18 Apr - 25 Apr

[twilit echo]

ZEN STRIKER

With zen-like focus
the swift hunter approaches,
with deftness they strike.

Start: 18 Apr 2024 19:00:00 UTC
End: 25 Apr 2024 19:00:00 UTC

CHARACTER

Seeker
:crossed_swords: Weapon: Shuriken
:boom: Weapon Power: Throwing Weapon
:rocket: Starting Card: Daggerstorm

OR

Seeker
:crossed_swords: Weapon: Shuriken
:boom: Weapon Power: Focused Weapon
:rocket: Starting Card: Mindstrike

OR

Seeker
:crossed_swords: Weapon: Shuriken
:boom: Weapon Power: Feral Weapon
:rocket: Starting Card: Shapeless Mastery

CARDS

:white_check_mark: Core: Enabled
:white_check_mark: Progression: Enabled
:white_check_mark: Metamorphosis: Enabled
:x: Infinitum: Disabled
:white_check_mark: Catalyst: Enabled

MALIGNANT AFFIXES

• Sorcery Amassing [50%]: You no longer discard cards at the end of your turn, draw only 1 card per turn, and start each combat with 7 cards in hand.
• You may choose more if you wish!

BONUS OBJECTIVES

A run earns extra points for:

• +50 Points for cards that have Draw, Discard, Focus or Momentum in its text. Half Points for additional copies after the first
• +20 Points for each Upgrade on Shuriken (up to a max of 1000 points)
• +2000 Points for completing the final encounter
• +2000 Points for having a deck between 15 and 19 cards. Having more or less than this target in your deck will reduce this bonus

GAME VERSION

1.12.08 or later

Post your results below in order to participate!

Current Rankings: https://blightbane.io/challenge/1712270196424

[placid vessel]

uuuh this is ... again very unorthodox. looks like an interessting one

[trail birch]

GG @placid vessel, you just advanced to level 9!

[obsidian cloak]

Another challenge designed by @sterile forge 🙂

[sterile forge]

I apologize in advance to everyone if this is a slow starter, I tried to give each start something to help with for damage early. I had thoughts about how each start might build but I'm looking forwards to seeing what people come up with.

[ornate creek]

hilarious..,shuriken with no automatic discard

[placid vessel]

yeah, this is a slow starter... not sure which setup I like best, 3 has some neat burst damage but the weapon talent is weird... 2 feels the slowest so far

[ornate creek]

50 upgrades on cards that needs help discarding,,,haha

[sterile forge]

The idea was to incentivise keeping some of your shurikens

[ornate creek]

also disabled all the seeker stardart and foretell cards

[placid vessel]

will need to figure out a malignance setup that works... somehow all the high point ones feel way to punishing on such a slow start 😅 I have a feeling this week we won't see very high point scores...

[sharp grotto]

lol very funny, lost some of the first fights immediately

dazzled means no card draws 😂

[jade jasper]

Cool designs @sterile forge , thanks for creating another challenge ^^

[languid verge]

Momentary excitement when I confused Shapeless Mastery for Spiritual Warfare, then the let down

[twilit echo]

Spiritual Warfare

Discard all cards.
Make a Basic Attack for each card discarded.

[languid verge]

So slow, so weak, so painful. Curse you, @sterile forge

[sterile forge]

I think the good news there is that there is only one more challenge of mine that I think Agent Ganon might be using, and I think that will be a lot less painful than this. That is unless he has used some of my less serious suggestions 😱

[obsidian cloak]

I think next week is also one of yours 🙂

[sterile forge]

If it's the one I'm thinking of it should be better

[ornate creek]

Claire Darkeye
Seeker [XLII]
💀 [Normal]

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🏆 Total score: 4000
🔥 Most damage: 58
👑 Deck value: 230
🪙 Gold remaining: 77
🕐 Duration: 01:44:19

⚔️ Shuriken
🚀 Mindstrike
🎲 7E3FCCC1E7
Version 1.13.00

Malignances (100%)
Disenchantment (10%)
Scarcity (40%)
Sorcery Amassing (50%)

Bosses slain: Weeping Mother, Garvin Greaves, General Ral-Dagar, Viola Skysworn, Melchor the Cursed, Priest of Agony, Lord of Despair

Decklist (19)
1x Center Self
1x Centered Strikes
1x Dragon Breath
1x Featherform
1x Fur Hide
1x Hidden Pouch
1x Illusionary Arms
1x Karma Strike [+2]
2x Mindstrike
1x Revivify
1x Scheme
1x Serenity
1x Shuriken [+11]
1x Shuriken [+12]
1x Shuriken [+14]
1x Shuriken [+9]
1x Surge of Dexterity
1x Surge of Intellect

Talents (9)
Focused Weapon
Duplicity
Wild Infusion
Keen Mind
Infuse Energy
Blessing of the White Rose
Warpriest
Blessing of Serem-Pek
Marksmanship

[twilit echo]

Claire Darkeye

Seeker [XLII]
[Normal]

Run Submitted

Run has been submitted for Zen Striker!

Score: 13190
+9190 Bonus Points

[ornate creek]

im sure my deck looks different, so no peeking at my cards😜

just my first run through

[jolly swift]

As a smoothbrain can you explain how the shurikan upgrades are calculated

If I have 10 in my deck, and each is +5 does that add up to 10x5x20 = 1000, or 5x20 = 100?

[ornate creek]

its the first one

[obsidian cloak]

Should be total upgrades across all Shurikens multiplied by 20 (so, the first one)

[true remnant]

Infinitum banned

Booooo

Eheheh

[true remnant]

Meanwhile, I'm over here cooking up something... Special

@sterile forge what do you use when you're coming up with ideas? Like, what's your process?

[sterile forge]

I start with an idea. So for this week it might help to know that I was thinking up this challenge atound the time of the Adaptive Armorments challenge, it was about the time Sorcery Amassing was added, I got the idea for this challenge by asking myself what Sorcery Amassing changed. Not discarding cards is one answer to that, which is what led me to think of Shurikens. From there I started expanding on the idea, Sorcery Amassing makes you draw 1 card a turn, so really you want to increase that. The next question I asked where what tools are avalible to help draw cards? The answers I came up with were draw, focus and momentum, but where do these meet, the answer being Seeker. Seeker also has good access to cards with discard, which fits having to choose to discard Shurikens instead of doing it passively. That gave me the keywords. Then I started to put together the starting decks, this involved looking through Blightbane and trying to come up with combinations that I thought were ballenced, this is probably the hardest bit of the process and the easiest to make mistakes on. Lastly for this challenge perticulary it needed something else, AgentGanon had asked during the Adaptive Armorments challenge what he could do to prevent use from getting rid of our basic attacks. To incentivise keeping them I added bonus point for upgrades. The idea was you probably could just keep 1 or 2 if you wanted, but it would be easier to get more of the points if you kept more of them. As a bonus it makes talents which give random upgrades more worth, which I thought was interesting. Then I thought it through, for a few days I would keep going back to my notes and going through each step and connection until I was happy with it (it's not often I make these suggestions in a hurry). When I was happy with it I suggested it to AgentGanon.

If you remind me next week I can explian my thoughts behind that one too.

[sterile forge]

Oh and banning Infinitum was based on me looking through the Seeker sets and thinking which cards best suited concept I was going for.

[obsidian cloak]

I love the suggestions/ideas. Anytime someone puts that kind of effort into an idea I will usually just use it verbatim 🙂

[true remnant]

Thank you so much for the advice!

[jolly swift]

@obsidian cloak do you have a place where challenges are submitted?

[violet salmon]

Took me quite a few tries but I finally beat it on normal. Now to go for challenging.

[sterile forge]

Bertold Stoneborn
Seeker [XLII]
💀💀 [Challenging]

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🏆 Total score: 1162
🔥 Most damage: 12
👑 Deck value: 160
🪙 Gold remaining: 40
🕐 Duration: 00:49:45

⚔️ Shuriken
🚀 Shapeless Mastery
🎲 4669B39AEC
Version 1.13.00

Malignances (55%)
Weapon Obsession (5%)
Sorcery Amassing (50%)

Bosses slain: Mudfang Kingpin II
Slain by: Garvin Greaves

Decklist (17)
1x Aquatic Phalanx
1x Arcane Quiver
1x Dragon Mind
1x Fur Hide
1x Pierce the Veil
1x Quick Jab
1x Revivify
1x Shapeless Mastery
3x Shuriken [+1]
1x Shuriken [+3]
1x Shuriken [+5]
1x Surge of Dexterity
1x Surge of Intellect
1x Utility Belt
1x Vitalize

Talents (3)
Feral Weapon
Magical Ornaments
Quick Crafting

[twilit echo]

Bertold Stoneborn

Seeker [XLII]
[Challenging]

Run Submitted

Run has been submitted for Zen Striker!

Score: 5696
+4534 Bonus Points

[sterile forge]

Hoisted by my own petard.

[ornate creek]

Cordelia Desmond
Seeker [XLII]
💀 [Normal]

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🏆 Total score: 4830
🔥 Most damage: 44
👑 Deck value: 400
🪙 Gold remaining: 405
🕐 Duration: 01:51:50

⚔️ Shuriken
🚀 Shapeless Mastery
🎲 8E96BF4E6C
Version 1.13.00

Malignances (110%)
Decked Out (5%)
Weapon Obsession (5%)
Disenchantment (10%)
Scarcity (40%)
Sorcery Amassing (50%)

Bosses slain: Weeping Mother, Garvin Greaves, General Ral-Dagar, Viola Skysworn, Melchor the Cursed, Priest of Agony, Lord of Despair

Decklist (19)
1x Ancient Stirrings
1x Aquatic Phalanx
1x Arcanist's Locket
1x Artificers Insight
1x Banner of Valyn
1x Bloodcast
1x Centered Strikes
1x Featherform
1x Hidden Pouch
1x Illusionary Arms
1x Mindsight
1x Reservoir
1x Serenity
1x Shapeless Mastery
1x Shuriken [+13]
2x Shuriken [+14]
1x Shuriken [+18]
1x Shuriken [+21]

Talents (12)
Feral Weapon
Headhunter
Stormscarred
Quick Crafting
Skylars Kiss
Emporium Discount
Greater Dexterity
Perception
Strong Arms
Blessing of the White Rose
Insatiable Curiosity
Fire Immunity

[twilit echo]

Cordelia Desmond

Seeker [XLII]
[Normal]

Run Submitted

Run has been submitted for Zen Striker!

Score: 15603
+10773 Bonus Points

[ornate creek]

score slowly going up

[ornate creek]

this is my favorite challenge so far

[languid verge]

Finally defeated a boss on hard 🙃

Let's go!

[obsidian cloak]

Here, #🌟-suggestions (or any channel really, just be sure to tag me). You can also send me a direct message if you’d prefer 🙂

[languid verge]

Tyrian Frostgard
Seeker [XLII]
💀💀💀 [Hard]

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🏆 Total score: 1900
🔥 Most damage: 10
👑 Deck value: 145
🪙 Gold remaining: 18
🕐 Duration: 07:28:05

⚔️ Shuriken
🚀 Shapeless Mastery
🎲 2591DB5993
Version 1.13.00

Malignances (100%)
Imps Everywhere (10%)
Scarcity (40%)
Sorcery Amassing (50%)

Bosses slain: Weeping Mother
Slain by: Matriarch Daisy

Decklist (14)
1x Bloodmagic
1x Daggerstorm
1x Dark Inquiry
1x Infernal Racket
1x Mindsight
1x Riptide
1x Shapeless Mastery
3x Shuriken [+3]
2x Shuriken [+4]
1x Surge of Intellect
1x Vanish

Talents (4)
Feral Weapon
Headhunter
Stormscarred
Keen Mind

[twilit echo]

Tyrian Frostgard

Seeker [XLII]
[Hard]

Run Submitted

Run has been submitted for Zen Striker!

Score: 7042
+5142 Bonus Points

[languid verge]

Welp. Still hard

[sterile forge]

7 and a half hours to get to the second canto 😮 I respect your determination.

[languid verge]

Haha started last night before bed, picked it up with my coffee

I have notoriously long runtimes 😂

[true remnant]

Wow. Is this the most difficult challenge yet? It seems like the only winning ones have been on Normal

[placid vessel]

mhm, how did you manage to only have one racket in your inventory where you must have at least 3 cards removed already? can you get rid of the rackets somehow?

[languid verge]

Transmuted surge of dex into daggerstorm

And got lost soul which removes without triggering imps everywhere

[placid vessel]

depending on what malignancies you're willing to run it's pretty damn hard to reach canto 3 on higher difficulties. I don't have much experience with challenges in the past but this one is at least one of the trickiest I've played. it feels like there is a good build out there that makes it bareable though.

[ornate creek]

ive definately been using a lot of camps to heal with, it feels like you take a lot of damage early on due to having a lot of low attack cards to start with

i tried to use monstrous, but in the early game its brutal

[placid vessel]

hidden pouch plus revivify is a really good way to heal you up...

[ornate creek]

i did that, but revivfy isnt worth mucg points in the end, i found that using serenity works better

i start with recvify but eventually get rid of it about mid gane

[placid vessel]

yeah, the juicy big malignancies are all really brutal. I tried mana flux and have an extremely good deck in canto 5... but the lack of mana regeneration makes it to tedious, think I'll drop it.

[ornate creek]

featherform and reservoir work well to speed up card draw

[placid vessel]

mhm, serenity... didn't know that card yet, that together with aura of brilliance could make a mana flux run viable...

[ornate creek]

that definately looks like a good combo of cards

[placid vessel]

I have no idea how you manage to run with scarcity though... the starting cards are soooo weak and you have to kill bosses with them? 🤮

[ornate creek]

its magic🪄

i used decked out and weapon obession so i had lots of fun other useless cards to play with

[placid vessel]

good idea... makes the rare boss drops even more garbage then usual though with all the warrior and knight cards you get?

[ornate creek]

i will give you a hint, divine focus transforms into a legendary int/str card

[placid vessel]

that's clever.

[true remnant]

Oh?

My suggestion: Run Mana Flux, go to Sunfall Meadows and grab a Hidden Pouch

That'll get your malignancies up and give you a really redundant engine

Make sure to start with Daggerstorm

That'll make up for any lack of card draw

I suggest grabbing Scarcity as another malignancy as well, because you have a guaranteed shop at the end of the first canto

I ran Monstrous as a fifth malignancy, but that makes fights take a long time, so I'm considering something else

[languid verge]

Beware a potential run killing bug. If riptide draws a card an enemy has added to your deck, it and any remaining draws from that play will not get discarded.

You might be expecting some free shuriken damage then get denied

And 30 stacks of doom are waiting for you

[sterile forge]

Kilian Livingstone
Seeker [XLII]
💀💀 [Challenging]

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🏆 Total score: 388
🔥 Most damage: 4
👑 Deck value: 95
🪙 Gold remaining: 61
🕐 Duration: 00:20:40

⚔️ Shuriken
🚀 Shapeless Mastery
🎲 42DE117125
Version 1.13.00

Malignances (55%)
Weapon Obsession (5%)
Sorcery Amassing (50%)

Slain by: Mudfang Kingpin II

Decklist (14)
2x Block
1x Hidden Pouch
1x Mindstrike
1x Poison Coating
1x Shapeless Mastery
5x Shuriken [+1]
1x Shuriken [+2]
1x Surge of Dexterity
1x Surge of Intellect

Talents (2)
Feral Weapon
Toxic Triage

[twilit echo]

Kilian Livingstone

Seeker [XLII]
[Challenging]

Run Submitted

Run has been submitted for Zen Striker!

Score: 3901
+3513 Bonus Points

[ornate creek]

is it just me or does everything seem 50 times harder on this challenge?

im currently trying to complete challenging with extra maligenices and i can only make to the next to last cantos

[ornate creek]

i think i will switch back to normal and try to improve my score

[ornate creek]

Nora Desmond
Seeker [XLII]
💀 [Normal]

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🏆 Total score: 4200
🔥 Most damage: 46
👑 Deck value: 375
🪙 Gold remaining: 56
🕐 Duration: 01:27:32

⚔️ Shuriken
🚀 Shapeless Mastery
🎲 6978BAB15F
Version 1.13.00

Malignances (110%)
Decked Out (5%)
Weapon Obsession (5%)
Disenchantment (10%)
Scarcity (40%)
Sorcery Amassing (50%)

Bosses slain: Weeping Mother, Garvin Greaves, General Ral-Dagar, Viola Skysworn, Melchor the Cursed, Priest of Agony, Lord of Despair

Decklist (19)
1x Arcanist's Locket
1x Artificers Insight
1x Banner of Valyn
1x Centered Strikes
1x Dragon Mind
1x Featherform
1x Hidden Pouch
1x Illusionary Arms
1x Reservoir
1x Revivify
1x Serenity
1x Shapeless Mastery
1x Shuriken [+10]
1x Shuriken [+12]
1x Shuriken [+13]
1x Shuriken [+19]
1x Shuriken [+8]
1x Time is Money
1x Vitalize

Talents (9)
Feral Weapon
Deadly Accuracy
Wild Infusion
Greater Dexterity
Emporium Discount
Keen Mind
Blessing of the White Rose
Quick Crafting
Infuse Power

[twilit echo]

Nora Desmond

Seeker [XLII]
[Normal]

Run Submitted

Run has been submitted for Zen Striker!

Score: 14868
+10668 Bonus Points

[ornate creek]

little bit lower score, but easier to play, like night and day between normal and challenging

[quiet steppe]

I expected this to be hard. But it's harder than I expected lol

[charred barn]

How long might it be until the One Ring?

[muted drum]

Kaladin the Gilded
Seeker [XLII]
💀💀 [Challenging]

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🏆 Total score: 1350
🔥 Most damage: 14
👑 Deck value: 200
🪙 Gold remaining: 61
🕐 Duration: 00:36:23

⚔️ Warfists
🚀 Mindstrike
🎲 5E62348336
Version 1.13.00

Malignances (50%)
Sorcery Amassing (50%)

Bosses slain: Weeping Mother
Slain by: Starlit Urza

Decklist (20)
1x Arcane Quiver
2x Block
1x Divine Gilt
2x Fur Hide
1x Gilded Gauntlets
1x Greed
1x Healing Potion
1x Lightning Rod
2x Mindsight
2x Mindstrike
1x Permeating Cold
1x Surge of Dexterity
1x Surge of Intellect
3x Warfists [+1]

Talents (2)
Focused Weapon
Weapon Aptitude

[twilit echo]

Kaladin the Gilded

Seeker [XLII]
[Challenging]

Run Submitted

Run has been submitted for Zen Striker!

Score: 4558
+3208 Bonus Points

[muted drum]

Bertrand the Gilded
Seeker [XLII]
💀💀 [Challenging]

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🏆 Total score: 225
🔥 Most damage: 3
👑 Deck value: 65
🪙 Gold remaining: 37
🕐 Duration: 00:08:03

⚔️ Shuriken
🚀 Daggerstorm
🎲 E83137CDE0
Version 1.13.00

Malignances (50%)
Sorcery Amassing (50%)

Slain by: Corrupted Tuskboar

Decklist (11)
2x Block
1x Daggerstorm
1x Healing Potion
5x Shuriken [+1]
1x Surge of Dexterity
1x Surge of Intellect

Talents (1)
Throwing Weapon

[twilit echo]

Bertrand the Gilded

Seeker [XLII]
[Challenging]

Run Submitted

Run has been submitted for Zen Striker!

Score: 3045
+2820 Bonus Points

[sterile forge]

I sugested this challenge about 7-8 weeks ago, but I think AgentGanon queues them up so it depends how many are in the queue.

[muted drum]

Kilian Vilineavo
Seeker [XLII]
💀💀 [Challenging]

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🏆 Total score: 375
🔥 Most damage: 4
👑 Deck value: 90
🪙 Gold remaining: 71
🕐 Duration: 00:09:38

⚔️ Shuriken
🚀 Shapeless Mastery
🎲 346FE3B258
Version 1.13.00

Malignances (50%)
Sorcery Amassing (50%)

Slain by: Church Grim

Decklist (14)
1x Block
1x Cloak and Dagger
1x Conjure Arrow
3x Healing Potion
1x Shapeless Mastery
4x Shuriken [+1]
1x Surge of Dexterity
1x Surge of Intellect
1x Surge of Strength

Talents (1)
Feral Weapon

[twilit echo]

Kilian Vilineavo

Seeker [XLII]
[Challenging]

Run Submitted

Run has been submitted for Zen Striker!

Score: 3475
+3100 Bonus Points

[obsidian cloak]

I don’t think I’ve added it to the schedule yet, but i don’t have many things in the queue at the moment so I think it’ll be in May

[whole portal]

How do we submit a run here, is it auto ?

[obsidian cloak]

It should automatically be submitted at the victory/defeat screen (and you should get a confirmation popup saying so). If you did not, you can go into your archive, find the run, scroll to the bottom and tap Copy to Clipboard, then paste it here

[whole portal]

Ghenon the Wretched
Seeker [XLII]
💀 [Normal]

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🏆 Total score: 4350
🔥 Most damage: 120
👑 Deck value: 575
🪙 Gold remaining: 131
🕐 Duration: 04:00:03

⚔️ Shuriken
🚀 Shapeless Mastery
🎲 6DEAEC154D [OFF]
Version 1.13.00

Malignances (50%)
Sorcery Amassing (50%)

Bosses slain: Weeping Mother, Garvin Greaves, Bolgar Blightbane, Viola Skysworn, Gorn Tagdahar, Arachnid Progenator
Slain by: Rathael the Slain

Decklist (42)
2x Ancient Stirrings
1x Aurora Prism
1x Brainstorm
1x Call of the Void
1x Center Self
1x Centered Strikes
1x Cunning Plan
1x Dragon Mind
1x Dragon Punch
1x Funhouse
1x Harmony
2x Impending Doom
1x Karma Strike [+2]
1x Lifepod
1x Mindsight
1x Mindstrike
1x Move to Tears
2x Pierce the Veil
1x Preparation
1x Renewing Insights
1x Replication
1x Reservoir
1x Revivify
1x Riptide
1x Serenity
1x Shred [+3]
4x Shuriken [+10]
1x Siren's Call
1x Split
2x Sudden Strike
1x Surge of Dexterity
1x Surge of Intellect
1x Surgestone [+2]
1x Symbol of Unity
1x Tempered Soul

Imbues (1)
Energyshield

Talents (14)
Feral Weapon
Perception
Perfect Balance
Energized
Keen Mind
Keen Mind
Strong Arms
Emporium Discount
Blessing of the White Rose
Warpriest
Skylars Kiss
Hide Armor
Arcane Transfusion
Watched

[twilit echo]

Ghenon the Wretched

Seeker [XLII]
[Normal]

Run Submitted

Run has been submitted for Zen Striker!

Score: 8680
+4330 Bonus Points

Challenge Accepted!

Achievement unlocked by johnarias:

Complete a weekly challenge.

Bargain Hunter

Achievement unlocked by johnarias:

Gain the talent Emporium Discount.

[muted drum]

Mikalos the Hanged
Seeker [XLII]
💀💀 [Challenging]

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🏆 Total score: 225
🔥 Most damage: 9
👑 Deck value: 60
🪙 Gold remaining: 50
🕐 Duration: 00:04:20

⚔️ Shuriken
🚀 Daggerstorm
🎲 F8C1D8F407
Version 1.13.00

Malignances (50%)
Sorcery Amassing (50%)

Slain by: Corrupted Tuskboar

Decklist (10)
1x Block
1x Daggerstorm
1x Healing Potion
5x Shuriken [+1]
1x Surge of Dexterity
1x Surge of Intellect

Talents (1)
Throwing Weapon

[twilit echo]

Mikalos the Hanged

Seeker [XLII]
[Challenging]

Run Submitted

Run has been submitted for Zen Striker!

Score: 3045
+2820 Bonus Points

[placid vessel]

Americ of the Sea
Seeker [XLII]
💀💀 [Challenging]

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🏆 Total score: 7590
🔥 Most damage: 81
👑 Deck value: 425
🪙 Gold remaining: 803
🕐 Duration: 04:36:42

⚔️ Shuriken
🚀 Shapeless Mastery
🎲 47A65671D8 [OFF]
Version 1.13.00

Malignances (130%)
Weapon Obsession (5%)
Reinforced (15%)
Haunted (30%)
Mana Flux (30%)
Sorcery Amassing (50%)

Bosses slain: Weeping Mother, Count Vesparin, General Ral-Dagar, Avatar of the Pyre, Melchor the Cursed, Statue of Ilthar III, Lord of Despair

Decklist (19)
1x Aquatic Phalanx
1x Aura of Brilliance
1x Centered Strikes
1x Dragon Mind
1x Featherform
1x Hidden Pouch
1x Illusionary Arms
1x Potion of Visions
1x Renewing Insights
1x Reservoir
1x Serenity
2x Shuriken [+16]
1x Shuriken [+18]
1x Spiritual Warfare
1x Surge of Intellect
1x Symbol of Unity
1x Tempered Soul
1x Transmorph

Talents (17)
Feral Weapon
Compassionate
Headhunter
Strategist
Keen Mind
Harden Mind
Craftsman
Balors Blessing
Magical Aptitude
Fire Resistance
Strong Arms
Benevolent
Sanctifier
Blessing of Serem-Pek
Watched
Omniscience
Weapon Virtuoso

[twilit echo]

Americ of the Sea

Seeker [XLII]
[Challenging]

Run Submitted

Run has been submitted for Zen Striker!

Score: 19539
+11949 Bonus Points

[placid vessel]

I gave up on hard... this is the only run I'm willing to bring to an end on this challenge. it isn't bad but it annoys me to no end 😇

[languid verge]

I'm in danger 🙃

Spoiler Alert: I died. She opened with 2x

[languid verge]

Ralph Wiggum is my spirit animal

Also Hard is HARD

[ornate creek]

i think you got it

[ornate creek]

Daphne Thornhill
Seeker [XLII]
💀 [Normal]

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🏆 Total score: 5625
🔥 Most damage: 42
👑 Deck value: 405
🪙 Gold remaining: 52
🕐 Duration: 01:11:15

⚔️ Shuriken
🚀 Shapeless Mastery
🎲 6659112BB2
Version 1.13.00

Malignances (150%)
Static (15%)
Reinforced (15%)
Haunted (30%)
Scarcity (40%)
Sorcery Amassing (50%)

Bosses slain: Weeping Mother, Garvin Greaves, General Ral-Dagar, Avatar of the Pyre, Melchor the Cursed, Priest of Agony, Lord of Despair

Decklist (19)
1x Aquatic Phalanx
1x Avatar of Thunder
1x Banner of Valyn
1x Bloodcast
1x Centered Strikes
1x Dragon Mind
1x Featherform
1x Hidden Pouch
1x Illusionary Arms
1x Renewing Insights
1x Riptide
1x Serenity
1x Shapeless Mastery
2x Shuriken [+12]
2x Shuriken [+13]
1x Shuriken [+17]
1x Surge of Intellect

Talents (10)
Feral Weapon
Keen Mind
Survival Instincts
Keen Mind
Wild Infusion
Fire Resistance
Skylars Kiss
Strong Arms
Perception
Emporium Discount

[twilit echo]

Daphne Thornhill

Seeker [XLII]
[Normal]

Run Submitted

Run has been submitted for Zen Striker!

Score: 17869
+12244 Bonus Points

[ornate creek]

...and no i didnt use mana flux, because it sucks

[quiet steppe]

Mana flux is so hard for 30% bonus only

[chilly dagger]

I honestly find Mana Flux as a better way to play the game. I'd play that way for no bonus 🙂

That said, with Sorcery Amassing it's very difficult!

[oblique wigeon]

Vulg
Seeker [XLII]
💀 [Normal]

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🏆 Total score: 6370
🔥 Most damage: 35
👑 Deck value: 345
🪙 Gold remaining: 743
🕐 Duration: 04:25:11

⚔️ Shuriken
🚀 Shapeless Mastery
🎲 7AA91E0D3C
Version 1.13.00

Malignances (145%)
Disenchantment (10%)
Healthy (15%)
Haunted (30%)
Scarcity (40%)
Sorcery Amassing (50%)

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

Decklist (19)
1x Bestow
1x Center Self
1x Dragon Mind
1x Featherform
1x Illusionary Arms
1x Infernal Racket
1x Karma Strike [+4]
1x Renewing Insights
1x Reservoir
1x Serenity
1x Shapeless Mastery
3x Shuriken [+14]
1x Shuriken [+29]
1x Symbol of Unity
1x Tempered Soul
1x Time is Money
1x Vitalize

Talents (13)
Feral Weapon
Headhunter
Duplicity
Balors Blessing
Emporium Discount
Greater Dexterity
Infuse Energy
Fire Resistance
Infuse Power
Lifesteal Venom
Craftsman
Skylars Kiss
Strong Arms

[twilit echo]

Vulg

Seeker [XLII]
[Normal]

Run Submitted

Run has been submitted for Zen Striker!

Score: 18241
+11871 Bonus Points

[ornate creek]

headhunter and emporium discount make a perfect game for scarcity, i couldnt find either one them

[solar root]

I will not have a good run to offer this week. As so often, I took way too many risks. The closest I got was a run that actually crashed in Canto I - but had all the combo pieces in place with which I wanted to go nuts in Canto III....

Cyrene the Gilded
Seeker [XLII]
💀💀💀💀 [Impossible]

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🏆 Total score: 1348
🔥 Most damage: 13
👑 Deck value: 125
🪙 Gold remaining: 54
🕐 Duration: 00:21:55

⚔️ Shuriken
🚀 Daggerstorm
🎲 AC34C3AA21
Version 1.13.00

Malignances (145%)
Weapon Obsession (5%)
Imps Everywhere (10%)
Haunted (30%)
Sorcery Amassing (50%)
Eternal Hunger (50%)

Slain by: Mudfang Kingpin II

Decklist (17)
1x Arcane Anvil
1x Block
1x Daggerstorm
1x Dragon Mind
1x Foresight
1x Fur Hide
1x Hidden Pouch
1x Karma Strike
4x Shuriken [+11]
1x Shuriken [+4]
1x Shuriken [+8]
1x Surge of Dexterity
1x Surge of Intellect
1x Tactical Retreat

Talents (2)
Throwing Weapon
Duplicity

[twilit echo]

Cyrene the Gilded

Seeker [XLII]
[Impossible]

Run Submitted

Run has been submitted for Zen Striker!

Score: 8539
+7191 Bonus Points

[solar root]

Run was decided by Kingpin punching me to -2 HP on the turn before I would have got him myself.

[placid vessel]

wow, I don't get it. how did you get +11 shurikens on canto 1 without even strong arms?

[sterile forge]

Hidden pouch + arcane anvil + duplicity. Eternal hunger helps by being a way to delete the lowest cards

[placid vessel]

oh right... there are so many weird interactions I have no idea about. sounds quite risky though, soaking damage all the time while using your energy for cloning instead of combat

[sterile forge]

It can be, if I use this tactic I normally reduce the deck down to just a few cards and use knuckles as the basic going for 1 turn kills. But it can work with any basic really.

https://blightbane.io/deck/1710493704981

Here's an example, it does sacrifice on score though.

[solar root]

Well, yes. That is what ended up killing me. OTOH if you don't start upgrading early, you will be underpowered in Canto III or V. I probably should have tried it on Hard, the extra campfire would have helped.

[ornate creek]

i like eternal hunger, hidden pouch, and imps everywhere, very smart and clever

[sterile forge]

Last I checked imps everywhere didn't trigger from eternal hunger, has that changed?

[solar root]

Nope, still hasn't changed. It isn't really a broken combo, just a cheap 10% bonus and two guaranteed Imps from Moleskin Burrow that help in the earlygame.

[ornate creek]

couldnt you play an imp and then use a conjured card from hidden pouch to get rid of the imp, or would you just get another imp back in return?

the imp would be the last nonconjured card played

[sterile forge]

Yeah eternal hunger can remove cards without adding imps. I was disapointed by this when I tried doing a reckless fury imps everywhere deck, but that was just for the lols.

[ornate creek]

it does make things complicated, and easy to make a mistake

[solar root]

Oh, absolutely. You don't want to know how many runs I ragequit because I lost a key card to a mistimed kill shot.

[oblique wigeon]

Yeah I was desperate for some card draw, Headhunter let me play aggressively while waiting for more cards that would help me cycle

[open cliff]

Issalyth of the Barrows
Seeker [XXX]
💀 [Normal]

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🏆 Total score: 375
🔥 Most damage: 6
👑 Deck value: 85
🪙 Gold remaining: 81
🕐 Duration: 01:08:02

⚔️ Shuriken
🚀 Mindstrike
🎲 F753C8FEDE
Version 1.13.01

Malignances (50%)
Sorcery Amassing (50%)

Slain by: Weeping Mother

Decklist (15)
2x Block
1x Mindstrike
2x Revivify
1x Riptide
4x Shuriken [+2]
1x Shuriken [+3]
2x Surge of Dexterity
1x Surge of Intellect
1x Wild Alchemy

Talents (2)
Focused Weapon
Infuse Energy

[twilit echo]

Issalyth of the Barrows

Seeker [XXX]
[Normal]

Run Submitted

Run has been submitted for Zen Striker!

Score: 4197
+3822 Bonus Points

Challenge Accepted!

Achievement unlocked by peacefulcauliflower:

Complete a weekly challenge.

[open cliff]

This is my first attempt ever and I didn’t even clear the first area 😎

[ornate creek]

this was an abnormally hard challenge, definately try the next one too

[granite owl]

Joyce of the Blightwood
Seeker [XLII]
💀 [Normal]

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🏆 Total score: 4778
🔥 Most damage: 47
👑 Deck value: 370
🪙 Gold remaining: 290
🕐 Duration: 04:06:11

⚔️ Shuriken
🚀 Shapeless Mastery
🎲 3670C581D5
Version 1.13.01

Malignances (145%)
Weapon Obsession (5%)
Decked Out (5%)
Needy (35%)
Sorcery Amassing (50%)
Eternal Hunger (50%)

Bosses slain: Weeping Mother, Garvin Greaves, Bolgar Blightbane, Viola Skysworn, Melchor the Cursed, Statue of Ilthar III, Lord of Despair

Decklist (17)
1x Adrenaline Rush
1x Centered Strikes
1x Daggerstorm
1x Demonology
1x Dragon Mind
1x Featherform
1x Gift of the Sea
1x Hidden Pouch
1x Illusionary Arms
1x Karma Strike [+11]
1x Reservoir
1x Sanguine Casting
1x Sanguine Scrying
1x Serenity
1x Shuriken [+21]
1x Surge of Dexterity
1x Time is Money

Imbues (1)
Pacifism

Talents (14)
Feral Weapon
Stormscarred
Headhunter
Keen Mind
Magical Ornaments
Fast Recovery
Balors Blessing
Strategist
Strong Arms
Blessing of the White Rose
Weapon Master
Blessing of Serem-Pek
Skylars Kiss
Infuse Power

[twilit echo]

Joyce of the Blightwood

Seeker [XLII]
[Normal]

Run Submitted

Run has been submitted for Zen Striker!

Score: 16223
+11445 Bonus Points

[quiet steppe]

This week was indeed hard, but really fun when you get the cards you want

[quiet steppe]

Karma Strike was the best card for canto I, if you get some infuse shrines, it gets quite strong and can carry you up to the last canto as it can be used together with Spiritual Warfare.

I tried to get the Prismatic Shard, but never suceeded

[obsidian cloak]

Hint for the next challenge: 👑 🍞

I suspect this one will be much easier

[quiet steppe]

I miss the third emoji of yore

King of Bread don't give me much lol

[obsidian cloak]

lol i could give you another emoji... how about 🌟

[placid vessel]

I would love to play a challenge called king of bread!

[sterile forge]

Bomb Rampage Earth Armor Damage?

Can't spell 😆

[twilit echo]

Winners

Normal: mivulgar with 18241 points
Challenging: jyhnnox with 20290 points
Hard: tanabrolic with 14451 points
Impossible: haxaw with 32580 points

Congratulations winners!

Checkout the next challenge here: https://discord.com/channels/455784011336384522/1233130494334599278