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Master Reality

Master Reality

Archetype summary

Generate powerful cards mid-combat to answer any encounter.

When to pivot to 'Master Reality' archetype

When you find an early Master Reality. Consider steering into this if you find a Dead Branch at any point in a run.

Star items

watcher power baseMaster Realityrare frame

power

Master Reality

watcher mana

1

B-

Whenever a card is created during combat, Upgrade it.

watcher power baseBattle Hymnuncommon frame

power

Battle Hymn

watcher mana

1

B-

At the start of each turn, add a Smite into your hand.

watcher power baseStudyuncommon frame

power

Study

watcher mana

2

C+

At the end of your turn, shuffle an Insight into your draw pile.

Dead Branch

rare

Whenever you Exhaust a card, add a random card to your hand.

S+

S

B-

S

Master Reality is the essential part of this deck, giving extra value to all of the suite of cards that generate cards. Battle Hymn and Study offer a huge amount of damage and utility, made even stronger by Master Reality.

An extra fun flavor of this archetype is the Dead Branch variant which allows you to repeatedly refill your hand with generated cards. Most cards that the Watcher generates also exhaust, giving plenty of fuel for the engine.

Support items

watcher skill baseDeceive Realityuncommon frame

skill

Deceive Reality

watcher mana

1

B

Gain 4 Block.
Add a Safety to your hand.

colorless skill baseSafetycommon frame

skill

Safety

colorless mana

1

A

Retain.
Gain 12 Block.
Exhaust.

watcher attack baseCarve Realityuncommon frame

attack

Carve Reality

watcher mana

1

C

Deal 6 damage.
Add a Smite to your hand.

colorless attack baseSmitecommon frame

attack

Smite

colorless mana

1

A-

Retain.
Deal 12 damage.
Exhaust.

watcher skill baseEvaluatecommon frame

skill

Evaluate

watcher mana

1

B-

Gain 6 Block.
Shuffle an Insight into your draw pile.

watcher attack baseReach Heavenuncommon frame

attack

Reach Heaven

watcher mana

2

B

Deal 10 damage.
Shuffle a Through Violence into your draw pile.

colorless attack baseThrough Violencecommon frame

attack

Through Violence

colorless mana

0

S+

Retain.
Deal 20 damage.
Exhaust.

watcher skill baseDeus Ex Machinarare frame

skill

Deus Ex Machina

B-

Unplayable.
When you draw this card, add 2 Miracles to your hand and Exhaust.

watcher skill baseSpirit Shieldrare frame

skill

Spirit Shield

watcher mana

2

S

Gain 3 Block for each card in your hand.

watcher power baseEstablishmentrare frame

power

Establishment

watcher mana

1

A

Whenever a card is Retained, reduce its cost by 1 this combat.

watcher skill baseAlpharare frame

skill

Alpha

watcher mana

1

D

Shuffle a Beta into your draw pile.
Exhaust.

watcher skill baseConjure Bladerare frame

skill

Conjure Blade

watcher mana

X

D+

Shuffle an Expunger into your draw pile.
Exhaust.
(Expunger costs 1, deals 9 damage X times.)

Note that Master Reality has some synergy with Alpha and Conjure Blade, but those have separate archetypes that use them better.

'Master Reality' archetype weaknesses

Collect is fine to include to solve energy problems, but note that the Miracles it creates are already upgraded so these do not benefit from Master Reality.