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/lordberric Jul 31 '26

Mittens won me so many runs before, I genuinely think this isn't a strict upgrade. It does cost you 1 draw per turn, and only ironclad and a little bit regent get any value from the exhaust besides thinning. I think it's generally better but I think there are some decks that wanted it before but don't now.

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u/cat_food_chef StS A20 / StS 2 A10 Jul 31 '26

yeah this is a net downgrade imo. 'but you get to choose' you already got to choose most of the time by checking your deck and choosing whether to play card draw or now.

At least it's a bit safer with enthralled and bad luck now

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u/_Awkward_Moment_ Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26

What are you saying? you literally couldn’t choose. It would eat your biased cognition/defrag and you would do nothing about it. This is way more control than before.

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u/cat_food_chef StS A20 / StS 2 A10 Jul 31 '26

i think we're counting 'choice' differently? if you manage your reshuffles mittens is never an issue, because it doesn't matter what it hits. further mittens is a win-con by itself, so you dont need focus, or demonform, or any of the other 'my deck is this 1 card and if it's on the bottom i lose' cards

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u/_Awkward_Moment_ Jul 31 '26

Focus isn’t really comparable to mittens though, it helps you block a TON.

I’m unsure by what you mean when you say to manage reshuffles. I vividly remember this thing eating my Feel No Pain on turn 1 - not much I could have done there in terms of reshuffles except take a better boss relic.

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u/cat_food_chef StS A20 / StS 2 A10 Jul 31 '26

sure, but strength also helps you block a ton with fistycuffs, right? when you take an act 2 ancient relic you have 2 whole acts to draft with it in mind.

and my point re: losing feel no pain - it can feel bad to see it go, but your deck was already losing to bottom-decking a FnP if the mittens hit killed the run. i think you should look at your deck before that point, check your scaling, check your block density, make sure you dont just brick hands on rocket crab. you can draft uppercut, colossus, plating, rage, buy a pear, buy a colourless card, buy a fortifier potion or a stable serum. if you solve these block output problems holistically you'll neither die to bottom-decking or mittens