Slay the spire thread that zebra forced us to make

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hiii

i love slay the spire

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Speaking of defect i fucking love hyper beam

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i don't remember using hyper beam

there was a speedrun with defect that was abusing the fuck out of it

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my favorite card in the game is offering

ironclad my beloved ❤️

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Wait

I remembered

My true goat fission

That’s my favorite card

Fission > echo form 😍

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offering is goated

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@oak citrus i didn't reply to you in the original chat sorry but i got ascension 6 on both silent and ironclad

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But with echo form you could play fission twice and do nothing

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i like echo more

i didnt use fission a ton

[oak citrus]

Silent is fun to do British simulator with (Shiv builds)

And I'm understanding how poison works

Which is fun :D

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Wraith form is probably my favorite form card

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REAL

[oak citrus]

I got the Transcient achievement using Poison sooo

:D :D

Catalyst is kinda crazy

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Basically burst > catalyst

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i remember just throwing the flask at a group and watching it go boink boink

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Wait which defect card gives you damage immunity?

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like a bouncy ball

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Thats my goat

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Buffer?

The rare one

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BUFFER

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that's how i got this

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fucking love buffer

[oak citrus]

That's a great card

[oak citrus]

Uhh which one is burst?

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burst retriggers or replays a skill

[oak citrus]

Oh yea

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2 skills if upgraded

[oak citrus]

That card's kinda crazy

Balatro simulator with catalyst

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catalyst when upgraded triples the poison on an enemy

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Do you guys take the snecko eye if offered

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not when my deck is mostly 1 energy cost or lower

[oak citrus]

I don't because I hate playing with my luck. Mainly because I'm one unlucky person 😭

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Reasonable

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if i got a bunch of 2 energy attackers and a 3 energy power then i will probably consider it

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not really

snecko is kind of a bitch

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still my luck is quite bad

[oak citrus]

Can you pls explain how Ironclad works? I get that you get to use Exhaustion as incredibly valuable deckfixing that also boosts you. Buut that barely ever is enough for me to win runs. Is there anything else?

Or am I not Exhaustionmaxxing enough

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ironclads runs are either extreme exhausting of your deck so you can accelerate tha fights or a lot lot of strength

[oak citrus]

Heavy Blow moment

Or whatever that card is called

Heavy Strike?

Lemme check

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slay the spire was my first card game alongside inscryption so i kind of didnt understand the importance of deck thinning for a majority of the time

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cards that hit a lot of times like pummel or twin strike especially benefit from strength

[oak citrus]

Blade

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that didnt stop me from getting really fun strong runs though

[oak citrus]

Yeah same

My foolish little brain was thinking "Why would I weaken myself by destroying attacks!! Is the game stupid??"

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when i started the game i used to always take perfected strike but honestly i don't now mainly because i kill my strikes a lot

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"is he stupid" the roguelike

[oak citrus]

Inscryption helped me understand the importance of having a thin deck

What an awesome game 😌

[oak citrus]

Welll yea

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inscryption is so fucking awesome

[oak citrus]

I now feel like that's a noob trap

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i didnt play the roguelike part of it post-finish i just completed the story like normal

it was GREAT

it was AWESOME

[oak citrus]

You do not want to have many cards in your deck and Perfected Strike incentivizes it

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it was CINEMA

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I played both, 100%ed it, was thirsty for more from the creator of that masterpiece, played The Hex, fell in love with Daniel Mullins and accepted him as the best game dev ever, played Pony Island, loved that game too and now I can't wait for Pony Island 2

But seriously, if you liked Inscryption's story aspect, PLAY THE HEX

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pony island seems to be praised a lot

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i dont have the mmmoney for it though
the steam currency is in dollars instead of turkish lira now

and one dollar is like 37 TL

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The Hex is Daniel Mullins' magnum opus and clearly is the center of the mullinsverse

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so everything is expensive

[oak citrus]

Damn 😭

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i can try to convince my brother to buy doom though its one dolla

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the hex?

like

spectral card?

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"lose 6 hp but win"

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gives polychrome to a random joker,destroy all other jokers?

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https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/532689319350108160/1182765147224277102/image0-3-1.gif?ex=6585e2e1&is=65736de1&hm=7f9b915f3dce477b0925b0b6013187a1a00251a9cb8c895e59f90f4b4c50567c&

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talking about incinerator do you know everhood

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Just by name 😔

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undertale if it was about beats (sort of)

i only watched the full playthrough but man its fucking amazing

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Lemme check it out

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im a huge sucker for deeply-philosophical-stories-with-good-lore-portrayed-as-a-simple-graphiced-game

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what is y'alls most hated elite fight

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That looks fun :o

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Lagavulin probably

I fucking hate Lagavulin

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dude i hate lagavulin

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lagaluvlin

easily

[oak citrus]

It SUUUUUUUCKS

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disgusting fucking creature

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he has so much hp and he's act 1

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other than that i'd say uhhhhhh

taskmaster

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literally the only enemy other than the literal boss of fhe act thaat has more than 100 hp

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but lagaluvin is just so bad

[oak citrus]

And its ability is bullshit

Fym dexterity and strength -1 on an act 1 elite 😭

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lagavulin is almost an insta reset on silent

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you dont have one shot cards by the end of first encounter?

fuck you im taking your damage and defence

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if you get your first elite as lagavulin you prob don't take more elites

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lagaluvin on silent is literally photochad to Plant

istg

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FR BRO

[oak citrus]

So true though

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do you know what's even worse

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-Starts with already low-hitting cards
-Enemy decreases the damage of cards
Absolute cinema if i meant "utter bullshit"

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he has 8 fucking metalicize for some fucking reason

[oak citrus]

As in, they're both hardcounters, but there exists a technique to get you to survive in both (Poison in spire, glass cards in balatro)

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like i get it he is stunned if you break them but what the fuck

8 is so much

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poison builds on silent is so fun i feel like a war criminal testing biological weaponry

[oak citrus]

I like melting things by injecting them with more poison than their bloodstream can support :3

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:3

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"haha i hit you a 16-"
you will die in 2 rounds.

theres only the end for you and death for your people

I shall raise a terrible build of poison,capable of inflicting generational trauma upon my adversary

all that stands before me shall fall

this is sort of a lich reference

[oak citrus]

"Your death is inevitable and history shall not remember you. Your fate is to be a puddle I jump over, on my path to greatne-" dies to Time Eater

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if i was honest my favorite neow option is the rare colorless

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strongest assasin of today vs the strongest boss of history

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or rare card

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time eater has legit been a runkiller for me

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time eater seems to be one of those that get increasingly harder than the other bosses as your ascensions increase

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one of two things happen
you get a phd in probability and statistics trying to determine the greatest order of cards you can play in 6 plays
random bullshit go until time eater tells you to stop

[oak citrus]

Yes, but Neow's Lament makes you win an elite one shot. Idk if it actually is worth but I always take that lmao
Might be like Skipping in Balatro where the value is much less than simply not skipping and getting the shop and payout? Hell if I know, I'm a noob in Spire and I have the priviledge of being clueless :P

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the act 1 cards experience:

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Ok that's it I'm playing a round of Spire

Do I go for Ironclad or Silent?

Actually

Ironclad
I wanna try that out now that I have more roguelike deckbuilding knowledge

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did you guys play sifu btw

[oak citrus]

Died to The Collector but damn, I actually made a pretty solid deck