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The current public main-branch baseline used by this site. It replaces Doormaker with Aeonglass and adds major reference and modding features.

A plain-language guide to Aeonglass, Defect, high Ascension, and co-op concerns without mixing main-branch and Beta values.

Never use multi-hit attacks in Defensive Mode — Thorns will shred your HP fast.

Ironclad wins by turning HP and cards into permanent combat advantage: Strength makes attacks matter, Exhaust trims the deck, and Barricade-style block engines buy enough time for boss fights.

Stack Strength, then convert it into one or two turns of overwhelming attack damage.

Permanent Strength buff that improves every attack for the rest of the fight — the cheapest scaling Ironclad has.

Prepare for bosses with warnings, checklist items, and card recommendations.

A preview branch, not the default public-game baseline. It adds another balance pass, reverts Mirage and Pillar of Creation toward their earlier roles, adds keyboard-only mode, and fixes multiplayer, Bestiary, localization, and modded-session reporting issues.

Coordinate party jobs, rewards, and version checks so a multiplayer run does not become several isolated solo decks.

Do NOT drink HP potions before the fight — higher HP = harder first hit!

Silent is strongest when the deck commits early: Poison solves long fights, shivs and Accuracy solve burst turns, and discard/draw keeps the best cards cycling.

Use Exhaust to shrink the deck, draw more cards, and turn defense into damage.

Compounding Strength every turn snowballs out of control in long fights, though the 3-cost turn it lands is a tempo hit.

Open the card pick assistant and boss prep checklist from one place.

A narrow hotfix for the v0.109.0 beta branch. It syncs corrected Traditional Chinese translations to fix broken plural evaluation and does not change combat balance.

Judge a build by first-cycle output, bad-draw recovery, boss coverage, and patch sensitivity—not by its best screenshot.

Don't let Slimed cards pile up in your deck — they severely dilute your hand quality.

Defect turns a small Focus lead into a whole fight plan. Good decks either scale orb output every turn or compress the fight with energy and zero-cost tempo.

Use Poison as the win condition while Weak, Block, and draw carry the setup turns.

Two energy and three cards for free is the strongest single-turn burst enabler in the game — HP is a resource here.

Separate save behavior from post-patch mod failures, then diagnose dependencies, platform support, and multiplayer hashes in a controlled order.

Do not kill Waterfall Giant just because you can. Check the next-turn explosion first or the deathrattle can end the run.

Necrobinder rewards planning around delayed payoffs. Sacrifice and graveyard tools can snowball, but the deck must keep enough immediate defense to survive setup turns.

Create many small attacks, multiply them with Accuracy-style scaling, then finish with burst payoffs.

Thirty Block in one card is a lifesaver against boss burst turns; Exhaust keeps it out of your deck the rest of the fight.

A practical map heuristic for elites, upgrades, shops, recovery, and Act 3 boss insurance.

Sandpit is an instant-kill timer. If your deck is bloated or cannot draw Frantic Escape on time, normal block will not save you.

Regent is a scaling planner: stars and created weapons create inevitability, while Forge and Prophesize let the deck line up a decisive future turn.

Scale Focus and orb slots so Lightning, Frost, and Dark orbs solve the fight passively.

Turns Ironclad’s Exhaust theme into a draw engine — with enough exhausters it refills your hand every turn.

Killing Torch Head buffs The Collector — think carefully before clearing minions.

Chain cheap cards, energy spikes, and recursion to win before the enemy plan stabilizes.

Permanent Max HP growth off kills is how Ironclad survives the long climb — snowballs hard against fodder enemies.

His Block resets every turn — low-output builds can't break through. Stack Poison or save a burst turn.

Trade temporary resources for graveyard and sacrifice payoffs that snowball over the fight.

Dumps all energy into multi-target damage — indispensable for multi-enemy rooms.

Kill Bronze Orbs first — ignoring them lets their sustained damage overwhelm you.

Delay enemy plans while countdown and graveyard effects line up a lethal future turn.

Free Skills turn every defensive card into tempo and fuel Dark Embrace draw — the centerpiece of the Exhaust archetype.