Piercing Wail in act 1 is very useful vs the Sentries because it clears away ALL the artifacts at once. This can pair very well if you have a deck built around status effects such as poison or weak.
I really like the poison mechanic of the Silent. Yesterday I played my second round with Silent (on Ascension 1 btw.) and I was really lucky on getting poison cards and relics. I managed to pull off a sprint+ combo with bouncing flask and catalyst - everything upgraded. Two rounds later the final boss "corrupt heart" died with ~500 poison stacks on it. That fight was really intense since it was my first time fighting it and I went for the relic that keeps my cards while being on 3 energy only, which was probably a bad decision, since it left my hand card draw blocked after some turns, but in the end it enabled these crazy combos of getting so many poison stacks in one turn :D
23:03 - Also of note is how, even though it's on curve with Strike, the damage is wrapped up in one card. So fights like 3 Sentries where they flood/dilute your deck, being able to do 2 Strikes in a single card can help you to spend all your energy in the 2nd+ passes of your deck in that fight.
Thanks for the video, great explanations that helps a lot ! (My favorite is bane, really strong if you have any poison mechanic and still decent if you don't manage to poison the enemy on the right turn)
This was really helpful, but I only found videos for colorless, silent commons, ironclad commons, and watcher commons. Is there a video for defect that I can't find? If not, will we get one? These are really helpful. Also, I would be very interested in seeing this series expanded into the uncommon and rare cards. I'm a new player and this has been really helpful and has made me look and many cards differently (and try new things!)
StS is a fun game, but it takes a lot of runs before you get that magical synergy of relics, cards, and ? locations going your way, but when you do get that run wow is it fun.
I love building poison decks so poison stab has to be my favorite. Upfront damage plus some extra poison, it's just fun. Pain in the ass with things like sentries, though.
Personally love piercing wail, poisoned stab and deadly poison as early picks. They are simply pure value. Blade dance and cloak and dagger also pretty good. Although i always tend to favor the poison cards more vs the shiv ones to be honest when it comes to the whole runs.
Poison tends to fall off on higher ascensions unless you get very specific cards and relics such as catalyst and snecko skull. A blade dance usually fits in your deck and is very good at using any extra strength (so vajra, girya, strength potion, jaxx, that's 4 examples against only snecko skull to improve poison) before even considering accuracy, and at proccing multi-hit relics (kunai, shuriken, fan, nunchuks, ink bottle).
Blade dance got a lot better with the buff! With 12 damage for 1 energy (upgrading to 16) and all its synergies, it’s a contender for best common attack of ANY character.
I think blade dance is the best silent common in a vacuum, since its potential to improve your scaling is very wide, and even then it's 12/16 dmg for 1 energy
Shiv cards are just the best. It's not too difficult to build on and is super fun to play. I would like to try more poison to truly understand the silent. Now that the sequel is otw too you never know.
My favorite card to see early in act 1 is without a doubt dagger spray. Any sort of aoe in act 1 makes the act so much more enjoyable. I feel blade dance is by far a better card, but I would prefer dagger spray as a floor 1 pick-up. I'd argue that dagger spray is more useful against the sentries and gremlin knob. I don't usually pick up more than one copy of dagger spray though.
I feel like this is about how I feel too. Early game, dagger spray is the nicer card. But by the end of the run, I typically want 2 or more blade dances
Piercing Wail in act 1 is very useful vs the Sentries because it clears away ALL the artifacts at once. This can pair very well if you have a deck built around status effects such as poison or weak.
It can also be 12 block if you already stripped the artifact
Very strong card in general. Strong even in act 2-3, imo
it's still a card play that doesn't do anything that turn, i generally don't even try using statuses on them
Thankyou for making this series
I really like the poison mechanic of the Silent.
Yesterday I played my second round with Silent (on Ascension 1 btw.) and I was really lucky on getting poison cards and relics. I managed to pull off a sprint+ combo with bouncing flask and catalyst - everything upgraded. Two rounds later the final boss "corrupt heart" died with ~500 poison stacks on it.
That fight was really intense since it was my first time fighting it and I went for the relic that keeps my cards while being on 3 energy only, which was probably a bad decision, since it left my hand card draw blocked after some turns, but in the end it enabled these crazy combos of getting so many poison stacks in one turn :D
Second run (on this specific character) heart kill is crazy, good job!
Blade dance! It just combos with so many different relics and abilities.
just 1 blade dance can really help a deck 🤌
23:03 - Also of note is how, even though it's on curve with Strike, the damage is wrapped up in one card. So fights like 3 Sentries where they flood/dilute your deck, being able to do 2 Strikes in a single card can help you to spend all your energy in the 2nd+ passes of your deck in that fight.
Awesome spire channel! There are not many, really enjoying your content!
Thanks for the video, great explanations that helps a lot ! (My favorite is bane, really strong if you have any poison mechanic and still decent if you don't manage to poison the enemy on the right turn)
This was really helpful, but I only found videos for colorless, silent commons, ironclad commons, and watcher commons. Is there a video for defect that I can't find? If not, will we get one? These are really helpful.
Also, I would be very interested in seeing this series expanded into the uncommon and rare cards. I'm a new player and this has been really helpful and has made me look and many cards differently (and try new things!)
StS is a fun game, but it takes a lot of runs before you get that magical synergy of relics, cards, and ? locations going your way, but when you do get that run wow is it fun.
Aim to win. Not make deck types.
I like cloak & dagger in act 1. It synergizes with lots of different things and has a really good upgrade
I love building poison decks so poison stab has to be my favorite. Upfront damage plus some extra poison, it's just fun. Pain in the ass with things like sentries, though.
Deadly poison! Especially in a Hexaghost/Guardian Act, it's such good scaling damage.
Personally love piercing wail, poisoned stab and deadly poison as early picks. They are simply pure value. Blade dance and cloak and dagger also pretty good. Although i always tend to favor the poison cards more vs the shiv ones to be honest when it comes to the whole runs.
Interesting, I prefer shiv to poison
Poison tends to fall off on higher ascensions unless you get very specific cards and relics such as catalyst and snecko skull. A blade dance usually fits in your deck and is very good at using any extra strength (so vajra, girya, strength potion, jaxx, that's 4 examples against only snecko skull to improve poison) before even considering accuracy, and at proccing multi-hit relics (kunai, shuriken, fan, nunchuks, ink bottle).
I know it's not the best, but I love blade dance as a first choice, it's fun imo
Blade dance got a lot better with the buff! With 12 damage for 1 energy (upgrading to 16) and all its synergies, it’s a contender for best common attack of ANY character.
I think blade dance is the best silent common in a vacuum, since its potential to improve your scaling is very wide, and even then it's 12/16 dmg for 1 energy
Curious where you would rank Dagger Spray now as it seems that its fallen out of your favor a bit
bane is also a multi hit common, not just dagger spray.
Dagger throw is pog
dagger spray (+)
What is your favorite Silent common card to take on floor 1? And why? Comment your answer below!
Blade dance easily. Since the buff I've been loving play lots of cards decks
Shiv cards are just the best. It's not too difficult to build on and is super fun to play. I would like to try more poison to truly understand the silent. Now that the sequel is otw too you never know.
My favorite card to see early in act 1 is without a doubt dagger spray. Any sort of aoe in act 1 makes the act so much more enjoyable. I feel blade dance is by far a better card, but I would prefer dagger spray as a floor 1 pick-up. I'd argue that dagger spray is more useful against the sentries and gremlin knob. I don't usually pick up more than one copy of dagger spray though.
I feel like this is about how I feel too. Early game, dagger spray is the nicer card. But by the end of the run, I typically want 2 or more blade dances
Great video
blade dance!
Nice
gotta be blade dance
Deadly poison for me
Blade dance