Full Deck, actually impossible on Triple Down and further

[omgjames]

Like how am I supposed to deal with a card that'll be like in the 40-50s???

[it's shoe]

I'd remove it from the deck with Buy A Drink or Sofa Sleeper.

[brickey.8]

They're talking about the heart version of the minor arcana, which you can't remove. That said, the answer is pretty simple: Just accept that it's going to bust you and tough it out. You're very unlikely to see any card more than once per fight in that deck, and you only get it in 1/4 of fights, so that's an HP tax that you'll just have to pay. You can mitigate it further with some foil/handy cards or with that one that donates a card to the opponent's deck, but it'll only be 50/50 whether you draw it before the auto-bust card.

[Flak Monkey]

Full Deck is already an abomination on it's own but 5 of swords makes it even more of a nightmare. But it's not that bad as it seems. Dark mage is a must for this deck. Transit card also can help as well as Insurance Card, foil Dis-card/Cue Card. I would also strongly advise going hell route to find roulette and make all of your number cards as low value as possible while getting rid of all face cards in the process and picking up as many negative and Rain Man cards as you can. 4 mana 7 7 also works very well.

[omgjames]

Originally posted by Flak Monkey:

Full Deck is already an abomination on it's own but 5 of swords makes it even more of a nightmare. But it's not that bad as it seems. Dark mage is a must for this deck. Transit card also can help as well as Insurance Card, foil Dis-card/Cue Card. I would also strongly advise going hell route to find roulette and make all of your number cards as low value as possible while getting rid of all face cards in the process and picking up as many negative and Rain Man cards as you can. 4 mana 7 7 also works very well.

Hell I forget about the roulette event, thanks for reminding me of it

[it's shoe]

Originally posted by brickey.8:

They're talking about the heart version of the minor arcana, which you can't remove. That said, the answer is pretty simple: Just accept that it's going to bust you and tough it out. You're very unlikely to see any card more than once per fight in that deck, and you only get it in 1/4 of fights, so that's an HP tax that you'll just have to pay. You can mitigate it further with some foil/handy cards or with that one that donates a card to the opponent's deck, but it'll only be 50/50 whether you draw it before the auto-bust card.

Oh right it's the signature decks that have their own dedicated 5 minor arcana you can remove, right? (It's been a minute since I cleared those decks so I don't remember.)

But yeah, you're right. You can remove it on a per-fight basis with Transit Card, tough it out and take the occasional bust, mitigate with heals/shields, run Kanban Card to increase your chances of drawing it to the safety of your hand, have a foil Dis-Card, take some Get Out of Jail Free cards, run The Emperor to turn the mega-bust into an instant win, etc etc.

There's plenty of options. 5 of Swords is one of the bigger challenges in this game but it's very solvable.

[phantom]

Originally posted by Flak Monkey:

Full Deck is already an abomination on it's own but 5 of swords makes it even more of a nightmare. But it's not that bad as it seems. Dark mage is a must for this deck.

I've won without dark mage. I fail to see how that is a must.
Dark Mage is mainly for thinning your deck which is pointless in Full Deck. if you are relying on it to get you out of busts in full deck I am pretty sure you are doing something wrong.

[srn347]

Keep taking good cards (look at the 4th card basically always) to water down the bad ones, card removal helps but is kinda meh with so many, and get as much value out of your foil cards as you can. Duping a foil at the counterfeiter also comes with basically no downside, since it's just 1 minor arcana in what is likely a 70+ card deck. Roulette is amazing but likely won't make your deck able to hypercycle unless you also get king of the world. I have actually managed to make 90 card hypercycle via KotW and roulette landing on 1. Some people say king cobra is great too fwiw.