Abundance

How it works

Playing Abundance presents three upgraded Powers. You choose one, add it to your hand, and can play it for free during the current turn. The Abundance card then Exhausts.

The generated Power is free only for the turn in which Abundance creates it. Because the three choices are random, the card is best treated as flexible access to a temporary Power rather than a reliable way to find one specific build piece.

Is the 1 Energy cost worth it?

On the base card, the first question is not whether one generated Power is strong; it is whether you can spend 1 Energy on setup and still survive the turn. Play it when the current enemy intent leaves enough Energy to cover Block or when the chosen Power immediately changes the fight. If the extra setup cost forces you to skip known defense or damage, keep the Energy.

Upgrading Abundance removes that setup cost, so the same three-choice effect is easier to fit beside other cards. The upgrade changes the budget, not the odds: the offers remain random and are still free only on the turn Abundance creates them.

How to get it

Dowsing comes from Neow's Dowsing Rod. After entering five more unknown rooms marked with a question mark, Dowsing transforms into Abundance. Count the route before taking a detour: the reward is only useful if the map can supply those rooms without breaking the run's immediate needs.

Five-question-mark route: when is it worth taking?

Treat the requirement as a route filter, not a free card pickup. After Dowsing is added to your deck, count five future ? rooms you can reach; the official wording does not make fights, shops, rests, or previously visited rooms substitutes for those five entries.

Take the route when those rooms fit the map and the run can survive the detour. If reaching five ? rooms means skipping a needed rest, shop, or Elite answer, prioritize that immediate need and let Dowsing wait. After the fifth qualifying room, it transforms into Abundance, so the payoff arrives after the route rather than at Neow.

What changed in Beta v0.110.0

Mega Crit introduced Dowsing and Abundance in Beta v0.109.0, then buffed Abundance in v0.110.0. It now always creates upgraded Powers; upgrading Abundance itself lowers its Energy cost by 1 instead of changing the generated cards.

This distinction matters when reading older guides. Advice written for v0.109.0 may describe the base card as offering unupgraded Powers, while v0.110.0 offers upgraded Powers from both versions of Abundance.

Beta v0.111.0 check

Mega Crit's Beta v0.110.0 notes list the fix for Dowsing's missing Abundance card preview. The later v0.111.0 notes do not list a new Abundance cost, choice count, transformation condition, or preview fix, so the v0.110.0 card rules and preview boundary above remain the current tracked values. If a Beta run still lacks the preview, check the branch and build before relying on an older screenshot.

When the upgrade matters

Upgrading Abundance changes the setup cost from 1 Energy to 0. That makes it easier to spend the rest of the turn playing the generated Power and still have Energy left for Block or damage.

The upgrade does not remove the randomness of the three offers. If your deck needs one exact Power to function, Abundance is still a contingency tool rather than a guaranteed tutor.

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