Still an exceptional loop target after losing one Block: it is reliable on turn one, blocks efficiently, and can return huge damage.

Turns weak cards into strong zero-cost output, enables exhaust-down loops, rewards card creation, and supplies enormous Block without needing support.

A run-defining Power and easy Block engine that points decks toward Star generation and repeatable Star payoffs, while remaining strong in hybrids.

Premium Act 1 damage that also removes weak draws and supports both exhaust-loop and card-creation plans without falling off later.

Alongside Glow, one of Regent's best sustainable Star generators; he may take multiple copies and values its upgrade highly.

The common Star-generation staple: efficient cycling and delayed draw make it fit nearly every Star deck and many card-generation decks too.

The main card-creation payoff and an abusable Block engine with Spectrum Shift, Bundle of Joy, Quasar, or Crash Landing.

An overstated early-game common, especially in Overgrowth, that can start a run-winning snowball and justify building around its Star cost.

A universally useful, highly efficient Block-and-Forge card that can serve as an entire Block engine and remains a strong loop target.

One of Regent's best Powers: scarce extra draw plus controlled Exhaust accelerates small loops and improves Bombardment or created-card decks.

Reliable damage with Weak and Vulnerable that is easy to build around; less explosive than top-tier cards but broadly strong.

A powerful upgraded card-advantage engine and Pillar of Creation partner that can stabilize awkward decks, though it badly wants its upgrade.

Twenty-one AoE damage for one Energy is excellent, and its Debris can become upside with card-creation payoffs; avoid it only in tight Star loops.

Once played, it solves Energy and Star costs for the fight and often means winning next turn, though paying three Energy keeps it below Broken.

A flexible common that removes poor cards or statuses while triggering card-creation synergies, so it works in both loop and Pillar decks.

Completely solves Star generation when a deck already has premium payoffs, but its setup cost and conditional need keep it from the top tier.

A flexible bridge for Weak and Vulnerable uptime that fits nearly any deck; the upgrade removing Exhaust is particularly useful.

A potent Energy engine with an excellent cost upgrade, especially helpful against Hourglass statuses, but redundant in already-complete loops or Void Form decks.

A cheap, high-priority upgrade whose choice of upgraded Colorless cards provides flexible output and can rescue otherwise weak runs.

An easy Act 1 common: strong damage, flexible Debris handling, and Pillar synergy make its apparent downside frequently beneficial.

A dense delayed Star refill that pairs well with upgraded Glow or Convergence and increasingly rewards careful sequencing in Star-heavy decks.

A useful one-of damage solution with many ways to enter or replay from Exhaust; upgrade it for the recurring six-damage increase.

A heavily buffed common whose large Forge value and next-turn Energy make it an easy Act 1 pick and a credible late boss solution.

Usually free repeatable damage in Skill-heavy decks and highly enchantable, but drawing it before three Skills makes it a costly dead draw.

Absurd damage and debuffs once supported by dense Star generation, Void Form, or Sealed Throne, but too expensive for many otherwise good decks.

A strong Pillar or Arsenal enabler that offers several useful Colorless options; poor in tight Star-payoff or exhaust-down decks.

Generates enormous long-term gold, especially upgraded, but often adds an unnecessary combat brick after Regent's engine is already solved.

A supercharged Piercing Wail that solves dangerous multi-enemy turns when its three-Star cost is affordable; Ethereal limits its reliability.

A solid Block common and low-end Star-generation fixer when better Glow or Convergence support did not appear in time.

Regent's densest repeatable Star generation and excellent with real Star payoffs, but a poor addition to pure card-creation decks.

A strong long-fight and boss solution that becomes free through repeated draw, enabling repeated plays; generally stronger than Kingly Punch.

Scaling damage through repeated draws is more immediately useful in hallways than Kingly Kick, though it is the weaker boss solution.

A solid AoE Power with immediate starter-deck triggers and good Hidden Cache or Convergence synergy; useful whenever AoE is unsolved.

Well-statted Block plus card creation that is easy to add and upgrade, while also opening a route toward Pillar-based engines.

Only acceptable on raw rate, but Retain or cost-reduction effects can make it an extremely repeatable, fight-solving Block card.

A straightforward, efficient zero-Energy Block common whose small Star cost is usually negligible, especially useful in Act 1.

After its Forge buff, this is one of Regent's better Act 1 damage commons and an easy way to establish a useful Sovereign Blade.

A well-statted Block common with useful next-turn Block and several strong relic interactions, particularly valuable in Underdocks.

A strong opening draw and the most practical of Regent's build-around damage payoffs because Star gain, Strength, Retain, and enchantments support it.

A high-priority upgrade and dense Forge payoff that can solve long boss fights, particularly when a deck otherwise lacks sufficient scaling.

The last broadly useful damage common: a strong Act 1 multi-hit that becomes exceptional with Strength, Vigor, or damage enchantments.

Excellent draw and damage only when its Energy and Star costs are comfortably supported, such as with Void Form, Orbit, or dense Star generation.

A desperation boss payoff for card-generation decks that lack damage; he recognizes the ceiling but usually solves bosses more consistently elsewhere.

Effectively wins after it resolves and is an exceptional Shrimp target, but six Stars make it much harder to support than Comet.

A clean answer when a deck specifically needs persistent Star generation, but that need is too infrequent for a broader recommendation.

A huge scaling finisher for card-generation decks, sometimes reaching hundreds of damage, but only those decks need the problem it solves.

Useful draw and setup with spare Energy or Kingly cards, but Regent's Energy pressure and stronger draw engines have lowered its priority.

Fantastic when the deck can reliably spend at least four Energy through relics, Orbit, Alignment, or conservation; terrible below that threshold.

Good early damage plus next-turn Energy when offered before damage is solved, but that narrow timing window rarely appears in Regent's strong pool.

An upgrade-hungry draw engine for decks that can reliably play five cards, especially Star-heavy decks that do not want Spectrum Shift.

A merely adequate Block pickup for Underdocks when defense is unsolved; its Vigor occasionally matters but is not the main attraction.

Can convert an existing Forge plan into a solution for dangerous AoE fights, but competes poorly as a Rare against common AoE options.

Repeatable Energy conversion is strong only in decks with abundant Stars and insufficient Energy; three Stars is too costly almost everywhere else.

A worse Astral Pulse that still earns a slot when a run urgently needs AoE for eels, Frog Parasite, or Desert Millipede.

Its damage buff makes it defensible in some early games, but it remains a janky payoff that most Regent decks should skip.

A slow persistent Forge engine that can eventually solve bosses such as the fish or Knowledge Demon when no cleaner plan exists.

A playable heavy-Star payoff with strong Plating, especially with other Plating support or ways to play it free, but weaker than premium payoffs.

Its Block is acceptable, but Regent's far stronger defensive cards usually solve the same problem before this Rare is offered.

Forge 5 is secondary to expensive draw; it becomes reasonable with excess Energy from Orbit, four-Energy relics, or Void Form.

Adequate when retrieving Sovereign Blade from outside the draw pile is specifically important, but that job is rarely needed.

The base card is poor and needs its upgrade desperately; the opportunity cost of that upgrade keeps it out of most decks.

Moved up during the video because unconditional Replay 1 can now solve specific bosses with Sovereign Blade or Parry without raising Blade cost.

Replay and other Sovereign Blade support can make its Block useful, but decks rarely need this Power as their chosen defensive solution.

A narrow Overgrowth-only emergency answer for large single targets when no better damage appears; very poor in Underdocks.

Its recursion conflicts with Regent's desire to dig through the draw pile, while its Block is too low to justify the awkward setup.

Essentially a Rare version of Wrought in War; usable when that exact damage-and-Forge job is still missing, but rarely worth the rarity.

A niche Strength payoff for card-generation decks that play many Skills; it needs a specific combo or enchantment package to matter.

A niche Strength payoff for Star-generation decks, analogous to Lunar Blast in card-generation decks, and similarly dependent on specific support.

Slow but acceptable consistency for unusually large decks that must find specific pieces, including Bing Bong-style decks.

An emergency Star generator when a deck already found a premium payoff but cannot wait for better support; barely above the bottom tier.

Four Stars can brick it on turn one, making this hallway-focused damage card create the very failures it is supposed to prevent.

Mediocre damage per Energy and rarely valuable Colorless duplication make it better as a generated card than a deck addition.

It can help solve Queen, but the high cost and Regent's easier solutions make that use case far too narrow.

Can suppress Queen in a heavy-Star deck after her minion dies, but that exact need is exceptionally specific.

The damage is enormous, but seven Stars plus two Energy is excessive when much cheaper AoE such as Astral Pulse exists.

His worst Star generator: it needs an upgrade yet gains almost no damage, while Glow and even Shining Strike perform the job better.

Vigor has possible multi-hit payoffs, but assembling the setup is much harder than Regent's stronger and simpler plans.

Only remotely comfortable with Void Form or cost manipulation, at which point its slow draw is unnecessary because the fight is already solved.

Forge 3 plus a one-turn Blade doubling effect is too costly, non-Retaining, and awkward for Regent's much stronger available plans.

Regent's card-spam turns already kill enemies, so temporary Strength adds an unnecessary payoff to a plan that does not need help.