10 mins in, Claw is a 4 while Charge Battery is a 2.

„I need to talk faster“ *looks at video length* Yeeah...

NL not being able to win on camera leads me to believe that hes the type of guy who can't pee when other people are nearby

- Leap is a good upgrade target. - Don't get fooled by +3 blocks of upgrading Stack.

NL : "defend is a 1...or a 2!" Oh boy, here we go

Can NL make thumbnail tutorial videos instead of Isaac videos

absolutely A S C E N D E D thumbnail

“It’s somewhere between a 2 and a 4” oh, like a 3?

"I exclusively play 30 plus card decks." "Stack is bad, it's only +3 block when it's upgraded." Quick maths

How can you possibly think that the block is an important part of hologram. You highly underrate the power of pulling cards out of the discard pile.

I like how NL is clicking off the card, finding where he left off and clicking a next card, instead of just clicking the convenient arrows placed next to it. Efficiency master.

> Charge Battery - 2 > Claw - 4 m8

I strongly disagree on your explanation on Beam cell. Artifact does not 'hard counter' beam cell. Beam cell hard counters artifact. You get to peel artifact off of enemies for ZERO mana. What DOES artifact counter? Expensive cards like Bash. But thank you for giving your reasoning. It helps illuminate to us why you make the decisions you do make. Though in cases like this, I feel you're underrating Beam Cell. He's a good boy that don't ask for much. In fact, he asks for zero mana to apply his vulnerabilities for you. Unlike that swindler Bash, who demands 2 mana.

Eggdaddy, will you make a "All relics rated" type of video at some point?

NL's defect strategy is to play so many runs that you eventually get consume&inserter and are insanely carried.

The way these thumbnails are going Drac's gonna be outta a job pretty soon *Kappa*

"Get your energy up and Multicast..." he's finally starting to see the value of dark orbs! "...a Lightning for 12, extremely good" s i g h

"I need to talk faster." Shaves off a minute.

I like how NL uses his mouse like his doing a class presentation XD Henlo Ryan-teacher

Would you rather do 9 block for 1 energy Or 7 and an extra energy next turn, for 1 energy Apparently egg really needs that 2 block.

Beam cell is a 4. Its basically a slightly lower damage, un-upgraded Bash, for ZERO energy. If you are playing an All for One/Claw deck, its a huge enabler to kill elites quickely.

spoilers (so many twos oh dear) (dont look at the threes) Darkness: ? Chair Squeak: 0 Hello World: 1 (maybe -1) Blizzard: 1 Stack: 1 Strike: 1 Overclock: 1 Reprogram: 1 Defend: 1.. or 2? Hologram: 1 (2 if upgraded) Fusion: 2 (almost 1) TURBO: 2 (leaning towards 1) (situational 5) Bullseye: 2 (maybe 1) Go for the Eyes: 2- Aggregate: 2 (situational 4 or 5) Amplify: 2 Barrage: 2 Capacitor: 2 Charge Battery: 2 Chill: 2 Cold Snap: 2 Compile Driver: 2 Equilibrium: 2 Heatsinks: 2 Hyperbeam: 2 Machine Learning: 2 Meteor Strike: 2 Rebound: 2 Recycle: 2 Skim: 2 Scrape: 2 Streamline: 2 Thunder Strike: 2 Zap: 2 Beam Cell: 2 (maybe 3) Chaos: 2 to 3 Rip and Tear: 2 (leaning towards 3) All for One: 1 and 5 Creative AI: 3 Dualcast: 3 Fission: 2 or 4 Force Field: 3?? Rainbow: 3 Reboot: Fine Reinforced Body: 3 Storm: 1 or 5 Sweeping Beam: 3 Tempest: 3 Ball Lightning: 3 (maybe 4) Loop: 3 (maybe 4) Recursion: 2 (4 if upgraded (maybe 5)) Coolheaded: 2 to 5 Sunder: 4 (actually 3) Claw: 3 + 1 Auto-Shields: 4 Boot Sequence: 4 (good beta art) Buffer: 4 Doom and Gloom: 4 Double Energy: 4 FTL: 4 Genetic Algorithm: 4 Leap: 4 Melter: 4 Multi-Cast: 4 Self Repair: 4 Static Discharge: 4 Steam Barrier: 4 White Noise: 4 Seek: 4 or 5 Biased Cognition: 5 Consume: 5 Core Surge: 5 (on merit) Defragment: 5 Echo Form: 5 Electrodynamics: 5 Glacier: 5

Top strats from Canadian esports professional Northernlion

New year NL is best NL

I like how even when he plays on his downtime. he says "we" won. Never change NL, you beautiful so and so :')

Guys, we gotta stop. We're upsetting the Egg Mother.

*Northernlion:* (Makes a sub-optimal play or assessment) *Some people:* See, and I took that personally.

cant wait for a month from now when he says "just recorded the defect card rating video" and we see the enormous bul-backlog

NL Last Year: Level 1 KZfaqr NL This Year: Level 35 Thumbnail God Thats how egg works

I just pass by to say that although I don't have enough time these days to watch you, NL, I can clearly see that you are ascending at an exponential rate. I am eager to see what will be new when I come back to the content.

Fun fact: if you use recycle on an ‘X’ energy cost card, it gives energy equal to your current unspent energy. Using it this way is basically the same thing as Double Energy, except it exhausts an ‘X’ energy cost card while not exhausting the recycle card. It’s a pretty situational play, but since recycle+ is a fairly guilt-free include in most Defect decks, it’s a useful synergy to be aware of.

I started watching joinrbs recently and its funny seeing NL dunking on all these cards he regularly uses

"I'm going to rate all of the cards!" First Card: Defend. "It's a uh... question mark out of ten?"

Charge Battery - 2 "I'd almost ever rather pick Cold Snap or Coolheaded over this". Cold Snap - 2. Coolheaded - 2 or 4. Clearly there need to be more numbers than 2

12:55 Northelion :Coolheaded this one is between a 2 and a 4 Me:ummm a 3?

"It's not no effect It's not much effect" ACKHTUALLY it's the Defect

NL you're giving us the golden goose eggs here we are forever blessed like Jack and Jill.

44:15 Glaucoma egg not realizing that the card art is literally the ball lookin enemy getting melted.

Mang zap is ez a 4/5 in a small deck it becomes free movement on that wheel. Plus it's goddamn free what more could you want

I have not played Slay the spire since October, but I remember chill being an absolute must have as a one-of in every defect deck.

"Ball lightning can do up to 15 damage, 4/5" "Barrage can deal up to 18 damage. That's not that much, 2/5" Excuse me? :D

10 block + one energy = 2 12 block = 4. alright NL

Meteor Strike and sunder are amazing with snecko eye. My first successfully run with Defect had 2 meteor strikes and snecko eye after the first boss and melted the rest of the game :)

So both of his asc lvl 20 wins, were off camera.

Bring us a dark orb win dad. Dark orb, loop, recursion. Maybe multicast.

I'm gonna give it a 2, the movie

NL, I just want you to know that YOU are mission critical to my day.

This video was an excellent background listening for a session of Rimworld, thank you Canadian youtube man.

Leap would be amazing if it were free, but it actually costs 1, egg

"Silent, you'll get yours." 4 months later

I love when NL says thing like, "Some people say that they are angry that I didn't record an epic run... and I understand that. At the same time, FRIG U!"

Fission is terrible before upgraded, but once you upgrade it, it's fantastic. It's the frequent target of Seek or Bottled Lightning (Gambling Chip sifts, etc) in order to set up my powers early. Despite the pains before the upgrade, it's a must-take for me.

The mad man is actually doing it. Cant wait to see how he rates cards that build focus

why does NL have turbonerd voice here

NL the lord of thumbnails

what would you rate this video out of 2ish, 2 minus, 2, 2 plus 1, or between 2-5?

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Some things I'd agree with, some I wouldn't. I will say static discharge has never been tempting to me. I think things that give me lightning when I don't want it is bad. My preference is frost stalling to mitigate as much damage as possible, and then hitting with a massive blizzard. Failing that, charging up a dark orb is pretty nice too.

I had some thunderstrike decks where I oneshotted bosses with it, after I have summoned lots of lightnings lightnings through storm, static discharge and other powers

I would actually like these rating videos after everytime you beat ascension level 20; and if you used the "out of x" system to describe your likelihood(percentage) of taking the card standalone or in a going archetype. Your videos, as in per video, are excellent in quality and quantity. I particularly enjoy you playing this and Isaac because I learn about the the game and discover factoids. When you go on interesting tirades and rants, there's always something new and interesting, even after 5 million episodes of Isaac. Excellent podcast, excellent video, good and well all around, and not everyone can do this this well.

I love the reviews! I have a different playstyle, but I love the ''controversial'' opinions on some of these cards. The ''Darkness'' build is the most difficult archetype to pull off reliably due to the lack of a consistent synergy between the cards. IMO, at least one or 2 extra cards would be necessary to make it more viable.

Hyperbeam is amazing in a plasma deck because plasma is unaffected by Focus, plus you generally have an excess of energy anyway so the cost isn't an issue. The best way to get it rolling is Turbo or Double Energy then Meteor. It also makes Reinforced Body an amazing card for block because you always have leftover energy. My dream deck would be Turbo+, Meteor, Fission+, Reinforced Body, Hyperbeam. Since getting rid of all your starting cards is really unlikely (and you'll be rolling a minimum of 6 energy per turn once you're full on plasma orbs), you probably want FTL, Compile Driver and/or Cold Snap for card draw, Seek+ or Hologram+ for digging, and probably an Equilibrium so it's easier to get Turbo and Meteor in the same hand. Playing Meteor when you already have 3 plasma channelled actually _gives_ you 1 energy and deals 24 / 30 damage... it's insane.

Leap being higher than charge battery doesnt seem right to me, but it somewhat does as well. Im pretty sure ascension 20 requires all the health you can get, and the +1 energy may be not sometimes do much. I think personally they should be about the same level, one being better in some situations.

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1:03:54 NL i know you were tempted

Cards he rates low are cards he doesn't take that work in builds he doesn't understand. Oh, and why look at the upgrade of any card you don't take automatically if it fits a favored build? That said, I enjoyed this, but it frustrates me that we could have seen him see the light on different cards/builds (e.g. Recycle, energy+draw). Someone who has his ear tell him that when he does the Silent cards, s'okay to go another 20 minutes, look at every upgrade, and discuss synergies he doesn't use.

59:49 "I don't respect anybody who shoots a lighting orb out of there genitals" "So what do I mean by this?"

1 to 5 out of 5. If only there was an in between that could be used instead.

Reprogram is an amazing card! Scrape was right after it but he didn't realize the amazing synergy there?

Only now after a year do I realize that all 3 of these thumbnails have his favorite cards.

Reprogram before the rework was... bad for me. I love the actual card effect of lose concentration in order to gain strength and dexterity

I wish streamline was universal so if you have 3 in hand it only costs 3 to play all 3 or if you are just going crazy and have a full hand first turn it only costs 3 for all that damage

I don't watch StS anymore but this is a good video. Thanks =)

I JUST GOT ASCENSION 20!!!! It took me 2 months to get form ascension 19 to 20 but I finally got it. Now I only need to make it with ironclad and silent then I am done :)

you can hear him smack the start recording button

S tier: glacier, seek, echo form, creative ai, biased cognition.

I agree about Blizzard. It was really fun to devastate the 2nd floor boss with a 100+ blizzard. Then my deck fell to pieces on the third floor because my cold snaps took too long to build orb counts up for defense. I'd be covered in the last half of the fight but take a lot of dmg in the first half. You might say to just grab more blocks but you have to choose almost every frost card you see just to make blizzard worthwhile.

A man shouldn't have so much power.

Does Northernlion not know Loop works with plasma? It’s the strongest application. Surprised, it wasn’t mentioned. Loop also compensates for the missing orb slot from consume.

Don’t like slay the spire but top tier thumbnail so I’m leaving a like

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I had an echo form + meteor + tempest deck. I had so many lightning orbs lol

fission a 2, cause fuck draw power plus bonus energy

Northernlion before he makes a thumbnail: "Graphic design is my passion."

Echo Fform is incredibly powerful if you can play your cards fast enough. Not every card allows you to use more energy than you have available. And playing cards fast enough cause all of the cards played fast enough to be Echoed as well.

These thumbnails help me overcome my anxiety

What a absolute LEGEND

Hello World combos with a heavy Stack and card draw deck.

Streamline as a 2? If I'm running a block strategy using orbs, these things are great against elites/bosses

Egg daddy tell me more about card ratings >

Oh no NL what are you doing my boy. This shit is on another level.

Thanks for the company.

Coolheaded - "Some where between a 2 and a 4". That will be a 3 then.

Must be a speedrun.

Daddy, please grace us with the Superest of Smash Bros

Oh boy, class is cancelled and NL releases defect card ratings. Today is a good day.

"Don't look at that one.. or that one.. or that one... or that- THAT ONE LOOK AT THAT ONE"

It's funny how much the cost of a card matters. If hollogram was 0 it woud be on of the best cards. at 1 it sucks

Definitely should not put defrag over consume. You largely overstated how easy it is to get more orb slots. inserter is a boss relic so you cant just "hope to get it from a shop". Defrag arguably needs an upgrade a lot more than consume, but it does have a lot more synergies being a power and activating a whole slew of defect cards and mummified hand (which is NOT a boss relic). and most of all, it is a lot less situational, so you can just kind of take it without hoping for other things.