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by cableshaft 2154 days ago
I had 1 Loop+, 2 Defragments, and 1 Capacitor that last game I lost this morning :) I got 'All for One' as my random rare card to start with, so I was doing my best to get a bunch of 0 cost cards, and I also ended up with 2 relics that let me pick cards to shuffle in every battle (Nilry's Codex and the Toolbox), along with a Jack of All Trades card, so I got to pick cards to help whatever my situation was each battle and turn.

But I was a little too weak on my defense that go (had some frost generation, but not enough), and I made a dumb mistake attacking the Masked Bandits instead of losing all my gold, who did 50 damage to me before I killed them, bringing me down to 18 health, then I couldn't get to a campfire until I fought 3 more regular enemies, and the next enemy brought me down 6 more, then the second enemy after that got me down the other 12. Oops.
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moomin 2153 days ago
Ouch, that's a nice deck, but I suspect I wouldn't have bothered with the 0 cost cards (Silent's 0 cost cards are amazing, Defect's are meh). Glacier I _highly_ recommend. Autoshield and Stack are great too. (These two are brilliant for surviving early turns before you've got enough frost up.) Use your upgrades on Defragment, then Loop. Upgrading Zap and/or Dualcast from your starter deck is great because they become zero-cost. Creative AI, especially upgraded is amazing. Oh, and don't sleep on Biased Cognition. You can only use it right at the end of a battle, but it can end a battle very quickly. (Unless you've got a source of artifact,

I'm a bit tapped out at A8, but it's amazing how the base game goes from nailbitingly impossible to seeming pretty straightforward. (The mechanics contribute to this: the easier a battle is, the more upgrades you do and the more likely you are to grab an elite relic.)

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Riverheart 2154 days ago
I finally beat defect using, among other things, darkness plus recursion. It never occurred to me that recursion would retain the power generated by the dark orb you just evoked. All for One to pull upgraded 0 cost recursions to hand.
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moomin 2153 days ago
Nice. Darkness+Recursion is quite nice in the base game, but I've never found it very effective in Ascension. (I'm sure someone with more experience could analyze why, exactly.)

Good luck with Watcher. The biggest advice here is: play it safe until you have multiple cards to get out of wrath. Watcher is super-powerful and _very_ easy to mess up.

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