Dedicated poison decks don’t have room for it and don’t need it. Making it cost 2 to cast could work, but is that too much? I guess I’d still play it. You can’t change the poison amount or it wouldn’t get anywhere. They’re good early, but won’t carry you in the late game, even if you end up in the ideal build for them. Sometimes I wonder about cards like twin strike and cleave. I don’t like searing blow - if a card is already bad, I don’t want to have to spend upgrades on it.
It seems like it could only be more useful than clothesline if the enemy was already vulnerable and you just wanted to extend the duration. 2 cost spells are hard to use anyway, even Bash. It’s just not something I think I would need. Is clothesline that ironclad card that weakens the enemy? I’ve never tried it. It seemed an ok card though silent doesn’t have a lot of high costs for it to reduce. What if it did 4/6 damage instead of 3/5? I think it’s a cool card once it gets going, though obviously the cost is tough. I lost on the third map, couldn’t draw enough defence. Had two of them actually, and ice cream to make it less bad. I played wraith form in my most recent run. defensive venom builds are soo good also. Try to do a deck like this one and you will find how good and consistent silent can be (draw, energy gain and “a lot” of powers), then the way how you do damage is up to you… I usually go with a lot of shiv generation + finisher blow + choke. I played 40+ hours and I disagree with you, I usually feel like the silent deck is more consistent, It’s very easy to do a deck with decent amount of energy and good draw, add that to some powers that give you stuff whenever you play a card (like the armor per card played, damage all enemies per card played, or +1 venom per attack) and you get a very very consistent deck, calculated gamble is far from random, look it in this way: You need a specific card, so you draw with acrobatics, you don’t find it, so you go calculated gamble… at this point and with some preparations (1 or 2) you probably drew 80% of your deck, maybe 100%, also the “ninja” relics (This is how i like to name the shuriken, kunai and also the fan) fit so well in this kind of deck.