I really like that you truly *mastered* necronomicurse, where it was not only present in your deck twice, but it also formed the cornerstone of your strategy for the rest of the run, it felt like you were truly a master of the game to make that work
@@justinchase6666 i get that winning the run would be harder but we wouldnt have cool moments like when he used the necronomicon + necronomicurse to make his fiend fire do 1 more hit which was just enough to kill the gremlin leader. Or like later when he used it to draw cards for health like a mini-offering
So to summarize (means: slight spoilers ^^): with all powers in play Necronomicurse became a 0 Energy "Lose 1 health, draw two cards, gain 2 Strength, gain 3 Block and return this to your hand" or in short, the best card in any card game ever
At 1:24:35, the copied Reaper fizzles because of a bug when killing the first phase of the Awakened One fight. I actually reported that bug back in 2020 and Anomaybee looked into, reproduced it, and discovered that attempts to fix it just caused more bugs.
@@FadkinsDietStart of combat fiend fire does 10dmg, with 8 stregth it does 18 dmg, with vulnerability it does 27, with pen nib it does double damage which equals 54
What I find even cooler than the exact lethal from fiend fire was Baalor asking the audience to "inquire" as to other ways to draw more from fiend fire. Love to see a teacher who cares about lifting others up through engaging them in the process.
@@jacobwansleebeni think they’re talking about run 14, it’s one of the most popular videos on this channel if you feel inclined to watch it (which i highly recommend; it’s probably the most impressive sts performance i’ve ever watched)
1:25:12 the Necronomicon didn't activate on Reaper there due to a bug. It's related to The Awakened One technically "dying but not really" which prevents the card from being played a second time at all.
@@milk_bathit’s because since the boss technically “dies”, the cultist, which would normally flee, is no longer considered an enemy as the boss is dead and therefore the combat should be over. It’s a pretty neat bug hinestly, no clue how the hell it happens but still neat
What is this Strimmer luck? > Calls out getting curses & duplicating them >> gets Necronomicurse & mirror in immediate next floor > Calls out getting Blue Candle >> gets Blue candle in the next chest > Calls out getting Champ's belt in Mindbloom event >> gets Champ's belt like game has become sentient If this run had Calipers & Self-Forming Clay too. I would have thrown my PC in dumpster, Ron Swanson style. What a ridiculously strong run, made even more ridiculous by Baalor's call outs. Love every second of it.
I had my "Beat the game with a 5 card deck or smaller" achievement be with the necronomicurse just bc I exhausted it infinitely with blue candle and had self forming clay for +3 block next turn every time I lost health. I didn't even realize I had such a good blocking method until I accidentally played it while fighting the Awakened One. Idk how I won with that 5 card deck because I srsly didn't plan for much except to remove as many cards as possible, but I was so happy I was able to get the achievement. (deck: Bludgeon+, Bash+, Inflame+, Defend, and Necronomicurse)
Absolutely, brokenly, critically, disgustingly, emphatically, feedingly, greatness. Congrats on your well-deserved Necro-Belt run! May it trail even crazier runs in the future, if that's even possible.
VOD means video on demand, or in other words a recording that you can watch at any time, or in other word, this thing right here :) But I think you meant you watched it live which must have been awesome!
Nah, I mean I watched it on the Twitch stream archive channel that archives all of the VODs Twitch saves of recent streams. This video, I'd say, isn't the same sort of thing because the VOD on the archive channel isn't edited at all, where this one is. In either case, it's a matter of pedantry. I'd watched it once already, and was looking forward to watching a newer, more polished version.
This run might surpass the #14th win of the 20 rotating win streak with the last second defect infinite as my favourite run It has it all, even calling the champion's belt on the mindbloom event
I think he is correct. If you have 20% discount on a 500 gold item. You have to pay 400. If you need 400 gold instead of 500, you effectively increase your 400 gold by 25%.
Just hit ascension 15 on all characters and I still am surprised to see these insanely unique runs from you like this one and the exhume nightmare run recently too. Truly the spire goat
This run was absolutely bonkers to watch live, and even rewatching it... just wow. The sheer amount of things that came so cleanly together for this run, you could probably play another few thousand times and still not see it again.
Wow, I was slightly worried beginning of act 3 with no healing, but then everything just fell into place. Who knew double necronomicurse would be exactly what a deck needs?
This is what makes this game so great. You grind for months then a run where the spire has to bow down to you is placed in your lap like a gift from Neow herself. Beautiful.
To make the courier seem even better, it's actually like multiplying your money by 1.25, not 1.2! Similar to how the membership card is like doubling your money with the 50% discount.
I imagine he just said it for simplifying the math, calling it a division by .8 times 1.25 isn't half as intuitive as calling a division by .5 a doubling.
For anyone who comes to watch this legendary run, here some highlights: 18:00 I doubt I can defeat Lagavulin after taking a curse voluntarily 26:43 Buying a Fiend fire with a bright future 30:00 Defeating Guardian with 3HP (and a blood potion) 31:25 Picking Runic cube because it's "cool" 36:44 Decay Mastery? 37:22 This part is legendary 40:13 Neconomicon patting itself on the back 42:30 OMG it's here 51:55 Spire so impressed it forgot to play music 1:04:00 what a shop 1:09:15 Baalor the Sage 1:12:56 Casually destroying the transient 1:24:30 can't double play on dying Awakened one bug! 1:28:19 Wait, trip Mastery is here! and the rest is history. The most fun I've had watching this game, that's for sure!
@@danielbattle7620 that's one of the dumbest things I've ever read from someone trying to double down on being such a sour puss. You should work on that and try being supportive of others instead.
This is the run! Best spire run from the best spire player. Its incredible how this run start with a really humble start to... that. In my head this is the cannon ending of StS.
not a criticism, just a tip for future usage: "canon" not "cannon" canon is what is held to be sacred or true within/across a body of work, cannon go boom boom.
Indeed the best StS run I have ever seen so far from any streamer. So happy to have been there to watch it live. the energy on chat was unbelievable! I recommend to all to watch the original twitch stream so you can see the chat reaction during the play. absolutely amazing.
The ways of our lord RNGesus are mysterious, indeed. But don't forget, someones blessing might be another ones curse. for he provides thee whatever thou needs. May RNGesus be with you on all your chosen paths. 3.14
The two most illusive challenges for the mastery challenge all in one package! Hot diggety. I remember seeing the blue candle necro dead branch run. The path up the spire is never linear and it's always a treat to watch Baalor navigate it as if it were his own home.
Greatest run in the history of this game, and I don't think it will ever be topped. And in a game like Slay the Spire that really is saying something Not sure how many people will appreciate how special this run really was. An absolute god seed, piloted masterfully by Baalor. The seed itself is one thing. The seed provided the opportunity for this to happen, and that in and of itself is remarkable. But then to have Baalor be the one to find the seed is key, because if it were me this seed would likely have been flushed down the toilet. Not only that, but even if Baalor had been on this seed normally, this probably would have been a typical run that no one ever would have remembered. To get Baalor was on this specific seed, during his mastery run, so that he takes and duplicates the necronomicurse, and well, the rest is history. It's almost unfathomable. Getting Runic Dome. Getting the Blue Candle. Getting the Rupture. Like HOLY SHIT. Double Reaper and Feed on Reptomancer is shit that you dream about. The guy Feeds on the Transient, AND the Donut for God's sake! And of course clean Heart Kill This run is something so unique, so special. It had such a slim chance of happening, and required all the planets to align perfectly. I think we're all lucky to have experienced this. I honest to God feel like this is a huge moment in the history of gaming, and it feels cheesy to say that but it's true And it couldn't have happened to a better guy
So I started watching this on my lunch break and couldn't watch it all. Grabbed a couple beers on the way home to finish it off and man....glad I did. Fun to watch!
I've seen this in my recommends a million times, and I've made the decision to ignore it until now. Now I just feel like an idiot since this was one of the most entertaining pieces of sts lore I'll ever witness. Well played Baalor
the reaper not playing twice in the first act 3 boss was such a weird interaction. It was supposed to but knew you wanted the pen nib for more than 3 damage haha
Not to mention the fiendfire, feel no pain, AND KEEPING A DECAY in his deck… I was like… literally only self-forming clay (don’t think Corruption would be a proper fit in this crazy deck) would be the only thing better for this run. Or strange spoon. Could you imagine strange spoon fiend fire shenanigans???
Watched this three days ago and this morning it happened for me! A20 ironclad run Runic cube Necronomicon Reaper Blue candle Flex By the end of act 2 this was fairly strong Then I added limit break and rupture+ Probably the most fun spire run ive ever done. I've only beaten A20 a few times only once with clad, this was the easiest win I've ever racked up I literally feel like plugging the seed number in and doing it all over again 😆😆😆😆😆
I beat a20 with ironclad on my 3rd attempt. I can't get past a18 with the defect and a16 with the silent. Sounds like you find those characters a lot easier than I do!
If you do decide to take the seed and use it, remember that Baalor uses a mod which you'd need to install as well. It's something like "perfect randomization". It actually makes the random aspects random, but it does change how the seeds work a little bit.
Wow. That’s the best run I’ve ever watched. Today I beat my first game of slay the spire on ironclad with a rupture build. Your information helped a lot, so thank you!
Honestly I thought Baalorlord was going to go Analog Horror on us when the music cut off at the end of the collector fight. It’s as if the game knew how cursed this run was
I used to only play slay the spire custom mode, endless, 1 path with blights, and I quickly realized how strong the necronomicurse with runic cube was by accident. On a related note, the furthest I ever went in endless+blights was an ironclad du-vu doll deck, where every boss kill put dozens of curses in my deck, and every rest site/shop was spent removing pride/writhe curses from my deck (because they are innate) to guarantee I could draw my bottled seek+whirlwind (I had prismatic shard). I would seek more seeks, then seek limit breaks, exhumes, and double energies, and end every fight with 999 strength whirlwinds. Eventually I succumbed to the writhe curses after many hundreds of floors. The normality curses weren't even an issue, despite having dozens of them in my deck, because innate cards take the place of cards you would otherwise draw on your first turn, so with bottled seek and whirlwind, the max number of random cards I would draw on my first turn was 3. Even if all 3 of those were normality (which was extremely unlikely), I could just play them with blue candle. I just had to be careful not to draw any additional cards, because drawing 1 normality was instant death.
1:23:24 Ok, he kept saying "don't play the fiend fire" but didn't explain why. He mentioned on the previous turn that it would ruin the combo but I'm having a hard time following. To be honest, this run was getting so crazy towards the end that it was hard to keep track of which combos were triggering which other combos.
@@tpr9126 Thanks! That explains a lot. He normally plays as many copies of Dark Embrace as the game offers him, but it was causing issues in this deck. It was also filling his hand with cards when he was trying to buff with necronomicurse as well as occasionally forcing the curse out of his hand entirely when hitting 10 cards.
For never players: necromomicon with fiend fire is dangerous, if you have dark embrace in play. I managed to destroy my complete deck once without finishing the combat...
Is there anything special that the game does when you get down to zero cards? Or does it just look at you and say “Click End turn, you absolute buffoon?”
Easily my favorite run of vanilla runs, and I've seen.. too many games. This deck was that weird sort of coin lands on its edge that you can get to happen for watcher with some regularity, but seeing something like this particular conceit (well put) is less traveled by and was a pleasure.
When you were talking about doing a curse run to try and master the curses in another run, I was thinking Ironclad for this exact reason because of Blue Candle synergizing with so many of Ironclad's paradigms, but my idea had Firebreathing in it. Blue Candle/Runic Cube or Blue Candle/Dark Embrace lets you get away with having curses in your deck. Runic Cube is far more consistent, but it's a boss relic and hard to rely on getting. Dark Embrace is -1 card draw, -1 or -2 mana, and you aren't guaranteed to get it in your opening hand unless you have a small deck with Gambling Chip, or bottle it. It's far easier to get though and safely synergize with while self-harm decks are extremely risky and inconsistent without key cards/relics at A20. You could also get a Tungsten Rod, and forego the damage from Blue Candle entirely for infinite draw with a Dark Embrace. I would be all for a change to Blood for Blood, so that it starts at 2 mana, but it deals less damage while the upgrade is just more damage instead of cost reduction. It's one of the best starting cards for a self-harm deck, but it's just too high cost if you can't safely get damaged or draw it too early before even being able to be damaged i.e Lagavulin, Nob, Slime Boss, etc. Makes it super hard to take if you don't already have a way to damage yourself.
Holy hell, this run! What have we all just witnessed?! I bet twitch chat was just losing its collective mind when this happened. Regarding why the reaper didn't get doubled against the awakened one, it's because you killed it (the first phase, anyway) with the first activation, I'm pretty sure.
That Fiend Fire + Necronomicurse tech to deal exactly enough damage to kill Gremlin Leader blew my mind. That's the kind of turn where I wouldn't calculate anything and just lose lmao
Was it the awakened going down that cancelled the second Reaper at 1:24:33? I’m pretty sure it doesn’t allow attacks to even be played against it when it’s downed like that.
I really like that you truly *mastered* necronomicurse, where it was not only present in your deck twice, but it also formed the cornerstone of your strategy for the rest of the run, it felt like you were truly a master of the game to make that work
Ironclad is busted anyway. I would be more impressed if he did it on defect. Still great video.
@@justinchase6666 but on defect there would probably be no opportunities to use the curse productively like he did in this video
@@chip2508 exatly why it would be more impressive. ironclad accension 20 is roughly as hard as defect accension 5.
@@justinchase6666 i get that winning the run would be harder but we wouldnt have cool moments like when he used the necronomicon + necronomicurse to make his fiend fire do 1 more hit which was just enough to kill the gremlin leader. Or like later when he used it to draw cards for health like a mini-offering
@@justinchase6666What are you even talking about Defect Ascension 5 is a joke and Ironclad Ascension 20 is hard
So to summarize (means: slight spoilers ^^):
with all powers in play Necronomicurse became a 0 Energy "Lose 1 health, draw two cards, gain 2 Strength, gain 3 Block and return this to your hand"
or in short, the best card in any card game ever
I had the same run but with self forming clay. So add +3 block next turn
well said
Surprised he didn't pick fire breathing and added 10 damage to each curse draw
@@AusVersehen not necessary... But, will necronomicurse respawning trigger fire breathing?
@@firmanimadit shouldn’t, as fire breathing specifies the requirement to be on draw
At 1:24:35, the copied Reaper fizzles because of a bug when killing the first phase of the Awakened One fight. I actually reported that bug back in 2020 and Anomaybee looked into, reproduced it, and discovered that attempts to fix it just caused more bugs.
This run was already ridiculous, but when Baalor called Champion Belt dropping from the Act 3 event it became unbelievable. Best run ever.
he looked so happy with himself too after he predicted that at 1:11:20
The fiend fire necronomicon tech was incredible at 40:30. It being exact lethal was just the cherry on top.
The boss win music didn't even play when he did it at 52:04. Even the game was stunned
Truly big brain play. I burst out laughing. Amazing insight on balor's part to see that.
Not only that, but he had to play the Cleave instead of exhausting it for exactly 1 more damage.
Can someone work out the math of how he got each hit of the Ff up to 54? I can only see 32
@@FadkinsDietStart of combat fiend fire does 10dmg, with 8 stregth it does 18 dmg, with vulnerability it does 27, with pen nib it does double damage which equals 54
One of those runs where Feeding on Transient is one of the more mundane things that is happening.
Sadly the you chew, the weaker the flavor gets
Title is not even clickbait. 11/10, best run in StS history
What I find even cooler than the exact lethal from fiend fire was Baalor asking the audience to "inquire" as to other ways to draw more from fiend fire. Love to see a teacher who cares about lifting others up through engaging them in the process.
52:10 when the game doesn't even know how to play the victory music because of how sick that play was
this is arguably the greatest sts run of all time
To me, it's between this and that defect run during his record streak.
Which one?@@theendofconfusion
@@jacobwansleebeni think they’re talking about run 14, it’s one of the most popular videos on this channel if you feel inclined to watch it (which i highly recommend; it’s probably the most impressive sts performance i’ve ever watched)
I love that not only was mirroring necronomicurse fun for the mastery challenge, it happened to be the correct play as well
1:25:12 the Necronomicon didn't activate on Reaper there due to a bug. It's related to The Awakened One technically "dying but not really" which prevents the card from being played a second time at all.
Interesting that the damage doesn’t still happen to the remaining Cultist.
@@milk_bathit’s because since the boss technically “dies”, the cultist, which would normally flee, is no longer considered an enemy as the boss is dead and therefore the combat should be over. It’s a pretty neat bug hinestly, no clue how the hell it happens but still neat
How do you know that's the cause of the bug?@@christianleotaud1421
The infamous run everyone has been waiting for
Never in my life will I ever seen a Necronomicon to be that useful in a deck again
I was there when this nonsense happened, and I'm here to rewatch this again. Amazing run!
I was there for act 1, then I took a shower; I should have stayed dirty!
@@Raymondochashower is like 5 minutes at max
Feeding on a transient is such a flex
What is this Strimmer luck?
> Calls out getting curses & duplicating them
>> gets Necronomicurse & mirror in immediate next floor
> Calls out getting Blue Candle
>> gets Blue candle in the next chest
> Calls out getting Champ's belt in Mindbloom event
>> gets Champ's belt like game has become sentient
If this run had Calipers & Self-Forming Clay too. I would have thrown my PC in dumpster, Ron Swanson style. What a ridiculously strong run, made even more ridiculous by Baalor's call outs. Love every second of it.
I had my "Beat the game with a 5 card deck or smaller" achievement be with the necronomicurse just bc I exhausted it infinitely with blue candle and had self forming clay for +3 block next turn every time I lost health. I didn't even realize I had such a good blocking method until I accidentally played it while fighting the Awakened One.
Idk how I won with that 5 card deck because I srsly didn't plan for much except to remove as many cards as possible, but I was so happy I was able to get the achievement. (deck: Bludgeon+, Bash+, Inflame+, Defend, and Necronomicurse)
Absolutely, brokenly, critically, disgustingly, emphatically, feedingly, greatness. Congrats on your well-deserved Necro-Belt run! May it trail even crazier runs in the future, if that's even possible.
I feel like the necronomicurse + blue candle + rupture run is a landmark in any STS enjoyer's run history. So fun but so rare
I'm proud to have caught this as a VOD. And now I'm happily gonna rewatch it cus it was so awesome.
VOD means video on demand, or in other words a recording that you can watch at any time, or in other word, this thing right here :) But I think you meant you watched it live which must have been awesome!
Nah, I mean I watched it on the Twitch stream archive channel that archives all of the VODs Twitch saves of recent streams.
This video, I'd say, isn't the same sort of thing because the VOD on the archive channel isn't edited at all, where this one is.
In either case, it's a matter of pedantry. I'd watched it once already, and was looking forward to watching a newer, more polished version.
This run might surpass the #14th win of the 20 rotating win streak with the last second defect infinite as my favourite run
It has it all, even calling the champion's belt on the mindbloom event
Now I remember what bothered me the first time I watched that :
The snake's 150 gold with courrier isn't 180 effective gold, but 187.
I think he is correct. If you have 20% discount on a 500 gold item. You have to pay 400. If you need 400 gold instead of 500, you effectively increase your 400 gold by 25%.
Just hit ascension 15 on all characters and I still am surprised to see these insanely unique runs from you like this one and the exhume nightmare run recently too.
Truly the spire goat
This run was absolutely bonkers to watch live, and even rewatching it... just wow. The sheer amount of things that came so cleanly together for this run, you could probably play another few thousand times and still not see it again.
Wow, I was slightly worried beginning of act 3 with no healing, but then everything just fell into place. Who knew double necronomicurse would be exactly what a deck needs?
This is what makes this game so great. You grind for months then a run where the spire has to bow down to you is placed in your lap like a gift from Neow herself. Beautiful.
turning necronomicurse into necropotence
To make the courier seem even better, it's actually like multiplying your money by 1.25, not 1.2! Similar to how the membership card is like doubling your money with the 50% discount.
I imagine he just said it for simplifying the math, calling it a division by .8 times 1.25 isn't half as intuitive as calling a division by .5 a doubling.
For anyone who comes to watch this legendary run, here some highlights:
18:00 I doubt I can defeat Lagavulin after taking a curse voluntarily
26:43 Buying a Fiend fire with a bright future
30:00 Defeating Guardian with 3HP (and a blood potion)
31:25 Picking Runic cube because it's "cool"
36:44 Decay Mastery?
37:22 This part is legendary
40:13 Neconomicon patting itself on the back
42:30 OMG it's here
51:55 Spire so impressed it forgot to play music
1:04:00 what a shop
1:09:15 Baalor the Sage
1:12:56 Casually destroying the transient
1:24:30 can't double play on dying Awakened one bug!
1:28:19 Wait, trip Mastery is here!
and the rest is history. The most fun I've had watching this game, that's for sure!
I’ve watched this run at least 2 times but I still watched all the highlights 😅
Considering all the context, this is probably the best StS run I've ever seen in any platform.
Mastered the Curse in every sense of the word
Collector: You will be MINE!
Fiend fire to collector
*jazz music stops*
YES BABY, THAT'S WHAT I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR!
What an amazing run! You're a huge reason why I started making my own StS content! This mastery challenge doesn't stand a chance!
You have 95 subscribers. Calm down bud
@@danielbattle7620eat shit, "bud". Everyone starts somewhere.
@@pmikel63 he hasn’t started he’s regressed
@@danielbattle7620 that's one of the dumbest things I've ever read from someone trying to double down on being such a sour puss. You should work on that and try being supportive of others instead.
This is the run! Best spire run from the best spire player. Its incredible how this run start with a really humble start to... that.
In my head this is the cannon ending of StS.
not a criticism, just a tip for future usage: "canon" not "cannon" canon is what is held to be sacred or true within/across a body of work, cannon go boom boom.
Indeed the best StS run I have ever seen so far from any streamer. So happy to have been there to watch it live. the energy on chat was unbelievable!
I recommend to all to watch the original twitch stream so you can see the chat reaction during the play. absolutely amazing.
1:24:37 I guess the Necronomicon was just… too exhausted 😅
That was such an absurd run, absolutely insanely fun. It was so damn good
1:09:20 Obviously seeded here, calling the Champ Belt like that.
(/s)
I like how Collector died in such an absurd way, the game just killed the music.
I'm so lucky to have witnessed this blessed run. Truly teh urn
Blessed!? He’s going to need to say a rosary for every time he played the curse card after this!😂
The ways of our lord RNGesus are mysterious, indeed. But don't forget, someones blessing might be another ones curse. for he provides thee whatever thou needs.
May RNGesus be with you on all your chosen paths.
3.14
The Runic Cube + Blue Candle + Necronomicurse reminds me of Necropotence.
The one we’ve been waiting for... So sad I missed this stream, but still hyped to see the replay! 🍻
Only a little bit into the vid, but i like how he explains his decisions, even in early fights.
Helps a lot for me.
The two most illusive challenges for the mastery challenge all in one package! Hot diggety. I remember seeing the blue candle necro dead branch run. The path up the spire is never linear and it's always a treat to watch Baalor navigate it as if it were his own home.
I feel like I’m part of history. I was the guy who subbed at 10:20. About an hour after I subbed I thought to myself “I’m gonna be on UA-cam”
the floor 39 shop might be the best STS shop I've ever seen, HOLY
What did the Ironclad say to the annoying gaggle of gremlins?
"Cleave me alone."
Greatest run in the history of this game, and I don't think it will ever be topped. And in a game like Slay the Spire that really is saying something
Not sure how many people will appreciate how special this run really was. An absolute god seed, piloted masterfully by Baalor. The seed itself is one thing. The seed provided the opportunity for this to happen, and that in and of itself is remarkable. But then to have Baalor be the one to find the seed is key, because if it were me this seed would likely have been flushed down the toilet. Not only that, but even if Baalor had been on this seed normally, this probably would have been a typical run that no one ever would have remembered. To get Baalor was on this specific seed, during his mastery run, so that he takes and duplicates the necronomicurse, and well, the rest is history. It's almost unfathomable. Getting Runic Dome. Getting the Blue Candle. Getting the Rupture. Like HOLY SHIT. Double Reaper and Feed on Reptomancer is shit that you dream about. The guy Feeds on the Transient, AND the Donut for God's sake! And of course clean Heart Kill
This run is something so unique, so special. It had such a slim chance of happening, and required all the planets to align perfectly. I think we're all lucky to have experienced this. I honest to God feel like this is a huge moment in the history of gaming, and it feels cheesy to say that but it's true
And it couldn't have happened to a better guy
So I started watching this on my lunch break and couldn't watch it all. Grabbed a couple beers on the way home to finish it off and man....glad I did. Fun to watch!
Damn guess I need to open up my mind to deck possibilities. This is crazy
It's finally here!! I'm not able to watch many streams live but I was really excited to see this happen in real time
Congratulations, really glad it happened and how it happened!
1:21:22 the birds got debuffed on beat lol
This whole run was crazy. Watched it a couple of times, but 1 in a million doesn't even get close to summing it up!
I've seen this in my recommends a million times, and I've made the decision to ignore it until now. Now I just feel like an idiot since this was one of the most entertaining pieces of sts lore I'll ever witness. Well played Baalor
the reaper not playing twice in the first act 3 boss was such a weird interaction. It was supposed to but knew you wanted the pen nib for more than 3 damage haha
52:50 mario theme
Dude you are genius
I'll play the tape
So many things coming together, runic cube, necronmicon, rupture, reaper, blue candle, truly glorious
Not to mention the fiendfire, feel no pain, AND KEEPING A DECAY in his deck…
I was like… literally only self-forming clay (don’t think Corruption would be a proper fit in this crazy deck) would be the only thing better for this run.
Or strange spoon. Could you imagine strange spoon fiend fire shenanigans???
Watched this three days ago and this morning it happened for me!
A20 ironclad run
Runic cube
Necronomicon
Reaper
Blue candle
Flex
By the end of act 2 this was fairly strong
Then I added limit break and rupture+
Probably the most fun spire run ive ever done. I've only beaten A20 a few times only once with clad, this was the easiest win I've ever racked up
I literally feel like plugging the seed number in and doing it all over again 😆😆😆😆😆
I beat a20 with ironclad on my 3rd attempt. I can't get past a18 with the defect and a16 with the silent. Sounds like you find those characters a lot easier than I do!
If you do decide to take the seed and use it, remember that Baalor uses a mod which you'd need to install as well. It's something like "perfect randomization". It actually makes the random aspects random, but it does change how the seeds work a little bit.
Wow. That’s the best run I’ve ever watched. Today I beat my first game of slay the spire on ironclad with a rupture build. Your information helped a lot, so thank you!
The run video that I have been waiting for!
the craziest spire run ive ever had the joy to watch
37:23 is what we have all been waiting for
This is a run for the bookmarks. Amazing. Incredibly happy you got it without having to use a set seed. AND you called champ belt too!
Seeing everything fall into place made me keep smiling. Amazing work and well-deserved!
Honestly I thought Baalorlord was going to go Analog Horror on us when the music cut off at the end of the collector fight. It’s as if the game knew how cursed this run was
I used to only play slay the spire custom mode, endless, 1 path with blights, and I quickly realized how strong the necronomicurse with runic cube was by accident.
On a related note, the furthest I ever went in endless+blights was an ironclad du-vu doll deck, where every boss kill put dozens of curses in my deck, and every rest site/shop was spent removing pride/writhe curses from my deck (because they are innate) to guarantee I could draw my bottled seek+whirlwind (I had prismatic shard). I would seek more seeks, then seek limit breaks, exhumes, and double energies, and end every fight with 999 strength whirlwinds. Eventually I succumbed to the writhe curses after many hundreds of floors.
The normality curses weren't even an issue, despite having dozens of them in my deck, because innate cards take the place of cards you would otherwise draw on your first turn, so with bottled seek and whirlwind, the max number of random cards I would draw on my first turn was 3. Even if all 3 of those were normality (which was extremely unlikely), I could just play them with blue candle. I just had to be careful not to draw any additional cards, because drawing 1 normality was instant death.
I never would have guessed that headbutt necronomicurse could be gamewining outside of a meme
Lmao bro got a full HP reaper AND a feed from transcient. Truly absurd
Damn, that's the craziest and most fun Ironclad run I've seen. You've truly mastered it here.
thoroughly enjoyed the necro-nom-nom-nomicurse comment
1:23:24 Ok, he kept saying "don't play the fiend fire" but didn't explain why. He mentioned on the previous turn that it would ruin the combo but I'm having a hard time following. To be honest, this run was getting so crazy towards the end that it was hard to keep track of which combos were triggering which other combos.
He had played Dark Embrace so Fiend Fire (played twice by Necronomicon) would have exhausted most of his draw pile too.
@@tpr9126 Thanks! That explains a lot. He normally plays as many copies of Dark Embrace as the game offers him, but it was causing issues in this deck. It was also filling his hand with cards when he was trying to buff with necronomicurse as well as occasionally forcing the curse out of his hand entirely when hitting 10 cards.
For never players: necromomicon with fiend fire is dangerous, if you have dark embrace in play. I managed to destroy my complete deck once without finishing the combat...
Is there anything special that the game does when you get down to zero cards?
Or does it just look at you and say “Click End turn, you absolute buffoon?”
@@samuellanghus1455essentially that. Pray you have mercury hourglass lmao
@@art-cs6us Or that calendar procs soon enough.
Easily my favorite run of vanilla runs, and I've seen.. too many games. This deck was that weird sort of coin lands on its edge that you can get to happen for watcher with some regularity, but seeing something like this particular conceit (well put) is less traveled by and was a pleasure.
@ 1:21:23, the debuffs were in sync with the music.
To identify such winning lines is just amazing! Well played Baalor, you’re a true master of the spire
Starts with 1.Ke2
21:13 Courier is 1.25x gold. It reduces prices by 20% so gold is 25% more valuable. Not a huge difference but good to spread correct data.
When you were talking about doing a curse run to try and master the curses in another run, I was thinking Ironclad for this exact reason because of Blue Candle synergizing with so many of Ironclad's paradigms, but my idea had Firebreathing in it.
Blue Candle/Runic Cube or Blue Candle/Dark Embrace lets you get away with having curses in your deck. Runic Cube is far more consistent, but it's a boss relic and hard to rely on getting. Dark Embrace is -1 card draw, -1 or -2 mana, and you aren't guaranteed to get it in your opening hand unless you have a small deck with Gambling Chip, or bottle it. It's far easier to get though and safely synergize with while self-harm decks are extremely risky and inconsistent without key cards/relics at A20. You could also get a Tungsten Rod, and forego the damage from Blue Candle entirely for infinite draw with a Dark Embrace.
I would be all for a change to Blood for Blood, so that it starts at 2 mana, but it deals less damage while the upgrade is just more damage instead of cost reduction. It's one of the best starting cards for a self-harm deck, but it's just too high cost if you can't safely get damaged or draw it too early before even being able to be damaged i.e Lagavulin, Nob, Slime Boss, etc. Makes it super hard to take if you don't already have a way to damage yourself.
51:58 If my math is correct that fiend fire was about to do 486 damage + another 54 from being played again on necronomicon. Decent card I would say
I've heard about this run, I am excited!
My guy created a necropotence from MTG in slay the spire
The Fiend Fire play using the Necronomicon + Necronomicurse against Gremlin Leader was sublime and I expect it to just get better from here. 41:16
1:24:30 Reaper only triggered once because it "killed" boss, which shuts down any ongoing damage effects.
Holy hell, this run! What have we all just witnessed?! I bet twitch chat was just losing its collective mind when this happened.
Regarding why the reaper didn't get doubled against the awakened one, it's because you killed it (the first phase, anyway) with the first activation, I'm pretty sure.
this is when the stars aligned
1:05:37 just curious, why didn't you consider Firebreathing? Wouldn't it have dealt 10 damage each time you discarded/redrew the necro curse?
Probably it doesnt count as a draw
saw it live will watch it anyway here
"You are mine!"
--Collector
Such hubris!
That Fiend Fire + Necronomicurse tech to deal exactly enough damage to kill Gremlin Leader blew my mind. That's the kind of turn where I wouldn't calculate anything and just lose lmao
What an incredible run! I'm so glad you finally found the belt, and with a necrocurse run, truly one in a million. Congratulations Baalor
Was it the awakened going down that cancelled the second Reaper at 1:24:33? I’m pretty sure it doesn’t allow attacks to even be played against it when it’s downed like that.
you can normally play aoes
I was there! Couldn't believe this run
One for the ages. So many incredible moments.
Amazing run! Congratulations, Baalor!
I watched this live! Amazing run!!
Now this is ridiculous. Ridiculously entertaining, that is!
learned an insane amount of stuff on this video
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