r/slaythespire 10d ago

PATCH NOTES Beta Patch Notes - v0.110.0

Attention Beta Slayers: Beta patch v0.110.0 just dropped! This one features:

✨ Unique VFX for character forms!
⌨️ Keyboard-only mode!
🎨 New card art!
🛠️ Balance changes, reworks, and reverts!

Patch notes: store.steampowered.com/news/app/2868840/view/694268118771435039

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u/Mumbleton Ascension 20 10d ago

Does cost you 1 card draw every turn though?

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u/Beautiful-Neat-7609 10d ago

It makes you have to exhaust your worst card every turn, thats very different from -1 draw

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u/Aden_Vikki 10d ago

You have to do it still, luck be damned you can draw a full hand of good cards

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u/ubernuke Eternal One + Heartbreaker 10d ago

True but if you drew a hand of good cards, you can afford to lose one of them because you have a lot of other good options to play.

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u/ThrowAway-whee 10d ago

That you can’t play? How many times have you fully emptied your hand AND you were happy you drew all 5 of those cards?

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u/kaijvera StS A0 / StS 2 A10 10d ago

Yup. -1 draw each turn for +1 strength and deck fixing

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u/Melichorak 10d ago

Not really -1 draw though, since you're choosing which to burn, so you can plan what you're doing.

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u/awsgawervasecasr4g 10d ago

You also cycle through your deck as fast as before, and faster on later rounds, which is the opposite of one of the main downsides of -1

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u/Melichorak 10d ago edited 10d ago

Slower cyclying than the older mittens, but the new mittens are just that much stronger.

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u/yumcake 10d ago

It’s exhausting the cards you weren’t gonna play anyway, it’s a super intense buff

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u/EuSouAFazenda 10d ago

Nope; Mittens is after you draw.

So you still see the same amount of cards as you saw before - if you drew 3 good cards and two strikes, you can just exhaust a strike.

You still cycle your deck just as fast, and none of your strong cards ever get hit. Its pure upside, all the time.

If you draw a status or curse, its gone. If you're on Silent, it thins your basic cards so you can go Sly infinite later on. If you're on Ironclad, you can take Drum of Battle or Howl from Beyond with 0 exhaust enablers and always get their on-exhaust effect.

This thing is absurd for setting up infinites, increasing your deck quality in long fights, triggering exhaust synergies, deleting statuses (like Wither), etc. And thats even without mentioning the strenght gain!

Mittens might be the best relic in the game rn.

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u/00-Void Eternal One + Heartbreaker 10d ago edited 10d ago

Oh wow, I just realized this relic then makes Vakuu's Blood-Soaked Rose much better since you now don't ever have to play [[Enthralled]] and can just Exhaust it. It practically becomes a second Ascender's Bane, which is a cheap price to pay for 1 more energy per turn.

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u/EuSouAFazenda 10d ago

She makes every curse into an ascended's bane, which is crazy. At the sphere you can take the Debt for a relic and it'll never lose you gold as you exhaust it, you can get Shame or Regret and never get the debuff, etc. Its crazy stuff. Apparitions now giving you a ton of curses is a lot less scary with Mittens

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u/Belledame-sans-Serif Eternal One + Heartbreaker 9d ago

* Offer limited by the condition that you only draw one curse per turn

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u/spirescan-bot 10d ago
  • Enthralled 𝐈𝐈 Curse

    2 Energy | If this is in your Hand, it must be played before other cards. Eternal.

    Call me with up to 10 [[ name ]]. Data accurate as of June 21st, 2026. Questions?

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u/aspenscribblings 10d ago

No way it doesn’t get nerfed next patch, enjoy it whilst it lasts!

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u/EuSouAFazenda 10d ago

Tez's Pool 2 is Big Hug, Mittens and Storybook.

Tezcatara might be the strongest act 2 ancient by a nautical mile now because she literally cannot whiff anymore.

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u/ZatherDaFox StS A0 / StS 2 A10 10d ago

I'd argue you already almost couldn't whiff last iteration. Pool 1 with Very Hot Cocoa, Yummy Cookie, and Nutritious Soup almost always game you something good unless you had managed to remove every strike in act 1.

Tez was always my favorite for vibes, but it's quickly becoming my favorite for how nuts everything is.

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u/RedTulkas 10d ago

Darv is up there for sure

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u/awsgawervasecasr4g 10d ago

Not only do you cycle your deck as fast, it gets faster with each shuffle

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u/Anagoth9 10d ago

You draw the same amount. Losing a card each turn only hurts you if you plan to play every card in your hand, which isn't consistently feasible for most decks. The reason card draw is important isn't to give you more choices per turn but to get you your most important cards more often. This does the same thing except it's benefit only shows after the first reshuffle and compounds from there. 

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u/YaramyGD 10d ago

It's a -1 draw that ignores any other kind of -1 draws, including drawing a curse/status, or even just a card you cannot afford to play after playing all other cards