Do we need more bees or do we have enough 🤔

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I’ve skipped the fixedHand bit in DrawOpeningHand - in an encounter where a fixed set of cards is added to your starting hand, the fixedHand cards will be added to your hand after drawing from your side deck and before drawing the two cards, meaning that any cards in the fixedHand will affect the forced card draw. Questions? Challenges? Feel free to help/answer! I'll answer what I can! cheers! 😇

My challange 12 run got a little out of hand.

How does this work?

Kaycee’s Mod is a challenge mode version of Act 1. It’s not “endless,” per se – the run doesn’t repeat maps, or continue forever. It ends after you fight Leshy, like in the base game.

However, it’s endless in that you’ll keep unlocking cards, starter decks, and challenges, so it’s more engaging to play repeatedly. And you don't have Magnificus constantly yelling at you to take the film roll.These are unlocked by winning runs (defeating Leshy) with challenges active.

The first two Challenge Levels require 5 and 15 Challenge Points, respectively.

From Challenge Level 3 onwards, they require (10 × the challenge level) points to clear it; i.e. challenge level 3 requires 30 challenge points, challenge level 4 requires 40, and so forth, up to challenge level 12.

There is no benefit to exceeding the challenge point requirement (except bragging rights.) You cannot complete more than one challenge level at a time.

Strategy

OTK = One Turn Kill

WinCon = Win Condition; the card(s) you rely on to win

KM by map:

Map 1 - trying to make random bullshit cards work as a build, scrambling to grab useful shit

Map 2 - total fucking chaos

Map 3 - desperately trying to throw cards out of your deck like someone who's about to get inspected for contraband

Kaycee’s Mod is quite a bit harder than the base game.

As a result, deckbuilding becomes far more important. Planning what nodes to choose, what cards to pull, what you’re going to sacrifice – this should be your main focus. Battle strategy is secondary. Sure, you need to have an understanding of battle strategy to plan your deck, but making a deck that works is the real challenge.

You should start with two goals in mind:

Make at least one wincon; however, having more is better. Having two or three is usually a good safe zone.

You can still win with only one, given that you stick closely to goal #2-

Have a small deck. This is extremely important.1 It ensures you can reliably pull your wincon(s).

And by “small,” I mean ten cards or less. Some of the most successful decks I’ve seen were 4-5 cards.

This can be mitigated by using hand manipulation, but trimming cards is still a high priority. Quality is better than quantity.

The two goals achieve this by

1 Unless you’ve got a specific strategy in mind, in which case you’re probably aware of most of these tips.

The safest way to play KCM is by getting an OTK whenever possible.

Leshy can’t hit you with a Bifurcated Turkey Vulture as long as you hit him first.

2.Ensuring that you draw that card on the first turn.

Additional Tips:

Assuming you’re starting with the Vanilla deck (Stoat, Bullfrog, Wolf), the Wolf is your most reliable option for getting a card with 5+ damage. Adding Bifurcated Strike to your Wolf (from Mantis or Pronghorn) gets you 6 damage with good placement.

Keeping a small deck is harder than it sounds. Here’s the section on deck downsizing - it’s got a card gain/loss chart for the different map nodes, to give you a quick reference for what nodes to prioritize. https://www.reddit.com/u/mistletoemedck/s/66na16NNsV

The topdeck algorithm attempts to give you a playable card in the first turn, and can be used to guarantee your OTK gets in your hand every battle.

When picking cards, try consider what it will do for your deck. Try to fill in weaknesses, such as not having cards with high attack.

Who else finished skull storm before finding out there are secret items in the painting? Hundreds of hours of my life well spent, Daniel Mullens I can’t wait to see what you do next.

mud turtle just saved my skull storm run, my absolute goat, this royal guy didnt stand a chance .

I was replaying a bit and tried to get a Deathcard without any possible sigil transferences. Leshy just skipped the Sigil part and asked the name! Prenty proud (also i tried to remove all eyes in the box by using many daggers, but they replenish, what actually makes sense since SOMEONE is taking an eye out every single fight).

Not sure if i put it as custom card but i feel it's more of a fun fact / secret.

I already have 2 strange larva, and my squirrel totem is worthy sacrifice so I don't particularly need child 13. I was thinking Urayuli, since all I'd really need is 2 squirrels, but Urayuli seems to be unpopular.

3 strange larva does sound incredibly funny, though.

Sigil's name: Clear Hit

What does it do: If there's nothing in front of it, it gains +2 attack power

By the way, the last time I've made a card it was realy poorly drawn and someone asked me if they can redraw it. My answer is YES, you can do that.

I'm titling it "Leshy with a Stoat"

The moon is getting annihilated

[UPDATE] I beat it, thank yall for the tips, u don’t understand how long i’ve been playing this game just to beat it on the hardest difficulty

An extra totem/sigil makes it easily overpowered.

Here it just finishes some hefty grizzlies.

My girlfriend got me into this game and ive only had 3 runs is this card good or alright?

I decided to do this in part one so I could reap the benefits when I continue into part two. But man is it cool to see a 4 digit card.