080009now im invested too late
>>740079560with the silent deck he went into such a long combo that he refused to play the last shiv and just said "that's enough" or something lol
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>try necro doom and soul decks>Get shit on over and over again>Try otsy deck>Start with Glam Calcify>Get two rattles enchanted with steady>Win>Try otsy deck again>Get squeeze enchanted with corrupted>300+ damage card when lethality, vuln and debilitate line up>winI should have never doubted my handybro
>>740081121there is no Necro soul deck. Just a Necro deck that uses souls and pretty much the same thing applies to Doom.
>>740081121It's honestly quite absurd what a good card Unleash is compared to the utter garbage other characters get. Bash and Venerate are awful by comparison.
is this the worst card in the whole game? got it at the start of a run by transforming a strike or defense, tried to make it work with that one "osty kills himself" cards, still a total pice of shit. and killing osty on your turn is also always shit and all that trouble just for 13 fucking block
>>740081680>worstlolsacrifice is an objectively less useful card than this
>>740081680i think i used this card once ever. It worked when i did but yea its turboshit
>>740081680no
>>740081680Even without synergy, you should basically never overblock at a9-10 so osty should be dying all the time unless you're specifically building summon. It's okay at 2 cost, good at 1 cost, and great at 0. It's good enough to be your main block engine depending on the run. I just wish there were more cards with synergy around osty dying because all of the cards that kill osty are specifically block cards which can make melancholy redundant sometimes.It competes with summon, but the only actually good summon cards are like dirge and reanimate which are rare enough that you won't see them half of the time, and both exhaust.
>>740081758seems like the whole actively killing otys thing is a shit mechanic
>>740083814It's balanced around Necromastery.With Necromastery + Reanimate + Dirge + other big summon cards, sacrificing Osty is a huge fucking nuke.Without Necromastery and the synergy, it's useless.Unfortunately that means it's balanced around the existence of rare cards
remember how everyone would avoid elites during the first weeks after releasethat was funny
>>740084314oh damn didn't even think fo of the synergy with necromastery, good point
>>740076659what you put bad cards in your deck anon? He's using YOUR cards you know
who'd be up for a multi?
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>>7400854593/4
>>740075685The jew is milking the sodomites again.
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>>740075685Holy fuck Reagent has no synergies.
>>740075685Always. Vakuu works in stratagems & patterns imperceptible to mortal minds, but they always are the correct ones.
>>740086278just watch amaz if you want an actual gay guy
Why is defect so shit?You need so many things to get a status deck going and everyone is a gamble, none of them really do you any good on their own, they need some combination of something to be worth using. If you try to go orb route it's viable but you better hope you find frost and hotfixes or something and with the hotfix nerf now you need to waste a fire to upgrade it to keep the focusHe just feels ass now.
whats better stars, forge or transform? regent is filtering me
>>740088029Forge scales better. Stars doesn't scale for shit unless you're doing X Cost synergies.
>>740088029Stars build is SHIT.
>>740080097Oh there's a limit? Fucking lazy demon.
>>740081680>card that requires a little bit of thought>"is this the worst card in the whole game?"
The worst card in the game IS a Necrobinder card thoughbeit
>>740075685100 percent of the time. It's an instapick.>b-but my deck has 200 IQ strategies that Vaaku doesn't understand!Vaaku actually plays the most optimal cards. If you don't understand why he didn't play any block forcing you to tank 30 damage round 1, it is because YOUR IQ is too low, not Vaaku's.
>rare card neow pick>grand finale>upgrade it instantly>get another offered in act 1>duplicate it And then I got gremlin horn, other forced draw relics, said fuck it and parasolmaxxed, and ate shit. I did get to the final boss tho>removed the cool animationFuck grand finale
>>740088029You really only want to take enough stars to fuel like astral pulse and reflect because they're really overstatted. He really wants to be picky about what cards he takes early, because his star cards are draw order dependent in order to play them.A lot of the star cards that stand out like stardust and radiate don't actually do a whole lot unless you're lucky and your deck is already crazy broken.
>>740088448yeah he can only play up to 13 cards, after that he gives up
>>740088946He's old
>>740085459>>740086865GG guys, we were retardedly overpowered
>>740089767darn cut it off too much, well doesn't matter my brain is mush now
That run was crazy lucky. Like every card for a shiv deck multiple times, Hidden Gem on powers or finishing blow, Nightmare. GG.
>>740081680Not even worst necro card.
>>740089857yeah I also got the perfect Etheral draws + great multiplayer cards + tent shenanigans and a shit ton of relics
I'm so shit at this game it's not even funny
>>740085459ggRaped and gaped the spire for 46 floors straight
The only time I don't take the earring when I need the energy is if it's multiplayer and we're fighting the Test Subject
>>740081680Basically a multiplayer card but really strong with a couple of necros in the partyIt also counts enemies dying so there's a few hallway fights where it becomes free quickly
>>740088029All of his decks benefit from having some starsJust don't take more star costs in your deck than you can gain in 1 loop through your draw pile
>>740088873Guess it wasn't grand after all.
>>740075685>Under which circumstances is picking Whispering Earring ever an option?Speaking from an IC perspective>you do NOT have exhaust + a key card>other 2 options are worse
>>740089909Untrue. It pumps damage into squeeze.
lol
>>740088725the only synergy I could come up with for this was a regent junk deck
>>740091159I like how it's Fiend Fire that forgot to deal damage
>>7400887251 intangible per 4(3) cards exhaustedThere I fixed it
>>740091421still trashexhaust hand, gain intangible is perfectly fine
>>740088725This was a key component of my infinite Tranfigure & Dirge set-up I had in a very early run.It definitely had more use as a trash clearer and then they nerfed infinites so now it's barely a card.It should just make your whole hand Ethereal, give 1 intangible, exhaust. Sorted.
Played a bunch of 1 last year and lurked here but only got 2 the other day.Managed to lose the first runs with ironclad and silent but won with regent and necrobinder, feels good as a shitterRegent especially felt very fun but things kind of just worked out without knowing how his cards work.
