r/slaythespire • u/A_Certain_Surprise • Oct 10 '24

META Xecnar attempts to continue his rotating A20H streak to 25 Spoiler

...and loses to Awakened One as The Silent!

What a phenomincal achievment. The current world record, which beat Baalorlord's previous world record by 4 runs (20%). Insane

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u/Crispy75 Ascension 20 Oct 10 '24

Amazed the run went as far as it did. Choker on the card spam character? The kiss of death for me but Xec took it all the way to floor 52. Some absolutely clutch dead branch saves there too, like summoning Malaise in awakened one.

24 is an incredible achievement and I don't know who else is going to challenge it any time soon quite frankly!

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u/Everlance Oct 10 '24

Did not watch the stream but did Xecnar lose after taking choker and then getting dead branch? If so sounds like how baalor lost his streak last time, forced to take choker then eventually got dead branch + corruption but unable to utilise it cause of choker

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u/Crispy75 Ascension 20 Oct 10 '24

It wasn't the branch's fault. The branch came late but was still good with choker because it's free draw that doesn't cost a card play.

The run was going quite well, but HP loss to some horrible draws towards the end of A3 (eg. all darklings attacking turn 1 with no block drawn) made the bosses much harder. Donu & Deca were challenging but Awakened One really punished the deck's reliance on powers. Triple footwork, double WLP among others.

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u/CRMagic Oct 10 '24

Wait...darklings attacking with no block drawn is a low roll? I thought it was their scripted turn 1.

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u/anzusilenta Ascension 20 Oct 10 '24

just found the unluckiest person on the spire

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u/-Potatoes- Eternal One + Heartbreaker Oct 10 '24

If it was an act 2 fight it would be scripted lol

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u/Responsible_Lie_6966 Oct 10 '24

(eg. all darklings attacking turn 1 with no block drawn)

This just gave me PTSD.