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Genetic Algorithm

This card is really hard to assess. You have to really invest in it because it's utter garbage when you start. You also ideally want to pick it up in act 1 because it's just too late later on. Sometimes you draw it on a turn where the enemy isn't attacking, and do you play it anyway at the expense of doing damage or hope you can cycle your deck again? It's hard.

This card is best with Echo Form since you can get the bonus twice, and I like it with Hologram because I can call it on command. If you put in the effort, you can get like 50 block on the heart which is one of the few ways Defect can block its attacks besides frost orbs. I usually don't go for it but if I can't find a frost orb card I might pick it up. The problem is, you need to get it early so you probably don't know if you're going to have a good block machine going yet. Sometimes you have to sacrifice playing Electrodynamics or Storm in order to get it in, and that cost-benefit analysis is something you'll have to constantly do.

It feels like it isn't worth it until you hit the sword and shield on turn 3 and you're staring at 57 damage and suddenly it's all justified. But you still have to draw it on the right turn, you know? The answer to this card, as always: it depends.

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