Slay the Spire subreddit: The Colorless Challenge is a challenge where the goal is to beat the game while only taking colorless cards. The rules are explained in the video, but here they are again:
1. Don't take character (colored) cards in card rewards or buy them in the shop. (Exception: the gremlin's Match and Keep event and the Library event are acceptable if you have no other options.)
2. Curses are allowed.
3. Don't transform a character card, even if it is a card from your starter deck. Only transform colorless cards, as they transform into other colorless cards.
4. Character cards that are generated from colorless cards (like discovery, metamorphosis, and chrysalis) or potions are allowed.
5. Upgrading colorless and starter cards is allowed. (Upgrading the exception cards in rule 1 is not allowed.)
6. (optional) If you have Singing Bowl, you're only allowed to take the Max HP if there is a colorless card among the options.
MODIFIERS
Recommended: All Star, Colorless Cards, Big Game Hunter
Good support: Hoarder, Midas
More consistent early game: Time Dilation, Lethality
Other fun stuff: Endless, Chimera, Cursed Run
EVENTS
(Sadly, I forgot to cover these in the video, so here's the rundown:)
Augmenter (Jax)
Council of Ghosts (Apparition x5/x3)
Knowing Skull (Success option)
The Nest (Ritual Dagger)
Vampires(?) (Bite x5)
Sensory Stone (1, 2, or 3 choices of colorless cards)
Winding Halls (Madness x2)
Due to the nature of colorless cards being "support" cards, some of these unique event cards can change how a deck works entirely. If you've taken, say, ritual dagger before, you undoubtedly have stacked it up and played it as a good damage card, but your deck probably didn't revolve around it. Here, it can. Or, it can fight with Hand of Greed over who gets the killing blow. Many interesting options with these events.
Some events have special rules, as they interact with the theme of the challenge in different ways.
A note for yourself - Naturally, if the card in there is not a colorless card, you can't take it.
Duplicator - You can duplicate a colorless card, not a character card (whether starter cards are allowed is up to you).
Match and Keep - If you accidentally pair 2 character cards, you can keep playing. No need to scrap a good run over RNG. (See rule 1)
Transmogrifier - See transformation rules (3).
Living Wall - See transformation rules (3) for Change option.
Cursed Tome - Necronomicon is always allowed. Enchiridion is allowed if you only choose colorless cards. Nilry's codex - up to you. The power it gives may not be colorless, so that goes against the theme, but banning it can leave the whole Cursed Tome useless with bad RNG. I say it's up to you.
The Library - Choosing the Read option is allowed, and if there are 0 colorless card options, taking one of the others is allowed. Otherwise, you must pick a colorless card. Again, no reason to scrap a good due to bad RNG. (See rule 1)
I hope this challenge intrigues you, and is fun if you decide to try it. :)
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