A reminder that NL rates Bag of Preparation as being not very good but will never give up Ring of the Snake at the start of a run despite them being the same exact item.
In his defense there are so many horrible boss relics that it's not necessarily about keeping snake ring so much as it is about not getting runic dome or something else equally terrible
You aren't considering the fact that drawing 7 cards at the beginning is good, and removing that would be bad. He doesn't take it because he doesn't want to draw 9 cards at the beginning of each fight. There is a difference.
Best part is when he picked up the bullet time, he was talking about forcing a combo deck, while passing on Concentrate which is pretty much the best enabler to infinite turn combo decks.
I wanted to punch the egg when he said agnostically a good card in a previous episide, which must be the most psuedointellectual sentence ever uttered in the history of mankind. "there is no way to actually know that this is a good card, which makes it a good card" Use the word properly and say "an agnostic play" or don't use it at all... Egg is the Brian Griffin of UA-cam.
71 episodes in and he still uses Apotheosis like an upgraded armaments.. Also skips snecko skull when he had 2 bouncing flasks and buys potions instead. What is this man doing I can't handle it..
Apotheosis upgrades all your cards in your deck, not just in your hand. That means it he shouldn't be playing it before bullet time. This caused him to have some misplays.
Okay really Egg. Bullet Time then Apotheosis, 3 energy. Apotheosis then Bullet Time, 4 energy. Please. You said a few episodes ago you have over 70 hours in the game, just... please learn basic energy management.
Necronomicurse is actually great in the right deck because it comes back if you exhaust it. One of my favoiret uses for it is Blue Candle + Rupture. Basically you can just play Necronomicurse over and over again and get as much strenght as you want with Rupture until you decide to do something else (ideally play Heavy Blade for 300 damage)
Good run honestly, the pyramid with bullet time seems to have a different use to the one you were doing. Something like saving your cards until you have a great hand to bullet time
Yep exactly. It’s a god tier combo but he didn’t think about it at all. He didn’t even consider that he could save bullet time in hand and then play big turns.
Card draw isn't just for playing cards on that turn though. There might be a card that you just played that you want to see again, so you'll need to cycle the whole deck. For example, in a limit break build. Being able to flip through your deck to reshuffle can be very useful.
He actually under-values Pommel Strike and Quick Slash. They're both extremely good because they don't bloat your deck as much as other cards. What I mean by this is that they can cycle you through the deck by atleast one card, nullifying their own added weight. So an 11 card deck with that 11th card being a quick slash is sort-of a 10 card deck. Cycling back to his bullet time as much as possible should have been his priority.
Calculated gamble and Prepared are the only 2 bad draw mechanic cards Silent gets. All the others either cycle with benefit, or add cards. Those are all are worth taking. Also he should stop passing on the BLOODY POWER CARDS! I've said it a billion times now: powers dont slow a deck EVER are ALWAYS good, and should ALWAYS be priority picked. EXPECIALLY in a shop over a crap common relic that costs 2x as much.
For the slime boss fight, its usually better to take the initial big hit if it means you can get him to split at a lower life total. Even though you avoid the damage initially, you'll probably end up taking the same amount with the super high hp slimes and their added debuffs
There is no escaping this curse... especially with runic pyramid lol. I wonder if it has special synergies with blue candle, or turning it into curse poop. Hmm.
Hey NL, just letting you know that if you get a bullet time that is barely worth it or its in your first hand, it can be good to wait a turn to use it for extra value, depending on the circumstance
why would you not play bullet time first, making all cards cost 0 and then play apotheosis? Cost 3 energy instead of 4 and you can still play all cards.
Hey NL, a thin deck is probably around 8-12 cards... not 30+, just saying. Also you never manage to rid your deck of garbage like basic blocks and strikes.. so maybe do that more.
HE DOESNT TAKE NIGHTMARE IN A RUNIC PYRAMID BULLET TIME DECK! T H I S E G G I S G O N N A G I V E M E B R A I N D A M A G E For real though. Bullet time runic pyramid is basically a run on a silver platter if you focus on card draw and high cost cards.
So annoying how he keeps using potions before he needs to... He doesn't understand that he can always drink them when he needs them? There have no Cooldown or restrictions... Just don't use them until you need to do so.
he had bullet time...and he ignored nightmare...the inner machinations of his mind are an enigma (milk spills over) Let me explain: While it is true that the combo requires both bullet time and nightmare, this was not an issue because of runic pyramid. Step 1: get both bullet time and nightmare in your hand along with some card you want to play a lot of (for example bouncing flask) Step 2: play bullet time making all cards cost 0 including nightmare Step 3: play nightmare choosing bouncing flask Step 4: play 3 0 cost bouncing flasks next turn Step 5: profit from 27-36 poison applied (depends on if BF was upgraded) Step 6: never question the consequences
Don't forget he also skipped Wraith form (as always) with bullet time... When his deck is made of 3/4 skill cards. Beacause we all know it would be terrible with nightmare / bullet time / runic pyramid on turn 2 making all his poisons, blocks and card draw deal 15 free damage when played. Thats absolutely a terrible amount of damage not worth taking the cards for.
A reminder that NL rates Bag of Preparation as being not very good but will never give up Ring of the Snake at the start of a run despite them being the same exact item.
In his defense there are so many horrible boss relics that it's not necessarily about keeping snake ring so much as it is about not getting runic dome or something else equally terrible
You aren't considering the fact that drawing 7 cards at the beginning is good, and removing that would be bad. He doesn't take it because he doesn't want to draw 9 cards at the beginning of each fight. There is a difference.
Flaming Galaxy - Osu, Binding of Isaac & More! Last episode as the ironclad he also said it was bad, and he had the lantern & sundial on that run.
Fair enough, just talking about this specific example
And he rates 2 potions over snekos skull with a poison deck
Apotheosis will still. Upgrade. The. Bloody. Bullet. Time. After. Using. It. Egg.
i dont get it
John Ryan and i was still in the mindset that bullettime said" green cards will cost zero" ... its all cards now
Love how he totally ignored pantograph.
Day 36,NL still thinks apotheosis is armaments+
It kinda is in a thin deck
no i mean he tried to always play it before bullet time,cause he thought he would miss the upgrade
Why is he resting before the boss at 32:30?? He would have been full life and upgrade a card -,-
Clearly forgot he had the heal before boss fight relic
-Says that bullet time in a thin deck would be great
-Keeps taking cards
Don't ever change. I love these videos. :b
Edit: T H I N D E C K D A D D Y
"I think a dagger spray is good here"
Dude I tell myself on every run I'm going to be a thin decc daddy. I'd say I average around 24 cards by the end.
Best part is when he picked up the bullet time, he was talking about forcing a combo deck, while passing on Concentrate which is pretty much the best enabler to infinite turn combo decks.
40:45 That was one of the few times where prepared was PERFECT for this deck...
He did say immediately afterward that he should have taken it
playing bullet time first then apotheosis still makes bullet time better lol
but how?
Apotheosis upgrades ALL cards, not just those in hand.
Is "agnostic" becoming the new "novel"?
Yes
Nice
I wanted to punch the egg when he said agnostically a good card in a previous episide, which must be the most psuedointellectual sentence ever uttered in the history of mankind.
"there is no way to actually know that this is a good card, which makes it a good card"
Use the word properly and say "an agnostic play" or don't use it at all... Egg is the Brian Griffin of UA-cam.
71 episodes in and he still uses Apotheosis like an upgraded armaments..
Also skips snecko skull when he had 2 bouncing flasks and buys potions instead. What is this man doing I can't handle it..
i hate how he keeps saying his not sure about this run when he has a great run and fucks it up
How else would you use Apotheosis?
If he uses bullet time before Apo its a 3 energy combo, the other way around and its 4 energy, simple as that.
Apotheosis upgrades all your cards in your deck, not just in your hand. That means it he shouldn't be playing it before bullet time. This caused him to have some misplays.
>professional internet star
>starts his recording with his cat blocking the monitor
this ryab
Srew snekos skull with a poison deck that relies on bouncing flask /s
William Mitchell he'd have lived if he picked snecko skull, feels bad man
this was the biggest tilt, it has two fucking bouncing flasks and just ignores the skull like how is he this oblivious
I couldn't believe my eyes. He looked at it, too!
32:38 pls keep your relics in mind. Next time you make a misplay.
how
does he still
not understand necronomicon
he even read it! I thought, thank god. but yeah....
Shop has Bottled Lightning and NL has Apotheosis, Snecko Skull when NL has 2 Bouncing Flasks, nah let's get 2 regen potions.
Okay really Egg. Bullet Time then Apotheosis, 3 energy. Apotheosis then Bullet Time, 4 energy. Please. You said a few episodes ago you have over 70 hours in the game, just... please learn basic energy management.
Also, don't heal for 18 when you only have 20 damage and heal for 25 entering the boss fight. Literal waste of a campfire.
He (sometimes) thinks that Apo is like Armaments+, that he has to play it first in order to keep Bullet-time upgraded.
Bullet Time is also upgraded by Apotheosis if in your discard pile so there IS LITERALLY NO REASON TO PLAY THEM IN THAT ORDER IN ANY CASE
Necronomicurse is actually great in the right deck because it comes back if you exhaust it. One of my favoiret uses for it is Blue Candle + Rupture. Basically you can just play Necronomicurse over and over again and get as much strenght as you want with Rupture until you decide to do something else (ideally play Heavy Blade for 300 damage)
Good run honestly, the pyramid with bullet time seems to have a different use to the one you were doing. Something like saving your cards until you have a great hand to bullet time
I imagine you just draft really expensive cards and just play 2-3 cards till Bullet time, then you just bomb it.
Yep exactly. It’s a god tier combo but he didn’t think about it at all. He didn’t even consider that he could save bullet time in hand and then play big turns.
34 CARDS
I REPEAT, 34 CARDS
Derpy Sandwich ThICK DECk DaDDY
And not a single attack with two energy, RIP Necronomicon
Derpy Sandwich THIN DECK DADDY
Derpy Sandwich deck size doesnt matter if you have a balanced deck, but this egghead clearly doesnt.
I think you overvalue pommel strike and quick slash. Card draw isnt helpful if you dont have the energy to play the hand
Card draw isn't just for playing cards on that turn though. There might be a card that you just played that you want to see again, so you'll need to cycle the whole deck. For example, in a limit break build. Being able to flip through your deck to reshuffle can be very useful.
He actually under-values Pommel Strike and Quick Slash. They're both extremely good because they don't bloat your deck as much as other cards. What I mean by this is that they can cycle you through the deck by atleast one card, nullifying their own added weight.
So an 11 card deck with that 11th card being a quick slash is sort-of a 10 card deck.
Cycling back to his bullet time as much as possible should have been his priority.
Calculated gamble and Prepared are the only 2 bad draw mechanic cards Silent gets. All the others either cycle with benefit, or add cards. Those are all are worth taking. Also he should stop passing on the BLOODY POWER CARDS! I've said it a billion times now: powers dont slow a deck EVER are ALWAYS good, and should ALWAYS be priority picked. EXPECIALLY in a shop over a crap common relic that costs 2x as much.
Bullet time should play before apotheosis this will use 3 mana and even bullet time in discard pile it still be upgrade
NL Blur's armor rolling effect stacks, so you can play multiple blurs on one turn to get their armor rolling effects for many turns.
41:04 I feel like taking the skull here with the deck would have made a lot of sense
For the slime boss fight, its usually better to take the initial big hit if it means you can get him to split at a lower life total.
Even though you avoid the damage initially, you'll probably end up taking the same amount with the super high hp slimes and their added debuffs
Pantograph is a pretty okay relic when you actually utilize it.
A northernlion video without his cats isn't a northernlion video
You actually blew that run so hard
Why did he rest before the 2nd boss, anyway he was getting healed 25 by the relic ...
why did he heal before 1st boss?
oh, you must be new here...
henlo egg I just heard on the NLSS that you like Celeste. Will you be uploading any game play of it?
The lesson is never try. -NL 2018
That strange... weird... odd even.. robotic stutter at 4:39
37:12 play the free card draw there is no reason to save it for card draw later you dont discard your hand
Was flinthook an early access game, has it been updated since you last played it?
At 10:43 you said "okay with what we had" and my phone thought I said okay google so brought up the Google help asking what I needed haha
bullet time is an anti combo deck card as it removes draw therefore limiting combo's.... its more for a high role expensive deck
Uhm excuse me, any deck where you play more than 3 cards per turn is a CoMbO DeCk!>@!
Skips calculated gamble
Says sometimes we want to get rid of cards in our hand.
Holy shit NL uploads 6 videos a day what a mad lad
"Trip" from the shop might have been nice. Not that great for a poison run, but still - upgraded it's 2 vulnerable on ALL enemies for 0 mana.
really, not taking snecko's skull? There is actually no excuse after 40 minutes of poison, poison, poison.
Bullettime and that pyramid makes it worth it to take very big card you find.
There is no escaping this curse... especially with runic pyramid lol. I wonder if it has special synergies with blue candle, or turning it into curse poop. Hmm.
This dude had a deck with poison corpse explosion and necronomicon... and still loses! Never change egg
Why is runic pyramid not good? You have bullet time. If you get 7 cards that cost 1/2 that's so much free energy.
Blurs stack through turns like weak and vulnerable.
"Could this work?"
Famous last words.
A win in less than 48 min? Can he do eet?
no.
Hey NL, just letting you know that if you get a bullet time that is barely worth it or its in your first hand, it can be good to wait a turn to use it for extra value, depending on the circumstance
NL "I am actually an idiot" :D i laughed out loud :D
i love this series! I watched every episode and cant wait for every vid! i wish i could play but my laptop is old and steam doesnt work ='(
InfernoFoxy Become a pirate for a day, even your pc is low it doesn t ask for too much tho
I've gotten nilrys so many times in a row off the book event I genuinely thought they' changed it to only give that.
still don't get why he never takes the boss relic when he is the silent i mean the relic only benefits him in the first turn of the fight only
Why did you take 2 regen potions over snecko skull ;_;
Nah dude. True grit upgraded is a fucking amazing card if you can get the spoon or the twig.
I think he still doesn't realise apotheosis upgrades all cards in his deck, not just his hand...
why would you not play bullet time first, making all cards cost 0 and then play apotheosis? Cost 3 energy instead of 4 and you can still play all cards.
71 episodes in and he hasn't figured out that green slimes weaken and grey slimes frail. >.>
Just here to say that I don't hate the Isaac dailies! Do what you want egg
Henlo Ryab
I feel like the whole conversation at the start of the video with ryuka about the box has been said in a different slay the spire video
Did I see that right? he had bullet time and a Skill based deck... And he DIDN'T take wraith form?
That sneko skull could have saved the run lol
Hey NL, a thin deck is probably around 8-12 cards... not 30+, just saying.
Also you never manage to rid your deck of garbage like basic blocks and strikes.. so maybe do that more.
He's going to have to learn to be more defensive. The higher he goes, the worse it will get.
HE DOESNT TAKE NIGHTMARE IN A RUNIC PYRAMID BULLET TIME DECK! T H I S E G G I S G O N N A G I V E M E B R A I N D A M A G E
For real though. Bullet time runic pyramid is basically a run on a silver platter if you focus on card draw and high cost cards.
Pyramid was literally the worst relic to pick from the first boss, both ectoplasm and runic dome are amazing, pyramid is just trash.
The irony is he wouldn't have died if he didn't remove the curse😂😂😂
Apotheosis upgrades ALL of your cards, playing it before bullet time jut costs you more energy. Classic NL, sigh
HE DIDNT TAKE SNECKO SKULL
Poor forgotten Pantograph :(
YO DAWG YOU LIKE YOUR WOMEN HOW YOU LIKE YOUR DECK?
THICC.
Okay something definitely wrong with today’s uploads. They’re getting not nearly as many views as before.
HE
HAS
ASCENDED
shrug it off and true grit on The Silent? what Slay the Spire is this?
Did he say he could win his run if he can only get Blue Candle????
PSYCHE !!
stop. resting. at. every. campfire.
Its so funny when his cats get in the way and then he argues with them
DOES TAKE SNEKO SKULL?1?!
THINN DECKED DADDY
Why do you always take glass knife... You had a thousand cuts in there with bullet time..
lets go lionNice
necronomicon wins games.
Nice
So annoying how he keeps using potions before he needs to... He doesn't understand that he can always drink them when he needs them? There have no Cooldown or restrictions... Just don't use them until you need to do so.
33 cards in the deck and calls it "thin".
Wow such a thin deck...
Clever girl...
Bring back dead cell!!!!!
so many adds now
Why wouldn't you want grand finale?
#TDD
#35
sup nl just thought id let you know imma be hanging out in your closet tonight see ya then
this was hard to watch
he had bullet time...and he ignored nightmare...the inner machinations of his mind are an enigma (milk spills over) Let me explain:
While it is true that the combo requires both bullet time and nightmare, this was not an issue because of runic pyramid.
Step 1: get both bullet time and nightmare in your hand along with some card you want to play a lot of (for example bouncing flask)
Step 2: play bullet time making all cards cost 0 including nightmare
Step 3: play nightmare choosing bouncing flask
Step 4: play 3 0 cost bouncing flasks next turn
Step 5: profit from 27-36 poison applied (depends on if BF was upgraded)
Step 6: never question the consequences
the cards only cost 0 for 1 turn so the 3 bouncing flasks all cost 2
Yeah. It was patched on Jan25:
> Nightmare no longer retains "cost for turn" when copying cards (as you get the copies next turn).
NL is on Jan26 beta
Don't forget he also skipped Wraith form (as always) with bullet time... When his deck is made of 3/4 skill cards.
Beacause we all know it would be terrible with nightmare / bullet time / runic pyramid on turn 2 making all his poisons, blocks and card draw deal 15 free damage when played. Thats absolutely a terrible amount of damage not worth taking the cards for.
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