he isnt asking if he can go over 3 energy, he's asking if he can go over the cap, like 5/3 energy or 7/3 energy, etc. he should still know this because he's done it a bunch, but still
I just had a corruption, dark embrace, dual wield-feel no pain run with runic pyramid, barricade and double body slam. Earned 999 block against two repulsors :D
Yeah can’t really have an exhaust deck if you’re willing to throw away good cards just to do three damage, you gotta know what to drop and what to hold on to
NL Perfected strike dosnt just key off of the base "Strike" card it also works with any card with Strike in the name, so other Perfected Strikes, Pommel Strikes, Twin Strikes, and Wild Strike
At about 49:14 against the Champ he had a free Havoc+ into a Seeing Red with the only consequence being it would exhaust Seeing Red, a card that gets exhausted on use anyway, which then would have given him the 2 energy needed to the play the last card in his hand Sever Soul and deal an additional 16 damage plus the 3 from exhausting Seeing Red. I try to avoid commenting on specific misplays cause sh*t happens, but this one made me want to slam my face into a wall repeatedly. Mostly because I ‘thought’ he knew what he was doing when he played his cards in the order he did.
25:05 when you see the easy pommel strik play, and then proceed to watch egg fumble his way through and manage exhaust his hand to victory. Mad respect
You do not have to permanently exhaust GOOD cards to do 3 damage ONCE... by transforming Strikes and Defends, you removed your best target for exhaust synergy without also going for a Wound Deck. Also, Bent Spoon and Broken Stick are what makes exhaust focus worth it. Chiron's is a benefit, but don't overcompensate it. There is no point in "Removing Card" at the store when you literally do that every combat. The longer the combat, the smaller your deck. And finally, Sever Soul does not require you to exhaust anything. Play it last.
That fight against the guardian sphere was the most triggering thing I've seen. I didn't think it was possible to misplay that many cards that many times.
53:15 Havoc was actually arguably very good because you had already upgraded most of the cards in your deck and you could've upgraded searing blow again (and used it that turn) and exhausted a low-value defend from your deck (because remember, once all of your cards are upgraded armaments is no better than a base defend) and thus gained more momentum for the fight.
The deck was wonky, yeah, but it was totally workable. You lost that boss fight because you didn't think about what you were exhausting and ran out of block cards. Also, now we know not to replace 5 of our 7-ish attack cards with random nonsense. Pandora's box is good when you have a 20 card deck and don't care about your standard stuff, otherwise you spend your entire run desperately trying to plug holes instead of building synergy.
Lion... If you have some cards, that's exhaust all non-attack cards and give you block, maybe you want more other cards that can give you non-attack cards? Wounds for example.
NL rests way too much. You don't need 70hp for the floor 1 boss. 50hp will work just fine make your deck better instead. Especially in a deck like this that had a bunch of cards that are pretty bad until they're upgraded then they get super good.
Exhausts synergy deck, or any deck really, doesn't mean filling the deck with as many cards that has the key word (exhaust in this case). You need different elements. In this one you had two debuff cards, one power, huge offence, better than basic defense, some draw and multiple exhaust cards. The defense went quickly to 0 in a prolonged fight of course. You know, because you blocked by exhausting blocks. What could have saved this run was the dead branch relic but without it this is a kamikaze deck. Even then it is unstable though a very fun deck.
During round one of the boss, he could have played the free havoc to get 2 energy from seeing red, which he could then have used to sever soul. 3 + 3 + 16 damage. But "we don't want that". Why. Why.
Just be glad it wasn't Nightmare+ lightening in a bottle and Afterimage and all of the insanity that comes with it. I think NL would actually have his brain melt from what you have to do to really get that insanity rolling.
Havoc's not bad. It's actually pretty good in his deck due to the warcries, headbutts, and high costed cards. It also gets significantly better with Frozen Eye. It's just bad because NL is the one piloting the deck.
Havoc is NOT bad. Havoc can thin weak cards out of your deck (strike, defend) and also play huge hitters for free like Heavy Blade in a strength deck or an upgraded Searing Blow. it's a good situational card
I don't think it works like that; don't you have to play a card for rupture to work (once combust is played doesn't it then count as you losing health to a "power")?
46:40 Exhausts Dark Shackles just to do 3 damage a couple of turns earlier that he otherwise would have by playing that card as its meant to be played. And then he wonders why he can't consistently win.
"armamanets gives us 5 block, metalicize gives us 3.." all well and good except metalicize would have healed for 2 and been better if the fight had went longer.
Died because of countless misplays, exhaust synergy is really good if you pay attention to every card in ur hand instead of seeing one card and ignoring the rest -_- just hope you learn to be more perceptice of what's in your deck, don't rush through is my advice
Yes but is pretty hard to get. 4 tries to get the card (i want the achivment) and i get it bc i seerch on every merchant. I feel the most you unloock the hardest is to get a type deck
Fighting The Champ he fails to play the Havoc for the free Seeing Red, into the Sever Soul, because he thinks it doesn't exhaust normally... My brain hurts as he is literally blind... perhaps I should send him my glasses, anyone got a PO box address to send him things? ...Then he fails to just Dual Wield into Sever Soul... playing some nonsense Havoc + Headbutt nonsense... My soul and spire have been slain/made flaccid by these plays... Along with the earlier dumping of Metalicize instead of dumping the extra Havoc/Warcry or immolate since he wouldn't even use that properly x_x
5:40 o my god NL's alzheimer made him forget that he had immolate the fight before it instead of this one, but HE ACTUALLY GOT THE SAME CARD AGAIN WHILE HE WAS TALKING ABOUT IT ... 27:10 he did it again??
NL if you get the option to have your 3 first fights at 1 hp for enemies, you can check the map on the top right corner and maybe cheese an elite for a free relic depending on the path
I want to get some achivments (4 left to get). SO what type of deck need to get: OTK boss. 25 cards played on 1 trun. (i guess some discard deck or shiv) Win a combat without playing atak (i guess the only way is poison?)
i don t think i want to try it with a specific reliks bc is hard to get the one you want. And feels exausting xD. OTK boss don t have any idea i guess i need relics with energy and the silenc.
for 1 turn killing the boss you can do it with a really trimmed deck and cards that can draw for essentially zero, like flash of steel and something that can draw it back, still needs quite a bit of luck to get something like that and survive long enough to make it infinite. (And it's exhausting as it requires you to play first and maybe part of the second act with a really bad deck, finally did it with shadow form, escape plan and 0 mana colorless draw card that i forgot the name of). There are probably other ways but that was the easiest i could come up with without relying on relics It would also get you the 25 cards in a turn, Otherwise escape plan and generally card draw heavy deck is good for that. Shivs can help but they do exhaust and don't give additional cards. And the win without attacking is pretty easy with caltrops and poison.
I honestly don't think not seeing enemys intents is that bad. I tend to play just the best turn possible instead of reacting to the enemy. 2 wins so far and only one unfortunate loss.
The deck was great for crowd control, but you just never picked up more damage cards to take out the tanks. I feel like it could have worked you just weren't getting the right cards at shops all in all though good run and you tried a new play style.
I actually really enjoyed the deck building in this one. I think there were some missed synergies but it was fun to watch. Also I think this deck build has a really strong first few turns but runs our of gas ("see: options") when you start mass exhausting skills and defends without replenishing them with dupe cards. I think a skill dupe card would have been the key to making this deck full circle.
Legends say when world ends there still will be Slay the Spire episodes uploading due to backlog
16:35 "can we even go over our energy cap?"
My dude's up to episode 38 and he is questioning whether he can go over three energy.
he isnt asking if he can go over 3 energy, he's asking if he can go over the cap, like 5/3 energy or 7/3 energy, etc.
he should still know this because he's done it a bunch, but still
That's what the comment is saying, Mahrtyre. Smfh lol
C'mon Mahrtyre, he literally quotes "can we even go over our energy cap?" in his comment. Obviously he's talking about going over the cap of 3 energy.
"I think I want an exhaust synergy"
-skips Corruption-
Sick. Plays. Egg.
I just had a corruption, dark embrace, dual wield-feel no pain run with runic pyramid, barricade and double body slam. Earned 999 block against two repulsors :D
Is corruption any good though? It's probably the only card in the game I don't see good use for, it just seems too suicidal to me.
Infernal blade into bludgeon “wow.”
Infernal blade into bludgeon “Wow.”
"CAN WE GO OVER OUR ENERGY CAP?" EGGG PLS you've played this sooo many times
Yeah can’t really have an exhaust deck if you’re willing to throw away good cards just to do three damage, you gotta know what to drop and what to hold on to
NL Perfected strike dosnt just key off of the base "Strike" card it also works with any card with Strike in the name, so other Perfected Strikes, Pommel Strikes, Twin Strikes, and Wild Strike
Rathios1337 I dont think so
Pena Power well you're wrong
But i'm not tho, check the wiki..........
So i just started to watch this episode and i'm getting a suicide prevention ad, how convenient
At about 49:14 against the Champ he had a free Havoc+ into a Seeing Red with the only consequence being it would exhaust Seeing Red, a card that gets exhausted on use anyway, which then would have given him the 2 energy needed to the play the last card in his hand Sever Soul and deal an additional 16 damage plus the 3 from exhausting Seeing Red. I try to avoid commenting on specific misplays cause sh*t happens, but this one made me want to slam my face into a wall repeatedly. Mostly because I ‘thought’ he knew what he was doing when he played his cards in the order he did.
25:05 when you see the easy pommel strik play, and then proceed to watch egg fumble his way through and manage exhaust his hand to victory.
Mad respect
You do not have to permanently exhaust GOOD cards to do 3 damage ONCE... by transforming Strikes and Defends, you removed your best target for exhaust synergy without also going for a Wound Deck.
Also, Bent Spoon and Broken Stick are what makes exhaust focus worth it. Chiron's is a benefit, but don't overcompensate it.
There is no point in "Removing Card" at the store when you literally do that every combat. The longer the combat, the smaller your deck.
And finally, Sever Soul does not require you to exhaust anything. Play it last.
49:25 uhh, Seeing Red exhausts itself when played anyways?
A card that makes all skills free is too slow... You scrambled this egg
"exhausts infernal blade"
Northern : "I can live with it."
Me : " BUT I FUCKING CAN'T!"
Topdeck 64 damage for 0 energy. Wow.
more like topkek 😎
This is one of the best series you've done. I love it and I'm glad it's 2 eps a day 🙂
exhaust decks are one of the iron clads strongest archetypes that is if you dont exhaust all of your block on turns hes not attacking...
That fight against the guardian sphere was the most triggering thing I've seen. I didn't think it was possible to misplay that many cards that many times.
53:15 Havoc was actually arguably very good because you had already upgraded most of the cards in your deck and you could've upgraded searing blow again (and used it that turn) and exhausted a low-value defend from your deck (because remember, once all of your cards are upgraded armaments is no better than a base defend) and thus gained more momentum for the fight.
35:20
Gets 300 gold, misses a shop where he could buy relics.
Come on NL
4:40 my brain actually exploded from that block play
This deck really needed the 1 energy card that adds Wounds and draws an extra card per Wound drawn.
Evolve, yeah. Also power throughs and wild strikes, which he passed up at least 2 wild strikes... ugh.
Removes metalicitze instead of a cure.
Totally buches havoc.
Still strikes before applying vulnerable.
It's like a bad habbit now.
habbit
Hobbit
He got purity, which is the achievement where you have 3 or less cards in your deck at any time. LOL almost didn't realize he was out of cards.
Egg Egg
You are an Egg
When my Spire you slay
You make my day
1 run per ep
our boi grows stronger
Cheaty Hotbeef slowly but surely
*Goes into room.*
*Turns off lights*
*”AYERREYBODY!”*
Cthulhu Because Why Not this actually made me laugh so hard after I pieced it together and envisioned it happening
He's playing the build from Jan 4, nice 20 day backlog.
Wow, he got purity without meaning to. I didn't think that was possible.
Purity is an achievement for exhausting all but 3 cards in your entire deck.
"Play 5 cards a turn, 10 dmg to all enemies" would have been so good here. Thats like 20 dmg each turn with those angers and havocs
Hey NL, love this series :) great job on the previous si;lent run!
Gets an exaust card before the run begins
"I don't know what type of archetipe this card enables"
LEEEETS GOOOO
(Pardon my bad english)
Lets Go! Almost a full hour of pain and agony, punish me harder daddy!
The deck was wonky, yeah, but it was totally workable. You lost that boss fight because you didn't think about what you were exhausting and ran out of block cards. Also, now we know not to replace 5 of our 7-ish attack cards with random nonsense. Pandora's box is good when you have a 20 card deck and don't care about your standard stuff, otherwise you spend your entire run desperately trying to plug holes instead of building synergy.
That Northernlion luck when he drew 2 bludgeons tho.
Exhaust synergy is actually amazing, you just had garbage cards
Fiend Fire would have made this run so good
Lion... If you have some cards, that's exhaust all non-attack cards and give you block, maybe you want more other cards that can give you non-attack cards? Wounds for example.
Lokk Pik hmm interesting strategy I think this might be too difficult a concept for an egg to grasp :D
NL rests way too much. You don't need 70hp for the floor 1 boss. 50hp will work just fine make your deck better instead. Especially in a deck like this that had a bunch of cards that are pretty bad until they're upgraded then they get super good.
Loving this series ehgg
Exhausts synergy deck, or any deck really, doesn't mean filling the deck with as many cards that has the key word (exhaust in this case). You need different elements. In this one you had two debuff cards, one power, huge offence, better than basic defense, some draw and multiple exhaust cards. The defense went quickly to 0 in a prolonged fight of course. You know, because you blocked by exhausting blocks.
What could have saved this run was the dead branch relic but without it this is a kamikaze deck. Even then it is unstable though a very fun deck.
That was actually hilarious xD Definitely my favourite episode so far
Love how the Second Wind art references the cover art of Witcher 3
49:25 _"And then this will play seeing red, and exhaust it, which we don't really want to do"_
But why?
I think he meant that there was no need to play seeing red, exhaust or not. So the emphasis is on the play, not on the exhaust.
Why would he not want to play seeing red?
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You what egg?
Oh look, he chose *T R A N S F O R M* once an egg, always an egg.
NL outplayed himself
I think once you've really mastered all the enemies and their typical strategy that intent no longer matters
During round one of the boss, he could have played the free havoc to get 2 energy from seeing red, which he could then have used to sever soul. 3 + 3 + 16 damage. But "we don't want that". Why. Why.
He would rather have an innate curse than a Metalicize. Makes sense.
1. Havoc is bad.
2. The complexity of this deck is a bit above your paygrade.
I'm glad you're taking more time for each of your decisions though.
Just be glad it wasn't Nightmare+ lightening in a bottle and Afterimage and all of the insanity that comes with it. I think NL would actually have his brain melt from what you have to do to really get that insanity rolling.
havoc isnt bad in the right deck, like pretty much every card
Havoc has great synergy with warcry and headbutt, especially when it's upgraded and costs 0
Havoc's not bad. It's actually pretty good in his deck due to the warcries, headbutts, and high costed cards. It also gets significantly better with Frozen Eye. It's just bad because NL is the one piloting the deck.
Havoc is NOT bad. Havoc can thin weak cards out of your deck (strike, defend) and also play huge hitters for free like Heavy Blade in a strength deck or an upgraded Searing Blow. it's a good situational card
26:25 can't believe he went that far out of his way when he could have just drawn pommel
using shock wave at any point would have been a win there
50:15 why cant the egg plan ahead, oh god...
26 minutes, "that was quite a puzzle." Not a puzzle, you aren't counting your energy my dude!
At 49:26 he totally could have Havoc'd into Seeing Red, gotten 2 free energy, and gone Sever Soul. The point of Havoc is it makes the next card free!
26:30 GET COMBUST WITH RUPTURE YOU MAD MAN
I don't think it works like that; don't you have to play a card for rupture to work (once combust is played doesn't it then count as you losing health to a "power")?
46:40 Exhausts Dark Shackles just to do 3 damage a couple of turns earlier that he otherwise would have by playing that card as its meant to be played. And then he wonders why he can't consistently win.
"Now Havoc plays a Cleave. Then the second Havoc plays a Havoc which plays a Cleave."
instead of paying 75 gold to remove the curse, lets instead pay 242 gold to lose 1 health to remove the curse every first turn, makes complete sense
AND deal 3 damage. 1 hp deal 3 damage pogchamp
NL was trying to force a synergy with the card that if you trash a curse deal 10 damage.
I can't believe he trashed metallize in a deck that exhausts skill cards, long term leaving him without block. Genius.
26:24 "that was quite a puzzle" NL is actually brain dead
Schaftermath i kept saying "headbutt to bring back pommel, warcry to draw it, anger and pommel and there dead." But nope.
*draws cleave*
*dumps cleave bc he wants to do 3 exhaust damage instead*
"armamanets gives us 5 block, metalicize gives us 3.." all well and good except metalicize would have healed for 2 and been better if the fight had went longer.
NL's pronunciation of charon LUL "SHARON"
Died because of countless misplays, exhaust synergy is really good if you pay attention to every card in ur hand instead of seeing one card and ignoring the rest -_- just hope you learn to be more perceptice of what's in your deck, don't rush through is my advice
NL, you need the branch relic that gives you cards for each exhausted card
Doubt it
(Loving this series, Ryab)
Guys I’ve SEEN the light? My dude NL has become such a capable StS player he can play at mach speed on stream and still do decent.
You had corruption handed to you on a silver plater on an exhaust focused run and you didn't take it. Why egg?
Corruption + stick is AMAZING
Too Slow! xD
got the game 2 days ago and the 3 times I got corruption I won. I don't even know what makes it so good lol but it always seems to work
15:35 excuse me what? That’s some pretty nice RNG
Lion Luck strikes again
the bludgeons
15:30 egg u must be fking joking me
What happens if you exhaust your whole deck?
well that was... an interesting run, to say the least..
Afterbirth+ is finally out!
Man he didn't take the rupture combust combo :(
26:25 , no it wasnt a puzzle, anger > headbutt > pick pommel strike > warcry > play pommel
-Louky its a very good puzzle if you are egg
“It wasn’t s puzzle because I knew the answer.” Is a pretty bad argument my man.
it wasnt a puzzle because the answer was really obvious
That turn was too puzzling for NL.
Is baricade still in the game i never found it?
Yes but is pretty hard to get. 4 tries to get the card (i want the achivment) and i get it bc i seerch on every merchant.
I feel the most you unloock the hardest is to get a type deck
my guy, the misplays in this episode are BOGus. BOGUS my guy.
This is what I hate
NL - gets a relic (+2hp at the beginning of each fight) Not that good
NL- gets a curse, the curse is fine
Wow, Sentries got hard nerfed. Didn't know that they gave wounds at one point.
Fighting The Champ he fails to play the Havoc for the free Seeing Red, into the Sever Soul, because he thinks it doesn't exhaust normally... My brain hurts as he is literally blind... perhaps I should send him my glasses, anyone got a PO box address to send him things?
...Then he fails to just Dual Wield into Sever Soul... playing some nonsense Havoc + Headbutt nonsense... My soul and spire have been slain/made flaccid by these plays... Along with the earlier dumping of Metalicize instead of dumping the extra Havoc/Warcry or immolate since he wouldn't even use that properly x_x
24:55 - Way to overthink an easy kill NL
5:40 o my god NL's alzheimer made him forget that he had immolate the fight before it instead of this one, but HE ACTUALLY GOT THE SAME CARD AGAIN WHILE HE WAS TALKING ABOUT IT
...
27:10 he did it again??
Alzheimer or future sight we shall never know
15:39 holy shit
NL if you get the option to have your 3 first fights at 1 hp for enemies, you can check the map on the top right corner and maybe cheese an elite for a free relic depending on the path
saevin11 he knows, hes done it b4
nothernlion would you say it is worth geting slay the spire
I would say so and NL really seems to be enjoying it, so I reckon he'd agree.
he's doing two episodes a day, that should be all you need to know.
How has he got worse (in some regards)
"Your epidermis is showing" cmon daddy egg
Not usually one to care about misplays but... Dual wield the heavy blade you egg
Feel like he was completely forgetting about Dual-Wield + Fire-Breathing. Had he kept that in mind, I feel like it would've been a much easier run.
I want to get some achivments (4 left to get). SO what type of deck need to get:
OTK boss.
25 cards played on 1 trun. (i guess some discard deck or shiv)
Win a combat without playing atak (i guess the only way is poison?)
You can also do it with juggernaut(deals damage after every block) and discard synergies(tingsha deals 3 damage for every card discarded)
Roger Guillem I got the win a combat without attacking by getting Neow's Lament and caltrops. You could also use poison though
i don t think i want to try it with a specific reliks bc is hard to get the one you want. And feels exausting xD.
OTK boss don t have any idea i guess i need relics with energy and the silenc.
for 1 turn killing the boss you can do it with a really trimmed deck and cards that can draw for essentially zero, like flash of steel and something that can draw it back, still needs quite a bit of luck to get something like that and survive long enough to make it infinite. (And it's exhausting as it requires you to play first and maybe part of the second act with a really bad deck, finally did it with shadow form, escape plan and 0 mana colorless draw card that i forgot the name of). There are probably other ways but that was the easiest i could come up with without relying on relics
It would also get you the 25 cards in a turn, Otherwise escape plan and generally card draw heavy deck is good for that. Shivs can help but they do exhaust and don't give additional cards.
And the win without attacking is pretty easy with caltrops and poison.
Jesus christ man if you're never going to use dual wield or double tap to actually double an attack just don't put it in your deck lmfao
havoc looks good, playing a 3 card for 1 is a risk and reward, it's got uses
I honestly don't think not seeing enemys intents is that bad. I tend to play just the best turn possible instead of reacting to the enemy. 2 wins so far and only one unfortunate loss.
The deck was great for crowd control, but you just never picked up more damage cards to take out the tanks. I feel like it could have worked you just weren't getting the right cards at shops all in all though good run and you tried a new play style.
Hour episode, lets gooooo
Egg. Charon is Greek. Not French. It's pronounced Karon.
He's done it the worlds worst Pandora's box
Fun to watch. Thumbs up
my dog Nl this was recorded on the 4th what is a back log go on vacation and just upload slay the spire for a week
james adair it's because he's the RUclips equivalent of a sweatshop lol
Well, he did say a while ago that he was recording far too much of it instead of doing No Oxygen Included...
Guess know we know to what extent.
Fusionv4 turns out its actually tomo playing
How do you know it was recorded on the 4th? Isn't the date just the date the patch was released?
Elvicto at the start the video the day is shown by the games beta build notification at the bottom
holy crap NL got Bludgeon 3 times in a row with Infernal Blade... I don't think I've gotten Bludgeon from infernal Blade... Ever actually.
I actually really enjoyed the deck building in this one. I think there were some missed synergies but it was fun to watch. Also I think this deck build has a really strong first few turns but runs our of gas ("see: options") when you start mass exhausting skills and defends without replenishing them with dupe cards. I think a skill dupe card would have been the key to making this deck full circle.