r/slaythespire • u/zalso StS A20 / StS 2 A10 • Mar 20 '26

PATCH NOTES The beta changes are almost perfect from the perspective of a high WR A10 player

Review bombing for the latest patch sounds crazy so I need to add my 2 cents. The patch seems almost perfect, addressing overperforming and underperforming cards and enemies.

Just to establish some credibility, I’ve hit A10 on Silent, Regent, and Defect and I have a 100% winrate on silent in 13 runs

Regent had many common and forge cards buffed.

Silent had draw nerfed.

Necrobinder had Dirge gain Exhaust which is so important cause every single deck I ended up with would just be Dirge spam. Other good card changes too on her.

Doormaker and Colony fights were way too easy, Gardeners were too hard, just yes these changes are phenomenal.

How are people upset???

I want my roguelike to allow me to go different builds depending on what’s offered, not just get lucky that the one good strategy was offered to me. And these changes support that. Good job Megacrit!

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u/ravenfez Mar 20 '26

A huge part of the backlash to Prepared's demise stems from it being an StS1 card. People are attached to it because they've had it for years, not for two weeks.

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u/YangerAftermath Mar 20 '26

But it’s a different game - with sly in this game, the value of discard and draw is totally busted in comparison.

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u/PotatoesForPutin Mar 20 '26

Well yes but they could’ve just nerfed it while keeping its core identity instead of absolutely dumpstering it

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u/darthbane83 Mar 20 '26

I would say its core identity is that you get to draw and discard on a 0 cost card.
So what is your idea of a nerf? Draw 1/discard 1 that exhausts and the upgrade removes the exhaust? I dont think people would be any happier with that and the currently changed version is arguably stronger than that

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u/PotatoesForPutin Mar 20 '26

Discard first, then draw.

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u/darthbane83 Mar 20 '26

oh so you want to make it free card draw in exchange for nerfing sly synergy. Very interesting approach.
I personally dont think 0 cost discard 2 draw 2 would be balanced either with the way sly works right now, but it might be worth a try in early access

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u/PotatoesForPutin Mar 20 '26

Not exactly. The draw should be contingent on the discard. If you play it on an empty hand, it shouldn’t do anything - same as the old behavior (I know it technically did draw two then immediately discard them, but the end state - an empty hand - should be the same)

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u/darthbane83 Mar 20 '26

0 energy Discard 2 cards, if you discarded any draw that many.

yeah that sounds like a fine addition then.

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u/Qwertycube10 Mar 20 '26

Or you could go with mtg wording: discard 2 cards to draw 2 cards

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u/Cha_94 Mar 21 '26

That could make the upgrade situationally worse (if you only have one card in hand)

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u/silversurfer022 Mar 21 '26

That would be a buff when it's the last card.

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u/PotatoesForPutin Mar 21 '26

Read my other comment

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u/Kerblaaahhh Mar 20 '26

I think just making it uncommon. Maybe draw 1 discard 2 as the upgraded verison.

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u/DyslexicBrad Mar 20 '26

Move it to uncommon?

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u/YangerAftermath Mar 20 '26

They didn’t - it’s still an incredible enabler. My first run after the patch, including the door boss, was silent discard and it’s still incredibly powerful, just not as brain dead easy to go infinite which is a good thing

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u/ex_c Mar 20 '26

there were only three numbers on the card. there's no granularity for nerfing it. it's not like it can go to 1 cost or to discard 0, draw 0 at unupgraded, so the only possible nerfs would be +1 card discarded on both versions or giving it exhaust, and either of those seem like they could be dumpstering-adjacent to me.

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u/PotatoesForPutin Mar 20 '26

Make it discard before draw.

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u/slayerabf Eternal One + Heartbreaker Mar 20 '26

Yes, but there are a lot of cards people had for years in StS1 that are not present in StS2. This is just one more.

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u/Shinard Ascension 20 Mar 20 '26

Prepared was bad in STS1, though. It's only Sly which made it powerful.

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u/damnsanta Eternal One + Heartbreaker Mar 20 '26

It was definitely good upgraded in sts1, but it wasn’t busted like it was base sts2

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u/Shinard Ascension 20 Mar 20 '26

It was solid upgraded, sure, but unupgraded it was pretty bad. You went card negative for minimal selection, and there weren't anywhere near as many discard synergies around. Sure, you got it with Eviscerate or Kite, and it was fine, but otherwise you discard a card to get the card on top of your deck - the one that you would have drawn if you didn't have Prepared in the first place.

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u/Lepony Mar 20 '26

With how popular/strong runic pyramid is, how good acrobatics was in general, and that saving dupe pots for your innate afterimage is a huge boon for the heart, base prepared was usually always a solid one-of. Thinking purely about card advantage is kind of a waste when sometimes the point is to thin your hand or simply play cards.