Corrupt Heart - 75x12 attack

[Fluffy Bunny]

With Ironclad I built myself up a perfect block deck with barricade, entrench and x4 metallicize for passive block gain and the Corrupt Heart hits me with a 75x12 attack.
I admit, I'm pretty terrible at this game, but I was feeling really good with this deck and everything just came together perfectly, then I saw this attack. Ugh. I guess I needed more strength too, but I wasn't offered any strength cards that I remembered.

[Zu]

Now you know.

Bring a body slam or juggernaut next time, or a steroid + ancient potion with a couple cards that scale well with strength if you somehow found no scaling damage at all.

[Fluffy Bunny]

Originally posted by Zu:

Now you know.

Bring a body slam or juggernaut next time, or a steroid + ancient potion with a couple cards that scale well with strength if you somehow found no scaling damage at all.

I had a body slam, but I didn't draw it every turn. My deck was probably around 25 cards with nothing to exhaust them, so I should have worked on thinning that down.
How did your deck work to reduce 27 cards down to 5? Fiend Fires?

[Zu]

Ah geez, it's been so long, but it was probably just a mix of cards that remove themselves, true grits, that leftover burning pact, maybe a headbutt with battle trance, bottled stuff, gambling chip for good measure, and having 5 energy half the time.

And it just occurred to me it worked out without corruption.

[Fluffy Bunny]

Originally posted by Zu:

Ah geez, it's been so long, but it was probably just a mix of cards that remove themselves, true grits, that leftover burning pact, maybe a headbutt with battle trance, bottled stuff, gambling chip for good measure, and having 5 energy half the time.

And it just occurred to me it worked out without corruption.

Corruption would have destroyed your entrench though, so probably better without it.

[Zu]

Would've been fine, honestly, but the run would've been different too. The point was to see how far you can push the heart. Usually you either die or kill it before that turn anyway.

[Arashi]

Heart can't be stalled.

I think it's 5th attack that kills you so you have 9 turns to kill it.

[Songbird]

Originally posted by the Arashi:

Heart can't be stalled.

I think it's 5th attack that kills you so you have 9 turns to kill it.

9 turns is easy enough. Turns 8 and 9 will only be 15x6 damage and 49 damage in some order, with 1 extra Beat of Death (assuming ascension 4+). Turn 11 or 12 has 15x8 with Painful Stabs added. Turn 14 or 15 has 15 x 20 -- still doable, but scary. Turn 17 or 18 is the absolute limit without intangibility or some other extreme factor, as that's when you face 72x15.

[K E N N I]

It jumps from 20 to 72? ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that's brutal. I thought the strength gain is linear and was wandering how OP didn't fall asleep during such a long fight.

[Arashi]

Originally posted by patryk.drobinski:

It jumps from 20 to 72? ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that's brutal. I thought the strength gain is linear and was wandering how OP didn't fall asleep during such a long fight.

Guarding 20 x 15 is a challange in of itself.

[Blood Flowers]

Originally posted by the Arashi:

Originally posted by patryk.drobinski:

It jumps from 20 to 72? ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that's brutal. I thought the strength gain is linear and was wandering how OP didn't fall asleep during such a long fight.

Guarding 20 x 15 is a challange in of itself.

Honestly, I never seem to reach these attacks. My decks have either killed the heart or died by then.

[Firebead Elvenhair]

I once beat the heart on this 121x12 attack.
I had NO body slam. It was essentially all reflected damage.
During his turn.
On his 8th attack (he was on his 968 to 1089 attack damage).

That was a close one.