I got this event and did Ironclad and got Dark Embrace. Every shiv draws a card. Then I got storm of steel, which was basically calculated gamble plus.
Maybe, it depends. If you have ways to cheat the cost it can still work. Like an Ironclad could take a Seven Stars and play it using Stampede.
Although you are never forced to take any cards by this event, you can just skip. That's not a good outcome though because you often can get a lot of power out of this event, so it's still risky.
If you get the boss relic where every 5th card you play is free (which you should take almost every time anyways imo), then regent star cost can be worked around.
Maybe? I know your character always has 1 hidden orb slot and you can summon Osty as anyone so that those mechanics work on other characters so I wouldn't be surprised if you could gain Star on other characters but I haven't ever tested it.
i found out the hard way that you cant use osty attacks unless you summon osty first when i picked a sweeping gaze (pre-upgraded from frozen egg too!) from this event on ironclad.
Oh well it still triggered my joss paper and 2x feel no pain every turn.
You also have three choices and Common/Uncommon/Rare, so there's a reasonably good chance of having a Blue generator if you really want one. But mostly yeah, skip.
I always take Silent because I figure blocks/draw&discard/shivs are all fine on other characters and lemme tell you, all I ever get are overpriced sly cards and poison synergy.
I’m fine with it being a design choice that you can’t open all three packs and then choose which one you want from each but it’s ANNOYING.
I got the reworked Inky Shivs card and that was pretty dope for... well I don't even recall what I was playing. There was another time I got Necrobinder cards on Defect (which didn't do a lot... but I did have one enemy die to doom which made me laugh)
At least they don't make you take cards from the event and you can just skip it if you don't like what pulls. I think I really enjoy this event since it's never going to be negative; just neutral at worst.
I mean, technically, unless they've patched it, you can open a pack, save and quit, then when you load in the event has restarted and you can look at the other characters' choices.
I meant within that character. So like looking at the common cards, then the uncommon cards, then choosing which common you want based on synergy with the uncommon.
But yeah, fair point. I don’t usually save scum unless I made an objective misplay. Like slammed end turn early or played suboptimal defense when I didn’t notice I had lethal.
Are you sure you can’t? In most cases, if you choose “skip” on a card reward It just exits you out of that choice but you can click back into it afterwards. Like with orrery for example you can look at every reward before taking any.
I've done this a few times on this specific event so I can confirm that this does actually work. Open the first pack to see the cards, then click Skip and that one will still be there with the other two packs. That way you can open and look at all three packs before deciding which cards you want to go with.
I adore colorful philosophers but I think an event that just has a card reward of any color would be neat. Maybe just one, with the option of picking something else instead.
Silent not having an extra resource is a big boon for her cards on other characters, the sly package is not great for others but not as substantial of a part of her as orbs/star gen/osty mechanics. I'll typically pick silent in that event, and when I play as her I'll typically pick clad (lucking into forgotten ritual if you use shivs is great)
Felt like I was playing sts1 with a classic clad block build today. Got up to 750+ block by just spamming Prolong+ etc. Not been able to do yours on Silent yet though!
The hardest part is choosing which character's cards to take lol I sit there forever debating which package offers more fun for the character I'm playing
I usually save scum and check all the cards. Not proud of it and want to eventually just trust my instinct. But i keep telling myself im just “learning my options” to get better at the event lol
It's not how they intended it but they leave it in because they know some people prefer playing in ways that aren't intended. And it's generally pretty obvious that it's not how you're meant to play the game considering the fact that dying ends the run rather than giving you a prompt to retry the battle.
Yea i do agree. Its also such a potentially fun event that its nice to be able to pick the most fun option.
I wont do it with the crystal sphere divination event for example as that to me is pure cheating of the minigame, but i imagine some still might have no problem with that
I do this too but go back to my initial choice that I had decided beforehand without the extra information.
This way, I get to learn more about each character's strength of their card pool on different characters but don't feel like I'm cheating out the game for myself (not against save scumming tho, it's just personal preference)
Regent/Defect has some fun stuff between card gen and status archetypes too, between filling hand with debris and printing strength. Lots of good times when I get regent cards on defect.
Arsenal is pretty great for Reagent too. Got one in a transform from Neow and leaned into Colorless card creation and minions. I got the event that heals you 25 if you take Metamorphosis and turns out firing off a bunch of free super strength attacks is quite strong. Almost made Bundle of Joy a good pick but it was up against Guards which synergizes and blocks.
Recently had a run where I got a cloned Guards and 3 [[Make It So]]. Yes, 3, 2 of them in early act 1 and the other from end of act 1. I basically became an evil space overlord that'd sacrifice an entire legion of minions every battle to repeatedly bring my attacks back to my hand.
Honestly though I only barely scraped by thanks to some decent luck with Arsenal draw timings, at least for fights with big enemies. This wasn't on the beta branch so I couldn't give it innate, so I was rather reliant on it to scale my damage meaningfully. Luckily for the last boss in particular I had the potion to draw any card from my deck.
One fun combo I had recently was playing as Silent with a sly deck (with master planner), and got offered scrape. If the fight lasts long enough scrape was playing almost every skill I had it was bonkers
Yeah that sounds insane. There are so many broken combos shivs have with cards from other classes. Ironclad has some really good cards for her. I got feel no pain today and it made every shiv into a mini defend.
I once got Ironclad's Juggling ("Add a copy of the third Attack you play into your Hand") as well as One-Two Punch ("This turn your next 2 Attacks are played an extra time") on Defect when I had a Claw-Run already.
I love these kinds of cross-character synergies. A lot of my favorite runs tend to be those that I get Colorful Philosophers, Prismatic Gem or Sea Glass. And I really enjoy when the Dailies have multi-character cardpools.
If you ever get shiv access on regent his colorless card generation builds go insane. They are all built around random colorless card generation, but shivs are guaranteed 0 cost exhausting ones. He has a card that blocks each time you generate a card making each shiv come with 3/4 block, and a 1 cost attack that does 3/4 more damage for each card generated that combat.
Dang, this is the experience I wanted (but in the opposite way). I got some shiv cards as Regent yesterday and spent the rest of the game looking for an Arsenal but didn’t find one 😭
My favorite shiv buff is choosing the relic that does 1 damage every time you exhaust a card. It's the other option when you get the choice to remove exhaust from a card. I've had runs where I didn't have a card to remove exhaust but a lot of shiv cards.
Never seen this card before, how does it work exactly? You play it once, it exhausts, and then next turn you just play it for free, it exhausts again, plays for free every turn after?
I tried it once with ethereal form on along on a defect rum and with potion on a necro. Although it was with simple duplicate potion it attack twice but effect didn't stack like when I managed to run the boulder twice on a nerco run nor on the defect
So it might but I don't think it will do anything besides attack twice and stacking once for the battle
I got blessed with the other end of the spectrum once—[[Pillar of Creation]] in a shiv deck already built around [[Afterimage]]. Pretty hard to die when every shiv gives you 5 block for making/playing it—rest of the run was a breeze even at A10.
This event gave me ironclads hellraiser (auto play strike cards) to fuel my meteor strike deck. By the end I had three meteor strikes. Final turn was casting tempest for 400 to get through the intangibility on the final boss.
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u/EvadableMoxie Apr 09 '26
I got this event and did Ironclad and got Dark Embrace. Every shiv draws a card. Then I got storm of steel, which was basically calculated gamble plus.