How to Get the Minimalist Achievement | Slay the Spire Guide
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- Get the Minimalist achievement by beating the game with a 5 card deck or smaller. It's one of the hardest achievements to unlock. In this video, we'll talk about strategy and tactics you need to get it for yourself. If you like these highlights, follow me on Twitch👉 bit.ly/Baalorl...
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In this Slay the Spire Guide, Baalorlord shows you exactly how to get the Minimalist achievement. First, he overviews the strategy and approach to making the run. Later, he walks you through a Defect run where he gets the achievement for himself. If you ready to get yours, watch now!
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What 5 cards were you able to get the Minimalist achievement with? Comment below!
Defend+ , Bash, Searing Blow+8, Shrug It Off, Necronomicurse
I just did, Creative AI, Glacier, Glacier, Zap, and Dualcast. All upgraded.
Only picked up glacier early to stay alive, and then Creative AI at the boss. Turns out it's a pretty good card when it gives you multiple sources of focus and capacitors. Astrolabe'd into second Glacier.
Picked up Data disk, and a medkit. made like 1,500 gold that run with an early golden idol and then trading it away too.
Got mummified hand and Cursed crown, but wasn't extremely relevant.
Final boss was Timeater, so the fight was a breeze.
@@TheDilla Defend+, Eruption+, Vigilance+, Inner Peace+ and Rushdown+. This is an infinite loop where you play Inner Peace and Eruption, get your energy back and draw both cards due to Rushdown's effect. The tricky part was dodging Falling event, cause boy, would I hate spending such a long time trying to get this damn achievement just to get screwed at the very end...
I got the trophy on PS4 some half a year ago with:
2x Defend+,
Demon Form+,
Bludgeon+
and Shockwave+.
I was really surprised that so few block cards got me through Act 3, but I had Snecko Eye after Act 1 and quite often I could play these high energy cards on turn 1, especially that I also had a relic for +2 strength and +10 block turn 1, and an Ice cream relic for conserving unused energy between turns. Also, I got a relic for all removal costing 50 and after Act 2 I picked up +2 str (enemies +1). All in all, I felt very strong and it was a very satisfying run ;)
Will try now to get it on PC.
Just got it! Spot Weakness+, Whirlwind+, Defend+, Bash+ and Uppercut.
Also, in act 1 you noted that Shovel was a relic that you could get to help you remove cards, but I'm pretty sure you meant to say Peace Pipe. Just in case anybody in the comments is confused.
Brainless strat for Watcher: Skip every card except Fear no Evil and Rushdown, upgrade Eruption. That's all you need.
Thank you for that, i did it in like 3 attempts. Also i beat the boss in 1st turn so 2 achievement in once :D
@@YourName_2023 Just did exactly the same, got both achievements in one, awesome deck
So you got fear no Evil, eruption, vigilance, rushdown and? A strike?
Thank you ! I did it first try even tho i didn't get fear no evil, I had the relics that makes getting out of the calm state give you 3 mana so i could just infinite combo with eruption and vigilance. Full hand was eruption, rushdown, vigilance and the two other dont really matter you just have to not play them otherwise it might fuck your draw partern.
Thank you this worked for me except I lost Fear no Evil so I took a pressure point instead. It ended up amazing because I could play pressure point twice a turn. I destroyed the last boss in a like 4 turns. I had to restart for probably 4-6 hours before I finally got some runs with rushdown and fear no evil in them.
Duel wield, dropkick, body slam and 2 defends. You might realize that there is no vulnerable to infinite with, and that is because I lost my bash in the falling event and had to improvise with a fear potion and abacus+body slam to kill time eater before they could heal.
This is very funny! Good on you to win the run regardless!
i'm very late but fuck the falling event fr
I got my first minimalist win with
Searing Blow+11 and offering. Destroyed woke bird without touching the cultists, was super fun!
just those two cards? dayum!
+11 what in the unholy kentucky fried f*ck
Woke bird?
My minimalist challenge was completed with the watcher.
Relic: Violet Lotus
Cards: Eruption, Vigilance & Rushdown
The moment you get this deck down to 5 cards, you have an infinite combo.
Scrape, Hologram, Streamline, Claw, and Recursion - all upgraded. Being able to play 13 cards a turn from a 5-card deck was great. I'd been trying this with Ironclad, but after you talked through your Defect run it gave me a few different ideas. Thanks!
Just got it! Doom and Gloom, Darkness, Glacier, Capacitor, Dualcast. After trying for this awhile I found going to as many events as possible helped a lot for removals and gold.
I've actually managed to do it with Ironclad, ended with Uppercut, 2 Shrug It Offs, and 2 Dropkicks, luckily my run ended with Donu and Deca instead of Time Eater or else the run would be over
Ended up accidentally doing it on The Silent with:
Neutralize+, Heel hook+, Prepared+, Reflex+, Tactician+
Managed to find a peace pipe which helped me get rid of a couple of unnecessary cards I added early to get through elites
Watching this video before attempting the achievement seems to have served me well, got it on my 2nd try using Ironclad (and got damn close on the first). My final deck was Bloodletting+, Cleave+, Bash+, Rampage+, and Shrug It Off+… with a decent amount of help from Unceasing Top.
A fun combo for watcher is; Eruption+, Vigilance+, Rushdown+, Deus Ex Machina+ and Conjure Blade+.
You are guaranteed to draw Deus Ex Machina which adds 3 extra miracles to your hand for a total of 4 (assuming you kept starting relic). With this and maybe an extra energy from a relic, you get a 1 cost Expunger worth 8x5 or 9x5, or 6/7x5 if you needed to Vigilance on turn 1 to block damage. The Expunger generally ends up being worth more due to strength and rage stance. You also play Rushdown so your collective hand, draw and discard is just Eruption, Vigilance and Expunger. From there you can play Eruption > Expunger > Vigilance as many times as you can in a turn, either once or twice depending on energy relics, and Expunger does a solid 150 per use. It's a lot flashier and quicker than the Feel No Evil infinite.
Thanks for your videos; I've learned so much about this game! Got this with 1 Vigilance and 4 Pressure Points. I was down to 4 cards until I got offered a fourth Pressure Points as a card reward two floors before the Time Boss. 2nd turn kill. I also got the Common Sense and Transient achievements. This was the 1st time I had killed him before he faded, and I did it twice in the same run. Keep up the great videos. I'm excited for your channel. It's really taking off.
I really appreciate the humble remarks during the champ fight, I put 500 Plus hours into this game at A20, and this will be my last achievement so I'm watching your video to not lose once 😂
Fun challenge! Managed it with Bash+, Pommel Strike +, Impervious +, Power Through+ and Body Slam +. Had a medkit to remove the wounds from power through and prevent enemies spamming with statuses. Managed to perfect Time Eater with the help of Paper Phrog and Champion's Belt making the Bash+ OP.
i did it with choke+, blade dance+, neutralize+, survivor+ and strike+. plus i had a bag of marbles and a ninja scroll meaning i was easily doing over a 100 damage every turn one. one of the funnest challenges i've done
Vigilance, Rushdown, Tantrum (Unnecessary, was using Eruption until I got below 5 cards, so swapped it for no real reason...). + Violet Lotus.
I went for Watcher, as her starter cards are almost enough for an infinite...
First attempt I almost got it, added Rushdown on floor 1, and Inner Peace soon after, sadly was about 20 gold short to remove a card when I got to the last shop...
A few tries later I got it, Added Rushdown, then got Violet lotus, so only a single card was needed to be added... However I did get really lucky with events, in addition to remove 2 cards as meow bonus in exchange for Current HP, I somehow managed to get down to 4 cards early act 3, so I picked up a tantrum for a tiny bit faster kills. Followed by removing down to the following three cards when fighting The Awakened One:
Vigilance, Rushdown, Tantrum. Had it not been for Violet Lotus I'd have needed an Inner peace, however that would not have generated block. Not that block would have mattered for any boss but Time Eater.
Also note that thanks rushdown + tantrum being able to draw cards, I don't need to get down to 5 cards to get the infinite rolling, so I pathed pretty heavily into Elite combats, this is because they give more gold, and removals get very expensive.
Got it with searing blow+9 and double tap, had some nice relics like bag of marbles and bronze scales which helped me beat an otherwise unwinnable darklings fight. Love the achievement guides :D
Literally just finished a run with this same build! I didn't have the same relics though and almost got stumped at a mob of darklings.
Luckily, I looked through my relics and found I had one that dealt 5 damage to all enemies for every 3 skills played. Was able to Defend+ into Shrug it Off+ and then draw/play the Defend+ I just used to get the activation and slowly burn them down.
From there it was smooth sailing with the Time Snail boss for Act 3!
Ironclad: Flex Rage Enrage Double tap Pummel strike.
Thanks for the tips! Finally got it along with Common Sense (unintentionally). Hologram+x3 and Claw+x2.
Only had a handful of relics due to skipping Elites - I think the only essential one was Peace Pipe.
Got minimalist on my climb to A20..
My run was on A14 meaning I had ascenders bane curse.
My deck was just bash+, dropkick+, dropkick and ascenders bane.
Got super lucky with watcher and got singing bowl (+2 health instead of card reward) and teardrop locket (start combat in calm) really early on helped so much
I managed to get the achievement first try after watching your video
I never thought The Defect would be a good choice for this achievement
Ironclad - Demon Form, Necronomicurse, Defend +, Heavy Blade +, Rampage +
A lot of growth to help with long fights but I did this with mods on, even though they were only bonus character mods I didn't even get the achievement but it was my second attempt so I haven't truly experienced what pain that would have been
Maaaaan I had almost the same start here, with 2 claws, but never got any reliable source of block like Auto-Shields. That makes this SOOOOO much more difficult. I also came up one shy on removals, but after a couple random card transformations I had 3 Claw, 2 Hologram (which I used to re-draw my Claws and speed up their progression), and 1 Leap (that I got by transformation.)
Sooooo close to being doable.
Just got the achievement yesterday with watcher.
Ended up with a ridiculous set of cards:
- alpha+
- windmill strike +
- flurry of blows +
- Vigilance +
- Defend +
I still had 8 cards (including eruption) at the start of act 3. There were 3 shops I could visit, but I ran out of money for removals after the second. The falling event saved me, but had me choose between eruption and vigilance. Chose to remove eruption to maintain a chance of blocking sufficiently. Beat time eater in the turn it would have killed me with one overpowered windmill strike (and a continuous barrage of omega damage each turn).
Good times
I got so lucky, managed to beat the heart with my build. Watcher. Fear no evil +, halt +, eruption +, rush down +, pressure points +.
I got rush down right before awakened and greedily took it hoping to get rid of one of my extra pressure points in an event. No dice, six card deck. But I also got all the pieces for the ending chapter.
I get rid of my extra pressure points at the store, but there’s a problem: the heart forces bad status effects.
My lucky solution: I had the double effective potions relic and three power potions. One of the power potions was useless, but the other two got me rush down and foresight. I was able to draw enough extra cards to also use halt in the infinite combo and make sure I started my turn with the cards I needed via scry.
So I got to luck my way into the minimalist achievement.
I did my minimalist deck with: barricade+, true grit+, shrug it off+, body slam+, power though+. Just tank everything and hit back hard.
The swag play on the next-to-last turn skipping auto-shields to distill more claws while generating exactly 40 block at the end of the turn to take 0 dmg. Beautiful mastery, my lord!
I never goes past ascencion 3 and I never beat heart. But I did this achivement same day I saw this video. I had similar build, but instead of draw 1 card I draw 2 cards.
After probably 20 tries with the watcher, I gave up and tried with the iron clad. Literally did it first try what the fuck but I’m so happy
Still works lol. Just got it on the first try. Didn't find a second claw though so I had to make due with the channel lightning+claw.
2:00
How the hell do you have Ascension 20 unlocked but you're still missing card/relic unlocks on the Silent here?
"PRO" TIP: I just found out that apparently, bottled cards can not be removed at shops.
Reprogram, Go for the Eyes, Finesse, Charge Battery, Sweeping Beam+
Finally got it done with Rampage Bash 2x Defend and a Shrug It Off
Finding the frozen core might be more difficult than just having Glacier instead of autoshields! Also beat it with 4 cards thanks to the forced removal event. One less claw.
Just got it after 4 tries thanks to the guide!
I had a floor one pressure points so I decided to go into that direction. Unfortunately I didn't find any other pressure points for the rest of the run. I did however got a swivel/ragnarok from pandoras box and combined with an akabeko helped me smash through hallways and even elites.
Loving the content and excited for more. Thanks Baalor!
Ragnarok+
Talk to the hand+
Swivel+
Pressure points+
Flash of steel
I beat the game with 3 cards- Fear No Evil, Eruption, and Rushdown. It’s an infinite loop, but you can’t rely on getting it until later in the run; surviving until that point is the challenge. I had to face the Time Eater that attempt but I still won
A bit late to the party, but I finished it with the Ironclad on Ascension 0. Searing Blow+9, Thunderclap, Dropkick+, Shrug it off and Defend. It was a very fun challenge
Just cleared this with Scrape + Claw + Claw + Impatience + Buffer. Amongst a bunch of bad relics, I've gotten sundial, which managed to turn this into an infinite. I literally beat Donu and Deca on turn 1, it was so satisfying!
Love the twitch channel and thanks for the awesome guide! First try with Zap, Auto-Shields, Streamline, Claw, and Scrape.
5 cards with the silent were survivor+, neutralise+, poison stab+, deadly poison+ and catalyst+. Got very lucky with the bosses all being ones who dropped quickly to poison, and having the snecko skull helped quite a bit too
I did it twice as Watcher
(Ascension 2) Alpha+ Evaluate+ Vigilance+ Sanctity+ Third Eye+
(Ascension 3) Cut Through Fate+ 2x Pressure Points+ Defend+ Evaluate+ (This one also counts as only Common cards run)
Same build but with (All for One) instead of (Hologram). Did it on the first attempt, awesome strategy you had!
I had 2 Shrug it Offs, with a Body Slam and Bash and probably a defend. I also had a Sun Dial, so I was able to play shrugs until I had 70+ block, then Bash and Body Slam to kill most enemies, and have plenty of block for any that I couldn't.
I know I’m super late to the party, but this video helped me finally do minimalist! I even mimicked you a bit on this one 😅
2x Claw+
Hologram+
Auto-Shields+
All for One+
I watched this last night, and felt inspired to try today. My first attempt was a success because of this video! 😁 I ran into the enemy that gives you the parasite as well, but thanks for the advice about saving an attack. Basically, thank you so much for this video! 😊❤
Deck: Glacier, Streamline, Claw, Claw, Dualcast
Main useful relics: Blood Vial, Nuclear Battery, Vajra, Sacred Bark
Ironclad, had 2 flash of steel making for an easy infinite, panicked when i saw time eater as act 3 boss. I was able to swap to a second wind and power through combo that gave me enough block to beat time eater
I got it yesterday on my first try with Rainbow+, Compile driver+, Charge battery+, Recursion+ and Defragment+. It was very effective, I had doubts, but it worked really well. Thanks for the guide.
Kept: defend, eruption, vigilance
Added: reach haven, windmill strike
And a bunch of helpful relics
TIL that claw increases damage everytime it's played, NOT just by existing. Holy crap.
Edit - also just learned frozen core adds frost orbs not just starting you on the frost orb. HOLY CRAP BLIZZARD BUILD HERE I COME
Got the Minimalist award after 5 or 6 attempts after watching your video - won with Ironclad ; Defend+ X 2, Shrug it off+, Bodyslam+ x 2. I had the Shapes as the final boss and was able to get enough block a turn to mitigate most of their attack damage and hit them for a decent amount each time.
I got minimalist with silent - on low Ascension. It involved getting a piece pipe from neow as a relic reward and then toking constantly, picking up 2 heel hooks in act 1 and going to every campfire. With neutralise I was going infinite by act 2. I got a third heel hook and after image and even managed to beat the heart by just tanking it's hits (wouldn't work on higher Ascension due to 2 damage beat of death and ascenders bane). Time eater would have killed it of course and with no shuriken it took forever to kill anything but it did work. I even managed to upgrade a heel hook by the last bonfire lol.
Just looked up this guide and said "hm yeah I like claw so I'll play defect"
First run I got discount card, bought a singing bowl, got two claws, a glacier, and a hologram and kept dualcast. Got so many remove options and hardly used any. I truly was blessed and for some reason Purity also triggered.
Just did it with watcher:
The only card I picked up was signature move.
Got rid of everything besides vigilance eruption and 2 defends
Got signature move floor 2 and had one of the easiest runs i've ever had doing this achievement thanks to you :)
Of course you got ceramic fish lmao
Watched the video and applied the tips on the ironclad, as he's the character I know best, to get the achievement, so thank you!
Relics:
- Burning Blood (contemplated switching it, but I wanted consistency)
- Bag of Marbles (combo'd beautifully with the Dropkick)
- Girya (made me really want a limit break, which I got after Act 1 Boss!)
- Pear (was ok)
- Medical Kit (Act 1 shop grab, best choice ever with the small deck of cards, set me back one removal though)
- Whetstone (upgraded 2 strikes that I ended up removing :()
- Busted Crown (the extra energy was nice for Bash setup with Dropkick, and I already had 4 of the 5 cards I ended up with; Offering was acquired in Act 3 shop)
- Red Mask (Didn't want it, but it was an event, and I didn't want to lose my gold. Was nice for artefact clearing on Donu/Deca)
- Peace Pipe (removed the card I didn't remove when I bought Medkit)
- Strawberry (was ok)
- Empty cage (reward Act 2 Boss; allowed me to buy Offering in Act 3 as it set me down to 4 cards)
- Question Card (useless)
Cards:
- Bash+ (for vulnerable)
- Shrug it off+ (for Block and drawing Limit Break+/Dropkick+)
- Dropkick+ (Looping Limit Break+ with the vulnerable)
- Limit Break+ (3-6-12-24-48 Strength on turn one, 96-192 Strength on turn two, 384 Strength and one hit kill Deca/Donu on turn 3)
- Offering (For the extra Limit Break+ on turn 1)
Honestly with this setup, I don't think I would've lost againt any of the Act 3 bosses, as Shrug+ gave me decent block alongside the ridiculous HP from Pear and Strawberry. Was definitely a fun run!
Just got this today on Watcher with Perseverance+, Cut Through Fate+, Vigilance+, Reach Heaven+, and Eruption+.
I had Sozu which let me go Reach Heaven (15 damage) > Vigilance (12 block) on turn one, then on subsequent turns, Eruption (9 damage - enter Wrath and gain 2 Energy) > Reach Heaven (30 damage) > Cut Through Fate (18 damage, draw Through Violence) > Through Violence (40 damage) > Vigilance (12+ block from Kunai) to start the cycle over again. The Perseverance could be used to stall, and since the Through Violences were retainable, I could save them to go nova on a better turn if necessary. Got Deca and Donu at the end, which definitely helped, because it was pretty hard to do without getting more potions, however, I had a strength potion which helped that boss fight immensely.
Defect: 2 Claw+, Auto-Shield+ and Reprogram+ with a Dualcast i couldn't get rid of, and a Singing Bowl so all the card rewards didn't go to waste. i just quickly killed the cultists against the awakened then just cycled reprogram and auto-shield, with claws to build up the damage, str and dex so i could kill the 2nd phase in 1 turn. Also got Jaxxed this way.
My run was an Ironclad Power Through+ deck, with Second Wind+, Flame Barrier+, and Fire Breathing+ x2. Getting Fire breathing is enough to supplant your strikes through early sentries, 2 of the act 1 bosses, and several normal enemies down the line such as the Chosen, Flame Barrier is excellent for multihit enemies like byrds and the Guardian, and Second Wind lets you control the number of Wounds you draw per turn, letting you do at least 40 damage to all foes per turn with minimal block loss. You’re really only looking for a one energy relic, preferably Mark of Pain, you don’t necessarily want Runic Dome, as sometimes foes won’t go for the expected multihit attack. Card draw relics like the top, watch or puzzle, and Mummified hand also helps with setup/tempo. Stone Calendar is a cherry on top.
After finding this video, I tried. The closest I got on 3 tries was winning with 6 commons (2xLeap+,Zap+,Coolheaded+,Strike+,Dualcast+). Couldn't work out what to drop and still survive. Maybe Strike+, but with Vajra that was contributing quite a lot. Just couldn't find any Claws or other scaling cards. At least I got the "Common Sense" achievement.
Silent, actually made it with 4 cards, could do it with 3, but i guess Adrenaline for free 2 energy helped.
Survivor+ Grand Finale+ Reflex+ Adrenaline+
Adrenaline for free energy - Grand Finale for aoe 60 damage - Survivor discarding reflex - draw 3 from reflex (so draw whole deck back. Grand Finale + Survivor + Adrenaline). This results in 300 aoe damage first turn ,and 180 damage each after, + 33 armor every turn.
tried it with ironclad after watching this guide. I was successful in my second attempt!
my final deck was Flame Barrier+, Spot Weakness+, Shrug It Off, Rampage+ and Iron Wave+. I had a Heavy Blade+ but I had to remove it in act 3 because falling event. it turned out to be a blessing in disguise because I ended up with 4 cards and picked up the Shrug It Off from a store. this enabled me to play rampage twice each turn, scaling it further and further. combined with spot weakness I was getting 16-20 extra damage on the rampage each turn. demon form who? 😆
Achieved using Defect:
Beam Cell+
Doom and Gloom+
Streamline+
Dualcast+
Steam Barrier
Pandora's box + Molten Egg meant I swapped most of my starter Strikes and Defends for upgraded cards, and I found Shuriken and Kunai for scaling. Time Eater was the final boss, but defeated easily by dualcasting dark orbs.
Searing blow+8
Double tap
Whirlwind
Armaments+
Bash
Got lucky enough to get the Remove 2 Cards boon to start, found the removal shrine, Winged Boots to hit extra shops/fires, got a snecko eye. Got to upgrade my whole hand first turn and keep buffing sear blow while killing most things instantaneously. Searing blow is so much better when you draw it, buff it, and swing with it twice almost every turn!
Mine was on Watcher with Vigilance, Empty Body, Prostration, and 2 Pressure Points. I had Unceasing Top to help with draws and going in and out of calm for energy.
It’s crazy too, because I had so many attempts on Defect that just couldn’t make the cut in Act 3. But then I tried it once on Watcher and got it. I saw PP on floor two and thought “well if I’m gonna have a small deck, this would be a good card to play a bunch”. Turns out it’s actually CRAZY good if it’s the only card you’re playing hahah
Just beat it with watcher despite never actually getting the rushdown I was looking for lol. My final deck was vault, carve reality, fne, eruption, and vigilance (all upgraded of course). I did have some pretty great luck for my relics unlike my deck though. Some notable relics were gremlin horn, nunchaku, ink bottle, lantern (which was huge in getting big setup and damage with the vault round 1), and ornamental fan. I also got an astrolabe after the act 1 boss that gave me a judgement, like water, and carve reality from. The judgement was actually hugely helpful with how well it synergized with gremlin horn, a lot of the group bosses would have been much more difficult if I didn't have those 2 things, and the judgement survived until floor 46.
Got it with Reprogram, Streamline, Go for the Eyes, Equilibrium, and Auto-Shields (all upgraded of course). Pretty fun challenge, especially once Act 1 Astrolabe gave me the scaling I needed (Reprogram)
I think I got pretty lucky. Watched the video and then got the achievement on my first attempt. Ended the run with 3 Streamline+, Reinforced Body+, and Equilibrium+. For boss relics picked up an empty cage and nuclear battery so I had plenty of energy to play my two cost cards and once the streamlines hit 0 cost I could rack up 36 defense a turn while hitting for 60. Even picked up smiling mask for removal, toolbox for some additional card options, and anchor to block for me while I got the streamlines going. Absolute dream run.
Got it on the first try after watching this video.
Signature move, Vigilance, two Pressure Points, and Like Water.
Ended up losing Eruption to the Falling event (yes, I decided to ignore the warning).
Little Late to the party but:
Eruption, Vigilance, Consecrate, Signature Move, Follow Up.
Not an infinite combo by any means, but when paired with Unceasing top and Pen nib and some other relics, I managed a Transient kill, and turn one doughnut bros. I've only felt more powerful when running a Corruption Dead Branch.
Just nailed a Defect run with rainbow, zap, defend, good instincts, and dualcast.
I had the misfortune of watching a WR ironclad speedrun before my own minimalist attempt, so my deck wasn’t original or organic. Flex+, Limit Break+, Cleave/Whirlwind is the deck’s heart. Don’t remember the other two cards, probably something defensive. Other strength gain cards work too.
Claw+coolheaded+skim+defrag+turbo. It wasn't quite infinite due to the handspace, but it was sufficient for turn 1-2 kill (final boss wasn't time eater, but i think i could beat him too). Would be quite sick with sundial or abacus, but still a very good set of relics (empty cage+astrolabe are definetely main stars of the show, but something like meat on the bone saved the early game, etc)
I got minimalist with Watcher after 12 cursed attempts. Rushdown + Vigilance & Fear No Evil + Eruption and Violet Lotus did the job really nicely. Too bad that I fricked up at the boss and I could one turn kill him. Darned Donut. Forgot to mention the amount of block was absurd.
I just got this last night, and at the same time got the "win with no uncommon or rare cards" trophy.
I found an almost impregnable loop, I had 1x defend, 2x shrug it off+, 1x flex+ and 1x bodyslam+,
What I found was I could use flex, then shrug it off which would return flex to my hand, then use the other shrug it off which would then return either flex again or the previous shrug it off, upon which using the shrug it off for the 3rd time returned whichever car was in my discard pile. That, coupled with the relics I had gathered gave me 5 energy per turn and allowed me to get 10 strength every time, it was rinse and repeat with that, every turn gave me 40 to 50 block and attack, I faced the time eater so i had to make sure I was paying attention to the clock so I didn't waste a bodyslam chance, thankfully I didn't, and despite him chipping away at my health with his stronger attacks, I managed to beat it with about 20 health remaining.
I had acquired this set of 5 by early in level 3, the corridor goons never stood a chance, in fact the time eater and the sentient were the only enemies capable of removing any health.
Double Tap+, Searing Blow+7, Thunder Clap, strike, flash of steel
Ascension 1 because i wanted more relics
The most important relics were
Burning blood, paper phrog, lizard tail, unceasing top, empty cage, runic dome, and membership card
Just got this with Imprevious, Bodyslam, Barricade, Shrug it off, Defend+. was super strong, turn 2 u get to do two bodyslams with 40+ damage, finished the deck quick by the begining of act 3 was already 5 cards ( had remove cards at rest site relic )
Just got my minimalist using Defect having 2 claw+, Dualcast+, Glacier+, and Creative AI+. Only useful relics i had was Potion Belt, Nuclear Battery, and Regal Pillow
Mine was offering+, barricade+, entrench+, body slam+, and impervious+, with unceasing top. I never play against the heart because I suck at the game, but I figured with how badly i destroyed act 3 i could do it no problem. lo and behold, I got smashed.
Thanks for the good vid! Really interesting :D
I got the absolutely silliest minimalist watcher run: Conjure Blade. It really shouldn't have beaten multi enemy rooms, but I got lucky that I got the gremlin horn, so if I killed with it I got the energy back and it went back into my hand. I accidentally bottled a really heavy card so I couldn't remove it, but otherwise it was super easy, barely an inconvenience.
I'm hoping to replay the seed to see if I can replicate it. It's not a good strategy, but God it was fun!
Just did this with Electrodynamics, Cool-headed, Charge Battery, Bullseye and Zap. Shreds everything but bosses and single enemy elites but as long as you don't take any on with low health you should be fine. Very fun deck.
So... I just tried this, had a very similar run, never got the ice orbs and held on to the lightning and dual cast till nearly the end. I had my 5 cards, 2 blocks, 2 claws and auto shield. But then a Writhing Mass added a Parasite to my collection the fight before Donu and Deca.
It's gonna be a minute before I try this one again.
I did it with Searing Blow, upgraded many times. Backed by Pommel Strike and five energy by act 3, this card won the run.The bigger challenge was removing the excess cards, but Neow helped with 2 free removals and I got two removal events during the run.
I’m pretty sure I got minimalist on silent with a heel hook infinite. I don’t know exactly what I used but I’m pretty sure I had peace pipe, sundial, used neutralize for the weak, and had some draw card to allow myself to infinite turn 1. I completed the achievement years ago so I can’t remember exactly how I did it.
Just got my achievement with Flame Barrier+, Spot Weakness+, Anger+, Cleave+ and Pommel Strike +. Lucked out and got the falling event in ? room to get rid of last card, in last chance.
Go for colourless cards.
Flash of Steel does damage and lets you draw a card. Many other colourless cards replace themselves too. That is how I got the achievement with the Ironclad.
Also, pray you don't get Time Eater as the final boss.
Did it on watcher with dual cast, reinforced body, all for one, zap and cold snap. Honestly one of the easier fights against doctor who in act 3 but took me some pain (and fighting muscle memory) to get to there. 4th attempt. Thanks for the tips.
Just did this,+no relics+common sense with watcher using 3 pressure points and 2 defends all upgraded.
This is honestly kind of broken. It made everything a complete joke.
I completed it with Eruption, Vigilance and Signature Move. I lost Flurry of Blows in Act 3 to an unavoidable "Falling" event and never say a Rushdown...
This must be the game of the claw. Also the time card counter boss guy I think is the only boss I play against cause I had gotten that stupidly annoying boss 10 times in a bloody row. There are like 5 other bosses you know game you can choose either one of them not just card counter boss.
I got it on Watcher with a 2 card stance change combo (Eruption + Inner Peace) using Rushdown to draw back into them. Easiest way IMO. Even had Time Eater as my final boss.
Does the game check for deck size after act 3 boss if you have collected keys for the heart? Or can you remove a last shop before heart? I'm sure no one is trying to kill heart in minimalist but I'm just curious how it checks.
Rage, offering, draw of steel, anger, barricade. My stupidity dragged me to heart and lost there. No achievement unlocked. Need to come and watch this and realize we don't need the key 😂
I did mine on Watcher. i avoided every ? mark event on act 3 but the one ? i got was the fucking falling so i had to get rid of a rushdown.
was able to recover though, the next fight i got a cut through fate, so in the end, i ended up doing the minimalist and commons only achievement lol
Claw +, hologram+, a card to draw at least 2 like skim, and the two madness from the act 3 event. This works really well and can play infinitely but with more cards comes more issues, status cards also cause it to fail
Ironclad got 2 dropkick +, bash +, pommel strike + and a limit break,
Almost lost the run when I added the second dropkick but got lucky with an extra shop in an event
Strike, bash, shrug, demon and metallicize. The real key was having Nilry's codex. Pretty sure I would have failed quick without it.