DICEOMANCER Berserker Starter Deck Only Challenge Guide

To complete the Berserker starter deck challenge in DICEOMANCER, start a run on Ascension 0 and select the skip option on every post-combat card reward screen. Because this rule forbids adding new cards to your deck, your run relies on upgrading your baseline starter cards, altering printed card numbers with rolled dice, and purchasing relics at merchant shops.

Core Challenge Rules and Deck Consistency

The challenge requires two active conditions: play on Ascension 0 and skip every card reward offered after battle. Card purchases at shops are also excluded under the strict starter deck constraint.

A standard run typically dilutes your draw pile with situational abilities and high-cost cards. Keeping only the initial starter deck creates a lean, predictable cycling engine:

• Predictable hand draws: Your compact deck allows you to draw your core baseline attacks and defensive cards every turn.
• Lower enemy thresholds: On Ascension 0, enemy health pools and damage scalings remain at baseline levels, making consistent card cycling effective without advanced drafted cards.
• Emphasis on core dice systems: Eliminating card drafting forces you to rely entirely on card upgrades, relics, and the game's dice-alteration mechanic.

Modifying Starter Cards with Dice

In DICEOMANCER, you can roll magical dice and place them directly onto cards during combat to overwrite visible numerical values. This mechanic allows basic starter cards to keep pace with late-game encounters.

Focus your dice placement on these tactical adjustments:

• Energy cost reduction: Overwriting a card's energy cost from one to zero lets you play your entire hand in a single turn without depleting mana.
• Damage amplification: Overwriting base damage or multi-hit strike values with high dice rolls turns basic attacks into major burst damage.
• Defensive scaling: During elite turns or boss attacks, place high-value dice onto block numbers to absorb incoming damage without expending multiple cards.

Map Routing and Shop Priorities

Because regular combat encounters offer card rewards that you must skip, normal hallway fights provide diminishing returns and expose your health pool to chip damage. Adjust your route to prioritize non-combat nodes:

1. Campfires: Visit rest sites early in Act 1 to upgrade baseline attacks and guards, raising their base stats so you require fewer high dice rolls to stabilize routine turns.
2. Shops: Route into merchant nodes with accumulated gold to buy passive relics and combat consumables instead of cards.
3. Mystery events: Take event nodes to acquire relics, gold, and stat adjustments without violating the card-draft restriction.

Gold Allocation Priorities

Since you will not spend gold on card drafting, direct all currency toward passive enhancements:

Boss Battle Execution

Starter decks offer linear defensive scaling, making extended battles disadvantageous. Prolonged encounters allow bosses to scale their strength buffs and shuffle status cards into your draw pile, which can choke your limited deck size.

Begin boss fights by rolling dice aggressively on your opening turn to locate your highest numbers. Apply high rolls immediately to your primary attacks to eliminate accompanying minions and drop the boss's health pool quickly. Reserve your rerolls to secure high block values on incoming multi-hit turns, allowing you to cycle through your modified starter cards and finish the run.