Thursday, 30th January 2014, 21:20 by and into
TheDefiniteArticle is spot on, here. Decks of summoning scale well throughout the entire game, 15 rune and ziggs included. Deal Four from summonings is a good emergency measure and, when done from a legendary deck of summonings that has at least four cards left in it, is probably the single strongest use of 10 auts that any character can have access to in the game, except perhaps successfully casting death's door (depends on situation).
Late game keep a few decks of legendary escape stacked with good defensive cards; use destruction to soften dudes up or attack large groups whenever making noise doesn't seem too dangerous, and also use destruction decks to gain piety and get new decks when you can; finally, use summonings for difficult fights.
Honestly you can turn off sacrificing for Wonders on the ^ screen right at the start and be reasonably safe blind-drawing, without needing to use peek at two that much. That's mostly what I do when I play Nem.
If you do want to scum Wonders, though, I'd recommend turning off sacrificing for it, as soon as you start worshiping Nem, and leave it off until you have around ****-- piety, then turn it on and sacrifice all the excess permafood you can spare. As soon as you do this, start using peek at two on new decks (price of using Wonders); keep sacrificing unneeded stuff, including for Wonders, and eventually you'll get a deck or two of Wonders. If you get those decks fast, and still don't have great card power, then save those decks for a bit until higher piety and decent evocations. Once you got that, use a combination of draw three twice, then stack five, to scum high power helix and experience while avoiding the bad cards (i.e., most of the deck). I don't really find all of this terribly worthwhile, but if you want to, that's how you can play around with Wonders, without shooting your character in the foot.
But, OP, if you don't like summoning and having allies (some people don't), then yeah I can't really recommend going Nemelex, he's just not going to be as strong of a god as many others, and will still be rather finicky and annoying, so you get all the bad and lose out on much of the good.
EDIT: Well I guess I should say if you want to be even safer, use draw three only once from deck of wonders, then stack five. Or if you want to be absolutely safe, either 1.) only use stack five on it, or 2.) use scrolls of identify, if top card is safe, draw; if top card is not safe, use stack five.
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and into on Thursday, 30th January 2014, 21:34, edited 1 time in total.