u/Ok_Insect4778

Is this the sort of thing where it LOOKS terrible and you never take it, and then try it one time and get an absolute god run that breaks the game in half, then try it again and die to a random Mawler? I literally do NOT see the appeal at all, the very few times I've taken any creation cards have been a detriment to my build. Any time I try to play into it, it feels like the build is working AGAINST me, like I'm the one being played by the game rather than the other way around. I don't GET it.

1: Resource management is ass. All the creation cards cost energy- a resource more valuable in STS2 than it was even in the first game- and gives you cards.. that you ALSO have to spend energy on. As well, most creation cards DON'T have an immediate effect, unlike something like Bulwark which has large block AND forge, or Shining Strike which does damage AND generates starts- no, all you get is random colorless cards, have fun. Also on the topic of resources, your actual deck itself is a resource, and if you invest too much into these cards then you're gonna shuffle your deck and have a jumbled incoherent mess that you never planned for. The only card that I would personally consider taking is Quasar, since that lets you pick 1 of 3 cards and costs stars instead of energy.. but it costs 3 stars, so it's very easy to just NOT be able to play it on your star cycle, which is a whole other point of discussion about how Regent's star economy only works if you have the Orobas upgrade which lets you start with like 10 stars, but that's not related.

2: Planning. Kinda what I just said, I'd prefer to have a deck that I made and planned around, rather than suddenly pulling a whole other random deck out of my ass which may or may not help me in the current encounter. Say I take glitterstream for block and remove a defend so that my deck remains largely balanced, that sort of balance doesn't exist with creation because you COULD pull a bunch of extra block cards, or the inverse where you take celestial might and then get a lot of attacks. Even in the case of cards where you choose one from a random batch, it's entirely possible to find a batch of cards that are simply not useful.

3: Planning again, but like on the micro scale. Say you have powers that benefit you for creating cards, you have Pillar of Creation and all that.. but then they're shuffled to the bottom of your draw pile, and you've already played all your creation cards, so you get no benefit from them! These powers don't work retroactively and they don't even affect the cards you create, they just activate WHEN you make cards! This problem doesn't exist with star cards since those DO things; Glow has card draw, Converge has energy generation, Gather Light has block, etcetera! And sure, you CAN abstain from playing all the creation cards you've stockpiled, which then locks you out of a whole "second phase" of your deck where you've already created all the cards you need, and the whole time you're taking damage and the enemies are getting stronger...

4: RNG. Now, we all know these games are luck-based, I don't think anyone's arguing that by now. You could go into a random event hoping for a heal and get a fight with the Fabricator, you could go into an early elite and find the Phantasmal Gardeners before you have any AOE, you could take a Neow bonus and get a card that's literally just dead weight (such as Seven Stars) and furthermore you could not see ANY star-generation cards for several card rewards. All of these things are known. HOWEVER, card creation is perhaps the worst offender, since you're rolling the dice EVERY SINGLE COMBAT you play this deck, you're just HOPING to get something useful- not only useful to the overall combat, but for the turn you're actually playing- and it's entirely possible to just get unlucky and lose. What if you need block and you get stuff like flash of steel, thrumming hatchet, bolas, eternal armor when you don't have 3 energy to spare, or what about the inverse- what if you pull all these attack cards when the enemy has thorns and/or is hitting you for 46?

I guess one compliment I have is that this type of build is way more feasible in STS2 because colorless cards are much harder to find and about 90% of them are crazy strong, so it's more likely than not for you to pull SOMETHING useable whenever you play creation regent.

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bonus blessing that I thought of for ogryn melees with the slap/punch special attack:

"Do I amuse you?" Your special attack has 10x damage and infinite stagger. 5 second cooldown.

I've been running it now and then and I think it's alright? The buff itself is great, it lasts about 4 seconds and goes down 1 stack a time, stacking up to 20% chance of instakill and STAYING that high, nothing reduces your stacks. But that also means it's ONLY 20%. Sometimes I just keep walloping gunners and maulers and haymaker doesn't proc, and I can't help but wonder if there'd be a better use of my blessing slot.

For reference, my other blessing is Thunderous, to soften up the more annoying enemies for myself and my pals

Tortoise kinda sucks on its own but can be a boon for characters that already build strength like Ironclad. Also a good solution for decks with strong defense but little scaling, Silent can sometimes fall into that trap.

Grindstone is a shop relic because most builds aren't gonna use it, however builds that do- such as those who take Tezcatara's soup- gain a lot of value from it. Also strikes, as they are now, really aren't good even if you DO play into them, so this would remedy that

Flame is the one I really thought was cool, it was the impetus for me creating these. The concept is simple: You get multiple ancients that enchant cards, like Imbued or Tezcatara's Ember or Instinct, then you find this in the store and now they ALL play an extra time. This also means that cards enchanted with glitter have 2 replay which is bonkers