Ritual Dagger

[Berik Xardas]

How often do you actually take it?
I for one almost never do. Although the card itself isn't as terrible as it used to be, the "issue" here is that 99%* of the times it is offered to you, there is the possibility to grab Gold instead.
*(the "1%" is when you own Ectoplasm).
Although on high Ascension you only get 50 rather than 99 Gold, the 7 HP sacrifice becomes more harmful as the battles will cost more HP, and the max HP is lower too.

So the last time I remembered settling for the Dagger was when I had Ectoplasm on a non-Focus Defect, and another decent damage dealer was welcome.

[HAWAIIANpikachu]

Eh most of the time I go for the Gold. I only consider the dagger early on act 2

[Spawnling]

Early dagger with Dual Wield is fun. After you upgrade your dagger to 50 damage+ you Dual Wield it in the boss battle.
Did it only once though.

[Zu]

On Watcher sometimes for obvious reasons.

[Khor]

If i get it early enough, 90% Dagger

50 Gold is.. neat? but the Dagger it`s pretty nuts

Edit: Probably a bit less now that is Fatal

[NorthernDruid]

I think the dagger is worth taking more often than I see it being taken (or take it myself).

It's a really strong card, it's kind of upgrade hungry, but even so it doesn't take much for it to grow into oneshotting the lower hp shapes in act 3 and such.

A card that does 40+ for 1 energy is a really good card, and getting it there is not hard at all. It's not a card that's gonna carry your bossfights but it's gonna be really solid for most of the run if you can get it going.

[DuckSonata]

It's pretty much always good when you can stack it. Requires a realistic appraisal of how good your deck is at stalling out low-stakes fights in order to get it played.

I think the Monster Train version has made me appreciate this one even more.