This entry uses the Main database by default. The current Beta changes the values shown below.
Treat Soul Fysh as a hand-quality and tempo check. Beckon and the other Status pressure make every extra cycle more expensive, while Fade creates a bad window for attack-based burst and Scream makes the following attack much more dangerous through Vulnerable. Either bring a real way to remove, discard, or transform Status cards, or keep enough damage that the fight ends before Beckons take over your draws and Energy.
Beckon is not harmless deck clutter. It costs 1 Energy to clear from hand, but leaving it there costs 6 HP at the end of the turn. A deck with Exhaust, discard, transform, or another reliable cleanup method can stay in the fight much longer than a deck forced to pay for every Beckon normally.
Soul Fysh uses Fade before returning to its attack cycle, gaining 2 Intangible. If most of your damage depends on one large attack or one assembled burst turn, you need a way to delay or line that payoff up instead of drawing it into the Intangible window.
Scream deals damage and applies 3 Vulnerable. The dangerous part is not only the Scream itself; the next attack arrives while that Vulnerable is still active. Make sure the deck can survive that follow-up instead of spending the whole safe window on damage.
Soul Fysh does not need conventional Strength scaling to beat a slow deck. Repeated Status generation can destroy draw quality, consume Energy, and drain HP. If you cannot control the Status cards, shortening the fight becomes part of the defensive plan.
When Beckon reaches your hand, paying 1 Energy preserves HP but weakens the rest of the turn; keeping it saves Energy but costs 6 HP at end of turn. The right answer depends on whether that Energy produces enough damage or defense to justify taking the HP loss. I do not automatically play every Beckon.
Fade gives Soul Fysh 2 Intangible, so a large attack-based payoff can be almost completely wasted if it arrives at the wrong time. Use that window for setup, defense, draw fixing, or Status management whenever possible, then convert damage after Intangible expires.
Scream applies 3 Vulnerable, so I judge the following attack before committing the current hand to offense. A deck that comfortably blocks ordinary De-Gas damage may suddenly take a much larger hit while Vulnerable is active.
If the deck can repeatedly Exhaust, discard, or transform Status cards, Soul Fysh becomes much more manageable because its main source of long-fight pressure stops accumulating. Without that control, every extra cycle makes the deck less reliable, so damage speed matters far more.
BECKON DE_GAS GAZE FADE SCREAM Beckon → De-Gas → Gaze → Fade → Scream → repeat
The raw move pattern tells you what is coming. This plan focuses on what I want the deck to accomplish before each dangerous part of the fight.
Use the opening Status turn to establish useful setup while deciding how the deck will handle Beckons for the rest of the fight.
Keep functional hands through De-Gas and Gaze, then avoid wasting your primary damage during Fade.
Survive the Vulnerable window, then end the fight before another Beckon cycle further damages draw quality.
Beckon is a 1-cost Status that costs 6 HP if it remains in hand at the end of the turn. Repeated copies attack both draw quality and Energy efficiency even before Soul Fysh deals direct damage.
Gaze deals 7 damage normally or 8 on Ascension while also adding more Status pressure, then Fade gives Soul Fysh 2 Intangible. A poor draw here can both hurt your hand quality and delay your damage.
Fade grants 2 Intangible. Large attacks and other immediate damage payoffs lose most of their value during the Intangible window.
Scream deals 13 damage normally or 15 on Ascension and applies 3 Vulnerable. Because the cycle then returns toward Beckon and De-Gas, the next meaningful hit can become the fight’s largest defensive check.
I use these checks before committing the final rewards, upgrades, shop purchases, and potions leading into the Boss.
The deck can repeatedly Exhaust, discard, transform, or otherwise filter Status cards, or it has enough damage to finish before repeated Beckons materially damage the draw cycle.
Paying 1 Energy for every Beckon is technically an answer, but it can leave too little Energy for damage and defense as the fight continues.
The deck has enough repeatable damage or scaling that Soul Fysh does not get unlimited cycles to add Beckons and other Status pressure.
A deck with no Status control needs a much faster damage clock than a deck that can clean its draws.
The deck deals damage consistently across several turns, uses passive scaling, or can retain, redraw, recur, or otherwise delay an important payoff until Fade is no longer protecting Soul Fysh.
A single large damage card is unreliable if drawing it during Intangible removes the deck’s best chance to finish the fight.
The deck has enough Block, Weak, HP, or another defensive line to handle the follow-up attack while 3 Vulnerable is still active.
Evaluating each attack only by its printed base damage understates the danger created by Scream.
Draw, filtering, Exhaust, discard, transform, or card generation keeps the deck functional even when several low-value cards compete for hand space.
The main failure mode is often not lack of good cards but failing to draw those cards on the turn they matter.
The deck has enough current HP that occasionally leaving a Beckon in hand for 6 HP is acceptable when the saved Energy materially improves damage or survival.
Taking every Beckon hit is unsustainable, but paying every Beckon is not automatically correct either. HP and Energy are both resources in this matchup.
The Boss does not change between characters, but the part of the fight that matters most often does. These notes focus on what each character should adjust rather than repeating the general strategy.
Ironclad has one of the clearest answers to Soul Fysh because Exhaust can remove Status cards instead of paying their Energy cost. Second Wind, True Grit, and similar cleanup protect draw quality, while Beckon’s end-of-turn HP loss can also interact positively with self-damage packages when the deck already has those payoffs.
Silent does not need to remove every Status permanently if she can keep them from ruining the current hand. Draw plus discard is the practical answer: Tools of the Trade can continuously filter Status cards, while Acrobatics and Prepared improve access and let Beckons leave the hand without paying their normal Energy cost.
Defect has unusually strong Soul Fysh tools. Flak Cannon can turn a Status-heavy deck state into immediate value, Compact can convert Status cards instead of merely tolerating them, and Orbs continue creating or preparing output without depending entirely on clean attack draws. Dark Orbs are especially comfortable with Fade because they can keep charging while Soul Fysh is Intangible.
Necrobinder can use Cleanse and Seance to remove Status cards before they ever reach the hand, which is valuable because those tools can inspect the draw pile. The limitation is speed: removing one Status at a time may not keep pace forever, so the deck still needs enough Osty, attack, or Doom pressure to close the fight.
Regent can answer Soul Fysh by transforming Status cards rather than paying their normal tax. Charge, Be Gone, and sometimes Guards can convert bad cards into useful resources, while card generation helps maintain functional hand size when Status cards weaken normal draws. This lets Regent turn Soul Fysh’s main pressure into a resource-management problem instead of pure attrition.
These are the decisions that can make a deck look strong on paper but still fail this specific fight.
You spend 1 Energy on every Beckon simply because leaving it in hand costs HP.
Energy is also a survival resource. Paying several Status taxes can remove the Energy needed to Block or finish the fight, sometimes costing more HP than accepting one controlled Beckon trigger.
Compare the resources on the current turn. Play or remove Beckon when the HP protection matters; accept the 6 HP loss when the saved Energy creates a clearly stronger defensive or finishing line.
You ignore Status control because Soul Fysh itself does not appear to scale aggressively.
Repeated Status cards reduce draw quality, consume Energy, and can deal HP loss from hand. The deck becomes less functional with every additional cycle even without enemy Strength scaling.
Either establish a repeatable cleanup plan or deliberately shorten the fight. Do not enter an attrition fight without the tools to support it.
Your best attack or burst combo appears during Fade, so you play it rather than waiting for a better window.
Intangible reduces immediate damage so heavily that the deck may lose its best finishing opportunity while accomplishing almost nothing.
Use Fade for setup, defense, Status control, or passive scaling. Retain, recur, redraw, or otherwise delay important damage until Intangible expires when the deck allows it.
You block Scream itself and then spend the next hand aggressively because the immediate damage looked manageable.
Scream also applies 3 Vulnerable. The follow-up attack happens while that debuff is still affecting incoming damage, making the next defensive check significantly more dangerous.
Plan the Scream turn and the following attack as one defensive sequence. Preserve enough Block, Weak, HP, or potion value to cover both.
Once you find a Status answer, you spend every cycle maintaining a perfectly clean deck while adding little damage.
Status control makes the fight sustainable, but it does not itself kill Soul Fysh. Repeated cycles still create more opportunities for bad draws and HP loss.
Use cleanup to protect the deck’s functional turns, then convert that stability into damage. Once the fight is under control, finishing is the next job.