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The cursed block cards, while slightly risky, does still benefit from the curses most of the time unless the deck lacks rituals. Most cards that put a curse or 2 into the draw pile is usually good just from the starting relic. It probably is balanced from the fact that taking too many of these will overflow the deck, but I think their block could still be 2-3 less.
Flesh from Bone I feel should be a rare that gives around 6-8 plated and exhausts. Plated is something that you almost never want to be easily stackable. In one of my runs, I got 2 of these and it trivialized bosses by itself.
Mana Circulation, while definitely powerful, isn't 5 energy powerful like meteor strike which also deals damage. I think requiring an upgrade to make it usable could balance it. Something like 4 mana upgraded to 3 but still be ethereal or something like that so you have to commit to using it.
I also forgot the mention soul reap which I feel is just slightly too expensive for what it does compared to things like reaper, feed, and self repair. It would be more interesting if it worked like single target reaper doing around 5-7 damage. If you don't want to rework it, then increasing damage and healing could balance it, or keep it around the same and have it be 1 mana.
@FlameHricane
Thanks for your detailed opinion. Here are the replies :
Cursed Block cards - As you said, it's true that shuffling a Curse into draw pile has benefits due to starting relic and some power cards - thanks for pointing it out. Then as a compromise, I would end up with reducing the block of Cursed Amulet and Cursed Armor by 1 and 2 respectively.
Flesh from Bone - The Cursed already has many rare cards (17, Ironclad has 16). Also I didn't want to make Plated Armor giving card as a rare card - main reason is that this character lacks the ability of maintaining Block over turns. Ironclad has Barricade, Slient has Blur, and Defect has Frost orbs. Without Plated, it should just rely on the luck of draw every turn (if the drawn cards suck, it just dies...) unless it has Calipers. That's the reason I wanted to make Plated Armor as a non-Exhaust common card so that it can be used more often. But 4(6) was too much as many people pointed out. Hope 3(4) would make the card not too OP.
Mana Circulation - I would not change my direction at this time, as it's not that difficult to use 5 cost card. Collect Tribute is an Innate card that gives energy every turn, Spiteful Pray is giving 3 energy most of the case, Neow's Might would not only make this card 4 cost but also make most of Ritual card as 0 cost, and Empower Circles / Ominous Mark (boss relic) would also help. Of course you could consider using Madness, Enlightenment, Forethought, Snecko Eye, and Mummified Hand. Let's see whether it makes a reasonable change, and if not I'll consider reducing it to 4 cost.
Soul Reap - Good to know that 2 cost feels too much to you. I think making it 1 cost is a good idea, I'll consider changing it with around 10(12) damage and 4(6) heal. Thanks!
I've got no idea how to balance properly, but really it feels like Demon Sword should have Exhaust on it because even a bump of +3 strength feels like enough to make the cursed just pop off. And the Form power would still feel amazing even if it only raised strength by 1 per curse drawn. Maybe even a bit of a painful interaction on it where it pinged you for a loss of 1 health or something would be fair.
Thanks for your opinion!
Hmm, I think exhausting Curse with Demon Sword gives up the opportunity of doing other useful Ritual action. For example, Released Strength gives much more Strength than Demon Sword. I don't think the Demon Sword should have Exhaust. Think about Ironclad's Spot Weakness - although it is conditional, it keeps giving 4 Strength every time it is used with only 1 energy.
Regarding Void Form, let me consider changing it to 1(2) Strength, but I would say that Strength is not much powerful to this character than Ironclad (no heavy blade, and less multi-hit cards).
Regarding Soul Reap, I'm considering making it as a single-target Reaper as FlameHricane suggested.
Want to add more - if you experienced any Ironclad's Strength-focused build using Limit Break and made 999 Strength, you would feel Void Form is nothing.