This is why you take Burst (Slay the Spire 2)

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0:02 here we go again. marge potion would have been sick there, man. cafe. i do, here's the thing. i want to play more noun town because i think it's funny. but also, i think now that i'm doing like some more formal, semi formal language training, it's like, it doesn't really feel like the most practical way to learn a language is to be shown like plastic wrap and then learn what plastic wrap is. but we'll see. got no other plans, really.
0:39 knife trap, play every shaven your exhaust pile on the enemy. i mean great card. wouldn't have minded having that like from the boss on the last one. take two but reduced by three man, why not? take two reduced by three? fuck it hit me for nine, nothing i could do man. horrible first fight. did you hear about nine kings came out with pp? you hear any knowers? i need context wearing my context hat.
1:46 anyone got context? they meant pvp. oh! i was, uh... i mean, obviously this isn't what you meant, but i was going, like in my head i was like, pp must be some form of like horrible kernel level anti cheat or something like that. like, like de nouveau, uh...
2:12 like anti piracy protection or something like that. in my head i was like, they want me to weigh in on how i feel about that. and i'm gonna have to break the news to them that i think it's awesome. where's the context? i could use a little knowledge myself and we could all use a little change. well, the nubo is ancient now. i don't know about all that, man. you got me confused with someone who's
2:56 uploading, i'm trying to remember the name of file sharing websites man. the type of people uploading a divix rip to oink. of course i'm famili well here's the thing, i was thinking of, i was trying to think of a torrent tracker instead of a p2p download service like a bear share for example. are we a discarter? you're not a discarter. our deck does nothing man. our deck is kind of, well it's very shiv coded.
3:37 if we can make it work with like a blade dance for example. and then, wait okay, um... stomach potion of course. flatter potion. or skin potion. i don't even know what that is. is that this one? is that this one? i don't, i wouldn't know. yeah, it's that one. okay. middle potion's a little marge coated. yeah, maybe when homer's at work. i believe in this deck. let's dodge the elite. gross? what's gross about it? i don't think anything gross about it. you know what's gross about it, pervert?
4:48 i don't think it's gross at all. because they aren't green. average guy, when a woman does what he does three times a day, when did i say she's wrong for engaging in masturbation? if anything, i said she was right. she waited for homer to go to work. she kept it her... oh, not you. oh, okay, okay. sorry, i'm used to suffering the slings and arrows of my moderation team so regularly. a little bit of a hair trigger. le shiv retain. one of those. we're still cool. and then we rest.
5:34 but first we feast. drink this? wait, this run might be okay when buoyed by having incredible potions at all times. you're broken? i don't attack again then. i dare not attack again. hot takes? sean evans is not an interesting reviewer. i mean you're the one watching... wait, i gotta think of the worst hot ones guests. give me a second.
6:19 dj khaled, there you go. you're the one watching an interview with dj khaled and you're gonna blame the guy asking the questions for why it's not interesting? brother, you clicked on the video with dj khaled in the thumbnail. what'd you expect? that was way more underwhelming than i expected there. mog team. something to be said about infinite blades on this one. you need to go first because you're doing multiple attacks.
7:10 huge. you need to go second because you're doing attacks at all. wait, we definitely should have just played this. you on last meals would be pretty sick. is that like one of your youtube shows? wait one second. you would say, librarian, are you here? i need you on this one. last meals should... last meals should... is last meals one of your online friends? is last meals your online friend?
7:58 wrong tones, but you kind of got there? oh shit. you can't use it like that? considering i only know like 30 words, that's not too bad, right? that's not too bad. like the vibe i was going for is like a grandma looking at your ps2 and going, what are you playing on your nintendo? this card, two cards, add two ships, necessary card. necessary card. did we beat your ass without resting? yeah, yeah, we beat it red, man.
8:51 skipping shadowmeld when the streamer hasn't seen the tier list. pass. sorry, fella, we need our powers. i don't really want... you know what? i do want to discard a shiv to add more shivs. and then we really want fan of knives or whatever it's called, knife trap, to do as much as possible. but let's do that. then we get two, send one, hold the other one for the retain bonus next turn. this is the play. same scenario.
9:44 literally the shivs are gonna do the damage. you don't need to hatch it on this one. crazy turn in a bad way. huge. you know who wasn't a fan of knives? i was gonna say scott pilgrim then i realized i think actually he was a fan of knives now that i think about it. ship in a bottle. not very simpsons coated. maybe that could be a selma potion. weak enemies take double damage. it's not sure.
10:39 i'm not sure we need an venom, but i guess it's one card that adds a lot of poison to your deck. i'm gonna trust it, man. that's an awfully hot cocoa mug. yeah, i'll do it. i mean, we have bag of prep already. ideal scenario, we get ice cream. pretty much like an ideal scenario after dinner in all. can i say something? does anybody here run a restaurant? you are mis i'm telling you this as the median 37 year old man.
11:16 if you got a dessert menu, just throw...
11:20 a little ice cream on it too. because it's such a good fallback when you're in the mood for dessert, but then you get a dessert menu and it's got two things on it that you're not really fucking with. i don't want a panna cotta and i don't want like a chocolate lava cake, but if it was like two scoops of earl grey ice cream or something like that, i'd be like, okay, that sounds good. bring it out. instead, i'm asking you to bring the dessert menu and then i'm like, i don't really want the vegan panna cotta. so i'm giving you the menu back and getting the check.
11:48 just gets just just as a as a fail safe. just have a little bit of ice cream on the dessert menu you will up the the adherence to your dessert course so much man so much. why are we angry this time? they all they're doing the dessert menu and they're having two desserts and one of them has to be
12:15 gluten free and vegan, which i support, but i wish they didn't make it to tiramisu because i want the tiramisu with the real mascarpone cheese. i don't want it with the silken tofu. i want it with the real mascarpone cheese. so i would default to the ice cream if they had ice cream on the menu, but they don't. and now all of a sudden i'm getting some kind of fuck ass tart with the chocolate ganache on the top. i don't want it. i want some ice cream. they're leaving money on the table is what i'm trying to say.
13:04 wait, why am i thinking we have infinite energy bro? someone must pay the iron price. you need to take... well it'd be best to kill you. you need to get hit one more time with our worst attack. you get weakened so we don't take damage. we can kill you with two attacks next turn. let's put you in a more lethal range.
13:42 dan gave mandalorian and grogu four and a half stars on letterboxd its peak. hey, but can i say something in dan's defense? he also gave the mandalorian and grogu four and a half stars on letterboxd in like december 2020. what did he know? kaneda, what do you see? go check the date of when he made that review. i think that he thought he was reviewing the season two mandalorian finale when actually he put the review under the movie. this is audible.
14:21 i mean, i guess taking like our first block card would kind of go crazy. i don't know how to saw the movie it drags unfortunately. yeah saw drags carry always drags his ass across the tile floor. the fucking use the saw to get out of the handcuffs that jigsaw put him in. no spoilers. still, i'm still i'm only halfway through saw one. it is kind of librarians kind of ironic that takes place in a say swap. you know what i'm talking about? like they knew what they were doing kind of localize it for the chinese market.
15:14 hitting dagger is good enough to take back for sure. second one, let's not go crazy. i thought last round was peak. this one's exactly the same but this is peak. the dunled. that gets us there. two of these out the pocket. one of these. three poison. you get to discard them, toss two of these on the table, hit them with an axe and then yeah! i don't think we need it man. i think our deck is fucking awesome.
16:15 i think it's awesome as is backflip could you know what give me backflip drawing it on turn one will be happy to have the card draw similarly happy to have the card draw but that backflip though so true australian uh australian
16:38 what was the joke? australian king bach be like only a bowlsful? australian... australian bachie... austra... i said king bachie be like only a bowlsful. that was one of... that was low key one of the best titles ever. king bachie be like only a bowlsful? that was a really good one. swiftua? tim cook inventing the iphone? damn ornamental fan, kind of awesome here. i love it, man. i love it, i think.
17:36 one of those... let me think about this. we get there, we don't need ornamental fan. in that case, play this and hold two shirts. it's not this is audible, it's audible hopes you've enjoyed this program. you have just outed yourself, you have self reported as a prologue skipper. the prologue is insNLy important to set your expectations and the lens through which you should be listening to the rest of the work by motherfucker. it starts with this is audible. now what does it end with?
18:10 i don't know cuz i'm always asleep. audible be like, audible hopes you've enjoyed this program. someone's son. we're running in different circles. how was that one? we're running in different circles. you got it, yes! better, closer, warmer, that's it. should have played that last strike, my bad, y'all.
19:03 orgo kind of beating my ass right now. nah, you're valid for that one. orgo is like, it's really hard. i'm sure there's gonna be somebody in chat that's gonna say some shit like, it's a meme, it's not that hard. it's pretty hard, man. i mean if that's not hard, what fucking is? don't answer that. don't fucking answer that. it was the second hardest course i took in university. and the hardest course i took was literally my own fault. i took it by accident.
19:39 thinking that it wouldn't be hard even though it was meant for like grad students and i was in my third year. i didn't respect that it had a five as the first number of its course code. literally my fault. two poison? chemistry so fun though? i'm glad you exist. i mean that honestly. i don't say that lightly. chad, i need your help on this one. normally, any other time i had this event, i would just take silent cards. but as the silent, that's not an option for us.
20:21 so who has the best options? necro has the second best options usually. regent has arsenal. what's arsenal? defect has lots of zero... actually that's true. a defect giving me like a beam cell would be pretty sweet. so all of them. all of them basically. fuck it. at least i know what i'm getting into here. we'll think about that. let's start here, man. i mean hyper beam for a... i don't know, man.
21:06 ftl is a no brainer i think. hyper beam is really good. i'm just worried that like it doesn't fit with what we're going for but that doesn't mean you can't shove it in there. i get that we don't pay the negative cost on it. i think go for the eyes is not good enough although it would have been awesome if we'd taken tracking. i'll admit. none of those except go for the eyes even apply. i could be persuaded for hype especially because we start with so much energy. okay.
21:37 i literally, you spend 5 hp to not be forced to take bing bong. whenever you play an attack, gain a block. yeah, that's like literally the best doll for us, man. now this is like the worst elite for us, but still. i think we just basically like play everything. he plays one shiv? does that say one shiv? okay, we're gonna run into some problems here, but he is half dead. crazy good draw considering the malarkey that we've done to our deck already.
22:35 oh, and we can get hatchet back every turn, man. yes, to be able to get hatchet back every turn is fucking nutty. wait, he's literally dead. and the animation looked awesome. we got so lucky on the draw, man. that was so insane. i'm a spy i'm a spy rim a slaser! yes. many people are saying this.
23:09 many people are saying this. i was the first, i think. i think don't fucking lie to me. i think if we're being honest, i actually was the first, but many people are saying it now as a result of me. damn, this dude is fucked, man. you're screwed, lad. oh no, i took one damage. i'm not even using a potion on you.
24:06 i see no reason to use a potion on you. we're not gonna need it. just to take less damage for what? ego driven purposes? yeah, i don't think so. where's my phantom blades, bro? knife trap comes around. we don't even worry about it. awesome deck. thank you for noticing. i don't know if you've ever seen this before. it's shivs. we do things a little bit different here. just four friends in a dream. four friends who met in college and one crazy idea. so these are all amazing.
25:01 these are the greatest cards i've ever seen. tag was such a good movie. it's literally ed helms' second best movie, but also bad and also game night called. they wanted their leftovers back. you raise a good point about burst knife trap, but we can't really enable that without a well laid plans. like what's the best in a vacuum? i genuinely don't think we need another invenom. we don't need to kill enemies twice as fast. we have to live 50% longer.
25:35 think we'll be happier with burst on us. i think even if we don't get burst knife trap we'll be happy with burst wait diadem is insane man. i just sorry i just remembered that i have to also beat the boss twice door maker test subject but i think honestly, i think we want swift and i'll tell you why our first turn we have so much energy oh you already
26:05 lordy how swift, wait that's good! that's good! is that how they pronounce diadem in canada? brother, i've never seen one of these outside of a video game, okay? this is some shit that like the child like empress wears in the neverending story. i don't know what the fuck this is. my country was like inaugurated in 1867. this shit was already like phased out. these were vestigial pieces of headwear by the time sir john a. macdonald was a twinkle in his daddy's eye.
26:39 i don't know what the fuck this is, man. your country had a queen? every woman's a queen to me. except that one australian lady who owns all those mines, right? and that's true jk rowling as well. and jk rowling. we're not... she's not our favorite. she's not our favorite. i still like swift though, because i have innate cards. an innate backstab to take advantage of the turns on which we have so much energy. fuck it, bro. i don't know. put it on shit you love to play.
27:22 put it on shit you're gonna play every single time no matter what. and give yourself a chance to fight an early elite. hatchet? it only i get what you're saying, but it does only go off the first time. it's worth noting. swift only works the first time you got it. wait, there's definitely something here. now i got too many cards. common story. really don't wanna... ah, well now we could oh, but we played zero. we played zero shivs, man. yeah, i know, i know. i know, i got too many cards in my hand, i know.
28:14 i'm aware. trust me, i'm aware. i mean you're still gonna eat dirt. it's just funny. hmm. okay, draw 3,000 cards. my bad. guys, we shouldn't have taken swift. i didn't realize how much draw i had like innately in my deck. i mean even if we're overdrawing though, it doesn't matter as long as we're beating that ass. as long as we're beating that ass, who cares if some of the cards go straight to the discard pile? the important thing is you're not taking that. you're probably discarding a bunch of bullshit anyway. it literally, it doesn't matter. it does not matter.
28:55 we don't need to worry that much about the opportunity cost. and look, you even have discards here. discards some bullshit. now that's taken care of. look, you still got seven energy with which to fucking work with this. oh shit. oh shit, it's the cops. that's not what they say. they say, oh no, it's the cops. but you get the idea. damn, we're fucking ruining your life, bro. you're a memory of a time when i tried so hard. we don't need it. we don't need it. we need it. holy fuck, dex. i just got stung by lightning.
29:54 pinky doll my goat. i want you to know we bullied an og viewer out of your chat in the pre chat okay, but like i need to know the specific context because like i got some og viewers that have been around for like a
30:19 it doesn't transfer onto the other one that have been around for like a long time that i'm vibing with and i've had i do also have some viewers that have been around for a long time that are saying shit like i wish he was better when he played isaac 15 years ago so like there's a there's two different kinds of old heads you know
30:43 there's some unks that are uncoded that are, but still trying to keep up with the times but put their own old school kind of spin on it. but then there's also some unks who are like, literally the world's been, the world was so much better in 1991, you know? like, and they just, they refuse to get over it. i have to think.
31:08 i mean transforming a strike is fine man. we don't really need anything corrupted, we don't do a ton of damage with one specific attack. one specific skill yes, but not one specific attack. that's awesome. that's one of the best cards i could imagine getting there. need to start here, then here. oh still two robots? beta branch motherfucker.
31:49 what did they do to this one on the beta branch? go ahead and tell you might as well tell me. i'm gonna find out at some point anyway. beta branch is one robot? oh, it's one robot that's bigger now. interesting. very interesting. fuck it, man. burst for no reason, i guess. don't even want to blade dance and put 15 shivs in my discard pile unnecessarily. that's a that's a fucking card right there, man.
32:31 zero cost draw three cards gain three block. now we are fucking talking. we don't need invenom on these guys, man. it doesn't have to be done. almost as good as one card discard one. slay the spire subreddit enjoyer in chat. one of my favorite cards. you know they're typing some shit like you took me out of context. i just feel like this will work. yeah, 46 block off that is pretty good.
33:30 i guess i'll just kill you instead of worrying about getting blocked or whatever. oh shit, what the fuck? androps worst play of all time asked to leave, say this by our subreddit. we should fight elites man. we should relic max right the fuck now. we should figure out how to play our cards in such a way that we don't accidentally draw way, way, way too many cards. i can't do that. there's no way to do that. we should tell our loved ones we love them, man.
34:32 cuz you never know when you're gonna go. i think it's gotta be like at this point, it's gotta be a burst into a knife trap type situation. well that basically could not have gone better. no, my cards are relieved. no, no.
35:09 my shitty cards won't be in my deck anymore if i don't play them. oh, i don't want to lose all of my shitty cards. like what are you talking about, man? i'm having a dialogue with myself from like a month and a half ago when this game came out. not my shittiest cards not being in my deck anymore. murder? what murder? we don't take that dreck. hmm. all that uh, all that a clumsy. that isn't even the worst curse, man. bag of marbles! bag of marbles!
35:53 they got marbles. magic school bus, you know what i'm talking about? bill, bill, any other millennials in the call right now? inertia is a fucking property of matter, bro. i'm sick of the pretending it's not. there's like way too much fucking shit on me. wait, we don't have to worry about block at all. at all, at all. give me a fucking burst, man. crazy discard on the hyper beam there, but i'm just kind of styling on him a little bit.
36:38 you ever seen the chinese bill nye opening? not yet, not yet. show it to me, rachel. maybe if this run goes well, we'll end up taking a look at it. for a second there, i thought i might take some damage. you think bill nye and bill nye ever talked? i mean, they're still alive, man. as far as i know, as long as we're not talking about within the context of shaun of the dead, they're both still kicking.
37:22 i mean serpent form if we can get it on a term where we have the energy to play it is gonna go fucking crazy. that's on the jackson dart controversy. i'm gonna level with you dude's name is jackson with an x like he never had a chance. i'm not saying that absolves him i'm just saying like he there was there was never a chance man. j a x s o n and we're acting like we're surprised like we got to be a little bit more serious than that.
37:59 i think bring an energy potion so that, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, that's fine. bring an energy potion so that we can play, large potion. bring an energy potion so that we can play serpent form at some point. i don't even think we're ever gonna get value out of burst, but whatever. okay, first door maker. first the door maker. draw, huge discard to cut the lead to 75. my fucking god.
38:47 yay! burst on him, king. it's not gonna, it's not gonna, wait, why am i even attacked? no, this is good regardless, because we're fucking setting up for the, the knife trap on a, on a future turn where we're gonna ruin his fucking life, bro. now, is it worth exhausting? it's 14 shivs, man. actually, it's more than 14 shivs.
39:29 and we poison anyway, we can exalt, we can litera oh, but we'd like to have we do we don't have invenom. we play it, man! you play it! you fucking play it. you definitely play this. let me think for a brief moment. i definitely think you play it. each it's 14... it's like 56 damage, but then it's also another 70 damage on top of ah, maybe you wait. maybe you do wait. it's pissing me off, but you might be right.
40:15 okay, 13 damage. we live with that. can't draw. we were gonna play it regardless, but you can't draw. pretty good. anya taylor joy, welcome back. losing a fuckload of energy, man. no, you can hit me. i'd rather have the potions for test subject. test subject is a disaster waiting to happen. love it. definitely don't mind it. we don't want to accidentally draw
41:06 but if we do, we just send the energy potion out there and then we weaken you with that. not too bad. now a knife trap probably kills, man. but first, keep in mind you can't draw. 24 shivs? yeah, i think that'll fucking ruin your life, man. pretty satisfying. and hey, i get to heal for two, man. don't forget about healing for two. now here's where things get very interesting.
41:55 don't. some shit we don't care about. obviously we're gonna play a lot of skills here as well, which is a little spicy, but okay. need that. get some draw. burst knife trap doesn't finish the job. i get the sneaking suspicion that, okay, i was about to play burst storm of steel. i don't think that does anything for us. but a burst, wait, okay, hang on. we don't want, we don't want
42:46 to burst storm of steel. because if we burst storm of steel, there's the future possibility of us drawing seven shivs on one turn and having no block. i think you still burst knife trap, even though it only plays two shivs. you also get draw, so you can see what you get. okay, well now in this case, i think you go back on that, and i think you just play in venom. and then you accept the double discard here.
43:16 in order to at least put enough poison on you that you will die next turn. you get to play this on a turn in which it does not matter at all, which is awesome. now, you can't play shivs against you, so let's not clog the deck. okay. okay, and we still got both potions. i think you just play your shivs for block and to build up a knife trap. you're doing 33. i will not weaken you to block 8 damage. it's not gonna happen. and this one,
44:14 you're fucked, lad. and then you're intangible, but that doesn't stop you from getting poisoned. at this point, you should. fan of knives. that's what i said, fan of knives. that's what i fucking meant. that's what i fucking meant. dump these two. this is a just in case me. just trying to keep my options open here. oh, that's very satisfying. that's very, very satisfying indeed.
45:18 really good run. let's diagnose why did that run win? oh, because i built around the random rare that i got. right, right. because we built around the random rare that we got. ornamental fan did great work and the doll. the doll was also crazy, man. let me slash marker that for a second. and then because this may well get content id matched on youtube or like vod muted, etc, etc, etc.