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The Forsaken

There are a lot of really cool ideas here but card duplication is a very dangerous thing to play with. I ended up getting an infinite amount of Buffer with Store Up and Dark Barrier (you can do the same thing with Horror) to stall out fights to cap out my max HP with infinite copies of Fountain of Life from Store Up. I know the mod hasn't been updated in years, but if you wanted to get rid of that, it'd probably be as easy as adjusting Store Up to be default 1 cost, upgrade to 0 cost, and exhaust. Duplication's already extremely powerful as-is, and it's why Nightmare is so expensive in the base game. With powerful draw engines like Noble Sacrifice that let you slim down the deck, cycling also isn't a challenge; I'd even say Noble Sacrifice should probably exhaust because being able to indefinitely slim your deck down on top of drawing is just so strong.

:praisesun:

long may the sunshine!

You, a virgin: "Regen is a bad mechanic because it incentivizes you to draw out fights longer"

Me, with an upgraded smite(+3 regen) and two upgraded bountiful sunlights(+6 regen) by floor 18: "I'm going to build up 15 regen a turn and then use my combo of Fountain of LIfe (+2 max HP) and Store Up (0-cost put 2 copies of chosen card into discard) to gain literally infinite health"

Having played this for longer, I think it's one of the very few S-tier mods out there. It's flavorful, bursting with ideas, and they're almost all great. As close to base-game quality as mods get.

...wow. I've tried probably 50+ character mods, and while this isn't QUITE Hermit tier, it's very close.

Boasts:

-extremely cool starting relic
-lots of micro synergies between cards and buffs
-new relics I ran into were all good
-cards are a LITTLE text-heavy, but the actual complexity of this character is fantastically tuned - some fairly deep strategies that are nevertheless very intuitive.
-lots of impactful upgrades (love this, makes it easier to specialize when deck type when cards of all kinds can become rockstars with an upgrade).

I've only played the one run with the character, but I came away extremely impressed and wanting to try again, which is really cool. Feels great all around!