Slay the Spire: Grand Finale Speedrun

Grand Finale strategies have a lot of potential, but it's really hard to play the decks as fast as possible, and it's hard to get practice, since good Grand Finale speedrun decks don't come around very often. Still, I wanted to show off a decent Grand Finale run that I got while grinding for my previous video. It could have even been the WR if not for all of the misplays, slow playing, or terrible Act 3 RNG.

[@FregnoglovingTurtle]

Skipping the 2nd boss relic is a pretty high level time save strat Kappa Jokes aside that run was really fun, and super impressive!

[@wouldhave4998]

It is so satisfying to see a deck based around the grand finale.

[@louiesalmon3932]

You have an actual galaxy brain to be counting cards this fast

[@probe1765]

Local Knife Owner gets stoned while camping and stabs gladiator

[@perckmalice70]

I've only managed to play grand finale once in all my play through lol. And that's with the pyramid. It's really not easy in a big deck unless you specifically keep only like 12 to 13 where you can cycle through it really fast and of course with well laid plans

[@tannerknight6230]

If you had gone full removal build and gotten a 5 card grand finale deck then you could’ve played it every turn. You had peace pipe, that would be a fun run to see

[@kobe5584]

The awakened one card draws are surprisingly good

[@themoonsevilsister1561]

First time I've ever seen grand finale played...

[@Night-xn1ks]

Why'd you skip the boss chest?

[@ForgottenArbiter]

Complete accident!

[@vackrakristaller]

and this deck still got there, lmao

[@manhphanhoang9555]

I thought it's some kind of 1000 IQ strat or something :v

[@abcdefsuzu]

Manh Phan Hoang lmao same. I saw him hover over it and then skip it. It made me pause the video and think for a couple of minutes.

[@shushmoysengupta6709]

i seriously thought you willingly skipped it...cause there could be a relic that could mass up your grand finale deck

[@troit1550]

Also that adrenaline skip AHHHHHH

[@Jerry-zf3ip]

Grand finale really should have two conditions. It's so hard to pull ofp and requires a good amount of luck from card removal events (actually getting them) and just getting the right cards (including grand finale itself!).
Like "Does 10 to all enemies damage", but "Does 50 damage to all enemies if no cards in the draw pile"
The Silent really needs some reworks to be as consistent a class as the ironclad.

[@serhatkarabeyli9818]

Jatett the card you reccomend would be op. All out attack only does 10 to all enemies and has a draw back being able to do 10 without any drawbacks and then doing 50 for fitting a condition would just make the card unbalanced like no other.

[@srfl02]

Serhat Karabeyli he's making a suggestion with it though, making an example out of it with 'like'

[@jakestavinsky3480]

Serhat Karabeyli Kinda new to the game but isn't all out attack a lower rarity? Makes sense for it to be weaker

[@srfl02]

Jake Stavinsky it doesn't have to be so that where the rarity is lower, then the card is weaker, there are still some pretty stellar 'gray tag' cards. As for the OP's original idea, now that I think about it, it kinda makes sense. It's something hard to build around, what with RNG of card draw and the size of the deck you have to pull it off at. Maybe if the card would apply some sort of status rather than damage? Or just a really small amount of damage to the point of inconspicuity

[@nicklemay8056]

@@serhatkarabeyli9818 Not very unbalanced imo. All Out Attack is an uncommon, Grand Finale is a rare. Plus the luck of drawing GF with no cards in the draw? How often do you take GF and actually get it as something other than a dead draw?

[@PlsDontReadThis123]

Not bad, keep it coming

[@jessejaremka3456]

Quary was a boss relic...?

[@stoxxed]

Well done!

[@emikochan13]

gg and well played :)

[@SpectreFantom]

Nice.

[@reds8787]

you are a god.... wow

[@hjvsxpyatniwa8722]

Респект братан;)

[@bratkartoffeln123456]

i wonder why at 8:42 you decide to waste your grand finale and overdraw with acrobatics not giving you 5 cards to draw next turn?

[@lol3xtrach3353]

probably a mistake, he's a god not a machine

[@bratkartoffeln123456]

but it happened a few more times so i wasn't sure if he didn't take it into account or had something else in mind

[@CanuckKid508]

why the splice after last rest site and the boss fight?

[@boobs4brains]

nice!

[@scoinc2469]

there were so many missed grand finales from retaining a card and resetting draw pile when you could have just put 5 cards in the played pile
(i know the run is old)

[@Lucas-vu8jt]

Scoinc do you not see how fast the cards are flying across the screen?

[@mryousif6627]

Did you use seed?

[@troit1550]

Your menu n card usage is really slow but good run