Shiv deck vs Time Eater

[MobyPhallus]

Does anyone else just forfeit the run as soon as they see they have Time Eater boss while running a shiv build? Or is it actually possible to kill him with it?

[Nixmachine]

It's possible if you have decent synergies like Kunai + Shuriken / enough Accuracy to run the deck. It's just that if you have an unorganized shiv deck you'll probably die

[Biopanda]

Nope, just beat ascension 8 with a shiv-dexterity hybrid. Had kunai and a ton of cloak+daggers, played out all my damage cards, had mummified hand so I could spam caltrops/footwork so I had 13+ thorns and 8+ dexterity. I basically spammed my cards until his count was around 9 or 10 and used dodge+roll/blur to keep my block next turn so I can continue spamming.

Reminds me of when I totally disrespected the Awoken One by playing 12 powers with the Defect (in beta) and wiped him.

[burningmime]

If you can reliably play exactly 12 cards per turn, Time Eater is doable (especially if you have Kunai, Shuriken, Fan, After Image, etc).

If you're normally playing 8-ish cards per turn, then, yeah, you're ♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[Robin]

beat A14 with a shiv-y deck, so no. I think in some ways it's actually easier cause you can manage his clock more reliably tbh

[Belbe's Phyrexian Toy Collection]

it's possible; you may want to have a mechanism to up the shiv damage a bit (i.e. accuracy). plus like

Originally posted by Robin:

beat A14 with a shiv-y deck, so no. I think in some ways it's actually easier cause you can manage his clock more reliably tbh

said; you can manage his clock really well. much better than the ironclad exhaust deck.