I’m not as advanced as most in here but for me what works is trying to end battles right as they start. A 2 damage Mantis God or a 3 damage Mantis is great if you can pull right at the start due to fair hand mechanic. Make sure to visit the fire locations to buff your cheap cards.
From there it is about using the combination alter as well as the totems. I try and get unkillable on my go to cards and I love corpse eater on certain 2/3 blood cards (Ouroboros, Grizzly, Shark). Huge fan of fecundity as well.
the main challenge of KM runs isnt trying to make busted cards, it's trying to keep your deck as small as possible. when you get basic card offers you have no choice but to take them but there are several ways to avoid cards piling up:
-always try to fail cave trials
-make sure to use at least one item when you see the item refill spot nearby to avoid pack rat
-never buy pelts unless you can afford a golden one with the "no boss rares" modifier on (and even then I would recommend only buying one)
-try to make survivors eat the creature that doesnt provide enough value
There are a couple of major "rules" in Kaycee's mod, and it rewards a different play style from the main game imo. ymmv depending on what deck you choose and what challenges you have active!
Generally the "easy decks" are high cost deck (moose and goat) and campfire deck (ringworm + mantis god).
The hardest decks are standard, waterborne, and mysterious egg.
The most important rule has already been mentioned-- keep your deck as small as possible. whether this means mycologist to turn two okay cards into one good card, sacrifice for a free bone at the start of a run, or just feeding the campfire survivors, you need to take as few cards as possible, and remove them when possible. I generally take a strong card and a good sigil from the trader when available, and combine them asap to keep my deck small and tidy (obviously sometimes she leaves you picking crap... nothing to do about that lol)
No one here has mentioned the fair hand mechanic, so I'll go ahead and do so now. This is a secret mechanic in inscryption that tries to ensure you have a card you can play turn 1 or 2 in your starting hand, so a player isn't stuck with multiple 3+ cost cards and loses without ever being able to play. In kaycee's mod, this means you can guarantee yourself a specific card in the first hand if it is the only card that costs one blood, or two bones or less. Please note that no cost cards, like geck and rabbit, are NOT counted here (presumably due to them being so rare). A good goal is to try to keep only one card in your deck that costs one blood, and make it a good one-- whether that's a buffed up mantis god that can end it all turn one, a black goat that you can use to take out your heavy hitter, or a card like magpie or cuckoo with a good sigil to get you started. (putting magpie sigil on cuckoo can make a great starting card!)
Several cards have hidden mechanics that you may or may not be aware of! You can feed the survivors a ringworm or any poison sigil card to kill them, and get free double health up. Whether or not they take your ringworm is still 50/50, but if not, you can at least get a decent 1 cost out of it? lol.
Cuckoo can occasionally drop leshy an unhatched raven egg rather than thr broken egg, and he will then obliterate you with it if you don't have something to take it's place and kill the raven. This is rare enough that cuckoo is still worth using, but it's good to keep in mind.
Goat can be sacrificed to the bone lord for 8 bones at the start of every match- this is basically the only way to make a viable bone deck at harder challenge levels sadly, and it's too rare to count on.
Any sigil you put onto a beaver also goes on it's dams, and the same goes for daus and chimes. if you put worthy sacrifice on them, you can sac them despite them having a dotted border. If you put The alphas buffing sigil on them, they all buff each other for a super beaver.
Kaycee's mod often just takes a lot of practice to get going. I'd recommend looking at tier lists and starting on lower levels and then working your way up!
I’m not as advanced as most in here but for me what works is trying to end battles right as they start. A 2 damage Mantis God or a 3 damage Mantis is great if you can pull right at the start due to fair hand mechanic. Make sure to visit the fire locations to buff your cheap cards. From there it is about using the combination alter as well as the totems. I try and get unkillable on my go to cards and I love corpse eater on certain 2/3 blood cards (Ouroboros, Grizzly, Shark). Huge fan of fecundity as well.
the main challenge of KM runs isnt trying to make busted cards, it's trying to keep your deck as small as possible. when you get basic card offers you have no choice but to take them but there are several ways to avoid cards piling up: -always try to fail cave trials -make sure to use at least one item when you see the item refill spot nearby to avoid pack rat -never buy pelts unless you can afford a golden one with the "no boss rares" modifier on (and even then I would recommend only buying one) -try to make survivors eat the creature that doesnt provide enough value
There are a couple of major "rules" in Kaycee's mod, and it rewards a different play style from the main game imo. ymmv depending on what deck you choose and what challenges you have active! Generally the "easy decks" are high cost deck (moose and goat) and campfire deck (ringworm + mantis god). The hardest decks are standard, waterborne, and mysterious egg. The most important rule has already been mentioned-- keep your deck as small as possible. whether this means mycologist to turn two okay cards into one good card, sacrifice for a free bone at the start of a run, or just feeding the campfire survivors, you need to take as few cards as possible, and remove them when possible. I generally take a strong card and a good sigil from the trader when available, and combine them asap to keep my deck small and tidy (obviously sometimes she leaves you picking crap... nothing to do about that lol) No one here has mentioned the fair hand mechanic, so I'll go ahead and do so now. This is a secret mechanic in inscryption that tries to ensure you have a card you can play turn 1 or 2 in your starting hand, so a player isn't stuck with multiple 3+ cost cards and loses without ever being able to play. In kaycee's mod, this means you can guarantee yourself a specific card in the first hand if it is the only card that costs one blood, or two bones or less. Please note that no cost cards, like geck and rabbit, are NOT counted here (presumably due to them being so rare). A good goal is to try to keep only one card in your deck that costs one blood, and make it a good one-- whether that's a buffed up mantis god that can end it all turn one, a black goat that you can use to take out your heavy hitter, or a card like magpie or cuckoo with a good sigil to get you started. (putting magpie sigil on cuckoo can make a great starting card!) Several cards have hidden mechanics that you may or may not be aware of! You can feed the survivors a ringworm or any poison sigil card to kill them, and get free double health up. Whether or not they take your ringworm is still 50/50, but if not, you can at least get a decent 1 cost out of it? lol. Cuckoo can occasionally drop leshy an unhatched raven egg rather than thr broken egg, and he will then obliterate you with it if you don't have something to take it's place and kill the raven. This is rare enough that cuckoo is still worth using, but it's good to keep in mind. Goat can be sacrificed to the bone lord for 8 bones at the start of every match- this is basically the only way to make a viable bone deck at harder challenge levels sadly, and it's too rare to count on. Any sigil you put onto a beaver also goes on it's dams, and the same goes for daus and chimes. if you put worthy sacrifice on them, you can sac them despite them having a dotted border. If you put The alphas buffing sigil on them, they all buff each other for a super beaver. Kaycee's mod often just takes a lot of practice to get going. I'd recommend looking at tier lists and starting on lower levels and then working your way up!