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The first card you play each turn is played an extra time.
Echo Form is the ultimate scaling tool for the Defect, doubling the effectiveness of your most impactful card every single turn. It is best utilized in boss or elite encounters where the initial three-energy investment can be recovered through doubled block, energy generation, or focus scaling over several turns.
Signal Boost
Signal Boost allows you to play Echo Form twice in a single turn, doubling the first two cards played every subsequent turn. This creates an exponential scaling engine that can quickly overwhelm any encounter with massive amounts of focus or block.
Mummified Hand
Since Echo Form is a high-cost power, this relic mitigates the tempo loss by making other cards in your hand free upon its play. This allows you to maintain defensive pressure or set up additional powers on the same turn you commit your energy to scaling.
Defragment
Doubling a Focus-generating power like Defragment provides a permanent and significant boost to all channeled orbs. This synergy is the most reliable way to scale orb damage and block to levels that can handle late-game threats.
Meteor Strike
Echoing a Meteor Strike deals massive damage and channels six Plasma orbs, providing an immediate and enormous energy surplus. This effectively turns the tempo loss of playing Echo Form into a massive energy gain for the remainder of the combat.
Self-Forming Clay
Playing a 3-cost power often requires taking unblocked damage; this relic rewards that risk by providing block on the following turn. This helps the Defect survive the 'setup turn' and reach the point where doubled cards can stabilize the fight.