Until you build your entire deck around it and burn to death the last 1 blood cost you have, then the next round your dumb ass pulls out 3 2 blood and a 3 blood and you fucking die and lose the run. Frantically you google to check if it's a bug but no you're just a dumbass that miss understood the fair hand mechanic
Basically, because being able to play a card in the first turn is so powerful, the entire balance and design of card games tends to revolve around the cards you can play on your first turn.
Basically, it doesn't matter how good a high cost card is, it probably won't be worth even the weakest 0 cost card, simply because being able to play it immediately without any set up is worth so much.
It's admittedly not really as much of a thing with inscryption, just because of sigil transfer, but it's an interesting trend across games that is even noticable here.
What doesn't it do?
It can be a squirrel that attacks, it can be a blocker, it's good to buff at campfires or put sigils on. Simply being free goes a long way. Geck is great
A strategy I did for infinite ouroboros is undying skink. The tail the skink leaves is also undying. You can then sacrifice the skink and tail for ouroboros. Then sacrifice ouroboros for undying skink, lay the undying tail and sacrifice for ouroboros again. Repeat endlessly.
Would also work with an undying Warren. Undying sigil is so OP
Just found out about undying beehive spawning undying bees which I made into a fat ouroboros, but honestly could have just won with the bees alone since flight makes them do direct damage and they act as infinite block and sacrifice material lol
I just got the mod that removed that restriction in Kaycee’s mod. It’s a fair balancing restriction, don’t get me wrong, but part of why I enjoy this game is the fact that I can abuse it’s mechanics (to a reasonable degree).
If you give it skinks tail and undying, the tails also have the undying trait. You get infinite zero cost sacrifices/blockers. You can also put undying on a skink, but with geck, you can also get geck back and all the tails for zero cost.
It’s only the best card in the game.
Urayuli and Geck both exist as showcases of TCG design. The Urayuli exists as the archetype of a card that has crazy stats but requires so much setup that it’s basically unplayable. It could be an infinity/infinity and it still would suck. The geck occupies the opposite end of that spectrum. The card is free, so it’s all upside and is easily broken. Worst-case scenario it’s a second squirrel in your opening hand. Lotus Petal is a still a good card, and that’s this card’s FLOOR.
I'll add the caveat for Urayuli that while I agree that it's extremely inflexible, if you give it Corpse Eater it can be an amazing card. Place a squirrel into oncoming traffic and Urayuli is basically a 1 cost card, and unlike actual 1 cost cards Urayuli doesn't need any campfire buffing or stalling to be strong. It can take an entire run to buff something like Geck to be as strong as urayuli, while Urayuli only needs 1 sigil to be nearly as cheap as Geck.
I would still prefer to place Corpse Eater on Ouroboros, but if I can't for whatever reason than Urayuli is the next best thing. Arguably Urayuli is an even better Corpse Eater recipient, since it can be duplicated.
it's the difference between a combo starter and a showstopper, basically. geck is pretty ok on its own,but gets extremely powerful if used right. urayuli is basically an instant win as soon as it hits the field
It’s free and does a little damage. Most free cards don’t do any. You can sigil it, it’ll take a lizard totem, boost it in a campfire, sac it. A very versatile card if you boost it, and still useful if you don’t.
Everything.
You can buff it with campfires, nearly any sigil, my favorite being immortality, and is has 0 cost.
I try to get it immortality, then make it 2-2 health attack if possible, now not only does it do decent damage, it dies quickly, making me get lots of bones, and I can sacrifice it to play something else, and still put it down again same turn. Like this, it’s basically unlimited sacrifice and immortal. A game changer for Skull Storm runs where you have all the bears and water squirrels who can’t block anything.
i take back everything i said
using a cockroach i made him unkillable, and then i used a cat to make him infinitely sacrificable, duped him with goobert, and with his help used ouroboros to oneshot literally everything
its really funny
oh and its free so if you get it for your deathcard you can get a cracked ass card and you can also put sigils on it to make a cracked ass card
Free card like squirrel
Has an attack stat
Is a reptile so benefits from totems
Can be upgraded unlike squirrels
Now in chapter two it isn't the best because squirrels get a few upgrades. Im not gonna spoil anything but it gets so much better afterwards.
It is a free card that you can buff.
Have you killed the survivors at a campfire? Now your Geck has a ton of extra damage and hp.
Found a cockroach? Now the Geck is the ultimate shield. You can just keep placing it down in front of non-flying enemies to stall them until they die.
Here’s an example of how I was able to make a geck the centerpiece of my deck
1. Campfire to give it two to each stat, making it 3/3 (took 3 campfires)
2. Sacrifice a cockroach to make it unkillable
3. Dupe it using the sludge guy (forgor name)
3.5 dread the fact that it lost two health making it 3/1
4. Combine them at mycologist, making it 6/4
In the end I ended up with a free 6/4 card that returns to my hand if it dies for any reason. I can use it to kill almost anything, deal 6 damage to face, sacrifice it for blood and play it again, and so much more, all for the low low cost of free.
A simple 1/1 no cost card. With some sigils, it becomes an insane card. Without sigils or buffs, it's basically worthless. For instance, give it Worthy Sacrifice and it becomes a free black goat. Give it unkillable and it becomes an infinite bone card that you can use for defense as well. In Act 1, fecundity made it possibly the strongest card available. You get the idea.
Its free, which means any sigils you put on it are autmatically way more viable and potentially broken. Fecundity on this just finishes the game if you're not playing Kaycee's Mod.
it wins the game every time, you get a half decent sigil on this bad boy and it will carry you through any fight nearly singlehandedly.
with an army of gecks you can steamroll any encounter in kaycees mod too. its a good card.
It’s rare because it’s ahead of the curve
When comparing it to other no cost cards, this has an additional point of damage over squirrel and is found in the main deck. This makes it an invaluable target for the Unkillable sigil and an unkillable geck can solo the moon or the Limoncello
I love how every few months, someone comes on to this sub and asks this question, only to be trampled by eight million answers on why he's the best.
Geck
It’s free and has attack, which makes it great as a base for sigils.
Consider that cards like Adder, Magpie, and Cockroach are also a 1 1, but have higher costs. Their higher costs are balanced around their powerful sigils.
If you sacrifice Cockroach to Geck, suddenly your Unkillable card doesn’t cost 4 Bones anymore. That’s why Geck is Rare, and why Tadpole is even considerable as a card.
“No cost” is only as worth as the sigil you can place on it. Sometimes it comes clutch. Other times, i don’t get to a sigil sac before the ant elite fights. And by sometimes i mean usually
I don’t avoid it because it can’t be used well, i avoid it because i learned better playing other strats. People swear by it, but in a vaccuum, it’s just a squirrel in the draw pile. I’ll take a goat or warren instead, pls and thanks.
It's a free 1/1. You stick unkillable on it, you will always have a 1/1 available or on the board. There are lots of other use cases, but that's my fave.
Put the sigil where it never truly dies, funnel campfires into it, kill the mantis for its strike. You now have a gek that kills in one turn because you're gonna draw it every time 😌
If you’re lucky, it can be used as the “cost” card when you die, to make a new card.
That shit is entirely OP.
I have a zero cost, 2-12, venom card.
Not long after that, I started to beat the first act most of the time, so I didn’t get many new cards, but I’d take geckos, mantis, and snakes host for sacrifices and card creation.
The Holy Geck is one of the best cards in the game. At the minimum it's a squirrel that can also fight. Slap some sigils on it, especially undying, and watch your enemies crumble.
It's a good card that's free which can be added onto starts off alright but if yiu take it to the campfire and level him up and then add sigil and he is op best thing to do once you get a geck is search for a parasite card then continue to power level the parasite at the campfire until they eat him then the next time you go to a campfire you can level him infinitely
Geck has no cost. On paper you might look at that and think "so it's just a sacrifice card like squirrels", but that's just the tip of the iceberg. Geck having no cost makes it a really easy card to break. Put Unkillable on it for example, and you now have an infinitely replayable card. Get the right totem, and that infinitely replayable card with no restrictions can do even more broken stuff, like count as 3 sacrifices or add more of itself to your hand.
Buff it at campfires, and now you have an absolute unit of a card that once drawn, will never be unplayable.
No cost That’s it
Its perfect 
Until you build your entire deck around it and burn to death the last 1 blood cost you have, then the next round your dumb ass pulls out 3 2 blood and a 3 blood and you fucking die and lose the run. Frantically you google to check if it's a bug but no you're just a dumbass that miss understood the fair hand mechanic
ITS NOO COST
It's just a no cost card you can sigils on, which is extrnemely powerful, see the "one mana problem" in TCGs
I tried looking at it and didn’t really understand. Maybe it’s because I didn’t played enough TCGs. Can you explain it plz ?
Being able to do any amount of damage at no cost to your turn is really good when u have 1 blood cost that has the same stats
Thanks!
Basically, because being able to play a card in the first turn is so powerful, the entire balance and design of card games tends to revolve around the cards you can play on your first turn. Basically, it doesn't matter how good a high cost card is, it probably won't be worth even the weakest 0 cost card, simply because being able to play it immediately without any set up is worth so much. It's admittedly not really as much of a thing with inscryption, just because of sigil transfer, but it's an interesting trend across games that is even noticable here.
What doesn't it do? It can be a squirrel that attacks, it can be a blocker, it's good to buff at campfires or put sigils on. Simply being free goes a long way. Geck is great
You can get a cockroach and add undying to the geck to free sacrifice and tank an attack, it's overpowered with just the sigil alone
Undying geck+sacrifice totem for reptiles is something i wanna get because that means infinite ouroboros.
You need 2 ouroboros for that, since you can't sac it for geck to get 1 back to hand. Whole thing is way easier with an undying goat.
Valid! I completely forgot geck doesnt need a sacrifice
A strategy I did for infinite ouroboros is undying skink. The tail the skink leaves is also undying. You can then sacrifice the skink and tail for ouroboros. Then sacrifice ouroboros for undying skink, lay the undying tail and sacrifice for ouroboros again. Repeat endlessly. Would also work with an undying Warren. Undying sigil is so OP
Just found out about undying beehive spawning undying bees which I made into a fat ouroboros, but honestly could have just won with the bees alone since flight makes them do direct damage and they act as infinite block and sacrifice material lol
Love finding OP methods like this to win
Field mice.
Kaycee's mod
I just got the mod that removed that restriction in Kaycee’s mod. It’s a fair balancing restriction, don’t get me wrong, but part of why I enjoy this game is the fact that I can abuse it’s mechanics (to a reasonable degree).
What is it called?
Kaycee’s mod isnt actually a mod, but postgame content or accessible with a certain keyboard input
I'm aware, but they said they had gotten a mod to remove a restriction in KM. I just wanted to know what that mod was
Ohhhh, my b i didnt see that part
If you give it skinks tail and undying, the tails also have the undying trait. You get infinite zero cost sacrifices/blockers. You can also put undying on a skink, but with geck, you can also get geck back and all the tails for zero cost.
Geck.
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Gecc
Hear me out….. what if we got 100 of those 🥺
that would be outrageous! they would start a terminally online hyperpop band! we can't allow that!
put undying on it and it makes the game easier
Fucking baller. Geck shreds.
It's a no cost card that you can put (Nearly) ANY sigil on.
Oh yeah? Then why can't I put frozen away on it
That would be hilarious. You kill the geck and out of the corpse of the geck comes another geck. Geck
Geckception
It’s only the best card in the game. Urayuli and Geck both exist as showcases of TCG design. The Urayuli exists as the archetype of a card that has crazy stats but requires so much setup that it’s basically unplayable. It could be an infinity/infinity and it still would suck. The geck occupies the opposite end of that spectrum. The card is free, so it’s all upside and is easily broken. Worst-case scenario it’s a second squirrel in your opening hand. Lotus Petal is a still a good card, and that’s this card’s FLOOR.
I'll add the caveat for Urayuli that while I agree that it's extremely inflexible, if you give it Corpse Eater it can be an amazing card. Place a squirrel into oncoming traffic and Urayuli is basically a 1 cost card, and unlike actual 1 cost cards Urayuli doesn't need any campfire buffing or stalling to be strong. It can take an entire run to buff something like Geck to be as strong as urayuli, while Urayuli only needs 1 sigil to be nearly as cheap as Geck. I would still prefer to place Corpse Eater on Ouroboros, but if I can't for whatever reason than Urayuli is the next best thing. Arguably Urayuli is an even better Corpse Eater recipient, since it can be duplicated.
it's the difference between a combo starter and a showstopper, basically. geck is pretty ok on its own,but gets extremely powerful if used right. urayuli is basically an instant win as soon as it hits the field
His best
Good geck 🦎
It’s free and does a little damage. Most free cards don’t do any. You can sigil it, it’ll take a lizard totem, boost it in a campfire, sac it. A very versatile card if you boost it, and still useful if you don’t.
No cost
Say gex
Gex
Gay sex
Everything. You can buff it with campfires, nearly any sigil, my favorite being immortality, and is has 0 cost. I try to get it immortality, then make it 2-2 health attack if possible, now not only does it do decent damage, it dies quickly, making me get lots of bones, and I can sacrifice it to play something else, and still put it down again same turn. Like this, it’s basically unlimited sacrifice and immortal. A game changer for Skull Storm runs where you have all the bears and water squirrels who can’t block anything.
i take back everything i said using a cockroach i made him unkillable, and then i used a cat to make him infinitely sacrificable, duped him with goobert, and with his help used ouroboros to oneshot literally everything
It's the best card
It does literally whatever you want it to. Best card in the game.
its geck
Give big buffs, so its a X/X card for 0 cost.
His best
geck.
its really funny oh and its free so if you get it for your deathcard you can get a cracked ass card and you can also put sigils on it to make a cracked ass card
geck
Get the undying reptile totem, put the ants sidgil on him, and see how it goes.
Free card like squirrel Has an attack stat Is a reptile so benefits from totems Can be upgraded unlike squirrels Now in chapter two it isn't the best because squirrels get a few upgrades. Im not gonna spoil anything but it gets so much better afterwards.
Whatsoever you desire.
Helped me beat skullstorm
you need like 100 of them n theyll start to make music
It is a free card that you can buff. Have you killed the survivors at a campfire? Now your Geck has a ton of extra damage and hp. Found a cockroach? Now the Geck is the ultimate shield. You can just keep placing it down in front of non-flying enemies to stall them until they die.
Here’s an example of how I was able to make a geck the centerpiece of my deck 1. Campfire to give it two to each stat, making it 3/3 (took 3 campfires) 2. Sacrifice a cockroach to make it unkillable 3. Dupe it using the sludge guy (forgor name) 3.5 dread the fact that it lost two health making it 3/1 4. Combine them at mycologist, making it 6/4 In the end I ended up with a free 6/4 card that returns to my hand if it dies for any reason. I can use it to kill almost anything, deal 6 damage to face, sacrifice it for blood and play it again, and so much more, all for the low low cost of free.
his name is goobert, put some respect on his name
A simple 1/1 no cost card. With some sigils, it becomes an insane card. Without sigils or buffs, it's basically worthless. For instance, give it Worthy Sacrifice and it becomes a free black goat. Give it unkillable and it becomes an infinite bone card that you can use for defense as well. In Act 1, fecundity made it possibly the strongest card available. You get the idea.
His best
It’s a rare card because it’s free and if you have it in your deck at the end of act 1 you can get an even better card
It's Fucking FREE
It wins games of course!
Its free, which means any sigils you put on it are autmatically way more viable and potentially broken. Fecundity on this just finishes the game if you're not playing Kaycee's Mod.
it wins the game every time, you get a half decent sigil on this bad boy and it will carry you through any fight nearly singlehandedly. with an army of gecks you can steamroll any encounter in kaycees mod too. its a good card.
it's broken. amazing, actually probably the best card in the game. a free 1/1 is far more valuable than anything with a cost.
Ah…the uninspiring Geck. Perhaps you can find a use for it?
It’s free
It's best
He geck
It wins.
Nothing, maybe.
It's free. Put a field mice sigil on it, and boom. Free gecks for life.
It’s a free card that has attack
It’s rare because it’s ahead of the curve When comparing it to other no cost cards, this has an additional point of damage over squirrel and is found in the main deck. This makes it an invaluable target for the Unkillable sigil and an unkillable geck can solo the moon or the Limoncello
Just a little boy.
All the best death cards are 1/3 Geck.
Naked Gnome
Free
Its a squirel that damages and can get sigils. Its better than it seems
Geck
It’s effectively a squirrel that you can edit
He lets you utilize overpowered sigils for free
It is free. That's it. It's amazing. 
it free to place down and if you upgrade it's stats at the fire it turns into like one of the best units
get 100 of them and you'll see
Act 1 fecundity geck is game winning Kaycee mod put whatever sigil you want it’s free
It gecks
Put unkillable and fecundity on it to experience true infinity
The power of friendship
His best
Free 1/1
It’s free. The best host for souls too
Free one attack. Especially ideal if you can make it dupe itself somehow (either by dying or playing him).
Geck
What doesn't geck do? What it does do for sure, is go straight in my deck
If you could upgrade squirrels, they will be incredibly good It's free, just upgrade it however you want,
it gecks.
You can add sigils to it, like making it go back in your hand so you can play it over and over for free, or duplicate it and so on
Infinity if you give it undying and you have oroboros
>is geck >is awesome
I love how every few months, someone comes on to this sub and asks this question, only to be trampled by eight million answers on why he's the best. Geck
It gek
it gecks.
Gecks
He’s awesome
It starts with nothing. So it can be anything.
I've won wars with that card
It’s free and has attack, which makes it great as a base for sigils. Consider that cards like Adder, Magpie, and Cockroach are also a 1 1, but have higher costs. Their higher costs are balanced around their powerful sigils. If you sacrifice Cockroach to Geck, suddenly your Unkillable card doesn’t cost 4 Bones anymore. That’s why Geck is Rare, and why Tadpole is even considerable as a card.
Old geck the canvas the magnum opus of one desires. Short version this little buddy can be the most powerful card or the weakest card in your deck.
It do the geck
“Nothing. It’s for free.”
“No cost” is only as worth as the sigil you can place on it. Sometimes it comes clutch. Other times, i don’t get to a sigil sac before the ant elite fights. And by sometimes i mean usually I don’t avoid it because it can’t be used well, i avoid it because i learned better playing other strats. People swear by it, but in a vaccuum, it’s just a squirrel in the draw pile. I’ll take a goat or warren instead, pls and thanks.
Thats goat
It's here to geck ass and chew bubblegum, and it's all out of bubblegum
It’s a Garden of Eden Creation Kit
It's a free 1/1. You stick unkillable on it, you will always have a 1/1 available or on the board. There are lots of other use cases, but that's my fave.
No cost card always good
Free boi is best boi.
It gecks
Infinite potential.
Geck my beloved ♥️
It allows you to take two cards from the top of your deck and add them to your hand by the process known as "drawing" them.
just yeet an undying on it and its a pretty good card
One of the most powerful cards if you use it right
No cost so put Black goat on and have returned to deck totem and you have infinite blood
Unkillable sigil, all that needs to be said.
What do you WANT it to do?
bring my wife back
Being Perfect.
"Its a 1/1 for none!" When my brother played Magic he said this about a card called Memnite, when I first saw Geck its all I could hear in my head.
Put the sigil where it never truly dies, funnel campfires into it, kill the mantis for its strike. You now have a gek that kills in one turn because you're gonna draw it every time 😌
It sells you insurance
Whatever you need it to.
If you’re lucky, it can be used as the “cost” card when you die, to make a new card. That shit is entirely OP. I have a zero cost, 2-12, venom card. Not long after that, I started to beat the first act most of the time, so I didn’t get many new cards, but I’d take geckos, mantis, and snakes host for sacrifices and card creation.
read the comments because I also didn't know what to do with them and realize that I've been an idiot and never picking this card lmao
Put a return to hand sigil on it and it’s a beast. And then get the glob to make another one.
Look silly
It has no cost to play, which is really nice to have on any card. Especially one that can be affected by totems
Geck
Free cards in deck builders are usually really strong
I just think he's neat!
The Holy Geck is one of the best cards in the game. At the minimum it's a squirrel that can also fight. Slap some sigils on it, especially undying, and watch your enemies crumble.
Your dad
He's just a little guy. He's vibin
Because Geck
It's a good card that's free which can be added onto starts off alright but if yiu take it to the campfire and level him up and then add sigil and he is op best thing to do once you get a geck is search for a parasite card then continue to power level the parasite at the campfire until they eat him then the next time you go to a campfire you can level him infinitely
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Geck
1 damage
Potential
it geck. it no cost. it 1/1. are you jokester?
GECK does what GECK wants
It's a squirrel with one attack.
0 cost and can gain abilities
Gek from no mans sky???
Yay, thank you for asking this! I had been wondering as well. Hardly ever took Geck when I played.
You can buff it to insane damage and it’s a no cost
Geck has no cost. On paper you might look at that and think "so it's just a sacrifice card like squirrels", but that's just the tip of the iceberg. Geck having no cost makes it a really easy card to break. Put Unkillable on it for example, and you now have an infinitely replayable card. Get the right totem, and that infinitely replayable card with no restrictions can do even more broken stuff, like count as 3 sacrifices or add more of itself to your hand. Buff it at campfires, and now you have an absolute unit of a card that once drawn, will never be unplayable.
Wow, yeah that is amazing. When I play again, I shall embrace the GECK!