Is every game of Slay the Spire winnable?

Re:Is every game of Slay the Spire winnable? by ssully on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @01:25PM (#23919369)

I am not very good at card/deck building games, but I assumed they wanted you to cull your deck when I noticed they make you use gold to do so. After realizing that, I started trying to keep a lean and focused deck. I only play casually, and I still haven't won, so my strategy still might not be good!

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Re:Is every game of Slay the Spire winnable? by pubby on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @01:46PM (#23919595)

A lean deck can be very good by the end of the game, but the problem is getting to that point. On the harder difficulties it's often better to focus on choosing strong cards that help you now rather than worrying too much much about thinness.

So it's a good strategy still, it's just that most of the time you can improve your deck faster by adding good cards than by removing bad ones.

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Re:Is every game of Slay the Spire winnable? by hombre_fatal on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @02:22PM (#23920004)

I figured the card removal service was just to remove the obviously bad cards that debuff you.

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Re:Is every game of Slay the Spire winnable? by Kiro on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @01:35PM (#23919469)

I thought that was meant to be used on curses (yes, I'm bad at the game).

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Re:Is every game of Slay the Spire winnable? by masklinn on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @01:41PM (#23919545)

It can be used on curses but usually you want to get rid of either the base deck or cards which don’t gel.

If you add powerful cards the power of the deck increases, but if you remove weak cards it also increases, and the consistency increases further: if you have 15 cards 10 of which are starter every hand will average 4 starter and 1 new card, but if you have 10 cards 5 of which are starter it’ll be split 3/2 ou 2/3 on average.

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Re:Is every game of Slay the Spire winnable? by chousuke on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @01:43PM (#23919566)

The basic cards are pretty bad. You can't play your full hand most of the time anyway, so cutting them makes it more likely that you'll draw the better cards.

This is also why Snecko Eye (the relic that gives +2 draw every turn and randomizes card cost) is arguably the best boss relic. Even if you only get to play one 3 cost card, it's more likely to be the best card in your deck.

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Re:Is every game of Slay the Spire winnable? by thaumasiotes on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @02:09PM (#23919854)

> This is also why Snecko Eye (the relic that gives +2 draw every turn and randomizes card cost) is arguably the best boss relic. Even if you only get to play one 3 cost card, it's more likely to be the best card in your deck.

I can't agree with this. Snecko Eye is very strong, but playing a 3-cost card will cripple you. It's strong because you draw a lot of cheap cards -- the lesson of Snecko Eye is that playing several cards is better than playing one card, even if the cards you got to play were chosen randomly.

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Re:Is every game of Slay the Spire winnable? by chousuke on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @02:43PM (#23920215)

That's definitely part of it, but you'll still get the occasional hand full of 3-costs, and all of them not being completely awful is important.

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