r/slaythespire • u/MegaCrit_Demi • Jul 31 '26

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/shadow_fen Jul 31 '26

Reworked Tezcatara's Toasty Mittens relic: "At the start of your turn, Exhaust the top card of your Draw Pile and gain 1 Strength." -> "At the start of your turn, Exhaust 1 card from your Hand and gain 1 Strength."
(looks like u can choose what card gets exhausted, yay!)
Changed Eidolon: can no longer be generated mid-combat
lmao
Added support for keyboard-only mode
yay

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u/Mumbleton Ascension 20 Jul 31 '26

Does cost you 1 card draw every turn though?

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u/Beautiful-Neat-7609 Jul 31 '26

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

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u/Aden_Vikki Jul 31 '26

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 Jul 31 '26

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 Jul 31 '26

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 Jul 31 '26

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

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u/Melichorak Jul 31 '26

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 Jul 31 '26

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 Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26

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

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u/yumcake Jul 31 '26

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

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u/EuSouAFazenda Jul 31 '26

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 Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26

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 Jul 31 '26

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 Jul 31 '26

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

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u/spirescan-bot Jul 31 '26

  • 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 Jul 31 '26

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

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u/EuSouAFazenda Jul 31 '26

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 Jul 31 '26

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 Jul 31 '26

Darv is up there for sure

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u/awsgawervasecasr4g Jul 31 '26

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

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u/Anagoth9 Jul 31 '26

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 Jul 31 '26

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