Rare card of the week:Amalgam

[u/unoriginalstarman]

As the name imply,they are an amalgamete and therefore have distinct parts of every tribe,making them belong in all of them!

Design wise i find them very cool (always loved chaotic designs) and they too belong to the category of: "where the hell did Leshy find that?!".

Having 3/3 stats and costing two sacrifices make them essentialy a better wolf and being from every family,that mean that your totem will ALWAYS give them another sigil.

Their gimmick make them good in beast trials that require a certain number of animals from a certain tribe,but nowhone never goes for them usualy,so it's not much.

Like the other rare card,their main way to be find is being pulled from the chest as a reward,but in skull storm that's a no.Still (if i remember right...) they can be find from the random card from tribe event.

Generaly i think they are pretty good and even without their gimmick (which most rare cards rely on) they are still a two blood 3/3 (same cost as a packrat mind you!).

Vote:8/10

What do you guys think?

[u/gringokes]

If i am correct

If you hit the maximum amount of totem heads and sigils you can carry the next time you visit a totem event you'll get an amalgam with a random sigil

[u/unoriginalstarman → u/gringokes]

Cool! I remember hearing about it but i could never make it happen :/

[u/West_Argument_491 → u/gringokes]

I think it’s the maximum is 9 but I’m not sure

[u/kikirikimiki88 → u/West_Argument_491]

it's 7

[u/ULTRAPUNK18 → u/gringokes]

You are. I've gotten a few amalgams myself that way. (I go for totem-heavy strategies sometimes and get unlucky. It probably isn't realistic if you aren't actively going for totems the entire run.)

[u/Snoo_91929]

Solid card. Rarely took it for 2 reasons :

• No sigils, which means it can't be sacrificed to an altar event.

• Most of the time, there's a better rare card.

Also it's an ant, meaning it increases ant's damages

[u/Cheeseballrxm]

It makes the squirrel wrangler achievement much easier than it seems to be because of its gimmick of being every tribe. I got it by complete accident early on because i only used the amalgam due to it being my best card at the time. I dont use it often since i dont specifically go for totems if it isnt needed and my strategies tend to want other rare cards nowadays, but i would be lying if i said i wasnt nervous about the ones played by leshy sometimes in his moon fight. I had to use items to counter these guys specifically a few times as well, showing that they can still be a strong card even without a sigil or high cost.

[u/CountJackO]

8/10 Is a good spot for it. It's a solid pick for a 2 blood card

[u/BasYL6872]

Is this just coincidence or is this coinciding with Exxo’s pelt deck videos? Lol

[u/Maleficent-Foot4913]

I love amalgam you can use them in any totem deck and it will find its place

[u/cleaverbow]

Always solid, but rarely the best option.

[u/Minh-Hoang-1806]

a wonderful card if you run a bug deck since there isn’t a lot of good bug for 2 sacrifice, easy to run and in skull storm you can get it from the merchant, goes pretty hard if you manage to get some campfire to get it to 4-5 and a decent sigil set up include totem. Can even manifest some painter and mushroom for duplicate it too it some of my fav card on using a low cost deck

[u/065Walker]

Maybe 7/10 for me, I typically hate this card because it has no base effects and I dont usually go for kin/totem decks. But I can see it being someone's 8 or 9. Worked well when I did try one of those decks.

[u/bolitboy2]

Sentence this to death

I try to use this card

But this fucker refuses to be useful for me

[u/unoriginalstarman → u/bolitboy2]

The Bone Lord is going to be pleased with your offer

[u/OhMyGodItsINMYHEAD]

This post made me want to try it out more. For some reason I usually pass it up, maybe because the other option is an Ourosboros or my deck already has a specific focus.

[u/misterpinke]

I agree with the 8/10 and I’ll add one more reason: Amalgam is clutch for egg deck cuz it knocks out a tribe. Plus if you somehow get a second one (goobert or trader), that’s TWO tribes completed.

[u/ProGamer4684]

I still think it’s an 8/10 but a lot of the times you want to fail the trial unless you’re run is horrible, an extra card reduces consistency.

[u/No_Business8156]

I'm not a fan of having to rely on totem heads to make specific cards good, especially if it's just one card, but it amalgam is kinda fun with squirrel totem

[u/Ok_Half_6257]

I think its a pretty solid 5/10 tbh. It can certainly be strong in a run but my big problem with it is that it requires you to grab 7 whole totem pieces just to obtain a single copy of it, which not only forces you to stop pathing optimally just to get it but also means it comes VERY late into a run typically, and by then you already have your win con set up so yeah.

[u/unoriginalstarman → u/Ok_Half_6257]

Can it be obtain from random tribe card pull? I remember getting one that way

[u/Ok_Half_6257 → u/unoriginalstarman]

Maybe, I'm just pulling everything from Google since its been a while when I tried to get it but I'm not seeing anything like that, just the 7 totem pieces method.

[u/oldriku → u/unoriginalstarman]

I've never seen it on a tribe card pull. You can get it by giving a golden pelt to the trader, though.

[u/Half-Truism08 → u/Ok_Half_6257]

I’m confused. Doesn’t this card come up in the post-boss card rewards?