What if you start with 8 Rainbows?!

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[@supaicyboi]

5 times 5 is 40 something right? For a game that requires math, this was the best line to end the video on

[@quasnof]

Good thing they did 7 damage times 5 for 35 damge.

[@OrbitalLocket]

@@quasnof Plus the dark orb too. Really enjoyed that heart fight ngl

[@stupider666]

Plus loops on next turn it was dead with out lockon

[@chromalyst8974]

You can tell that frost is truly an accepting person, still uploading rainbow content outside of June, very cool

[@bipolarmaniac116]

Love the guy with the Long Distance Relationship. My wife and I dated long distance for 2 years before I finally had enough to move up here with her. Godspeed friend, and I hope you and your fiancé only the best ❤️

[@Dropem7777]

The timing of saying "I could run for miles dude" while holding turbo made me laugh because of turbo's card art.

[@MuteSpectre]

14:31 that was maybe the most insane turn 1 I have ever seen

[@krabbekage2124]

Frost is just genuinely such a nice person. Love that pal.

[@kisspeace9629]

Even though English isn't my first language, I am surprised at myself for just realising this: Rain-bow

[@gubus2494]

...*WAIT*

[@scotty12332109]

I do like some pretty colors.

[@drctos1026]

Andrew malding as the representative for claw gang

[@pulsarbeam3857]

idea for a challenge run, random only challenge start with whatever character no strike , defend , class basics , starting deck is excusively hello_world, magnetism , creative AI , battle hymn easy mode: start with dead branch hard mode: remove Battle hymn

[@Ocean_Man205]

Reoccurring Walter White is very funny thanks Andrew

[@seryntheon8195]

Before I see the video, a response to the intro: My issue with rainbow is that when doing a normal run, picking up 1 copy of rainbow doesn't seem all that worth it. It has the issue of "doing a lot, just not that well". It gives you a tad of instant damage, it provides a tiny amount of block, it gives you potential burst damage for later (all of which are good, but when spread thin like that don't do as much work as you'd like). If you're using it for any one of its 3 modes in particular, there are non-rare cards that do it's job better (the best mode being the dark orb because dark is just a difficult orb to run into [only obtained with 3 other cards and 1 is random chance]). You can use it as a way to evoke all of your orbs (or a decent chunk if you have more than 3 slots) and replace them, but I honestly prefer evoke+draw+energy that you get from Fission (it tends to do just that while also giving you a way to look for outs). It's better when it costing 2 energy is less important (lots of energy production or cost reduction [EG: Madness]), but then again lots of things become really good when you live in Magic Christmas Land (0 mana Echoform usually seems better than 0 mana rainbow). It gets better if you have a bunch of focus, but usually if you have focus lightning and frost (both separate and together) get better or dark and frost (separate and together... kinda...) gets better (in my experience all 3 together don't play as nicely as I'd like [mainly because lightning and dark are fighting for similar roles: doing damage, just in a different play pattern]), making it where you want a critical mass of 1 or 2 orbs but not really caring about having all 3. If you want Lightning orbs, most other Lightning cards do it's job better and for less energy. Same goes for Frost. Dark is the odd one out, and it gets the best deal merely because if Rainbow didn't exist it would be used even less than it already is (due to rarity). If you want Lightning and Frost, the sheer amount of cards with both orbs (but not on the same card, so you will usually need to play 2 cards) will make it more available and typically do more work for the same 2 mana (like give additional block, deal damage, or provide an effect on top of summoning the orbs). Lightning and Dark as a focus is odd because they compete for playstyle (you typically want to be evoking and replacing Lightning all the time to maximize damage output, but you want to strategically evoke the Dark orb after letting it sit around for a bit [reliable damage VS burst damage]); so I'll overlook this one. Frost and Dark is a pretty solid combo (hole up under the solid block you get from Frost hoarding, then once you've waited long enough for the Dark orb to become worth evoking slide it to the front while also gaining even more block) but I'd honestly prefer a Darkness(+) or Doom and Gloom to grab the Dark orb (then play anything to get Frost) over rainbow [Darkness(+) gives you an extra tick of Dark and cost only 1 energy, and Doom and Gloom gives you some rather valuable AOE]. It's a setup card but it's an unfocused (hah) setup. Yea you can make it work, but it's definitely not ideal (especially if you want it repeatedly, forcing you to upgrade it to not exhaust (and that's it) which always doesn't feel great [especially pre-Act 3]). It can be used as a kind of payoff (I guess), but other cards like Fission and Elecrodynamics do what it does, but with a particular game plan already in mind (when using it this way). Rainbow just feels overwhelmingly subpar when compared to the other things the Defect can substitute in. Most (MOST) rares that the Defect has outshine it and it doesn't seem worth 2 mana (but it has the problem where it would be too good at 1 mana). Now I'll see if the video changes my mind. Commentary on the run: The orb cycling at the beginning was pretty great damage, but the block was... not great. Barrage was actually a fantastic pickup so early (maxing out it's damage with 1 card is pretty good). Actually the first time I've seen Lock-On be worth picking up (that I can remember), so that's neat with this run (the abundance of Dark is real good). Fairy in a Bottle picking up the slack for the block problem in the Hex fight was funny (all but the last 1hp is just temporary hp right?). Of course immediately followed by getting a replacement Fairy, fantastic. Plasma relic is actually really interesting in this run, makes playing 3 rainbows in a turn possible (not the worst for beginning of Act 2), but loosing the 4th energy so fast doesn't feel good. Fission AND Defrag pickup is gigahuge. The 9th Rainbow really making the run (yea... having 9 of a card that exhausts means that upgrading any of them isn't needed). Branch with 10 cards to fuel it sounds pogged up, just don't get bad cards and it's easy money. Yea like Echoform. Decisive win VS Collector, very very good. Scrape in a 0 cost light deck actually pulling weight is sweet. 21 hp going into Time Eater and another Act 3 boss isn't great though (birdface [branch maybe] and both potions helping out there). Almost being able to E through Time Eater is promising. It's kinda incredible how often Chaos has resulted in Plasma. Amplify finally getting upgraded in Act 4 after putting in work. Calipers is actually cracked in this run with all the Frost Cycling and Focus. First time in a good while since I've seen Frost take Bottled Flame. Very clean Heart fight too. But, no Frost, 5x5 = 25; however, with lock-on 7x5 = 35 (>34) so yes that is lethal. Good run. Nice. Conclusion: I don't think this has changed my opinion on Rainbow for standard runs (where you get maybe 2 Rainbows by end of Act 3), but this run was really fun. Good Content.

[@TrueLawbringer]

Nice essay.

[@frostvox1791]

Cool analysis

[@seryntheon8195]

@@frostvox1791 Thanks

[@seryntheon8195]

@@TrueLawbringer 👍

[@Vicerion17]

51:22 I'm a bit disappointed in you Andrew, that was a perfect time for an Owen Wilson cutaway!

[@HorizonIncarnate]

I knew the hotdog fact, I saw it coming, and yet I burst out laughing all the same. And I’m at work too lmao.

[@sebsquatch312]

Missed opportunity Andrew, could have had bulk Rainbow Road edits! As per your (seemingly) favourite (and definitely my favourite) insert: Coward

[@johnnyblunders]

Northern Lion ripoff had me dead! good content man

[@alcatraz160]

I'd say that the reason why rainbow is considered mediocre is that it's too broad, most people when building their deck throughout their run, focus into a one or two orb deck and often times it's something with frost since you need to live long enough to make those decks. Rainbow just doesn't intuitively fit into any of the orb based playstyles and it's competing with rares that can be much better. Thunder strike is a win condition for an electro deck, artifact from Core surge can win you fights, add biased cog and you basically win 80% of the time with half decent deck, Buffer is godlike, Seek is just too good, and rainbow is... something that exists in the game slay the spire.

[@cedrickalba7081]

This is a very colourful game! -Sincerely The Watcher

[@drsherifff]

Finally the pride month Episode of this series

[@krabbekage2124]

In the company of mr. Frost Prime, all months can be pride month!

[@slipperysteve8]

Looking forward to a future where there is no longer a pride month. Not anti-lgbtq, just the opposite. While we celebrate pride we are still "othering" lgbtq and we can't have true equality. Hoping for a future where lgbtq is normalized to the point no one cares because it just doesn't matter

[@drsherifff]

@@krabbekage2124 that's the frostprime guarantee frostPpride

[@Threeve703]

I love rainbow though I recognize it's probably a mediocre card at best. Fun to watch you navigate this challenge with limited energy and some other curveballs (branch)

[@Daemic9]

Frost, what if you started with Prismatic, and every relic was N'loths Gift

[@LeoMarciana]

Sounds like 7 Envenoms to me

[@harsinsinquin4032]

2:26 if there are no hot dogs within the radius of the explosion, then the previous statement is still true, although vacuously true at that. All hotdogs within a given radius will be perfectly cooked as there are no hotdogs within the radius. The statement would be just as true as saying “all phones in this room are off” in a room with no phones at all (this is a common example).

[@garrisonwu5862]

If there was a hotdog in the perfect spot to become the perfectly cooked hotdog of perfection, it would probably give you cancer.

[@notme3603]

I swear andrew is too much of a big part of this chanel The edits crack me up

[@choty7066]

"5×5 equals 40 something"

[@MrEightythix]

all those rainbows, where is the pot of Gold?

[@0_Body]

Hey, Heart taste the rainbow! Frost probably

[@papabucks8582]

190k subs lets fucking go!!!!!! (commenting for algorithm as usual)

[@dotraj8704]

Shoutout to that one person who spent their tts just to plug the Twitch

[@CoQuickAg]

pandora's box run good content yes good content much engagement wow

[@michaelzoller5303]

4:50 would transforming Ascender's Bane not (likely) allow you to remove the resulting Curse from the deck? Or would it not be removed even when transformed?

[@ЕгорКолов-ч5с]

You simply can not select the card during the event

[@TheOrnitie]

Day 39 of coming from Twitch just to drop a like and comment for my boy Andrew. Man I love rainbow builds.

[@austin9780]

Andrew really goes hard on the edits.

[@crackersphdinwumbology2831]

Challenge run: your whole deck is iron wave Perish

[@MonkeyPantsFace]

Challenge: build a 100 card custom deck with no dupilcates (or limted duplicates). No card rewards but one bottled flame/lightning.

[@krabbekage2124]

Gonna need *some* duplicates, because all 4 characters only have like 75-76 cards available to them each.

[@philritter9042]

you earned this comment with the ninth Rainbow

[@jamesjernigan9266]

Hear me out. Kunai, Shuriken, Ornamental Fan, Charon’s Ash’s, and start with 1 Blade Dance

[@fosterdawson7339]

After watching this, did they make balance changes to everything? I remember plasma only giving 2 energy for having it passed, and the hex ghost doing a lot more damage turn 2

[@elim9054]

If you mean evoking then that's still how plasma orbs work. Some cards let you evoke an orb more than once, otherwise it's passive is just 1 energy per orb at the start of your turn. Hexaghost's turn 2 attack scales with how much HP you have. I forget the exact formula but it's 1x6 damage from like 1-11 HP, then every 12 HP you have adds 1 damage per hit

[@ArkThePieKing]

Hello past me from the twitch chat! Message received!

[@sassofono_perso3216]

Can you do a video where you start with 8 iron waves?

[@SyrKonrat]

New Comment to say, awesome Rainbows dude

[@PoorEdward]

42:37 am i crazy? why tf didn’t he use barrage??? he would’ve killed …

[@chris949]

now i think i am crazy for not understanding how barrage would have killed? would have done like 24 dmg to 56 health or what am i missing

[@giraitnagamer]

Potion tier list when?

[@PwrMiner]

Finally... Gay the Spire

[@joeyabuki3116]

I farted at 35:47 and thought Frost was reacting to my fart Just thought id share

[@gabrieldinix]

Pride month is over but the pride didn't leave us. Taste the rainbow

[@jacobholden2030]

i beat time eater same time you did this video lets go

[@gluebusp176]

#JusticeForSneaky

[@surethingbob9503]

I've been wondering for a bit, what happened to the poggies emote? I havent really been on the stream much but I noticed it a while ago on the videos that I havent seen it

[@fikamonster2564]

Frost, i will draw you as a fursona sometime this week: i was thinking of goat, but which species would you prefer?

[@AcidJazzCigarillo]

Is it Orbin Time?

[@zCUBz]

hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii (adding more I's every video until Frost notices me)

[@hmoadhajali]

appreciate the content

[@art-cs6us]

5x5 does indeed equal 40 something

[@mailcs06]

The most gender of runs.

[@hatawagiry6795]

YES, the gay juice run

[@vulkarma741]

I want the chaos skill next, because chaos.

[@TheMedievalMassacre]

I didn't know you were poly, Frost, that's so cool~! I'm poly myself and don't see a lot of representation of that on KZbin/Twitch so it's amazing to relate to one of my favourite content creators ^^

[@zacharybeers5921]

Just saw this. Taste the fucking rainbow

[@RainyyDayy]

Peepee poopoo Twitch Mods OP

[@abberbabylon]

Surprised no one in chat said taste my rainbow....

[@art-cs6us]

They did say taste the painbow which was close enough

[@michaelcimino7435]

More Downfall content please and thank you.🤩👌

[@chie970]

wait, isn't June ov-

[@TheFlyingslug]

rainbow wow

[@adamevaskevich5528]

Algorithm gang

[@haltdeinmaul507]

5*5=40+ 🤔 jup math checks out

[@mikkelborby]

Like any bisexual person they're attracted to the opposite gender and then 3 hyper specific people of the same gender. Or the opposite. Like the same gender and then 3 hyper specific opposite sex.

[@THCharlie]

[@Thabois]

KZbin notification Gang

[@reckosfeara4514]

Rainbow Wow.

[@Mrobinson587]

Rainbows woooow 22

[@MattHew-rq8zw]

YAY! finally :D

[@itslitmostofthetime]

Dam frost you’re cute

[@johanneszeininger8203]

Rainbow 🌈 wow

[@Mungusjoe]

KZbin Gang!

[@twitchlandtv]

🙂

[@johnhudicka5649]

Like and comment for thanos

[@Karma-fl5rz]

The most LBGTQ+ video :D

[@dracojoseph12]

Algorithm

[@him_That_is_me]

Extremely gay deck. A bit late for pride month tho

[@krabbekage2124]

With mr. Frost Prime around we can be gay any month of the year :)

[@OclaxianEmpire]

Day 63 of asking Frost and Andrew how their day is going.

[@krabbekage2124]

Keep up the good work Korina

[@ClaudeAndTaylor]

Touch the chin!

[@Deveyus]

Why the heck is it saying I should watch a 2 year old video? Strange.

[@trevorbunclap7690]

Andrew

[@maxwelllaughlin2832]

Comment

[@tommrbear]

comment

[@aaronmorris4327]

KZbin

[@jan3853]

Boost comment

[@LegendLeaguer]

GAY PRIDE RUN POG

[@imSeamless_]

my issue with the rainbow, is that people always immediately assume its gay.

[@FungusFiend2624]

Trying to cover up that anti pride video, eh?

[@hmoadhajali]

muslim are poly but not lgptq+

[@TheNerdling]

Poly is not part of LGBT+. And I say this as a bi, poly guy. Poly is a dating style. LGBT+ is about sexual orientation. Just because something is marginalized does not mean it gets added. POC are marginalized but that doesn't make them all LGBT+, for example.

[@krabbekage2124]

LGBTQ+ is for all queer folks, it isn't just about sexual orientation. An example of this is how transgender individuals are included, and that is about gender and not sexuality. There's room for everyone under the rainbow you could say

[@calliope2427]

@@krabbekage2124 🥳🥳slay

[@elim9054]

​@@krabbekage2124 I don't think a straight cis person who only dates straight cis people can claim queerness just because they date multiple straight cis people at once.

[@exiledtobronze8694]

Oink

[@Nomadic_Gaming]

rainbow spam deck…. gets rid of zap which can be made to cost nothing…. and help w orb spam….. *heavy sigh and face palm*

[@krabbekage2124]

Don't worry mr. Frost Prime is a big brain he definitely know what he's doing!

[@samthrower3938]

Bad video. I watched to the end

[@expepem189xl3]

Why is it bad?

[@crackerboy8302]

its orbin time

[@itslitmostofthetime]

Dam frost you’re cute