Corruption: An Arcanist's Road to Insanity

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"Come on, take a bite. Once you taste this Forbidden Fruit of mine... you won't go back to your world's simple pleasures. Submit to me and I shall grant you power beyond your wildest imaginations." - Queen of Corruption

TL;DR:

• Eldritch Flame x7 - x10
• Forbidden Fruits x100 or more
• Malignance x30 or more
• Drain Health x5
• Dark Inquiry x4 - x5
• Dark Whispers x4 - x5
• Dark Spire x3 - x5
• Sanguine Casting x1

Quick Strategy:
-> Get Eldritch Flame. Preferably Quick Studied/Sanguined Shrine/Shrine of Misery.
-> Recruit Illusionist. Copy your Eldritch Flame, Memorized x times over as many as your opening hand can draw and hold.
-> Steamroll enemies from lowest hp to highest hp in every canto until ||Dantelion||
-> Bully ||Dantelion|| until your heart's content!
-> ||For Spine, there will be various ways to defeat it, the fastest is a Supernova -> Eldritch Flame -> Afterburn -> End Turn.||

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Full Guide & Mini Game in the comments below!

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Corruption: An Arcanist's Road to Insanity

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What is Corruption?:
Corruptions are cards with negative effects to their owner.

So, you may be wondering, why would you want these in your deck?

It's really simple: Power. Absolute. Corrupted. Power.

It comes with a cost and sometimes the price of a failed run, but I guarantee you that once you learn this - You will Dominate and Steamroll.

Let's get started.
Requirements:
Class: Arcanist
Sanguine Casting - Level XIV
Dark Spire - Level XVI
Rotten Weapon Power - Level XXII

Level of Corruption: Pride
"Rise, my corrupted arcanist. Take Pride in joining our ranks. Soon you will taste more but for now: Accept Pain. Turn it into Pleasure. For it will be your only companion." - Queen of Corruption

We start with 5 Dark Spires, 1 Sanguine Casting, 2 Blocks, 2 Surges of Intellect, and 1 Red Potion.

Our Dark Spire damages for 1. Repeat the damage for every corruption in our hand. It also has flow x/2. Once it is satisfied, we get 1 Malignance.

Malignance: If drawn, we take 2 damage and gain 1 Anger. Unplayable.
Anger: Increases the damage dealt by Actions by 1 per stack of Anger
Our goal is to power up our Dark Spire so it can one shot crows, spiders, boars, thieves, and Weeping Mother... without dying.

I found my personal preferred count for Malignances in the first Canto is 15. Why? Because 1 turn is 5 cards. You can have 1 turn generate 5 Anger followed by 4 Anger + 1 Dark Spire. Provided you dont get interrupted, thats 9 damage x4 = 36. So get those Malignances generated.

Your Weapon Power is fueled by corruptions also. So, the more corruptions you have the bigger the heal. You can go over the preferred count and heal when necessary removing one of the malignances. Just remember that your Weapon Power is usable every 3 combats.

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Level of Corruption: Greed
"Take a coin or two. A pound of flesh or a kilo. This world is bountiful, rich, and yours for the taking. Greed... is not so bad after all!" - Queen of Corruption

Now that you know how to generate Malignances, it's time to look for other cards to fuel our Dark Spire and eventually our future Eldritch Flame.
Dark Inquiry is a Corruption. It Foretells 3, heals you for 4 when Corrupted, and draws a card when you're a scholar
Dark power draws 2 cards, gives , and generates 1 Malignance
Drain Health deals 4 damage. Corrupted: Lifedrain.
Dark Whispers adds 1 Forbidden Fruit in your deck. Corrupted: get

If you see these cards, pick them up. It will serve us well in the early cantos. While Drain Health cannot be upgraded, Anger fuels it too. So 6 Anger = 4 damage + 6 -> 10 damage/10 hp heal.

Once you've beaten Weeping Mother, its up to you to keep your 2 Blocks. Personally, I discard them so we have a faster deck cycling.

Your 1st Level up happens here too: I often take Durable +20hp for survivability. Quick Study is good If you got an Eldritch Flame already.
Sometimes, you get the Purpleberries Event. Choose Blue Potion to get a Potion of Visions. Later in Brightcandle, go to Theresa and have that transmuted to a 'Time is Gold'.
If in case you see a Blue rarity card like Spell Echo or Simulacrum, keep it. If it's some Blue Rarity you don't like, either don't get it or have Theresa transmute that to either Twincasting/Witness True Evil/Bloodmagic.

Sanguine Casting function: This card draws your highest cost card and converts it to blood. It will be our Primary drawer of Eldritch Flame provided it's the only card in the deck with a 3 cost.
Clogging your deck this early may seem counterintuitive but I'll let you decide.

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Level of Corruption: Lust
"Alas! Your desire for power shall soon be rewarded. Yearn for more, take more, and fuel thy desire!!" - Queen of Corruption

Enter Canto III.
Your biggest ally here will be Bandit Markings -> Talking Tree. Find it first. Choose to Check Boots -> Leave ||Julius|| Tied up. You will gain 15 gold and Distracted Enchantment for your enemies. This means you get a full opening turn without interruptions. Your 2nd Turn may be the one shot (or not) against Crimson Goons. Save Matriarch Daisy near the end or before Greaves depending on the cards you get.

If by this time you have an Eldritch Flame, your goal is either to memorize Sanguine Casting -> draw EF and convert to Bloodcost, or Duplicate Eldritch Flame so you have more mana to spare from passing turns because of a full hand of Malignances or Forbidden Fruits.

If you got Eldritch Flame in Canto I and have it quick studied, you can pass your turns and cast it for free. If the opponent doesnt die due to few corruptions, dont fret, as Dark Spire will finish the job.

This canto will also level you up so grab what you want. If you see spellfury, you can grab that and switch to a strategy that will lead you to steamroll or spam Eldritch Flame early with:

Sanguine Casting -> Eldritch Flame blood cost - conjured Eldritch Flame

Watch out tho because spellfury only happens with the first Magic Action you play on that combat. Drain Health may be spell furied.

After killing everyone including Greaves, I often choose Ask Remaining Bandits to come back.

That's gonna be 75 gold from Counsel Eveline.
Go to Brightcandle Inn, Walk up to Bar, answer Rough Day?, and choose Sounds like a plan!

Congrats, you have recruited Illusionist!

With all the money you gained so far, feel free to copy your Eldritch Flame for more probable draws and Sanguine Casting draws.

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Level of Corruption: Envy
"Dear Child of Corruption, my successes are not without sacrifices! To desire what I have means hard work and blood spilt. Do the same... and maybe... you'll even surpass me!" - Queen of Corruption

Canto V.
In Noxlight Swamp you may encounter Illusionist early so take a copy yet again of Eldritch Flame. Defeat the archers first, followed by shaman, undead warrior, Festering frogs and Trolls. If you see the Wisps event early, you can opt to take them out to generate more Forbidden fruits or Malignances. They usually only take 1 Eldritch Flame.

By the time you get to Bolgar, you save him for last and start bullying him with 2 - 3 Eldritch Flames.

You will also Level up here. I usually take Greater Intellect for that at the start of every turn and take Energized later. Having 3 energy will guarantee an Eldritch Flame cast and a second one provided you grabbed Spellfury when you saw it.
If somehow you survived this far with a Twincasting in your deck or a Witness True Evil, give yourself a pat on the back because its not easy running a deck with another 3 cost card.

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Level of Corruption: Gluttony
"Now that you have tasted the power you once desired, there's no stopping you now! Feed and continue feeding! Only a wretched fool would stop right now... and you are not." - Queen of Corruption

Canto VI.
Ambermines. The strategy here is the same, Copy Eldritch Flame with Illusionist, start with weaker enemies and save higher hp enemies in the end.
Bolgar will be available right now so you have the option to memorize Sanguine Casting or Eldritch Flame, or Imbue Twincasting if you have it. The former choice will guarantee a one cast EF, or 2 with spellfury talent. The latter will have 2 conjured or 1 conjured once Spellfury fires.

You can opt to choose Viola or Serena depending on your needs. I often choose Serena because after all, we are on the Corrupted Route.

You will level up here and If Diamond Mind shows up, it will prove invaluable with the fight against Serena. Even without Diamond Mind, you can still beat Serena with ease especially with Eldritch Flames on your Opening hand, a Sanguine Casting, and a lot of corruption. She will often go down in the first turn.

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Level of Corruption: Wrath
"There's no stopping you now! Unleash your wrath into this world!!!" - Queen of Corruption

Canto VII.
The Deep.
Same drill: Illusionist copies Eldritch Flame. Bolgar Memorizes a card or Imbues an enchantment. Careful with Hags because of their Impervious. Make sure you have 3 Eldritch Flames to take them out. The only real threat in this Canto would be Kraken. Still, you will be taking it out in one turn. When you get to Melchor, just pick his nose and bully him.

Level of Corruption: Sloth
"No excuses! Get up and continue ransacking this realm! No rest for the corrupted!!!" - Queen of Corruption

Canto VIII.
Onyx Cathedral.
The last stop before you know who. At the start there are 3 enchantments that will work against you. Until you kill each Priest that carries each of these enchantments, it will continue to debuff you. Even so, your power has grown so much that you'll be steamrolling everyone (including Balor) if done right. So throw those Eldritch Flames until you reach the 3 Faces.

Canto IX.
Defiled Sanctum.
||Dantelion|| is here. Time to bully him!!

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Level of Corruption: 7 Deadly Sins
"Do you think we are equal in terms of Power? Hah!" - Queen of Corruption

Canto X.
Spine of the Night
There are several tactics to Kill the Spine. Here are some ways:

• Supernova -> Eldritch Flame -> Afterburn -> End Turn.

^This is the quickest way to take care of it.

• Eldritch Flame x7, Imprint. Second Turn 7 Eldritch Flames. Third Turn -> Rewind. Repeat 7 Eldritch Flames.

I managed 3k damage but this isnt enough.

• Witness True Evil. Memorized Persistent Clarity. Once Spine's Bleeding is over 300, use Clarity to draw a Dark Spire. With 9 Corruptions in hand, Dark Spire will hit 9x plus bleed damage that may be around 1.5k - 2k in total.

The most reliable one is the first one.

Aethos Valley: Farming Simulator

• Portal
• Eldritch Flame (0 cost, blood cost)

Best used with:

• Kraken
• Summoned Balor

Its very simple really: Choose Kraken or Balor. Use 1 Eldritch Flame -> Get 1 Forbidden Fruit -> Use Portal. Repeat as long as your phone memory can handle.

"My record is 307 Forbidden Fruits. Think you can beat mine? Show me" - Queen of Corruption

credits to @naive marsh for the Epiphany Talent 💯

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Ver 1.10.02 build still works xD

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Ver 1.10.03 on Impossible!

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Ver. 1.10.05 on Impossible!!

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Muzan Shardslinger
Arcanist [XXXV]
💀💀💀💀 [Impossible]

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🏆 Total score: 8500
🔥 Most damage: 300
👑 Deck value: 855
🪙 Gold remaining: 314
Spine damage: 1533
🕐 Duration: 01:21:18

⚔️ Dark Spire
🚀 Sanguine Casting
🎲 AF940BB4DD
Version 1.10.05

Bosses slain: Weeping Mother, Garvin Greaves, Bolgar Blightbane, Serena Hellspark, Melchor the Cursed, Priest of Agony, Lord of Despair, Spine of Night

Decklist (163)
2x Afterburn
3x Dark Inquiry
5x Dark Power
3x Dark Spire [+1]
1x Dark Spire [+2]
1x Dark Spire [+3]
1x Dispel Magic
2x Drain Health
1x Eldritch Flame [+11]
1x Eldritch Flame [+13]
1x Eldritch Flame [+18]
3x Eldritch Flame [+19]
2x Eldritch Flame [+20]
1x Eldritch Flame [+21]
1x Eldritch Flame [+23]
1x Eldritch Flame [+5]
100x Forbidden Fruit
1x Greed
1x Healing Potion
29x Malignance
1x Sanguine Casting
2x Surge of Intellect

Talents (12)
Rotten Weapon
Compassionate
Quick Study
Duplicity
Greater Intellect
Quick Crafting
Magical Aptitude
Skylars Kiss
Evil Within
Weapon Training
Benevolent
Watched

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Muzan Shardslinger

Arcanist [XXXV]
[Impossible]

Fruit Picker

Achievement unlocked by 3rr0r6714:

Have 100 or more Forbidden Fruits at the end of the run.

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Sadly I couldn't do much against the spine, as soon as the memorized EFs are played (and useless in 1st round) theres nothing much to do. Next time I also memorize something to dispel a blessing.

But it was fun to rush through the last stages with the deck

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If Spine was at 6666 and you had 1 EF & Afterburn Memorized, Supernova Imbued, you could Slay it in the second turn

Good Job still! 🥳

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Supernova

Start of Turn: Remove ALL Burning. Add a stack for every Burning removed and every card you bury. At 100 stacks, Slay your foe. Unique.

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Indeed 🥹

But I believe I wasn't encountering it

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Supernova is a Legendary Card that is in Infinitium set of Cards. You can put it in a Vault and just pick it up later

[opaque sedge]

Ah, understood, thanks. Wasn't using the vault so far, but it makes sense now.

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Hey, I've been following your guide and I find it really explosive when it works. What do you do when simply don't find an eldritch flame? I had three runs in a row where I got to canto 5 without one. Just restart until you get lucky?

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Metamorphosis only should increase your chances in finding one

If you need an Eldritch Flame on Canto I... I think I have seeds here for that...

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This one needs Simplicity On

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Cheers!

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Good Luck 💯

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Renard Tornvail
Arcanist [XXXVII]
💀💀💀 [Hard]

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🏆 Total score: 4250
🔥 Most damage: 150
👑 Deck value: 745
🪙 Gold remaining: 522
🕐 Duration: 01:49:05

⚔️ Longbow
🚀 Sanguine Casting
🎲 BB1CE18CF7
Version 1.11.02

Bosses slain: Weeping Mother, Garvin Greaves, Bolgar Blightbane, Serena Hellspark, Melchor the Cursed
Slain by: Statue of Ilthar III

Decklist (93)
1x Brainstorm
1x Clarity
1x Demonology
1x Drain Health
5x Eldritch Flame
2x Eldritch Flame [+1]
2x Eldritch Flame [+3]
1x Eldritch Flame [+4]
61x Forbidden Fruit
4x Longbow [+4]
10x Malignance
1x Ring of Power
1x Sanguine Scrying
1x Timestop
1x Timetap

Talents (13)
Rotten Weapon
Weapon Training
Collector
Greater Intellect
Arcane Mastery
Purity
Diamond Mind
Evil Within
Benevolent
Keen Mind
Steelmind
Weapon Aptitude
Insatiable Curiosity

I got kinda far but then Weapon Aptitude and Purity randomly imbued. Purity removed all my corruptions and then the other one removed all my Dark Spires 😆

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Renard Tornvail

Arcanist [XXXVII]
[Hard]

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But I like the strategy

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Just remember - if you got all corruptions yeeted, its not just a hail mary - its a holy 💩

[sharp pebble]

Hah, well said. I did manage to rebuild but it was still rough. I just tried again and it was going so well but then Viola got me. She survived three Eldritch Flames to the face and then applied more Jinxes than I could play cards

sad

going with the Succubus fight again next time

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Succubus is the go to fight always as corrupted

Even with the 3 Dominated, a hand full of corruptions plus the remaining are eldritch flames means shes bound to draw her death

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Steve the Wise
Arcanist [XXXV]
💀 [Normal]

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🏆 Total score: 3550
🔥 Most damage: 300
👑 Deck value: 855
🪙 Gold remaining: 314
🕐 Duration: 01:21:18

⚔️ Dark Spire
🚀 Sanguine Casting
🎲 AF940BB4DD
:dante: Version 1.11.3

Bosses slain: Weeping Mother, Garvin Greaves, Bolgar Blightbane, Serena Hellspark, Melchor the Cursed, Priest of Agony, Lord of Despair

Decklist (163)
2x Afterburn
3x Dark Inquiry
5x Dark Power
3x Dark Spire [+1]
1x Dark Spire [+2]
1x Dark Spire [+3]
1x Dispel Magic
2x Drain Health
1x Eldritch Flame [+11]
1x Eldritch Flame [+13]
1x Eldritch Flame [+18]
3x Eldritch Flame [+19]
2x Eldritch Flame [+20]
1x Eldritch Flame [+21]
1x Eldritch Flame [+23]
1x Eldritch Flame [+5]
100x Forbidden Fruit
1x Greed
1x Healing Potion
29x Malignance
1x Sanguine Casting
2x Surge of Intellect

Talents (12)
Rotten Weapon
Compassionate
Quick Study
Duplicity
Greater Intellect
Quick Crafting
Magical Aptitude
Skylars Kiss
Evil Within
Weapon Training
Benevolent
Watched

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Steve the Wise

Arcanist [XXXV]
[Normal]

Fruit Picker

Achievement unlocked by earthfysazo:

Have 100 or more Forbidden Fruits at the end of the run.

[fervent haven]

How do you get the achievement “yours forever and ever”

[carmine mortar]

Hellforge Axe, I believe. Not sure this is the right place for that question though.

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Brien Earthbreaker
Arcanist [XXXVII]
💀💀💀💀 [Impossible]

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🏆 Total score: 8300
🔥 Most damage: 253
👑 Deck value: 880
🪙 Gold remaining: 96
Spine damage: 98
🕐 Duration: 00:40:24

⚔️ Dark Spire
🚀 Sanguine Casting
🎲 08CDB59A43
Version 1.11.04

Bosses slain: Weeping Mother, Garvin Greaves, Bolgar Blightbane, Serena Hellspark, Melchor the Cursed, Priest of Agony, Lord of Despair, Spine of Night

Decklist (149)
2x Brainstorm
8x Dark Inquiry
4x Dark Spire [+3]
1x Dark Spire [+5]
1x Demonology
1x Drain Health
7x Eldritch Flame
1x Eldritch Flame [+2]
1x Eldritch Flame [+3]
2x Eldritch Flame [+4]
1x Eldritch Flame [+5]
99x Forbidden Fruit
1x Infernal Contract
16x Malignance
1x Sanguine Casting
1x Surge of Intellect
1x Thaumaturgy
1x Vampirism

Imbues (1)
Twincasting

Talents (11)
Rotten Weapon
Compassionate
Weapon Training
Arcane Mastery
Greater Intellect
Warpriest
Skylars Kiss
Sacred Shield
Mindfield
Survival Instincts
Insatiable Curiosity

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Brien Earthbreaker

Arcanist [XXXVII]
[Impossible]

[sharp pebble]

Got it done on impossible as well

I went for priest of agony since having a single card burnt each turn didn't matter due to having so many Eldritch Flames memorized

I'd been got a few times by statue of ilthar having his magic immunity up on my starting hand

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For the Spine (Full Health),Supernova -> EF -> Afterburn for best results

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Afterburn

Inflict Burning equal to the last damage dealt ([[lastDamage]]).

[simple bough]

Ahhh that'll do it

[queen dagger]

After reading your guide I went from not being able to get an Arcanist Corruption build through Canto III to finishing a run on Normal. Thanks!

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You're welcome! 👍

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Here is the updated Spine Kill that utilizes:

• Witness True Evil
• Dark Spire
• Imbued Spellsnap

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Decklist

[little glade]

Hello first of all thanks for the guide, i just have a question about about managing your malignances i see that people sharing their runs have under 29, how? Do they just stop using dark spire and dark power at some point? I know you can remove one with your power and camp but i always end a run with like 50+ of them and end up clogging my hands

[carmine mortar]

I think once you have memorised Eldritch Flame you won't need the other cards much, and you don't want to remove Forbidden Fruits so they disappear as you can using your weapon power.

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Hello and thanks for checking it out! Malignance management really depends on what you are setting your deck for:
On the one hand, I bloat my deck early so I have bigger heal when I use Rotten Weapon Power.
Malignances are usually replaced by Forbidden Fruits once you have an Eldritch Flame memorized as vegizombie mentioned.

It takes practice removing them but my best advice to you would be setting a specific count that you're comfortable with. Once you have Eldritch Flame, you'll be spamming Forbidden Fruits and by then.. the truckload of fruits will out weigh the -2hp loss

[little glade]

alright thanks a lot for the help!

[little glade]

Yup managed to finish my first ever run on challenging thanks a lot

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Crank it up and Conquer Hard!

[boreal hinge]

Amazing deck guide. Brought it into hard. Got burned by the Collector even harder. I think I’ve learned my lesson.

Update: the deck generates so much Malignance and Forbidden Fruit, that I was able to recover in the same canto and finish the run.

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bro was going full corruption and just shrugged off purity

[obsidian panther]

The Seed I am playing now is insane for this build.
Seed F7A5C282AB
Hard / Block Catalyst
Start in Cemetery.
The first fight give Eldritch Flames.
Get 2X Drain Health, 2X Dark Inquiry in other fights.
Lv 2 give Quick Studied so 1st Free EF.
Mirror Shrine give you 2nd Free EF.
Final fight give EF again or Avalanche (Blue Rare)
Canto III (Eastern Blightwoods) have Melancholy (Memorize) and another Mirror Shrine!
I only play to this but it really give a really really good start for this build.

[clear laurel]

With launch of Eclypse and 1.14.01, Corruption just got buffed with the Warlock Corruption cards.

Additionally, it takes 5 Corruption cards to be Corrupted now.

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Spellfury

Conjure a free copy of the first Magic, non-Basic Attack Action you play during combat.

Can you repeat that?

[clear laurel]

It seems that the Quick Study tactic described in the guide is no longer beneficial in the sense that the talent has changed from making it free -> reduce cost by 1.

Innate Knowledge is a Tier 5 Talent that makes the card Free now

[fervent haven]

also you can apparently get Innate knowledge multiple times (as of 1.14.04)

from personal experience, i got it once and saw it a a talent choice the next level

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Artus the Wretched
Arcanist [XLII]
💀 [Normal]

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🏆 Total score: 3850
🔥 Most damage: 201
👑 Deck value: 1195
🪙 Gold remaining: 210
🕐 Duration: 01:07:26

⚔️ Dark Spire
🚀 Sanguine Casting
🎲 2EE0DA3367
Version 1.14.05

Bosses slain: The Pale Warden, Semira, Bolgar Blightbane, Serena Hellspark, Melchor the Cursed, Priest of Agony, Lord of Despair

Decklist (156)
2x Afterburn
1x Brainstorm
1x Caltrops [+8]
1x Cling to Sanity
2x Combust
1x Coven of Chaos
8x Dark Inquiry
4x Dark Power
1x Dark Whispers
2x Drain Health
27x Eldritch Flame
3x Eldritch Flame [+1]
1x Eldritch Flame [+2]
1x Energize
1x Fae Familiar
1x Fellblast [+1]
1x Fleeting Thoughts
73x Forbidden Fruit
1x Golden Idol
3x Greed
1x Healing Potion
1x Houroboros
1x Infernal Racket
1x Lifedrinker Venom
1x Lifelink
12x Malignance
1x Sanguine Casting
1x Surge of Intellect
1x Vile Blast
1x Witness True Evil

Imbues (1)
Thaumaturgy

Talents (13)
Rotten Weapon
Forgery
Strategist
Arcane Mastery
Greater Intellect
Diamond Mind
Skylars Kiss
Sharp Mind
Durable
Deal with the Devil
Insatiable Curiosity
Epiphany
Conjurer

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Artus the Wretched

Arcanist [XLII]
[Normal]

Raider of the Golden Idol

Achievement unlocked by blackdrgonbonu:

Obtain the valuable Golden Idol.

[cosmic matrix]

A very good seed for Eldritch flames, you get so many of it plus you get forgery talent at level 2. Making the game a breeze

[lucid valve]

So even with the changes to quick study we still look to just mass duplicate Eldritch Flame? Still trying to get a good run with corruption in Challenging

Closest I got was a run with a smaller deck (25ish cards iirc) focused on having a bunch of Drain health and malignance, unfortunately fumbled in the deeps bc I forgot about Kraken but it was one of the easier tries I had

[lyric aurora]

I used conjuration/repeat casting instead of duplicate:

Astrid Stillwater
Arcanist [XL]
💀💀💀 [Hard]

🏆 Total Score: 6650
🔥 Highest Damage: 444
👑 Deck Value: 590
🪙 Treasure: 570
Spine damage: 6666
🕐 Duration: 02:41:06

⚔️ Dark Spire
🚀 Sanguine Casting
🎲 973BA9FEB1
Version 1.14.090

Bosses slain: Weeping Mother, Garvin Greaves, Bolgar Blightbane, Serena Hellspark, Gorn Tagdahar, Priest of Agony, Lord of Despair, Spine of Night

Decklist (43)
1x Aurora Prism
1x Coven of Chaos
1x Coven's Sight
3x Dark Inquiry
1x Dark Spire [+1]
1x Drain Health
1x Eldritch Binding
1x Eldritch Flame [+5]
1x Eldritch Flame [+7]
13x Forbidden Fruit
1x Forbidden Magic
1x Grimoire of Hate
1x Infernal Contract
1x Infernal Racket
1x Lifelink
4x Malignance
1x Raven Familiar
1x Recast
1x Sanguine Casting
1x Snake Familiar
3x Surge of Intellect
1x Timestop
1x Umbral Lance
1x Vexing Echoes

Imbues (5)
Crone's Recipe
Twincasting
Spellsnap
Occultism
Chaos Casting

Talents (16)
Rotten Weapon
Fast Recovery
Inoculation
Skylars Kiss
Greater Intellect
Whimsical
Trovan's Blessing
Conjurer
Balors Blessing
Conjurer
Duplicity
Deal with the Devil
Redemption
Infusion
Watched
Magistracy

[violet kelp]

Astrid Stillwater

Arcanist [XL]
[Hard]

[lyric aurora]

In hindsight, I should have dump more of them apples and keep Malignance number higher x)

But the echo casting made it quite hard to keep number of Forbidden Fruit down, they multiply so many times per fight

[clear laurel]

This is amazing as this guide uses only metamorphosis, but yours have all on i believe. Good Job! 🥳

[urban latch]

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[fervent haven]

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[urban latch]

hahaha I was using this guide and my cat must have stepped on the keyboard

[leaden crypt]

GG @urban latch, you just advanced to level 8!

[urban latch]

guess I'll say that I can confirm it still works on the latest version. easiest impossible win so far

[clear laurel]

Good to Know

[analog nova]

Just read guide. Running my first game and this was my first prize selection.

[clear laurel]

You got this!

[analog nova]

@clear laurel Have you made other guides? I love the whole vibe of it. Definitely made to fit this build.

Ran a sunforge just to get the pic.

[clear laurel]

Thank you.
Attunement is my other guide in the decks and guides

Conjuration is another but that was closed when Arcane Weaver was changed

[broken jackal]

@clear laurel

• What expansion is necessary to get access to the illusionist?
• Which card packs can be disabled?

[clear laurel]

#🏆-strategy-and-combos message

Metaprogress
Metamorphosis
Infinitium
Catalyst
Eclypse

[candid fable]

im finally doing this version from arcanist

tho i have a fear i wont be able to beat the spine

[plucky river]

Ysabella Godwin
Arcanist [XXVIII]
💀💀💀 [Hard]

🏆 Total score: 6400
🔥 Top damage: 306
👑 Deck value: 1045
🪙 Gold remaining: 1069
Spine damage: 1647
🕐 Duration: 01:16:31

⚔️ Dark Spire
🚀 Sanguine Casting
🎲 1218085487
Version 1.17.006

Bosses slain: Weeping Mother, Garvin Greaves, Bolgar Blightbane, Serena Hellspark, Gorn Tagdahar, Arachnid Progenator, Rathael the Slain
Slain by: Spine of Night

Decklist (170)
1x Bloodmagic
4x Dark Inquiry
5x Dark Power
1x Dark Whispers
3x Drain Health
6x Eldritch Flame
1x Eldritch Flame [+2]
1x Eldritch Flame [+3]
2x Eldritch Flame [+4]
1x Energyshield
124x Forbidden Fruit
16x Malignance
1x Sanguine Casting
2x Surge of Intellect
1x Thaumaturgy
1x Witness True Evil

Imbues (2)
Twincasting
Master of Forms

Talents (13)
Rotten Weapon
Quick Study
Quick Study
Greater Intellect
Collector
Quick Study
Deal with the Devil
Spellfury
Fire Immunity
Durable
Malice
Thundering Strikes
Strategist

[leaden crypt]

GG @plucky river, you just advanced to level 1!

[violet kelp]

Ysabella Godwin

Arcanist [XXVIII]
[Hard]

Fruit Picker

Achievement unlocked by athos321:

Have 100 or more Forbidden Fruits at the end of the run.

[clear laurel]

Try Pyroclasm

still congrats! 🥳

[candid fable]

Nice

[finite forge]

Does upgrading Eldritch flame actually do anything? It doesn't show it does but maybe the damage from upgrades is applied after or something?

[candid fable]

Thats a good question