Best Seeds In Slay The Spire

Slay The Spire may have first released in early access in 2017, but it’s still one of the best deck-building roguelikes out there, and well worth revisiting today. For those who haven’t come across this charming roguelike, players take on the role of one of four heroes, ascending the titular spire by engaging in turn-based battles that use a hand of cards to determine potential actions.

Players build out their deck as they progress through the spire, and there are plenty of systems that add depth to the choice of cards that players choose to build around. Like many popular indie roguelikes, Slay The Spire uses an alphanumeric seed generation system that lets players share their favorite seeds. This can be useful for setting up specific challenges or giving players a head start on a build for a given character.

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Seeds determine most of the RNG elements in Slay The Spire runs, including map layouts, the order of encounters and elite encounters, the content of unknown rooms, Neow blessings, and more. There are still elements within a seed that can vary, but the seed determines a lot about how winnable a run is with any given character. These are some great seeds to try in Slay The Spire.

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Corruption & Dead Branch

This seed allows The Ironclad to pick up a powerful synergy in Act 1. The rare power card Corruption can be earned as an elite encounter reward, and the relic Dead Branch can be found in the Act 1 chest. Corruption makes skills cost 0 energy, but exhaust the card when used. Exhausting every card can be a drawback if players don’t know how to play around it, but with Dead Branch, the drawback is essentially removed.

Dead Branch returns a card to the player’s hand whenever they exhaust a card, making this a powerful combination for the Ironclad. This seed is perfect for setting up Ascension 20 Ironclad runs.

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Tingsha & Calculated Gamble

This Ascension 20 seed is useful for setting up a powerful synergy for The Silent. Choosing the rare relic option from Neow the Whale will give players Tingsha, which deals 3 damage to a random enemy whenever a card is discarded.

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The first card reward players will get in this seed is Calculated Gamble, which discards the player’s hand when played and draws an equal number of cards. This lets players trigger the damage from Tingsha at will and can be augmented with further draw/discard-based cards as the player progresses.

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Shuriken & Kunai

For players who want an alternative way to approach Ascension 20 with The Silent, this seed revolves around two relics that allow for some serious stat stacking. Players will get the Shuriken from the first elite encounter, and selecting the Calling Bell as a boss reward will give the Kunai as an uncommon relic.

This means players will stack 1 point of both strength and dexterity for every 3 attack cards played in a turn. Playing around these relics means players can stack enough stats to overpower the mid-game, and this offers further synergies like offsetting the debuff of the Wraith Form power card.

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Stacking Claw

For players who want a smooth run with The Defect, this seed offers a good setup. The first three fight rewards are copies of the Claw card, and players can get additional copies in the first shop. Copies of a common card might not seem impressive, but Claw empowers other copies of the card for that combat when played.

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That means the more copies the player has in their deck, the more effective the Claw card is. This offers a solid basis on which to build for The Defect, as it can be used as a damage source in tandem with multiple builds.

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The Gambler’s Seed

This seed is for those who don’t mind gambling a little. Players can obtain a Pandora’s Box in Act 1 in this seed by trading relics. Pandora’s Box is a truly random relic that transforms strike and defense skill cards when picked up.

Any character can use this seed for a luck-dependent run, but this tends to be effective with The Ironclad, as they start with a lot of basic strike and defense skills that players ideally want to replace anyway.

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Pressure Points Stacking

Playing around the Pressure Points skill card as The Watcher can be tough, as the card’s synergies are limited. Having multiple copies of the card can help its effectiveness, though, as this can stack up the mark effect and deal high damage as a result. This seed will allow players to get 8 copies of the Pressure Points card in Act 1, through Neow the Whale.

Mark is a stacking debuff, but it’s slightly let down by the fact that the watcher has no other cards to apply it or trigger its damage. That means the best way to play around it is to stack the Pressure Points card, and focus on draw and energy generation otherwise.

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Power Build

Players will need to play around The Defect’s affinity for powers to get the most out of this seed. The advantage of The Defect with this seed is a Mummified Hand from the first elite encounter, a Bird-Faced Urn from the second, and a Bottled Tornado from the third. This is pretty much the perfect basis for a power-focused build.

The first two relics mean the player gets to heal and play a random card for free whenever they use a power, and Bottled Tornado lets players pick a power to start combat with. There are multiple further synergies later in the run, with Orange Pellets, Frozen Egg, and Biased Cognition all available. This makes the seed a big power ramp for the Defect.

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Released

January 23, 2019

ESRB

E10+ For Everyone 10+ Due To Fantasy Violence, Mild Blood, Tobacco Reference

Developer(s)

Mega Crit

Publisher(s)

Humble Bundle

OpenCritic Rating

Mighty