I made a card so good it broke the game (Inscryption)

[@argenteus8314]

I love how willing this game is to let you break it. You can get infinite squirrels, an ouroboros that does more or less as much damage as you want it to, and all kinds of other things, and the game doesn't stop you, because it knows that that stuff is FUN.

[@misirtere9836]

There is literally an achievement for getting your Ouroboros up to 666 attack and smacking someone with it. Not only is the game willing to let you break it, it *expects* you to break it.

[@Kropothead]

Exactly. Giving players cheeky ways to bust the engine open after they’ve gotten used to it is just awesome. It rewards creative play and strategy without holding your hand.

[@Kirby950]

Praise Leshy

[@listnode]

My two wins on Leshy were both because of squirrel totem. One was with ant sigil, which allowed an ant every turn to farm the fact that their damage is equal to the amount of ants, and the other was undying squirrels, which meant free sacrificing, chump blocking etc. I actually ran out of squirrels on the second one in the final fight, especially because of the double draw boon. Super fun stuff, and it makes a lot of sense for a game like this because unlike many card games it has a linear story line to follow so they want to let you have your fun and scoot on along so you can experience it.

[@flatfingertuning727]

Ouroborus + Magpie is awesome. Augment some other creature that requires a blood sacrifice with the cockroach's respawn ability and the Ouroborus can be boosted insanely. Another good combo is to augment one strange larva with diving, another with bifrucated attack (trifucated would be even better, if one gets the right card), and the join them. The player will need to survive to turn 3 to exploit the larva, but once that is achieved it can attack for enormous damage. One game I got a third lava and combined that with the double for even more insane attack strength.

[@eleanordawn8055]

NL, I'm cashing in my "I've been watching you for 10 years" card to ask pretty please for this series to continue! :)

[@nsmith0723]

I'll cash in my 10 year card as well

[@pillescasdies]

Hopefully he gets to the mind bending bits

[@krayolakraken]

15yrs here. I agree. *edit: don't think it was 15yrs, but over 10yrs*

[@TheFamilyLedger]

I had to realize that you were talking about the KZbin channel, and that this wasn't a stalker's threatening message.

[@An_Average_Arsonist]

Isnt your channel 6 years old? I suppose you could have started sooner, but that seams unlikely.

[@johntavish8750]

I had the following totem : squirrel head + search your deck ability Every time I pulled a squirrel, I then chose my mantis god which was upgraded do 3 damage (+2), and did 9 damage to leshy before he even played a card. 1 round victory.

[@heckoff7904]

i sacrificed corpse maggots onto the cockroach, making a creature that instantly replaced itself on death.

[@bluemaster75]

@@heckoff7904 I did a similar thing where I had Fecundity(The Field Mice sigil) on corpse maggots and if I had a full board, the only hope for the enemy was to have fliers.

[@Readcapa]

The most broken card I've ever made is "Namu" It required 1 blood. It has the skill to be sacrifice all the time. It has the skill which allow it to get back in your hand if it died. It has the growth skill, which mean the damage and health increase after 1 round. And the base stat is, 7 attack and 5 health. And I would use the totem which allow me to choose which card I take. So the game was easy mode

[@ethanbaileylol2283]

my most broken card is named “Gamer” and he’s a one cost, 8 attack, 6 health death card. he has the Mantis God 3 attack sigil and flight. i got squirrel sigil with the magpie ability and i was able to do 8 damage to 3 squares on my first turn no matter what

[@Kittel_]

If the FNAF tag is supposed to be ironic given the starting topic of discussion, it slaps.

[@EthanVanHorn]

It's def NL humor to do that

[@AKA_Kira]

I was going to comment in that

[@AlphaSteam2]

Isn't that generated automatically by youtube?

[@dukepotato244]

He can't keep getting away with it.

[@BANANABOY1231]

surely it's ironic. he talks about it in the beginning

[@BlueJey]

"You can't beat the moonlight Brother." If only he knew.

[@iguanasandwich28]

thought the same thing when he said it lol

[@IFailFYI]

Lmfao the foreshadowing is amazing. I hope he comes back this after realizing what he referenced hahah

[@idiothead5511]

haha homestuck pfp

[@idfrigginkman]

I had beaten the moon my first try, I had squirrel totem set to make it so sacrificing a squirrel counts for 3 blood instead of one, so I could output super strong costly creatures very fast, I had a regular urayuli (the 7hp 7dmg yeti-ish card), a stitched urayuli that had 14hp and 14dmg which still only cost 4 blood to summon, in addition to the 3rd deathcard I had created which cost nothing to play and also had 7hp and 7dmg, legitimately the moon was defeated the 3rd or 4th turn in, I thought it was sort of a gimmicky battle they just give you to win for free after the tough Leshy fight

[@zachquigley1550]

@@idfrigginkman I had a death touch creature out and one-shotted it like turn 2 or 3. Didn't even get to see what it did!

[@wafflesenpai1033]

The best card ive ever made, was a mantis god who had a damage of 9, flight ability (I had a bug totem that made it so when he died it was put back into my deck) and 6 health. When I got to the final fight with Leshy, I got the Magpie's eye boon and ambidextrous, so on the second turn I could just pull it and deal 27 direct damage each turn. 🥶🥶

[@acksOldPeople]

Comedy gold that he starts this video with concerns over him making mistakes in the description, then KZbin tags it as the wrong game.

[@vibe-rent3062]

Had a card with mantis god 3 direction attack Waterborne and cockroach immortality with 1 blood cost Within the same run I got a totem that allowed me to pick any card from my deck whenever I placed a squirrel always instant win this game is *perfectly balanced*

[@draig8259]

The 3 blood squirrel totem is SO insane on the rare occasion that you get it, so much so that the game feels like an absolute slog once you die and lose it because you can't just automatically play things anymore lol

[@Drekromancer]

@@draig8259 Hahaha, it's true! I am a noted squirrel totem enjoyer, and there's no rush quite like dropping a Bear every round with your Worthy Squirrels.

[@Vitrexer]

@@draig8259 i got the triple blood like 2 times in the first runs and in the last one i got the undying squirell so i just basically sacrificed my squirrel and it came back to my cards

[@TwiCaCaX]

Yup i got the same squirrel, but instead i merged my mantis god with a bear 4/6 with fly, so it was pretty much first turn kill every turn

[@ShadowChief117]

Frankly if this game was balanced, I probably wouldn't have as much fun with it personally. I am very VERY bad at deck building card games, though this game has made me understand some a little more. But I probably wouldn't be able to succeed much if busted mechanics didn't hold my hand a bit. In other words I'm glad to have found a card game that is accessible to someone like me. Especially because I really enjoy this one makes it a lot cooler.

[@CjJello]

The man clicks every candle except the lit one every time and it drives me mad. Glad he’s having such a good time with the game though! Still, I worry for the future of this series knowing what happens further down the line.

[@thunderbird0134]

“You can’t fight the moonlight brother” Uhh… Who’s gonna tell him?

[@joelgray5387]

This was an amazing unintentional humor moment

[@deltawarrior543]

People who use the Ouroboros glitch: “Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power”

[@Cellider]

Damn, the new fnaf looks great

[@Chiavica]

“Nobody read the description of my videos unless there is something wrong” lmao

[@VaiSwitch]

I beat the final boss last night and after what happens, all I could think was I can't wait to see when NL gets there too. Love this game!

[@noahchristian1354]

If*

[@Android480]

I know I'm so pumped for it. The game gets nutty man

[@georgevoknerech228]

The second act can actually make NL drop the game. He never was very fond of narrative driven games. And right now he's thinking of it as a TCG game. Which is not entirely correct. No spoilers of course.

[@TheImpatientGam3r]

@@georgevoknerech228 yeh i feel cheated with the second acts, very boring compared to start, i can also see him dropping it as thats what k did shortly into parf 2

[@georgevoknerech228]

@@TheImpatientGam3r It's actually all about the Steam page. It was made in a such way that it only advertises Act 1 content. Not everyone knows who the developer of this game is and what's his schticks are all about. So basically most of the people just buying the game thinking it's a fun TCG with a horror element to it. So basically developer and publisher are tricking people into buying the card roguelike game when in reality they only were showing the Act 1 content to the audience.

[@potterinhe11]

R.I.P. Stinkbug, my favorite character.

[@RubikRocksMinecraft]

Is this spoilers? 😵

[@grapesoftime]

@@RubikRocksMinecraft No lol

[@mookosh]

@@RubikRocksMinecraft he gets sacrificed in the first 5 minutes of the episode

[@potterinhe11]

He comes back after, just a joke.

[@potterinhe11]

He is my favorite character though, depressingly optimistic is a great trait combo.

[@borisrupe7247]

NL: Plays entire hand on the boss to get his "You But Stronger" out and get absolutely TOASTED NL 10 minutes later : "No offense to the game designer but who needs complex sigil management when all you need is a bifurcated flying 3/4 unit."

[@TAVIS214]

I'm so entranced by this game, I need more of it.

[@TheMrTangamandapio]

NL didn't pick up the perfect duplicate before the fungus guy HOLY SHIT NL GOT DUPLICATE GOLD PELTS WHAT

[@dylath2304]

It actually kinda paid out with that pre-fused Amalgam he got for em

[@truennn]

@@dylath2304 its a shame he never got to play it

[@Kropothead]

Always fuse golden pelts if you have the chance. It’ll change your whole run.

[@dvdroshin]

you'll forget gold pelts exist soon

[@JT-yl9yt]

@@Kropothead eh sometimes wolf pelts are better if the right creature hits the right sigil.

[@HOWBOUTTASHORYUKEN]

I bought the game to prove NL is just being a smooth brain and got to round two of fisherman during the tutorial before the guy decided to spawn 8 grizzlies.

[@trdl23]

Yeah, if you beat a boss before certain storyline things have to happen then you get grizzlied.

[@patrickhorace9420]

@@trdl23 happened my first playthrough too but you can actually beat it even when you get grizzlied.

[@yawn2274]

@@trdl23 You can beat the game on your very first run of the tutorial, of course yo will end up missing game mechanics that get introduced after your first death like bones, but its really fun.

[@_Cujo_]

​@@yawn2274 You can't. Minimum 2 runs before you can beat Act 1. Even if you manage to get past the grizzly walls with good luck and proper play, Leshy just doesn't let you move on. He takes a congratulation picture for winning, killing you and sending you back to the beginning. You have to have the film to get to Act 2, which only happens after you die and get the eye for the clock puzzle.

[@yawn2274]

@@_Cujo_ that may be in the newer patch after they added the push-your-luck mechanic, but a youtuber called Sifd was able to pull off a deathless Act 1 run, beating the moon fight without ever collecting a bone because he didn't fail either fight and get that mechanic introduced on the second run.

[@TheImpatientGam3r]

In addition to the flying multiple attack otk card i also had squirrels return to hand he killed, and to top it off final fight boon was the magpie ability for evry draw i could search my deck, he didnt stand a chance

[@captainfleece7259]

Reading the description is half the fun

[@KoAkaiTengami]

I love this series NL, every time I see a new upload, you know that's an instant click. Fastest click in the west.

[@rjlolatte1]

I got insanely lucky to make a card that cost 0 (had a pelt) 7 health and 7 damage (one of the mythical monsters) and the cock roach ability to return to my hand when it dies. Also squirrel totem plus the ant base can be incredibly powerful

[@Yeehawee]

I had the exact same, but I was too unlucky to ever get it within that game

[@ethanray3728]

spelling links wrong in the description just to feel something

[@larryhoover2541]

I mean seriously, this is easily one of the best games I've ever played. I say the exact same thing about every Devolver Digital game, these people are insane.

[@itisALWAYSR.A.]

I mean, Inscryption literally encourages you to build game-breaking cards, but I do love seeing new ways people work out how to do this.

[@bryankopkin6869]

I played my first game of this today! I spoiled myself by watching NLs other vids on it and I got to the Angler and first turned him with a modified grizzly that I got and pliers. His face turned red and it said “TOO FAR TOO FAST” And it spawned like 8 Grizzly’s with Flight Defense so I was forced to lose. This game is absolutely amazing (not sarcasm I actually think its sick asf).

[@NollaWasTaken]

I believe it's actually possible to beat it, although I ran into the same issue myself... I think if you burst down a column of them and one shot the boss in two turns it might just barely be possible to progress? I know there was a video in my feed at one point in which the youtuber was attempting to beat the game on run #1, although I haven't watched it myself so I don't know what strat they employed nor if they were successful

[@AileTheAlien]

That's a bit dissapointing that the game forces you to grind runs.

[@bryankopkin6869]

@@NollaWasTaken I managed to kill two of the bears but they were in different lanes.

[@bryankopkin6869]

@@AileTheAlien Well, it was the first tutorial game. I wasnt even mad, I thought it was very clever of them to force how much you do at once.

[@mawillix2018]

​@@AileTheAlien Well, you can win during the TUTORIAL, the first 8 bears give you your candle (and doesn't require any extra grinding, as you go from 1 life to 1 life) If during the TUTORIAL you beat the first boss, and progress further, then the second and third boss summon 8 bears, which can be beaten by scissors. The final boss won't even summon 8 bears anymore, probably out of respect. After defeating the final boss, the TUTORIAL still continues on the next run.

[@jakescott1571]

The bones are his money

[@ensey.]

And the worms are his dollars

[@crancelbrowser5478]

If you can get the squirrel totem from the wood carver with charm that let's you look up a card, you get to choose a card from your deck every game. I had that combined with a trump card like this and basically swept the first act

[@aaronstrager4247]

14:57 👀 This quote ain’t gonna age well by the time he reaches the end of this act

[@overwatchgameplay6554]

Egglord please continue to play this game... there is a lot more to it than you think and stuff gets crazy.

[@Dr.UldenWascht]

Can't get enough of this fantastic FNAF game, dude.

[@traviswoolston8108]

I made a 0 cost, flying, 3/6 that attacks the 3 spaces in front of it and adds a copy to your hand when played. I have a video of it on my channel. so yeah, that's 20-ish damage on the turn you draw it. It was kind of disappointing how easy it became with that card, really enjoyed this part of the game.

[@lesterdesalvo7098]

Darkest Dungeon 2 is out tomorrow. Can't wait to see a playthrough

[@Romanticoutlaw]

oh shit I am pogged OUT OF MY GOURD

[@mookosh]

@@Romanticoutlaw I need to get dankest dungeon 1 to celebrate :o

[@peterdafox]

Epic Exclusive me have to wait :(

[@petergeddes8073]

NL don't forget to save any pelts for the third boss. You can take his monsters from him and reduce the damage he'll do to you. You had visited the trapper just before your fight with him.. I think even the cheap pelts can buy his strongest units! Keep in mind

[@darkworrior1259]

Totem of squirrel counting as 4 sacrifices and a spliced wolf with 8 damage and 9 HP, It took 2 rounds to butcher the moon and the trapper and trader fight lasted 1 round each

[@level102magikarp]

I wonder how much money NL has caused me to spend on deckbuilding rougelites

[@Laroac]

200

[@d1rtworm]

all of it

[@Whatdahellisthat]

"You should have bought a squirrel." LOVE the Rat Race reference!

[@1Vergil]

Man I can't wait for NL to get better at this. It's going to be so pog. I made such a broken Bullfrog that is solo-carried my run. Imagine a 9/10 bullfrog with Triple Hit.

[@philo-]

I've never been able to get crazy stats on a card in part 1, but I've had decks with like 5 wolves/coyotes that all had triple attack as well as 3/9 turtles that never die, it's super broken

[@1Vergil]

@@philo- If you want good stats, if you ever get a ringworm feed it to the fireplace people. It makes them sick and then every time you visit the fireplace you get 3 no risk upgrades.

[@mxmoooooo]

Bro I got squirrel totem that summon ant, literally carried me from the start till the end

[@philo-]

@@1Vergil I didn't know that, I was wondering what to do with the ringworm but I hadn't thought of that option, that's pretty smart. I'm already out of that area on my second playthrough but I might do that in the future lol

[@z34rk79]

When he was in a pinch, then OTK single handedly wipes the board

[@Rbum4]

14:57 epic foreshadowing!

[@ZAKagan]

I hope egg plays more of this, I enjoyed the vods

[@IDaizeAhhVu]

Would love to see more! You only just scratched the surface

[@MidnightBlade22]

My fifth death, I had drawn the cost from a one cost card, the power and health from an urayuli that I combined at a mycologist for a 14 14 card, and the inscryption from field mice combined with infinite sacrifice. so every time I played it I got another copy in my hand. First turn one shot with 9 overkill damage, had 9 golden pelts in the final fight, and got the boons to draw twice and choose which card I draw. He didn't stand a chance.

[@DigitalSpooker]

I built a zero cost, 7/7 with the three direction hit (from Mantis God) and undying (when it dies it comes back to your hand) took several runs to get it built, but man it was OP

[@turtleboi8492]

First time watcher, it's really refreshing to see a really competent Inscryption player.

[@bryanwells4063]

yes so competent

[@ArmageddonNerd]

The intro of this video is funny to me because the one time NL has commented on something I've said was when I pointed out his video tags (back when that was a thing we could see) for a let's look at were all Isaac related. His reply was "Who reads the tags?"

[@basedmaria]

Please dad, this series gives me life

[@Nighthawk9101]

Expectation: see awesome card in action; Reality: gets stomped on stage 1 of boss battle

[@TheSlizzer348]

So bummed it looks like NL isn’t making more of these

[@georgevoknerech228]

Probably reached Act 2 and realised that the game is a massive scam.

[@lewis9177]

@@georgevoknerech228 how so 😀

[@j97n75]

14:59 "you can't fight the moonlight".....yeah give that a minute....

[@Mrdrago97]

please more Inscryption! can't wait to see you reactions to what happens in the game!

[@shaugh11]

NL missed the clock saying 11am on the wood at 41:50

[@phoenixphyre15]

Oh thank God I immediately scrolled to the comments to see if anyone else saw

[@mfThump]

If the Trapper boss theme is 'We Will Rock You' then 20:42 is 'Nebula - Manhunt'

[@MadMaddin750]

is this gonna be a series? i'd love more of it :3

[@shellthomas2474]

I LOVE seeing random death card OTK cards in this game. My favorite from my runs was a 5/6 ONE COST card with the beehive sigil. I named it the beekeeper and it easily helped me win that run

[@louiesatterwhite3885]

Manlybadasshero made a deathcard that was 7/7, bifurcated strike, death touch, 0 cost, and returns to the hand if killed.

[@MCOmegaX123]

OMG, I was involved (peripherally, just listening to the audio logs and chatting with the Sleeping Princess) in the Halo 2 "I Love Bees" ARG! No payphones in my area accepted incoming calls (east coast Canada), so there were no axons to enhottenate, but I followed along religiously both with the audio logs and the sadly now-defunct Unfiction forums.

[@queuecueq]

Loving the content, man. You seem like you're having a lot of fun lately.

[@skytek7081]

Thanks for mentioning ILoveBees, it was a blast

[@Tachii31]

I had forgotten about Dan's "Gul'dan shower" bit until NL started talking about those pelts...

[@philo-]

I hear Dan's voice every time I get a guldan shower

[@ewabrzakaa6395]

I like how game "discreetly" starts complaining at you for not looking around the cabin.

[@cascade4661]

Man the trailers and screenshots on the steam store didn’t do this game justice, this is the first time seeing gameplay and it looks like so much fun

[@runaway-manhi7488]

I got a 1 cost that had the mantis god sigil (attack 3 lanes) . It was a 4 - 4 card. Also I had a moose buck that had the split attack idk what to call it but it was a 7 - 16 dmg card pretty much I had a very op deck with the undying sigil on my squirrels. I also had the magpie card / boon with the 2 draw boon aswell, pretty much I was the alpha in that fight. Killed the moon in 3 turns

[@Randomness2099]

The most op death card I made was a one health 3/4 that had I think pack rat and the Sigil that makes the card come out of your hand to be automatically played. It won me the game.

[@logangantner3863]

I hope the devs watch this and are made aware of the critical issues with a 5 health battle system where you always get to go first unopposed.

[@cake6982]

It's weirdly not an issue actually. Don't want to spoil too much, but let's just say that I lost 4 out of 5 final boss match because of my overpowered cards

[@louiesatterwhite3885]

It's a roguelite. The bosses cheat against you so it's only fair you can cheat against them

[@logangantner3863]

@@louiesatterwhite3885 The bosses don't "cheat", they just follow different rules. They can play set cards at any time in any quantity, but they have the disadvantage that they are unable to play strategically against you, and also show their moves in advance so you can counter them. The amount of game-breaking cheese is a little higher than my tolerance for roguelites.

[@gamegube6752]

So close to act 2 I belive egg. Mind will be blown

[@factionfalcon1360]

The boon trials hurt me so badly . You had a ring worm and that was a chance at magpies eye which is the winning boon :’)

[@E__millz]

My favorite part of the video is how you stop what you’re doing to acknowledge your wife being home

[@MidoriTheAwesome]

NL if you could label these "part 1" "part 2" etc that would be a lifesaver

[@WastedGTAZ]

Y’know what’s really fun? Having a Grizzly combined with another Grizzly and that was fused with Mantis God tripple attack… with unkillable cat and 2 boons that allows you to pull two cards and to see what specialty cards to pick… (if you think I’m bullshitting you I’m not… I had this setup… I have a screenshot of the Grizzly) he was excited about doing like 6 or 8 damage at a time… bro… my Grizzly did 24 damage in one turn…

[@UncarbonatedSprite]

this reminds me when manlybadasshero's custom card one-shot the moon

[@JohnyScissors]

He started a description conversation then intentionally miss tagged the video to increase engagement. True galaxy brain

[@WindowsDevPro]

Even better when the card returns to your hand when it dies. Also combine that with a deathcard that needs no sacrifice and its incredibly OP.

[@patrickcleary5923]

Raising engagement by a single level

[@junjian8822]

omg this dude is not even standing up to explore the room- aaaa you are killing me, man!!!

[@brendofire2084]

Markiplier with the Immortal Squirrel Totem: You *fool*

[@DragonTamer9001]

I read the descriptions on new series, but not after that

[@chojo7061]

GODDAM I LOVE YOUR DESCRIPTIONS

[@shanemczane6725]

Does NL craft a pogged out Fazbear this episode?

[@balrogbean]

Select the Trial of the Ring to instantly get a boon if you already have the ring. To get the ring, set the clock in the main cabin room to 11 O Clock before entering the cabin boss zone.

[@ZackLivestone]

I forgot that comments mean 'number go up' for NL. Really liking the spooky deckbuilding!

[@blaidddrwg-ye9dy]

The ring you fool. You get given one as part of the story

[@wantsafriend]

I looked at the description cause NL was talking about all the work he put into it and then I was gonna compliment it, Its still a lovely description and all, but the game that it says he is playing is five nights at Freddie's. I'm over here like, "well, now I gotta be that guy."

[@Uhflower]

All I can think during this is: "how the hell is this we will rock you??" And then I forgot to pay attention to the video

[@jaimeyeet6129]

i remember one of his descriptions had a link to his twitch three times instead of putting malfs and austins

[@A-U69]

I got lucky with my card. 0 cost 8/14 or something like that. Return to hand when placed and the "improve card", also added the 3 way attack. Ez win.

[@OmegaSword4]

Seeing Urayuli bring out the inner hypebeast in NL is delightful

[@dvdroshin]

@northernlion if you really want to beat act 1 then get a totem that makes Squirrels give ants. You'll see. Keep stinkbug alive for the "boss"

[@gemstonegynoid7475]

Underestimated the power of bifurcation.

[@trev6783]

Just drew my "no more nukes" death card. 1 blood, 4/6 power/health, after 1 round increases power and double attack. :)

[@Silas_MN]

I hadn't seen that frankenstein pelt interaction before, *very* cool

[@theswankgamer3107]

One of my runs I drew Kaycee (one of the pre-made death cards,) risked to upgrade the damage twice, and then I had an OTK

[@WRanger87]

@18:00 “oh, yeah because the bullfrog, he’s not an active defender yet.” 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@LuvLetter]

when is the next part coming D:

[@AtaGunZ]

I refuse to watch anything else until you continue playing this game. It's pogging

[@FadedAura]

I made one that can attack in 3 directions, can fly and dive, and it was the one that you could kill it and get it back, it had 30 attack damage and 26 health

[@eamonntee]

That Belle and Sebastian reference was pogged

[@RockLee12236]

Got a squirrel totem that summons worker ants and rode those soldiers to full victory!

[@mekokishude3980]

getting a 4/4 trifurcated strike that costs one blood was pretty insane

[@bleblb]

I've never understood people, who don't read descriptions, I just can't skip them, even if the creator doesn't tell me to look there for smth, I just can't help myself and look for whatever there is.