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So using my newfound technique of Not Flooding My Deck With Crap, I actually won the next Epilogue 15 pair pretty handily. Lots of defense and utility with Sorocco - and he could get off one or two really big attacks on occasion by charging up with Headbangs - and I let Fugoro handle damage by using Mark and Enchant Staff. Ended up really working well, even though like… it’s still hard for me to see howthese card combinations work?

Like I definitely have an understanding of a lot of the game’s physics but I’m still bad at the math and multiplication part. You go from doing 7 damage at a time to enemies with like 50 health to taking on bosses with 800 HP, and you turn these like 3 damage cards into five times their damage numbers, sometimes more. It’s wild to me how it works and how you can just… build on everything so much.

I very much enjoy it. 

Anyway, like. This was it. This was the last pair, too. I’ve now completed every challenge at Epilogue 15 - and one above - and now all I really have to do is farm some events. I know which one I’m missing in particular, it’s the stupid Chrysalis event, I haven’t gotten the second half of it yet.

Look how bad my streak ratio is. My W-L must be like 1:10 or something terrible like that. But I think that just goes to show that as long as you pick away at things, you’ll eventually improve with practice. And this game was a lot of fun, and remainsa lot of fun. It’s great for getting my brain to slow down before bed, I just put on a YouTube video in the background and play.

I’m looking forwards to how they improve and add to it in the future. The one thing I will say is that it doesn’t feel completely finishedas of yet, like there should be something more.

Still, great game as it stands, and I’m still super into it. Can’t recommend it enough, really, if you like strategy and deckbuilding.

Hey so like guess who FINALLY learned not to take every single card he sees?

Me. It’s me. 

I was having a lot of trouble with Fugoro and Sharra. And uh. Then literally the first run I don’t take every single card I come across I won. Built a deck based around having a bajillion throwing knives and Dissolving lots of card for Ink Golem and it ended up working out really well. Could have even kept Fugoro alive at the end but did my math wrong, which is a constant issue for me.

I was really amazed though. Like, it didn’t feel like the deck should be this strong, but. It very much was. And spending less money on cards meant I was able to afford more gems and other fun things, so that also ended up making a huge diference in the long run.

It was also interesting to have Sharra more defensive, and concentrate on keeping the deck small, with a lot of one-time use cards like summons. Again, I’m usually a Big Deck Person, not small, so this was neat to learn more and get better with.

Maybe one day I’ll learn to play these games properly and just imagine how good I’ll be at them then.

Finally managed to get a Seifer and Sharra Ep 15 win.

Put together a horrible Summon / Power Dagger deck. Seifer would tank like 50 damage a battle and then just eat a bunch of Krog’s Dinners to heal, cackling as he did so. Sharra, meanwhile, would generate Courage and a lot of knives to block, and then chuck all the knives at the enemy once powered up enough to blow them away with raw damage + bleed.

Horribly effective. Even in the Greed fight, where I could not for the life of me switch Seifer to the front to actually take damage, but it ended up not mattering in the slightest as sword lady Got Mad and absolutely blasted Greed with Daggers and Thousand Cuts.

Ugh, this was hard to pull off, though. It retaught me about give and take and making sure that I covered as many bases as possible. It also reminded me that there’s a lot of ways to win: like, being thatcomfortable before a final boss is super rare for me. 

This is why the game is so good though: the map exploration aspect is really important to master, and sometimes it’s worth sacrificing health and even taking on those Oath curses to enhance your game. The only time I see myself choosing Training over the Full Map reveal in exchange for two Oaths is if I already had a potent deck and just needed a bit of extra power for one of my characters to really push it over the edge. Otherwise, getting 100% of the map revealed is just too powerful.

Two pairings left to do Epilogue 15 on! Lordt, damn my completionist desires.

Woo got my first win streak on Epilogue 15 it’s like I’m smart (not really).

I actually felt really bad about this deck earlier in Act I, but it really came together Act II and I had something really decent in Act III for Greed. I, too, was greedy, and took the Oath to the Emperor when it showed up as like my second-last narrative event, which gave me those curses but also let me wander around the entire map and eke out just enough gold to buy the two gems I wanted from the shop.

Absolutely nuked Greed with Blade Dance. This ended up being a ludicrously powerful mix of Bleed and Throwing Knives. Like they’re these tiny little 2 damage cards but with the right build you can make them ridiculously powerful and gather a truckload of them over the course of a fight.

Like, look at that, 18 damage for 0 and I don’t even have the Courage becomes Power modifier for Sharra, which I really wanted because I only missed one elite bonus for my Dragon Spirit so it was giving me like 6 Courage. 

Also, sidenote, Dragon Spirit with Primal Skull is definitely one of my favorites. I also used to put Kaleidoscopic Gem or Phasestone on Blade Twist but I see they got rid of that delightful atrocity and ruined the fun of just popping an enemy up to like 100 bleed over a few turns.

Still got there with Greed, though, thanks to Blood Stone and Gravity Gem on my Blade Dance. 

Yeah. Like, okay, my clear time is awful, almost three hours. To be fair, I played part of it in the morning, and the rest of it at night, so it’s not like I did this in one sitting. And I’m usually watching something and I never bother pausing when I have to leave for a moment. But I’m also learning to slow down instead of just hammering buttons and hoping for the best, and learning how interactions work and just how powerful these stupid little “add 1 for this” cards and abilities and treasures can be when you use them properly. That stupid oradrim censer or whatever it’s called saved my hide multiple times in this run with how many knives I was flinging at enemies.

So yeah. I’m a little proud of this one. The original pairing, who ironically took me ages to get a win with at first, and it was only Epilogue 3 at that! 

Amazing how it’s only taken me 150 hours to learn some of the game mechanics.

Still, I really love this game. It remains challenging, addictive, and a lot of fun.

This ended up being a stupid deck that was stupidly strong. Just constantly dancing back and forth drunk-punching enemies in the face. And unfortunately for the Avatar of Mist I just kept rolling slots - also why does Slot Machine sometimes become unplayable? - until I got Ink Blast and Ink Golem.

Basically the worst possible matchup for something that dissolves your deck.

It was a lot of fun, though, and really pushed me to use my brain to figure things out and abuse some of the mechanics. Double Phantasm combined with using Sips was actually surprisingly powerful, especially for getting rid of Stealthed enemies. Witstrike and Hammer of Destruction made for great damage nukes, too, and Time Stop absolutely saved my life a few times, especially now that I know the attack cycles for a lot of bosses and elites.

It’s like my brain is finally starting to actually understandthe game instead of using brute force and “let’s shove a bunch of cards together and see if it works!”