Unlimited (Spell) Power! | Monster Train (Episode 12) 

imo the best part of these vids is when nl says "I shoulda read the text" when he shoulda read the text

Learn the Alphabet with Northerlion! A Everybody Welcomeback

I was so happy when NL played an imp in front.

I felt like dying when he descended the rage unit only to ascend him again a turn later. Accomplishing nothing except dazing his own guy for 4 turns.

28:05 Only in NL's World is taking 6 damage preferable over taking 2 damage.

everyone else: "I can use this cool event card to protect my pyre from a strong enemy!" NL: "I will stun my own unit for three turns to overflow the capacity mechanic and create a mega floor" ngl I respect it

I am just noticing but the sound track of Monster Train actually slaps.

NL's spell weakness math is my new favorite meme.

I could no longer resist the siren's allure and bought it.

*Boss halves buffs and debuffs* NL: Spell weakness, rage, and sap?! Hell yes, brother!

Permafrost is a great tool in order to save your finisher card in your hand. It thrives in a spell weakness deck since your always looking to kill units with a high damage card.

Me, clicking video: I wonder if he's gonna do a big unit or big spell deck today? NL: Yes

No brakes on this pog train. You’re a national treasure NL

Oh no, he purged ember. Did the same mistake on my first run lol

*duplicates 4 capacity unit* "I can't believe we need more capacity"

23:35 Something you can do with March of Shields is use it to move a weak enemy unit to the front that you want to kill first, like one that gives haste or spikes.

I'm still just so pleased you decided to turn this into a series; I never really got into Slay the Spire but this is just so much more fun to watch. Looking forward to Melting Remnant gameplay too!

"Summon four to the middle floor? Oh no no no." The gourd declined the ultimate source of POG in this game. Embrace the zane

*unit at 1 health*. *NL plays a card that does 32 damage*. NL- “Wait, you’re dead?”

The way spell weakness works is you take the damage, times it by the spell weakness + 1 So if it was spell weakness of 4 with a 10 damage spell it'd be 10 × 5 for 50 damage.

I love how hes SO surprised by that stealth unit every time :'D

Hey NL, LOVING the series so far! I checked through the comments of this video, and didn't see anyone mention it, but another thing you can do with imps that I'm not sure you've realized is that you can summon them to gain their effects, then if they're endless and you have a torch card, you can summon them, torch them to kill them, then they wind up on top of your draw pile. It's really good for things like stacking rage, or using the energy imp to get consistent energy gains on your turn. Great job with the series, can't wait to see more, there's very obvious improvement in every episodes and I can't wait to pog off every day when these go live!

12:20 NL: "We can play them because we don't spend energy on units". Me: "Did... Did he not read the PURGE effect on them?" Self evidently, he did not. Rip. 23:12 "I guess i should've read the text". Every NL video in a nutshell. We still love you though. P.S. Permafrost is god-tier upgrade, but it is extremely situational. One of my recent runs as Umbra/Hellhorn i had artefact that let me retain mana between rounds, so i upgraded the umbra card that gave X damage shields to have permafrost. And then i would just keep it in my hand until the boss round and play it for something like 40 damage shields on my tank and win by default.

That was a pretty good run of a mixed deck, though I think you screwed yourself a bit by running a deck heavily reliant on debuff (spell weakness) against the boss that counters debuff. After the backlog, you probably already understand to play around the final boss traits more when deckbuilding so you don't hard counter yourself. There'll also probably be a lot of comments on misusing the daze ascend/descend cards, but may as well include em. They can be used on enemies for the daze particularly and to reposition certain enemies to the back of a diff floor(like sending an enemy tank or a 0 atk unit to the back of the next floor). When used on your own guys, there's definitely a use case for it sometimes, but the drawback is you're dazing your own units, which can lead to pretty big tempo loss unless you're already strong enough without that unit's help.

Non Bosses heal to full. That's my run Killer. If I'm greedy and go far it there's always just one enemy that sneaks through and wrecks me.

Dazing his unit for 2 turns at the end with ascend when the battle was only 1 more turn... I love watching NL play this game

Enelle, I know you've been reading the comments lately, and I just wanna say, thank you for making this quarantine easier on all of us. You really are a one of a kind youtuber.

This series is my current favorite on your channel. The super mega baseball is also pogtastic, but this one pogged me enough to go out and buy the game. Funny how your channel is better at marketing games to me than the marketing teams for those games are. Seriously, here's a list of games I bought because I saw them on your channel: Baba is You Slay the Spire Monster Train The Binding of Isaac Sekiro Hitman 2 Blood Bowl 2 Darkest Dungeon Nuclear Throne Spelunky And no, I didn't _just_ get those because the game is good. True, I wouldn't have bought them if the game wasn't good, but I _also_ wouldn't have bought them if you hadn't exposed me to them. I thank you from the bottom of my heart, and my wallet curses you from the bottom of its heart. P.S. I'm loving the comment section interaction. Everything you've done this year has been spot on and your channel has reached a new peak. Your channel has _never_ been better! -(Except when you were still playing Grey's Anatomy)-

I can't wait for the first Waxen Remnants video. They have quickly become my favorite.

This game is a lot deeper than it appears at a glance. I thought NL was absolutely cruising here, but never even considered that the final boss was a hard counter to everything he was doing.

Looks at the boss (which removes buffs and debuffs) Goes for spell weakness "We've got hard countered by the boss!" Me: watching in quiet fascination

Bought this game yesterday because of your videos. Best financial decision I have made almost all year.

That poor branded warrior he passed 5 turns for no reason

This one physically hurt because I knew what calcified ember was

3rd slot on units is a proper rule-breaker! Awesome!

49:06 spell weakness winning him the game. NL: Sap is what we need Ice storm: am i joke to you?

Spell weakness build rocks. One of my very early Stygian runs I killed Seraph with an Inferno that did like 1300 damage by itself

I feel like that relic that summons 4 random minions on floor 2 would’ve been disgusting on this run. Especially with all those massive units. It’s risky but he had plenty of movement options

1 hour. Every day. I can not contain myself.

Hey NL, loving the new energy in your videos! We're truly in a pogged gourd era.

A close run especially considering how off the deck felt. Still almost worked. Your play is improving everyday egg

Really liking the new series! Got this game because of your let's look at

Hello NL. The reason your spell weakness damage sometimes seems off, is that you use spells that deal x damage several times, and the enemy dies before all the hits connect, resulting in 'lower' numbers. For example that first boss would have taken double that amount of damage from helical crystal, but the first hit dispatched him to the stratosphere.

This series has become my favorite, I look forward to it every dau

NL the math for this is simple...the spell hits twice but only shows one number because that's all the damage it needed to do...4 stacks of spell damage adds 100 damage per hit (200 total bonus damage) then the 50 that the spell originally does gets you 250...the damage shown was 125 half of 250 since the spell hits twice...hope this helps clear it up sorry if I'm bad at explaining

Best series out rn

The pog heavens have opened up once more and blessed us with this divine content on this fine evening :)

blessed egg lord, i beseech thy power to feed my life-cycle.

Back on the Pogster Train and I couldn't be more thrilled, can't wait to see what the last clan is!

Love how NL gets surprised at outcomes after the majority of his plays lol

Wow NL has a big backlog of these video’s. He was pogging up for the claw card on monday’s stream and in this video he’s like what are these cards. Will take descent

If you have sweep and spell weakness on the stygian champion and pick frostbite from a later upgrade, the frostbite and sweep work together perfectly. Of course it's better in a deck more focused on frostbite, but now you know ;) Also.. "Capacity is a problem" *places blasting imp at the back* Gotta protect that 1/1 creature :P

Never has there been a video series that causes me to speak to the screen soo much.

Every monster train episode has me pogged out of my freaking mind dude

NL pogging out over a 25/60 alpha fiend was weird because it just became a worse demon fiend that he chose not to take, with 2 less energy cost

Unrelated to the video but I beat my personal plunder record on warzone with 24 kills. So Pogged. Related to the video. Love the series gotta have it everyday my dude.

I think you should consider playing your imps in front. Once the summon trigger goes off when you play them, all they do is take away capacity from your stronger units.

So nice. Spell powered twice.

Hearing NL constantly say "Pog off" is very unsettling

Oh no, he's purging the Calcified Ember.

10 minutes in...has NL finally realized the power of the tentacle boi?

NL to the final boss: you are so pathetic, I will keep my rage fiend dazed for 3 turns for no reason just so this fight is a little more difficult.

This guy's content it good, show it to more people, and show me more like it.

Offering Token is also really good as a free Incant trigger as well NL.

I've been watching for 6 years, this is the most pogged I've ever been for a series

Interesting build on that one. Great episode. Can't wait to see NL play the new faction!

I realize this episode is like a month old and you probably already figured this out, but here's the formula for spell weakness. Damage(Weakness+1) So if an enemy has 4 spell weakness and your spell does 25 damage... 25(4+1) = 25*5=125 damage. An easy way to calculate this would just be to have a spreadsheet like google sheets in another tab with the formula plugged in. You enter damage in A1, weakness stacks in B1, and total damage shows in cell C1 or something. EDIT: Or you could hover over the icon, like you did, which I didn't realize worked.

Ice and Pyre with Permafrost until the boss to do 90x damage seems like such a missed opportunity.

Just picked up some of the merch can’t wait for more monster train

33:41 - NL completely confused by Hook 1:00:58 - NL completely not confused by Siren's Song

*Starcraft Archon noises* "Power Overwhelming"

Probably late to give tip comments for this series, but when given the choice between the card that sends a unit to the bottom or the claw that takes the unit to the pyre, I was thinking the claw would be a fantastic thing to remove an enemy tank unit that deals no damage and feed it to the pyre. Meanwhile, the low HP damage units don't get to hide behind the tank anymore. Just my two cents :P

Just when I was hoping for a new monster train video. Eggman delivers!

This game has a high dose of pogness. But please, play more of Umbra and Hellhorned.

48:59 I filled up with POGs when I saw the clean 700

Monstertrain is making me hit the bell, like, and comment

NL, with the calcified ember, if you purge them, you don't receive the upgraded version of the card. EDIT: You realized the mistake :)

Consider perhaps not playing your two spell weakness bros at the front when your entire plan revolves around getting lots of spell weakness effects on the final turns.

Choo choo comes the monster train, straight out of hell with a fresh cargo of POG.

Game says calcified embers will be upgraded later, doesn't realize that by purging them he won't get the upgraded versions. Classic egg.

imagine a 5x duplicated endless imp that gives rage. entire floors super buffed with a wall of imps to shield the super buffed monsters

I bought this game yesterday because of the rage inducing misplays and just played and won my first run, was incredibly pogged. Thank you egg lord for the motivation to get and the lessons on how not to play (and even moreso how TO play, in all honesty, you are the roguelike god) Thanks as always for the content, can't wait to be even more mad at the obscenely good luck and terrible misplays in the future

Everytime I want to do a spell run, Seraph has the consume debuff..arghhh.. Good run man. Next one will be a winner.

I wanna preface this with I absolutely love the Large Stone upgrade, but its important to realize that while good, its not always the right call. If you struggle with capacity, you should try not to take too many large stones on too many units.

That horrible descend play on the final boss... Pogged

Was excited that he checked the artifact shop first, but it was worthless anyway :(

Pog title and pog series!

"Let's stop you from doing damage. Oh but you're gonna buff the other guys so they do more damage....I can live with that." - NL 2020

Another awesome episode!

*Against Seraph of Chaste* "Let's build a deck 100% reliant on debuffs"

@youtube this guy is good, show me more of this guy

All these misplays? Higher covenant ranks won't be so forgiving. So savor it, nothing lasts.

That poor warrior was dazed the entire fight kek

Monster Train? More like Pog Train

Please stop playing trashy 3/1 Imps at the back, I'm begging you NL!

The backstory to this game is that hell froze over when NL actually read a card XD

Mr NL, please put imps on front of your units so they die, tank a hit, and leave you space for things like mollusk mage

mr lion of the north, you can torch your own imps sir

NL is trying to use the ascend/descend but give dazed spells on his own units, but they're best used on enemies so that they don't deplete your health before the boss fight. imo NL was struggling in terms of damage because he allowed his tanks that were also massive damage dealers get so low, and then the bosses that have fairly hefty attacks came in and made sure those tanks only got at most a few swings. Aka he's trying to play an awoken style, leave tank at front to absorb damage while keeping them healthy so that they can inflict heavy damage on the boss, without the capability to keep them healthy.

Continue to make titles that are memes and you will receive all the likes. A+ love the content man. Especially Monster Train. Bought the game because of you.