I'd be more surprised by the defect win, but he got carried by echo form and snecko eye. Having an artifact to cancel biased, then doubling glacier constantly is pretty much ALWAYS gonna win, even more so when you double a defrag with it. I'm still impressed that he managed another win so quickly, but he never got punished for his misplays and terrible decisions.
@@iami3rian394 It's hard to disagree with this. An echo form that can comfortably be played in almost every hallway fight due to snecko eye is a powerhouse. But look at it this way: It's hard to imagine him passing up on any form of frost in future runs and I consider that a monumental victory.
@@penguindrummer252 it'll be a noon, for sure, but his take away from this _won't_ be "wow, I won with huge orb focus and +10 focus. I suppose that's a powerful deck" It'll be more like "frost focus! That's how ya do it!" Which means he will have learned essentially nothing. Nothing about draw and snecko eye being powerful, nothing about card order, nothing about not ending turns with energy and cards to play.... Just "we won with glacier, so frost orbs are the greatest thing ever." That could definitely be bad as well. Hopefully he at least will have finally learned that defense is important.
@@iami3rian394 My guess would rather be that he might tunnelvision on frost focus too much and try to mold every deck into this exact one right here when there are other options that might be better on a future run but we'll have to see about that. For all I care "frost orbs are the greatest thing ever" isn't really that much of a falsehood unless he takes it too far because frost orbs are consistently the biggest missing link in his decks.
He's going to say it's not always a good idea but we know he formed the habit. Just like he says that using orbitals in Isaac is not always a good idea.
I was thinking get busted crown, he had a solid deck after the second act, personally i prefer the ability to smith than having extra options for cards. But once I saw he was pulling echo form, glacier, panacea, biased I knew it was an A20 win.
The real MVP here is the clockwork in the final shop, allowing bias cognition to be played on the first turn, but that was still very well played from ya boi ryans part, lets goo
He has actually ascended!!! He's playing like a true Master!!! He's taking his time, thinking about what's his move and his next moves! He has finally internalized the way to play Slay the spire! And he's SLAYING!!! Holy shit NL!!! Congratulations!! He's DONE it!!! Absolutely 100% done it! And done it well!!!!
Posting this before I watch the ep NL you are an inspiration in many ways. I haven't played Slay the Spire in a while, never cared much to try ascension beyond 3 or 4. But just yesterday I opened the game back up for more runs. I'm having fun with it again, I've picked up new tricks by watching your good plays and your bad plays. I'm embracing some zany moves and watching them pay out. Rock on you crazy Egghead.
My man, you are too awesome. You stuck with it and wrecked A20 using great strategy and a really good deck. I'm so happy for you. I could hear it in your voice.
heh, i remember the comments last video discussing which of the silent and defect would come first. the estimates for the time it would take was not very accurate:p great plays nl. gotta admit i thought you'd thrown it with snecko eye... i hate that relic...
I didn't account for being carried by panacea, echo form and snecko eye. Especially snecko eye. He just undervalues it so much, but cancelling biased and doubling glacier isn't really EVER gonna lose. His misplays and poor decisions only help illustrate that.
@@iami3rian394 he played well, made great card selection and took his time. Everyone is glad and you are still shitting on him every occasion you can while watching every video in depth. You are the most pathetic human being I have ever seen on youtube.
@@xaloriandndplaylist8499 of you believe he played well, good on you. Skipping Fission and almost grabbing madness is NOT great card selection. Just because YOU can't see his bad plays doesn't mean some of us can't either. Bet your A20 winrate is just as low.
Hey NL just wanna say how proud i am if your perseverance and slowly but surely achieving your goal in this game. I’ve been silently waiting and sometimes agonizing while watching you for a while now. Even so, I have never once thought that you wouldn’t get there. Thankyou for keeping this game in the regular line up. Please never change for the worse. Love you egg
Hey Man, hope you see this after so long. I got a recommend from youtube, and got hooked on your vids. Crazy fast play, got to say. Makes it hard to follow sometimes. Bought the game and kept watching. You had some ungodly luck some times. But i learned some really good ideas from you, so many thanks. Hope you are well thru this covid crap. Philly? Go Hawks!
It took many episodes of heart ache and suffering but we've reached the top of this uphill battle. It's unfortunate there's another hill adjacent with the Silents name on it, I have no doubt he'll struggle because it's just a completely different beast. I'm also very upset episode 569 couldn't be a landmark episode. So close to greatness.
The lion man has actually ascended. He has manipulated casuality and is on his way to total victory in A20. Lion lord I pray your Silent runs be filled with glory.
Oh snap, I can definitely say I was not expecting another A20 finish so soon after the last, EggDaddy is learning! The final hurdle will be the Silent, good luck Slaying the Spire NL, THE PEOPLE HAVE BECOME BELIEVERS!!!
Holy, SHIT! He flawlessed him too. Good Lord, he's a madman! Can't believe he pulled it out, even WITH all the misplays. Congrats NL, well earned victory.
Panacea get was huge, and snecko absolutely carried him there combined with biased. Doubling a +10 glacier just isn't gonna lose. NL proved that today.
*all Just saying his name on the sub gets you downvoted. He's a laughing stock for a reason though, keep in mind. 4 wins in two _thousand_ hours still isn't something to brag about, but we both know that he will.
That snecko eye was ambitious. Not bad mind you, as long as he survives act 2. He did it, so this is probably another win eh? It's hard to be mad. Does this mean he will actually beat A20 with all three characters in one week? Is this christmas? He also took a coolheaded and that honestly just made me feel alive. Now please never play defect without frost again. Nothing's more beautiful than a combat robot with 6 ice balls floating ominously around it. Especially if they block for 10 each. I like him doubling down on powers against the awakened one. You don't beat that thing by preventing it from scaling alongside you you just gotta scale better than it does.
WAIT HOLD ON A SECOND. at some point he says "wed rather play 1 card that does the job so we can draw 7 next turn". THE AMOUNT OF CARDS PLAYED AFFECTS THE DRAW FOR NEXT TURN???
Wtf? NL saying "I think loop..." made my phone think I said "OK Google" and activated Google assistant... First time that ever happened. Thought that only happened to Siri. You were the chosen one, Google.
Same handful of crotchety buttwads downvoting another glorious run. Way to go eggman ily 3000... Just gotta figure out the silent and you can start working on A20 + the heart 😬