An early Alchemize snowballs potions for the entire run, and extra potion-slot sources make an already degenerate card even stronger.

Card generation is exceptionally strong and often worth buying in the first shop; on characters that discount the result it can be even better.

Cheap, dense defense against the game's many multi-hit patterns and an easy shop purchase, with extra Ironclad exhaust synergy.

One of his most-purchased Act 1 rares: strong frontload plus three free cards, with especially consistent high rolls on Necrobinder.

Thirteen Block plus hand retention is a broadly powerful package that he is happy to buy early on almost every character.

An upgraded early Splash produces massively overstatted free attacks, especially Regent hits, and can carry the first two acts by itself.

Its buff to four Block makes the free cantrip worth buying even in Act 1, with Dexterity making it better still.

Simple, cheap draw-three is increasingly valuable and frequently worth buying now that colorless rares cost less.

The upgraded Strength and Dexterity are powerful, particularly on Necrobinder and Silent, despite the money, upgrade, and setup required.

Its huge one-energy Block number remains excellent for the full run and becomes even more absurd alongside Fasten.

Tutoring any Skill is excellent across the cast and frequently worth a mid- or late-game purchase; upgraded, it becomes a reusable Seek.

A great early purchase that guarantees slow Block-heavy decks eventually end fights and cleanly solves Decamillipede.

Transforming a card each turn is real scaling and particularly good on Regent, but buying the rare Power blind can be too slow or inconsistent.

Ten damage with Vulnerable is a powerful event reward that fits most decks and is clearly stronger than Exterminate in a vacuum.

Eleven free innate AoE damage is excellent Act 1 frontload, though frontloaded damage is less mandatory than it was in the first game.

A cheap and broadly useful Act 1 damage purchase whose damage-based AoE can solve early multi-enemy fights.

A one-energy 14-damage card with an enormous upgrade is simply overstatted, though Block makes its Ultimate counterpart stronger.

The buff to five damage makes this a useful free strike cantrip, though damage is less valuable than Finesse's Block.

A generically strong energy Power that often pays out every turn or two and can fuel larger draw turns, especially on Necrobinder.

Filling the hand is an extremely powerful effect when a deck has the energy and lacks draw, though those requirements make it somewhat specific.

A useful consistency Power that can repeat the same key card every turn, but it needs a sufficiently strong target to justify its cost.

Replay can eventually create enough scaling to carry a deck, but the target RNG and weak bottom-deck cases make it slower than its reputation.

Attack chaining provides strong scaling, especially with Regent card-generation payoffs, but the rare card's three-energy price keeps it out of Great.

A consistent early purchase that combines useful damage with selective draw and gains extra value from Strike synergies.

A compact damage-and-block card that scales with Strength, Vulnerable, and damage multipliers, but is otherwise merely solid.

The multi-hit AoE benefits from Strength and enchantments and can immediately stabilize the dangerous Decamillipede fight in Act 2.

Good repeatable Act 1 damage from Neow or an early shop, but a step below Omnislice, Fisticuffs, and Seeker Strike.

Affordable mid- or late-game manipulation that he often buys happily, although its consistency gain is less impactful than premium tutors.

A strong energy injection when a deck needs it, especially upgraded, but its limited acquisition context and lack of other value keep it in Mid.

Copying current Block into next turn can be fun with Barricade or a large Block engine, but lining it up is too specific for general use.

It still does exactly what its name promises, but stronger modern Block options make paying for its two-turn drawback much less appealing.

Powerful when a deck reliably plays five cards each turn, especially Silent or Necrobinder, but too character- and engine-dependent overall.

Still a strong gold engine, especially from Neow, but harder to fit into a run and less rewarding without an Act 4 in which to spend the payoff.

A respectable multi-turn Block card, especially upgraded with Dexterity, but the Slither enchantment is often the more run-defining event reward.

Solid zero-cost Act 1 damage when desperately needed, but the event's max-HP alternative is usually more valuable once damage is covered.

The strong colorless pool makes its generation useful, especially upgraded, though the randomness keeps it in Mid.

He has never obtained the event card and places it in Mid only as an assumption, comparing it to an oversized Flex.

Retain and twelve damage look efficient, but the rare attack is too low-impact to justify purchasing for most decks.

A specific payoff for Strength, Momentum, or bounce synergies; strong when the pieces line up, but too narrow to rate higher.

Four Vigor per turn can excel with multi-hits, but without a strong synergy the payoff is too small to buy and add.

Moving its trigger after the normal draw removed much of the top-deck manipulation that made it good, leaving an awkward but usable extra play each turn.

Expensive and situational, but enough Plating can solve defense by itself when a deck needs passive scaling for a specific boss.

Slow, expensive scaling, but it can serve as a one-card boss damage solution for a deck capable of blocking indefinitely.

Random targeting makes the X-cost damage awkward; exhaust synergies can rescue it, but it remains firmly Mid.

Retain lets it wait for the right exhaust turn and can pleasantly support Ironclad, though the low-impact draw needs substantial synergy.

He has almost never used it and places it in Mid while stressing that Secret Technique is substantially better.

He initially puts it last after dying to its downside, then revises the serious placement to lower Mid because the payoff takes too much setup and risk.

Its three-energy cost makes it hard to add, though generated copies can exploit a carefully prepared discard pile for powerful attack chains.

The shuffle tutor is acceptable when generated late, but buying, upgrading, and setting it up is too janky and offers no early-game strength.

A mediocre Neow option with a funny Clone combo that can make chained Catastrophes play an entire deck, but little general appeal.

Usually just a Strike; its multi-hit only stands out against Vent's Slippery stacks, while Toric Toughness or Slither is normally the better event choice.

Cheaper and supported by funny Clone or huge-deck setups, but still an awkward late-game-only innate attack that usually is not worth buying.

Playable mainly on Necrobinder and frustrating from Regent generation because the Sword often prevents its condition, making it far too narrow.

Two energy is too much for its modest conditional damage, especially compared with stronger rare colorless purchases.

Mostly useful when Toolbox generates it into the opening hand; buying it is rarely special enough to justify adding it to a deck.

Exhaust makes the card cleaner than its predecessor, but taking two from an expensive event makes the package bad outside high-cost draw-heavy decks.

Damage equal to cards played this combat is far too weak and slow for a rare card that must be purchased.

Requiring an empty hand is extraordinarily difficult to engineer, so generated copies usually just sit retained and unusable.