ALL CARDS Tier List! | Inscryption Kaycee's Mod

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[@Tom-vx7qh]

It's pretty funny how Ouroboros is arguably the most nerfed card in Kaycee's mod, yet it is still in the highest tier. It really just shows how many leagues ahead it was in the base game.

[@smileguy1187]

What did it do before?

[@SageOfLegaia]

​@@smileguy1187It used to carry over all the stat increases from one run to the next; if you got it to 10/10 in one run, the next run it will start at 10/10. In Kaycee's Mod, it always starts at 1/1, and the stat boosts are only permanent for the rest of the run.

[@YeeeHaaw]

“Fly block is bad because It’s good to let flyers attack you directly so you can kill them” “noooo underwater is bad because it basically makes the other card a flyer >:(“

[@smievil]

watched someone get screwed over cause his fledgling wolf got flight blocking from totem. maybe blocking a raven or vulture once could help win the game next turn though. leshy deciding to play kingfishers seem a bit irrelevant though, he could have put a wolf or rattler in that spot

[@hieatus1039]

Well it matters because most flyers that leshy has do 1 or 2 damage. Whereas there are wolves, bears and other things that are much better.

[@unamix7729]

@Plat suddenly, vulture with double strike totem buff.

[@fishyfinthing8854]

Flying is good when you fight the Angler on 2nd phase since flyers won’t take baits. But if there’s a card that does more damage to you, flying may not help much.

[@shaneguan2985]

Yea I was also confused by why he said that, but after beating Kaycee's mod with all challenges enabled I think it's because Leshy doesn't have to consider sacrificing cards to play cards -- he just plays them. Board control is uber important for you because when you have board control you can play whatever you want via sacrifices. But Leshy doesn't need board control because he already plays what he wants, so flyers are really good for him since he can just attack you directly.

[@deedeeen]

when the tiering takes as long as one playthrough, you understand the dedication :D

[@Sifd]

33:30 Famous last words moment

[@deedeeen]

pretty much haha

[@elios7623]

@@Sifd happy new year boiii

[@Sifd]

@@elios7623 Happy new year Elios!

[@gdmalin7128]

@@Sifd the adder also has the ring worm ability so it can give you free camp fires

[@absolute1936]

I think Black Cat is good enough to be in "Needs Specific Deck". It has made some of my decks from strong to guaranteed win. Also, to me, Pack Rat is just slightly better than Adder. Both allow you to make your garbage cards bearable.

[@fractality9676]

Pack rat is just, bad though

[@absolute1936]

@@fractality9676 So is Adder. Throwing the Pack Rat sigil on a random cheap card is often better than the Adder sigil imo.

[@fractality9676]

Honestly not really sure it doesnt hurt to get an item but it gives you random items, it could be terrible and touch of death can save your live for things with high hp

[@Mythraen]

@@fractality9676 Super weird opinions here. I take it the Fair Hand mechanic was unknown at this time.

[@zaxtonhong3958]

24:08 It’s genuinely sad how few people use this “trick” considering it’s LITERALLY the first thing you do in the game. You play the stoat, then sac it for a wolf almost immediately. It is literally the tutorial, yet people lose runs because they refuse to do it

[@The_Andromeda_Galaxy]

Yeah, it's because many people dont want to lose a card or sacrifice anything that has value. But thats the entire reason cards that cost three blood work outside of needing a specific deck. You draw a squirrel or two and sacrifice whats currently on the board to play them and have more power.(only when it'd make sense though). Stalling and then playing one in an open lane gives you an easy win, or you can just take out the biggest threat.

[@greatsageclok-roo9013]

@@The_Andromeda_Galaxy Weird that people forget that that's how you are supposed to play Leshy’s game... It's almost as if we have no idea what we are doing.

[@marciahincapie5421]

@@greatsageclok-roo9013 what?

[@countercuIture]

He said my play was bad so I sacked him for a bullfrog

[@phiavir5594]

I mean, maybe people dont use that opener, and instead pass to take damage and save the stoat, but how are they losing runs to it. The only way you lose in this game is by having too many cards and not getting the right draws. I really doubt people haven't grasped the idea of disposable cards considering thin win conditions and lane defense is pretty much the only thing in this game

[@WaterAndEarthGirl]

The best way I've seen the cat used is aliensrock's most recent episode. He took the deck that has a black goat in it, got a cat in the initial shop, immediately gave it the three blood sigil and then went ham on three costs.

[@davidpereira5969]

Its a good strat but the issue is that you are extremely reliant on the cat, until you draw it you cant do anything good. But i do agree, trash tier isnt fair and it does have potential if you can get the magpie sigil or keep your deck small with 1 r 2 early defenders and your finishers

[@paegr]

he also barely survived both Prospector encounters because of it

[@Aces203]

@@davidpereira5969 I don’t think his deck ever hit more than 7-8 cards. He also had stuff like a warren.

[@davidpereira5969]

@@Aces203 yes i think tyler played it well, small deck with cat, 2 or 3 1 costs to help early on and 3 finishers. Magpie symbol to get to the cat or another finisher. But unlike other decks, he NEEDS that card to stay alive, else it falls behind the pressure

[@smievil]

someone showed a winning pic with a 5/3 cat with double strike, i assume he used up all of it's charges

[@tmd9412]

The critcism you were looking for with the racoon is "it's too slow"

[@caydensmith3291]

Feels weird seeing opposum so much higher than amoeba. Like... realistically the amoeba is just an opposum with potential upside. I suppose there's potential downside with like... underwater? But there's a lot more decent to "meh" sigils then there are actively negative ones so i just don't think I can agree with that

[@gamingtime9716]

The issue is the opportunity cost. As a rare card, amoeba will only be offered alongside cards that are potentially runwinners. If you see cuckoo, mantis god, amoeba, amoeba's trash. If you see opossum, moose buck, and kingfisher, you're happy to take opossum. Comparing the cards side-by-side, I would say amoeba is a strict upgrade of opossum. But as the game is played, a winning deck is more often going to have an opossum than an amoeba.

[@beaniiman]

The food buff does add damage to ants, figured that out today running all challenges.

[@supersanttu7951]

It also adds damage to the tentacles, so the Mirror Tentacle has a chance to glimpse beyond the Trash tier

[@aboogala4678]

@@supersanttu7951 you're just seeing the reflection from its mirror

[@MrSirSquishy]

Fun fact: you can kill the anglers sharks if you have hit them twice, I don't know if you know this already but when you hit a bait bucket, it spawns the shark, but the shark wont go down until the end of Leshy's turn, so if you use something with a Mantis sigil that does at least 2 damage, you can kill the sharks.

[@voided_sun]

Skink is my favorite card. it's defensive, it's a sac engine. its sigil is good to transfer and the tail gets buffs, allowing crazy combos. It's so flexible its crazy.

[@AstOnokGaming]

Also if you transfer immortal to it, the tail will get immortal too so you can get infinite free sacs

[@IAOIceland1984]

same for me I love powering up that scalie boi, it basically makes 2 powerful units come into play with some health and damage buffs also infinite sigils make for free tail sac outlets, love it

[@asm7983]

@@AstOnokGaming its even better if it has fecundity

[@ronindungeon4369]

Sigil from field mice with skink - infinite sacrifice

[@Riccardo-kw5dc]

My cochroach just basically solo'd The Moon because he had the tail and tonnes of dead bodies, lol tail OP

[@aggammer3485]

Personally id say that the ijiraq is at least usable, the only downside it has is the fact that it cant be buffed by flames/sacrifices, otherwise it has the best stats in the game (only higher attack by default is urayuli/ouroboros and ijiraq can only die from a porcupine), and you have to consider the fact that its a rare so you have to compare it to the likes of pelt lice, long elk, etc Also red hart is the definition of "needs a specific deck", there are lots of infinite sacrifices combos that arent op but red hart turns them into instant wins

[@subatomicstrike1341]

You speak a lot of sense...

[@dudejoe24]

A good example the black goat deck

[@damiencross5517]

if you have an infinite, you dont want red. literaly anything that can deal 5 is better 90% of the time, and equivilient in the last 10%. red is always a mistake.

[@loudwhispre9406]

Other guy already said it, but if you have an infinite sacrifice loop, Red Hart is still shit. Ouroboros or Lammergeier are gonna clear that every single time. You can never lose if you build the right deck around Ouro or Lammer, but the fact that you can still lose even with the right deck as Red Hart says a lot about how shit that card is.

[@technodoomed1]

The problem I see with some sigils is that they're basically useless for FTKs, which is sadly the prime strategy to consistently win in Kaycee's mod. No point in playing anything else if your 2/1 Mantis God can win first turn every time. I think DM should implement a challenge where you can't attack during first turn (ringing the bell just passes turn).

[@frankdeleware4091]

You should make a tier list from leshy's prespective

[@ShyGuy3101]

So Ignoring the cost?

[@zaxtonhong3958]

Moon immediately goes into F tier

[@tabouretarepasser730]

@@ShyGuy3101 And considering flying and waterborn as good sigils

[@smievil]

suddenly flight blocking bears are S tier and behive just takes up a potential attack slot, can only be destroyed by opponent, and puts a bee in opponents hand when it's attacked...

[@K0nomi]

grizzlys are in S tier

[@adityachandran7280]

Any cards that have a movement sigil seems to be a lot more effective for Leshy since it can easily confuse newer players and frustrate experienced players if the cards happen to fall in a unique way. If Inscryption were to ever have a multiplayer mode (which is admittedly unlikely), I could see those cards having some kind of unique functionality. As it stands, any strategy using movement cards isn't as effective since Leshy's AI doesn't really apply any advanced strategy at all.

[@smievil]

yes, annoying leshy cards with somewhat high health but you can't really block them well since they move around. they are a bit bothersome when you only have 1-2 attack cards

[@vaporeonvex4368]

inscryption Multiplayer would honestly be really fun, if maybe a bit coinflip in some scenarios, since you can just like black goat + geck into a urayuli and win first turn.

[@fishyfinthing8854]

I feel like multiplay in this kind of game is too broken. There’s so much exploits that won’t be fun if play against any of us.

[@vaporeonvex4368]

@@fishyfinthing8854 even so, its still an interesting idea to play around it. heck if you really wanna try and make it work, you can buff thigns like the hp for both players.

[@anacondra2293]

The game is meant to be broken, and that is why it can’t have a multiplayer

[@SS-ed3pk]

poisonous sigil is useful against wall of 4/6 grizzlies, the only reason you pick up viper in a run

[@smievil]

elks are a bit annoying when leshy has them. bulky creatures with weak attacks, frequently running into traffic. weak and cheap cards are pretty nice as long as it doesn't stink.

[@gob9852]

@@smievil "completely unrelated to the above comment" classic

[@jarekhartwell6235]

I love how mantis God is constantly one of the best cards in inscryption. Like, the game knows it to. The joke about always choosing mantis God was made in the game before it was released because they new that 3 damage for one blood is ridiculous

[@LathosZan]

On: skunk and cuckoo - a further thing to consider is that Leshy can't sacrifice, you can. Blocking Leshy's lane is a huge deal because he can't do anything about it, but even blocking a lane with skunk is useful for you because you can sacrifice the skunk when you no longer need it.

[@The_Andromeda_Galaxy]

I'd say ijiraq is still useful. You're benefiting greatly from anything that's 2 cost or lower, and if it replaces a 3 cost you still just get something better. Sure it has very rare and specific circumstances where it wouldn't be good but those are just outliers. >95% of the time you'll usually be playing and it'll give you either an early win or can completely turn around what looks like a lost. And thats just in general, for you specifically since you try not to get anything expensive it just becomes that much better. It needing a specific deck would imply it's trash unless you've set up for it, but it needs a specific deck for it to not be good.

[@breadman0512]

I got Ijiraq on a game where I was building a low cost, insect deck, he won me like 4 battle by himself. Keep in mind, if he transforms into a card that got an extra sigil from a totem, he keeps that sigil. Since my deck was insect based, I obviously had an insect totem, which ment he also got the sigil. So I had a low cost Ijiraq that also usually got a good extra sigil.

[@stillton5592]

When Ijiraq replaces magpie, or anything with the hoarder sigil, it can actually be more useful because you still get the main use of the card, while getting a pretty powerful card in it's place.

[@NeedHealer]

Another point against poison is the fact that it cant overkill so you'll often kill 1 monster only to have another kill the poisonous mob because stuff with poison has horrible stats, meanwhile if you had a card with like 3 damage then it might often kill mob in front of it and then sometimes even kill the thing in the back, so next turn you'll do damage directly to Leshy instead of wasting a turn on a random mob

[@user-pr4cu9tb3b]

Well, poison work with overkill, so it has use vs Grizzly bear wall.

[@PillzmansFox]

Pelt lice is good only in theory, I would fix it by not making it a playable card, but when you play a pelt for defensive reasons there's a chance that is brings in a pelt lice or when a pelt get destroyed it drops a pelt lice

[@sculltex391]

this is actually a fun idea, being able to turn pelts into potential sacrifice units so maybe having one or two in your deck until the next trader isn't as detrimental

[@smievil]

maybe if you just unlocked a rabbit symbols on all pelts. maybe peltlice is good when you have to buy all the pelts cause you have ouroboros, never tried to put me in those conditions though.

[@deltora895]

I mostly agree with this. I'd probably put the hand tentacle into useful, ijiraq into useful (imo unless you are trying to make a bad deck, ijiraq should be easy to play), and make a new tier either above or below S called "easy win sigil" for field mice since it is dramatically better than everything else in the good sigil tier.

[@herculeszh3675]

The video was great! Except you missed the most OP card: the squirrel. It's a 0 cost 1 health card that if you're lucky will turn into an aquasquirrel with the right ~~challenge~~ *bonus*. Seems like an easy win to me.

[@drakestarblade5910]

the squirrel is a tier on its own

[@cass_the_weirdo]

I love ijiraq especially cause of something that the game never tells you, when you play it if an ability or sigil would proc immediately when you put it down it still goes off before it transforms to its true form. This is especially awesome if it starts out as the bell or hand tentacle cause now you have a crazy strong card that bowls over everything and can’t be destroyed except by the porcupine’s sigil or the prospector.

[@bigbrainenergyguy]

The pronghorn is generally bad, but against the trapper it suddenly becomes the best card. You can play it turn 1 with smoke and squirrel, and give it +1 or +2 attack flame and it clears out all the frogs and the traps, and whenever he plays a new creature (usually adders and wolves) it's always directly in front of the pronghorn which means it is guaranteed to move out of the way and kill whatever he played on the next turn. Even if you need the pelts you can just place a squirrel in front of each trap before it springs. On phase 2 you buy his front line and one shot him with all the cards you saved in your hand. Of course, you could just use good cards to win that fight but it's fun to find uses for weaker cards.

[@inversefireman]

"nothing can actually attack it [repulsive cards]" yes, but if it strikes something with sharp quills it will die, situational but good knowledge

[@matthewsusilo8698]

Repulsive also doesn’t work against the trapper’s traps. Still basically a free win once it’s out on 75% of all fights though.

[@themeow-sician1664]

The moon can't attack it either very funny

[@sawk1875]

I feel like the key to using pelt lice is to get good sigils on it, like the magpie one. Then if you clutter your deck with pelts it's no biggie cause you can immediately pull your god card and go crazy. I haven't really tested this though so it's just purely speculation.

[@hannahprince498]

It might be fun to make a Mono-type deck tier list, like comparing Bone-only, Antler-only, Serpent-only, Insects, etc. I've been halfway considering such myself, it's fun to think about.

[@vitalikbaird3248]

If I had to guess based on my own experiences. insects are the best, with wolves second, serpents third, bones fourth, then antlers (I love you black goat just hate other deer types. And no its not just for the 3 blood, but also the extra bones on the ritual board.) I've actually built insects only decks before to combo with a totem sigil I found useful I know for a fact I'd never do that for antlers and bone types I've just never worked well with. Not as badly as the mana totem things but badly. But hey even if I have completed kaycee's mod and did a full challenge mark run to completion I can't consider myself a master, never been much good in many games. So I'm probably letting in a few biases based on some mechanics. So take this entire comment on a pinch of salt.

[@zaxtonhong3958]

Adder is weird because it’s only good vs grizzly bosses. Poison in general is okaaay but generally worse than extra damage because overkill and weights on the scale are incredibly valuable.

[@themeow-sician1664]

Overkill is not really worth it poison is good for stuff like elks and just beefy opponents

[@Narinjas]

It also has the same effect as the ringworm on fires.

[@amythistfire7]

Challenge: Whenever you’re given the choice of cards, you have to take the card(s) in the lowest tier offered, according to this tier list.

[@anthonyle9788]

This is a really comprehensive tier list. Thank you for the advice!

[@Perisqinkle]

53:45 "These cards are so bad that if you flame them, you are already making mistakes." Ring Worm: BUT SIFD!

[@bobthebox2993]

I love how the field mice sigil interacts with the ijiraq. You get to play one of the strongest cards in the game and get to keep whatever card you were planning to play originally.

[@JesterlyCharles]

I´d say Ijiraq is a 50/50 card, it can sometimes lose the game (Example: I actually lost once cause I tried putting a wild bull and it was Ijiraq) but in some cases it can easily win the game and as sifd said it does depend on deck a bit.

[@smievil]

think i summoned an 8/1 ijirag from a tentacle card, but summoning him with an ant card at the wrong time would probably mess you up. i like being able to predict what i play though.

[@ares0444]

Yess! Was waiting for this :))

[@immigrantmammoth5162]

Was just watching your old tierlist :P

[@JJGray21]

Daus+Bell tentacle is pretty dope. Also cat+goat is a really good card. If it’s your only 1 cost card, you’re guaranteed to draw it at the start of every battle

[@willropa4226]

We need a tier list for Ouroboros and Hodag alone, these two are brothers from another mother since Hodag has a similar ability to Ouroboros where it gets stronger the more enemies it kills, and that power remains the entire way through.

[@TheRealAlbinosquirrel444]

I think what Daniel Mullins was going for when he made long elk was for people to enchant it with waterborn and basically be a board wipe as it moves and has poisen

[@MadZer0]

The thing I like about long elk is you can sack the vertebrae, it’s a free squirrel per turn if it has somewhere to go

[@omarferrerarino869]

Feliz año nuevo 🎉🎂💐 ya hecha en falta uno de estos videos

[@marciahincapie5421]

Ñnt comment section

[@marciahincapie5421]

lol

[@CorwinTheOneAndOnly]

I wouldn't even consider Alpha usable. I've never once been happy to draw alpha. If it was a 2/2 I would consider it a balanced card. Right now, it's an *UP TO* 3 damage card that costs 5 bones. If it were an up to 4 damage card that costs 5 bones I would be a lot more appreciative.

[@smievil]

it's not much worse than other 4, 6 or 8 bone cards.

[@cornjeebus]

I normally transfer its ability to a beaver or Daus. If the beaver has any additional sigils, it transfers to the dams.

[@CorwinTheOneAndOnly]

@@cornjeebus I believe this comment was made before the dams copied sigils. Beaver was downright unusable back then

[@skystormy2485]

happy new year sifd! wish you the best of luck with your channel

[@sirminilol]

Really good videos 👍

[@DrDrao]

I think this one is more accurate than the first. I have very few gripes, maybe I'd move one or two cards up or down a tier, but overall, completely agree.

[@miguerugoto3731]

Happy New year Sifd. I hope the Kaycee mod and Inscryption got some news in this year

[@kfed9834]

Just a random thought Sifd but have you ever considered just naming the spots where you play cards 1 through 4, cause you do trip up on saying that you're going to block the left lane then play something in the right lane. I have always just thought of it as lane 1, lane 2, Lane 3, Lane 4 or whatever from left to right, maybe it just makes sense in my head, but since you play the game so much I was wondering if that may be an easier way for you to address plays out loud.

[@Sifd]

That is a good idea, I will try to remember it :D

[@georgestweeter]

I just watched Aliensrock video and he put the Black Goat on the Cat. So he had basically unlimited 3 blood sacrifices, i think that is the only scenario where Cat is good.

[@zanzeron4277]

Ive watched that video too and really they just needed one use of black goat if they did their sigils and flames better, the infinite sacrifices black goat is pretty much just a win-more thing. (Also never do goat on cat, do cat on goat. Cat cant get totem buffs, has a limit of 9 sacrifices, and cant be sacrificed to the bone lord in a pinch for 8 bones)

[@Youmu_Konpaku_]

B-tier = Bones tier xD 👌 Either way, nice job on the tierlist was pretty good to see each cards with small explanations

[@Korbo_YT]

Good tier list that should be the main one no cap

[@anzyroadside2374]

Happy New Year! Edit: I see that your tier list no longer has the bullfrog as a benchmark. :D

[@Sifd]

Because it is not in the starting deck :D

[@elios7623]

nice, i love tier lists

[@Speedymeele]

Mad turtle imo should be in good sigils, it buys time for 1hp fledglings when leshy has units in backline

[@mattie2711]

Happy new year!

[@Zellthan]

A tier list based off of how valuable of a pick-up the card is would be a much better way to evaluate them in this game

[@poodrofartman2802]

59:22 i'm gonna teach the wolf cub how to swear now

[@TheSirCrown]

Drifting off to sleep... Don't sleep on skank.... Sleepy looks at phone figuring out what I just heard

[@lazygravy_brook]

Cuckoo is weird, cuz sometimes it fucks you over and spawns a damn raven. It's always at the exact wrong time too.

[@menace1987]

Tbh i fell like Ijiarq should be A or S. Even if he will be disguised by bear or any other 3 cost its still better than them cus its has the highest possible deafult attack (besides urauyli) stat and has baisiclly infinite life. Also he wont be 3 cost forever, it will be random everytime and lest be honest if you have many 3 costs in your decks than its not Ijarq's fault - your deck is just trash. Also im not sure about that cucko egg thing, i dont think it works that way since eggs is placed after cucko is played while magpie is at the time that u play the card but that would require testing. I had Ijiarq many times and i think you would like it more if u will play with it more since tbh u got really unlucky with getting it in ur playthroughs. Besedies that this tierlist is perfect. Thanks for your vids Man, love them and they often help me to sleep

[@zanzeron4277]

The cuckoo behavior exists, it happened the time he used the card.

[@smievil]

i think he also get some attack boost from certain cards, like the tentacle ones. maybe field mice symbol would work since it's also when summoned.

[@menace1987]

@@smievil filed mice sigil works i tested it

[@smievil]

@@menace1987 what card did you end up with in hand though?

[@menace1987]

@@smievil ijiraq was diguised as geck with fec and when i played it i got ijiraq and another geck with fec apeared in my deck and when i played the second geck it also turned into ijiraq

[@daooffibonnacicats8247]

You remembered when I said I was in denial that tadpoles are better than gecks?According the number one opinion(Sifd’s opinion),he had cured my denial and I just believe both are good.I was about to the second stage of depression.

[@menace1987]

geck

[@zaxtonhong3958]

They are equal imo, but the fact that geck is rare is pretty unfortunate.

[@hobez64]

Not so much disagreeing as much as just voicing my own thoughts, but I feel Cockroach is pretty underrated. Yes the stats are bad BUT the key distinction here is it's an Undying creature that plays for bones. If you manage to give a 1 blood creature a sigil such as Ant Swarmer or Field Mice's multiplying one, it enables you to fill all 4 lanes as early as turn 1. I've had runs where because of cockroach returning itself to my hand, I can amass all the bones to play it then sacrifice it to add another ant 3 times to get 16 damage on turn 1. Definitely not broken but it is a pretty good infinite combo enabler

[@zalfire9195]

i totally agree, i love a cockroach in the deck. Its just infinite value and helps when fights lasts longer than intended, allows you to always draw from your deck instead of squirrels

[@life-destiny1196]

My hottest take is that KMod Ouroboros is merely okay. It can be a win condition, but you have to get it reasonably early in the run, then make a deck that can sacrifice loop it (or at least cycle it a couple times at the end of an overwhelming victory), then you have to actually draw it, and it's 2-sac which can be annoying to set up especially if you don't draw it immediately. Compare to a Mantis God with a single power buff, which is a 1-sac OTK. And lots of things become broken if you have an infinite. I'm not completely through the content, yet, so maybe it's more practical than I'm giving it credit for? But so far I'm having a ton of success with the Mantis God/Ring Worm/Ring Worm starter deck, and with that I find myself picking Ouroboros for the sigil more than anything. (Speaking of cards you did dirty, Ring Worm...)

[@fishyfinthing8854]

The Mantis god deck is pretty OP with enough upgrade. The waterborne in the other hand is one of the hardest so far on my hand.

[@bagel4you387]

I have never seen a good tier list in my life

[@aereonexapprentice7205]

Edit: Happy new year and holiday too, Sifd Adding to the guy that said the mealworm attack buff applies to ants, the mealworm attack buffs applies to ANYTHING, even cards that has situational damage like the Lammergeier that needs bones, the Tentacles, and the Red Hart.

[@madnessoverload7824]

I would put moose buck in "needs a specific deck", since you can make an insane deck around it pretty easily. You choose the moose buck + goat starter deck, you get a fecundity deer totem (which affects your goats for some reason) and boom! Infinite goats and moose bucks. Easy win.

[@thefrostyslinger9041]

It affects the goats because they are in the same Tribe as the Moose Buck. You probably knew that

[@angelcaru]

But fecundity totem is already an easy win (or at least it was when the comment I'm replying to was posted)

[@Chick3nluvver]

Hard to find anything I disagree with! Great tierlist Sifd

[@bensoncheung2801]

69th 🗨️

[@RonaldvallejoA]

Hey this is awesome! But for some reason I thing am missing a few of the new cards from kaycees Mod

[@DarpMasta_JDKg1375]

I would say that black goat would be in a specific deck because if you sacrifice it (not to a different card but to the bone skull thingy) instead of getting a additional 1 starting bone, you get 8 additional starting bones

[@comp.lex4]

Very interesting seeing rattler and turkey vulture rated as not trash. Probably since lammergeier wasn't in the game yet- the existence of the lammergeier instantly makes every bone cost card drop a tier simply because it's better to save bones for the bird

[@brendonot333]

Its nice seeing a tier list not filled with a bunch of random choices and actually well thought out. I agree with pretty much everything here, the only thing id disagree with is that its a waste to flame the ringworm, the 2 flames can stack up really fast, one run i had horrible rng for cards getting basically nothing good, however i was able to flame the skunk to be 6dam 8hp making it unkillable. Being able to double each flame without worrying about rng can help you from relying on a good deck, instead of relying on 1 or 2 cards in your deck to finally get pulled, you can flame enough to make almost every card a turn 1 win, and if the survivors dont eat it you can now convert any squirrel into the same hp as a mole man or damage as a coyote for the cost of one flame space.

[@songvevo123]

Alpha sigil on a Wild Bull has to be one of my favourite card combinations!

[@BrotherCheng]

I feel like the pack rat is a little underrated. As this video pointed out, if you play items, you should be winning. Pack rats allow you to play free items at the cost of a randomized refill (it does suck to say get a bottle of bones while you have zero bone cards). This increases the probability of you surviving each encounter, without needing to do dedicated item stops to get items back. I guess I can see a couple reasons why it's not that great: 1. Item stops give you more than one items back, so it's not that inefficient to use up all your items and pick up items from stops (that said if you are playing 2 item challenges the item stops are less great). Given that sometimes you are forced to stop at item stops anyway so maybe you are always going to be picking up some items back. 2. Pack rat is random, so you are rolling a dice with the refill, and if you are going for consistency, the randomized item drop could screw you over if it doesn't give you what you want. I still find them to be more useful than trash tier though.

[@zazz7027]

I have a short tale on the alpha. When I started my run with the first starting deck and managed to use the 2 pelts to grab an alpha and a beaver. To I put leader on the beaver and managed with a 3/3 beaver cuz it got buffed with its own dams. In the same run I got a wolf with double strike and it was broken if I put the beaver down. Sac the beaver and something for the wolf and boom 5/2 wolf with double strike it was insane even against bait buckets

[@blazethedead]

The elk can single handedly stall out the Trapper and the Angler bosses. It's useful for sure.

[@TheRealHaans]

Red hart goes in the "Needs specific deck" as you wrote. It's not trash, it's a combo piece card. geezzz..

[@GIRGHGH]

"It's not a card that anybody really cares about in my opinion" That's... that's literally other people's opinions lol.

[@lt_pomegrante8338]

I know this was made a year ago but the decision of Long Elk doesn't feel right, because every time is moves it places a vertebrae which can be sacrificed which can act as a small block or benefit your deck.

[@Kevin-zz9du]

I sooooo hope we get game modes for the other 2 Scribes as well as the return of P03' variant. A kaycee's mod equivalent for each of the 4 scribes lol.

[@CorwinTheOneAndOnly]

Also new challenge I can give to you: Packrat Deck run. Chase those item pack events to get them. Then make sure you spam items in combat

[@fishyfinthing8854]

I guess 2 Pack Rats, 1 cat to make that starter deck then. Cat make pack rat cost less. And if you transfer it to the cat, it get a bit more compact. Also cat and rat make a good theme.

[@DarkExcalibur42]

I think I would argue in favor of the Wolverine's Sigil on the Dire Wolf. Not on the Dire Wolf Pup, *just the Dire Wolf*. And that's way too specific to be much help. But consider this: Turn 2: Squirrel -> Black Goat -> Dire Wolf. Wolf kills something, and then does 3 damage. This assumes your turn 1 went badly. Best-Case Turn 3: Wolf does 6 damage. This is 9 total from the previous turn, which is enough to win from losing. Worst-Case Turn 3: Leshy's back-line moves up, hits Dire Wolf. Dire Wolf almost definitely lives. Your turn, it attacks and kills whatever hit it. Now it does 4 damage. But this is such a crazy-specific example... like, you would literally have to build around this as your intended path to victory. And you could do almost anything else instead.

[@thegrandestbazaar4800]

Very good

[@seewagg9102]

The only time touch of death matters is if leshy sends a deathcard with circle snake stats

[@m3gasn1p3r]

I think the use of the sigil that grows stronger is underestimated here. Yes, your geck would die but im pretty sure a cockroach would keep the strength. And, if it was on an indirect attacker, you could just keep multiple lanes on lockdown easier. Using it strategically for a longer fight or on something that may get the extra bite it needs to finish a fight is more reliable sometimes than hoping to get the flame for attack, but all things are only reliable as they are available in this game to be fair.

[@TheGlenn8]

Cat is absolutely a good sigil. It enables some easy turn one wins if you have a 1 cost card with fecundancy. Or if you combine cat sigil with the goat sigil you can easily dump all your 3 cost cards. I also just like the cat sigil on any 1 blood cost card with attack just to allow for some super tempo, you effecitvely get to play cards without paying cards while still pushing damage.

[@maicee7603]

then it belongs to "needs a specific deck" tier

[@zaxtonhong3958]

Cat only really shines with 2 blood cost cards. 0 cost cards, the cat is useless. 1 cost cards, you’re limited by board space, and 3 cost cards you’re limited by draw speed. The problem is you want a lot of 2 blood cards to take advantage of cat, but having 2 blood cards and not drawing cat is a death sentence.

[@TheGlenn8]

@@maicee7603 No not really. It's really just the sigil. Putting the sigil on a porcupine, or a skink, or a wolf, cub, or maybe a geck and it's good. It'll just be strong for tempo. That's all. Tempo is always strong, no matter the deck. The only "downside" to this could be that you might want the card you're sacrificing for into the spot of the card with the infinite sacrifice sigil. But I rarely encounter a scenario like that. It's certainly never a sigil I'd really not want on any of my cheap cards. I never think "oh man I wish my raven egg didn't have infinite sacrifice!"

[@hebonky]

Beaver is incredibly underrated, because the dams carry the sigils of the beaver, so you could out the alpha's sigil on the beaver and it becomes a turn 1 win!

[@johndadatsis3632]

I just got the plat in inscryption and discovered this video. I NEVER used skink, I had buck a lot of the times, adder for the sigil tbh and don't get me started on the cat lol. I wish I saw this earlier!!

[@SirFlopsy]

The one thing I struggle with is the card deck tentacle, especially in Kaycee's Mod. In the beginning it's a two turn win most of the time. There are a lot of ways to make it easy to increase your hand size. All three boss fights up to Leshy are easy control fights, so it's a great card to prepare a second phase first turn win, also at challenge level 12. And there are a lot of sigil's that make it insane. I should say it's at least usable. What I maybe kind of miss, although I understand it's not the point of the list, is something along the lines of "can be really fun to use under the right circumstances". Even if those cirumstances are very specific. For example, combine two Snapping Turtles if one of them has the Wolverine sigil (maybe flame one of them first) and you get a 3/12 that increases damage with each kill. Yeah, you can say when will that ever happen, but if it does it's hilarious. It's fun to try and find very specific situations that result in great cards (totem can help there too obviously).

[@maxg5196]

Haha yeah. That's what makes this game fun! That would be a good topic for another video

[@s1ushgaming]

“Who would use a magpie on a geck.”Well me, because it had infinite revive on it

[@goldibollocks]

Happy new year! 🥳 So, the Tadpole by itself is a trash card which evolves into another trash card which overall makes it a useful card? 😃

[@alfonce3251]

well if you give it the pack rat sigil its infinite just like geck

[@angry_strawberry2733]

If you play Kaycee's mod and pick the moose buck- more deck. I always like to put the mole sigil on the moose buck. It actually makes the moose buck really strong!

[@jordand69]

I almost always take the Ijiraq when I see it, unless I get a better option; it actually saved me on a couple runs I also like the long elk surprisingly

[@sleegon7475]

I want to say that frog is insane since it is in the same faction as geck, tadpole, and oroborous it is very easy to setup an insane faction build using many reptiles compared to all of the factions. I would also say elk fawn is insanely useful since it can win against most other 2 costs and is in the same faction as child 13 and goat. so many useful sigils work well with both of them and just a single upgrade to the damage to the slow damage it instantly becomes insane.

[@shapshane8241]

what about a tierlist for sigil combos, or the best sigils for certain cards?

[@shybandit521]

Cat can be very useful on Cuccoo if you can't get a better sigil like a multiattack or fecundity/unkillable. Since you didn't intend to move the cuckoo you can then use the infinite sacrifices to place down lots of say, ants if you chose the ant starting deck. With a good Ant engine you can always have down 3 ants and a cuckoo.

[@shybandit521]

By good ant engine I mean like fecundity worker ant

[@fishyfinthing8854]

Cat is good for the sigils. I would put it on the good sigils tier

[@SYKRAL1]

I would have put cat in good sigel. Put that on anything that has attack and you aren’t blocking a lane. Plus, it’s literally an extra squirrel every turn. It essentially lowers the blood cost of every unit by 1. Any 1 blood costs you have can instantly get on the board. Best case scenario with this is to put the sigel on a flyer and play the flyer behind a rock or something. That way, it’s safe and it’s doing damage.

[@Bananen_999]

Lammergeier (or Lämmergeier) is the German word for I think bone vulture (all tho it actually means: 'lamb vulture') and you pronounce it like this: the 'a' before the 'm' is actually an 'Umlaut' (ä), so it's pronounced like the 'a' in 'magpie' and (because of the double 'm') it's fast. The German 'r' is very hard to pronounce for non Germans, but you can just use a very fast 'a', this time like you would pronounce the end of dire (so re) in dire wolf (or like the 'a' in 'daus'). The same goes for the 'r' at the end. The rest is just pronounced as you already do. Have fun with this useless information, the video is great as always.

[@garyvincent7397]

seeing all these tier listing of the stuff makes me wish for a creative mode in inscription

[@angelcaru]

Hey, save file editing exists.

[@nevermindmeijustinjectedaw9988]

pack rat is great to meld bc it's soooo easy to get duplicates of it my most recent game i had a 6/6 rat, a normal 2/2 and two copies of the earlier version which were painted as 5/4 and 5/2 respectively. the sheer amount of games i won with my items alone, it's really insane once you give one of them the infinite lives sigil ps: nm this comment, in hard challenge modes it's impossible to reach the melding stations with too many pack rats and getting melds is highly luck dependent, too, since you cant get them in lvl 1 and it still remains rare pps: and even if you do, it's often easier anyway to meld quite literally any 3drop for much better stats. that said, i have to abuse the melds better in conjunction with the more common hybridization and even the cave event bc a card that's stitched together receives all abilities of the cards it was made from, making 6 abilities on one card possible