Generically Good Commons

A generally useful Summon card.

Commons To Look For

Best of the low commons and strong effective floor-one damage, but falls off in Act 2; take it when needed to survive.

• Act 2 longevity: Dead by Act 2 / avoid when possible

Commons To Look For

Good immediate damage and an Ethereal enabler.

Commons To Look For

Caleb calls it one of the best block cards; it also enables Ethereal payoffs.

• Block plan: Example core block card

Generically Good Commons

Efficient damage per energy plus useful upgrades.

Commons To Look For

Immediate damage, Vulnerable, and Ethereal synergy.

Mentioned as an Osty-attack payoff opened up by cards such as Poke and Snap; no captured general tier.

Commons To Look For

Solves block while adding Soul support.

Discard retrieval gets better in big decks and can recur the block or attack needed; no captured general tier.

Commons To Look For

Roughly the lowest of the A-tier commons, but still a welcome pick.

Commons To Look For

Block plus Doom to all enemies solves early multi-enemy fights and transitions into Doom/debuff synergies.

• Multi-enemy solve: Recommended

Commons To Look For

Overperforms because Necrobinder draws so many cards; becomes especially efficient with Calcify.

Generically Good Commons

Serviceable block and Summon, though better cards often fill the same job.

Commons To Look For

Premium retained damage that stays relevant and transitions into Lethality and other attack scaling.

Commons To Look For

Immediate damage that seeds Soul synergies.

Generically Good Commons

A serviceable Doom card when premium options are unavailable.

Commons To Look For

Can be necessary for Act 1 survival but usually falls off by Act 2.

• Act 2 longevity: Dead by Act 2 / avoid when possible

Commons To Look For

Retain is much stronger than it looks and helps assemble finicky Osty or expensive-card turns.

Generically Good Commons

Take early to solve multi-enemy combats; it may fall off later, but early survival matters more.

• Multi-enemy solve: Recommended early

Commons To Look For

One of the lower-priority commons.

Generically Good Uncommons

Excellent at solving dangerous fights, especially in Act 1; sacrificing Osty is acceptable when it prevents a loss.

• Multi-enemy solve: Recommended

Generically Good Uncommons

The video discusses the reworked version as useful energy for playing another one or two cards, especially expensive attacks.

A retained large attack; even viewed as retained block-equivalent utility, the Retain keyword makes it useful.

• Payoff: A

Makes Osty attacks efficient and pairs especially well with Poke and Rattle; Caleb often prefers drawing Calcify before Rattle.

• Payoff: A
• Damage scaling: A

Uncommons To Look For

Effectively draw three later while enabling Soul synergies; awkward against a sleeping Log and Matriarch because the HP loss wakes it.

• Draw plan: S

Generically Good Uncommons

Serviceable when better versions of its job do not appear.

The Doom output is usually too small; may be acceptable with Rend Flesh and Death's Door.

• Overall: Very situational / avoid

Expensive cards can turn it into a complete block plan.

• Payoff: S
• Block plan: Example core block card

Technically buildable, but Caleb finds stronger things to do.

• Overall: Very situational / avoid

Generically Good Uncommons

Low fail-state cost because it blocks on its own, then becomes excellent with common Doom sources.

• Block plan: Can nearly solve block by itself

Uncommons To Look For

Caleb calls it busted: it solves multi-enemy fights while applying both Doom and Weak.

• Multi-enemy solve: Recommended

Generically Good Uncommons

Makes Weak and Vulnerable extremely effective, supporting both survival and fast damage scaling.

• Damage scaling: S

Generically Good Uncommons (upgraded)

With an upgrade it is efficient block plus energy smoothing and enables high-energy turns.

Uncommons To Look For

Provides a large amount of Souls and supports draw.

Generically Good Uncommons (upgraded)

The Retain upgrade is exceptional; it assembles exactly the block, attacks, energy, or Osty sequence needed and improves in big decks.

Generically Good Uncommons

A strong answer to multi-hit attacks, with Ethereal synergy.

Uncommons To Look For

Low deck-building cost because it draws, with high Osty upside; Caleb takes nearly every copy except in some Lethality-heavy decks.

Generically Good Uncommons

Extra energy is extremely strong and the Strength loss usually matters little; avoid overloading on normal attacks such as Veilpiercer.

Excellent damage after Soul generation is already established; do not draft the payoff before the enablers.

• Payoff: S
• Damage scaling: A

Generically Good Uncommons

A serviceable Vulnerable source when Putrefy or stronger options do not appear.

Uncommons To Look For

Immediately improves ordinary attacks and becomes a premier win condition with large attacks.

• Damage scaling: S

Generically Good Uncommons

Serviceable block when Death's Door or stronger block options do not appear.

Can be a one-card damage plan in a small or looping deck and improves further with Doom support.

• Payoff: S
• Damage scaling: A

Caleb considers it extraordinary repeatable draw; take it with roughly three additional Ethereal cards, especially in a big deck.

• Payoff: S
• Draw plan: S+

Uncommons To Look For

Immediate draw three and Ethereal means it disappears in fights where draw is unnecessary; Caleb calls it the strongest direct draw card.

• Draw plan: S

Can hit hard in Ethereal builds, but its multi-hit Strength interaction makes Friendship sharply reduce its output.

• Payoff: B
• Damage scaling: B+

Generically Good Uncommons

Weak plus Vulnerable both prevents damage and accelerates kills; the first copy is excellent.

Strong with multiple Osty attacks and especially Calcify, but Caleb values Calcify more highly on its own.

• Damage scaling: B+

Included for complete card-pool coverage; it does not appear on a captured slide and has no clear discussion in the transcript.

Uncommons To Look For

Immediate damage plus an unusually large amount of Soul generation.

A solid block payoff once the deck reliably applies Doom.

• Payoff: A

Mostly worthwhile with Rattle, several Pokes, or an effect that duplicates/replays it; otherwise it only slightly improves decks already doing well.

• Overall: Very situational / avoid

Uncommons To Look For

A premier and reliable win condition because Necrobinder has many debuffs; only delay it when immediate hard fights come before any enabler.

• Damage scaling: S

Retain makes it useful as stored block/Osty recovery for the turn it is needed.

• Payoff: A

Uncommons To Look For

The weakest of Caleb's very good early uncommons, but still fine; improves with expensive Ethereal cards such as Demesne.

An excellent area-damage solve once enough Ethereal cards have reduced its cost.

• Payoff: S
• Multi-enemy solve: Recommended

Rares To Look For

Powerful scaling that generates Ethereal cards, letting unwanted results exhaust instead of clogging the deck.

Generically Good Rares

A slow initial play, but the ongoing energy and draw scaling are worth it.

Turns established Soul generation into a free way to build and store block through Osty.

• Payoff: A

Extremely hard to enable; Caleb had not made it work and compares the payoff unfavorably with the setup required.

• Overall: Very situational / avoid

Generically Good Rares

Caleb nearly always takes it because it trivializes many Act 2 multi-enemy fights, especially upgraded.

• Multi-enemy solve: Top recommendation

Rares To Look For

Flexible retained damage that can one-shot enemies with enough energy or Lethality support.

Generically Good Rares

A fun scaling meme in a small replay-heavy deck, but less reliable than stronger A10 damage plans.

Generically Good Rares

Better in multiplayer and useful in ordinary multi-enemy fights, but most important bosses are single enemies.

Generically Good Rares

A generally good rare and block/Osty scaling option.

Generically Good Rares

A generically excellent rare Caleb is happy to take in almost every deck.

Usually only attractive with Rend Flesh or enormous draw/Soul output.

• Payoff: B

Generically Good Rares

A broadly excellent rare that can anchor a big-Osty defensive plan.

• Block plan: Example Osty block plan

Effectively doubles attack progress by adding Doom, but draft it after confirming the deck actually attacks.

• Payoff: S
• Damage scaling: S

Generically Good Rares

A situational get-out-of-jail card that converts a large Osty into emergency block.

Rares To Look For

Shrinks the deck, removes unwanted cards into Souls, generates draw, and enables Ethereal synergies.

• Draw plan: S

Included for complete current card-pool coverage; it does not appear on a captured slide and has no clear discussion in the transcript.

Generically Good Rares

A generally good rare that is easy to take.

Acceptable Soul-based scaling, though Caleb considers it a weaker version of Haunt.

• Payoff: A
• Damage scaling: B+

Turns an established Ethereal package into free block and combines especially well with Pagestorm.

• Payoff: S

Rares To Look For

One of Caleb's favorites; best obtained early so the deck and enchantments can be built around one-shotting with it.

Generically Good Rares (early)

Excellent permanent scaling when acquired early, but Caleb is hesitant to take it after the Act 1 boss.

A narrow and generally worse No Escape; funny combos exist with Lethality or Reaper Form, but Caleb rarely wants it.

• Payoff: B
• Overall: Very situational / avoid

Clunky and energy-hungry, but Replay can create powerful scaling or double key attacks and powers.

• Damage scaling: B+

Generically Good Rares

A generally good block rare that Caleb is happy to take.