Evelyn offers much stiffer competition to Cornelius than her starting deck initially suggests. Two Transmissions and a Mana Gem give her a legitimate Support foundation immediately, but much of the remaining deck still needs replacing. She therefore pays a similar Act 1 reconstruction cost to Cornelius. 

However, Evelyn rarely suffers from being presented with more than one attractive option. Elemental Weapons and Elemental Proliferation are prime candidates for applying bulk Keywords. Although Elemental Weapons is particularly good at helping another Hero experiment with a different type for a while, 12-charge limit prevents Elemental Weapons from being fully consistent. Spell Echo is the larger payoff. Giving another Hero a zero-cost copy of their next Spell is exactly the kind of interaction we value in a dedicated Support: Evelyn supplies the mechanism while the Carry supplies the card worth duplicating. The effect remains useful across an enormous number of compositions and gives Evelyn a much stronger character-specific late game than most single-class Mages. 

Combined with her easy access to Fast, these talents let Evelyn add Hero-specific utility to the already excellent Mage Support pool rather than merely improving her own Spellcasting. That distinction carries her a long way.

Zek has a few useful Support pieces, but remarkably little reason to occupy the role himself. Three copies of Curse of Exhaustion give his starting deck legitimate speed-control tools, and his slightly higher Speed for a Mage helps him enter the team's initiative chain more comfortably. Dark Ritual is the card you start looking at when the spreadsheet says: ‘We need more Energy and the cupboard is becoming concerningly empty,’ but pales in comparison to the normal Mage Support tools. It costs Energy and health to provide Energize without Inspire and tends to only appear when a team is scrambling to find extra Energy. 

Dark Feast has some fascinating interactions with the Support role, because it states any card instead of “Spell” allowing it hit some of the premium support cards like Tome of Intellect and Transmission extremely favourably. Putrefaction provides a legitimate route into Shadow resistance reduction, but introduces an awkward problem of its own. Zek is already one of the strongest vehicles for Shadow damage, so using him to Support a Shadow Carry often means removing one of the best candidates for the Carry position in the first place.  

Zek can carry the excellent Mage Support pool perfectly well, but most of what makes Zek specifically desirable would rather be killing things. If you're desperate for another Mage Support, he functions, particularly in a Shadow composition, but Evelyn or Cornelius will usually perform the job better, because asking Zek to support another Shadow Carry has the peculiar feeling of asking the most judgemental person in the room to supervise someone else doing his job. 
 

Wilbur finds himself in a contradictory position of being simultaneously a noob trap and a powerhouse. Getting him off the ground floor takes significantly more work than our Big 4 Mages. His starting deck contains none of the cards that define his eventual battery, so reaching that role in Act 1 generally requires substantially more random acquisitions than it does for Evelyn or Cornelius. 

 His starting talent targets randomly,reducing his consistency. He cannot begin with a functional support deck without heavy reliance on Divinations, while Twin Scrolls doesn't become particularly impressive until the late game. Skillful at Level 2 is the usual pickup, but it has its own basket of snakes. With limited scrying tools, it often falls prey to the Exhaust mechanic if it's not in the top two-thirds of a deck. With excess Scry, Skillful can be guaranteed and the deck shuffled so that Exhaust becomes largely irrelevant. The problem is that scrying tools are a heavily contested resource and are often consuming the consistency that other Heroes would like. Scholar comes next, but falls slightly short of Duality, leaving it somewhat below the usual benchmark. Transcribe is where his curve finally begins to improve, and usually this is where Twin Scrolls comes online. Placing two zero-cost Spells into a Hero’s deck can be exceptional for Energy economy. Wilbur usually seeks out Dimensional Crystal at this point, which is one of the most reliable non-boss item pickups. Unfortunately, his power curve flattens again at level 5. Energizer feels excellent for a team that is regularly starved for Energy. However, by Level 5, a team that has already carried an Energy-hungry deck through Acts 1-3 must possess enough economy to function before Energizer; the trait can at best improve an existing engine rather than creating one. 

The conventional case for Wilbur is entirely real. A completed battery can make every other Hero feel as though the normal Energy rules have been politely suspended. The ranking disagreement is about when that engine exists and what is required to assemble it. Cornelius arrives with two Scrolls of Int; Evelyn arrives with two Transmissions and a Mana Gem. Wilbur begins with none of his eventual battery package, consumes contested Scry to stabilise Skillful, and Twin Scrolls does not come online till the run is well underway. He is not weak. He is backloaded and Divinitation-fragile in a tier list that places a heavy weight on Act 1 consistency.

Malukah initially looks like somebody spilled half the Healer keyword list across a character sheet and decided to see what happened. Her starting deck does little to disprove this, with Malediction being the obvious standout and much of the remaining deck requiring substantial reconstruction. The important shift is realising that several of those apparently unrelated mechanics are actually conversion tools. 

Her Level 2 talents are a good example. Yin Ritual converts Dark application into team-wide Regeneration, while Yang Ritual converts Regeneration application back into Dark. Because Malukah's innate Voodoo turns Dark application into healing, ordinary Regeneration cards can suddenly produce considerable healing, while Dark utility can quietly supply sustain on the side. With the right Spells and items, these loops can become surprisingly efficient, allowing Malukah to cover much of the team's healing without devoting much of her turn to explicitly healing anyone. Her talent progression repeatedly threatens to cohere before wandering off again. Levels 2 and 3 can build surprisingly efficient healing and Dark conversion lines. Level 4 is where Malukah's progression drives directly into a retaining wall. Vaccine is particularly difficult to justify: rather than providing its effect immediately, it adds a 1-Energy Enchantment to Malukah's deck. This costs both a draw and Energy before providing any value, and its uses do not begin until a later turn. In a format where developed teams are increasingly ending combats within one or two rounds, Vaccine is a long-term investment offered shortly after the concept of “long term” has begun to disappear. 

Twilight Swamp is where Malukah's Support package becomes considerably stranger. Depending on the upgrade, the card can be Global rather than merely targeting all monsters, meaning its Dark, Wet, Slow, and Courage interactions must be considered on both sides of the field. The enemy-side package alone gives Malukah speed control, resistance manipulation, and buff removal in a single draw. Twilight Swamp therefore does not function as a conventional Healing Spell so much as a way to load several different mechanisms at once. 

Her problems are therefore less about lacking Support tools and more about accessibility and consistency. The starting deck still needs significant work, several of her talents remain more interested in damage than Support, and her best conversion engines become much more impressive when particular cards or items cooperate. When those pieces do cooperate, however, Malukah can compress an alarming number of jobs into very few actions. 

She still struggles to compete with the cleanest high-end Healer Supports, especially when another Hero can provide the same Carry scaling with less assembly. But writing her off as an incoherent Dark Healer misses the strange little economy underneath. Malukah does not always know what currency she is being paid in, but she is unusually good at laundering it into health. 
 

Nezglekt comes wrapped in an alarming amount of Insane and Sight nonsense, only to reveal one of the strongest starting Support decks in the game underneath. Someone appears to have accidentally left two copies of Expected Prophecy, two copies of Scry, and Banish in his starting deck. This gives him excellent deck control before the first shop. Adding the usual Healer access to Inspire and Bless allows Nez to assemble a comprehensive Support package extremely early. Night Terror also deserves an honourable mention as reliable resistance reduction against Bosses and Champions, with particularly high value in physical compositions. 

Fated Future is the major talent payoff. Its enormous cost reduction represents roughly seven additional Energy when fully exploited, and, critically, that value can be placed on the Hero whose turn actually matters. Mental Leech can contribute enough incidental healing that Nez seldom needs to devote much of his deck to sustain, but building the entire composition around Insane reverses the relationship. The healing is a useful by-product; the deck manipulation and resource funnelling are the reasons he is here. 

His eventual ceiling is slightly less extravagant than the multiclass supports like Bernard and Laia, but very few Heroes reach their functional floor as quickly or cheaply. Nezglekt does not need much help becoming useful, which is rather convenient because he is generally occupied predicting the future. 

Ottis runs into the same trap as several heavily defensive Heroes: the game makes it extremely easy to keep solving a problem that has already been solved. His starting deck contains a substantial amount of Shield, Block, and Courage, while Shielder converts part of that Shield into healing. This makes his early defensive floor considerably better than it first appears, particularly with Orby. 

The problem arrives when the team is already safe. Double Bubble can duplicate a very large Defense card at zero Energy, and his later talents continue improving Shield and Holy Spell efficiency, but additional defence has sharply diminishing value once enemies are no longer threatening the team. Ottis can become exceptionally efficient at producing a resource the composition no longer needs. 

Sanctify gives him another route into carry support, particularly in Holy compositions, but his personal access is generally less impressive than dedicated Sanctify packages from Reginald or Tulah and less specialised than Laia. Then Paladin Gauntlets happens. 

Paladin Gauntlets allows Courage application to generate Bless, turning much of Ottis's existing defensive machinery into offensive scaling. The deck suddenly becomes extremely simple: a small package of efficient Defense cards, resource generation, Scry, draw, and enough Courage application to turn the pig into a Bless factory. Getting to that point can be awkward, but the transformation is significant enough that it deserves to define his strongest practical build. 

Ottis suffers from much the same problem as Heiner: he is exceptionally good at solving a problem with a finite answer. Heiner eventually has enough Block; Ottis eventually has everyone alive. After that point, additional defensive output needs somewhere else to go. Ottis is therefore not a universally premium Healer. Without a way to convert his excessive defence into another useful role, his ceiling arrives surprisingly early. With Paladin Gauntlets, the ceiling appears to have been improperly installed. 
 

Reginald's central problem is not access to Bless, but ownership of it. His innate steadily applies Bless to himself, which looks excellent until we remember that Support Reginald is not the Hero being paid to deal damage. The additional healing received is useful, but most of the offensive value is sitting on the wrong side of the table. 

Divine Grace is the clear exception and an excellent Act 1 card, providing targeted Bless alongside healing and draw. Healing Surge offers another route by refunding Energy from Healing Spells and applying Bless to the most damaged Hero, but this is automatic rather than directly targeted. The Carry receives the scaling only when their health happens to cooperate with the plan. 

The stranger problem is that Reginald eventually becomes too efficient at healing for Healing Surge's trigger condition. Focus Heal can provide most or even all of the sustain a developed team requires, leaving little incentive to repeatedly cast paid Healing Spells simply to manufacture Bless. Divine Power also reduces the relative importance of Divine Grace as the run develops. 

Reginald therefore has no difficulty keeping a team alive. Keeping a team alive is simply not the difficult part of being a premium Healer Support. He performs the basic role comfortably, but his most heavily advertised scaling mechanic remains frustratingly reluctant to leave home.

Tulah quietly begins with one of the cleaner Healer Support decks with access to Courage, Inspire, Dispel, and deck control before the first shop, while many of her less important cards conveniently Vanish after use. This substantially reduces the reconstruction demanded by most Healers in Act 1. 

Broodmother is more complicated than it first appears. Spiderlings cost zero Energy, replace their own draw, and Vanish, making them remarkably unobtrusive once played. The tradeoff is deck pollution: a Spider may replace its draw when played, but it still occupies a position in the deck before then, which consumes Scry bandwidth until drawn. The Spiders are cheap once drawn, but expensive while unfound. Spiderlings are draw-neutral after you find them, not deck-neutral before you find them. When Spiderlings apply Sanctify, they let Heroes convert Attacks they already intended to play into incidental sustain without adding healing cards to their decks. 

Webweaver is an exceptionally strong effect arriving at an awkwardly late stage of the run. Global Shackle that continues functioning against Bosses would be premium speed control earlier, but by Level 5 most developed teams have already solved initiative. It therefore raises Tulah’s ceiling more than it improves her accessibility. 

Tulah still requires more care than the cleanest generalists, and her Spiders can become actively irritating in highly deterministic Scry compositions. But describing her as merely “slightly above average at everything” undersells both her excellent starting floor and her ability to distribute low-action-cost sustain. She does not immediately look like one of the premium Healers. This appears to be Tulah's preferred arrangement.

Laia is a premium Support for a large number of compositions, although she has a habit of convincing players to build far more Laia than the team actually requires. Her starting deck is imperfect but contains several unusually valuable pieces. Lay on Paws is excellent targeted Bless and almost never needs to leave, while both copies of Inner Fire can cheaply upgrade into zero-Energy targeted Powerful. Intercept, Prayer of Protection and Holy Nova can provide enough defence and Sanctify application to be useful through Act 1, even if the four Holy Slashes leave plenty of cleanup to do.  

Laia’s real advantage is being a Healer with access to Warrior cards. Both pools contain multiple acceptable outcomes for defence, Energy, Carry scaling, and deck control. She therefore does not need every Divination to find the same named card: several different cards can advance the same missing role. That breadth does not make every Divination good, and it does not establish a universal probability advantage over single-class Heroes. It makes Laia less dependent on one narrow package. Therefore, Laia is Divination-reliant but not Divination-sensitive. The remaining cost is economic, because a broad set of acceptable offers only helps when the party has enough shards to act on them. 

Her talent tree continues this flexibility rather than giving her one mandatory engine. Purrification can turn Defense cards she already wants to play into resources. Duality provides an extra clean 3 Energy per turn, and Heavenly Protection lets a Defense card provide Shield, Bless and Zeal to the entire team. 

Laia’s strongest internal synergies are not entirely self-contained. Zeal improves Sanctify healing, which in turn improves Overflow, but Laia naturally supplies surprisingly little of either resource herself. This becomes much less of a problem when the rest of the team can provide them incidentally; Tulah, for example, can supply Sanctify while performing her own Support role, while Basthet’s Grace from the Pyramid can reliably solve much of Laia’s Zeal access. Apparently, centuries of questionable age-gap yuri have at least taught her the value of sharing resources. The danger is overcommitting to these interactions. Laia is strongest when she takes whatever jobs the team is missing, not when every Keyword on her character sheet is forced into the same relationship. 

Navalea is one of the strangest Supports to evaluate, with an awful starting deck attached to two of the best Support card pools in the game. Mage and Warrior give her so many useful targets for Energy, draw, speed control, defence and debuffing that she is Divination-reliant, but not Divination-fragile. She requires substantial Act 1 reconstruction, but her multiclass pool makes acceptable outcomes relatively common. Curse of Torment is the major piece of her starting deck that does not need replacing, and becomes increasingly important as the run progresses if going the Scourge route.  

Level 3 is where Navalea explodes into relevance, with two genuinely excellent choices. Duality supplies 3 Energy per turn and lets her begin above the normal 10-Energy cap. Aura of Despair, however, is a bit trickier. Vulnerable normally remains a contested and limited Support resource, but starts looking pale compared to Scourge, and when combined, Navalea becomes a one-woman Resistance Remover. Curse of Torment works effectively before level 4 to prioritise specific targets, but at Level 4 the targeted resistance becomes AoE resistance removal, and most combats collapse from there. 

Defensively, Navalea has no exceptional personal engine, but Mage and Warrior together provide broad access to Block, Shield, Reinforce, Insulate, Infuse and speed control. More importantly, Navalea's role compression lets the other Supports become more defensive, since a team no longer spending heavily on Vulnerable, Inspire and Energize can put those resources somewhere else. Navalea ultimately begins as an expensive but unusually forgiving generic Support and ends as a resistance-reduction engine powerful enough to stop caring what damage type the Carry uses.

The worst part about running Sigrun as a Carry is that you do not get Sigrun as a Support. Her high base Speed and access to both Scout and Mage cards give her almost everything required of a first-acting Hero. Scout supplies turn-order control, draw, Scry, and some deck manipulation, while Mage supplies some of the game’s strongest Energy tools. Acting first lets Sigrun establish Fast and Slow, construct later hands, and distribute resources before the other Heroes take their turns. This starts the team’s snowball before anyone else has acted. 

Sigrun does not begin with a deck capable of realising that potential. Most of her starting cards are damage-facing and need to be removed, creating one of the larger Act 1 reconstruction costs among the strongest Supports. This makes her intensely Shard-hungry, but not necessarily Divination-fragile. Scout and Mage contain numerous acceptable outcomes across most Support functions, so Sigrun is more dependent on acquiring a large number of functional cards than on finding one exact package. Her combined card pools make that reconstruction forgiving in what it can accept, but expensive in how much it must replace.  

Sigrun needs to spend heavily replacing her starting deck, making cards like Bookworm simultaneously one of the cards she wants most, and one of the luxuries she can least justify purchasing. Finding Bookworm dramatically improves the runs in which it appears, but an expensive card that is not consistently available cannot be priced into her baseline. It represents Sigrun’s ideal Act 1 engine, but not the consistency she can expect every run. She cannot reproduce the consistency Expert Tracker gives Andrin, so Andrin retains the more preconstructed opening despite sharing the Scout pool. The tradeoff is clear: Andrin begins closer to his ceiling, but Sigrun gets Mage cards. 

Duality is the centrepiece of that package. After purchasing Adrenaline in Act 2, Duality raises her effective Energy to 9. Because she acts first, those 3 points of effective Energy enter the snowball before it has begun compounding. Duality is not mechanically stronger on Sigrun than another Hero, but Sigrun’s position lets its value propagate further downstream. Extra Energy on a Carry is generally converted into more damage; on Sigrun, it can become resources for the entire team. 

Rain is usually among the last cards removed from Sigrun’s starting deck. Its 0-Energy cost makes it an efficient early trigger for Magic Rune and draw books, with the occasional synergy with Cold and Lightning compositions and occasional Baptism lines. This makes rain an excellent transitional card, but it often cannot survive scrutiny past Act 3. Even when Wet is relevant, it does not compare with Bless as a foundational scaling. Once a draw engine has been established, and a comprehensive deck has been constructed, rain becomes as functionally empty as Yogger generating healing into a team at full HP. 

Sigrun’s remaining talent progression is considerably less impressive than her class access. Levels 1, 2 and 4 contain conditional utility, but do relatively little to solve the expensive process of constructing her Support deck. Magic Rune can provide valuable cycling, but is a payoff for having already assembled a suitable Spell package rather than a tool that builds the package itself. Valhalla is the exception in power and the same problem in timing: too late to justify choosing Sigrun, yet far too strong to ignore. It contributes nothing to the unstable part of her run, since the team must already survive the early Acts and assemble its engine before the talent exists. Its timing is much more favourable for compositions that comfortably clear ordinary encounters but lack the sustained or concentrated damage required by the final boss. Valhalla acts as insurance against the final boss, without necessarily assisting in reaching it, making it only a minor contributor to her placement. 

Sigrun is ultimately an expensive Act 1 project attached to one of the strongest possible Support foundations. Her starting deck and sparse early talents make assembling that foundation considerably harder than her class combination suggests, but the tools she has access to reward that investment with an exceptional engine. 

Bernard is the most misunderstood Hero in the game, largely because the game presents him backwards. Poison, Rust, Wet, Thorns and other Keywords scattered across his kit have little internal synergy, while Flasks are difficult to access, narrow in scope, and generally below the power level of our more commonly used cards. His talents make this worse by pointing towards a dedicated Flask deck, despite only providing a limited number of useful triggers. Healing Flasks can be nice trickle sustain but this is not permission to ram his deck full of Flasks. The public assessment that Flask Bernard is bad is largely correct. The mistake is assuming that this is the only way to play Bernard. 

Bernard is better understood as a Healer with access to Scout cards. His starting deck is still mostly horrid, with Uproot providing the major exception through immediate Vulnerable access. Replacing the rest makes him extremely Shard-hungry, but Scout and Healer offer enough acceptable outcomes that his functional floor remains easy to find. He is Divination-reliant but not Divination-fragile: the problem is paying for enough replacements, not finding one exact package. 

His base Speed is genuinely awful, but it only prevents him from leading the Speed chain, rather than operating inside it. A conventional First-Hero can place all three Supports in front of the Carry, after which Bernard can apply Fast and complete the ordering. He cannot be the first Hero, but he can still fix the order. 

Scout gives him Energy, draw, Scry, deck manipulation, Fast, Evasion, and Vulnerable, meanwhile Healer gives those tools much stronger things to find. Divine Power provides scaling, while Clarity, Fortune Telling and Scry provide the deck consistency. Delay Tactics gets particularly interesting when the hero can also apply Fast. 

Scavenge is where this becomes criminal. Scavenge can retrieve any non-Vanished card from the Discard pile and becomes a second copy of whatever matters most. Scout usually limits this with its mediocre individual card quality, but Bernard gets to use the same recursion on Healer cards that are individually far more powerful. Scavenge can therefore reproduce standalone powerful cards in ways that ordinary Scout decks struggle to capitalise on. 

Duality provides a reliable 3 effective Energy per turn, and comes an at opportune time in the run. Alkahest arrives too late to explain Bernard’s accessibility, but gives compositions that struggle against bosses an exceptional closing route. 

Bernard succeeds despite the mechanics presented as his identity, not because they secretly form a good Flask deck. His starting deck is expensive to repair, and his Speed restricts his position, but Scout economy and manipulation gain access to Healer-quality scaling. The disparity between the Hero players are encouraged to build and the Hero hiding underneath is why his ranking on this list will surprise so many people. 
 

Nevermoor is difficult to analyse because his character sheet presents flexibility as though it were already role compression. His access to both Warrior and Healer cards gives him a broad Support pool containing defence, healing, buffs, Speed control, and resource generation. His respectable base Speed, Push Forwards, and access to Piercing Howl provide immediate turn-order utility, while Rune Catalyst begins establishing his personal engine. Beyond these initial tools, his starting deck requires substantial reconstruction, making him considerably more expensive to operate than most other Heroes. 

Much of that construction cost comes from Runeweaver itself. It would be misleading to treat the Energy from Runeweaver as a direct cost of the Rune, since the underlying card still performs its normal function, so the real cost of Runeweaver is the pressure it places on deck construction. Many excellent Support cards are valuable specifically because they cost very little, while Nevermoor is encouraged to purchase more expensive cards, maintain the correct balance of card types, and play them in an order that establishes his Runes quickly. This makes him intensely dependent on Draw, Energy and access to Scry, with the cost of supplying those resources forming the central problem in his evaluation. 

The Runes offer a powerful return on that investment, but do not combine as cleanly as we might want. Blue and Green Runes, once established, produce massive amounts of defence and healing, and Fortify even scales damage in some compositions, but both encounter hard saturation points. Their value collapses once the team is adequately protected or already at full health. Blue can even undermine Green by preventing the damage required to produce meaningful healing. Red Runes theoretically provide an outlet after healing and defence have saturated, but their Mark application presents another construction problem. Expensive multi-hit cards such as Whirlwind can apply Mark in bulk but are difficult to fund, while cheaper damage cards like Cleave apply too little Mark to justify them. Meanwhile, cheap cards that are good at applying Mark like Dawnlight, do not apply Red Runes. This makes his Mark application shaky even under optimal conditions. 

Flexibility is not role compression. Nevermoor can be constructed to heal, defend, or contribute damage, but selecting between the several roles is different from performing all of them efficiently within one deck. Genuine role compression requires the same cards and resources to solve several problems simultaneously. Nevermoor can instead end up purchasing a separate engine for each role. Enough Draw and Energy may allow him to operate all of them, but supplying more resources does not make those roles compressed. 

Nevermoor therefore excels not by compressing several jobs into one efficient package, but by turning broad card access and abundant resources into an extremely strong toolbox. In a team that is able to fund his early setup, construct his hands correctly, and remain in combat for long periods of time, he can answer an unusually wide range of problems. This tier list places him lower because it prioritises Act 1 construction cost and the ability to create role compression efficiently with limited resources. Teams built to move fast and hit early have little use for Nevermoor. 

Nyrada’s critics often arrive at a reasonable placement through the wrong arguments. Dismissing her as an underwhelming Dark specialist ignores how much a normal Mage-Healer deck already accomplishes. Bless, Powerful, Energize, Draw, and Scrying tools give her a good place in any composition, and Scroll of Speed lets her participate in the initiative chain comfortably. She does not need a personal engine to function. The question therefore becomes how much of her kit improves a Support deck that other Heroes can also construct. 

Dark Mercy makes that distinction particularly important. Healing attached to damage looks like role compression, but the resources spent producing that damage still matter. Dark explosions cannot use the damage scaling already desired by conventional Carries, while Resistance reduction eventually caps and efficient Scourge access is scarce. Building around those restrictions to obtain healing often costs more than simply purchasing healing, especially when losing Rhythm of Magic becomes part of the cost. 

Its healing also arrives behind an additional threshold. Until Dark explodes, the talent provides no sustain; when it does, the entire packet goes to one Hero and any excess is wasted. Compared with Malukah’s ability to distribute small packets of healing as needed, Nyrada’s thresholded healing falls short. Explosions triggered by other Heroes weaken this comparison but do not resolve the cost of producing the explosions. 

Shadowbound offers a much more convincing reason to consider her. Shadowbound allows for large bulk Dark application on a single target and when combined with the Resistance loss, Shadowbound offers significant role compression and damage density, even at 2 Energy.  

However, she falls on her face again because most of her talents provide useful advantages without resolving the cost problem. Rhythm of Magic misses some of the game’s best Skills. Cursed Mirror earns points for Scourge access, but its application method proves unreliable, while Purifying Resonance injects Block and Shield into a role that often has no use for them. Nightmare Storm produces significant Dark by consuming every other Curse, hardly proving itself a good use of three Energy and a card. Both Level 5 talents arrive when the game is mostly solved and attempt to repair problems the team has already addressed. 

Dream Harmony has a stronger case because existing Sanctify or Regeneration can supply its triggers without additional healing cards. Its resources can also contribute immediately when delivered before the recipient’s turn; Inspire is not automatically a next-round benefit. The problem is its Level 4 arrival, when the team already needs a functioning resource plan. 

Revealed Dreams is similarly difficult to value as a dependable contribution. Its manual application combines a spending threshold with random targeting, and an inconvenient surviving target prevents another attempt. Sacrificing useful discounts to force activation can make the supposed bonus expensive. Summoned enemies are the meaningful exception: automatic Expose can provide substantial value without those construction problems. That gives her particular encounters in which she excels, rather than a consistent advantage across the run. 

Nyrada is therefore broadly usable, and claims otherwise underestimate her card pools. However, her lower placement stands and reflects how conditional or late her personal advantages remain. She can support a strong team without difficulty; giving that team a compelling reason to choose her over another Support is considerably harder.