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I probably just suck with Ironclad, but while his rares are really strong, I feel the card pool is somewhat reliant on getting foundational cards to start building around. Silent has strong defense, and an easy path to a heart-kill strategy. But drawing Echo Form and Creative AI in the first 2 turns of Reptomancer? Not so great. Simple example: Have Echoform and Creative AI? Great for the heart. So stacking scaling can increase your % chance of beating the heart, while also reducing your % chance of simply winning the run.

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Watcher decks get really strong and consistent with just common and uncommon cards, so getting to the Act 3 boss happens more often.ĭefect has more paths to high scaling, making him better at building the synergies that will be needed for the heart-kill, but having a deck full of scaling cards typically means the deck is a slow-starter so you rack up chip-damage over the course of the run. Only picking up power and skill cards and only if they compliment my deck.

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If you can get a rainbow (all three orbs) card early and upgrade it doesn't exhaust, which is also amazing since it's 3 orbs for the cost of two energy.Īlso each time I can I like to discard the attack cards then remove the defense cards that start in your deck.

So I am just playing power cards that are making other cards free, often power cards, and basically each turn play power cards and skills that create and activate my orbs. Then I got two copies of the power card that creates a random power card at the start of each round. I also was lucky in my last run through and made got the card that hits everyone with lightning early and was able to bottle it so it would appear in my hand at the start. I have been lucky and gotten the artifact that makes a random card free. Just not enough defense from my couple of runs.ĭefect is amazing if you use power cards.

I won the basic run with three of the four and haven't made Silent work. I know this is an old post and only bricks4bread is likely to see this.ĭefect is my top character. He's also plagued by some genuinely very bad power cards like Heatsinks and Hello World and cards that appear to have synergy like Scrape and Reprogram, but actually have limited utility. It takes a little more work to get him to those big numbers than it does for the Silent or Watcher and he wants 4 energy or Snecko Eye for most of his builds.ĭefect - Although he has great Act 1 damage output, he scales the slowest of the characters and his defensive synergies aren't quite as strong (although Glacier is flat out nuts). Ironclad - He has a great offensive (Strength + multi hit moves/Heavy Blade) and defensive (Barricade/Entrench/Body Slam) scaling that is viable even late game. Mental Fortress, Talk to the Hand, and Like Water are good defensive cards with excellent synergies. Wrath (Tantrum) and Divinity give her amazing burst damage options. Watcher - Anything in Slay the Spire that says 'double' or 'triple' is generally nuts. Shout out to Well Laid Plans, which is still great despite its recent nerf. A couple cards that inflict Weak + Paper Krane is half a winning deck on its own. Poison is OP, especially Catalyst, and there are several great poison relics. Silent - Incredible defensive options like Leg Sweep, Wraith Form, and Malaise. This ranking is obviously based on my own experiences: I've won a20 Heartbreaker runs with all 4 characters and truthfully I think they're all fun and great.

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