Blights

Blights are detrimental passive items, like a negative version of relics. They appear in Endless Mode. They are forced onto the player by Neow each time they defeat Act 3 bosses, and from blight chests, if the Blight Chests mod is on.

## Neow's Blights

Each time the player defeats the Act 3 boss and loops back to Act 1, they obtain a set of blights from Neow. The following is a list of blights that can be obtained from Neow.

[1]  do not count towards Time Maze's 15-card limit.

### Order

The set of blights that player obtains from Neow is in the following order.

#### 1st set

* Spear of Blight starts at a 100% increase
* Shield of Blight starts at a 50% increase
* Mimic Infestation

#### 2nd set

* Spear of Blight increases from 100% to 175%
* Shield of Blight increases from 50% to 100%
* Time Maze

#### 3rd set

* Spear of Blight increases from 175% to 250%
* Shield of Blight increases from 100% to 150%
* Muzzle

#### 4th set and afterwards

* Spear of Blight increases by 75% each set
* Shield of Blight increases by 50% each set
* Grotesque Trophy each set

## Blight Chests

With Blight Chests mod turned on, each boss chest from the 4th chest onward is replaced by a Blight Chest, where the player is forced to choose 1 from 2 random Blights to obtain (cannot skip). The following is a list of blights that can be obtained from Blight Chests. All Blights from Blight Chests stack its effect if more than 1 copy is obtained, like Spear and Shield blights.

## Update History

* Weekly Patch 54: Loop
	+ Blight rolling now increments relic rng seeds correctly (consistency on save/load)
* Weekly Patch 51: Recursion
	+ Muzzle blight was applying twice to Lizard Tail and Fairy Potion.
* Weekly Patch 40: Forethought
	+ Shifting Power (Transient) should now interact correctly, even if the owner has Artifact.
* Weekly Patch 36: Power Through
	+ Improved blight stacking for Endless. Grotesque Trophy is just 1 blight now.
* Weekly Patch 33: Terror
	+ Endless mod added to Custom Mode. Enemies get stronger and stronger.
	+ Blight Chests mod added to Custom Mode. Boss chests give unique unavoidable blights for added challenge.
* Weekly Patch 32: Face Trader
	+ Fixed Fairy Potion and Lizard Tail not triggering with Muzzle blight.

## Strategy

So, you want new challenge as the usual Ascension 20 has become boring and too easy.

The Endless mode allows you to collect every relic, every card for your ultimate deck if you can survive long enough, as well as give you additional problems to overcome, as following.

* Time Maze: You cannot use any infinite combo. This should not be that much of a problem if you can consistently defeat the Timer Eater boss who imposes a tighter restriction of 12 card plays per turn.
* You cannot gain max HP. At an arbitrary long point of time in the run, the enemies become strong enough that any damage they deal will kill you, as well as become more durable. You will need to come up with a way to kill your enemies (or boss) in your first turn, or sustainably reduce the damage to manageable level, e.g. ,
* Innate curses that clog your first turn and generate themselves in your deck if you cannot deal with them properly. Fortunately, you can remove them at shop or rest site using .

### Blight chests mod

You have came up with plans and strategies to survive the usual endless mode, indefinitely. Welcome to the ultimate challenge in the game: Endless mode with Blight chests mod.

In this configuration, you can collect only 3 boss relics, as any chest after the first 3 gives you blights instead. In additional to the usual endless mode's problem, you will have to deal with the new blights, as following.

[1] A common card manipulation in endless mode is the ability to duplicate any card you want. You need to have the target card and use  on it to duplicate it. Since Nightmare exhausts itself on use, you will need to have 2 copies of Nightmare so you can duplicate it before you run out if it. For Power and Attack cards specifically, you can simply use .

Fortunately, you can choose 1 blight to ignore, as the blight chests offer 2 choices (if the blight you want to ignore appears in 1 of the choices, you choose the other).