Help with the beginning of the game

[Vicforce]

No matter how well put together my deck is, I can never make it to the 3rd major boss. (Please don't spoil it) I am pitted in pretty much impossible scenarios and lose both lives in quick succession. How do I make it past this point?

[LittleNinja]

Try to find ways to cheese the fights. Make them super easy.
There can be ways to beat fights in one turn.


Minor SPOILERS!:
Use the ouroboros. Find a way to upgrade it infinitely in one turn.

[Mr Compassionate]

Look for a Mantis or better yet Mantis Lord. Their double or triple shot ability literally doubles or triples the damage output of your card. If you use an altar to sacrifice a card to another card the remaining card gets all the abilities of the sacrifice. Using this you can find a creature that does 3 damage like, say, a wolf, and make it deal 3x3 damage AKA 9 damage. 9 damage is enough to instantly win unless blocked.

Another fun strat? Gecks are free but have 1/1. Sacrifice rabbit burrow to a Geck to make infinite geck. Also a geck with Undying can be played and sacrificed as often as you need.

Card abilities which create creatures (such as creating squirrels, bees or ants) also confers the abilities of whatever card created them. If you have a Mantis Lord which creates a bee when it's hit the bee also has Trifurcated Strike. There are many, many broken uses for this "inherited ability" concept.

Remember, when the Mycologist splices two cards the new card has ALL the abilities of both cards. A card with Fecundity (the Field Mice ability) and Undying (Cockroach ability) is an infinite nightmare card.

In general there's a few cards and abilities you gotta look out for. Here's a list.
-Ouroboros
-Trifurcated Strike (or bifurcated if you can't get it)
-Fecundity
-Undying from Cockroach
-Geck because free cards are rare and can be busted
-Worthy Sacrifice (because being able to instantly summon a 3 cost usually just wins anyway)
-Many Lives, if you find a way to combine this with Worthy Sacrifice you can flood the board with 3 cost cards

[Vicforce]

thanks!

[Vicforce]

So I beat leshy, but it just sends me right back to the start.

[Vicforce]

Nevermind

[nightshift]

Ouroboros just breaks the game, so upon getting it to 17/17 in act 1, I restarted and simply didn't use it again ever. It comes up later through the game in several occasions. It's best to just leave it. Not even in Kaycee's mod. It's an autowin card, thus it shouldn't exist.

On the other hand, I love combining sigils and the game offers a lot of opportunities for that. A Pack Rat sacrificed on a Beehive will let you spawn an item and so does each of the bee that comes out of it, allowing you to spam at least one item per turn. Beehive is insane because of how the bee's inherit whatever ability it receives. Unkillable bees, Triple sacrifice bees, bees with free rabbits... Offense sigils are also great.

Go for cheap and useful cards as they are easy to deploy. Having too many high cost cards can leave you unable to act sometime.
Also, take it slow, plan ahead. If a card moves on it's own imagine it's route before deploying it.
Try to secure your cards, place your Cat, your flyers and your creatures with bifuricated strike behind obstacles.

But most importantly keep playing. Thankfully it's really fun and death will let you explore Act 1 all the better. Try completing the puzzles in the room. Check the painting - it can provide some serious assistance more than once. Same goes for most things around the wooden cabin. Explore - don't deprive yourself of the enjoyment what exploring a new thing invokes.

[Vicforce]

So I photographed Leshy.
What happens if you let Leshy charge you?
Is there like a youtube video?

[Nazemec]

Originally posted by Vicforce:

So I photographed Leshy.
What happens if you let Leshy charge you?
Is there like a youtube video?

You won't find such video because you don't have a choice at that point.

[Vicforce]

When you look through the lense, you see Leshy rush at you.
I panicked and used the camera. But when he calls you an ingrate and you can photo graph him, what would happen if you just stood there and did nothing?

[trial_by_fire]

It's been a while, and I forget exactly if that is an option to just stand there and do nothing when you have the camera and he rushes you.

But assuming that he 'gets' you, then you would probably start back over and have to play him again until you manage to take a photo.

Taking a photo is how you advance the game.

[RequiemsRose]

If you have the film roll when you reach that point then it is automatic that you take his picture and progress the story. If you reach that point without that necessary item though, you make a victory card instead of a death card and restart the loop (victory cards are hung on the door instead of usable or drawable from map nodes in the game). You can have up to 8 victory cards on that door before it runs out of room, and near as I was ever able to tell they have 0 effect on gameplay or additional secrets.

[grasowka]

Minor spoiler: Get the squirrel‘s head by solving the lower left slider riddle. It‘ll be offered afterwards by the wood carving Woman. Second, obtain the torso with the infinite sign when being offered by this Woman. After doing so, you‘ll be able to sacrifice the squirrel(s) as often as required to place the powerful cards (two or Even More Blood Drops) on the Game board. This will smooth all upcoming fights with the major opponents.

[Vicforce]

Thanks for the tips, but I already completed that part of the game.
I was just curious.

[cpoc019]

Just completed act 1 last night, I had a totem that adds a worker ant to my hand every time I play a squirrel, allowing me to easily create a field of 4/2 ants.

[polxzaw]

I recommend using the ,,unkillable" sigil in combination with ,,Geko" or with the bunny. usually the more damage cart can deal for a cheap cost the better it is. that's why many hardcore players usually pick the wolf, coyote, and mantis god. Using the key that's hidden in the safe you can open a puzzlebox and get a skink, which is very usefull for developing cards, and gets very op when you combine it with certain sigils