Mod Contents are Very swingy, with some High Highs and Low Lows. Including card power level. My Asc 20 run was trivialized by an early Store up + Divine Intervention, while starting out often felt like the relic did nothing for you. Have never managed to make a poison build work without dying to my own cards after two fights. Mod definitely fails to accomplish "Similar to base game characters", as traditionally powerful playstyles (for example, Playing Everything You Can) are actively anti-synergisting with a large portion of the new cards, and it's quite a feat that there manage to be added cards which are Actively Worse to Have than a Wound. I give it a 5/10

There are a lot of really cool ideas here but card duplication is a very dangerous thing to play with. I ended up getting an infinite amount of Buffer with Store Up and Dark Barrier (you can do the same thing with Horror) to stall out fights to cap out my max HP with infinite copies of Fountain of Life from Store Up. I know the mod hasn't been updated in years, but if you wanted to get rid of that, it'd probably be as easy as adjusting Store Up to be default 1 cost, upgrade to 0 cost, and exhaust. Duplication's already extremely powerful as-is, and it's why Nightmare is so expensive in the base game. With powerful draw engines like Noble Sacrifice that let you slim down the deck, cycling also isn't a challenge; I'd even say Noble Sacrifice should probably exhaust because being able to indefinitely slim your deck down on top of drawing is just so strong.

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long may the sunshine!

You, a virgin: "Regen is a bad mechanic because it incentivizes you to draw out fights longer"

Me, with an upgraded smite(+3 regen) and two upgraded bountiful sunlights(+6 regen) by floor 18: "I'm going to build up 15 regen a turn and then use my combo of Fountain of LIfe (+2 max HP) and Store Up (0-cost put 2 copies of chosen card into discard) to gain literally infinite health"

Having played this for longer, I think it's one of the very few S-tier mods out there. It's flavorful, bursting with ideas, and they're almost all great. As close to base-game quality as mods get.

...wow. I've tried probably 50+ character mods, and while this isn't QUITE Hermit tier, it's very close.

Boasts:

-extremely cool starting relic
-lots of micro synergies between cards and buffs
-new relics I ran into were all good
-cards are a LITTLE text-heavy, but the actual complexity of this character is fantastically tuned - some fairly deep strategies that are nevertheless very intuitive.
-lots of impactful upgrades (love this, makes it easier to specialize when deck type when cards of all kinds can become rockstars with an upgrade).

I've only played the one run with the character, but I came away extremely impressed and wanting to try again, which is really cool. Feels great all around!

Extremely cool mod, unfortunately the balance on a lot of the rares and some other cards is off. You do usually end up running into just broken stuff which is sad.

Hard agree Vengyr, came here to see if there was a way to turn them off

Fun character. Seems deceptively strong, but is actually fine imo. Some of the cards are not very balanced, yeah.

However, it adds events and relics that should be character-specific, not global. So I have to turn mod off when I want to play a different character.

Nice mod, but some of the card balance could be looked at. The majority of cards seem to be rather weak, with a scattering of very strong cards. The basic card Smite is already better than the majority of cards in the deck, so the weak cards are just not worth picking up. Strong cards like Defensive Stance, Dark Barrier, Confusion, Horror, are always going to be better than weak cards even if the weak cards fit some kind of synergy. When you compare the "filler" cards in this set, they do less or cost more than those of ironclad, silent, defect, watcher. This is made up for by the strong special basic cards, regen, and a few power cards.

Regen as a mechanic is very powerful, but can lead to boring optimal play.

Praise the SUN!

Dark Barrier+ is kinda broken when you get multiple copies of the card.
I think Dark Barrier should be made into a rare, not kept as an uncommon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWBR-Oug5eg

Long may the sunshine

Got my first win with this, I just got a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of hymn of rest and i was pretty much invincible.

"Warding Hymn+" doesn't work. It just does nothing.

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The idea of encouraging players to exercise restraint and play only the cards that are absolutely necessary is really interesting. There are some solid options for defensive strategies and the strength/dexterity creep based on played cards helps overcome the slowness of deck.

That said, the execution could use some work. Some card synergies are needlessly complex or hard to build into, like the poison juggling cards. Others are outright broken - the ability to get six Metallicize after a kill with a 1 energy card that deals reasonable damage is just bonkers.

The wording is unclear on other cards, like the one that provides effects based on the number of "unplayed" cards in your discard pile - does that mean cards that were sent to discard by ending your turn/discard effects, or only cards that have the "Unplayed" effect triggers?

uh nice design. it appears to be about playing as little cards as you must

you know you have made a good mod when it is almost better than the base game. would reccommend

praise the sun! \(^°^)/

One of these best characters out there. Has a really interesting build idea and isn't too out there to get a beginning grasp. And of course it being Solaire only adds the icing on the cake and the fact that you went out of your way to make sure he got art for his cards, and for the Act 4 finale. Well done!

Long may the sun shineLMAO

Lord, forgive me. On the very first run, I became WoG spammer

PRAISE THE SUN!!! SUNBROS FRO LIFE!!!!

\[T]/ Chinese PLZ

I got it right after I asked xD

Yes, there's an uncommon attack - Word of Power - that does more damage for every WORDS card in your deck.

Is there a ( WORDS ) Mechanic or not ?

I only see Glico man from Osaka.

Yes. Amazing.

I still haven't gotten all unlocks/tried all cards to really know if there's a bug or not (playing on 2.00 or something, latest spire w/ watcher version when this was posted), but this mod really delivers on "characters that feel like they're from the original game".
With quite the amounts of original card art (good enough) , epic final boss scene (there's no "visual effects" on the score screen yet though), and the mechanics included, it's a great mod. Definitely in my top 3 character mods, with The Cursed being around there too.

if you're reading this GET THIS MOD!

Praise the sun!

PRAISE THE S U N

Upgraded "Creeping Infection" cards don't create other upgraded copies, it just makes normal ones instead despite the wording specifically saying "copy". Other than that, really cool concept with the cards!

Chinese plz

Can i just say
Confusion is insanely good