Decks

Decks is one of the two feature exclusive to the Kaycee's Mod version of the mod, along with challenges. They are selectable cards that you start the run with. This feature is the same as decks from the the base game, but with cards from Grimora's mod.

### Strategy

#### Vanilla/Basic Deck

If you are new to Grimora Mod, you should go with this deck, as it is simple to understand and easy to play with. If you're willing to risk your only real damaging card, the Frank&Stein can be turned into a Frankenstein at the electric chair very early into the game, otherwise Zombie is an incredibly effective pick for the Electric Chair. This decks powerful bone generation can also be incredibly helpful if you decide to take more expensive cards such as Bonehound or Mananangal.

#### Ghost Deck

This deck is a great pick if you're not great at bone generation, or just otherwise like Soul. It is the most versatile and generally considered the best deck among players, as the apparition can provide great value both early and late game. Due to your lack of bone generation, more expensive cards are a risky pick, but cheaper bone cards or other soul cards are a great selection.

#### Scream Deck

This is a very aggressive deck, which falls off in longer fights. You can play both of your Bone heaps turn 1 and hammer them, to immediately play the death knell and win a lot of fights. This strategy does not work quite as well in Bosses, due to their multiple phases, so it is important to pick up more sustainable attacking cards along the way. Picking cheap cards such as Zombie or Wandering Spirit at choice nodes to synergize with your Doll is a powerful strategy as well.

#### Skeleton Deck

This Deck is all about playing and buffing brittle cards, and it features great bone generation as well, including a Revenant makes a lot of the early game fights nearly trivial, especially when used alongside Animator, if you can pick up Yellowbeard or Ripper this deck is a force to reckon with.

#### Kaycees Deck

Kaycees deck is solely focused on playing the Glacier included in it, and features the Walkers as a low commitment mid-game option to tide you over. It is a good deck for Sawyers area but you may have some difficulty with it before you get your first starting bone, due to the presence of Draugr and Tomb Robber, cards like Animator or Yellowbeard are a good pick if you can find them.

#### Sawyers Deck

In the early game this deck suffers, but if you can land on more bone generation your Bonehounds are an incredibly effective unit, this deck also allows you to get a free Bone Lords Femur if you still have the Ancient Obol it include by map three.

#### Royals Deck

Royals Deck is a pretty well-rounded Deck, with a gameplay flow similar to a higher cost version of the Vanilla Deck, Snag can be used as a great mid-game option and Yellowbeard can be very helpful too. Because this Deck contains 2 pirate cards, it may be very useful if you are trying to do a pirate run with Davy Jones, and due to Yellowbeards presence, picking Animator or Tomb Robber is a powerful synergy.

#### Grimoras Deck

Competitively, this deck is mediocre. But if you enjoy a challenge and trust your bone generating skills it can be incredibly powerful. If you can manage through the earlier stages of a run, this deck is excellent against Grimora, as heavy cards like the Giant are incredibly effective against the Bone Lord and the Twin Giants

### Trivia

* The Vanilla Deck is the only one to have no Grimora's mod specific cards
* All decks have a duplicate of exactly 1 card
* The Ghost deck is the only one to share no cards with other decks
* The Grimora deck is the only one with all cards having bone generating sigils
* The costs on the act 2 style cards is custom drawn