NL has this "well, let's have this unit have an attack as well" mentality, even though it barely scratches the front enemy. It may make sense on back units that hit after the enemy tank dies, but it is 100% pointless on a tank.
23:10 "people are going to lose their minds when I say that" - yep, correct. Mind lost. It's easily 30 dmg to the floor, even at the low rate of feeding you had. Much better than your all time favorite Vent
This is the guy who thought a unit who's model is literally just two huge shields belongs in the back for like 30 episodes. I'm not sure the visual input is the problem lol
He learned that he can use Perils of Production on morsels, and since then he's locked on only using the emberdrain spells on them for some reason. The benefit you get IS worth having the emberdrain, especially with all the 0 cost cards Umbra have anyway
@@SlavaRybka or if you have either of the two Melting cards that remove debuffs. I LOVE getting this pairing becasue you can get the amazing buff effects without the emberdrain drawback. Super great if you also have the Sap Seraph since those also help with sap stacking :D
Agreed. Putting multi-strike on a unit that absolutely swings is easily worth eating a dead turn or two. And thats not even factoring in the multiple ways to circumvent the energy loss.
He's seriously undervaluing the emberdrain cards. When planned around they're the strongest cards the umbra have, but you can't just casually play them. When he starts to get a feel for umbras in combat energy generation maybe he'll start taking the emberdrain cards more seriously.
On the first boss, which single strikes, if you want a morsel to chump block, pick the morsel that isn't the miner to go in front. By putting it in front, the gorging unit missed out on 2 extra hp (which didn't matter) and 5 attack (which might have). Also, summon all the morsels before placing them so you can make an informed decision on where they go. Fun series!
9:20 Should really be putting your high hp, low burnout units up front, brother. 16:12 No reason to stop them getting hit if they burnout before they die anyway.
Have really been enjoying these videos. Some tips to improve I noticed throughout (which is much easier to spot as a viewer); 22:24 : Furnace tap is amazing on your champion - you can't use energy during relentless, so the idea is to buff your champion right before (you can use permafrost to save it) 24:47 : You could have used your feast to eat the morsels and trigger gorge damage before you lose 24 from their attacks 34:30 : Revenge abilities don't trigger on death, unfortunately. 35:08 : You noticed that you needed exactly 6 damage to kill the unit. In your hand you had Mine Collapse that dealt exactly 6, but you used it on a bottom floor unit and took 19 dmg to your pyre unnecessarily. 36:21 : You are already having issues by splitting your morsels between your two gorgers, so it would be best not to use them on regular units. In terms of deckbuilding, I think making heavy use of both Shadoweater and your gorge champion ultimately sunk you. You were splitting your morsels between the two, resulting in some damage output from Shadow eater but a much weaker champion for relentless. Of course finding morselmakers would've helped, but I think focusing on buffing your champion first every turn, and using feast much as possible, would have served you better than splitting between the two.
Furnace Tap is absolutely amazing against bosses. Multistrike and Rage 4 for 2 ember is no joke. Put permafrost on it so you only have to draw it once and hold it until relentless. Put that sucker on the right minion and watch the number skyrocket.
Hey Ryan, If you play Umbra/Melting again you should try the Architect champion. You can intentionally sacrifice him on a floor so you can reform him, basically giving you a 0 cost holdover capacity upgrade.
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Can't endless the miner as it isn't a unit, it's a spell that summons a unit. You can holdover the spell, but you can do the same thing with Remold and even get free damage from it that way.
@@DeathByRabbit can you endless the morsel itself, with the remnant tome, rather than the spell? I know it says "cardless" for some units when they're summoned (like by morselmakers) but morsel miners seem to stick around in the consume pile after they're gorged, so couldn't you give the unit endless with the spell?
Emberdrain cards are not just for your morsels NL, generally the advantages they give are well worth the loss of ember. In particular being able to give units multistrike is insanely strong, as is the 0 cost 2 damage shield rage 6 card.
@@Ghostneedle1 Well, it's more just that it may be something to consciously consider more in the future, maybe? It was really just more an observation of me than anything else.
I face palmed when he skipped that pick. It's like he doesn't register what the cards do sometimes. The card turns his 0 cost Dregs into 3 valuable morsels, which can then be recycled with Retch.
just FYI, when you're playing Melting Remnant there is a unit upgrade that gives +5/+5 and Burnout 1, so you could largestone a Draff, then reroll and hope for that so you get him TWO WHOLE TURNS instead haha
NL, I'm pretty sure you already know your hand is capped at 10 cards. You aren't supposed to cast retch first when youre looking for morsels. Several times you got like only 4 morsels, played them, then the rest of your hand, and then had like 8 empty capacity behind gorgers. Should empty your hand as much as you can before retching to get maximum value. You almost always have a ton of morsels in the yard.
NL, good content as always, but here's a tip, Furnace Tap is not for morsels. It is to be used for buffing a good monster right before you go against a boss, if you've reached a part where the cards you draw don't really matter, or if you have other ways of generating energy. Same for Void Shield. Thank you and have a great trip.
34:33 *It's hard to tell because you have the game so freakin' sped up* , but I think the problem here was that the lady died in a single hit, therefore she wasn't able to give her allies burnout. I've never noticed or been aware of this situation personally but that's the best explanation I can give. Edit: I went into the MT discord to check if you'd found a bug and no, the unit has to survive the hit for revenge to trigger. Good to know.
22:44 Furnace tap isn't worth using just to make a really strong morsel. You can either give it permafrost and consume removal for a killer combo with resin removal where you remove the ember drain, or you can simply give it permafrost and doublestack (which doubles the multistrike as well as the rage and emberdrain) for a huge damage bonus against the boss when emberdrain isn't going to matter. There's also the elusive emberdrain deck but I'm not really qualified on that one.
I've also just put it on a huge unit and took the ember hit when I knew the boss was showing up in a turn or two. Sometimes it's worth not being able to cast for a turn or two if you think it will make your floor good enough to finish the battle.
Great content. Just a little suggestion, to clean the bad morsels from your deck and work towards stacking only morsel miners (or rarer morsels) is the ticket. Regular morsels are not great for the late game, because you don't get enough time to scale since capacity becomes the limit, so you need better quality to keep up with the scaling.
HEY NL, the Emberdrain cards are NOT meant to be put on morsels... please stop thinking this, it's meant to be a big up side card in exchange for having no energy the next couple turns, with more energy, Emberdrain is not even a problem. Your champion could have been a beast half way through this run and soloed the bottom floor if he had the two multi-strike cards and you just fed him. Endless literally did nothing on the Lady, waste of a card. Shadow Gorger is a tank... put some dps units behind it maybe for the floor to actually do stuff. NL:"Everybody is going to lose their minds if I don't take this melting card" Nobody lost their minds, its a trash card in this deck. Funny how NL just a few videos ago was saying how he thinks the gorge champion is the only good option now he thinks its the worst lol, good progress but they are all pretty balanced to be fair. NL why you not take the hp upgrade in the 2nd shop for your tank if you want it to tank......... Still rushes past every shop.
Tip: Not picking any creatures with harvest on an Umbra + Melting combo is a big mistake. Also, stop saving your burnout units so much. You want them to burnout so they can be out of your deck and/or reformed. Morsel miner is great but not as great to be reformed especially when you had retch and your morsel miner creator did not consume. Finally, not taking any chance to duplicate your moulding was your second big mistake.
Hey my NL, you might benefit from putting burnout units at the front instead of the back so that they can absorb some damage before they die from burnout. I mean, if they're going to get taken out from Burnout expiring, they may as well soak a few hits. Just a thought. Also, keep on driving that train! Choo, Choo!
The problem wasn't having a 'truly horrible bottom floor', it was actually investing too much into your utility, aoe bottom floor and not going hard enough on the top floor gorge triggers. Also considering how much capacity you already had, there's a case to be made that you should have just gone for gorge level 2 on your champion rather than getting too spicy with it.
Man, you really love feeding the shadoweater for no reason. The buffs on your gorge champion are far more valuable as long as the shadoweater is gorging enough to clean up small units but jackstrips can sometimes do that for you anyway. Also consider playing out your morsels before deciding where to put each one so that you can correctly allocate all of the buffs, small micromanagements like this WILL make the difference.
"Furnace tap: "Apply blah blah blah, so we're just making a strong morsel" No, no you are not, you're sacrificing energy for a multistrike 1 and paying for it over a few turns, you're also making a unit much stronger on a relentless floor. Stop sleeping on furnace tap :(
X-cards benefit from spell damage - if you have +10 or +20 and consume, you can cast an x-card for zero and do the added damage - very good for mine collapse ie deal 10 damage for 0 & gain 2 ember if you get a kill
Am I the only one who thinks NL severely under rated jackstrips? It pretty much destroys a lot of mark of invasion challenges, as most of the time they're low health units
NL you stop getting actual Units after the Daedalus fight. Once you fight Daedalus, you have a chance to have a banner after it, and thats it. You cant get units beyond that point so what you have is what you're rolling to Seraph with.
NL lost because he ignored the gorge on his champion. Coulda probably even salvaged it as late as that last turn if you hadn't put the lady in front and thus steal all the gorge triggers. Your champ eating another 6 coulda taken it.
22:24 "so you are making one really strong morsel?" mah dude what Emberdrain cards aren't just for morsels, they are amazing for the boss waves, you just need to give it permafrost. Or if you get resin removal with melting remnant you can just straight up remove the Emberdrain everyturn of you give it holdover, you should really give it a try someday. EDIT: I also agree that the revenge not triggering when the unit dies after being hit is unintuitive and I would prefer if it did trigger, like spikes. I can see the argument that the unit needs to be alive to actually "enact the revenge" I guess but that just feels like unnecessary play on words.
23:00 Yeah they are NL, and you best believe that I, the mald master, will be one of those people. You're calling fatal melting underpowered in the clain combo where it's actually the most op because consider this: morsels being eaten count as unit deaths too, brother. Edit: alright, you knew that but just didn't think about the maths enough to realize how good it is
NL tends to try to convince himself to take bad cards/cards that don't fit his deck, then claims people will lose their minds because he decided _not_ to take those bad cards. ...that said, I get the feeling he forgot morsels die when they're eaten when he was evaluating A Fatal Melting. It probably would have been pretty good in this deck, since he was consuming many morsels every turn. He could easily deal plenty of damage with it if he had taken it.
22:34 um I think it would work better on your champion or mega draff. The emberdrain reduces every turn but the multistrike will stick around as you continue to buff them during the battle.
Furnace Tap isn't for morsels just because it has emberdrain. Giving multistrike to the right unit can be worth dealing with the lack of mana Melting Remnant also has 2 cards that can remove debuffs, which makes for a super good combo with furnace tap and the other emberdrain cards
NL, you completely skipped episode 38 by the way. Episode 37 was released, then episode 39, with a 38 overlay was released. Now episode 40. I'm so mind flooded!
Eggdad, you ought a try to get better morsel cards, the cannibalize you skipped would have been very helpful. Also, feast is a useful cheap card, but if you never use it, it’s prob better to just jettison it from the deck
18:28 NL, you really shouldn't decide whether or not to take the challenge based on a gut feeling. I don't think you even read what the challenge was going to be. Instead, seriously consider the risk-reward proposition and how your build can handle it because gold is at such a premium at high ascension due to things being more expensive. The challenge was merely that enemy units were going to appear on each floor which isn't a problem for you at all due to jackstrips but even if you didn't have that, the damage taken would be worth the gold.
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I'm not an expert but it might be smart to give those lifesteal morsels to a unit that can actually attack, like your champion.
NL has this "well, let's have this unit have an attack as well" mentality, even though it barely scratches the front enemy. It may make sense on back units that hit after the enemy tank dies, but it is 100% pointless on a tank.
@@SlavaRybka He settles for the first thing he thinks is good, loses sight of better.
NL: Oh no, we have these dangerous 2 health enemies on the 1st floor, better gorge the Shadoweater!
Jackstrips: Are we a joke to you?
Feast: Am I a joke to you?
Man I'm so tempted to be that guy who makes a compilation of everytime NL says. " YOU'RE DAZED!"
set it to the summer of '69 when he says -- "those were the best daze of my life"
@@Northernlion been dazed and confused for so long it's not true...
23:10 "people are going to lose their minds when I say that" - yep, correct. Mind lost. It's easily 30 dmg to the floor, even at the low rate of feeding you had. Much better than your all time favorite Vent
NL: *Has 2 gorge units with plenty of free capacity.*
Also NL: *feeds rubble morsel to lady of the reformed.*
When the excitement for the next episode is so great, no one mentions the skipped episode number.
When you keep refreshing subscription page for monster train.
but it gets posted first in the playlist
You need to reignite the flame with your wife.
(extremely Crazy Train voice): dunka....dunka, dunka, dunka (ai ai ai)
@@Northernlion I heard that in my head
Furnace Tap can be used on any unit even though the picture is a morsel
This is the guy who thought a unit who's model is literally just two huge shields belongs in the back for like 30 episodes. I'm not sure the visual input is the problem lol
He learned that he can use Perils of Production on morsels, and since then he's locked on only using the emberdrain spells on them for some reason. The benefit you get IS worth having the emberdrain, especially with all the 0 cost cards Umbra have anyway
@@SlavaRybka or if you have either of the two Melting cards that remove debuffs. I LOVE getting this pairing becasue you can get the amazing buff effects without the emberdrain drawback. Super great if you also have the Sap Seraph since those also help with sap stacking :D
Agreed. Putting multi-strike on a unit that absolutely swings is easily worth eating a dead turn or two. And thats not even factoring in the multiple ways to circumvent the energy loss.
He's seriously undervaluing the emberdrain cards. When planned around they're the strongest cards the umbra have, but you can't just casually play them. When he starts to get a feel for umbras in combat energy generation maybe he'll start taking the emberdrain cards more seriously.
35:09 "I would love to do 6 damage to you" ... Literally holding an x card that does 3x damage and has 2 embers left ...
That path is gated behind some tricky maths that nobody has time for.
On the first boss, which single strikes, if you want a morsel to chump block, pick the morsel that isn't the miner to go in front. By putting it in front, the gorging unit missed out on 2 extra hp (which didn't matter) and 5 attack (which might have). Also, summon all the morsels before placing them so you can make an informed decision on where they go. Fun series!
9:20 Should really be putting your high hp, low burnout units up front, brother.
16:12 No reason to stop them getting hit if they burnout before they die anyway.
Another heart from Egg father, thank you thank you.
Have really been enjoying these videos. Some tips to improve I noticed throughout (which is much easier to spot as a viewer);
22:24 : Furnace tap is amazing on your champion - you can't use energy during relentless, so the idea is to buff your champion right before (you can use permafrost to save it)
24:47 : You could have used your feast to eat the morsels and trigger gorge damage before you lose 24 from their attacks
34:30 : Revenge abilities don't trigger on death, unfortunately.
35:08 : You noticed that you needed exactly 6 damage to kill the unit. In your hand you had Mine Collapse that dealt exactly 6, but you used it on a bottom floor unit and took 19 dmg to your pyre unnecessarily.
36:21 : You are already having issues by splitting your morsels between your two gorgers, so it would be best not to use them on regular units.
In terms of deckbuilding, I think making heavy use of both Shadoweater and your gorge champion ultimately sunk you. You were splitting your morsels between the two, resulting in some damage output from Shadow eater but a much weaker champion for relentless. Of course finding morselmakers would've helped, but I think focusing on buffing your champion first every turn, and using feast much as possible, would have served you better than splitting between the two.
Yeah, that's dumb with the revenge not triggering, I was wondering why that wasn't working too, first time I've seen that happen
Choo choo, it's the pog train rolling into the station. And guess what? It's filled with MONSTERS and also AN EGG.
Thanks for this beautiful content.
Got this for Father's Day. I'm loving it!
However, I now have "Crazy Train" stuck in my head on repeat.
14:07 "Permafrost on our endless would be pretty nice"
If only he had bought it at the shop when I was yelling at him to do so :\
I know right! It was at 11:50, the very next fight he realizes oh no :(
24:47 does he even know what feast does, he keeps ignoring it
well he sometimes remembers how to use it, sometimes not :s
Furnace Tap is absolutely amazing against bosses. Multistrike and Rage 4 for 2 ember is no joke. Put permafrost on it so you only have to draw it once and hold it until relentless. Put that sucker on the right minion and watch the number skyrocket.
Hey Ryan, If you play Umbra/Melting again you should try the Architect champion. You can intentionally sacrifice him on a floor so you can reform him, basically giving you a 0 cost holdover capacity upgrade.
It's also something to keep in mind if you do umbra/hellhorned and have trancendimp
The waste of 3 energy with an x card kills me... its still damage even if it don't kill egg!
20:40
NL:*doesn't turn on mark of invasion which spawns 5/1 units on every floor*
Jackstrips: *visible confusion*
Furnace Wrath isn't a morsel card. Permafrost/double stack and deal with ember drain. It's multi-strike! OP!!!
The pogs, LORD HELP US, THE POGS! THE FEELING OF ACING A TEST WITHOUT STUDYING. THE GRATIFYING SATISFACTION OF WATCHING ENELLE SEND DOWN THE SHOWERS OF POG WHICH SPEW FROM THE FOUNTAINS OF MINKUS TIRTH. AHHHHH. BASK IN IT! THE SHOWERS OF POG!!!! IM SO FRICKEN POGGED OUT OF MY GOURD THAT THE POGS HAVE STARTED TO SEEP OUT OF MY EARHOLES!
This comments has me laughing out loud (LOLing)
@@Northernlion Thank you enelle, for always pogging me up to this unfathomable degree!
@@crypticwisdom4712 Yo it's cool to see another South African NL fan out here
@@Stubobrules Ngl M8 it is pretty sick knowing im not the only one
Welcome back, back again,
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Making dreams, crystalize.
Everyday, at 1 it knells,
The bell is rung, Summon NL.
22:40 You can use Furnace tap on regular units. For example, using it on the umbra champion, is really, really good.
Dude use the feast to trigger the Shadow's gorge and kill low health units before they attack.
28 minute mark. HE'S SEEN IT, THE EGG'S SEEN IT!
Hey NL, just so you know, you can press M on the keyboard to bring up the map for what's coming up. It's helped me plan my runs a lot.
Put Endless on Morsel Miner, that way you get to play it every time.
Can't endless the miner as it isn't a unit, it's a spell that summons a unit. You can holdover the spell, but you can do the same thing with Remold and even get free damage from it that way.
@@DeathByRabbit can you endless the morsel itself, with the remnant tome, rather than the spell? I know it says "cardless" for some units when they're summoned (like by morselmakers) but morsel miners seem to stick around in the consume pile after they're gorged, so couldn't you give the unit endless with the spell?
40 episodes in NL still skimping on the tank upgrades :(
Harvest units are really good in the Umbra combo
Emberdrain cards are not just for your morsels NL, generally the advantages they give are well worth the loss of ember. In particular being able to give units multistrike is insanely strong, as is the 0 cost 2 damage shield rage 6 card.
20:40 "I need this Dreg to take a hit for the Shadoweater who's taking no damage."
I dunno, the 'daze on top floor' thing does seem to bite him many times...
It does but it's weird that you're phasing this like he has a choice in the matter or that there's some sort of discussion to be had...
@@Ghostneedle1 Well, it's more just that it may be something to consciously consider more in the future, maybe? It was really just more an observation of me than anything else.
NL got me into Slay the Spire, and now he got me into Monster Train.
Anybody else hear eggman say "killer draff" but your brain hears "killer giraffe"? Yeah, everytime.
5:40 He's learning!
I'm Pogging!
Let's a go!
He’s pogging out of control!
Keep up the awesome monster train content dude.
My gourd. I cannot contain all the POG
passed up cannibalize when he has a problem making enough morsels...
I face palmed when he skipped that pick. It's like he doesn't register what the cards do sometimes. The card turns his 0 cost Dregs into 3 valuable morsels, which can then be recycled with Retch.
All I want for my birthday is a pogged run from Daddy.
I was not disappointed.
Listen. We had 2 wins in a row. It's not the worst loss.
just FYI, when you're playing Melting Remnant there is a unit upgrade that gives +5/+5 and Burnout 1, so you could largestone a Draff, then reroll and hope for that so you get him TWO WHOLE TURNS instead haha
NL, I'm pretty sure you already know your hand is capped at 10 cards. You aren't supposed to cast retch first when youre looking for morsels. Several times you got like only 4 morsels, played them, then the rest of your hand, and then had like 8 empty capacity behind gorgers. Should empty your hand as much as you can before retching to get maximum value. You almost always have a ton of morsels in the yard.
Ooooh it's more of this stuff! I love this stuff! ♥️🍄
NL, good content as always, but here's a tip, Furnace Tap is not for morsels. It is to be used for buffing a good monster right before you go against a boss, if you've reached a part where the cards you draw don't really matter, or if you have other ways of generating energy. Same for Void Shield. Thank you and have a great trip.
34:33 *It's hard to tell because you have the game so freakin' sped up* , but I think the problem here was that the lady died in a single hit, therefore she wasn't able to give her allies burnout. I've never noticed or been aware of this situation personally but that's the best explanation I can give. Edit: I went into the MT discord to check if you'd found a bug and no, the unit has to survive the hit for revenge to trigger. Good to know.
Thanks for looking into this! Such a minor nuance, but it did make a big difference here.
damn it NL i wish i could afford video games right now, this game looks so solid and tight
i'm pogged out of my MIND with EVERY upload
22:44 Furnace tap isn't worth using just to make a really strong morsel. You can either give it permafrost and consume removal for a killer combo with resin removal where you remove the ember drain, or you can simply give it permafrost and doublestack (which doubles the multistrike as well as the rage and emberdrain) for a huge damage bonus against the boss when emberdrain isn't going to matter. There's also the elusive emberdrain deck but I'm not really qualified on that one.
I've also just put it on a huge unit and took the ember hit when I knew the boss was showing up in a turn or two. Sometimes it's worth not being able to cast for a turn or two if you think it will make your floor good enough to finish the battle.
Furnace Tap gives multistrike ... permafrost, put it on your big unit against the boss.
Great content. Just a little suggestion, to clean the bad morsels from your deck and work towards stacking only morsel miners (or rarer morsels) is the ticket. Regular morsels are not great for the late game, because you don't get enough time to scale since capacity becomes the limit, so you need better quality to keep up with the scaling.
I'm surprised nobody else noticed NL skipped episode 39 :(
Previous episode should've been 38, this one is 39.
Sad pog
Nothing can stop the pog train. Let's go!
Just got back from vacation. Time to re-POG with Monster Train!
HEY NL, the Emberdrain cards are NOT meant to be put on morsels... please stop thinking this, it's meant to be a big up side card in exchange for having no energy the next couple turns, with more energy, Emberdrain is not even a problem. Your champion could have been a beast half way through this run and soloed the bottom floor if he had the two multi-strike cards and you just fed him.
Endless literally did nothing on the Lady, waste of a card.
Shadow Gorger is a tank... put some dps units behind it maybe for the floor to actually do stuff.
NL:"Everybody is going to lose their minds if I don't take this melting card"
Nobody lost their minds, its a trash card in this deck.
Funny how NL just a few videos ago was saying how he thinks the gorge champion is the only good option now he thinks its the worst lol, good progress but they are all pretty balanced to be fair.
NL why you not take the hp upgrade in the 2nd shop for your tank if you want it to tank.........
Still rushes past every shop.
Tip: Not picking any creatures with harvest on an Umbra + Melting combo is a big mistake. Also, stop saving your burnout units so much. You want them to burnout so they can be out of your deck and/or reformed. Morsel miner is great but not as great to be reformed especially when you had retch and your morsel miner creator did not consume. Finally, not taking any chance to duplicate your moulding was your second big mistake.
This is our super giraffe :D
Hey my NL, you might benefit from putting burnout units at the front instead of the back so that they can absorb some damage before they die from burnout. I mean, if they're going to get taken out from Burnout expiring, they may as well soak a few hits. Just a thought.
Also, keep on driving that train! Choo, Choo!
The problem wasn't having a 'truly horrible bottom floor', it was actually investing too much into your utility, aoe bottom floor and not going hard enough on the top floor gorge triggers. Also considering how much capacity you already had, there's a case to be made that you should have just gone for gorge level 2 on your champion rather than getting too spicy with it.
Furnace tap for 2? I sleep.
Onehorn's tome for 5? Shucks, can't play it, too expensive.
This is chef's kiss
Man, you really love feeding the shadoweater for no reason. The buffs on your gorge champion are far more valuable as long as the shadoweater is gorging enough to clean up small units but jackstrips can sometimes do that for you anyway. Also consider playing out your morsels before deciding where to put each one so that you can correctly allocate all of the buffs, small micromanagements like this WILL make the difference.
24:51 Could've played feast on the Shadoweater to kill all the stealth units before they attacked.
28:06 HE'S POGGING UP!
"Furnace tap: "Apply blah blah blah, so we're just making a strong morsel" No, no you are not, you're sacrificing energy for a multistrike 1 and paying for it over a few turns, you're also making a unit much stronger on a relentless floor. Stop sleeping on furnace tap :(
X-cards benefit from spell damage - if you have +10 or +20 and consume, you can cast an x-card for zero and do the added damage - very good for mine collapse ie deal 10 damage for 0 & gain 2 ember if you get a kill
Man this episode really GOES OFF THE RAILS
Pog Morsels for the Pog Train, keep it up bud
Am I the only one who thinks NL severely under rated jackstrips? It pretty much destroys a lot of mark of invasion challenges, as most of the time they're low health units
The most HP they ever have is 3 HP, on the 5/3 birds that deal 5 damage on extinguish.
Pogged up on a Tuesday
The importance of a good bottom is the lesson i took away from the video
NL you stop getting actual Units after the Daedalus fight. Once you fight Daedalus, you have a chance to have a banner after it, and thats it. You cant get units beyond that point so what you have is what you're rolling to Seraph with.
Monster Train POG time
Oh my when he didn’t mine collapse his train steward to play the draff against the first boss...
NL lost because he ignored the gorge on his champion. Coulda probably even salvaged it as late as that last turn if you hadn't put the lady in front and thus steal all the gorge triggers. Your champ eating another 6 coulda taken it.
22:24 "so you are making one really strong morsel?" mah dude what
Emberdrain cards aren't just for morsels, they are amazing for the boss waves, you just need to give it permafrost. Or if you get resin removal with melting remnant you can just straight up remove the Emberdrain everyturn of you give it holdover, you should really give it a try someday.
EDIT: I also agree that the revenge not triggering when the unit dies after being hit is unintuitive and I would prefer if it did trigger, like spikes. I can see the argument that the unit needs to be alive to actually "enact the revenge" I guess but that just feels like unnecessary play on words.
If nothing else, the description needs to be changed. It says it triggers when the unit takes damage, but it should say "survives" damage
homie dont be afraid to kill your own units you could of easily replaced a train steward by blasting him with a spell to put mega draft out
Endless Morsel Miner....
Not a problem if your confuse the streams just remember not to cross them.
23:00 Yeah they are NL, and you best believe that I, the mald master, will be one of those people. You're calling fatal melting underpowered in the clain combo where it's actually the most op because consider this: morsels being eaten count as unit deaths too, brother. Edit: alright, you knew that but just didn't think about the maths enough to realize how good it is
NL tends to try to convince himself to take bad cards/cards that don't fit his deck, then claims people will lose their minds because he decided _not_ to take those bad cards.
...that said, I get the feeling he forgot morsels die when they're eaten when he was evaluating A Fatal Melting. It probably would have been pretty good in this deck, since he was consuming many morsels every turn. He could easily deal plenty of damage with it if he had taken it.
Egg at his dumbest hurts to watch.
22:34 um I think it would work better on your champion or mega draff. The emberdrain reduces every turn but the multistrike will stick around as you continue to buff them during the battle.
Furnace Tap isn't for morsels just because it has emberdrain. Giving multistrike to the right unit can be worth dealing with the lack of mana
Melting Remnant also has 2 cards that can remove debuffs, which makes for a super good combo with furnace tap and the other emberdrain cards
Love monster train nl keep it up
Let’s goooooooooo!
Good try! Honestly think you were screwed by lack of units for the bottom floor! Like you said a morsel maker would have changed things drastically
Everytime he skips 'Furnace Tap' I get sad. Put permafrost on it and use it on your strongest unit against the boss. It is amazing with double stack.
Poggers dude!
NL, you completely skipped episode 38 by the way. Episode 37 was released, then episode 39, with a 38 overlay was released. Now episode 40.
I'm so mind flooded!
22:54 Fatal melting works very well with morsels.
Oh he knows. He recognised the morsel synergy, but somehow, in some screwed up way, he said it wasn't worth it.
@@nomoturtle1788 Umbra/Melting is the best combo for that card. I literally said "Wow!" when he passed on it
@@Nibas Immediately after passing on Cannibalize too.
I’m so freakin POGGED dude
This was a rough one but pogged all the same
I have a question when you get a morsel unit, if it goes unused do you lose it or does it eventually get drawn again later?
This run is just fucking...lol. the first ten minutes alone
There are so many times you could have used feast to such great effect, it's demotivated me from actually pasting timestamps...
They do get dazed on the top floor
Damn never been this early before
Eggdad, you ought a try to get better morsel cards, the cannibalize you skipped would have been very helpful. Also, feast is a useful cheap card, but if you never use it, it’s prob better to just jettison it from the deck
I read the title as a question when it was meant to be a plea
It's okay NL I don't respect shadow gorger either
18:28 NL, you really shouldn't decide whether or not to take the challenge based on a gut feeling. I don't think you even read what the challenge was going to be. Instead, seriously consider the risk-reward proposition and how your build can handle it because gold is at such a premium at high ascension due to things being more expensive. The challenge was merely that enemy units were going to appear on each floor which isn't a problem for you at all due to jackstrips but even if you didn't have that, the damage taken would be worth the gold.
Such disrespect to the champion I genuinely like gorge champ more than trample, gorge the shit out of him and he'll pog off