YuukaMod

Yuuka Character Mod

Overview

• Colors: Red and Green.
• Cards: 73.
• Act 1 Yuuka boss is included.
• Also includes the "Garden of All Dreams" jadebox. Just like every other jadebox, it's not restricted to Yuuka.

New Mechanics

• Bloom: a resource that slowly generates mana tokens, or can be used for other effects. These tokens retain and have auto-exile, so you can stock up on them without fear of clogging your hand (if you overdraw, they automatically trigger, giving you mana).
• Flourish: use Bloom proactively to trigger the alternate (usually stronger) effects of various cards. Flourish is optional, you can opt to not spend Bloom.
• Fervor: percentage-based, one-turn damage boost. Often comes in a delayed form. Likes good timing. Likes Firepower. Likes Vulnerable. Probably silly with Marisa/Koishi.
• Arrange: put cards from deck/hand/discard on top of your deck. Even if you drew your card at the wrong moment (e.g. big blocker prior to opponent's burst turn), you can just save it for the next turn.

Themes

• Midsummer Flowers: ramp the damage of your flowers, or even use them for alternate purposes.
• Growth: grow your cards, ramping ahead of the opponent.
• Delayed effects: plan ahead and align your combos.
• One Turn Kills: do nothing for 2 turns, deal 300 damage at turn 3.

Design Notes

Yuuka is designed to be splashable and non-parasitic. While Green starts with an easy access to Bloom and Red is better fit for the combo playstyle, players are encouraged to mix the pieces from the other color, instead of going all-in into one particular mechanic. She benefits from other character's toolkit, and they'll benefit from hers. Yuuka benefits from having a little bit of everything.

Balance may require future refinement. Yuuka started out underpowered, got buffed a bit too much, and now has been toned down again. Balance feedback is welcome. Card pool is mostly complete, but some cards might change.

Neutral card "Flash of Spring" is banned in Yuuka runs. Yuuka's toolkit makes enabling it way too easy, to the point it invalidates half of her attacks.

Mod includes a "Growth Count Tracker" UI element that's not restricted to Yuuka.

Credits

• rm -rf Maxx "C": Author of the Sample Character Mod, which served as the foundation for this mod. Also helped with proofreading the card texts.
• Art: Does not belong to me but to the corresponding artists, and is credited properly in-game (where needed). Some of it (e.g. status effect icons) might change. Thank you for drawing wonderful images of Yuuka.
• Japanese localization by neff.
• Korean localization by raspberry Caffeine Monster.
• Simplified Chinese localization by 防護林.
• Special thanks to everyone who has helped with coding or testing on the Lost Branch of Legend Discord server.

Afterword

If you have any feedback, you can contact me either on the aforementioned Discord server, or privately on Discord (@vengyre).