The Most Broken Run I've Ever Had! | Monster Train (Episode 15)

[@csguy3223]

I love how he gave that whole speech about not raising capacity after raising his capacity.

[@legion999]

That's the other mystifying thing about this run

[@davidballantyne4492]

@@legion999 it was very strange.

[@Jack-dk7uu]

The man has gone mad with power

[@friendlyplayer92]

@@takiyeet6946 he scaled like crazy tho. Decks damage potential went trhu roof with the arti and cave

[@somethingparaguay]

12:36 That's when this Monster Train popped off the rails for some MULTI TRACK DRIFTING

[@heppuman]

You can hear the *click* *click* as his brain calculates the amount of pog coming up

[@SchmittyT]

GAS GAS GAS

[@f00ky3w2oob]

39:09 he finally says what you've been thinking for about 20 minutes

[@brentc6380]

Yeah it was painful through that point

[@alexandrudinca3080]

It was torture

[@ACloserLookAtLife]

Watching this years later and it was hurting my soul to watch him not stack the top floor with imps and then say he doesn’t have the energy to summon them….

[@ashark8968]

It doesnt really matter for such a strong run, but. NL : “If only i could get this other consumer out there” Also NL : Yeeting, ignoring and sacrificing imps left right and centre

[@Galloglaoch]

So you're telling me the imps make the consumer 3 ember cheepr so I can make them free?(he even witnessed it happen) But what to do with the imps doe? I mean..I can yeet them and theres no other use for them right? What was that thing you were telling me about imps and consumers of crowns? Why can't I play them !?!?!?! :D

[@legion999]

It's like he keeps remembering and forgetting this mechanic

[@CL32582]

and still drops imps behind consumers of crowns

[@davidballantyne4492]

Yeah, the artefact really saved him. I was watching the first fight with CoK (...) wondering why he kept letting his Imps die instead of keeping them alive to make CoK playable.

[@Galloglaoch]

@@takiyeet6946 To be fair stacking a floor with 100 damage units is scaling. I think you have the right idea but ar ejust a little bit confused. There was no need to list a few strategies. This is not a game where you can enter with pre-determined strategy. You go with the flow, he went with the flow perfectly here. The game just told him you can get 4 free Consumers on floor 2. Thats pretty much a free win already, Just 4 of them with multistrike equates to 800 damage. No boss kills them in 1 turn so you have 800 damage guaranteed.(Unless they die befor ethe boss, but thats why you are playing) Even if 1 of them dies second turn they still deal 600. Thats 1400 damage. Sghould I continue or you get why this floor was better scaling than a lot of the things you listed? The issue was however that he could and should've played a lot more than 4 consumers(and he eventually did) and the way to do that was through imps. He desperately refused to play imps in order to have even more consumers, even faster even cheaper. With that said, he does do the floor stacking a lot! And he does it often at times where it shouldn't really be a good startegy. The madman pulls it off sometimes but....his relation with floor stacking is almost as strong as that with glimmer. :D

[@exquisitemeat5845]

Absolutely insane greed I love it

[@danielbonsu1139]

The only way I can see him loosing is if the boss has haste and skips over the second floor

[@inukami8963]

True, but if NL realized that the boss had haste by reading the description, then he could set up his super floor on floor 3 instead with all those ascends.

[@Galloglaoch]

@@inukami8963 Let'be honest here though, theres no way the Egg would've realized anything before it happened. He would've been doomed in such a scenario :D

[@ironjawedangels2812]

@@inukami8963 If NL read descriptions of things in games the universe would implode from the level of pog. It is the balancing factor that keeps our realm at peace.

[@Chromodar]

That would have been an incredible end to the run. Before I read this comment I had greatly enjoyed the video but now I'm actually disappointed instead.

[@danielbonsu1139]

InuKami that would be impossible because when the boss ascends the floors they freeze over, so he would lose all of his units.

[@The_K0ala]

“I wish I could play the consumer” “What do we care about the imp”

[@ghiblet]

yeah this x10000

[@jeancarlos6787]

It wasn't until the last 4 min of the video where he realized.. "I should play an imp on the top floor to make consumers cheaper"... and then proceeded to summon 2 3 cost consumers instead of placing down the imp he gets *every* turn.. He could of also killed the bosses first turn if he had ascended them/ fireballed the bomb which would of got rid of spell shield and clapped him but I digress, was a pogged run still

[@ashark8968]

Imps before consumer please...

[@bennetb01]

So many times I was screaming "play the imp first"

[@brandencarbullido3099]

He was killing me with his inability to realize that if he filled the top floor with imps it would've been pure chaos

[@TheGentleIndifferece]

Finally, on the last boss he says "Actually I think just having one floor where you put imps just to make consumer of crowns playable..." I was screaming this at my TV all run.

[@Galloglaoch]

Yes...it bugged me so much, and after he summons 2 imps he proceeds to not have a floor with imps to have his consumers cost 0.... He even realzied he can do it and he still didn't...ARGGGGGG

[@Gudgeify]

Honestly I have to turn off some of these runs way before the end because I get so frustrated at the lack of coherent thought process that it hurts.

[@TheGentleIndifferece]

@@Gudgeify I've just decided that I'm hate-watching this series.

[@TheGentleIndifferece]

@@Galloglaoch The other day on his reform run when he kept saying "I need to let all my units die" and seconds later "this guy is dying, that isn't good"

[@Chromodar]

Yo it doesn't matter, this run was too pogged to fail.

[@jeancarlos6787]

I've heard nothing but good things on stream about this saturday run. I'm ready to get pogged

[@jackbunnyhop4580]

Sketches of Salvation immediately followed by ‘Copy a card 5 times.’ was both hilarious and made me pogged out of my gourd.

[@raizel_z]

Copying the consumer 5x for the second floor synergy was insane. This was a pogged up run if I've ever seen one.

[@ValgramGG]

This and the Imp Floor Run will go down in history. Well done, NL.

[@ronanelliott9709]

"Must be a speedrun, huh?" *Mouses over the end of the video* "Wait, it actually IS a speedrun? What's in this guy's deck?" Edit: *12 minutes in* "Oh. THAT'S what's in his deck."

[@crimzonzealot1061]

The mad lad has done it. We hit peak monster train and it’s barely into the double digit episodes

[@CrackedDota]

I see why we talked about this episode now. One of the dailies was like this and it was hilarious Edit: also the return of "not a won run yet"

[@bosshunterman]

38:23 "... If only I could get this other consumer out there..." **Literally 8 seconds later** 38:31 "... What do we care about the imp?"

[@TILsquared96]

Never disrespect our tiny human sons. One day, they will blanket the skies

[@varedna]

Fun fact: If you use Ascend on a boss to bring them up to a floor where they are guaranteed to die you get the boss-rush score bonus of the floor you pulled the boss up from. For example at 18:30 you could have used Hidden Passage on the boss and been given a 30% score bonus instead of a 20% bonus.

[@PepperoniPapaya]

that's a cool fact

[@T3chedOut]

This train is bound for poggers, this train

[@Jonjon13Jonjon13]

When you were about to multiply the consumer of crowns, I was like scared for a second. Then it dawned on me. Best run I've ever seen LMAO. Also, for future reference, you can ascend/descend the flying sneaky bosses to get them into your killzone! You can also ascend relentless bosses, but they'll destroy anything that is below them.

[@Saladmints]

11:04 he put the welder helper in front! I'm so happy

[@DiamondCake2]

But then plays a CoC for 4 energy when he has 2 imps in hand to make it cost 0 (and another CoC in hand too, playable for 0).

[@eldabys]

I love that he managed to create the ideal run for an imp floor

[@rizkyekaputra9960]

Yet he didnt make it happen

[@wsw2291]

I know this is a super old video but just love this point of NLs Monster Train career where he is exactly experienced and knowledgable enough to copy consumer 5 times and synergize so it always works with plans but not experienced enough in the meta game to use his top floor to just summon imps to make the build work even better. 10/10

[@KJnapalm]

The fact that he never realized if he just filled the top floor with unos, every consumer of crowns would be free from that point in killed me. I mean, he absolutely dominated anyway cause his deck was so strong, but still.

[@AsterSea]

This run was glorious. The way NL handled the ascension plays in the beginning was straight galaxy brain. On top of that, the consumer of crowns doup was the Chef's kiss. Absolutely incredible. Thanks for the content, NL. Loving the new merch.

[@hamm1337]

NL: "I'm not being cocky" Fails to use heals/regens on his second-floor front unit to keep him alive or use spells to kill the enemy units and save his boys...

[@OrniKArnaud]

This run made me a Consumer of Pog

[@Garnzlok]

I like how at 30:00 he talks about how he doesn't want more capacity when he just took more capacity from the boss. I love our egg he's great. Keep up the strong work NL loving the series so far.

[@auail5594]

31:29: "god, I just want to play these consumers dude" ---corporate overlords, probably

[@alexkaplan6581]

CONSUUUUUUME

[@andrewjuarez2856]

Only like at 2:49 and my man is making AMAZING plays. I’m hoping he plays this well for the rest of the episode

[@keeegz95]

I'm back to NL's monster train videos in the tail end of 2022, and to this day "collector of crowns", and "consumer of champions" are my favourite units in this game.

[@nightish_one6007]

25:40 Fun fact, you can give the Hearthstone buff to units that have been upgraded twice already. Don't know if it's a bug or a feature though

[@pasty609]

Pretty sure it's intended. Although, it's weird that if you then get the triple upgrade relic afterwards the upgrade takes up the 3rd slot.

[@greindes1579]

Yeah it's better to use it on fully upgraded units

[@Paradockzz]

@@pasty609 seems fine to me. it's an upgrade that can be applied regardless of how many slots are available, and still takes up a slot.

[@Diaz_Nino]

I think its that way so you can take it even if all units are fully upgraded

[@Zebo12345678]

Everyone seems to say it's intended, but I'm pretty sure that's a bug. It seems pretty strange.

[@michealjackson3520]

This is one of the few series I look forward to every day, please dont let it end!

[@puffyping]

yoo he wasn't lying when he said saturday is a pogged run

[@churchofmagic3733]

Consumer of Crowns: Gets cheaper when you have imps NL: Has a 4 cost CoC in hand with an imp. Also NL: Spends all his ember playing the CoC without playing the imp.

[@silentbob41k]

I appreciate the Red Green reference in the first couple minutes

[@robertbenavent4651]

So glad that you figured capacity and imps out! This series is an absolute slapper, thanks NL.

[@MrTiredHuman]

Imp floor -> Fiend Flood -> CONSUMER OF CROWNS FLOOR

[@HolyDeviant1]

The number of times he burns all his energy to summon a Consumer when he could have paid 2 It hurts

[@ZandarKoad]

That doesn't even include all the times he skipped summoning 10 or 7 cost Consumers entirely, when he could have easily made them 1 or 0 cost. The pain.

[@stefanplotoaga6217]

This man is pumping out content left right and center props to you NL

[@DeAnPoCaLyPsE]

As soon as you said "Red Green" build, I was already mid quote. These are the references I subbed for, Eggman.

[@Egalia_1]

Red and a Green is like bread and butter. You usually know what to expect but sometimes it just balls out of control

[@Trumanlol86]

This run was absolutely brutal. Super pog plays duping that Consumer of Crowns.

[@joshuadu2308]

An important thing to keep in mind as egg passes more turns with cards in hand is that regen doesn't only add "+1" to their potential heals... it adds the number of stacks of regen on the unit and then adds one to their heal over time - you want to stack regen if possible.

[@simonluigi7264]

When the first play is ascending a 0 attack unit to set up the slay trigger you know his brain is firing on all cylinders. Thanks for the blessed Monster Train content Ryab.

[@mikeygarriga]

This is my favorite series on youtube right now. Thanks NL!

[@matthiasdurivet3573]

That ascend on the shield unit was genius

[@Doomroar]

29:03 I appreciate this dedication, I truly do.

[@steelfeathers3827]

"Hey copy my homework but don't make it too obvious" I just about died laughing!

[@fleaz5325]

Dude, if you're paying attention to points, don't forget you can ascend/descend the boss. That means you can get a boss rush-3 instead of a boss rush-2 and you can move Seraph from the bottom floor to your kill floor every time he tries to dip. Between that and consumer misplays, you left several thousand points on the table.

[@N8Maple01]

The synergy in this run was great.

[@eldabys]

whoa! straight off the bat less than 3 mins into the video some crazy plays with ascend and slay trigger. Kudos! I never would have thought of that.

[@MrDodgerdodson]

Insane run - but every time you played a consumer of crowns for 4 energy when you had an imp in your hand it hurt a little bit. Every imp you play lessens the cost, you could have played the imp first, then consumer of crowns would cost one, and then you could afford to ascend as well. Super Pog though - loving this series.

[@SuperNerdEntertainmentShow]

Played the game a lot and these OP wins are the best, enjoyed this relaxed version of the game.

[@pancake7183]

0:59 Oh shit, does NL play MTG? 12:36 I mean you gotta give the man credit for his zane.

[@JPK314]

He used to go to and play in MTG tournaments. He stopped because of the time and money sink and he wasn't having a lot of fun with it

[@EvelynnEleonore]

Hey NL! quick hint! as long as the boss isn't relentless, you can move them around with Ascend / Descend, giving you more chances to bring high-damage floors to bear!

[@opiesmith9270]

Just a quick heads up, don’t know if you already noticed but using the caravan caverns, you can give a unit an upgrade even if their slots are full, so it’s a free and easy way to bypass that requirement. Usually the best play is to over max a unit, because you can always buy other upgrades the normal way, but that’s one of the only ways to over max a unit. Nicely done breaking Monster Train right in half!

[@nightfox183]

The man made a Monster Train Show and Tell deck, godlike.

[@nativechatter999]

NL botching the Collector of Crowns ember discount like 3 times in a row was a real bruh moment, but honestly that just makes this run even funnier

[@Numberfoxify]

May the pogs grace this run

[@aeronothis5420]

Egg - I would like to play these collector of crowns Me - ok cool play the imps on the top floor until consumers cost 0 Egg - no thanks just gonna keep summoning them on the bottom floor so they die

[@csguy3223]

That god tier play of abusing the free summons... love it

[@fiddleronthenet3360]

39:08 Oh my gosh FINALLY. Still, thanks for the crazy, off-the-rails run NL.

[@clem-1917]

This was truly an NL run. Building an unbeatable deck, whilst making viewers cringe at the misplays that don't even matter.

[@TripleGia]

Okay, I have to admit, I laughed my ass off when 13:10 hit

[@randomtwist]

Holy moly, NL short circuited on the last two rounds but it didn't matter lol Love that sweet epilogue to stunt on your friends.

[@bradfreier8695]

That restaurant analogy was so great

[@PongzeLor]

How can you not POG FOR THIS TITLE!!!

[@nativechatter999]

Imagine being literally any boss and you climb a floor and see 7 spiked clubs waiting to bash your skull in

[@cuzican1902]

I loved watching how much fun he was having. Too be fair, it was an extremely fun run to watch! Jealous!

[@willhouston4487]

Total stomp! SO much fun to watch!

[@synerthebeast679]

I told myself I wasn't going to buy another deckbuilder game but the Egg Dad has done it again

[@yunchunsa]

That artifact combo was amazing

[@demitri1684]

Who would actually dislike this banger of a run that was awesome

[@nathansquires5551]

Saw the time, was concerned, then was pogged out of my mind. And what a game, GG!

[@znxster]

The thing about this .. its exactly what should happen in these games, broken runs are fun.

[@emeliajones1795]

This was AMAZING!

[@leovaeg]

I love how you tried so, SO HARD, to punt the run there at the end :D

[@Rhino_Aus]

25:50 you can stack more than 2 upgrades on a unit using the frozen cavern upgrades

[@Yuggy]

Big pogs for a pogged run :)

[@Captaindragonfire]

12:35 ladies and gentlemen, the run has begun

[@Harry1871996]

I'm super proud of NL for figuring out that he should have used the last floor as an Imp haven even if he never did it. He's evolving! Sort of.... Maybe...

[@TacoNation14]

Every time he played a 4 cost consumer of crowns with an imp in his hands it hurt my soul love you nl

[@hanlin2013]

THE GOOD WOOD TRAIN

[@OlujaDoTokija]

The POG levels are off the charts

[@ZandarKoad]

He never ONCE even TRIED to lower the cost of the Consumer of Crowns by placing multiple imps on the top floor. It was so painful. And with so many ascends, he could have bumped up any imps from mid to the top floor. :P I was begging him to stop throwing away imps on the bottom floor... But alas. Update: Oh wait, he figured it out at 39:14. Less than four min from end of run. Hahaha Update to the Update: He forgot entirely about his 'revelation' and placed two more consumers at 4 cost when they could have been one cost just by plopping an imp on the top floor.

[@NicolaeHolley]

The quint-dupe with the Plans that fill up the second floor is how I killed the final boss before she entered Relentless phase, getting that +70% score bonus. Mine was Demon Fiends, with 60 attack and Multistrike 2, but Consumer of Crowns might be even more hilarious.

[@pasty609]

Why does he refuse to play imps before the consumers

[@WuxianTec]

He just likes not to think. Sometimes it seems to me that he doesn't want to improve, just let the game tell him he "won".

[@pasty609]

@@WuxianTec I think he gets too caught up in the idea that people aren't interested in slower gameplay even if it means he makes better decisions. What he doesn't seem to realise though is that 'slower' gameplay is often actually faster since you don't waste time on dumb mistakes.

[@HebiSnake]

@@pasty609 Also, this isn't a real time game but a turn based game. Viewers of turn based games tend to be okay with slower gameplay and more thought out explanations of why the play is good. It's a different genre and is better suited for a different video tempo.

[@danieljudy2641]

What a ridiculous run, I love it

[@noobandfriends2420]

I had a similar run to get Covenant level 10. 4 Shadowseiges (200/150) Two with 2X Multistrike and the other two Multistrike/Quick. The Umbra Stone (Trample) with Eternal Stone (removes consume) was just icing on the cake. Volatile Gauge (units cost between 0 and 3 ember) was the first artifact I got but then got Sketches of Salvation (summon 4 random units to second floor) right before the last battle. Was able to stack 3 Shadowseiges that way.

[@davidballantyne4492]

Take a shot every time he misnames the Consumers of Crowns.

[@HaleFast]

Good times, good game. Great episode NL.

[@rlzerocy]

the severity of this situation has obliterated the first umbra run

[@martinbisanz9284]

This was so fun to watch

[@garcipat]

Moving the weak minions to the front and let them die would have been the key to get rid of them and make space for others, or sacrifice the ones in between instead of the ones on the top floor

[@TalixZen]

@12:40 I literally yelled "YES!" So proud of you NL!

[@MatBat__]

Me too dude. The Zain is strong

[@orysavchuk1021]

I know the feeling of a run going off the rails and going brain-dead at the end, but the number of misplays in the second half kills me inside.

[@VideoWatcherMcGee]

Such a fun run. Insane

[@ericlamb4501]

I love that there's just a card that loads the middle floor randomly and that you can easily have it be all giant units

[@lxSRTxl]

It's just a whole train full of demonic trolls. Poged like no Pog before.

[@PhyrexianPhreak]

Yo, thanks for this vid, my dude! I never thought about using that artifact like that, so I made a Hellhorned/Umbra deck and rerolled until I started with it then just dumped as many Shadowsieges and Consumer of Crowns in the deck as I could. Got all three achievements for killing bosses before their combat phase from it.