Slay the Spire - Northernlion Plays - Episode 31

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We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

[@fallouthirteen]

5:30 Acknowledges pen nib is up and yet he uses his weakest attack "because it's free".

[@SP1rAlinGDowN]

It's like......a synaptic lapse.

[@isnotav]

Huh, I can't see this episode on NL's channel.

[@Anton333221]

Ｃ　Ｕ　Ｒ　Ｓ　Ｅ　Ｄ

[@IZaaKRegier]

same it autoplayed for me but doesnt show up when i look

[@OlujaDoTokija]

same here

[@defeater5497]

Yep

[@AndreaVincenzo93]

Same here. I wonder what caused it.

[@freddymcfred17]

Dude, glass knife is awesome. Do the math on it. First time it does 16, second is 12, third is 8 damage, always only costing 1 energy. Until then it is consistently better than an ordinary strike. How often do you shuffle your deck more than three times in a single fight? It also synergizes with envenom since it hits twice.

[@Retrash]

GreenWilder it also deals a stupid amount of damage when upgraded. Definitely a great card.

[@TheSpectralgaming]

It's also a 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘭𝘺 better strike

[@kenzenzy]

I forgot we had THE OLD COIN

[@MrMharv42]

I actually think he's trolling us there.

[@OG_Loc]

He even pauses to read what old coin does, but still says it

[@iami3rian394]

25:20 "runic dodoecahedron is just gonna be trash for us." Yeah man, that's what happens when you shun defense. You take damage.

[@iami3rian394]

5:30 that pen nibbed Shiv, seconds after mentioning that he's got Pen Nib.

[@medlievans9918]

this is the secret video, watching it curses you

[@ieshi23]

Watching these always curses me. I end up with a bruised forehead from bashing my head against the table

[@NathanCrash]

@@ieshi23 i just started watching the series and i have slapped my forehead so many times that Im actually gonna play the game for the first time lol

[@NorthernStarshine]

I can't believe you skipped Dash/Predator twice ON THE FIRST FLOOR! Those are both great cards in any deck...

[@lachlanjoseph9647]

Hey NL, YOU MISSED that fuse's glasses are of A TINTED kind. That way when you flash it doesnt disable you. It ROCKs. Sincerely, your dedicated viewers xx

[@charliedempsey6353]

S Tier comment

[@gregm7603]

Ah, yes- the old coin dealing damage at the start of your turn. It’s very nice

[@zekebanks7876]

Greg M I don't know why but I laughed so hard when he said that

[@jamma246]

9:24 _"Who cares if we take 11 damage or 16 damage."_ This reveals all you need to know about NL's approach to this game.

[@jamma246]

And at 11:40: _"Because we're fighting a lot after this, I'm gonna choose to go for full block in some situations, just because you know our hp now is going to be our hp on our next boss fight as well."_ ffs. Taking the least amount of damage per combat is essentially the sole objective of each combat (ignoring potion use etc.). Why don't you play _every_ combat so as to try your best to avoid damage? The lack of logic, it hurts.

[@jamma246]

18:50 What the actual fuck was this turn.

[@iami3rian394]

When he first streamed this, on his very first turn of combat he played Defend, Defend, Strike... Chat (being chat) spammed Low T, Slowplay, Babby Plays etc... so now NL is forever embarrassed because the five idiots who spammed that convinced him that no one who plays this game ever blocks damage. He's legitimately embarrassed to do it. You can hear it in his voice, in 33 he actually LAUGHS at his "poor luck" for getting two defends upgraded for free (even though we all know he's never picking up any other defensive cards). His nervous chuckle every time he defends, he's also got to explain every defensive play (as you clearly illustrated) or else he feels ashamed to even do it.

[@asdasd-rp9hx]

@@iami3rian394 ur dik riding is something else

[@AJddfx]

Honestly, I enjoy this series so damn much even though it is rather hard to watch at times. Seriously, keep playing this game if you can/want to. It's entertaining.

[@NathanCrash]

Watching this has revealed a side of me i legit never knew existed lol

[@kylestillwell7031]

Accidental hidden upload?

[@fryhope1352]

"Well laid plans for 0 is good" acts like it comes at any other cost.

[@melihsemiz1903]

Fry Hope yeah i noticed that too. I was like "but it doesn't come at any other price." He must be really CONFUSED to think that.

[@Skrelpoid]

This egg does not understand. Snecko eye is actually incredible with bullet time

[@collin5595]

38:34 Excuse me, eggboi ???

[@fakesmilez1]

Was really hopeful NL would go for a shiv deck here. Only to be disappointed again that he just sticks to cards he knows/uses often. Staying on that poison stab/ dagger throw train for days...

[@iami3rian394]

He had one good synergy once with Dagger Throw, so now it's S tier.

[@AidanL17]

I played a shiv deck earlier and got the Infinity achievement. Really fun deck type, especially if you throw in a Finisher and a couple of Bursts. It got me my third win ever.

[@fernandohenriques9643]

38:35 Come on egg you even put your cursor on top of it...

[@tommyfenech5760]

I'm going to assume you won the last run and made no misplays whatsoever

[@daybreakhascome]

a-HAHAH

[@FABIOZITO11]

he won,but with misplays as usual

[@kloaf1131]

I'm going to assume you watched this one first and now probably know he won off the back of an almost life or death misplay.

[@tommyfenech5760]

hahaha I was holding my breath when watching the final few plays

[@Liwet.]

Infinite Blades is not slow. If the fight goes on for 4 turns, you're spending 1 energy for 12 damage, more than an upgraded Strike. The longer the fight goes on, the more valuable it is.

[@giacomosantilli5880]

Great Shiv-Pen Nib, Egg xD

[@PhyrexianPhreak]

Right after he mentions pen nib is available, too.

[@trolololol90]

EXACTLY! Im starting to think hes doing this on purpose

[@chaosmastermind]

Oh good, I thought I was the only one that noticed.

[@SuperStarman2000]

38:38 Ah yes the classic old coin damage

[@ShadowStarshine]

"I really like poison stab". Here we go again, same deck archtype that never works.

[@iami3rian394]

He'll be dead on level 3 again, with no defense and no damage. He's ALSO also, taking every deck type at once again. He just doesn't understand The Silent.

[@ShadowStarshine]

Passing on 3 Dash's hurts too, but at least he stumbled his way into a semi-sensible envenom deck, just needs to get rid of things like deadly poison.

[@iami3rian394]

His first removal (aside from a curse) will be a defend, and he won't pay for it, he'll get it from an event or never remove a card.

[@Drew88317]

I understand that poison build needs mostly block but rarely is poison the focus of my deck. Shiv build with cycle, or energy build, or hell even porcupine is more effective.

[@faefofum]

Dear egg, you aren't playing Hearthstone. You don't need to have 30 cards in your deck.

[@iami3rian394]

Especially when he's taking 25 attacks and five denfensive cards.

[@MehYam2112]

Smaller decks are broken AF in Hearthstone too, when you get to use them - but yeah, it's frustrating when he's happy with a deck, then adds a card without considering the dilution effect.

[@Drew88317]

Big decks are great in a draw and energy synergy. And its fine to add cards if you're keeping the attack:defense ratio equal. but the dream synergy is just spinning top one bouncing flask and a few concentrations.

[@GreenWinterable]

Welcome back to Northernlion slays Play the Spire!

[@surnamnam7604]

NL not to encroach on your sense of merchandising but it should really be "eyverybody welcome back to NL SLAYS THE SPIRE"

[@iami3rian394]

False advertising.

[@Blahidontcare11]

Passing on thousand cuts when you have envenom is like ordering a pizza and holding the cheese.

[@jeremyblack1929]

Dash and predator apparently suck, but all out attack? Gimme that erry time.

[@thairnethairnson8047]

"You are already dead." NANI?!

[@GrowrNotShowr]

love watching him play this game

[@Wizard9621]

yo nl, props to you on learning the game, you are making way more smart plays, really happy with how well you strategize your pen nib plays and use of retain. I know we all made fun of you in the beginning, but you are getting better!

[@matthewblough5088]

I've never heard you comment on it, but it is important to remember that adding exhaust cards to your hand is a way of sort of keeping the deck thin while also adding a variety to your deck.

[@OvertlyEsoteric]

5:19 "we have pen nib available" 5:28 forgets about pen nib

[@ericknelson6097]

Hidden Upload squad reporting in! Somehow this was not in my sub feed but was in related videos? also Egg forget to do 30?

[@idarkroses7044]

Dianna Cowern that's not the case xD I watched the 30 ep but for some reason this episode was no where to be seen xD

[@kanekiamano8250]

ahmed Traingle1 Agreed, I was searching through my feed for 31 but only found 30 and 32

[@wiencko5009]

Glass knife my dude please especially with Envenom and snecko skull ...

[@Alkavar]

omg saddistic nature + envenom is so nice (and other stuff that works with it like snecko skull)

[@connorking984]

Dope ass sadistic nature snecko skull combo because it did three twice plus the actual attack

[@user-xp1xg2dv6i]

I may have missed something, but where is the 30. episode?

[@kevinJust]

ya >

[@Skorpionking-cw8ly]

I just watched it. Its been posted

[@syren6371]

30:30 nice play

[@iami3rian394]

Agreed. I was genuinely surprised.

[@PlanetaryPhoenix]

Agile Dissonance i expected him to end with 1/3 from this comment.

[@theslowcow6394]

I am happy that he is getting better

[@MananAdhvaryu97]

It's a cursed forbidden video

[@KovineSkumbre]

M I S P L A Y B O I S

[@LittleLeo4396]

Well I have to assume episode thirty was such a disaster he probably got rid of it and just told us he won.

[@Fusionv4]

Ryan Bridges lol he actually won

[@Supersc2player]

Well I am not sure why this isn't showing up on the channel but hey thankfully it's out and we have something fun to watch

[@shift1109]

Why does NL not like Dash? It's stupid good. 2 mana for two blocks and like 1.75 attacks is so strong, when more so upgraded and then with Pen nib to boot.

[@iami3rian394]

Defending is embarrassing though.

[@PongzeLor]

I'm so glad he tested that torii theory.

[@dennischristensen7307]

Yeah Old Coin hits sooooo hard

[@teampingu]

Big plays!

[@dixego]

HOW MANY TIMES CAN ONE MAN SKIP DASH HOW MANY TIMES

[@tylercoburn5336]

I know that Dash got a buff recently, but, back when it’s upgraded form didn’t do so much damage or gain much armor, I never felt too inclined to play it. This was mostly due to the fact that I could never find the energy to play it, as most of the decks I played with the Silent were combo oriented and didn’t have much room for a 2 energy card. But I’m interested to hear how other people have done with it, is it a better card than I’m giving credit?

[@TehJams]

26:48 SKIPS BLADE DANCE+ FOR DAGGER THROW WHY EGG

[@manuelmenendez8239]

Dash upgrades to 15 DMV and block, it's pretty damn good

[@connorking984]

37:50 5x0=5 apparently

[@connorking984]

Ooooohh nvr mind

[@Mrollllf]

Tori relic is OP, not sure how you didn't see the value of buying bandage from the shop, 4(6+ if upgraded) free HP most fights on the silent is great.

[@iami3rian394]

He won't be able to upgrade grays for another 20 episodes mate.

[@lucasnadamas9317]

29:30 : INFINITE BLADE FIRST TURN? NAAH POISON STRIKE BOI

[@TBomb15]

when you have to choose between nightmare and bullet time, your cup runneth over.

[@thed4rkhu7er]

I was so damn confused last night when I watching this and it disappeared I thought I went crazy

[@broken6656]

0:15 spoiling episode 30 you mad man.

[@v0ider852]

More episodes, please!

[@victorrodella493]

weird video ... love it

[@ravenjoker254]

There are still some misplays here, but that deck is so good, it's very enjoyable to watch

[@Bertidope]

yes best series!!!!!!!

[@PerfidiousPete]

Sadistic Nature + A Thousand Cuts + Envenom. Gone. Gone.

[@NickByers-jc9xh]

Nonchalantly uses pen nib on a shiv on his first elite. Wonderful use of resources

[@punkrocksamurai1]

ninja episode

[@atmaximum]

Oh shit, the egg had a great poison build, buy because of orichalcum he's gonna throw it all away, isn't it?

[@iami3rian394]

Indeed. It's even better because he KEEPS making the same mistakes in every run in the future as well.

[@Itscheho]

the silent, 2 catalyst+ in deck and couple of poison cards, and you literally can 2 shot anyboss after 4 turns i had 500 something poison on the endboss, it's insanely good

[@ThePlatano_]

The terror card picture is creepy.

[@jeremykunayak]

KZbin is broken had to do a search for this episode when it didn't show up in my subs.

[@justinwhite2725]

He even commented how pen nub was active "Shiv is free, so we're always gonna do that" Lol.

[@keenanshiver9030]

The hidden spire run

[@TheTKForce]

I hope he doesn't spoil episode... Oh... thanks NL.

[@radyjko8590]

Ohohoho, a secret video!

[@deathy1999]

How did I get here. Where is this

[@ChibiRuah]

I like to call NL misplays, but honestly this run feels like NL is doing pretty well. He is setting up good lethals and has a deck with a bit of synergy

[@Fluicor]

nice deck,too bad he chickened on the hilarious interactions of nightmare,specially since he has well laid plans to enable sadistic nature or envenom triple wombo combo.

[@ellofreak123]

Wait i cant see this on his channel... i see 30.... early upload?

[@orielbeck]

I can't see this episode in the channal and ahere is episode 30?

[@JC-mf5yi]

NL real life misplays

[@MrGreenYeti]

"we missed up pretty bad." He says whilst not playing a defend for 8 to block all the damage and instead relying on Orichalcum which only blocks for 6. Classic scrambled egg.

[@ElPared]

NL you have an Envenom deck, yet you skipped on all the free cards you could have used to enable it (Storm of Steel, I think I saw a Dance of Blades in there too) and you never upgraded Infinite Blades to make it Innate and guarantee you free damage every turn. Somehow you managed to make it work with Cloak and Dagger, but come on man, use your head. Free cards = more poison = more defensive play because of passive damage.

[@iami3rian394]

35 gold is healing Egg. 50 gold to remove.

[@connorking984]

Great pen nib shiv egg

[@amariucaicosmin9885]

This is the forbiten video

[@andrew28677]

Anyone else notice the sunflower relic looks like it's from PvZ

[@TheDarrenPR]

Why would you EVER throw away a basic defend+ when you could, instead, throw away your regular survivor?

[@FriendlyAnarchist155]

37:51 so the flying thing does 0x5 damage....doesnt that mean it does nothing?

[@FriendlyAnarchist155]

Disregard I noticed my mistake

[@BrainDeadEdd]

Two floors, one video. :^O

[@inflame9583]

u should take the boss relic !

[@dragonfig6460]

Where is episode 30 egg? what have you done!

[@Xirathen]

Dragonfig64 its uploaded?

[@Xirathen]

I looked at it, he uploaded them backwards lol

[@codymartinez2355]

I can't see this on channel and ep 30 isn't out, I'm so confused. I'm assuming it's on private and for some reason it's public still, I had that issue on my main channel at one point and so did a colleague of mine

[@codymartinez2355]

I'm assuming from this he has his content prerecorded and uploaded, so he just releases it to public whenever the scheduled time comes, sorta ingenious actually, if that's how it's set up

[@thisguyisasquid7659]

I forgot we had the... *old coin*

[@Lunarimoths]

nl made this video secret because of 38:35

[@lecram86]

This is a secret episode

[@ElPared]

It's ORI-CAL-COME, just FYI

[@iami3rian394]

It's odd, since it's not even particularly tricky. Didn't everyone learn this when Skyrim dropped 6 years ago?

[@maxterchefe]

Hidden egg boi squad

[@victorwong7862]

Welcome to the mirror world where the real you don't exist

[@driftetg]

NL? what happened to episode 30?

[@skyellis4329]

Ori-kalkum is how it's pronounced.

[@krullachief669]

He's running a poison deck but doesn't take "The Specimen." Fucking christ egg.

[@iami3rian394]

To be fair, he's actually running a Shiv deck and kept passing on things like Blade Dance+, a Thousand Cuts, and Storm of Steel. He simply shouldn't have picked up deadly poison and poison stab.

[@chaosmastermind]

5:27 Damn it, quit using the double damage buff from pen nib on your free Shiv card. >.