Defect

Channel Lightning orbs to deal automatic damage every turn, growing stronger as orb slots and Focus increase.

• Storm triggers all Lightning orbs at turn end — every turn becomes a sweep of automatic Lightning damage.
• Expand orb slots with Capacitor early; more slots means more Lightning charges running simultaneously.
• Defragment raises Focus, increasing damage for every orb type — take it once the orb engine is established.
• Generate new orbs to push older ones into Evoke position, maintaining consistent damage output each turn.

Channel Frost orbs to build Block automatically each turn, freeing Energy for offense instead of defense.

• Glacier channels 2 Frost at once — one card fills two orb slots, raising Block generated per turn more quickly than other Frost cards.
• Expand orb slots early with Capacitor; the number of Frost orbs held directly determines how much Block you gain each turn.
• Defragment raises Focus by 1, increasing the Block amount from every Frost orb already in play.
• Buffer negates the next HP loss entirely; use it before a known big hit rather than holding it indefinitely.
• Keep a small number of Lightning orbs in the lineup so the build retains offensive output and does not stall against high-HP enemies.

Loop Dark orbs to accumulate power over multiple turns, then evoke at the right moment for concentrated burst damage.

• Loop moves the front orb to the back, delaying its evoke and allowing Dark orbs to accumulate more power before release.
• Raising Focus with Defragment increases the damage each Dark orb deals on evoke — the higher the Focus, the greater the payoff.
• Consuming Shadow generates a Dark orb each time an enemy is killed, keeping the orb supply topped up without extra card plays.
• Time evokes carefully — a Dark orb that has built up power over several turns deals significantly more damage than a freshly channeled one.

A 0-cost attack deck that cycles rapidly through the draw pile, using each Claw play to permanently raise all Claws' damage over the course of the run.

• Each Claw played permanently raises all Claws' damage by +2 — having more copies in the deck means faster growth per cycle.
• Prioritize cycling cards such as Scrape and FTL over filling the deck with too many 0-cost attacks; consistent access to Claw matters more than raw card count.
• All for One retrieves every 0-cost card from the draw pile at once, enabling the highest single-turn damage output the build can produce.
• Frost orbs generate Block every turn automatically, letting you shore up defense without spending attack slots on defensive cards.

Turn Status generation into damage and orb output by pairing Flak Cannon with Trash to Treasure and Rocket Punch.

• Flak Cannon deals 8 damage per status exhausted — holding off for a few turns to accumulate statuses before firing produces higher burst damage.
• Overclock or TURBO generates a status on the same turn it is played, letting Rocket Punch be used at 0 cost immediately after for 13 damage and a card draw.
• Trash to Treasure alone sustains orb generation even without Flak Cannon, making the build functional whenever status-generating cards are available.
• Compact converts surplus status cards in hand into Block between Flak Cannon uses, so statuses sitting in hand are never wasted.