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.

“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 >:(“

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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).

You should make a tier list from leshy's prespective

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Was just watching your old tierlist :P

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.

Yess! Was waiting for this :))

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Really good videos 👍

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

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.

Tri/Bifurcating +hefty is a clever tactic, if you can pull it off. Always maximizes the damage by pushing stuff aside to stay in the center, but you can cover the whole board at once.

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

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.

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

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.

Good tier list that should be the main one no cap

I grew to appreciate moving cards more and more as I was playing, you can deal demage or kill something, then move away to survive or block another card, and flame buffed moving card easly clears trapper's frogs, you can also play some card near elk to change its moving direction, I mean it comes in handy quite often, I try to experiment a little bit with those moving cards and they're better than I anticipated

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!

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

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

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.

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).

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

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.

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!!

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...)

Redheart could be changed to "this number is the number of sacrifices you've done since the game started" and it wouldn't be broken

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

Happy new year!

My cochroach just basically solo'd The Moon in Kaycee Mod because he had the tail and tonnes of dead bodies. It was amazing to watch even if it took half an hour

I have never seen a good tier list in my life

I would place the Magpie in Good Sigils. I've drawn it at very unfortunate times (when I really need a 1 Cost or Bone card) and it's immensely frustrating. You're basically keeping around a liability stats and cost-wise just because it's got a good sigil, which means you're better off sacrificing it towards something better. Whenever I can, I transfer its sigil to ideally a no-cost card or at least a 1-cost card.

The cat has a nine lives mechanic, meaning that after sacrificing it nine times, for example with an immortal card deck, wou will get a 3;2 cat (i think if not 4;3). So this considered, i do think it is only a bit weaker than child 13. I’d definitely put him in a specifc deck setting

I would argue a better spot for elk fawn as even though it moves it's a 1 blood 2/4, which is pretty solid. Also I was always fairly satisfied when I got a skink but I did not realise the buffs carried over to the tail, that's definitely really strong! Also a bit surprised Ouroboros ranked so high, I thought it was more of a bait, unless you get it really early in your run.

i'm pretty late, but i think long elk is actually very strong because it leaves vertebra cards after it moves which you can sacriface

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.

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

Good to do this video, but with sacrificial transfer of sigils, a card like the goat with undying is an elite card

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

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

One small correction Sifd. You said at one point the mud turtle survives Leshy's ding if it has the shield but from what I remember he turned mine into gold even through the shield (I was shocked). When you read the wording on the sigil it protects against when the card would be damaged. But the ding isn't damage so it just goes through. Agree with most of the rest of what you say and the tiers. Actively try to avoid picking up the cards in 'needs a specific deck' or 'trash' in my runs. Even most of 'not complete trash' actually.

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