Inscryption's Secret Mechanic (Fair Hand Explained)
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- Опубліковано 28 кві 2023
- Explaining the fair hand mechanic and how to make a crazy powerful strategy using it in Inscryption Kaycee's Mod.
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#Inscryption #KayceesMod - Ігри
My favorite way to beat skull storm is by having bees and an unlikable totem. Bonus points if you also have fecundity for even more bees. Even starvation can't stop the bees
Not the BEES 🐝
To be fair Unkillable anything with Zero cost becomes OP.
Unkillable squirrels basically turn them into a remix of the Energy mechanic from P03's section, where after drawing your fourth Squirrel you basically can summon anything below four blood.
Unkillable skink is also an option that doesn't need to be hit to work and both the skink and it's tail are unkillable meaning you get infinite tails
I love that movie
I played Inscyption to the end for the first time recently, and I burst out laughing whenever I got the Unkillable Squirrels because of how insanely good they were.
If you end a run without dying Leashy will give you one fewer pelts and a possum. If you reset many times in a row, Leashy will give you no pelts, a possum and a ring worm (I am not 100% sure on the cards that he makes you take but needless to say you get fewer pelts if you give up and the debuff compounds).
yeah, it's possum and ring worm. you can have 3 ring worms in deck if you're using the mantis god deck
Ironically, I actually *like* having the starter ring worm for the sake of burning at campfires.
@@harrisonfackrelland the opossum is a good cheap bone card working a bit like a Geck because it is very easy to get 2 bones especially if you have the bone lord’s boon (lesser or greater)
The most important deck-building mechanic. Consistency is king.
I actually knew about this secret mechanic. I have over 50 hours on this game, and I just kinda picked up that I would often get a one blood card, figuring it was a mechanic that was implemented so you weren’t put in unfair situations. Only part I didn’t know was that it had a name, that’s pretty neat to know
I learned about it from Sifd a little over a year ago
“I have over 50 hours” that’s not impressive, your not that smart
@@supermario6530 I think it’s very impressive. I think it’s the game I have the 5th most hours on, so it’s impressive by my standards
@@suponyan buddy I got 130 hours on it. Stay humble
@@supermario6530 Oh excuse me, Mr.Humble. I was merely using my playtime as a comparative note, not as a bragging right
I'm genuinely surprised people didn't know about the fairhand mechanic. It's absolutely *central* to the more difficult Kaycee's Mod challenges.
I actually just found out about it after beating Skull Storm 💀
Yes, well many people are noobs! I haven’t gotten past act 1 yet, and I keep dying at the snowy stage, not even to the boss there. I’m just learning so I’m looking for strategies since I’m not smart enough to come up with any myself
Just use buffed mantis god and copy him with the goo and you win every battle turn 1
I did not know about this, but just rolled all of the challenge levels (before skullstorm) deathless after switching to the mantis god deck
edit: switched to fair play goat deck immediately after seeing this and beat skullstorm first go
tbh I only discovered this mechanic after challenge VII, before it I just tried to make a deck with most of the cards sharing a type so I could buff them with the totem.
I find it interesting how many people avoid the pack rat. A strat I use is to get the pack rat immediately and assign its vigil to the black goat so you're guaranteed new items every round. It wouldn't work for skull storm, but it got me through enabling a half-storm run
It's because the pack rat always clutters my top deck, I like this idea and will definitely try this on my next run tho
It seems like this 'Fair hand' mechanic isn't as fair as Leshy thought
😂
It's less of a "fair hand" and more of a "unfair hand avoidance", true.
I was lucky enough to get a Magpie early on, so I sacrificed it and gave its sigils to the mole, so that way even if I drew the mole, I could use it to search either the black goat or my high cost units (managed to get a 12/30 moose by the end of the run that I got by poisoning the guys at the camp fire) so I'd never bricked with that deck, the consistency was insane.
"you know what that means leshy! YOU ARE BO-"
*Ad plays*
i remember abusing this trick for skull storm, i really recommend the moose buck deck for anyone trying to do skull storm, you can also do the mantis god deck if you can get rid of the ring worms earlier
also glad i’m not the only person who does the silly little save scum mechanic, i usually do this to either get better events or better cards in the start
also kevin
one way to abuse the save scum mechanic without getting opposums from leshy, is to just die in battle
oh wait nvm that's a different mechanic, my bad
@@nido1047 that is how you get better cards from the trader stooped
@@nido1047 i know it's "stupid" i just wanted to use the "stooped"
@@nassimkalai7274 what?
I'm glad I'm not the only one who uses that savescum trick for goofy runs 😅
I do too, but sometimes I wonder if it affects my enjoyment
haram
I feel like the option to save scum maps is deliberate, as an option for players to use against Leshy.
I've been using it in my Bone Decks to ensure I always draw my Fledgling-Bone Digger Raccoon.
Absolutely nuts!
My exploit is during the second chapter during the game against the Undead scribe. Get Oroboros and a necromancer in play and finish the first half of the battle. During the second half he turns all cards that were in play into 0 cost cards with their abilities in tact. Zombie Oroboros still counts as an Oroboros. The necromancer makes things die twice. Which make Oroboros stronger and can be done infinitely.
I knew this was a mechanic because obviously it can’t just be raw luck you get a playable hand every battle… but I never thought to abuse it like this
I really hope inscryption 2 is more like part one of the game. I’ve only ever beaten it twice. But I’ve played 30 hours in the first part with and without mods. Idk what it is but the first part just feels like so much fun. Other part of the game just feels okay
This is the first video I'm watching on your channel because I'm totally mind blown by this game..
After a long time into gaming this really made me feel like discovering something new all the time & everytime you thought to understand the game mechanics, the game completely changed.
5:43 really killed me, I had to subscribe :D
I actually figured the fair hand thing out in the main game. On phase 2 of the game, you can stack only squirrels in your hand plus a Uya or Oro and you get them in your hand guaranteed.
Another good way to take advantage of this mechanic is with the mantis god starter deck, assuming you are using the annoying debuff. At the start of the run, you sigil sacrifice an annoying ringworm onto anything that is not a 0-1 blood. Then you intentionally sacrifice the other ringworm at the campfire, which has a unique interaction that poisons the survivors and for the rest of the game, you can safely buff twice at every campfire. from there, buff the mantis god at every campfire, try and get either a direwolf (safer) or regular mantis (more risky but stronger, will disrupt the fair hand mechanic as long as you have it) and sigil sacrifice it onto the mantis god. If you do it right, you can win every fight turn 1 including the grizzly bosses without items.
I'd be interested in seeing some skull storm runs, but sometimes its a little mpre interesting if you have everything on except Bears. (Freddy Fast)Bears just have really specific counterplays that kinda force you to play a certain way, and strip the bosses of their unique mechanics. Up to you
i used this strat to do all of kaycee's mod with the mantis deck. took a few resets to get the right set up though. this looks like a much safer strat
I heard about the mechanic from someone else and figured out myself that this deck really benefits from it, it's nice to get confirmation on that.
Yeah, I knew about this. It was the only way I knew that would infinetly increase the Ouroboros (ouroboros + black goat with unkillable sigil)
I just remembered that there's something else that might be worth showing to your audience, since you're a bigger user than I am.
**SPOILERS BELOW**
There's a secret in Act III few if any know about.
To unlock it, you must beat all of the Uberbots but leave behind one Vessel Upgrade in the process.
Once you've beaten the Uberbots, go back to that Vessel Upgrade and you can add Trifurcated Strike to your Vessels.
There is a method to being able to use it in battles, but it requires being clever and skipping/respawning fights. If you know where they spawn and how to avoid them, you can encounter up to 12 standard battles plus the Mycologists bonus battle.
Maybe you could try and pull this off and show off Trifurcated Strike Vessels.
You'll need a Buff Conduit to achieve this in standard battles, though. Otherwise just use do it against the Mycologists, since they play a lot of Alarm Bots that have Annoying.
these vids are great man
Great video 🔥🔥🔥
Ive been thoroughly entertained by this.
Thanks for showing us this trick!
Thanks for explaining this!!! Very informative :3c
The fact that Leashy just gives you a map Reroll and doesn’t say anything about it makes him a great role model,
if it was me I’d deck you the second you resume and force 20 pack rats upon your hand
👀
My first win in Inscryption was exactly with this strategy. I had got very early a totem which gave my squirrels the three blood sigil, 2 grizzlys stitched together with the immortal sigil and the double attack, A few great white sharks, and at the end I won both deck challenges and got the double draw and choose what you draw
I wish the whole game was like this section
I honestly used to do this even before Kaycees mod, but I didn't understand it fully as I made an oroboros deck with the rest being squirrels so it always let me use my steroid pumped snake immediately
5:29 i remember telling you about that on stream when trying to get the paintings and you didn't understand it lol
Great video. Never knew about this one, but it makes sense now looking back at my playthrough. Just finished all challenge levels and probably gonna try skull storm now.
Also who cares if someone wants to save scum in a single player game. As long as a scummed run isn't being submitted to any competition like a speedrun, play the way you like. I see the same attitude in Slay the Spire and my thoughts are the same there. If people want to feel badass with the perfect god rng run, let em
When I first played the game I kind of sort of suspected something was going on behind the scenes but didn't think too deeply about it
This stratagy is so good, it singlehandedly carried me
Recently had a vanilla run where I got a squirrel totem with the cockroach sigil. Made for some decent plays and allowed me higher cost cards earlier into the run than usual
Glory to thee, brother!
Love from a Vaush and Sifdyen Fan!
I've noticed this and abused it with the Stoat on the stadard deck.
Most of the time, I just kept putting campfire buffs on it, until it hit hard enough to defeat most combats in one turn.
Worked decently well, until the bosses.
saw a playthrough where someone had a totem with the magpie sigils on squirrels. didn't even matter how many cards were in his deck so he could use every single space to upgrade his favorite two or three cards. he had a super buffed up mantis god card he placed every chance he got lol
While unkillable Black goat is really good, I think I prefer Magpie Black goat a little better. That way, you can just choose what you use the black goat for.
I wonder whether it's for a similar reason than the Lonely Wizbot ended up pretty much every single time in my initial hand, which, especially once it has been improved as much as possible, helped a lot.
There might be some kind of "fair hand" mechanism as well, considering that I had very few cards requiring only 2 cells of energy. Unless I am missing something obvious about how act 3 works.
Goated strat
6:17 the grizzly's of Russain!
fecundity reptile totem + undying on a buffed skink is the unbeatable strat, the tails get the same campfire modifier and get undying, then when they return to your hand they get fecundity and are zero cost, so you can get infinite zero cost tails
I just learned this trick 1 hour after beating Skull Storm 😭
I had so many 1 blood cards LMAO
Hate I had to find out thru a video about the goat with those precise sigils, since I adore this game 😅, but omg this tip is very good so far
I did a run in kaycee's mod with the high blood deck, then the trader gave me a cat and after some events i sacrified the goat to put his sigil on the cat, after that i just picked cards of 2, 3 and 4 blood cost, even having 2 urayulis, that was the easiest run on the world, even easier that the 2 unkillable black goats with pack rat sigil
The reason that you had a possum at the beginning of a run is essentially the games punishment for starting a new game to reroll cards at the start! It first changes one pelt into a possum, and then the second pelt into a ringworm
So actually the best deck is the Mantis God deck. Here’s why:
Essentially you can abuse this mechanic to always have the mantis god in your starting hand. All you have to do is burn the ring worms out of the deck. Then, only ever pick up 2 or 3 cost cards, and power up the Mantis God to 6 ish power. Then you can’t lose any regular battles, because you can instantly play it and win.
Oraboros with a undying black goat is my best strat.
Hey, you didn't get this from me but if you're ever unsatisfied with the hand you draw at the start of the round or the cards you're being offered at any card event, you return to the menu, exit the mod, then access the chapter select screen, choose any chapter and start it, quit immediately and then continue your run, the RNG will be reset completely. You can force getting certain cards that way (or totems from the wood carver even) and make incredibly OP combos 100% of the time or if you find yourself losing to bad luck, you can do this to reset your luck. I once abused this to create a really OP Mantis God because I wanted to test, whether certain sigils worked in unison. I created a Mantis God with Unkillable, Double Strike and Bifuricated Strike (through totems) because I wanted to see whether it would actually attack twice in three directions, which it did. I sacrificed a Ringworm early on to the campfire and was able to upgrade the damage a little (nothing too crazy only 8 damage, which means 48 damage a turn, so still relatively tame but able to defeat the Moon and finish off Leshy in one single turn still). I also made it a point for this card to be the only one blood cost card in my deck (no 0 costs either), which means that it was a guaranteed draw every time. It was pretty ridiculous.
You can try making one yourself by picking the Mantis God starter deck, sacrificing a cockroach onto the first one, getting a second Mantis God through the Trader (you'll need a golden pelt, which you can easily get through the Prospector event with the boulders, which you can also cheese by just not taking the card, quitting to the menu and continuing the run). putting either Double Strike or Bifuricated Strike on that and then unifying them at the Mycologists. You can then either re-roll totems for an hour straight to get the insect head and the sigil you're missing or you can get a third Mantis God, put the sigil you're missing on that and unifying that with the already unified card at the Mycologists once again. In the mean time you can upgrade it's stats at the campfire. When arriving at the first campfire you see, put one of your Ringworms on it, upgrade it twice, if it dies, perfect, there will be no survivors at every subsequent visit to a campfire and you can upgrade any card you want as often as you want, without any risk of losing it. If the Ringworm doesn't die however, just quit again, continue the run and put the Mantis God on it instead, it will 100% survive both upgrades. Just make sure to always put on the Ringworm first because if they should eat the Mantis God, no quitting will help you, it will be lost and even after quitting, you'll advance to the next space on the map. This way, you don't need to worry about having several good 2 or 3 cost cards and/or hoping that you draw one of your good ones, in order to not lose. Once you get 2 damage and the Unkillable sigil on the Mantis God and as long as it's your only 1 blood cost card (no 0s either), you'll win every match in the first turn guaranteed and if it should get destroyed (through the Prospector's mechanic in his bossfight, after you beat phase one, the moon if your health is low enough or one of the fisher's sharks, if your health is low enough and you do not at least have 3 damage), you'll immediately get it back and can immediately play it again, provided you draw a squirrel, of course.
You don't even need that many sigils and damage in order for this to be OP, you could also swap out Unkillable with fecundity because realistically, you never need more than 2 Mantis Gods. I think this is way easier to do and it is absolutely sufficient
Yes, I have been doing quite some testing these last couple of days
thanks this was helpful cause i suck at the gameee
Can you do a video of just talking about every card in the full game plus mods not a tier list just a video version of the wiki for all card and what they do pretty much I don't think anyone else want it but I think it would be interesting
It did feel odd how consistently i had playable cards being drawn at the beggining. Even when amassing high cost cards.
1:00
Misinformation. The condition is that you can play a card by at most your SECOND turn. Squirrels do not count. That's why 2 blood cards can be such a detriment for higher modifier Kaycee runs.
Black Goat is a fine card, but there are a looooot of ways to break Inscryption that the game basically hands you, especially in acts 1 and 3. Totems unlock undying or sacrificial squirrels among others, grafting opens up one card to being op, you can create restricted cards on “loss”, ability transfer, etc… most any card can be made “op” very easily - one of my new favorites is an undying skulk. It blocks two tiles and both the sacc’d tail and body are retrieved to your hand - the tail being no cost. The fun part is knowing the mechanics well enough to exploit whatever cards you’re dealt. Or a magpie eye Geck is another good one.
The Squirrel head totem is easily the most OP out of all of them, since the Squirrels are a near infinite amount of 0-cost cards that can apply broken sigils. For that reason, Kaycee's Mod (the endless mode expansion) does not give you the Squirrel head totem ever.
@@loudwhispre9406 O_o That's horrifying, yet understandable.
I thought it was weird, I used it to always get ouroborous in the rpg section. 36 squirrels and 1 ouroborous
i usually put the magpie on the goat so i can always get what i want t1 then, i can dupe it at the painter and having 2 goat with hoarder sigil is all you need for the run. What i want to make is 1 or 2 double 3 blood beasts whit bifurcated sigil then, i m invicible. Don't hesitate to refresh the route at the start of the map.
Have completed the whole mod without knowing about it
I knew that while watching speedrun and asking runner about it
4:06 My typical joke in Undertale fandom. 6:17 Summons Eight F- Bears! 6:22 Perfectly flawed cloned card!
6:48 Lower HP than usual but okay! 7:38 The beautiful moon!
Sounds alot like Jeff Anderson [Clerks: Randal Graves] @4:09
so, I watched this video, then immediatly went to go try this strategy myself, and was having amazing results. However: one singular card messed up the entire strategy: the Ijiraq. For some reason, the battles after I took the ijiraq, my starting hand was squirrel, moose buck, pack rat, and ouroboros. I don't know how the game handles the Ijiraq's cost for the purposes of Fair hand, but I lost very soon.
Yeah, Ijiraq counts as a 0 cost so it can disrupt the fair hand mechanic, so it's best to avoid adding an Ijiraq to your deck if using this strategy.
Wasn’t this mechanic broken for a while? I remember an update on Steam saying the “getfairhand bug” was fixed, and when my dad and I were trying to beat Kaycee’s Mod we often got unplayable hands first turn and lost some really good runs to it.
I always preferred to think of it as a mulligan rule, it's just kind of hidden
I got the squirrel with 3 blood and a grizzly with 7 power that blocks air attacks and moves in front of enemies
Works with bones too, making a deck with multiple bones tantamount to suicide
wow i never noticed. that's why 'mantis' deck was so powerful.
mantis god deck is ass
In my runs i'll typically aim for a cat so I can infinitely sacrifice my goat throughout the battle, never thought about throwing the cockroach's sigil on the goat to have it return to your hand. Do you find one is better than the other? I guess the cockroach sigil would probably be a safer bet incase something kills your goat
I used the save scum trick for when I lose a boss battle lol
Mantis deck makes this insane
How do you destroy a card on the table like a squirrel? It’s Square on the PS5 yet can’t figure it out on pc
You use the hammer.
I think it's only available with Kaycee's mod or in act 2 and onwards
the most powerful card in the entire game is the infinite rez squirrel.
either that or the ant squirrel, the bloody squirrel, the prickly squirrel, the evolving squirrel, the squirrel sphere, or the squirrel that has infinite dupe glitch
@@scrybe_of_technology Stinky Squirrels are good too.
Odd... The most recent Flaw Peacock video said that when he removed all the 1-blood cards, his zero-cost card didn't appear in his first hand.
Any idea why that might be?
How do you get new starter decks?? I just finished my first run and they are all locked apart from the first one. Someone please tell me
5:57 is the correct timestamp
I can finally beat the rest of Kaycee's mod:D
How do you unlock starter decks? I only just unlocked Kaycee's mod and am wondering if there is anything I have to do or just beat it
You probably already figured out by now but In order to unlock stuff you have to do challenges, at the start it will say like 0/5 and the starting challenges are each 5 so start a run with 5/5 and win.
The "fair hand mechanic" is honestly one of the most unfair and explotable parts of the game. If you are able to keep only one 1 cost you know for a fact that it is innyour hand start of turn every game. I had a black goat with undying I got from a cockroach and used it to pretty consistently get my Urayuli and other heavy cards down turn 2. Specifically remember a turn 1 urayuli against angler w a squirrel in a bottel. One of the only times I have ever really used the Urayuli as a 'win condition', usually he sits in my deck and does literally nothing bc I HAD to pick a rare.
How about some strategies on Po3?
ohhhhhh. My eyes are now open. I've been getting cucked by my own choices of having a lot of single blood card.
There another stategie that i like to call Raven you pick a specific BIRD that i dont remember the name that when played If the space in front of him is empty its spawn a broken egg with zero attack and one of life but there is a thing there a chance of when played its spawn not a broken egg but a crows egg só you have to make him stronger on campfires after that you Just clone him and pass the Boss easily basicaly
4:51 PELT LICE
still no inscryption in playmods
Leshy punishes you for not finishing games by giving you less pelts for each game you ended manually
You know what that means leshy your .. BONE:ADD:D 😂
Hand Manipulation my beloved!
Having only one playable card for Turn one in your deck, the 10/10 Undying, Double Strike Mantis God!
"Fair Hand"
mantis god deck is ass
I am trying to take the objects that are unlocked by solving the frame puzzle.
What is the best deck to do that?
(Sorry if my english is bad :P)
None- it is completely random- you just need to remember what cards they are and make sure you obtain AND play the cards in the orientation shown in the frame. Hope this helps! :)
@@DeadAndDeaf but, once you Win the board puzzle, can you get the item in every backpack?
Translation by Google translate ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
@@yanlucasyan7794 Yup! as long as you do not return to a point before you completed the puzzles.
@@DeadAndDeaf wait, so the new items only stay for one run
@@DeadAndDeaf If I try to unlock them in a run that isn't my actual Challenge level, they will stay?
I mean the best deck is actually mantis god. I’ve won with all difficulty modifiers “pre fecundity nerf”, but black goat just can’t beat to many bears too fast we’re as diagonal strikes plus a creature can.
i knew what the fair hand mechanic is, but i didnt know it was in inscryption, never really noticed it
Welp, now I feel like an idiot for making resource loops and low cost builds that I thought were broken...
i beat the grizzly challenge first try with fair hand and map reroll lol
This is actually why mantis god is best deck with annoying starters. You can get rid of ring worms easily and then just buff the shit outta mantis to be instant win turn one.
The Pokemon TCG games for Gameboy Color has this mechanic as well (for opening hands), needless to say it was also extremely abuseable.
I did this with the cat sygil on the goat instead of the cockroach’s
Scrybe wolves calls bullshit on the cervid deck instead of bone wolf
Is it possible to turn of this mechanic?
you just built monarchs in inscryption