Running a Curse Deck

Concept

The thought process here is to collect curse cards and leverage the right relics to make having them in your deck an empowering versus debilitating effect.

To do this well, you will want to focus on getting the following Relics to make this deck sing.

The Blue Candle is the number one relic you want to leverage to make this deck not kill you to employ.  Having it provides an avenue to play the curses and get them out of your active hand.

The Du-Vu Doll lets you gain bonus strength for each curse, levering high strength to do enormous damage as your accumulate curses.  Its the next important relic to try and put in your portfolio to make the cursed deck work.

This relic is hard to get early but if you can acquire it in Act 1 or at the beginning, it provides a path to get curses easy for each non-Boss chest.  If you have this relic, shoot for every question mark (?) on the path to try and get the non-boss chests.

The Darkstone Periapt provides bonus HP for each curse.  However, you want it as early as possible, since its bonus HP only accumulate for curses you gather after you have it.  That restriction is one of the reason why its pushed down farther on the "good to own" list.

The Calling Bell is nice because it provides a number of curses and relics to boost your deck's power.

Strategies

• Employing the Blue Candle lets you create synergies with cards that provide an effect from either exhaustion or from taking damage.  For example, a card that provides +3 block when you take HP damage from a card.  Or, a card that provides an effect that does damage to foes when you exhaust cards.
• Foes that add an Injury card (in contrast to a Wound card) to your deck provide a curse that you can take advantage of in this manner.
• Darkstone Periapt & Du Vu Doll provide a path to get bonus strength and max HP for each curse.  This makes you hit harder and survive longer.
• Pick up the Necronomicon, if the event is possible, since it will provide an automatic curse with it.