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Dropping your starter attack and defend cards after getting better alternatives is a good tip for new players, but the number one factor in winning in my experi

Dropping your starter attack and defend cards after getting better alternatives is a good tip for new players, but the number one factor in winning in my experience is selecting the right card combos and synergies. Identify possible combos early and pick future cards to build on those strategies. If a card doesn't fit in your deck skip it. Sometimes you'll pick a combo card early and not come across any synergistic cards and lose or have to pivot strategies, it just happens. Having a smaller deck with only the cards you want will usually help though.

chousuke 6y ago
Aiming for synergies can be a trap, though. Sometimes the correct pick is a bad card that has anti-synergy with your current deck, because it solves an immediate problem. For example, at the start of a run you generally should pick any attack better than a strike (almost all of them) even over super powerful late-game scaling cards and try to kill the Elites to get relics and build power. After the first few runs through the Spire, you'll generally know what you will be facing, and what you need to do is pick cards that cover your bases against those potential upcoming fights.
- moomin 6y ago
  Indeed, best advice I can give for people having trouble is: do anything you need to do to survive Act 1 and kill 2-3 elites. After that you've got a lot more flexibility.
- speedmagnet 6y ago
  Good analysis. You're right. I'm no expert at the game, but killing elites is a great tip and not obvious to a new player. All of my most successful winning decks have been built off of synergies though.
  - TheOperator 6y ago
    This depends on what you mean by success. If your aim is to end up steamrolling hard enemies with a broken deck and getting a large high score than synergies are worth going for. If your goal is to eek by with a win as often as possible there is too much variance in betting the farm on being offered certain cards in the future.
TheOperator 6y ago
I would argue aiming for synergies is fundamentally wrong headed unless you're trying to moonshot with a lucky deck. There's way too much varience in expecting to get offered certain cards. That being said some synergies like silent poison probably worth gunning for... But that's mostly because poison cards are disperportionately strong.

chousuke 6y ago

Aiming for synergies can be a trap, though. Sometimes the correct pick is a bad card that has anti-synergy with your current deck, because it solves an immediate problem. For example, at the start of a run you generally should pick any attack better than a strike (almost all of them) even over super powerful late-game scaling cards and try to kill the Elites to get relics and build power. After the first few runs through the Spire, you'll generally know what you will be facing, and what you need to do is pick cards that cover your bases against those potential upcoming fights.

moomin 6y ago
Indeed, best advice I can give for people having trouble is: do anything you need to do to survive Act 1 and kill 2-3 elites. After that you've got a lot more flexibility.
speedmagnet 6y ago
Good analysis. You're right. I'm no expert at the game, but killing elites is a great tip and not obvious to a new player. All of my most successful winning decks have been built off of synergies though.
- TheOperator 6y ago
  This depends on what you mean by success. If your aim is to end up steamrolling hard enemies with a broken deck and getting a large high score than synergies are worth going for. If your goal is to eek by with a win as often as possible there is too much variance in betting the farm on being offered certain cards in the future.

TheOperator 6y ago

I would argue aiming for synergies is fundamentally wrong headed unless you're trying to moonshot with a lucky deck. There's way too much varience in expecting to get offered certain cards. That being said some synergies like silent poison probably worth gunning for... But that's mostly because poison cards are disperportionately strong.