The Snecko Eye is a Boss Relic. You draw an additional 2 cards at the start of each turn, but begin each combat inflicted with the Confuseddebuff.
Effect[]
All cards drawn have their costs randomized from 0 to 3 Energy. See the Confused page for an exhaustive list of effects.
The player is inflicted with Confused at the start of combat before the Clockwork Souvenir gives themArtifact. As a result, Confused is never blocked by the Clockwork Souvenir.
If Confused is removed by the Orange Pellets, newly drawn cards for the rest of the combat will not have their costs randomized. However, any cards that had their costs changed already will keep those costs for the rest of combat.
Placing a card into your hand with a card like Seek or Secret Weapon does not count as drawing, and will not randomize the cards' costs. This includes cards created during combat such as Shiv and cards copied with Nightmare or Dual Wield.
Tips[]
The Snecko Eye's extra 2 cards per turn provides enormous value on its own.
Each card drawn has a 25% chance of costing 0, increasing the value of effects that draw extra cards.
Every card's average energy cost is 1.5 with Snecko Eye. Consequently, cards costing 2 or more have better value than they normally do, and cards costing 1 or less have worse value than usual. However, many low-cost cards are still valuable enough to take with Snecko Eye.
The possibility of drawing 0-cost cards greatly complicates the analysis of how the Snecko Eye impacts your energy. Assuming 3 energy, 7 card draw, and prioritizing playing lower cost cards, the average number of card plays per turn is 3.83.
The Snecko Eye works especially well with the Gambling Chip to clear out high-cost or low-value cards on turn 1 and draw to replace them.
Since the Snecko Eye commonly results in unspent Energy at the end of turns, it works very well with Ice Cream to conserve that Energy. This also means that you can ignore playing high-cost and low-value cards, even if you do have enough Energy to play them.
Snecko Eye is very strong with many cards; among them are Bullet Time, Nightmare , Meteor Strike and Bludgeon. These cards take advantage of Snecko Eye's randomized cost and draw in varying ways.
Snecko Eye doesn't affect cards that cost X, which can make them a bit more valuable as it provides a place to spend Energy that the Snecko Eye would otherwise waste.
Cards with variable cost (Masterful Stab, Blood for Blood, and Force Field) will have their costs replaced by randomized costs when drawn. Their cost-reducing effects only apply if the conditions are newly met while they are in your hand (e.g. Blood for Blood will have its cost randomized when drawn, but that new cost can be reduced if you lose HP while it is in your hand). Their costs will be randomized again when next drawn.
Corruption overrides Confused entirely, and Skills will always cost 0.
Swivel does this to a lesser extent, making all Attacks cost 0 until an Attack is played. Once an Attack is played, any Attacks in hand that had a cost greater than 0 will revert to that cost.
Update History[]
Weekly Patch 49: The Designer
Minor Snecko Eye description fix.
Weekly Patch 47: Metamorphosis
Fix for a scenario which upgrading cards affected by Snecko Eye would sometimes give negative cost cards.
Weekly Patch 29: TURBO
We added special runs that you can play by entering specific seeds:
PRAISESNECK0 Will replace your starting relic with Snecko Eye.
Confused debuff.
Clockwork Souvenir gives them
Artifact. As a result, Confused is never blocked by the Clockwork Souvenir.
