Buffs

Stack Types

• Intensity buffs are more effective depending on how many stacks of the buff you have. These buffs typically are either permanent for the combat encounter or are consumed on the following turn.
• Duration buffs last for as many turns as you have stacks of the buff.
• Counter buffs activate when an event happens, such as taking damage or being inflicted with a debuff. With the exception of Mantra, counter buffs lose a stack each time they activate.
• Buffs that do not stack are typically gained from Power cards and last the entire combat encounter.

Regen is the ONLY buff with both Intensity and Duration stack types.

Buffs

Characters may obtain buffs they may not normally cannot access by means of Prismatic Shard if it is obtained from a card.

Icon	Name	Source	Description	Notes	Stacking Type	Caps at
	Strength	Inflame Flex Rupture Spot Weakness Demon Form Red Skull Reprogram Fasting Wish J.A.X. Du-Vu Doll Girya Shuriken Vajra Strength Potion Flex Potion Cultist Potion Cultist Fungi Beast Jaw Worm Red Louse Mad Gremlin Gremlin Nob Hexaghost Byrd Chosen Mystic Bronze Automaton The Champ The Collector Orb Walker The Maw Awakened One Donu and Deca Time Eater Spire Spear Corrupt Heart Super Elites	Increases (Decreases) attack damage by X	Negative Strength will be multiplied by Limit Break	Intensity	-999 to 999
	Dexterity	Footwork Reprogram Fasting Duality Kunai Oddly Smooth Stone Dexterity Potion Speed Potion	Increases (Decreases) Block gained from cards by X.		Intensity	-999 to 999
	Artifact	Core Surge Panacea Clockwork Souvenir Ancient Potion Sentry Spheric Guardian Bronze Automaton Donu and Deca Corrupt Heart Ancient Augmentation	Negates X debuffs.	Negates the next debuff on that unit. Each stack will negate 1 application. Effects that apply multiple Debuffs will do so in the order listed in the card. For example if the enemy has 1 Artifact, Shockwave will first attempt to apply Weak and remove the Artifact charge, and then will successfully apply the Vulnerable.	Counter	Integer limit
	Buffer	Buffer Fossilized Helix	Prevent the next X times you would lose HP.		Counter	Integer limit
	Intangible	Wraith Form Ghost in a Jar Apparition Incense Burner Nemesis Hauntings	Reduce ALL damage and HP loss take to 1 for X turns.		Duration	Integer limit
	Plated Armor	Wish Thread and Needle Essence of Steel Terminal Shelled Parasite Donu and Deca 19 Ancient Augmentation	At the end of your/its turn, gain X Block. Receiving unblocked attack damage reduces Plated Armor by 1.		Intensity	0 to 999
	Thorns	Caltrops Bronze Scales Liquid Bronze Spiker	When attacked, deals X damage back.	Similar functionality to The Guardian's Sharp Hide buff. However, Sharp Hide only deals damage after you play an Attack instead of dealing damage on each hit.	Intensity	Integer limit
	Vigor	Wreath of Flame Akabeko	Your next Attack deals X additional damage.		Intensity	Integer limit
	Duplication	Duplication Potion	Your next X cards are played twice.		Counter
	Pen Nib	Pen Nib	Your next Attack deals double damage.	If Pen Nib is obtained before Red Skull, instead of the usual order of operation, the 2× applies first and then the +3 Strength.	Does not stack
	Regen	Regen Potion	At the end of your turn, heal X HP and reduce Regen by 1.	Internally called Regeneration.	Intensity and Duration
	Ritual	Cultist Potion Cultist	At the end of your/its turn, gain X Strength.		Intensity	Integer limit
	Draw Card	Predator Doppelganger Simmering Fury	Draw X additional cards next turn.	Can only be obtained by Silent and Watcher.	Intensity	Integer limit
	Energized	Doppelganger Flying Knee Outmaneuver Charge Battery	Gain X additional Energy next turn.	Can only be obtained by Silent and Defect. Both types of Energized count as different buffs.	Intensity	-999 to 999
	Focus	Biased Cognition Consume Defragment Data Disk Focus Potion	Increases (Decreases) the effectiveness of your Orbs by X.	Exclusive to Defect. Dark Orbs gain more Evoke damage per turn with Focus.	Intensity	-999 to 999
	Mantra	Prostrate Devotion Worship Pray Damaru	Whenever you gain 10 Mantra, enter Divinity.	Exclusive to Watcher. If a player gains more than 10 Mantra at a single instance (only possible by 10+ stacks of Devotion in vanilla gameplay), none of it counts towards Brilliance's damage increase. Up to 9 Mantra stacks will carry over after the player enters Divinity, so if more than 10 is gained at once, the extra Mantra is wasted.	Counter	Integer limit for Brilliance, but resets at 10 for the purpose of Divinity
	Barricade	Barricade Spheric Guardian	Block is not removed at the start of your/its turn.		Does not stack	1
	Berserk	Berserk	At the start of your turn, gain X Energy.	Will show up as  Energy on the tooltip, no matter the character.	Intensity	Integer limit, but you only gain up to 999 Energy.
	Brutality	Brutality	At the start of your turn, lose X HP and draw X cards.		Intensity	Integer limit, but will not draw more than hand size
	Combust	Combust	At the end of your turn, lose N HP and deal X damage to ALL enemies.	N = 1 HP for each Combust played	Intensity	Integer limit
	Corruption	Corruption	Skills cost 0. Whenever you play a Skill, Exhaust it.	Overrides Snecko Eye's Confused and Snecko Oil's cost randomization. Can rarely have a bug where Skills don't cost 0 and cannot be played if the player doesn't have energy for it (visual; resets after a non-Power is played).	Does not stack	n/a
	Dark Embrace	Dark Embrace	Whenever a card is Exhausted, draw X cards.	With Dead Branch, when any action exhausts multiple cards at the same time, it resolves 1 card at a time (generate then draw, per card).	Intensity	Integer limit, but will not draw more than hand size
	Demon Form	Demon Form	At the start of your turn, gain X Strength.		Intensity	Integer limit, but will not gain more than 999 Strength
	Double Tap	Double Tap	Your next X Attacks are played twice.		Counter
	Evolve	Evolve	Whenever you draw a Status, draw X cards.		Intensity
	Feel No Pain	Feel No Pain	Whenever a card is Exhausted, gain X Block.		Intensity
	Fire Breathing	Fire Breathing	Whenever you draw a Status or Curse card, deal X damage to ALL enemies.		Intensity
	Flame Barrier	Flame Barrier	When attacked, deals X damage back. Wears off at the start of your next turn.		Intensity
	Juggernaut	Juggernaut	Whenever you gain Block, deal X damage to a random enemy.		Intensity
	Metallicize	Metallicize Heart of Iron Lagavulin The Champ Burning Elites	At the end of your/its turn, gain X Block.		Intensity	Integer limit
	Rage	Rage	Whenever you play an Attack, gain X Block.	Is unaffected by Dexterity; works through No Block from Panic Button.	Intensity
	Rupture	Rupture	Whenever you lose HP from a card, gain X Strength.	Will not trigger if you take 0 real damage (reduced by Tungsten Rod or negated by Buffer).	Intensity
	Accuracy	Accuracy	Shivs deal X additional damage.		Intensity	Integer limit
	After Image	After Image	Whenever you play a card, gain X Block.		Intensity	Integer limit
	Blur	Blur	Block is not removed at the start of your next X turns.		Duration	Integer limit
	Burst	Burst	Your next X Skills are played twice this turn.		Counter	Integer limit
	Double Damage	Phantasmal Killer	Attacks deal double damage for X turns.		Duration
	Envenom	Envenom	Whenever you deal unblocked attack damage, apply X Poison.		Intensity
	Infinite Blades	Infinite Blades	At the start of your turn, add X Shivs into your hand.		Intensity
	Nightmare	Nightmare	Add 3 of a chosen card into your hand next turn.	Copies won’t keep temporary costs unless rolled by Snecko Eye / Setup / Forethought. Internally called Night_Terror.	Creates separate stacks for each use
	Noxious Fumes	Noxious Fumes	At the start of your turn, apply X Poison to ALL enemies.		Intensity
	Phantasmal	Phantasmal Killer	Deal double damage for the next X turns.	Gives the Double Damage buff each turn.	Duration
	Thousand Cuts	A Thousand Cuts	Whenever you play a card, deal X damage to ALL enemies.		Intensity
	Tools of the Trade	Tools of the Trade	At the start of your turn, draw X cards and discard X cards.	Triggers before Mayhem, regardless of order played.	Intensity
	Well-Laid Plans	Well-Laid Plans	At the end of your turn, Retain up to X cards.	Works with Establishment.	Intensity
	Amplify	Amplify	Your next X Power cards are played twice.		Counter	Integer limit
	Creative AI	Creative AI	At the start of your turn, add X random Power cards into your hand.	The extra Powers will immediately go to your Discard Pile.	Intensity	Integer limit
	Draw	Machine Learning	At the start of your turn, draw X additional cards.		Intensity
	Echo Form	Echo Form	The first X cards you play each turn are played twice.		Intensity
	Electro	Electrodynamics	Lightning hits ALL enemies.		Does not stack
	Equilibrium	Equilibrium	Retain your hand for X turns.		Duration
	Heatsink	Heatsinks	Whenever you play a Power card, draw X cards.		Intensity
	Hello	Hello World	At the start of your turn, add X random Common cards into your hand.		Intensity
	Loop	Loop	At the start of your turn, trigger the passive ability of your next Orb X times.	Does not trigger extra times with Gold-Plated Cables. Triggers before Biased Cognition’s Focus Down takes effect.	Intensity
	Rebound	Rebound	The next X cards you play this turn are placed on top of your draw pile.	Despite being technically stackable, there’s no way to stack Rebound in basegame.	Counter
	Repair	Self Repair	At the end of combat, heal X HP.		Intensity
	Static Discharge	Static Discharge	Whenever you receive attack damage, channel X Lightning.	Only cares about unblocked attack damage; won’t trigger if damage is fully negated by Buffer / Strength Down / Weak, but will trigger if reduced to 0 by Tungsten Rod.	Intensity
	Storm	Storm	Whenever you play a Power card, channel X Lightning.		Intensity
	Battle Hymn	Battle Hymn	At the start of your turn, add X Smites to your hand.	The Smites go to your Discard Pile immediately. Will be triggered by Vault.	Intensity	Integer limit
	Blasphemer	Blasphemy	At the start of your turn, die.	Debuff coded as a buff to prevent Artifact / Orange Pellets from overriding it. Deals 99999 HP loss; can be prevented with enough max HP, Buffer, and Intangible active; consumes Lizard Tail / Fairy in a Bottle. HP loss means even if Intangible reduces it to 1, it can’t be blocked. Triggered by Vault. Internally called EndTurnDeath.	Does not stack	n/a
	Collect	Collect	At the start of your next X turns, put a Miracle+ in your hand.		Duration	1 to 999
	Deva	Deva Form	At the start of your turn gain Energy N times and increase this gain by X.	X = number of Deva Forms played. Initially N = X; each turn N increases by X. Further plays increase both N and X by 1. Triggered by Vault.	Intensity	Integer limit, but will not gain more than 999 Energy
	Devotion	Devotion	At the start of your turn, gain X Mantra.	Internally called DevotionPower. Triggered by Vault. If you have more than 10 Devotion and 0 Mantra before it triggers, it will trigger Divinity but not stack for Brilliance.	Intensity	Integer limit
	Establishment	Establishment	Whenever a card is Retained, lower its cost by X.	Internally called EstablishmentPower.	Intensity
	Foresight	Foresight	At the start of your turn, Scry X.		Intensity
	Free Attack Power	Swivel	Ignore energy costs on the next X Attacks you play.	Doesn’t work with All for One / Scrape; works with X-cost cards (you still pay current energy cost).	Counter
	Like Water	Like Water	At the end of your turn, if you are in Calm, gain X Block.	Internally called LikeWaterPower.	Intensity
	Master Reality	Master Reality	Whenever a card is created during combat, Upgrade it.		Does not stack
	Mental Fortress	Mental Fortress	Whenever you switch Stances, gain X Block.	Internally called Controlled. Triggers before Beat of Death, except for Simmering Fury.	Intensity
	Nirvana	Nirvana	Whenever you Scry, gain X Block.	Will trigger even if you Scry on an empty Draw Pile, unlike Weave.	Intensity
	Omega	Omega	At the end of your turn, deal X damage to ALL enemies.	Internally called OmegaPower.	Intensity
	Rushdown	Rushdown	Whenever you enter Wrath, draw X cards.	Internally called Adaptation.	Intensity
	Simmering Rage	Simmering Fury	Enter Wrath at the start of your turn.	Internally called WrathNextTurnPower.	Does not stack
	Study	Study	At the end of your turn, shuffle X Insights into your draw pile.		Intensity	Integer limit, but not recommended (can crash if too large)
	Wave of the Hand	Wave of the Hand	Whenever you gain Block, apply X Weak to ALL enemies.	Internally called WaveOfTheHandPower; lasts 1 turn, but persists across Vaulted turn.	Intensity
	Magnetism	Magnetism	At the start of your turn, add X random Colorless cards into your hand.		Intensity
	Mayhem	Mayhem	At the start of your turn, play the top X card of your draw pile.	Triggers after Tools of the Trade fully resolves, regardless of order played.	Intensity
	Panache	Panache	If you play [counter] more cards this turn, deal X damage to all enemies.	Counter starts at 5, decreases by 1 per card; at 0 it deals damage and resets to 5. Extra stacks increase damage. If Panache is last before 0, the extra stack does NOT count for current damage.	Intensity
	Sadistic	Sadistic Nature	Whenever you apply a debuff to an enemy, deal X damage.		Intensity
	The Bomb	The Bomb	At the end of N turns, deal 40(50) damage to all enemies.	N starts at 3, ticks down to 1.	Creates separate stacks for each use
	Angry	Mad Gremlin	Upon receiving attack damage, gains X Strength.		Intensity	Integer limit
	Back Attack	Spire Shield and Spire Spear	Deals 50% more damage as it is attacking you from behind.		Does not stack	1
	Beat of Death	Corrupt Heart	Whenever you play a card, take X damage.		Intensity	Integer limit
	Curiosity	Awakened One	Whenever you play a Power card, gains X Strength.		Intensity	Integer limit
	Curl Up	Red Louse and Green Louse	On receiving attack damage, rolls up and gains X Block.		Intensity	Integer limit
	Enrage	Gremlin Nob	Whenever you play a Skill, gains X Strength.		Intensity	Integer limit
	Explosive	Exploder	Explodes in some amount of turns, dealing X damage.	Explodes after 3 turns.	Special	Unknown
	Fading	Transient	Dies in X turns.		Duration	Integer limit
	Flying	Byrd	Takes 50% less damage from the next X attacks. Removed when attacked X times in one turn. Resets charges at the start of next turn if not fully removed.		Intensity	Integer limit
	Invincible	Corrupt Heart	Can only lose X more HP this turn.		Intensity	Integer limit
	Life Link	Darkling	If other Darklings are still alive, revives in 2 turns.		Does not stack	1
	Malleable	Snake Plant and Writhing Mass	Upon receiving attack damage, gains X Block. Block gain increases as Malleable triggers. Resets to X at the start of your turn.		Intensity	Integer limit
	Minion	Gremlins from Gremlin Leader, Bronze Orb, Torch Head, Dagger	Minions abandon combat without their leader.		Does not stack	1
	Mode Shift	The Guardian	After receiving X damage, changes to a defensive mode.		Intensity	Integer limit
	Painful Stabs	Corrupt Heart and Book of Stabbing	Whenever you receive attack damage from this enemy, add X Wounds into your discard pile.		Intensity	Integer limit
	Reactive	Writhing Mass	Upon receiving attack damage, it changes its Intent.		Does not stack	1
	Regenerate	Awakened One, Super Elites, Ancient Augmentation	At the end of its turn, heals X HP.	Does not decay at end of turn.	Intensity
	Sharp Hide	The Guardian	Whenever you play an Attack, take X damage.		Intensity	Integer limit
	Shifting	Transient	Upon lose HP, loses that much Strength until the end of the turn.		Does not stack	1
	Split	Acid Slime (L), Spike Slime (L), and Slime Boss	When its HP is at or below 50%, it will split into 2 smaller Slimes with its current HP.		Does not stack	1
	Spore Clouds	Fungi Beast	On death, applies X Vulnerable.		Intensity	Integer limit
	Stasis	Bronze Orb	On death, a stolen card is returned to your hand.		Does not stack	1
	Strength Up	Orb Walker	At the end of its turn, it gains X Strength.		Intensity	Integer limit
	Thievery	Looter and Mugger	Steals X Gold whenever it attacks.		Intensity	Integer limit
	Time Warp	Time Eater	Whenever you play some amount of cards, your turn ends and it gains 2 Strength.	Playing 12 cards triggers this.	Counter	Unknown
	Unawakened	Awakened One	This enemy hasn't awakened yet...	This is not foreshadowing at all.	Does not stack	Integer limit
	Surrounded	Spire Shield and Spire Spear	Receive 50% more damage if attacked from behind.	Use targeting cards or potions to change your orientation. Rounding error from Surrounded can cause these enemies to deal slightly less damage than the intent shows, on specific damage numbers.	Does not stack