Some other things to note about the Ijiraq 1. Its one of the few cards there cannot be more than one of in your deck, a trait shared with the Ouroboros and Long Elk for whatever reason. It just doesn't show up as a rare card choice under normal circumstances. 2. Ijiraq gains the the variable attack stats of its disguise. Disguising as an ant causes it to gain the ant power of the board or hand tentacles card counter stat. 3. There are actually 2 Ijiraq cards, the one we already know and love and the other being used in the unlock screen (Mole Man?) that can be added to your deck with any method of manually altering your deck. Its a free mole man with the Ijiraq's card art. 4. Altering your deck to have multiple Ijiraq doesn't only causes issues with the Ijiraq disguising as another Ijiraq, basically having no disguise. Combining them at the mycologists makes the combined card art on the table, but when played reverts to a normal Ijiraq.
My main guess for why you can't have multiple long elks is because it has special effects like changing card art? Otherwise it's probably just for balancing.
Wait on point 2: say we have an ijiraq disguised as an ant and you place it and there are no other ants on the board, does it have 1 attack or 5? Bc if 1 that’s kind of a raw deal
@@voidify3 5, it always adds the variable stat to the Ijiraq's base attack, similarly to how ants buffed by a campfire have the attack buffs added to their ant power
Maybe it's because it was still in beta when he played it, but Aliensrock has a video called "beware the new shapshifter card" where he obtains 2 of them via the mycologist when he had no dupes.
Looked up the Ijiraq: in the North Baffin dialects (quoting Wikipedia), it translates to shapeshifter (not much of a shock there). They can appear in any form it chooses, and its eyes always stay red, no matter what form they choose. Their real form is like a human, but with their eyes and mouth being sideways. It is sometimes helpful, sometimes fatally deceptive, and it’s said to inhabit a place between two worlds, between the land of the dead and the living.
To anyone paying attention to this thread, I just got the most hilarious thing playing inscryption on my first time playing. It was my second death and I had gotten access to the totems while already unlocking the squirrel head, I’d made it halfway to the prospector when I get my second totem bottom. This bottom had one sigil that let me beat act one by only using the side deck. The ant queen sigil, when you play a card with that sigil it will spawn an ant. As you may know, ants get an attack point for every ant on the board and also only need 1 sacrifice. This meant I was putting out an ant almost every turn, making it possible for me to be dealing 4 damage in every lane on a pretty consistent basis. With this brand of broken I steamrolled my way through act 1 in like an hour, beating the trapper/trader and leshy on my first damn try. Almost didn’t make it for leshy but I had an unkillable strange larva and a mantis god that I added death touch to that I managed to put in before all my ants died. Yes I had those really good cards, I also had what I needed to get an infinite damage combo going as well. I barely touched these though because I was too busy *MUGGING THIS MAN WITH ANTS!!!*
For those that don’t know about the ijiraq( ee-yee-ruck), it is a cryptid from Inuit folklore. It is a shapeshifter that disguises itself as a friend but with one flaw it’s eyes, the eyes don’t change and lures it’s prey to follow it to consume them.
Apparently, the real life lore about it is that it disguises itself as a friend before eating you, so it's less that it's scary and more like the moon is like, "Yo John? Is that you?" And doesn't attack.
Definitely one of the most broken cards out there, and I mean the general weirdness of its mechanics, im glad you actually managed to explain how the sacrifice and campfire work with it, and managed to explain all the weirdness that happens when drawing a Ijiraq from magpie!
Quick addendum I stumbled across by accident: I had an ijiraq pop up as a Lammergeier late in a boss fight where I'd been hanging on by a thread by blocking with squirrels and milling through undying goats, and it summoned in with like 20 damage. Apparently it takes on any attack bonuses from creatures it's mimicking, seemingly on top of its regular damage.
The infinite search strategy opens up what I believe is the fastest-buffing infinite Ouroboros loop in the game - since Ijiraq can disguise itself as any card, it has a chance to become an Ouroboros, meaning you can have four down at a time, all buffing by one damage and health every time one of them is sacrificed. Where this gets REALLY broken if if you can get the morsel sigil on your Ouroboros. I've only managed to do it in one run, and it requires massive RNG, but it is possible to get the whole thing set up. Let's say you start with a 1/1 MorselBoros and you have another to sacrifice it to, and a second infinite card to play to cover the second cost - usually an infinite skink or warren. You're functionally doubling the strength of your Ouroboros each time, and that goes up to tripling if you sacrifice two to play down the one in your hand. I'm pretty sure I hit well over 2,000 damage after a couple minutes of cycling.
Thank you for making this, I originally thought when I unlocked it, it was due to specific sygel creature combinations, since I had never put the double attack on the two bone mole before and my first time playing it, it changed to the (I don’t know how to spell it) card Ty 👍
It's actually not hard to spot Ijiraq in your hand. 1. If you draw a second card that looks like the specific one already in your hand, the first one is Ijiraq. 2. If you have many cards with sigils, pay attention to their glow. Ijiraq in disguise will glow slightly darker hue of blue. I need to test that more, but seems to work.
I accidentally picked this card without realising… and was absolutely shooketh seeing it pop up… I’m so happy I found this video… I was sooooo confused! Thank you! I know what’s going on now haha
The fact that you pronounced Urayuli right at the beginning of the video threw me off so hard, I’m not used to hearing the Flying Urayuli. I’m used to hearing THE FLYING UYARULI!
Who wins The moon, who leshy has summoned to destroy you, with extremly high health, good sigils, and it grows in strenght as you loose cards Or some weird magical creature which transforms into other things
I kept getting this card after picking a geck and I thought my game was bugged. I kept seeing 2 of the same card that I knew I didn't have! During the game it would turn to this monster and eventually get pretty strong. Dope
I just found another interaction with the ijiraq, you can basically duplicate cards if you have the hoarder sigil on a card, playing hoarder sigil will let you see ijiraq desguised in a different card but if you pick it you'll get the card it was disguised as, for me I managed to duplicate my ouroboros (the effect is not permanent you only get to keep the duplicated card until the match is over)
so re: the last one, If you have an undying dambuilder magpie, then you can theoretically have infinite cards with ijiraq. no idea what you could use that for, but you could do it.
Ive gotten the golden Ijirac before. I only know now because when it happened, the only thing I noticed amiss was the lack of any attack marker. xD I didn't even notice the colour change.
Now I have to wonder, can you use a similar exploit to put two sigils on one card? What I mean is, the Ijiraq is selected as a viable buffable card at a campfire even if the card it copies can't be buffed. Would that mean it can show up as an option for receiving a sigil even if what it's copying has a stolen sigil already? I might test this myself, but I'm curious if anyone knows already.
I don't know if it's a glitch since no-one else has mentioned it but I put a sigil (high leap) on a rabbit pelt and it turned into the ijiraq. I hadn't seen it so I was really confused why there was another pronghorn wolf in my deck lmao. It still copies a random card as far as I know, and it still shows up as a pelt during the cave trial things.
Bruh, Ijiraq buffing Ants is fucking BUSTED! Imagine if you managed to buff an Ant to like 6+ base damage and then played the other ants along with it, that would get you like 10+ attack with a single Ant plus the other 12 from the 3 other Ants on the board. I knew you couldn't buff Ants and Pelts normally but I didn't know that Ijiraq let you do that. I only ever got the card once and I had no idea what the hell it did until I played it because I just saw the glowing red eyes and the ? on the card and was like "it has to be different somehow" and just played it. Then it transformed on the board after I played a random ass card and broke my strategy a little because I think instead of it flying over an enemy it instead turned into Ijiraq and attacked a thorns card which killed it instantly. Granted it also killed the thing that was attacking it but I had planned to finish off Leshy with a flying attack but Ijiraq threw that idea out the window by tricking me into playing it and I ended up losing the match afterwards because my flying card was the last one in the deck and I never drew it to get over his deer spam and half of them turned into Elks and just demolished me on his next turn.
Speaking of Ants what is everyone's favorite tribe type or archetype from the game? I'm personally really fond of bugs since most if not all of them are easy enough to play and the Ants buff each other with the more Ants you have on the board at one time, effectively multiplying your attack power if you get the right setup. That and the bug tribe also includes stuff like the Mantis God and Mantis cards as well as Amalgam which has all tribes, so it makes for a very powerful deck type if used correctly. As soon as I unlocked the bug deck as my starter I pretty much used it exclusively for the rest of Kaycee's mod up until the final challenge to unlock the final stage came around and I just found myself unable to win at anything even with the bug strat and a half decent totem on hand because Leshy either REALLY enjoyed his Elk spam or he just got to play a lot of powerful cards one after the other and it was just impossible to beat him. I even tried the save trick of reloading the game to try again before it saved a death and I couldn't beat him still after like 3 hours of trying. Each time I failed and retried I got a little further each time but one of the sigil fights I got stuck into right before the Moon battle just had me stumpted and I admitted defeat after several hours of failed attempts. I just didn't have the right deck setup to overpower his Elks and my bug totem wasn't doing me any favors because I didn't have a good one on that run, it was something stupid like bones in a deck that had no bone cards. The best sigil in my opinion for bugs is either deck search, Immortality, or infinite sacrifice. I prefer infinite sacrifice because then you only really need 1-2 cards on the field to get out your strongest bugs like Mantis God and Ant Queen for more Ants.
Ah, I was confused how I got 2 versions of my combined (6 attack, 14 health) moose buck. I assumed one was Ijiraq but was surprised when it didn't transform after playing. Guess I got it by searching.
I really truly believe that if it wasn't for the gimmick of forcing it into an ARG that this game had so much more potential and this mod just proves it. It makes me even more disappointed at vanilla inscryption.
@@cheatcode436 Normally i would leave it at that but the first ten seconds he literally mentions Kaycee's Mod you absolute fucking buffoon. Think before you speak you complete waste of space.
