Can someone tell me a good combo for the covenants?

[fjRe]

I didn't complete covenant 1 after 18 hours or so. I never loose a normal run with random combination but on covenant 1 I always loose at the last boss. Don't know what I am doing wrong. Thx for help

[Yojo0o]

The main difference to the game that Covenant 1 and subsequent covenants add are the five random cards to your deck at the beginning. These can be good or bad. Since all five are unlikely to all be good, it sounds like your issue may be failing to place a high enough value on permanent card removal. Those blue portals that let you purge two cards are probably the strongest possible events to find early on.

I generally try to keep my deck between 20-25 cards. If you're going higher than that, you can easily reach a point where there's no consistency in your deck and you're completely at RNG's mercy to draw the right card at the right time, which is simply not a sustainable strategy.

[joemama1512]

If you are getting that far, it sounds like you are not paying any attention to what the final boss actually does.
Check the symbol top right to see what he does.

If he cleanses, then you want to avoid strategies like stacking Rage or other buffs that can be dispelled, whereas enhancements (steel whatever +3/+3) are fine and cannot be dispelled.

If he shrinks monsters, try to use buffs and such to make them stronger, or use big boys like the demon fiend or other stackable monsters.

If he eats spells, dont waste cash on Holdover and prioritize consume spells for the extra value since they get eaten anyways. Make sure you always use a spell that consumes anyways for the first spell cast to waste their "eat first spell" ability.

Without knowing more, that is about all I could really generally say.

[Boy Emerson]

I just beat Covenant 25 playing exclusively Stygian/Awoken. This combo is very consistent even at the highest Covenants.

I prioritise frostbite stacking on my champion and immediately look for a tank unit asap. My favourite unit to stack as a tank is the Titan Sentry. Once I've applied as much HP to him as possible I'll clone him once or twice and put it on every floor. Once you have your tank sorted in combination with the Champion stacking frostbite you'll melt any boss with ease, especially at low covenants.

Your main priority is going to be protecting your champion as he's going to have extremely low health (around 3/6). Guardian Stone is a useful minion for this as it'll give your whole row armour whenever you incant (cast a spell). Other useful ways to keep him alive are cards that add hp, aslong as you can get him above 10~ he's mostly safe from spikes and sweeps. After this you really just want to stack a lot of healing, Unleash the Wildwood is a great heal to prioritise holdover on, a full heal every single turn for 0 mana is pretty good... Restoration Detonation is also a great way to do damage and keep your tanks alive.

There's a ton of damage spells to focus on with the Stygian that can make winning a run EASY if you get them early and build them right. Ice Storm, Helical Crystalis and Ice Tornado are all perfectly viable cards to stack. Ice Storm is phenomenal with +10 magic power +hold over, Helical Crystalis is great with -1 energy cost + holdover. If you can get either of those, make it a priority to clone it, having two of those will wipe a floors minions every turn.

Of course there's more to it, but you'll learn which trinkets to look out for and how to build around them on the fly the more you play. Also I'm sure there's a lot of other great class combinations, but I haven't played them nearly enough to comment.

Good luck winning some Covenant runs!

[Kanu]

Get ur deck small.

[Peregrin Took]

Originally posted by Boy Emerson:

I just beat Covenant 25 playing exclusively Stygian/Awoken. This combo is very consistent even at the highest Covenants.

I prioritise frostbite stacking on my champion and immediately look for a tank unit asap. My favourite unit to stack as a tank is the Titan Sentry. Once I've applied as much HP to him as possible I'll clone him once or twice and put it on every floor. Once you have your tank sorted in combination with the Champion stacking frostbite you'll melt any boss with ease, especially at low covenants.

Your main priority is going to be protecting your champion as he's going to have extremely low health (around 3/6). Guardian Stone is a useful minion for this as it'll give your whole row armour whenever you incant (cast a spell). Other useful ways to keep him alive are cards that add hp, aslong as you can get him above 10~ he's mostly safe from spikes and sweeps. After this you really just want to stack a lot of healing, Unleash the Wildwood is a great heal to prioritise holdover on, a full heal every single turn for 0 mana is pretty good... Restoration Detonation is also a great way to do damage and keep your tanks alive.

There's a ton of damage spells to focus on with the Stygian that can make winning a run EASY if you get them early and build them right. Ice Storm, Helical Crystalis and Ice Tornado are all perfectly viable cards to stack. Ice Storm is phenomenal with +10 magic power +hold over, Helical Crystalis is great with -1 energy cost + holdover. If you can get either of those, make it a priority to clone it, having two of those will wipe a floors minions every turn.

Of course there's more to it, but you'll learn which trinkets to look out for and how to build around them on the fly the more you play. Also I'm sure there's a lot of other great class combinations, but I haven't played them nearly enough to comment.

Good luck winning some Covenant runs!

Awesome advice in general. Thanks for the write-up.

[Neon Black Interactive]

I'm playing on cov 25 at present and generally I just go double random. The best advice I can give is that you need to find a potential powerful strat based off of the stuff you get early in the run and try to abuse it as hard possible.

If you're just looking for something that's consistently going to do well then I would recommend either stygian hellorned or stygian awoken. I think Stygian is the most powerful and the most consistent faction and it's not even close.