Inscryption Act 1 Sigils Tier List! 

Fun fact: in the end of the game where you fight the other 2 scribes, you can open their rulebook and see a bunch of joke sigils

ant spawn + undying on a zero cost card is actually hilarious Play for free, create ant in hand, sacrifice to play ant, repeat forever to replace any ant losses

Absolutely terrifyingly effective sigil combination that I encountered during a playthrough. Corpse-eater and undying. The creature is destroyed by battle it will go to the hand and then instantly play itself.

Poison has no business being in trash. Yes, it doesn't do anything on your megabusted card, but it works great with multihit or spikes , is decently common to find and helps you actually get to the point in the game where you can start doing broken things. Drawing something like a bullfrog at a bad time can be game loosing, but poison creature at the worst will trade for whatever most dangeous non-swimmer you want. Putting it next to flying and leap is a joke.

You could have also considered totems for the tier list. Ant squirrel totem is actually really good.

This tier list reminds me that even when many sigils are trash, all have their use and good flavor to it. For example the arrow one is on an Elk, which is basically creature that likes to walk around. Hefty is on Moose (bigger Elk, to oversimplify) thats why he pushes things, posion is on posionous snake, flying is on creatures that fly (birds, bees etc.) and waterborne on mostly fish. Sure, mechanically they suck but flavor wise they are very nice. This is also nice contrast to P-03 section where he doesnt bother much with "trash sigils", often even using them as a debuff to justify their stats (like 49er. 2 energy 1/1 is cheap as heck, but he moves around so he is less reliable) Also i think you forgot to mention that posion can kill the moon, which can be very useful sometimes. You cant really one shot moon with even high stat card, like 5/5, but 1/1 adder can!

Trash sigils should be ones that potentially make your unit or the playability of those units worse or harder to use. Poison never makes your unit worse and pretty much always makes it better, so I cannot see poison being trash and I think should really be moved up one or two tiers.

amazing how Moleman takes two godawful sigils and a whopping 0 attack and manages to still be useful

For the "Repulsive" sigil (the "No" sign), it doesn't cause the thing to be unkillable, it is simply immune to direct attack, anything that undirectly attack the enemy (Sigil that causes damage when NOT attacking like sharp quill, the ability that trade energy for damage (plasma jimmy I think is the name), explosion sigil, etc) WILL still damage the enemy, overkill damage can potentially kill it too, (it never happen in the game tho, only force mage is played in act 2 and it is on the board on turn 1 when against the dummy)

Flying shines during boss fights and any fights that put you against many cards at once - you can just win instead of having to deal with all the opposing cards. They're also very nice in fights where the enemy has any 0 attack cards, as it locks up a column to your advantage. Flying can also help you out if you're ever in a situation where you can't kill the enemy cards fast enough to prevent lethal damage. It's not a particularly strong sigil, no, but it has plenty of situational use and can trivialize plenty of fights, which definitely makes it better than the other trash-tiers

HIM : "Flying is bad! ". Me : "Flying Uryuly goes BRRRRR!" Btw if this was a PVP game whit more HP( Flying would be the best skill).

It would be cool if their was a “climber” or “nesting” sigil that let you place your unit on top of a rock, tree, gold nugget, etc.

Funny how the airborne sigil manages to beat him in some runs. It just so happens that it's a sigil that is very good for Leshy since he doesn't need to sacrifice or to use bones to summon them. Oops, he actually says this in the video. Oh well, I'll leave this for the youtube algorithm.

With the death sigil you can 1 shot ANY unit, I Hope you understand It, in fact It can make the Moon fight 10 times easier and faster, while for Flying, It's o.p. on the uroborus. Lastly, the infinite unit sigil can be used on low cost cards that riproduce themselves or on SQUIRRELS: It Is the strongest sigil for totems. You should count It since THAT Is an Easy win

Your ranking kind of touches on this, but I feel like it should be stated outright that Fecundity(Field Mice) is in general a superior version of Unkillable which is in general a superior version of Many Lives. I'd also say that Fecundity is in general a superior version of Rabbit Hole and Ant Spawner. This is especially true if Fecundity is applied to a zero cost. It seems like any combo for Unkillable, Many Lives, Rabbit Hole, or Ant Spawner could be done just as well (if not better) with Fecundity.

Flying is pretty much only good with bifercating strike and high attack, to make sure that both attacks land no matter what the opponets board state is like. You dont need board control if you just win, but with bifercating alone its not always a guaranteed win.

i feel the bifurcated attack would be good with the mirror tentacle card considering it wont kill the card its mirroring the dmg

I very much like your explanation on flying not being good. The player has less value per turn than Leshy, so you have to be smart and eek out every advantage you can. Flying makes it so you can no longer gain any advantage on the board, while Leshy gains even more board advantage. Flying should only ever go on something like an Urayuli so the moment you play it you're guaranteed a win, but even in that niche there are still better sigils for that purpose like double/triple attacks.

29:20 "A unit being powerful is not an argument for a sigil to be powerful." you *MUST* consider a sigil´s intended purpose when considering how powerful that is. That defeats the point of like... half the sigils in the game as they would be trash on the wrong unit type anyway... things like multi-attack is only good if a card has a decent attack, if you put them on Mole or Moleman it would be equally bad as flying. Things like poison are good for weaker units but useless for strong units as their usefulness comes from it giving more damage. Now occasional bonus damage is not great and won't win you games by itself, but it's still going to consistently win you more games than flying ( even if it won't do it faster ) poison and waterborne main uses are to make mediocre cards to make bad cards better with few upgrades. Similarly, waterborne is effectively a different and arguably worse version of the "Unkillable" sigil as it prevents the card from dyeing without the cost of resummoning it, but does not stop damage. It's going to be better than "Unkillable in the rare situations when you brick your hand with bad and/or expensive cards and you can´t afford to resummon a unit, but would otherwise be worse. Its usefulness comes from being a reliable way to keep units alive, WHICH IS GOOD but isn't the best way to win the game because at the end of the day you only need to do 5 damage to win. Stalling for time by doing small amounts of damage until you can draw your OP cards is a viable tactic. Granted, since the game isn't the hardest deck builder in existence that is rarely important unless you are really unlucky or are doing challenge runs. It's not very fair to say that a sigil is on the same level as pushing/moving units around (which does nothing most of the time) just because they are not optimal on stronger cards. Also if you ask me, "Bone king" sigil is nowhere good enough to be A tier even in a bone deck and should be B tier at best. *TL: DR I don't agree with some of your opinions and you should move poison, waterborne and flying to C tier or make a D tier above trash tier as they are miles above everything else in the trash tier*

Few complains I have: - Touch of Death is Ridiculously powerful, slap it on a Bifurcate, Trifurcate, or Sharp Quills and it becomes incredible. It instantly kills the moon, Is an amazing totem pick, and is great on the many many 1 attack creatures. - Loose tail is busted, It synergies very well with most sigils, and even alone blocks 2 lanes and potentially leaving up another sac target up afterwards. - Bone king is so bad, Why would you invest in a sigil that require a creature that you spend blood on to die to get 3 more bones? You can't justify putting it in A because Rat king is great as a sac target because that is situational. - Airborne is at least C tier, I don't like how you put it as the baseline for trash as its flexibility and usefulness is outstanding. It is literally broken against the Angler(Playing a raven and spamming squirrels wins you the fight), very good against the Prospector, and is solid overall in normal fights. - You forgot Moon Strike and Tidal Pull. Otherwise I pretty much agree.

Did you knew that Ouroboros was supposed to have all the sigils? What do you mean I am making this up? Are you saying you like Ourobot?

Bees+unkillable is one of the strongest combos I've ever seen. Because you'll get infinite unkillable bees. That's infinite sacrifices, infinite flying damage, and infinite cards to use as defence.

Fecundity is indeed a great sigil to have in Inscryption. Especially for the Squirrel Totem mostly. Because placing a Squirrel with this sigil just creates another one in your hand so it multiplies infinitely and you do not need to draw another Squirrel card and just draw a card from your deck as many times as you can until it runs out and you have to draw another Squirrel card still. It can also be used to block only opposing cards that have no airborne sigils while you keep on drawing cards from your deck. Overall the best sigil in Act 1 especially for the Squirrel Totem. If you manage to see that sigil for your Squirrel totem by chance of luck, get it immediately and never replace it in your run. Similar to the Unkillable sigil but even better as it multiplies when played. Surely you'll be nearly unbeatable with this sigil for your Squirrel totem.

CHALLANGE: Only pick cards that has trash sigils according to your tier list. Good luck!

I agreed with you until you said poison was bad. I understand that it makes anything with more than 1 attack worth less (not worthless just worth less overall) but I had accidently left out the 1/1 poison snake in the final battle the first time I played this game and it killed the moon in one shot. I don't know if that was patched out yet, I haven't tried it again but the poison sigil has earned a place in my heart just to know I can one shot anything that can't go underwater. And I'm not saying its A tier but at least high C low B tier, imo.

Flying is bad Also giving flying to the oponent is bad Conclusion: stay on the field (mouse)

Alpha sigil plus dam builder or something similar could be a good way to spawn automatic 1 attack 2 health units Also: something to test is sentry plus touch of death plus guardian, if it works right it is basically an instant win for the whole game And finally poison plus trifurcated is cracked, and poison insta kills the moon

I still remember the mole with Bee Hive against the Mantis God... a thing of beauty also, the 2 Gecks fused each with a Sigil, a Unkillable + Mice combo... and an Ouroboros on hand

So I had an amalgam with the corpse eater sygil , with a totem that lets my squirrels return to my hand after death...and that broke the amalgam , it could die and instantly returned back to where it was placed because of its own death which seems op , immortal unit , not even the prospector hit during the final boss stopped it

Fun thing with the ants, you can use totems to give all insects ant summoning, this includes the summoned ants, so infinite ants with a deck built around high cost bones cards is really good and is how I beat the moon for the first time

"Flying puts you at a disadvantage." "Diving making the enemy fly is bad." So which is it?

Wow, I could not agree less with the placement of Mighty Leap/Flying Block (as I came to call it through my playthroughs). I've gone through a bunch of runs of act 1 just for fun (and also beaten act 3 twice) and getting good flying block was a decent factor in whether or not I won the runs. (I found it to be particularly useful on the empty vessels in act 3 and went for that upgrade on both of my runs.) It's because of the way Flying is balanced - Flying is super good for the DM (Leshy/PO3) because they don't have to do sacrifices or otherwise worry about costs, but bad for the player because we do. For the exact same reasons, the opposite also ends up applying to flying block - it's super useful because it can keep you from dying to the DM's flying spam, while it's neutral to bad for the DM because it doesn't particularly matter to the player whether their flying attack deals direct damage or hits the creature across from them - the latter scenario only extends the battle by one or two turns. I also hard disagree on it only being good on Mole Man. The first thing I did on basically every Act 1 run was rush to a combining alter, and if I didn't have anything else good from the early card rewards, I'd put the flying block from the starting bullfrog on the stoat, since it's essentially a free 1HP upgrade that gets a card out of my deck at the same time. Mole Man is okay, but until you can get it an attack upgrade it's just stalling - what's really good is when you can get the flying block on a creature that *does* have attack so that it's dealing damage instead of just taking hits. Think of it this way: Waterborne and Flying Block are essentially opposites. Waterborne makes your opponent's creatures into fliers, and Flying Block makes your opponent's creatures into grounded units. It buys you a lot more time by preventing direct damage, which can be very important. For all of these reasons, I'd personally put Mighty Leap/Flying Block close to the top of B tier - it's not in any way overpowered, but it's *very* good insurance against getting randomly killed by Leshy sending in three hawks on a single turn.

Flying is utterly underrated here. It's solid B-Tier in my opinion. It's good to contribute to a killing blow when there are no more open files available and it can be used to "lock" a file in your favor. E.g. if you've got a boulder or an enemy with low attack value on a field you can place a flying unit in front of it for some extra teeth on the scale each turn.

How to make a UNKILLABLE CARD: Add corpse magot sigel and field mice sigel to a card then it is 100% unkillable

more then tier list, is a combo list, ex: Fecundity on bear is bad (need a lot of blood to make this work) but Many Lives with Worthy Sacrifice is insane combo and make even no sigil cards good (look at u Urayuli), also: Trinket Bearer with Fecundity in rat/s (infuse ) is crazy good, make infinite itens Unkillable with Corpse Eater is infinite blocker etc

If you were wondering, immortality and corpse eater are a combo. This means if whatever that unit is dies, it just puts itself back on the board for free.

When will you use flying? To ensure Ouroboros 1-shots the enemy immediately even when they start or have an entire full field. Flying has a lot of uses, it can be used to lock down a lane for a 3 prong combo, as you have a limited number of slots while if a flying unit has 1 more attack then the unit on the ground you are able to ensure chip damage rather then dying. Remember health is a thing, just because you have high attack does not ensure high health or that you'll be able to survive 2 fights.

The bone sigil ranking seems out of place next to the triple sacrifice sigil. I know it's "reliant on your deck" but like, worthy sacrifice will get you a bear. Bone king will get you a bat.

But will they ever top the Manly card one shooting the moon

7:58 Actually, there is a pretty cool synergy with bells. If you transfer that sigil on the bell tentacle it will have +1 attack for each bell + their classic atack, up to 5 attack, which is more than regular 4 and also allows you to play it on the second left place and still getting 5 attack. Maybe it's only work in Kaysee's mod, i don't know

Fun idea to immediately win. Put undying, corpse-eater, and burrowing on a singular card (also flight-blocker if you can). Play it. It will move infront of any attack. If it dies, it will go into your hand and immediately play itself again, allowing this singular card to block all incoming damage all the time, no matter what. In case you're curious, yes this also does work with mechanics like the Prospector's board wipe.

I once got a cockroach with the bone sigil from the vendor. Best combo ever

Yay, my sigil's icons from wiki!)

Every squirrel having 3 blood is an instant W

beehive is so underrated wow, well played, it can be broken, giving you infinite sacrifice + good defense

Hey Sifd, I just recently started watching all your inscription videos and I think you’re great. I just realized today after watching all your videos I wasn’t even subscribed. I definitely think you should start asking for subs at the beginning of your videos. It may be taboo but you definitely deserve the subs for the amount of time you put into making these! It’s a helpful reminder!

Unkillable is however an easy win on a squirrel totem or insect if you have bees

So does this mean we'll be seeing tier lists over Acts 2 and 3?

You forgot to say that the greater smoke also has the bones sigils.

The Unkillable sigil is the most OP sigil when used on the squirrel totem. It ensured my survivability on round 2 with two squirrels on hand.

Poison should be Useful, because it basically raises your Unit's attack to match your Enemy's Health when needed. Bi-horns should be Easy Win, because you just have to slap that sigil on a 3 damage Unit and win on turn 1 The 4-Bones should just be Useful, because it's only +3 bones and the Immortality Sigil could theoretically get you infinite Bones. Fly-Blocker should be Better Than Flying, because Flying works better for Leshy (like you said in this video) and Fly-Blocker comes with no down sides. Bunny is arguably just a better version of the Skink-Tail, as it goes to your hand for you to play whenever and wherever you want, while Skink-Tail doesn't even work if you have all surrounding lanes filled.

Adder should be better than flying, trifurcation should be very strong, stinky should be useful. Other than that, I pretty much generally agree

@Sifd, all Act2 cards have been added on wiki, so now you can tierlist them too!) Btw, your tierlists are amazing, with tiers, that have sense!)

Flying is only useful if you put it on some mega attack monstrosity (Ideally with trifrucrate) so you can 100% ensure victory. One of the most insane totems I've had was squirrels that generate ants. Just keep drawing squirrels and flood the board with ants. You can immediately sacrifice the squirrel for the ant you just generated.

Imagine the copy sigil on a geck with triple strike Or a returning card with the copy sigil Poison on mantis God would be pretty op if its ur turn

The only issue with the search signal is potentially decking yourself. I had a wooden idol with squirrel head and search body, and it was HILARIOUS. I fought the Part 1 boss, and he gave me the Draw Twice boon which… I won, but I ran out of cards REALLY fast.

The thing with flying is it allows for some really broken turn one wins with no counters especially when paired with bifurcation. It doesn’t matter if the other side is covered in logs or whatever, as soon as the unit it placed its game over.

I remember the time that I gave a buffed to Mantis God death strike. Moon didn't stand a chance lol

Common misconception: the bellist Sigil means the card attacks and kills the unit that killed the bell. The Daus actually has that in its rule, similar to how the Oraborous gains health and attack when it dies. The bellist sigil is just a special dam builder

small interaction someone found: the daus's chimes count towards bell tentacle's power sigil.

I still want to experiment more with the evolving sigil. As I bet that mole would evolve into mole man as well but haven't gotten to check it yet and there are a few others I'm curious about

There is some misinformation here, the card that generate by Ant Queen, Beaver(Dam), The Daus(Chime), Beehive, and Warren(Rabbit) will not get any campfire buff or Sigil attach to it.

Burrower+Undying+Corpse Eater(Corpse Maggot's sigil, places on board from hand for free when a unit dies) is a really good combo(moreso with air block) because you become literally immune to damage, so I'd put the burrowing sigil above flying, though I'd concede that in a lot of cases it is pretty iffy. Maybe another row above trash which would be 'Has potential' should be added, like how flying could make the difference on a high attack minion(like moth man) but is usually trash because in far more cases adding flying to a card is a nerf

Fun fact : you can kill the moon with poison death even when using low tier card

Actually, the triple blood sigil is an easy win if used on the rodent totem. It basically makes all your squirrels three times as valuable in sacrifices and lets you play almost any card instantly. It allows an instant win with almost any cards in the right deck, as long as you draw something, anything, that deals at least 5 damage, like a grizzly with +1 power from a campfire, or a unit with triple attack and at least 2 attack. Basically, it allows you to win in one turn by directly letting you play an OP card.

That frozen sigil only unleashes a possum. Leshy had it on one of his "death" cards, and I wondered what the hell would be unleashed, but it was a possum.

I know a tactic in the I Act that completely break's the game. You will need to look for a lot of carving's until you find the carving that I forgot the name of but it makes so that the card that has It will return to your hand once it dies. And the combination is to put the squirrel totem on the undead sigil and no matter how many times you sacrifice it, it always comes back and can be also used as a defense.

I saw someone get an unkillable totem and they used it on a squirrel and they just sweeped through the whole game with infinite sacrifices lmao it was insane

Dam builder on black goat is insanely good allowing you to have three three blood sacrifices on turn one and you dont have to clog a lane like with the infinite sacrifices one

If you have the card search sigil on the skink or vice versa, when the tail is created the sigil activates again and you draw another free card, same with other sigil that activate once when you play the card

Infinite sacrifices deserves to be higher. Most times I lose a run is because I need to draw both from my unit and my squirrel deck, which means I take twice as long to set up. With infinite sacrifices I can keep drawing from my unit deck, almost doubling the amount of cards I can put out.

The Thumbnail is supposed to be something clickbaity, like Leaping in S tier and bifurcated strike in C. Gotta fuel the algorithm.

Imagine: field mouse ouroboros. Black Cat on field? Infinite power and health.

I’d say that bifurcated strike is on the same level as trifurcated strike because in a decent chunk of bosses you don’t want to hit forward because of their gimmicks. You don’t wanna hit the bait you don’t wanna trigger the traps ect. It’s specifically better to not hit forward to deal with gimmicks

If you have a bone deck, sacrifice the 4 bone sigil on a 1-3 cost bone card, then add the sigil where if it dies it goes back to your hand, infinite bones

Thorns are underrated because they beat "you can't attack this unit" units and underwater units. It also combos well with poison, bifurcation, block flying, meat shield, and it is on of the few siguals that benefits from HP buffing nearly as much as damage buffing. B tier easily.

Now that Kaycee's Mod (which is official and canon) is here and adds quite a few more sigils, it'd be interesting to see an updated tier list...

flying is only really good if its on a card with solid base stats. a 1/1 flyer bad a 2/2 flyer, maybe good 3/3 flyer or bigger solid stats

the worthy sacrifice sigil is one of the best sigils to have on a squirrel or bee totem

Although theres cons for the daus bells,its the only card that counters swimming enemies,and buffs bell tentacle

23:21 Y’know what else helps you against flyers? Mighty leap.

Poison lets you cheese through anything urayuli or spoiler fight i dont see a reason why it is so low

Second comment: I found Corpse Maggots is also really good with unkillable since after it dies, it resurrects itself to the field forever guaranteeing you a perfect defense in one spot.

When you got the infinite sacrifice goat and the ouroboros

This dude really put Bone King in Very Strong and Many Lives in Useful.

A card with undying and death replacement is insane cuz you constantly get it put in the same spot so enemies cant ever attack there but that could also be a problem if it has no attack and the card in front of it is mantis or mantis god

Okay my tier list Ideal:triple attack, search,rabbit, undead, tail Cool:triple sacrifice,bag,leader, field mouse(no that unbalanced in mod), hive,flesh-eating, double attack Good:cub,bells, stinky,toxic,mantis attack,wolverine symbols, infinity sacrifice Not bad:helper, antfurm, dam Controversial:four bones,fly, jump,runner, amphibious,ice cube, steal trap, not attacable, egg-hydra,scavenger Bad:hound,pusher

Honestly, the rabbit Sigil is super useful on its own, but becomes game breaking if you add the field mice sigil. You can just sacrifice the card to play a copy of the card infinitely, generating infinite bones and free cost rabbit cards. Even better if you buff it with an attack fire, then you can fill the field with copies that you can replace every turn. Works against nearly any combo except flying. Best part though? You get both cards needed all the time in the opening draw for Kacyee's mod

I kinda wish that you did more than one sigil every 5 minutes

My reason that flying is somewhat useful is that if the opponent also has a flyer with low attack you can play yours and either do more damage each turn or do equal damage

Flying shines brightest against angler’s second phase

I have a Kingfisher the Tri-fracture and Undying Sigils…. *Muwahahahaha!, yes Yeees!, fear my tiny little Bird Leshy!.*

It's interesting how this game works, you can really make most strategies work in act 1 by your 3rd run if you are extremely strategic. I ended up rolling a terrible deck on a run, I mean absolute trash, Totem that made all reptiles fly and a deck stacked with mostly 2+ blood cards....I lost a flame on every map and almost gave up, thought about letting myself die but you know what, it was the deck that I beat the moon with. It was very tough but in the end just a few cards and boons carried me. I had a Ouroboros (*flying totem) with 4/4, a bullfrog (*Flying totem) built up to 3/6 with mycologist, a strange larva, the 2 best boons (Boon of the Ambidextrous and Boon of Magpie's Eye) and enough pelts to block the spaces I could not place a creature....I actually ran out of squirrels and just barely won...so while it was a very tough game I'm glad I stuck with it because in the end I beat the moon...

The only time I've had flying be useful is against the angler, because you can attack over the bait, never summoning the Sharks

I agree with everything beyond Poison in Trash - very strong on any no cost or one costers - especially the Mantises, and let's not forget it allows even a no flame Adder 1 shot the moon.

many lives doesn't actually give you infinite sacrifices it actually gives you 9 sacrifices. Take a cat to the training dummy in act 2 and go see for yourself.

I would almost agree, but I should point out that insta-kill + triple strike = nearly empty enemy field. if they don't place anything in the way, thats free 3 damage, and even if they block the lane to the left or right, the triple insta-kill will clear that lane again the following turn. whats that Leshy? you have an Urayuli? not anymore. the moon? a card with 40 health? bye-bye in 1 hit.

The best sigil combo I think can exist is the Summon on death and the Return to deck after dying. Why? Because a unit that is returned to hand will still count it as a death and return back to the field, making a legit undying Cockroach strat.

In act 3 of the game, the sniper card with poison is actually super nice to have. Bonus points if you can also give it two shots.

DONT PUT CORPSE EATER ON A BEE HIVE. it was buffed by a campfire to 6 health, and i had 2 cats down across from kingfishers and the bees kept jumping in after eachother after the beehive got hit. I couldn't put my cards down because I only had bone costs