Trying to kill an enemy with Strikes wouldnвЂ™t leave you with much energy for defending.

You need to be aware of how many of your cards do each job as well as how much energy you will need to spend on each.

The Silent must balance aggression with defence. However, you still need some discipline, youвЂ™re not going to take a card at every reward screen. вЂ“ ItвЂ™s more fun to choose card rewards than to skip them. вЂ“ You can use Eternal Feather (boss relic) to gain life at camp sites even if you donвЂ™t rest. вЂ“ You donвЂ™t have to spend gold on removing your starting Strike cards from your deck, meaning you can save your gold for relics and powerful cards. вЂ“ You are less affected by curses and most statuses (except Dazed). However, the deck size the first time through does matter вЂ“ some aggressive enemies can kill you before you draw your whole deck once, and you donвЂ™t want your best powers to all show up on turn 6. This means my true deck size is more like 20 (which is still big by some playersвЂ™ standards). There are also cards like Escape Plan that always draw a card, so they donвЂ™t really count towards your deck size. One reason is that there are powers and cards that exhaust themselves that wonвЂ™t be in your deck on your second time through. But I usually have around 35 cards in my deck at the end of a winning run. (This is also important for combo decks like the Nightmare + Catalyst deck that some players use to win in Ascension, but IвЂ™m not talking about those here). The usual wisdom in card games is that having as small a deck as possible is best since it gives you a better chance of drawing your strongest cards. If you need to increase, you can just cast it and it will exhaust itself. If you need to decrease the average cost of cards in your deck, you can discard it to let it replicate.

I will sometimes take it if I have something that increases my strength, or something that cares about me playing lots of cards in one turn. But I would still remove curses that actually hurt you like Pain, Normality, Regret, Doubt (except in posion decks) and sometimes Decay.Д®ndless Agony is an interesting card though. On the reverse of this, it means that it doesnвЂ™t matter if your deck has some useless cards like curses or the Strike cards you started with, since you are naturally going to ignore some cards in your hand when you run out of energy. Then if you end up with too much energy and not enough to do with it, youвЂ™d have to try and get cards that draw more cards to tip the balance back the other way. They may let you play more cards at first, but later in the game they donвЂ™t do enough damage. So it is best not to take cards like Slice and Flying Knee early. Ectoplasm is also usually not worth it if offered in act 1, imo. PhilosopherвЂ™s Stone can be dangerous to take after the act 1 boss because of the Byrd enemy in act 2 that attacks five times (unless you have вЂњthornsвЂќ damage like Caltrops or Bronze Scales which counters this enemy). Sometimes the boss relics that increase energy have a big drawback, too. It depends on what boss relics you get, but there are also other relics and cards that will make you more energy efficient like Mummified Hand and Madness. You canвЂ™t be sure how much energy you will be getting later in the game. Other times, you will have energy to spare but no cards to cast. This is true at the start of the game when you draw five cards, most costing 1 energy, and only have 3 energy per turn. Sometimes you will have cards to spare but no energy to cast them.

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