NL if you are going for a bullet time combo deck grab a lot of card draw and that's why the upgrade reduces the cost of bullet time so you can draw more cards
or if you are the silent with the ring of the snake (+the relics listed above) it could be +2 card draw per turn +2 poison applied to enemies and random cost
What would be really cool is if you could unlock new secret paths with combinations of relics like if you have 3 mask relics one of the question mark spots becomes another branching path that leads in to a "story" path about the mask and how they are important to the spire. But it would be kinda like an Easter egg
Why would you take catalyst as your first item? Sure it has the potential to be "1 Energy Add 50+ poison. Exhaust" but it also has the potential to be "1 Energy Haha you have no poison get rekt. Exhaust"
Alfredo Hall Catalyst is a gamble but I take it over Dagger spray as my first card any day of the week. At least Catalyst has a chance to be good to great Dagger spray is almost always mediocre
Sh33rCold *figures out Chokes effect finally* *forgets it a second later and strikes an enemy that would've died to any card because of choke - meaning he takes damage from the other enemy* ALRIGHTY BUDDY
Snecko eye + Bullet time would have done nothing for his deck, it would just have made his 0-1 cost zero-damage, def-heavy deck be unplayable 2/3 of the time and have been the same as it would have been on bullet time draws.
32:33 that was such a beautiful moment, NL looking at his cards with his internal clockwork rumbling and finally making the wrong choice anyway. It's so relatable :D
ryouka wasn't attacking the monitor, he was helping attack lagavulin, he wanted to help race it, he knew you needed it dead quicker so when it debuffed ryouka was time for cat strike, +5 initiative to all cards.
Man these Choke plays harm me so, he uses choke on them and then just kills them with the next attack without thinking about if the choked effect would kill them.
I decided to buy the game and play it myself, and i've learned so much about how not to play from egg that i'm currently sitting on a 40% winrate (on both ironclad and silent) in 10 runs (losses all on final boss) Bless egg, teaching by example
Quick guess - in this episode Northernlion starts out with saying he wants a small deck, then he keeps picking subpar attacks, and when he gets to get rid of cards, he gets rid of defends. Also he passes up any dexterity and/or escape plans he gets offered in lieu of sucker punch, bane, uppercut, dagger throw. In the meantime he gets whittled down by regular monsters and wonders why he dies to hyperbeam again.
"I seem to be falling into them for some reason" Impatient. It's because you're really impatient. To avert this scenario, try being less impatient. Alternatively try being more patient.
I imagine it has something to do with the one game he played where he had Snecko Eye and the Pyramid that lets you keep your hand. It's kind of killed those 2 for him since then.
It doesn't matter how expensive his cards are if he draws bullet time and snecko eye make you draw more cards which means he'd have nothing but gas in a free hand almost every turn.
Eh it could've been okay, it just introduces an element of random chance into the deck which could make the turns where he doesn't get bullet time absolutely terrible.
Matthew Davies more cards per turn means more chances to draw one of the two copies of bullet time. Bullet Time can be at worst the same price it always is. Keep the deck thin and it makes it very unlikely you'll go a turn without Bullet Time with that much extra card draw. At least that's my thought.
It's because he's trying to provide interesting commentary while playing the game. It is not as easy as it sounds at all. He needs to keep a constant stream of thought while talking to stay on topic PLUS trying to think about the game.
I can't really imagine any Silent run where Footwork isn't a top tier pick. Double Footwork is orgasm town. Footwork is so good that I think I got a foot fetish from it.
It's not a realistic combo but if you bullet time with nightmare in your hand, then nightmare a 0 cost it'll be 0 when the copies are added to your hand next turn. I did some hilarious wombo combos with it but it wasn't strong or reliable enough to be a proper build.
Snecko Eye was the obvious right choice with 2 bullet times in your "combo" deck you EGG. The game just hands you great stuff and you almost always screw it up. It would've made you super broken powerful bc turn 1 you draw 9 cards guaranteed and up to 10 which is over 50/50 for a bullet time with a full hand turn 1.
NL plays Draft Cards That Are Marginally Better Than Strike and Plays Them Until He Dies Or Maybe Wins If Handed Lots of Str/Dex How much fun would this have been had he taken Ice Cream and Snecko Eye like he should have.
The backlog is 2 weeks, he's been playing since the first week of December if not earlier. Not that I don't also think people should stop needlessly pointing out every single goddamn thing he does that's not 100% mathematically optimal, but I highly doubt he's gotten much better, and in fact in the last he's essentially confirmed that himself.
OOOH punish me thin decked daddy 4:31 MMM yeah it hurts so good 6:35 Yes more please! 36:32 MMM spray me with daggers egg daddy 39:12 Yeah don't improve our deck, please give me some more
NL, only one slay the spire ep today? You sick and lost your backlog or busy with life or just sleeping on us? I've watched every isaac ep since the original for like 3 years daily and every ep of this so far. Pretty damn good game, not even mad for backlog
I decided to buy the game and play it myself, and i've learned so much about how not to play from egg that i'm currently sitting on a 40% winrate (on both ironclad and silent) in 10 runs Bless egg, teaching by example
I agree that removing cards can definitely improve your combo and deck construction overall, but I just feel like he is too aggressive and just removes cards because he can
you should do a spiky boi deck. its a turtle build with a million caltrops edit: EGG! nightmare is great with bullet time. it creates copys, not the exact card! this means that for FREE you can get any card in your hand on your next turn FOR FREE and 3 of them.
Where's my greys anatomy lets play egg Kappa comments couldn't handle the lack of the spire, easy on the roll, he had a backlog and probably went on a trip so chill.
I can't be the only one who finds it funny when Merchant speaks to NL: "I like your hair". ;)
NL if you are going for a bullet time combo deck grab a lot of card draw and that's why the upgrade reduces the cost of bullet time so you can draw more cards
Yeah the discount is great so that you can backflip or acrobatics into it.
id like to see relics combine if you get certain matching ones like sneko eye and skull making the sneko head which makes its own unique effect
or if you are the silent with the ring of the snake (+the relics listed above) it could be +2 card draw per turn +2 poison applied to enemies and random cost
Excuse me does that look like a ring of the sneko? that is a ring of the snake sir take that nonsense out of your mouth.
yamkazee Only the classiest comments on Egg daddys vids.
Woah! save something cool for StS 2
What would be really cool is if you could unlock new secret paths with combinations of relics like if you have 3 mask relics one of the question mark spots becomes another branching path that leads in to a "story" path about the mask and how they are important to the spire. But it would be kinda like an Easter egg
MINIMALIST ATTITUDE CONGLOMERATION OF CARDS PATERNAL FIGURE
42:00 or you can discard bullet time because you had enough energy to play your hand
This happened many times throughout the run.
@49:30
> Has a deck which consistently lets him make his hand free.
> Doesn't take an expensive and powerful card for the second time.
His reactions at the end are so good, seeing that Austin is slightly better than him in everything xD
LET'S GOOOOOOOOOO
Dagger spray over Catalyst the Egg man is here
Why would you take catalyst as your first item? Sure it has the potential to be "1 Energy Add 50+ poison. Exhaust" but it also has the potential to be "1 Energy Haha you have no poison get rekt. Exhaust"
Alfredo Hall Catalyst is a gamble but I take it over Dagger spray as my first card any day of the week. At least Catalyst has a chance to be good to great Dagger spray is almost always mediocre
Also dagger spray over noxious fumes+
Kill me now
Human Man ok that one is inexcusable. Noxious fumes is strong in non poison decks too.
Especially with how slowly he was dealing damage. Noxious Fumes plus Snecko Skull with have literally ended battles twice as quickly
ICE CREAM, THREAD AND NEEDLE
NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
that triggered me so fucking hard. egg, please.
me as well and after the golden Idol
*skips Wraith Form with Bullet Time*
Alright bud
*skips Sneko Eye with Bullet Time*
ALRIGHT BUD
Sh33rCold *figures out Chokes effect finally*
*forgets it a second later and strikes an enemy that would've died to any card because of choke - meaning he takes damage from the other enemy*
ALRIGHTY BUDDY
You skipped ice cream you fool
Yea but he did kind of need me healing
he skipped snecko eye with 2 bullet times
WUHAT SNECKO EYE + BULLET TIME, dude ive had that combo 1 time, omg its op
Havent watched those for two weeks, i think i got enough missplays for another two more xD
Snecko eye + Bullet time would have done nothing for his deck, it would just have made his 0-1 cost zero-damage, def-heavy deck be unplayable 2/3 of the time and have been the same as it would have been on bullet time draws.
When NL passed up ice cream to remove a curse, I literally could feel my bones quake.
Will egg daddy ever remember tori when calculating how much damage he'll take? The world may never know.
Imagine ice cream and skewer in this run
So proud of NL for skipping Alchemize especially since he already had Sozu.
32:33 that was such a beautiful moment, NL looking at his cards with his internal clockwork rumbling and finally making the wrong choice anyway. It's so relatable :D
ryouka wasn't attacking the monitor, he was helping attack lagavulin, he wanted to help race it, he knew you needed it dead quicker so when it debuffed ryouka was time for cat strike, +5 initiative to all cards.
Man these Choke plays harm me so, he uses choke on them and then just kills them with the next attack without thinking about if the choked effect would kill them.
I decided to buy the game and play it myself, and i've learned so much about how not to play from egg that i'm currently sitting on a 40% winrate (on both ironclad and silent) in 10 runs (losses all on final boss)
Bless egg, teaching by example
He's playing the game blind, remember. You have the benefit of seeing the entire game tons and tons of times.
That meat saved you from most of your bad decisions.
I hope NL someday realizes that card draw is what enables bullet time and energy cards being good
You can afford Ice cream and you don't buy it?
That bullet time song is why I still watch slay the spire at all
NL and dagger spray, name a more iconic duo. I'll wait
NL and cleave.
Never stop making slay the spire videos
"If we get ice cream....."
6:42 "I believe in this deck right now"
*Kate laughing in the background*
First floor Boss: "we are going fast."
Second floor Elite: "it is actually the slowest run in the human history."
Did this fool skip icecream with bullet time and happy flower in his hand? Ok.
Hearing him say "Ice Cream would be so good" in summer 2023 hits different
You don't need to play bullet time every time. If you have enough energy then just discard bullettime.
Quick guess - in this episode Northernlion starts out with saying he wants a small deck, then he keeps picking subpar attacks, and when he gets to get rid of cards, he gets rid of defends. Also he passes up any dexterity and/or escape plans he gets offered in lieu of sucker punch, bane, uppercut, dagger throw. In the meantime he gets whittled down by regular monsters and wonders why he dies to hyperbeam again.
Ah no, it was much worse, but a win regardless! :P
"I seem to be falling into them for some reason"
Impatient. It's because you're really impatient. To avert this scenario, try being less impatient. Alternatively try being more patient.
HOW DO YOU PASS ON ICE CREAM??
Skips ice cream
Complains about not having ice cream
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Snecko eye plus bullet time is pretty much a win-the-game synergy. No clue why you turned that down
I imagine it has something to do with the one game he played where he had Snecko Eye and the Pyramid that lets you keep your hand. It's kind of killed those 2 for him since then.
>Likes aggro
>Doesn't go clash flex headbutt warcry low energy spam
'bout time. I was getting the shakes.
Alright maybe I don't know what I'm talking about but Snecko Eye was a perfect relic for him right?
MicoDossun yes. I was hoping it would show up so he can see how great it is in the right deck, but then he didn't take it :(
MicoDossun why? I don’t get how
It doesn't matter how expensive his cards are if he draws bullet time and snecko eye make you draw more cards which means he'd have nothing but gas in a free hand almost every turn.
Eh it could've been okay, it just introduces an element of random chance into the deck which could make the turns where he doesn't get bullet time absolutely terrible.
Matthew Davies more cards per turn means more chances to draw one of the two copies of bullet time. Bullet Time can be at worst the same price it always is. Keep the deck thin and it makes it very unlikely you'll go a turn without Bullet Time with that much extra card draw. At least that's my thought.
32:30 He's going to do it, isn't he?
The most painful 10 seconds of my life, and of course they ended tragically.
@30:05. "essentially might as well" ---- Incorrect
I think there were some plays where you had enough energy to play every card and retain both Bullet Time and Survivor for next turn
Oh my god; happy flower, sundial, flying knees and outmaneuvers. And you didn't take ice cream. Damn.
I like how he keeps reminding people of zozu when he's the only one capable of forgeting that
I thought he was going to lose this run, but won by the skin of his teeth, well done NL!
NL has the memory of a goldfish... i don't understand how a man can make the same mistake call himself an idiot and repeat it 5 times...
It's because he's trying to provide interesting commentary while playing the game. It is not as easy as it sounds at all. He needs to keep a constant stream of thought while talking to stay on topic PLUS trying to think about the game.
6:41 HE NOTICED! THIS IS IMPROVEMENT
Best show ever
Finally! A new episode of dagger spray the spire
4:32
You can not even fathom a reason why passing turn was the right play.
1:51 in to the video can you say cleave....I mean dagger spray, cuz Northernlion sure will every damn time
This made me chuckle
i think first 3 encounters with 1 hp is super super nice, cause i look at it as 3 free loot rooms
At least he figured out that defends help him win the game.
I can't really imagine any Silent run where Footwork isn't a top tier pick. Double Footwork is orgasm town. Footwork is so good that I think I got a foot fetish from it.
every time he skipped acrobatics with all that energy and bullet time i actually felt physical pain
I don't know which is worse: that you went the entire run without upgrading the key components of your deck, or that you somehow still won...
It's so weird how his brain completely breaks when encountering thorns enemies.
Thanks for the company.
6:35 though, please egg you're killing me
It's not a realistic combo but if you bullet time with nightmare in your hand, then nightmare a 0 cost it'll be 0 when the copies are added to your hand next turn. I did some hilarious wombo combos with it but it wasn't strong or reliable enough to be a proper build.
Snecko Eye was the obvious right choice with 2 bullet times in your "combo" deck you EGG. The game just hands you great stuff and you almost always screw it up. It would've made you super broken powerful bc turn 1 you draw 9 cards guaranteed and up to 10 which is over 50/50 for a bullet time with a full hand turn 1.
HE HAS DONE IT! LETS GO!
I miss Malf comments.
RIP ice cream
After Forever Discord. Can't unhear it.
NL reaches final boss without upgrading choke, half his deck's entire purpose
*Gets energy relics
*Gets two Bullet Times
NL plays Draft Cards That Are Marginally Better Than Strike and Plays Them Until He Dies Or Maybe Wins If Handed Lots of Str/Dex
How much fun would this have been had he taken Ice Cream and Snecko Eye like he should have.
Finally! Thank you my favourite Egglord!
Egg, when you have choke and upgraded blade dance shows up please pick it up because it triggers choke 4 times
32:30
And he thought about it for so long....
NL plays so fast you think he hates his job...
The faster he goes, the more money he makes. He figured that out years ago. He's not here to play well.
Don't be so cynical.
Ice Cream! Ah! Oh! I'm having a heart attack!
guys stop poiting out nl mistakes, the backlog is so huge that he's probably a god atm
Top Personal doubt it
Just like he's a god at Isaac right?
The backlog is 2 weeks, he's been playing since the first week of December if not earlier. Not that I don't also think people should stop needlessly pointing out every single goddamn thing he does that's not 100% mathematically optimal, but I highly doubt he's gotten much better, and in fact in the last he's essentially confirmed that himself.
He played on stream today. Can confirm this is false
Cleave!
A V E R A G E S I Z E D M A L E P A R E N T A L U N I T
OOOH punish me thin decked daddy
4:31 MMM yeah it hurts so good
6:35 Yes more please!
36:32 MMM spray me with daggers egg daddy
39:12 Yeah don't improve our deck, please give me some more
MMM yesss flame me!!! It hurts so good!!
marko tikvic ooh daddy’s getting triggered
>doesn't take ice-cream
I'm sticking to wander, bye mate.
4:32 IT BEGINS
danRoma10 The fact that he justified it too. It hurts
NL, only one slay the spire ep today? You sick and lost your backlog or busy with life or just sleeping on us? I've watched every isaac ep since the original for like 3 years daily and every ep of this so far. Pretty damn good game, not even mad for backlog
720 hurt me
Skewer would be amazing on this deck
I just got a Blistex essential oils ad. They're listening... 😂
Snecko Eye would've been perfect with a bullet time deck
cant wait until he gets to about level 6 on ascension and is forced to actually block more
Talks about keeping the deck thin while taking every single card he can.
6:36 Will he ever learn?
Anyone else here the weird clip sounds at 1:20 ?
Misplay the Spire
I decided to buy the game and play it myself, and i've learned so much about how not to play from egg that i'm currently sitting on a 40% winrate (on both ironclad and silent) in 10 runs
Bless egg, teaching by example
Best run ever for a snecko eye but alright..
Skipping sneko eye when he had two bullet time made my butt clench. If only he thought about it a bit more.
Let's goghhh!!
Is it actually good to remove as many cards as NL does? I've been playing for a while and haven't been nearly as agressive with card removal
There's a guy who got a infinite combo with just two cards in his deck, sooooo...
Maybe?
It's good with the right card balance, but he doesn't always balance what he takes lol
I agree that removing cards can definitely improve your combo and deck construction overall, but I just feel like he is too aggressive and just removes cards because he can
Some would say nl's card removal is never nearly agressive enough
removing basic cards is usually good since every other card is better
He focused the donut on the boss fight he is learning
1:40
Calling austin out
you should do a spiky boi deck. its a turtle build with a million caltrops
edit: EGG! nightmare is great with bullet time. it creates copys, not the exact card! this means that for FREE you can get any card in your hand on your next turn FOR FREE and 3 of them.
New enemies? I have yet to encounter those
SnazzyCricket he’s playing on the beta branch which has experimental stuff everywhere just in case you didn’t know
Ah that had not yet registered with me :) I need to check that ouwt
Where's my greys anatomy lets play egg Kappa comments couldn't handle the lack of the spire, easy on the roll, he had a backlog and probably went on a trip so chill.
LETS GOOOOOOOOO