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chilly pivotBOT
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WORDS OF POWER

The pen is mightier than the sword. Especially when that pen is used to author words of power...

Start: 15 Aug 2024 19:00:00 UTC
End: 22 Aug 2024 19:00:00 UTC

CHARACTER

e_int Arcanist
:crossed_swords: Weapon: Crooked Wand
:boom: Weapon Power: Familiar Weapon
:rocket: Starting Card: Witching Hour

OR

e_int Arcanist
:crossed_swords: Weapon: Forcewand
:boom: Weapon Power: Arcane Weapon
:rocket: Starting Card: Cursed Cauldron

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CARDS

:white_check_mark: Core: Enabled
:white_check_mark: Progression: Enabled
:white_check_mark: Metamorphosis: Enabled
:white_check_mark: Infinitum: Enabled
:white_check_mark: Catalyst: Enabled
:white_check_mark: Eclypse: Enabled

MALIGNANT AFFIXES

  • Healthy [15%]: Enemies have 25% additional Health.
  • Sanguine [15%]: Start each combat with Bleeding equal to your level.
  • You may choose more if you wish!

BONUS OBJECTIVES

A run earns extra points for:

  • +50 Points for cards that have Grimoire, Tome, Hymn, Map or Scholar in its text. Half Points for additional copies after the first
  • +1000 Points for having a Forbidden Magic in your final deck
  • +500 Points for having a Infernal Contract in your final deck
  • +500 Points for having a Tome of Light in your final deck
  • +2000 Points for completing the final encounter
  • +2000 Points for having a deck between 22 and 26 cards. Having more or less than this target in your deck will reduce this bonus

GAME VERSION

1.14.00 or later

Post your results below in order to participate!

Current Rankings: https://blightbane.io/challenge/1723671619852

warped grail
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Since the Witch seems to be the mascot of Eclypse, we're starting off with an Arcanist weekly πŸ™‚

cosmic terrace
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Cauldron start
Let me cook

spice vortex
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πŸ§™β€β™€οΈ

wet heath
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no seeker, see you next week

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arcanist is probably going to be the last one i work on for my new decks

floral bison
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This looks like fun! πŸͺ„

spice vortex
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By the way... Sanguine is the Malignancy on this one because of paper cuts πŸ˜›

crystal sphinx
floral bison
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@cinder crown ?

crystal sphinx
eager scarab
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Challenge without being able to savescum transmutes is gonna be really interesting!

floral bison
warped grail
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I've been begging the devs to fix the transmute rng for more than a year lol

eager scarab
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I'm curiousβ€”how does one help playtest new cards?

last kayak
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You could do that?

crystal sphinx
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Thee first challenge I did was maybe a year ago. The required card was Bunker Down. I did like 5 runs and never even got the card.
Granted I didn't understand transmutation then, but still it seems that acquiring the cards has nothing to do with skill...

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I didn't do another challenge for like 8 months, abandoned the game. Came back, learned to save scum and here we are

cosmic terrace
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I don't recall you having to use seeded randomness to submit your runs?

warped grail
cosmic terrace
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Ah I see

warped grail
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I suppose if its a standard setup that you can do normally, you could post it here to submit it

cosmic terrace
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Acquiring specific cards will be a bit tough then yeah

warped grail
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(like todays)

wet heath
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you could always use the vault

cosmic terrace
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Well you’re not supposed to use it

crystal sphinx
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Lol, I didn't know the vault still existed.
That's dedication tho if your willing to go through the trouble

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And it does seem like people are willing to grind for it.
#BanTheVault

warped grail
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haha yeah i dont have the power to stop people from using the vault, and i kinda feel the same.. if someone really wants to go through the trouble to do that then sure i dont mind. lol

autumn epoch
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My starting set up changes each time I restart the game. And neither is weekly challenge one.

warped grail
autumn epoch
warped grail
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On the main menu at the bottom it should have tiny text saying "Wanderlost Interactive Dawncaster V x.xx.xx" those x's are the version number

misty meteor
misty meteor
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Forgot the "Not an Endorsement" disclaimer πŸ˜…. At least not for these semi-competitive challenges. For theorycrafting and attempts to take down Rath, I still advertise every dirty trick we have left delirious

wet heath
misty meteor
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Or repeatedly speedrunning the first Canto until you luck into an extremely powerful setup. Also something I would not recommend.

cinder crown
fiery seal
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So I just discovered Amphibify, and I really want to take it except I got offered Forbidden Magic in the same pool πŸ₯΅

misty meteor
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Huh, so apparently there is a glitch in Eternal Hunger and it doesn't remove card. Everyone who wants to have a Scarcity + Eternal Hunger win on their record, now is the chance. πŸ˜‚

raven pier
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Irene Ashmaw
e_int Arcanist [XLII]
πŸ’€πŸ’€ [Challenging]


πŸ† Total score: 585
πŸ”₯ Most damage: 6
πŸ‘‘ Deck value: 200
πŸͺ™ Gold remaining: 44
πŸ• Duration: 00:16:10

βš”οΈ Crooked Wand
πŸš€ Witching Hour
🎲 EBFFD06DBC [OFF]
dante Version 1.14.00

Malignances (30%)
Healthy (15%)
Sanguine (15%)

Slain by: Church Grim

Decklist (18)
2x Block
1x Chalice of Blood
1x Charged Wand [+1]
1x Crooked Wand
4x Crooked Wand [+1]
1x Dark Inquiry
1x Healing Potion
1x Potion of Visions
1x Rune of Persistence
1x Spellcraft
2x Surge of Intellect
1x Terror
1x Witching Hour

Talents (1)
Familiar Weapon

chilly pivotBOT
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Run has been submitted for Words of Power!

Score: 2730
+2145 Bonus Points

wet heath
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here is something weird ive discovered, if i transform up a rarity it always the same set of cards if you save scum...however, if i transform to the same rarity it always the same per card picked...if i pick a different card of the same rarity i get a different result then another card of the same rarity and same color...

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@misty meteor @fiery seal

raven pier
icy sun
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oh hey it's brennan lee mulligan^

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also the challenge name just invites the skyrim memes

fiery seal
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Someone must have stolen a sweet roll or two

floral bison
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Vexing Echo is so strong with all these wands πŸͺ„πŸͺ„πŸͺ„
Look at all my pointy sticks!

misty meteor
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I think that is not intended and the idea of seeded randomness (which I very much enjoy to see more of) would be to have the fixed transmutes even there.

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Let's take all of these things to #πŸ‘Ύ-bugreports or #🎲-general-discussion , though. It feels a bit silly to discuss them in the one place where we actively want to not use them. 🀣

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In terms of addressing the actual challenge, though, I have to adjust to not having Eternal Hunger at my disposal rn. Which honestly I think is absolutely necessary to make Cursed Cauldron work well as a starting card.

misty meteor
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One thing I do particularly enjoy about this challenge is the selection of cards and keywords that give a bonus. There are several viable archetypes that are scoring roughly similarly. The last challenge was also good in that regard.

fallen stirrup
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Curious about the challenge, is eternal hunger not working? My noncursed cards don't seem to get destroyed

proper juniperBOT
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GG @fallen stirrup, you just advanced to level 1!

last turret
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Love the challenge and the new cards, on Canto 6 for impossble, but requires time and dedication to survive, continuing after work tonight πŸ˜…

misty meteor
warped grail
floral bison
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Old habits die hard.... Just tried to savescum The Cardgame like 3 times before realizing that it's also gotten fixed πŸ˜…

misty meteor
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Oooh, that is also a good example. Quite often I am not sure what I want out of The Cardgame and make a cut right there while deliberating a bit. Knowing that I can close the App and come back to the same options is nice.

floral bison
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Osanne the Stone
e_int Arcanist [XLII]
πŸ’€ [Normal]


πŸ† Total score: 5640
πŸ”₯ Most damage: 88
πŸ‘‘ Deck value: 600
πŸͺ™ Gold remaining: 125
πŸ• Duration: 03:54:32

βš”οΈ Crooked Wand
πŸš€ Witching Hour
🎲 3D09E1C504
dante Version 1.14.00

Malignances (140%)
Healthy (15%)
Sanguine (15%)
Brittle Weapons (20%)
Scarcity (40%)
Sorcery Amassing (50%)

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

Decklist (27)
1x Bloodcast
2x Brainstorm
1x Ceremony of Roses
3x Charged Wand
1x Clarity
2x Coven of Chaos
2x Crooked Wand
2x Dark Inquiry
1x Demonology
1x Fast Forward
1x Fellstorm
1x Forbidden Magic
1x Grimoire of Hate
2x Recite
1x Rewind
1x Simulacrum
1x Stash of Weapons
1x Vexing Echoes
2x Witching Hour

Imbues (2)
Crone's Recipe
Occultism

Talents (14)
Familiar Weapon
Compassionate
Whimsical
Arcane Library
Skylars Kiss
Greater Intellect
Balors Blessing
Keen Mind
Strategist
Deal with the Devil
Craftsman
Repetition
Epiphany
Weapon Master

chilly pivotBOT
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Run has been submitted for Words of Power!

Score: 14527
+8887 Bonus Points

floral bison
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First Witch run was fun!

( time to go challenge @last turret for the impossible title πŸ˜…πŸ€ž )

misty meteor
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Eternal Hunger is back on the menu, everyone

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I was just about to say that I might sit out this challenge while stuff gets fixed but Reya published a massive Patch and I am so back in the hunt now

wet heath
misty meteor
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The Eclypse Update covered so many things, it was absolutely expected that a few things would need to be patched. Most of all I am impressed how quickly and large that patch was created.

eager scarab
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Can untempered cards be tempered? @warped grail

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The name of it implies such, but I can't see any way to do it

warped grail
eager scarab
warped grail
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Untempered is just the word they chose for the Keyword which means it’s removed from your deck after combat

eager scarab
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Ohhh

floral bison
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Btw Emyly + Imps Everywhere is also fixed ❀️

frail prism
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Yay Highscore.. I feel like this challenge has for a lot higher scores though. I almost entirely ignored the card scores and just picked a powerful setup. Malignancy could probably also be pushed a bit higher

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Mikalos Prescott
e_int Arcanist [XLII]
πŸ’€πŸ’€πŸ’€πŸ’€ [Impossible]


πŸ† Total score: 19462
πŸ”₯ Most damage: 522
πŸ‘‘ Deck value: 295
πŸͺ™ Gold remaining: 1070
eye_spine Spine damage: 6666
πŸ• Duration: 05:15:44

βš”οΈ Crooked Wand
πŸš€ Witching Hour
🎲 5B6E3FE3BA
dante Version 1.14.00

Malignances (125%)
Healthy (15%)
Sanguine (15%)
Melchors Touch (15%)
Monstrous (30%)
Eternal Hunger (50%)

Bosses slain: Weeping Mother, Count Vesparin, Empowered Hydra, ONE, Melchor the Cursed, Arachnid Progenator, Rathael the Slain, Spine of Night

Decklist (25)
2x Block
1x Bloodmagic
1x Brainstorm
1x Chaos Nova
2x Charged Wand [+1]
1x Charged Wand [+2]
1x Charged Wand [+6]
1x Coven of Chaos
1x Crone's Recipe
1x Crooked Wand [+1]
1x Dark Inquiry
1x Demonology
1x Eldritch Binding
1x Fae Familiar
1x Feast on Misery
1x Fellblast
1x Glimpse of Evil
1x Grimoire of Hate
1x Occult Secrets
1x Surge of Intellect
1x Vile Blast
1x Witching Hour
1x Wrathbolt [+1]

Imbues (2)
Painful Inquiry
Occultism

Talents (12)
Familiar Weapon
Repetition
Sacred Zest
Arcane Library
Greater Intellect
Emporium Discount
Diamond Mind
Peace of Mind
Strategist
Profane Ward
Fortuitous
Bloodbank

chilly pivotBOT
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Run has been submitted for Words of Power!

Score: 26627
+7165 Bonus Points

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Achievement unlocked by kaesetorte:

Gain the talent Emporium Discount.

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Achievement unlocked by kaesetorte:

Slay the hidden boss Spine of Night with 6666 spine damage.

frail prism
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Side note:
Melchiors touch + eternal hunger feels like a cheat. Maybe that shouldn’t be allowed? Free 50% malignancy bonus for absolutely no drawbacks…

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Cursed witch is just crazy strong when the core cards are there. Half the deck could just be random garbage as long as you have blood magic or demonology to turn it to blood cost.

misty meteor
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Also congrats on the first Spine kill if I read the achievement correctly 😊

icy sun
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it is either first spine kill, and it was all in 1 run, or first time dealing 6666 damage in 1 run to spine

frail prism
icy sun
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option 4: making a chicken pasta with a sweet garlic aioli and some diced up spine of night as a garnish

floral bison
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Have to agree with @frail prism the curse cards can really start to snowball once you get a good base going! Even without Melchors Touch, there are so many new curse cards available that synergize so well with each other!

misty meteor
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I'm trying Melchors Touch right now but I am not convinced yet. Not having any Transmutes available at all is quite a big downside when trying to find Bonus cards.

ripe yoke
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In other words, free to use that oh-so-poweful combo without loosing any key card to hunger

floral bison
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I wish Eternal hunger would eat the last non-cursed card you played instead of completely whiffing if the last card was cursed. πŸ˜– But that would probably make it too strong.

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Also, the new Eternal Hunger is an indirect nerf to Puzzlebox. Since you can no longer just hunger away the bad swaps.

misty meteor
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My plan is always to use Puzzlebox with conjurations. Which for this challenge is easiest achievable with Crones Recipe.

floral bison
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Hm... Not sure what just happened but Eternal Hunger is not eating my cursed cards πŸ€” I'm down to 3 wands...
Can't see any talent or enchantment that might be causing this either. Started happening after Canto V.

last turret
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Muzan Virccinetti
e_int Arcanist [XLII]
πŸ’€πŸ’€πŸ’€πŸ’€ [Impossible]


πŸ† Total score: 18112
πŸ”₯ Most damage: 315
πŸ‘‘ Deck value: 470
πŸͺ™ Gold remaining: 503
eye_spine Spine damage: 1600
πŸ• Duration: 03:27:24

βš”οΈ Crooked Wand
πŸš€ Witching Hour
🎲 72CE560127
dante Version 1.14.00

Malignances (125%)
Healthy (15%)
Sanguine (15%)
Melchors Touch (15%)
Monstrous (30%)
Eternal Hunger (50%)

Bosses slain: The Pale Warden, Count Vesparin, Bolgar Blightbane, Serena Hellspark, Melchor the Cursed, Arachnid Progenator, Rathael the Slain, Spine of Night

Decklist (26)
1x Block
1x Brainstorm
2x Charged Wand [+3]
1x Charged Wand [+5]
1x Coven of Chaos
1x Coven's Sight
1x Crooked Wand [+3]
1x Crooked Wand [+6]
2x Dark Inquiry
3x Eldritch Binding
1x Faerystorm
1x Glimpse of Evil
1x Occult Secrets
1x Occultism
1x Ring of Power [+4]
1x Simulacrum
1x Snake Familiar
1x Surge of Intellect
1x Tempered Soul
1x Tome of Light
2x Witching Hour

Imbues (3)
Aura of Divinity
Painful Inquiry
Crone's Recipe

Talents (14)
Familiar Weapon
Headhunter
Strategist
Inoculation
Greater Intellect
Weapon Virtuoso
Diamond Mind
Deal with the Devil
Emporium Discount
Warpriest
Blessing of Serem-Pek
Fast Recovery
Firebrand
Weapon Master

chilly pivotBOT
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Run has been submitted for Words of Power!

Score: 25732
+7620 Bonus Points

last turret
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Close..., unlucky with no forbidden magic or infernal contract or grimoires, still shredded through everything..., so strong affliction combos possible now, btw. I think Weapon Virtuoso is bugged, at least it didnt work on my cursed wands, wasted a talent there 😡

lime falcon
last turret
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Love an early crones recipe, or a duplicated witching hour, makes early game survival much more manageable. Occultism is just brutal, and with sanguine shrine infused and some drawing combos I max hexed turn 1-2, and getting "deal with the devil" is so amazing for this challenge.

last turret
lime falcon
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Oh, see there’s nothing ingame that mentions higher points for higher difficulty. It may be true but it’s not clear when choosing the difficulty

last turret
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There are also separate leaderboards for each dufficulty

cloud sparrow
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Just passing by to say you guys are amazing

cloud sparrow
floral bison
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Almost got all the books! πŸ“šπŸ“šπŸ“š Just missing the Tome of Light but I fear it might be too late for that now.

spice vortex
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Nice!!

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In hindsight, I wish I had added Arcane Inkwell and Umbral Script into the mix. I actually had every card with a book in its image originally but that doesn't work as well as I thought with weeklies :p

proper juniperBOT
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GG @spice vortex, you just advanced to level 36!

floral bison
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**Mr. Hogwarts **
e_int Arcanist [XLII]
πŸ’€πŸ’€πŸ’€πŸ’€ [Impossible]


πŸ† Total score: 18480
πŸ”₯ Most damage: 491
πŸ‘‘ Deck value: 705
πŸͺ™ Gold remaining: 411
eye_spine Spine damage: 6666
πŸ• Duration: 07:56:07

βš”οΈ Crooked Wand
πŸš€ Witching Hour
🎲 C02C49607C
dante Version 1.14.01

Malignances (120%)
Imps Everywhere (10%)
Healthy (15%)
Sanguine (15%)
Monstrous (30%)
Eternal Hunger (50%)

Bosses slain: Weeping Mother, Garvin Greaves, Bolgar Blightbane, Avatar of the Pyre, Gorn Tagdahar, Priest of Agony, Lord of Despair, Spine of Night

Decklist (27)
2x Brainstorm
1x Charged Wand
1x Charged Wand [+12]
2x Clarity
2x Dark Inquiry
2x Fast Forward
1x Fellblast
1x Forbidden Magic
1x Grimoire of Fire
1x Grimoire of Hate
1x Grimoire of Ice
1x Grimoire of Storms
1x Grimoire of Taste
1x Infernal Contract
2x Infernal Racket
2x Philosophers Stone
1x Timestop
3x Timetap
1x Vexing Echoes

Imbues (2)
Occultism
Painful Inquiry

Talents (12)
Familiar Weapon
Compassionate
Arcane Library
Headhunter
Balors Blessing
Greater Intellect
Starlit Dance
Quick Crafting
Rotten to the Core
Deep Roast
Trovan's Blessing
Bitter Cold

chilly pivotBOT
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Run has been submitted for Words of Power!

Score: 29863
+11383 Bonus Points

floral bison
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1 week vacation starts today so I think this is my last run. Probably won't hold its spot for too long πŸ˜…πŸ€ž

Super fun challenge to kick off Eclypse and to play around with the new cards! ❀️

last turret
cloud sparrow
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Arcanist is always fun

last turret
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I got this lovely combo πŸ˜…, not fair

proper juniperBOT
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GG @last turret, you just advanced to level 5!

floral bison
icy sun
wet trellis
cloud sparrow
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I think Eternal Hunger overwrites it

steep inlet
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Imoen the Corrupted
e_int Arcanist [XLII]
πŸ’€πŸ’€πŸ’€ [Hard]


πŸ† Total score: 8410
πŸ”₯ Most damage: 176
πŸ‘‘ Deck value: 385
πŸͺ™ Gold remaining: 58
eye_spine Spine damage: 638
πŸ• Duration: 17:41:03

βš”οΈ Crooked Wand
πŸš€ Witching Hour
🎲 D884AF213E [OFF]
dante Version 1.14.01

Malignances (45%)
Healthy (15%)
Sanguine (15%)
Melchors Touch (15%)

Bosses slain: The Pale Warden, Count Vesparin, Bolgar Blightbane, Serena Hellspark, Gorn Tagdahar, Priest of Agony, Lord of Despair, Spine of Night

Decklist (26)
1x Broken Amulet
3x Charged Wand [+2]
1x Charged Wand [+4]
1x Coven of Chaos
1x Crooked Wand [+2]
1x Demonology
1x Eldritch Binding
1x Fae Familiar
1x Fast Forward
1x Glimpse of Evil
1x Grimoire of Fire
1x Hidden Pouch
1x Occult Secrets
1x Sanguine Casting
1x Snake Familiar
1x Staff of Thunder [+1]
1x Surge of Dexterity
3x Surge of Intellect
1x Surgestone [+4]
1x Vexing Echoes
2x Witching Hour

Imbues (4)
Aura of Brilliance
Crone's Recipe
Spellsnap
Occultism

Talents (14)
Familiar Weapon
Compassionate
Quick Study
Strategist
Arcane Library
Greater Intellect
Jack of All Trades
Deep Roast
Deal with the Devil
Warpriest
Steelmind
Elemental Conflux
Painbringer
Insatiable Curiosity

chilly pivotBOT
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Run has been submitted for Words of Power!

Score: 13630
+5220 Bonus Points

frail prism
cloud sparrow
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I mean If Eternal Hungers function is to eat cards so long as its not conjured, then its fair game for me

floral bison
# frail prism That must be new then. Not sure if that’s intended.

I am also not sure if that should be intended. I posted it in #πŸ‘Ύ-bugreports yesterday.
I started my run with Eternal Hunger not eating cursed cards, and then halfway through my run it started munching through my wands...

Overall I prefer that Eternal Hunger just eats everything like it did pre-expansion. But I was also kinda getting used to the cursed cards not being eaten especially with several more mechanics now around to making cards cursed. Would also make Eternal Hunger + Puzzlebox a lot less broken πŸ˜… (imo)

misty meteor
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Let's be clear: Eternal Hunger is extremely strong no matter how exactly the interaction with Cursed cards work. We will always find a way to work it to our advantage.

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Not at all something to complain about. Hunger and Sorcery Amassing are so powerful as effects that they almost count as a game mode on their own and make the game richer than it is already.

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The only downside of them is that they distort the Weekly Challenge meta for everyone who optimizes points. But that is a bit of a niche problem that devs hopefully don't worry too much about.

frail prism
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Tbh I feel like weekly challenge should have fixed malignancy. Basically everyone gets to compete at the same ruleset. Currently weekly challenge is mostly about optimizing malignancy

misty meteor
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If you fix Malignancies, you lose a lot of the freedom for players to toggle difficulty. And increase the luck factor for the matter of who scores best.

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Really there are no right or wrong options with these challenges. The one important part is not to fret too much about arbitrar scores.

ripe yoke
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Challenge runs should have 5 malignancies set from the beginning, imo

steep inlet
misty meteor
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There are two separate things to consider here:

  1. A lot of high scoring setups are by players who tried the same high risk strategy several times and died early several times before reaching a godlike setup where the malignancies didn't matter at all anymore.

  2. Arcanist is one of the weakest classes for these shenanigans because much of the best lifegain, carddraw and conjuration toolkit is red or green. Arcanist archetypes are powerful but not quite as flexible.

cosmic terrace
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Arcanist struggles because a vast majority of Core/Core Extended Arcanist commons/uncommons just suck

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Especially the raw damage ones

floral bison
fluid gorge
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Yesterday my cursed Wands were not being eaten, today they are. What happened?

fluid gorge
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Should have left it til the end of the week

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To keep an even playing field

crystal sphinx
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My first Cursed Cauldron run on normal was my first W.
Only used it maybe 3 times the whole game but was able to get the cards I needed for an easy run.
Also worth noting that the force wand as a basic attack is surprisingly powerful.
Got a memorized twin lightning early and used it with hidden pouch + force wand to win every fight.

ripe yoke
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Trying to catch up now

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Congrats

crystal sphinx
# ripe yoke Congrats

I hope you saw my comment before I deleted it.
Either way, good luck man, happy grinding!

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It seems that you can defeat the limitations imposed by seeded randomness by using the cauldron.
Different fights give different transmutes

misty meteor
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Whenever you transmute a card, the random card selection for transmutes is reset. At least that is how I understood it.

warped grail
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all RNG within combat is not seeded, so transmutes, delves, etc can still be scummed there

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(I tried to convince Reya to seed the combat rng but he likes the pure randomness of it)

misty meteor
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Mariora the Stout
e_int Arcanist [XLII]
πŸ’€πŸ’€ [Challenging]


πŸ† Total score: 9890
πŸ”₯ Most damage: 165
πŸ‘‘ Deck value: 720
πŸͺ™ Gold remaining: 1105
πŸ• Duration: 04:43:01

βš”οΈ Crooked Wand
πŸš€ Witching Hour
🎲 A1562B6089
dante Version 1.14.01

Malignances (130%)
Healthy (15%)
Sanguine (15%)
Melchors Touch (15%)
Needy (35%)
Eternal Hunger (50%)

Bosses slain: Mudfang Kingpin II, Count Vesparin, General Ral-Dagar, Dawnbringer Solspear, Gorn Tagdahar, Priest of Agony, Lord of Despair

Decklist (38)
1x Amphibify
1x Aurora Prism
1x Chaos Nova
1x Charged Wand [+6]
1x Code of Hope
1x Coven of Chaos
1x Coven's Sight
1x Crooked Wand [+7]
1x Cursed Cauldron
1x Cursed Puzzlebox
2x Dark Inquiry
2x Eldritch Binding
4x Fellblast
1x Fire Shield
1x Frost Nova
1x Glimpse of Evil
1x Grimoire of Fire
1x Hymn of Light
1x Hymn of Penance
2x Hymn of Power
1x Hymn of Vitality
1x Hymn of Vitality III
2x Occult Secrets
1x Occultism
1x Recite
1x Rewind
1x Sanguine Casting
1x Simulacrum
1x Surge of Intellect
1x Time is Money
1x Witching Hour

Imbues (2)
Crone's Recipe
Renewing Insights

Talents (12)
Familiar Weapon
Arcane Library
Pragmatism
Devotion
Zealous
Sacred Shield
Fire Resistance
Starlit Dance
Skylars Kiss
Emporium Discount
Fortuitous
Strong Arms

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Score: 16804
+6914 Bonus Points

misty meteor
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This turned out okay I guess but I will not become a fan of Melchors Touch anytime soon. Trying to find certain cards without Transmutations is so frustrating.

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I thought I could transmute the potions from Crone's Recipe with my Cauldron but these potions never transmute to Grimoires, sadly. In the end I did find one trick that worked: Recite a Hymn and send the free copy through the Cursed Cauldron. Sadly I got it only online shortly before the finish line.

ripe yoke
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The hymm transmutes to grimoires?

ripe yoke
crystal sphinx
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Faewand is chaotic when cursed. Couldn't find a definition of 'chaotic' on blightbane.
It means swaps to random basic, perhaps?

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Like the malignancy

icy sun
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how did you get this

cloud sparrow
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^Faerytales Talent

floral bison
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I'm sure most people here have already figured this out. But there is a guaranteed way to get 4 of the 5 grimoires throughout the run 😜 One specific one requires some shop luck or via the Grimoire talent, but the other 4 can be gained in a much more reliable way.
I'll leave it at that to not spoil too much.

misty meteor
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I haven't. I know the unreliable way via Transmuting Black Rares and the unreliable way by copying a certain purple Legendary. But guaranteed grimoires I have not yet found.

warped grail
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Is it Imps Everywhere? I assume Infernal Racket had a really good chance of transmuting to the books

misty meteor
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According to blightbane.io, Imps Everywhere also transmutes to Brown Legendaries, not the Black ones.

warped grail
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Tested it. Looks like cursed cauldron and imps everywhere can give you the books

misty meteor
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Huh. Good to know. Always worth remembering that blightbane.io is super useful but not yet official canonπŸ˜…

warped grail
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Yeah the transmute logic on Blightbane isn’t perfect. I don’t think the devs actually shared their code with him so it’s just his best attempt to copy the game behavior

floral bison
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Imps transmute either gives you 3 Grimoires or 2 Grimoires and the Sanguine shield.

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So each visit to Theresa is basically a guaranteed book.
Except the Grimoire of taste which is not a blood card.

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Funny that after you have all the Grimoires, the transmute options go completely bananas

warped grail
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Yeah the cook book is a red banner

warped grail
floral bison
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Yeah πŸ˜‚

cloud sparrow
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Book of Bananas?

crystal sphinx
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You can also get Infernal Contract from transmuting Imps.

crystal sphinx
# ripe yoke What comment?

Here you go:
Imps + cauldron = 4 grimoires and Infernal Contract.
Imps also makes force wands lethal and quick, puts witching hour to shame.
Only real concern is staying healthy. Recite + hidden pouch did the trick for me.

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Also get corrupted ASAP so you can make use of Infernal Contract.

proper juniperBOT
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GG @crystal sphinx, you just advanced to level 7!

crystal sphinx
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The bleeding malignancy makes you vulnerable af tho.
The only run I finished I had Infernal Contract memorized and Lifelink imbued.

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Raven Familiar + Imps is great

ripe yoke
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I'm trying to stay alive

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Always got my ass beaten up by Bolgar

floral bison
# ripe yoke Always got my ass beaten up by Bolgar

The faeries help against Bolgar if you can spam enough in the beginning of the fight.
Remember that the equipment refreshes every time you play a wand, so you can play it like 3 times already on turn 1 if you're lucky.

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(Also helps against the spine, but by then you'll be generating 20-30 faeries per turn!)

cloud sparrow
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If you get Eldritch Binding and have that cursed, 2 of those will give Bolgar 2 Jinx

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If you have Vexing Echoes, thats potentially 4 Jinxs

floral bison
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Vexing Echoes feel so broken I wonder if it will get nerfed. The copies being completely free snowballs hard in the end

cloud sparrow
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There's nothing wrong with Vexing Echoes in my opinion

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Also, Arcanist has the conjuration mechanic from simulacrum, prestige, recast and now with corruptions

wet heath
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after running some tests: eternal hunger can no longer be combined with needy, scarcity, nor melachors touch...however, there are a lot of new 40% (and a 45%) malignecies

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@floral bison @misty meteor @crystal sphinx @fiery seal @cinder crown

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@last turret

charred cobalt
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Me: let's try out the new malignancies. Also me:

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Eleanor the Exodist
e_int Arcanist [XLII]
πŸ’€ [Normal]


πŸ† Total score: 300
πŸ”₯ Most damage: 8
πŸ‘‘ Deck value: 55
πŸͺ™ Gold remaining: 64
πŸ• Duration: 00:07:11

βš”οΈ Crooked Wand
πŸš€ Witching Hour
🎲 E87C516CD2
dante Version 1.14.03

Malignances (100%)
Creeping Darkness (10%)
Healthy (15%)
Sanguine (15%)
Vicious Reprisal (25%)
Unbound Vodou (35%)

Slain by: Sharpclaw Raven

Decklist (11)
2x Block
2x Charged Wand [+1]
1x Charged Wand [+2]
2x Crooked Wand [+1]
1x Raven Familiar
2x Surge of Intellect
1x Witching Hour

Talents (1)
Familiar Weapon

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Score: 2700
+2400 Bonus Points

last turret
misty meteor
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Farewell Needy Hunger, we had a successful time but it became a bit monotonous towards the end. Time to find new overpriced combinations to exploit.

warped grail
last turret
warped grail
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I really like Unbound Vodou. It turns the game into Russian Roulette where you could just die on any turn lol

misty meteor
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I think giving all enemies First Strike is a bit overpriced at 45%. Dangerous, yes. But not as severely limiting as most of the other top options.

spice vortex
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I like that it will definitely spice things up - many more options for weeklies now as required Affixes

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That one is another one that will break Memorized a lot of the time aside from Bonfire with enemies that add stuff to your deck

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Not just the trapper πŸ˜›

misty meteor
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The meta for score optimization has definitely become a lot less streamlined with that. The next few weeks are going to be wild.

eager scarab
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Oooooooo

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They implemented my suggestion for Eternal Hunger!

eager scarab
ripe yoke
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I think this malignancies setup is the new meta

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I'm afraid I can't try another run in this challenge. I'm a rather slow paced player

cosmic terrace
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And you could jusg straight up imbue it

fallen stirrup
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Finallyyyyy

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Kilian the Wretched
e_int Arcanist [XXXVIII]
πŸ’€πŸ’€πŸ’€πŸ’€ [Impossible]


πŸ† Total score: 18745
πŸ”₯ Most damage: 168
πŸ‘‘ Deck value: 270
πŸͺ™ Gold remaining: 1198
eye_spine Spine damage: 4740
πŸ• Duration: 04:30:57

βš”οΈ Crooked Wand
πŸš€ Witching Hour
🎲 AFC666A903
dante Version 1.14.02

Malignances (130%)
Healthy (15%)
Sanguine (15%)
Melchors Touch (15%)
Needy (35%)
Eternal Hunger (50%)

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

Decklist (22)
1x Amphibify
2x Brainstorm
1x Clarity
1x Coven of Chaos
1x Coven's Sight
1x Crone's Recipe
2x Demonology
4x Eldritch Binding
1x Fast Forward
1x Fellblast [+1]
1x Fleeting Thoughts
1x Glimpse of Evil
2x Occult Secrets
1x Raven Familiar
1x Surge of Intellect
1x Witching Hour

Imbues (2)
Painful Inquiry
Occultism

Talents (16)
Familiar Weapon
Stormscarred
Arcane Library
Collector
Greater Intellect
Diamond Mind
Emporium Discount
Infuse Power
Profane Ward
Skylars Kiss
Deal with the Devil
Fortuitous
Purity
Blessing of Serem-Pek
Bloodbank
Watched

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Score: 25893
+7148 Bonus Points

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Achievement unlocked by civclra:

Gain the talent Emporium Discount.

fallen stirrup
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Almost lost the run to a greedy random talent from succubus giving me purity and losing my fellblasts and grimoire lol could have had a higher score

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Thought I had to rely on amphibify but painful inquire + occultism + stacked covens were enough most times

cloud sparrow
charred cobalt
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Kazzak Desmond
e_int Arcanist [XLII]
πŸ’€ [Normal]


πŸ† Total score: 5362
πŸ”₯ Most damage: 39
πŸ‘‘ Deck value: 355
πŸͺ™ Gold remaining: 864
πŸ• Duration: 04:21:53

βš”οΈ Crooked Wand
πŸš€ Witching Hour
🎲 0BA5354143
dante Version 1.14.03

Malignances (95%)
Healthy (15%)
Sanguine (15%)
Melchors Touch (15%)
Brittle Weapons (20%)
Haunted (30%)

Bosses slain: The Pale Warden, Garvin Greaves, Bolgar Blightbane, Serena Hellspark, Melchor the Cursed, Statue of Ilthar III, Lord of Despair

Decklist (26)
2x Anyform Claw
3x Charged Wand
1x Coven of Chaos
1x Coven's Sight
2x Crooked Wand
1x Eldritch Binding
2x Fellblast
1x Glimpse of Evil
1x Greed
1x Grimoire of Hate
1x Infernal Racket
1x Occult Secrets
1x Occultism
1x Painful Inquiry
1x Sanguine Casting
1x Staff of Thunder
2x Surge of Intellect
1x Vile Blast
1x Witching Hour
1x Witness True Evil

Imbues (2)
Lifelink
Crone's Recipe

Talents (15)
Familiar Weapon
Arcane Library
Compassionate
Quick Study
Redemption
Greater Intellect
Endless Arsenal
Firebrand
Bloodbank
Deal with the Devil
Profane Ward
Weapon Virtuoso
Blessing of Serem-Pek
Sacred Shield
Fortuitous

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Score: 11594
+6232 Bonus Points

warped grail
fallen stirrup
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cosmic terrace
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I armchair diagnose you with BPD