Guida ai combo infiniti

What makes a combo infinite

• Energy rule: Every card in the loop must cost 0 energy, or the loop must generate enough energy to cover the cost (via Sundial, Stratega, or an energy-granting relic).
• Draw rule: Every card played must result in at least one card drawn. Unceasing Top solves this by drawing whenever your hand empties. Alternatively, cards like Abbraccio Oscuro (draw on Exhaust) or Riflessi (draw on discard) provide the draw engine.
• Damage rule: The loop must kill the enemy eventually. Artiglio gains +2 damage per play. Colosso deals 5 damage per Block gained. Buco Nero deals damage per Star spent. Without a damage source, you loop forever and never win.
• Deck size rule: Fewer cards means fewer draws needed to cycle the deck. A 5-card deck cycles in 5 plays. A 20-card deck requires 20 draws per cycle and almost certainly stalls.

Key enabler relics

• Unceasing Top: Draws a card whenever your hand is empty. This is the single most important infinite relic. With Unceasing Top, any 0-cost card that empties your hand immediately draws the next card. A deck of nothing but 0-cost cards goes infinite automatically.
• Sundial: Grants 2 energy every 3 times your draw pile shuffles. In a small deck that shuffles multiple times per turn, Sundial provides a steady stream of energy. Combined with 0-cost draw cards, Sundial lets you play 1-cost cards inside the loop without stalling.
• The Abacus: Grants 6 Block every time your draw pile shuffles. In an infinite loop where the deck shuffles 5-10+ times per turn, The Abacus alone generates 30-60+ Block. This turns any infinite draw loop into a defensive infinite even without offensive Block cards.
• Ice Cream: Preserves unspent energy between turns. Not a direct infinite enabler, but lets you bank energy on setup turns and spend it all when the loop starts.
• Gambling Chip: Mulligan your opening hand on Turn 1. Essential for finding combo pieces in a small deck that needs specific cards in the starting hand.

Building toward infinite: deck construction

• Remove aggressively from Act 1. Every shop visit should remove a Colpo or Difendi. The 75-gold cost is worth it. By Act 2, your deck should be under 15 cards.
• Take Exhaust cards over raw power. Patto di Fuoco, Osso Duro, and Dark Pact remove non-loop cards from your deck during combat, shrinking it to loop size by Turn 2-3.
• Skip most card rewards. Adding cards to a deck you are trying to shrink is counterproductive. Only take cards that are part of the loop or that Exhaust themselves.
• Prioritize card removal events. The Falling event (remove a card), Bonfire Spirits (remove a card for a relic), and the shop are your primary removal tools.
• Upgrade loop cards. An upgraded Artiglio+ or Preparativi+ is strictly better inside the loop. Upgrading non-loop cards is wasted unless you plan to Exhaust them.

Ironclad: Corruption + Dark Embrace + Feel No Pain

• Core cards: Corruzione, Abbraccio Oscuro, Nessun Dolore, Colosso. All four are required. Without Corruzione, Skills cost energy. Without Abbraccio Oscuro, the cycle stalls on draw. Without Nessun Dolore, there is no Block generation. Without Colosso, there is no damage.
• Supporting cards: Patto di Fuoco (Exhaust a card, draw 2 — free with Corruzione), Osso Duro (gain Block + Exhaust a random card), Sacrificio (draw 3 + gain 2 energy at the cost of 6 HP).
• Setup: Play Corruzione, Abbraccio Oscuro, and Nessun Dolore on the first 1-2 turns. Turns 3+ should cycle through Skills at 0 cost, drawing and generating Block and damage with each play.
• Risk: Once you Exhaust all Skills, you have only Attack cards and Powers left. If Colosso has not killed the enemy by then, you have no more cycle fuel. Deck must contain enough Skills to kill through Colosso damage alone.

Silent: Tactician + Reflex + Prepared

• Core cards: Preparativi (upgraded draws 2, discards 1), Riflessi (draw 2 on discard), Stratega (gain 1-2 energy on discard). The loop needs at least 1 Preparativi, 1 Riflessi, and 1 Stratega.
• Damage source: Shivs from Lame Danzanti (0 cost, 3 Shivs) or Lame Infinite (Power: 1 Pugnale per turn). Each Pugnale is a 0-cost Attack that procs After Image and Velenoso.
• Acrobazie (draw 3, discard 1) is a stronger version of Preparativi if you find it, but costs 1 energy. Stratega solves the energy cost by refunding when discarded.
• After Image converts every card played into +1 Block. In a loop playing 20+ cards per turn, After Image alone generates 20+ Block.
• Unceasing Top is especially powerful here — whenever you play out your hand, it draws the next card immediately, keeping the chain alive between shuffles.

Defect: Claw + All for One + Scrape

• Core cards: 2-3 copies of Artiglio, 1-2 copies of Tutti per Uno, 1-2 copies of Graffio. Agli Occhi! (0 cost, apply Weak) and FTL (0 cost, draw 1 if under 4 cards played) are excellent support.
• Raggio Laser (0 cost, apply Vulnerable) amplifies all Artiglio damage by 50%. One Raggio Laser in the loop multiplies total damage substantially.
• Tutti per Uno costs 2 energy. Sundial (2 energy every 3 shuffles) or a single Plasma Orb solves the energy problem. Without an energy source, you need exactly 3 energy per cycle (the base 3).
• Graffio discards non-0-cost cards, which means it naturally filters the deck down to 0-cost cards over multiple plays. This makes Graffio function as an in-combat deck thinner.
• This infinite is the easiest to assemble because Artiglio and Graffio are Common cards. You do not need rare Power setups — just enough 0-cost cards and one copy of Tutti per Uno.

Necrobinder: Soul cycling with Exhaust engine

• Core cards: Dark Pact (Exhaust a card, draw 2), Anima Siphon (gain 1 energy, generate 1 Anima), Persecuzione (Power: deal 6 damage per Anima played). Osty (companion) generates Souls passively.
• The Necrobinder does not need Unceasing Top as badly as other characters because Souls themselves provide the draw engine. However, Unceasing Top still helps bridge gaps when the draw pile empties between Anima plays.
• Target deck size: below 10 cards by mid-Act 2. Necrobinder has the most built-in Exhaust tools of any character, making deck thinning faster than other classes.
• Sei in Trappola! is the finisher — it doubles Doom on the enemy each turn. Once Doom reaches a threshold above the enemy's remaining HP, the fight ends instantly regardless of loop status.

Regent: Sealed Throne + Particle Wall + Black Hole

• Core cards: Sealed Throne (upgraded: 2 Stars per card played), Muro di Particelle (upgraded: 9 Block, returns to hand), Buco Nero (upgraded: 4 damage per Star event). All three are required.
• The upgraded versions are important. Sealed Throne+ grants 2 Stars (base: 1, which breaks the loop since Muro di Particelle costs 2). Buco Nero+ deals 4 damage per trigger instead of 3.
• This is the only character where the infinite requires exactly 0 additional deck thinning beyond finding three specific cards. Other cards in the deck do not matter because Muro di Particelle returns to hand — it never enters the draw pile.
• Damage per cycle: 12 damage (Buco Nero triggers on 2 Stars spent + 2 Stars gained = 4 triggers x 3 damage). With Buco Nero+, this rises to 16 per cycle. After 10 cycles: 120-160 damage plus 90 Block.
• Stars persist between turns, so partial setups still generate value. Even without all three pieces, a Sealed Throne + Muro di Particelle setup provides unlimited 9-Block cycles.

When infinite combos fail

• The Insatiable (Act 2 boss): Applies a Sandpit death timer that starts at 4. Each turn the counter decreases by 1. When it hits 0, you die instantly. Frantic Escape cards in your deck add 1 to the timer but increase in cost each use. Infinite loops cannot outrun this timer because the timer is turn-based, not card-based.
• Doormaker (Act 3 boss): Limits you to 3 Attack cards per turn. Playing a 4th Attack triggers Retaliation (15 damage). Infinite Attack loops like Artiglio spam hit a hard cap of 3 Attacks per turn, capping your damage output.
• Test Subject (Act 3 boss): Gains Intangible every 2 turns, reducing all damage to 1. Infinite damage loops still deal only 1 damage per hit during Intangible turns. Poison and Doom bypass Intangible, making Necrobinder and Silent infinite loops more effective than Ironclad or Defect loops here.
• Knowledge Demon (Act 2 boss): Forces a choice between permanent negative effects every turn. Sloth limits you to 3 card plays per turn. If Sloth is active, any infinite loop that relies on playing 5+ cards per cycle is capped.
• General anti-loop design: STS2 bosses are more likely to have turn-based timers and per-turn caps than STS1 bosses. Build your infinite to handle these constraints, or have a backup win condition.

Checklist before committing to infinite

• Do you have at least one core enabler relic (Unceasing Top, Sundial, or Gambling Chip) or a character-specific loop that does not need one (Regent Sealed Throne)?
• Is your deck at or below 15 cards by the end of Act 1? If you are above 20 cards entering Act 2, pivoting to infinite is too late.
• Have you found at least 2 of the 3-4 core loop cards for your character? Missing one piece means you might never complete the combo.
• Are there enough card removal opportunities remaining (shops, events) to thin below 10 cards by Act 3?
• Do you have a backup win condition if the infinite does not come together? A half-built infinite deck with no backup plan loses to Act 2 bosses.

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