r/slaythespire 23d ago

ANNOUNCEMENT The Neowsletter - March 2025

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r/slaythespire Apr 03 '20

Dev Response! Frequently Asked Questions - Read Before Posting!

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This thread is aimed at answering common beginner questions about the game. However, it is not intended to teach in-depth strategies.

If you have a simple (1-2 sentence) question that's not answered below, leave a comment and I or another community member should be able to help. If your question is more complicated, feel free to make your own post about it.

General:

1. Are there any official mobile ports?

2. Why does Slay The Spire keep crashing on my IOS device?

  • Make sure Low Power Mode is turned off when you launch the game. You can re-enable it once you start playing.

3. Do the Android and IOS versions have the same content as the PC version?

  • Android and IOS are both up to date with the current PC version of the game.

4. Are there any card/relic tier lists or decklists?

  • No. Decklists and following an archetype is not encouraged, since what card/relic is "the best" depends heavily on what your deck currently has and what enemies you're going to be facing in the near future.

5. How do I unlock the characters?

  • The Silent is unlocked by completing a run with the Ironclad, and the Defect is unlocked by completing a run with the Silent. You do not need to win these runs, just complete them. The Watcher is unlocked by winning a run with any character while the Defect is unlocked.

6. Will there be any more new characters or card changes? Does the card "Foreign Influence" mean there's going to be a 5th character with the yellow color?

7. Is the final boss based on what deck I've built?

  • No. Just like the map layout, store contents, and enemies you face, the final boss is determined when the run is first generated.

8. Is there anything beyond Act 3?

  • Spoilers: An optional Act 4 can be unlocked with the Keys.

9. Do I get anything for winning?

  • When you defeat the Act 3 boss with a character, you unlock Ascension levels with them. These are incrementally challenging versions of the game, providing scaling difficulty for those who want more of a challenge. Spoilers: If you beat the Act 4 boss with a character on any Ascension level, you unlock Beta Art for that character's cards. If you defeat the Act 4 boss with all characters, you unlock Beta Art for Colorless and Curse cards as well.

10. Do I keep anything in-between runs?

  • No. However, your points are retained, and at certain point levels, you'll unlock new cards and relics that can show up in future runs.

Strategy:

1. How do I get good at each character then?

  • In general, simply playing the game and learning what works in what situations is the best way to learn, However, a few general tips would be:
  1. Don't try to force an archetype (like a deck of all poison cards). These can be effective, but skipping good cards in the hopes of getting more archetypal cards will hurt your chance of winning.
  2. Think ahead to what elites and bosses you'll be fighting this act. Many of them require your deck to have different capabilities (such as Reptomancer requiring you to have AOE damage, and Giant Head requiring you to have scaling damage.
  3. Always try to have a well rounded deck. Don't go all-out in getting defensive cards and neglect offensive cards (and vice-versa). If you can, try to have a mix of Burst, Scaling, and AOE damage, so you can deal with the various enemy types you'll run across.

A very helpful post by user /u/screwyioux with more detail on how to learn strategy and why certain choices matter can be found here. I highly recommend taking a look if you feel like you're stuck losing and want to improve your play.

2. Scaling? AOE? Burst?

  • "Scaling Damage" refers to sources of damage that continue to get stronger the more you use them in combat, such as Claw or Poison. "AOE (Area Of Effect)" refers to cards that deal damage to multiple (or all) enemies at once, like Whirlwind. "Burst" refers to being able to deal a lot of damage all at once, like having several Backstabs.

3. Is Snecko Eye good or bad?

  • Snecko Eye is very good, unless the majority of cards in your deck are very low cost. The +2 draw alone makes the relic worthwhile, and the effect that randomizes card costs will on average lower the cost of cards in your hand. Snecko also gets dramatically better the more card draw and high cost cards you have in your deck. Content creator Jorbs has an in-depth video discussing the value of Snecko Eye.

4. Why do I see so many posts about Corruption and Dead Branch?

  • Corruption is a very strong card on its own, since being able to play all your defensive cards for free can let you end hallway (and possibly even boss) fights quickly and efficiently. Dead Branch makes this even better, since it'll often generate more block or helpful cards that snowball you to victory.

Other:

1. "Deck" Vs. "Draw & Discard Pile"?

  • Your "Deck" is the cards that you start each combat with. Your Draw Pile & Discard Pile are a temporary version of your Deck that's used in combat, and all changes to it last for that combat only. Most enemies that debuff you in combat (like the Sentries) will affect your Draw Pile. Most cards that permanently affect your run (such as Lesson Learned) effect your Deck.

2. Why didn't Fairy In A Bottle/Lizard Tail revive me?

3. What do the subreddit user flairs mean? How do I get one?

  • Check this post for an explanation on all the user flairs, and how you can assign one to your account.

r/slaythespire 5h ago

GAMEPLAY I just realized this combo results in +3 strength for the entire battle.

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I never thought it would, but it appears that the artifact cancels out the strength reduction after the first turn. It was not my intended effect, but it was welcomed. I’m sure many of you have figured this out a long time ago, but it made me smile that after hundreds of hours, I’m still figuring things out.


r/slaythespire 20h ago

CUSTOM CONTENT Joke card? Maybe. Packed with potential synergy? Ask the horse

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1.3k Upvotes

r/slaythespire 14h ago

SPIRIT POOP grief

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300 Upvotes

r/slaythespire 3h ago

ART/CREATIVE Day #286 of drawing badly until StS2 comes out

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34 Upvotes

r/slaythespire 3h ago

ACCOMPLISHMENT/ACHIEVEMENT Guys, i did it!

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r/slaythespire 19h ago

CUSTOM CONTENT Blasphemy likes for every other character (Tried to balance them somewhat)

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Renewal can't be blocked and works like boot to deal 9999 damage, bypassing intangible. Self damage still counts as HP loss.

Frenzied Finale will let you draw and discard as much as you want (targets like mayhem), so it might be too easy of an infinite. Still can't play status, curse, or unplayable cards and stops, so that's a decent weakness I guess. Maybe it should have been "you can no longer play cards from next turn" instead of "die" to represent the silent using everything she has in a panic and now has nothing to fight with. Which coincidentally gives poison value.

Crisis protocol+ gives extra passive trigger for each orb except plasma by pushing the evoke to the next turn. This can be bad in certain cases. Main one being no longer getting energy from plasma or getting attacked. Probably the weakest of the 4 but not sure how to improve without making it busted. Maybe cost down to 1 as well.


r/slaythespire 11h ago

ACCOMPLISHMENT/ACHIEVEMENT I present to you; an 8 billion damage searing blow

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alongside a 6 billion damage multicast


r/slaythespire 22h ago

DISCUSSION How would you rank the Elites vs Defect?

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661 Upvotes

I've tried putting a difficulty ranking of the elites vs Defect. Taking into account- your current deck when you run into them, their strengths vs counters' available, immediate and long-term risk of ruin. Thoughts? Curious how others would rank them.


r/slaythespire 2h ago

BOARD GAME Our first game with the organizer that was shared on here before 👌

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Thanks a lot to u/SumRandomDuck for sharing the files for the print! I think it looks awesome and the table looks far less chaotic.


r/slaythespire 8h ago

SPIRIT POOP Name a better duo

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I'll wait


r/slaythespire 18h ago

GAMEPLAY Time to beat heart I guess.

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279 Upvotes

So with Toy Ornithopter, I'm healing like 61 per Potion.

Only missing Sacred Bark, to be honest.


r/slaythespire 16h ago

DISCUSSION From a game design standpoint, is there any reason Pressure Points is the only way to apply Mark?

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I was just wondering if the Devs had ever commented on Pressure Points/Mark.

The concept of Mark is interesting, it's somewhat like a Watcher equivalent of poison, but it's a little odd to me that the only way to apply Mark in the whole game is one card, Pressure Points.

Like there could be a power that passively applies Mark, a potion that applies it, a relic that applies Mark, or even just one or two more Mark cards.

As it is, it feels like a hypothetical Silent whose only poison mechanism is Deadly Poison. You just skip it completely in 99% of games, since there's better things to do. Instead, there's enough poison support to make it a viable part of a lot of builds.

Obviously Watched doesn't need more damage options, but it just feels like an odd inclusion overall, if you removed Pressure Points/Mark from Watcher completely, very little would change.

Have the devs ever said much about this? Like was there orginially more Mark stuff planned that got scrapped, or did they like having it as a unique one-off mechanic?


r/slaythespire 16h ago

ART/CREATIVE My wife made me the best bday card

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She doesn't know a ton about the game but saw me binging it the past few weeks. I love it haha


r/slaythespire 1d ago

CUSTOM CONTENT Is this a balanced boss relic?

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It can be strong if 3 out of 60 cards synergizes. But you can be unlucky with the randomly generated 60 cards and find minimal synergy. Prismatic shard is also a double edged sword. Trying to make this a balanced boss relic. What do you think?


r/slaythespire 15h ago

WHAT'S THE PICK? Slay-by-Comment Season 7 Day 355: Freaking tariffs making relics unavailable to those who need them most. What’s our play? Whatever comment is most upvoted in 24 hours is what we’ll do.

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r/slaythespire 18h ago

ART/CREATIVE Day #285 of drawing badly until StS2 comes out

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178 Upvotes

r/slaythespire 14h ago

GAMEPLAY At this point I should just expect this. (Sorry I suck at drawing on my phone)

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65 Upvotes

r/slaythespire 16h ago

SPIRIT POOP Rise and die, Sunshine - After another turn, that is

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r/slaythespire 13h ago

GAMEPLAY The best feeling ever. Nothing comes close

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https://reddit.com/link/1jrnj9c/video/ejrql3sb1wse1/player

I love this game. What's the most satisfying scenario in the game for you?


r/slaythespire 3h ago

GAMEPLAY The Spire Gods have blessed the unkillable Ironclad of resurrection with the ultimate shop

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Two fairy pots plus lizard tail is almost as crazy as being able to buy dead branch corruption in the same shop. What a wild run, I ended up getting bottled tornado for corruption later, and easily cleared the heart


r/slaythespire 22h ago

SPIRIT POOP Why you little..

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r/slaythespire 1d ago

SPIRIT POOP Hahahahahahahahaha

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1.9k Upvotes

r/slaythespire 11h ago

GAMEPLAY Biggest black orb i've made sofar

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:)


r/slaythespire 5h ago

CUSTOM CONTENT Wanted to make a death's list equivalent from binding of isaac

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i think it's good early game due to having mostly starter cards and not much else to play anyway, but with some energy generation later on it can still have an effect. i should add that it can't highlight unplayable cards. random buffs can be a point of strength, dex, focus for defect, or certain character specific buffs from skills and powers. (inflame would be ok, demon form would be op i think)


r/slaythespire 1d ago

DISCUSSION Today I learnt that there’s stuff on the wall

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Is there any lore significance to this?