Cultist (Uncommon)

[hazy isle]

Create a Spectral card for every 5 cards destroyed
(Currently 0/5)

Unlock condition: Discover every Spectral card.

I thought it was odd that there was a Joker unlocked for discovering every Tarot and Planet card, but not one of discovering every Spectral card, so I decided to make one. I chose the number 5 here for the pentagram theme, but I can change it to 6 or 7 if that's too strong. In case it isn't clear, this activates for both Jokers and playing cards. (Consumables too I guess, but those can't be destroyed in vanilla if I recall correctly.)

[green shadow]

cool art

[hazy isle]

Thank you :D

[green shadow]

yknow what it reminds me of

[lusty agate]

It seems a little weak actually, like consider that sixth sense does this in one card while also doing the destroying for you.

[green shadow]

yeah its usually hard to destroy cards

actually wait

if you got extremely lucky with immolates

[hazy isle]

Lmao, I realized while I was making it that Spectrals and Lunatic Cultist both share a blue and gold color palette

[green shadow]

is that the inspiration orrrrr

[hazy isle]

No, I realized the similarities somewhere in the middle of making it

[green shadow]

oh pfft

[hazy isle]

Anyway, I guess I could change it to 3 or 4 if that seems more balanced

[hazy isle]

To be fair, Sixth Sense does require you to be able to replenish 6s to use it consistently

I definitely see your point though

I think it's worth considering that a lot of Spectrals also have potential to destroy more cards (Immolate, Incantation/Familiar/Grim, Hex/Ankh)

[green shadow]

true

[hazy isle]

This could also synergize well with Glass Cards, Ceremonial Dagger, Trading Card, Madness, etc.

[eternal yew]

This is really good actually

[eternal yew]

And Canio

[hazy isle]

Yeah

[full wagon]

cool joker and cool art

[hazy isle]

Thanks :)

[eternal yew]

Honestly though like the art genuinely looks like it’s from the base game

[hazy isle]

Yeah, I tried to replicate the style of the other consumable unlock jokers (Cartomancer, Astronomer) while still making it unique

[karmic flare]

Can this be copied

[eternal yew]

why wouldn't it be

[karmic flare]

So you get immolate and then with this BP and BS you get three if you get an immo then discard so you have 8 cards back and do it

No but in all seriousness, copies make immo give 2 or 3 spectrals. And that's fun

[deep sparrow]

I’m fine with this so long as immolate doesn’t copy itself (much like how emperor doesn’t copy itself when used)

[jaunty coyote]

Why not, that’s such an edge case and it’s cool if it happens

It’s not the immolate making the spectral, it’s the joker independently making the spectral. The condition was just triggered by the immolate

[deep sparrow]

Infinite loop, that’s why

[jaunty coyote]

It’s not going to go infinite, there’s too big of a pool

Plus infinite immolates can only do so much, you only have so many cards to destroy

[karmic flare]

Erosion go brrrrr

[jaunty coyote]

The only way you could make it infinite is with Perkeo, but Perkeo already offers trivial deck fixing

[old hemlock]

I like the unlock condition

[old hemlock]

Emperor gives fool gives emperor gives fool gives emperor gives fool etc

[karmic flare]

Emperor can't give emperor

[old hemlock]

It can give fool which can make a new emperor

[karmic flare]

I know

It was a question

Didn't phrase it right

[old hemlock]

Ah

[karmic flare]

This looks like

It really doesn't

But for a spilt second when scrolling past I thought this was adversary

[hazy isle]

Yeah I kind of see it

[karmic flare]

The jollyness is to much

[worldly reef]

This Joker gets my vote

[karmic flare]

Why you saying it like it's getting married

[eternal yew]

“to much”