Some other things to note about the Ijiraq 1. Its one of the few cards there cannot be more than one of in your deck, a trait shared with the Ouroboros and Long Elk for whatever reason. It just doesn't show up as a rare card choice under normal circumstances. 2. Ijiraq gains the the variable attack stats of its disguise. Disguising as an ant causes it to gain the ant power of the board or hand tentacles card counter stat. 3. There are actually 2 Ijiraq cards, the one we already know and love and the other being used in the unlock screen (Mole Man?) that can be added to your deck with any method of manually altering your deck. Its a free mole man with the Ijiraq's card art. 4. Altering your deck to have multiple Ijiraq doesn't only causes issues with the Ijiraq disguising as another Ijiraq, basically having no disguise. Combining them at the mycologists makes the combined card art on the table, but when played reverts to a normal Ijiraq.
My main guess for why you can't have multiple long elks is because it has special effects like changing card art? Otherwise it's probably just for balancing.
Wait on point 2: say we have an ijiraq disguised as an ant and you place it and there are no other ants on the board, does it have 1 attack or 5? Bc if 1 that’s kind of a raw deal
@@voidify3 5, it always adds the variable stat to the Ijiraq's base attack, similarly to how ants buffed by a campfire have the attack buffs added to their ant power
Maybe it's because it was still in beta when he played it, but Aliensrock has a video called "beware the new shapshifter card" where he obtains 2 of them via the mycologist when he had no dupes.
To anyone paying attention to this thread, I just got the most hilarious thing playing inscryption on my first time playing. It was my second death and I had gotten access to the totems while already unlocking the squirrel head, I’d made it halfway to the prospector when I get my second totem bottom. This bottom had one sigil that let me beat act one by only using the side deck. The ant queen sigil, when you play a card with that sigil it will spawn an ant. As you may know, ants get an attack point for every ant on the board and also only need 1 sacrifice. This meant I was putting out an ant almost every turn, making it possible for me to be dealing 4 damage in every lane on a pretty consistent basis. With this brand of broken I steamrolled my way through act 1 in like an hour, beating the trapper/trader and leshy on my first damn try. Almost didn’t make it for leshy but I had an unkillable strange larva and a mantis god that I added death touch to that I managed to put in before all my ants died. Yes I had those really good cards, I also had what I needed to get an infinite damage combo going as well. I barely touched these though because I was too busy *MUGGING THIS MAN WITH ANTS!!!*
Looked up the Ijiraq: in the North Baffin dialects (quoting Wikipedia), it translates to shapeshifter (not much of a shock there). They can appear in any form it chooses, and its eyes always stay red, no matter what form they choose. Their real form is like a human, but with their eyes and mouth being sideways. It is sometimes helpful, sometimes fatally deceptive, and it’s said to inhabit a place between two worlds, between the land of the dead and the living.
For those that don’t know about the ijiraq( ee-yee-ruck), it is a cryptid from Inuit folklore. It is a shapeshifter that disguises itself as a friend but with one flaw it’s eyes, the eyes don’t change and lures it’s prey to follow it to consume them.
Definitely one of the most broken cards out there, and I mean the general weirdness of its mechanics, im glad you actually managed to explain how the sacrifice and campfire work with it, and managed to explain all the weirdness that happens when drawing a Ijiraq from magpie!
Quick addendum I stumbled across by accident: I had an ijiraq pop up as a Lammergeier late in a boss fight where I'd been hanging on by a thread by blocking with squirrels and milling through undying goats, and it summoned in with like 20 damage. Apparently it takes on any attack bonuses from creatures it's mimicking, seemingly on top of its regular damage.
The infinite search strategy opens up what I believe is the fastest-buffing infinite Ouroboros loop in the game - since Ijiraq can disguise itself as any card, it has a chance to become an Ouroboros, meaning you can have four down at a time, all buffing by one damage and health every time one of them is sacrificed. Where this gets REALLY broken if if you can get the morsel sigil on your Ouroboros. I've only managed to do it in one run, and it requires massive RNG, but it is possible to get the whole thing set up. Let's say you start with a 1/1 MorselBoros and you have another to sacrifice it to, and a second infinite card to play to cover the second cost - usually an infinite skink or warren. You're functionally doubling the strength of your Ouroboros each time, and that goes up to tripling if you sacrifice two to play down the one in your hand. I'm pretty sure I hit well over 2,000 damage after a couple minutes of cycling.
It's actually not hard to spot Ijiraq in your hand. 1. If you draw a second card that looks like the specific one already in your hand, the first one is Ijiraq. 2. If you have many cards with sigils, pay attention to their glow. Ijiraq in disguise will glow slightly darker hue of blue. I need to test that more, but seems to work.
Thank you for making this, I originally thought when I unlocked it, it was due to specific sygel creature combinations, since I had never put the double attack on the two bone mole before and my first time playing it, it changed to the (I don’t know how to spell it) card Ty 👍
Who wins The moon, who leshy has summoned to destroy you, with extremly high health, good sigils, and it grows in strenght as you loose cards Or some weird magical creature which transforms into other things
I just found another interaction with the ijiraq, you can basically duplicate cards if you have the hoarder sigil on a card, playing hoarder sigil will let you see ijiraq desguised in a different card but if you pick it you'll get the card it was disguised as, for me I managed to duplicate my ouroboros (the effect is not permanent you only get to keep the duplicated card until the match is over)
I kept getting this card after picking a geck and I thought my game was bugged. I kept seeing 2 of the same card that I knew I didn't have! During the game it would turn to this monster and eventually get pretty strong. Dope
The fact that you pronounced Urayuli right at the beginning of the video threw me off so hard, I’m not used to hearing the Flying Urayuli. I’m used to hearing THE FLYING UYARULI!
so re: the last one, If you have an undying dambuilder magpie, then you can theoretically have infinite cards with ijiraq. no idea what you could use that for, but you could do it.
Now I have to wonder, can you use a similar exploit to put two sigils on one card? What I mean is, the Ijiraq is selected as a viable buffable card at a campfire even if the card it copies can't be buffed. Would that mean it can show up as an option for receiving a sigil even if what it's copying has a stolen sigil already? I might test this myself, but I'm curious if anyone knows already.
I don't know if it's a glitch since no-one else has mentioned it but I put a sigil (high leap) on a rabbit pelt and it turned into the ijiraq. I hadn't seen it so I was really confused why there was another pronghorn wolf in my deck lmao. It still copies a random card as far as I know, and it still shows up as a pelt during the cave trial things.
Ah, I was confused how I got 2 versions of my combined (6 attack, 14 health) moose buck. I assumed one was Ijiraq but was surprised when it didn't transform after playing. Guess I got it by searching.
Bruh, Ijiraq buffing Ants is fucking BUSTED! Imagine if you managed to buff an Ant to like 6+ base damage and then played the other ants along with it, that would get you like 10+ attack with a single Ant plus the other 12 from the 3 other Ants on the board. I knew you couldn't buff Ants and Pelts normally but I didn't know that Ijiraq let you do that. I only ever got the card once and I had no idea what the hell it did until I played it because I just saw the glowing red eyes and the ? on the card and was like "it has to be different somehow" and just played it. Then it transformed on the board after I played a random ass card and broke my strategy a little because I think instead of it flying over an enemy it instead turned into Ijiraq and attacked a thorns card which killed it instantly. Granted it also killed the thing that was attacking it but I had planned to finish off Leshy with a flying attack but Ijiraq threw that idea out the window by tricking me into playing it and I ended up losing the match afterwards because my flying card was the last one in the deck and I never drew it to get over his deer spam and half of them turned into Elks and just demolished me on his next turn.
Speaking of Ants what is everyone's favorite tribe type or archetype from the game? I'm personally really fond of bugs since most if not all of them are easy enough to play and the Ants buff each other with the more Ants you have on the board at one time, effectively multiplying your attack power if you get the right setup. That and the bug tribe also includes stuff like the Mantis God and Mantis cards as well as Amalgam which has all tribes, so it makes for a very powerful deck type if used correctly. As soon as I unlocked the bug deck as my starter I pretty much used it exclusively for the rest of Kaycee's mod up until the final challenge to unlock the final stage came around and I just found myself unable to win at anything even with the bug strat and a half decent totem on hand because Leshy either REALLY enjoyed his Elk spam or he just got to play a lot of powerful cards one after the other and it was just impossible to beat him. I even tried the save trick of reloading the game to try again before it saved a death and I couldn't beat him still after like 3 hours of trying. Each time I failed and retried I got a little further each time but one of the sigil fights I got stuck into right before the Moon battle just had me stumpted and I admitted defeat after several hours of failed attempts. I just didn't have the right deck setup to overpower his Elks and my bug totem wasn't doing me any favors because I didn't have a good one on that run, it was something stupid like bones in a deck that had no bone cards. The best sigil in my opinion for bugs is either deck search, Immortality, or infinite sacrifice. I prefer infinite sacrifice because then you only really need 1-2 cards on the field to get out your strongest bugs like Mantis God and Ant Queen for more Ants.
I really truly believe that if it wasn't for the gimmick of forcing it into an ARG that this game had so much more potential and this mod just proves it. It makes me even more disappointed at vanilla inscryption.
@@cheatcode436 Normally i would leave it at that but the first ten seconds he literally mentions Kaycee's Mod you absolute fucking buffoon. Think before you speak you complete waste of space.
Some other things to note about the Ijiraq
1. Its one of the few cards there cannot be more than one of in your deck, a trait shared with the Ouroboros and Long Elk for whatever reason. It just doesn't show up as a rare card choice under normal circumstances.
2. Ijiraq gains the the variable attack stats of its disguise. Disguising as an ant causes it to gain the ant power of the board or hand tentacles card counter stat.
3. There are actually 2 Ijiraq cards, the one we already know and love and the other being used in the unlock screen (Mole Man?) that can be added to your deck with any method of manually altering your deck. Its a free mole man with the Ijiraq's card art.
4. Altering your deck to have multiple Ijiraq doesn't only causes issues with the Ijiraq disguising as another Ijiraq, basically having no disguise. Combining them at the mycologists makes the combined card art on the table, but when played reverts to a normal Ijiraq.
My main guess for why you can't have multiple long elks is because it has special effects like changing card art? Otherwise it's probably just for balancing.
Wait on point 2: say we have an ijiraq disguised as an ant and you place it and there are no other ants on the board, does it have 1 attack or 5? Bc if 1 that’s kind of a raw deal
@@voidify3 5, it always adds the variable stat to the Ijiraq's base attack, similarly to how ants buffed by a campfire have the attack buffs added to their ant power
@@LeanaAlice oh sick
Maybe it's because it was still in beta when he played it, but Aliensrock has a video called "beware the new shapshifter card" where he obtains 2 of them via the mycologist when he had no dupes.
One last interaction you forgot to mention…
If Ijiraq becomes a bone cost unit, it will *not* spend the bones required to play it!
I’m so glad I found you, it lets me know that the Inscryption community is still alive and still teaching new things
It's still alive. Just beat the game today :)
@@leeroymlg4692I wish it was on Xbox to be honest.
To anyone paying attention to this thread, I just got the most hilarious thing playing inscryption on my first time playing. It was my second death and I had gotten access to the totems while already unlocking the squirrel head, I’d made it halfway to the prospector when I get my second totem bottom. This bottom had one sigil that let me beat act one by only using the side deck. The ant queen sigil, when you play a card with that sigil it will spawn an ant. As you may know, ants get an attack point for every ant on the board and also only need 1 sacrifice. This meant I was putting out an ant almost every turn, making it possible for me to be dealing 4 damage in every lane on a pretty consistent basis. With this brand of broken I steamrolled my way through act 1 in like an hour, beating the trapper/trader and leshy on my first damn try. Almost didn’t make it for leshy but I had an unkillable strange larva and a mantis god that I added death touch to that I managed to put in before all my ants died. Yes I had those really good cards, I also had what I needed to get an infinite damage combo going as well. I barely touched these though because I was too busy *MUGGING THIS MAN WITH ANTS!!!*
Bro games barely been out a few years why would it already be dead
Looked up the Ijiraq: in the North Baffin dialects (quoting Wikipedia), it translates to shapeshifter (not much of a shock there). They can appear in any form it chooses, and its eyes always stay red, no matter what form they choose. Their real form is like a human, but with their eyes and mouth being sideways. It is sometimes helpful, sometimes fatally deceptive, and it’s said to inhabit a place between two worlds, between the land of the dead and the living.
fun video! fun fact: you can also get a golden hydra by transferring the hatchling sigil onto a golden pelt!
👀 Woah I need to try that out
@Exxo is that the next vid??
For those that don’t know about the ijiraq( ee-yee-ruck), it is a cryptid from Inuit folklore. It is a shapeshifter that disguises itself as a friend but with one flaw it’s eyes, the eyes don’t change and lures it’s prey to follow it to consume them.
What I love about Ijiraq is how it's implied to be so scary that no animal dares to attack it, hens why it has the repulsive sigil
Definitely one of the most broken cards out there, and I mean the general weirdness of its mechanics, im glad you actually managed to explain how the sacrifice and campfire work with it, and managed to explain all the weirdness that happens when drawing a Ijiraq from magpie!
Quick addendum I stumbled across by accident: I had an ijiraq pop up as a Lammergeier late in a boss fight where I'd been hanging on by a thread by blocking with squirrels and milling through undying goats, and it summoned in with like 20 damage. Apparently it takes on any attack bonuses from creatures it's mimicking, seemingly on top of its regular damage.
*British Accent engaged*
and now you see the natural predator of the Ijiraq, the lowly porcupine, unknowingly defeat the apex predator.
The infinite search strategy opens up what I believe is the fastest-buffing infinite Ouroboros loop in the game - since Ijiraq can disguise itself as any card, it has a chance to become an Ouroboros, meaning you can have four down at a time, all buffing by one damage and health every time one of them is sacrificed.
Where this gets REALLY broken if if you can get the morsel sigil on your Ouroboros. I've only managed to do it in one run, and it requires massive RNG, but it is possible to get the whole thing set up.
Let's say you start with a 1/1 MorselBoros and you have another to sacrifice it to, and a second infinite card to play to cover the second cost - usually an infinite skink or warren. You're functionally doubling the strength of your Ouroboros each time, and that goes up to tripling if you sacrifice two to play down the one in your hand. I'm pretty sure I hit well over 2,000 damage after a couple minutes of cycling.
I just got a Golden Ijiraq yesterday and it confused the hell out of me, so it was very helpful to know why it happened! Thanks!
Mark: THE FLYING URAYUUULII, THE FLYIIINNNGG UUUYARUUULII
I LOVE YOUR BIDEOS
I too love his bideos
and i love his fideos
@@ssshit-storm1234 don’t forget his hideos
Bogos binted ?
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Man your always telling me things I've never seen about inscryption, keep up the great work!
Love your videos, I owe you one because you showed me how op the GOAT and buck is I made some preatty op decks ,learned a lot from you thanks
It's actually not hard to spot Ijiraq in your hand.
1. If you draw a second card that looks like the specific one already in your hand, the first one is Ijiraq.
2. If you have many cards with sigils, pay attention to their glow. Ijiraq in disguise will glow slightly darker hue of blue.
I need to test that more, but seems to work.
i’ve been so obsessed with these videos 😊
Thank you for making this, I originally thought when I unlocked it, it was due to specific sygel creature combinations, since I had never put the double attack on the two bone mole before and my first time playing it, it changed to the (I don’t know how to spell it) card
Ty 👍
Thats wild, i barely use the Ijiraq so never would have known this. Thanks for the video 👍🏻
they should make a special interaction when Ijiraq is facing a Mirror tentacle.
How about a platinum ijoraq?
BELL DISTANCE, HAND DEPENDENCE, OPPONENT DAMAGE also first
The beginning of this video reminded me of Markiplier's first video about inscryption where he was mad for loosing his flying URAYULI
Holy balls that card duplication exploit is awesome, you better find some way to use that in the future exxo! :D
damn this is super interesting should try the kaycee's mod after beating the game
Been waiting for this vid
Ijraq is such a cool, kinda creepy concept for a card
I was wondering how I kept getting this 8 damage ijirac lol, good explanation. There's so much in this game I still haven't come across...
Who wins
The moon, who leshy has summoned to destroy you, with extremly high health, good sigils, and it grows in strenght as you loose cards
Or some weird magical creature which transforms into other things
I just found another interaction with the ijiraq, you can basically duplicate cards if you have the hoarder sigil on a card, playing hoarder sigil will let you see ijiraq desguised in a different card but if you pick it you'll get the card it was disguised as, for me I managed to duplicate my ouroboros (the effect is not permanent you only get to keep the duplicated card until the match is over)
I kept getting this card after picking a geck and I thought my game was bugged. I kept seeing 2 of the same card that I knew I didn't have! During the game it would turn to this monster and eventually get pretty strong. Dope
The fact that you pronounced Urayuli right at the beginning of the video threw me off so hard, I’m not used to hearing the Flying Urayuli.
I’m used to hearing THE FLYING UYARULI!
so re: the last one, If you have an undying dambuilder magpie, then you can theoretically have infinite cards with ijiraq. no idea what you could use that for, but you could do it.
THE FLYING URAYULI
I actually came across it at work a few days ago
stink is also good against the moon, it reduces it's 1 damage to 0. there's even a special dialog for it.
“The moon doesn’t have a sense of smell” 😂
This doesn't work in kaycee's mod.
The Ijiraq do be a silly card
Now I have to wonder, can you use a similar exploit to put two sigils on one card?
What I mean is, the Ijiraq is selected as a viable buffable card at a campfire even if the card it copies can't be buffed. Would that mean it can show up as an option for receiving a sigil even if what it's copying has a stolen sigil already?
I might test this myself, but I'm curious if anyone knows already.
Dude I’m at Disney rn this is so cool
Ijiraq is my fav card tbh
it's wild to me you didn't mention hobie, spiderpunk is such a key aspect of the movie for tying in that political edge
Oh so that's why The Daus card I picked the other day had red eyes!
Did you not notice the Daus being absent from your deck afterwards xD
@@michaelzoller5303 No because I just picked the card before having to turn off the game xD
Doesn’t this mean you could have an infinite attack combo with one of the many infinite search combos and a hand tentacle?
The most mysterious card........
"The flying urayuli"
THE FLYING URAYULI!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't know if it's a glitch since no-one else has mentioned it but I put a sigil (high leap) on a rabbit pelt and it turned into the ijiraq. I hadn't seen it so I was really confused why there was another pronghorn wolf in my deck lmao.
It still copies a random card as far as I know, and it still shows up as a pelt during the cave trial things.
THE HYPE IS REAL
NEW VIDEO DROPPED LETS GO
ooooh spooky card cloning
Neat! 👍
I had Ijaraq copy an ouroboros once and by the end I had Ijaraq and three ouroboroses on the field
THE FLYING UYARULI
I've seen the golden ijiraq once. I think...
How the hell can i find regular inscription videos
"THE FLYING URAYULI!!!!!1!!!11" - some youtuber idk
Ah, I was confused how I got 2 versions of my combined (6 attack, 14 health) moose buck. I assumed one was Ijiraq but was surprised when it didn't transform after playing. Guess I got it by searching.
Oh so thats how i got five oroboros
I was playing yesterday and I have created a wolf with 11 damage and 4 hp I place it, and it turns in to that thing I was like "oh ok"
I'm on this vid cause on my ant build when I placed my card down it just appeared, it scared me to death
Pretty interesting, I understood nothing and got a headache from this 😂
Can you use the sacrifice ijiraq thing to give a card 4 sigils?
you can’t
So basically what you're trying to say is that Pelt OTKs are theoretically possible
Bruh, Ijiraq buffing Ants is fucking BUSTED!
Imagine if you managed to buff an Ant to like 6+ base damage and then played the other ants along with it, that would get you like 10+ attack with a single Ant plus the other 12 from the 3 other Ants on the board. I knew you couldn't buff Ants and Pelts normally but I didn't know that Ijiraq let you do that. I only ever got the card once and I had no idea what the hell it did until I played it because I just saw the glowing red eyes and the ? on the card and was like "it has to be different somehow" and just played it.
Then it transformed on the board after I played a random ass card and broke my strategy a little because I think instead of it flying over an enemy it instead turned into Ijiraq and attacked a thorns card which killed it instantly. Granted it also killed the thing that was attacking it but I had planned to finish off Leshy with a flying attack but Ijiraq threw that idea out the window by tricking me into playing it and I ended up losing the match afterwards because my flying card was the last one in the deck and I never drew it to get over his deer spam and half of them turned into Elks and just demolished me on his next turn.
Speaking of Ants what is everyone's favorite tribe type or archetype from the game?
I'm personally really fond of bugs since most if not all of them are easy enough to play and the Ants buff each other with the more Ants you have on the board at one time, effectively multiplying your attack power if you get the right setup. That and the bug tribe also includes stuff like the Mantis God and Mantis cards as well as Amalgam which has all tribes, so it makes for a very powerful deck type if used correctly.
As soon as I unlocked the bug deck as my starter I pretty much used it exclusively for the rest of Kaycee's mod up until the final challenge to unlock the final stage came around and I just found myself unable to win at anything even with the bug strat and a half decent totem on hand because Leshy either REALLY enjoyed his Elk spam or he just got to play a lot of powerful cards one after the other and it was just impossible to beat him. I even tried the save trick of reloading the game to try again before it saved a death and I couldn't beat him still after like 3 hours of trying.
Each time I failed and retried I got a little further each time but one of the sigil fights I got stuck into right before the Moon battle just had me stumpted and I admitted defeat after several hours of failed attempts. I just didn't have the right deck setup to overpower his Elks and my bug totem wasn't doing me any favors because I didn't have a good one on that run, it was something stupid like bones in a deck that had no bone cards. The best sigil in my opinion for bugs is either deck search, Immortality, or infinite sacrifice. I prefer infinite sacrifice because then you only really need 1-2 cards on the field to get out your strongest bugs like Mantis God and Ant Queen for more Ants.
that's an interesting tidbit.🚬
my first ever Ijiraq was golden and I thought it was a bad card BC I saw it had no damage and haven't ever drawn for them since 😭😭😭😭😭
Ijiraq overpowered like crazy. Probably better than oroboros.
well if you got a good set up yeah
So... In conclusion, Ijiraq is a bit glitchy
In theory, you can get infinite of any card with only two base cards.
Itchy rock.
Ijiraq lost me a game because I was trying to play a mantis
from a scale on 1-10 how sus is the ijiraq
I mean the original ijiraq was known to kidnap children so…
Im going to marry the Ijiraq.
😳
THe FlYInG URaYuLI!! HELL YE! (Markiplier thing cuz ye)
who else saw this and went "omori squid"
10/10 Ijiraq is Goated. Saved me 10 runs !
Wow, so few comments!
Could it be? The susiest video ever created 😳
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...i just throw this card away i hate drawing my best card then it turns out to be a ijraq.
This is an obligatory support comment, nothing to see here
You may just scroll past this
I really truly believe that if it wasn't for the gimmick of forcing it into an ARG that this game had so much more potential and this mod just proves it. It makes me even more disappointed at vanilla inscryption.
This… is… vanilla Inscryption.
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@@cheatcode436 Normally i would leave it at that but the first ten seconds he literally mentions Kaycee's Mod you absolute fucking buffoon. Think before you speak you complete waste of space.
@@MrLogicallyrandom This isn’t a mod. Kaycee’s Mod is in the base game.
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Let's say gold pelts = 10K and ijiraq is worth 5K
But since golden ijiraq is difficult to get how much would it be?
"(etcetcetc) in a mod"
don't care bye
Kaycee's mod it's in the actual game, you have to finish the game first...
Im not subbed because Im a stubborn dick and dont sub. But I always check your channel for videos
This is why not all mods are ok... This should be fixed