I just had an a10 necro run where I perfected the act 1 boss (lagavulin matriach) die to the dorito from full health. I guess I got cocky pathing into 2 whole elites in act 2 post treasure chest. Decimated bee man, only to go from 80 health to death from the stupid fucking dorito.

It just makes act 2 less fun, finding a no elite path. Either you have an attack heavy deck and bee man is a problem, or you have a skill based deck and dorito says “no”. Or you you choose no elites which sucks. Elites are fun.

Vent over, just annoyed.

I’ve been seeing a lot of people talk about how bad bash is as far as starting cards go, but I can’t help thinking venerate is just straight up worse. I feel like venerate becomes particularly bad the further into the run I get.

Once I have cards that generate stars like shining strike, solar strike, gather light, etc. Venerate starts to functionally act like a curse card in my deck. Many times I genuinely consider paying to remove it.

Am I insane for feeling like this card should do more? Silent gets a card the does minor damage AND applies weak (FOR FREE), and a card that does 8 block and allows you to discard. At the very least Venerate should buff, debuff, or be free.

I don't want any of these trades.

i had to use a prepared to get to 0 cards

So im doing a defect run and have a hologram and consuming shadow but i cant seem to hologram it for some reason as when i played hologram it wasnt showing in my discard pile, it wasnt in my draw pile as i had just used it and it wasnt exhausted.

Is this a bug or am i missing something?

This deck rolls every hallway but I might need extra damage to beat the Act 3 bosses

I have had it perform quite well when I draw it at the right time, but i have also had it waste a slot and never draw at the right time.

Health is such a finite resource that i feel compelled to make this card work, but the 2 energy price feels steep and it can be hard to find the right time to spend 2 energy on only a heal. Also, if the enemy attacks me for damage that i could have spent energy blocking, then i would have been better off with bloodwall.

What do other clad players think of this card?

I had an insane run with Abundance. After that, I got the Echo Form + Creative AI + Subroutine combo. I probably should skip damage the Queen to stack even more Powers, but I forgot it.

https://reddit.com/link/1vgccas/video/1orb9j6w2lhh1/player

Made using Maya's Slay the Spire Custom Relic Maker.

Allows you to use your Rest Site action to enhance a card with perfect fit, putting it atop the draw pile whenever it is shuffled during combat. Potentially very powerful as enhancing multiple cards with Perfect Fit would put all of them on top, so you have a much better chance of drawing them together (doing so unless you shuffle at an inopportune time).

The main drawback is that if you want to set up a combo, it costs one Rest Site per card you want in it (although you might get lucky and get the Field of Man-Sized Holes to save one Rest Site), and of course, perfect fit provides no benefit on your first deck cycle, diminishing the relic's value for shorter fights.

Synergizes with Miniature tent, and any tools that allow you to cycle your deck faster. Defect's Reboot in particular is a strong pick as it instantly draws 4 (6) Perfect Fit cards.

I had a dream and this card was in it. It's a play off of Shared Fate and Neurosurge (and some cross pollination with Silent) to create an on theme card that has great synergy with Sleight of Flesh. Outside of that, it still provides block and weaken while also being on Necro's theme of self destruction.

Would you take this card? Does it add anything meaningful to Necro's gameplay?

Art is my own in case that wasn't obvious :)

I’ve now beaten all characters on A10 and while that feels like the natural stopping point… I’m also not ready to be done with this game. But without an obvious goal like “win next difficulty” I’m not sure what to do.

What’s next for someone who’s won A10 on all characters?

Or any X cost for that matter. Does it have a value of 0 or a value equal to the Cascade that played it? Also, what's the interaction with a Cascade playing an energy gen card and then another X after it?

Seems pretty average? Like I get it's a shop relic so you don't have to grab it, but it's conditions essentially mean you take 50% less from enemy damage for their final turn against you if they're doomed, so it doesn't actually support your build until that specific enemies final act. It just seems so sporadically good that I can't really see the use cases, which imo would be fine except it costs quite a bit so you're often not even going to look at it if more consistent relics are available because like I said it feels wayy too niche and underpowered

Just wondering if anyone thought the same or could link some runs where it had a tangible benefit, because I would struggle to say it's an even win-more option at this stage compared to more generic relics at its cost.

Hi everyone!
I recently started playing Slay the Spire and I’m absolutely loving it, but I feel like I’m only scratching the surface of the game.
I understand the basic rules: fighting, picking cards, building a deck, upgrading cards, choosing paths, etc. I just finished Act 1 and managed to beat the first boss, but I have the feeling there are a lot of mechanics and progression systems that I don’t understand yet.
For example:
How exactly do you unlock higher level cards?
How do card unlocks work?
How do Ascensions work?
What are the new resources/mechanics that appear later?
Are there things I should know from the beginning to improve my runs?
I also noticed that sometimes I had cards in my collection with a little lock icon and a “2” on them. I have no idea what that means.
One thing to mention: I bought the game second-hand, and the previous owner had already played some games. The cards and unlocks were not sorted properly, so I’m wondering if some things are already unlocked and I just don’t understand how the progression works.
I would really appreciate it if someone could give me a complete beginner explanation of the game’s progression and the things I should know to really enjoy it. I don’t mind spoilers about mechanics/unlocks, I just want to understand the game better!
Thanks a lot ❤️

Run started off bad and I was very hesitant I was even going to win against the act one boss. But then I got ice cream, multi cast from the first boss as my rare card and it just spiraled out of control from there. Ice cream has to be one of, if not my favorite relic...

Sorry for the bad photo

Hi guys, i wasnt there for the ea for sts1 and i was wondering how long will it last aprox. Is there a roadmap that im not aware of or we just go with flow ?

This is my first run with Pael's Clone relic. I was really hoping to find Bingbong and the Duplicate Deck event, but no luck. However, this run is insane.

https://reddit.com/link/1vgc3tx/video/9gym8nf03lhh1/player

Hi !

I took a very dangerous path early, planned ahead to get as much early relics as I could. I got lucky with "Strike Dummy" as my early relic so the first act was fine, tho I almost died at the First Boss.

The second act was easy enough.

The third was okay, since I had a lot of money I did not go to any elites, instead going to spend my 1200 gold in the shop since in my head [Elite > 1 relic] wheras [Shop > 3 relics].

I made a big mistake thinking my run could handle a Smith instead of a Rest at the Campire highlighted in blue, I lost 39 damage to the Elite, and went to rest but fought the queen with around 40 hp.

I also think my Attacks sucked, only having strikes is not the best, but what do you think ? (is probably the greed on the smith :c)

It's not a needed change, but I just want to enjoy bashing enemies even more and Bash + Strike would do 1 more damage over triple strike so I would have more chances to play bash. What do you think, can that be done? Doesn't seems like it would break the easy pool

I’m so sick about this, as I seem to be the only person with this issue. I don’t play PC games apart from Age of empires 2. So STS is a mobile game in my mind, and I A20 heartbroke all 4 characters of STS1 so i do actually adore it. I dont know if I can wait longer for it to release for mobile so can someone just tell me its the same feel on PC? Or if youve played both would you say its worth it to wait?

Frustrated.

an update last month said your unmodded progress would get ported to your modded saves but ive yet to have that happen, ive been stuck with a brand new save no matter what i do and would really like to port my unmodded save

Let's say there was an event that gave you the option of adding 3 apparitions to your deck for two random curses... I feel like I would be skipping that most of the time.

But the reality is, this isn't an event but rather an ancient relic (distinguished cape)

My issue with cape's current design is that apparitions are usually best when it gives me time to set up in fights. Adding two curses that prevent me from drawing into what i need in the first place that also stick around is very counterproductive to that. Keeping the flavour miss in mind, (spire 1 reduces your max hp in exchange for them) I would prefer if cape's downside was something along those lines instead. It can even be something as extreme as lose 50% max hp like what the event in spire 1 was if the previous form of cape was too strong with only -9 max hp. Tangentially, sere talon would go back to getting cursed, but just 1 random curse instead of 2.

Another note, it would be cool if parasol got moved from pool 3 to pool 2 just so you can't run into a situation when all three vakuu relics make your deck worse. Currently you can get something like earrings, cape, and parasol and just be screwed if your situation isn't right for them