Cesare Borgia

The reviewer stopped pulling at 5★ when his currency ran out, and points out early that it barely matters here: between 5★ and 6★ the only difference is a cooldown. He likes the art, though he thinks it reads as a softened version of the Seopung original. (0:00, 0:30)

False Miracle: he dies on purpose

At the end of his turn, if his HP isn't full, it drops to 1 and he enters False Miracle: untargetable by skills, unable to take damage, unable to fall below 1 HP, unable to act. On camera it looks like dying — he drops to the ground and gets back up at the start of the allied turn at 100% HP.

His summary is the useful one: treat it as being Banished, and as flatly unkillable while it lasts. When it clears it deals Radiance damage to enemies within 3 tiles and heals allies in the same radius for the same amount, so the downtime pays for itself.

He'd speculated on stream about standing on spike terrain in a 1v1 and looping death-and-resurrection forever. The cooldown floors at 2, so no. (1:00, 1:30, 2:02)

Class: Autocrat to suppress, God Hand as the default

Autocrat is +50% spell power with an adjacent ally, and at the start of each allied turn it stamps Blood Suppression on the highest-attack enemy within 4 tiles: -50% ATK and M-ATK, plus fixed Radiance damage worth 50% of his spell power at the end of that enemy's action. He underlines the word fixed — at the spell-power numbers current characters carry, he estimates two to three thousand a turn that nothing mitigates, on top of halving a dealer. This is the same adjacency shape as the Royal Knight / Royal Wizard+1 more → line.

God Hand needs an enemy within 3 tiles rather than an ally adjacent: spell power up, damage taken -30%, and any enemy ending its turn within 3 tiles loses 1 TP and one buff. Stacked with the exclusive weapon's -40%, that's -70% damage taken just for standing near someone. He expects most players to settle here. (2:34, 3:05, 3:36, 4:07, 4:39)

Blasphemous, Fanatic Boon, Miracle Recover

Blasphemous deals 90% in a 2-tile radius around a target up to 3 tiles away and applies Cannot Heal. Plain, but the heal block is worth having — and because it costs 3 TP it's the natural partner for a fully manifested Gishne Drifford, who cuts the ultimate's TP cost by 2. Spend three on Blasphemous this turn and the ultimate is available next turn. (4:39, 5:10, 5:40)

Fanatic Boon buffs another ally within 3 tiles with damage dealt, DEF and RES and gives them an action — but the AI takes that action, not you. He rates it down heavily for that, while allowing that the AI isn't a complete idiot and there are spots for it. (5:40, 6:12)

Miracle Recover heals an ally for 100% of spell power and makes them untargetable — not invulnerable, so area attacks still land, which is why it carries an area-damage reduction rider too. It also grants immunity to cooldown-control effects and shaves a turn off the target's longest cooldown at end of turn, for two turns.

He ran a specific test: line up an immune character in front and another behind, and see whether enemy cooldown control passes through to the one at the back. It doesn't — the immune unit absorbs and cancels it. Against an Este Dode deck in a guild battle, that's a use. (6:12, 6:42, 7:12)

Twisted Sacrifice is the character

Target another allied player within 4 tiles; they take absolute damage and die. For three turns a Sacred Land zone covers two rings around where they were, dealing fixed Radiance damage worth 160% of his spell power — 200% at full manifestation.

Four things he establishes, and they change how the skill reads:

• The ally isn't gone. The wording makes people assume an unavoidable execution, but it's ordinary death — a unit with a revive simply comes back. That is most of the skill's value.
• It must be an allied player. Summons and minions can't be targeted.
• The zone lands before the damage, but the zone's +15% damage taken doesn't apply to it, because fixed damage doesn't scale with damage-increase effects.
• The Focus rider does apply. Cast from inside your own zone and you finish the turn 1 TP up.

For scale he reaches for Este Dode's Hedonic Grab, which is 140% fixed and which everyone already knows the damage of. This is 160% at 5★, 200% at full, and it's an area attack. Without the exclusive weapon he was seeing three to four thousand.

The zone keeps paying afterwards, too: any ally standing in it gets a TP back after each skill, so a 1 TP skill like Sprint+25 more → is effectively free. (7:44, 8:14, 8:46, 9:16, 9:46, 10:16)

One combination he flags: cast it on Omega, who detonates on death. (16:25)

Gear

Chancellor of Darkness and Cardinal, two pieces each — nothing exotic. (10:47)

The weapon wants full awakening

Ark of Injustice heals him whenever an ally within 2 tiles attacks, and after he uses a skill it has a chance to grant Corrupted Revelation: magic penetration up and damage taken down, both to 40% at full awakening, plus an extra action after his next combat attack. Two-turn cooldown, and the extra action consumes it, so it isn't permanent — but close to it in practice.

The chance is the problem: it climbs 10% per star and only reaches 100% at full awakening. ★4 adds skill range +1, which he calls the point where it becomes comfortable at an 80% trigger rate — while noting nobody actually enjoys an 80%. (10:47, 11:17, 11:48)

Runes

He hasn't committed, and says there's nothing obvious to chase: this isn't a character who attacks often, so magic penetration is wasted. His inclination is survival — Cloud, plus Sun for the critical-damage-taken reduction — and giving up a set bonus rather than forcing a damage line. (12:18, 12:48)

Manifestation

The ultimate climbs to 200%, and that's the headline; the rest is numbers moving by the same 15% at every stage. Stage 2 changes his basic attack to Chastise for one attack after each revival. Stage 4 drops the False Miracle cooldown to 2, which he calls the point where he's comfortable to play. Full manifestation adds Max HP and takes the wake-up damage and heal to 100% of spell power.

His verdict on investment is blunt: manifestation doesn't turn him into a different character, so stage 2 is the value stop. (12:48, 13:18, 13:50, 14:21, 14:52)

Artifacts

Meticulous Preparation+10 more → for the TP on turn one, so the ultimate comes earlier. Elemental Mastery: Radiance+3 more → raises spell power every time he casts, which raises the fixed damage on everything else, and is his main pick. Legacy of Ruin — an ally dying leaves a pickup worth 1 TP and a shield — fits the ultimate thematically but he finds it awkward to actually use. (14:52, 15:23)

Verdict

He is careful not to oversell it. No individual active is exceptional, the passive isn't remarkable, the class passives aren't remarkable — and the mitigation is thin enough that a rogue can simply kill him if the weapon's reduction isn't up.

What he has is one fixed-damage area ultimate that wipes teams, plus a heal block and enough utility around it. That makes him strong on an attack deck and awkward on defence, where the only AI-friendly tool is Fanatic Boon — though he concedes that handing a re-action to something like Heavenly Demon Cheon would be terrifying. With Gishne Drifford enabling the ultimate every other turn, he thinks there's a real power deck here. (15:55, 16:56, 17:26, 17:59)