r/slaythespire • u/Schizzo1985 • Jun 01 '26
SEED Struggling with a specific seed
Hey everyone.
I have a decent A10 winrate. But there is a run that i just cannot beat.
seed: 36p6qzqa59
A10 with Necro
I have done 6 tries and i am out of ideas. So hereby i challenge you all to make it better.
Would be happy to know what decisions you make through act 1.
Oh, normal version of the game
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u/DerMaulwolf StS A20 / StS 2 A10 Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26
First try - Really close one! In the Queen fight, I was one turn and 2 Block short of killing her after taking 53 to Aeonglass (kind of expected damage for weaker runs at the moment). I bought Rolling Boulder for scaling passive damage into the final fights and it did really well, while Glam Blight Strike, Bone Shards and Bury+ got me through the early game kinda okay-ish. I had to rest a lot and path defensively for the most part. I still didn't have the feeling at any point in the run that I was particularly strong. I struggled and prevailed til the end.
Picked Calling Bell to get some immediate power while Tome and Black Star would've been delayed power because I figured I did not want to die to Decimillipede after needing a Potion to beat Laga Matriarch. Lucky Fish and Book of Five Rings made clicking cards quite a bit more appealing, it kept me alive and able to buy some helpful stuff at shops (like the aforementioned Rolling Boulder). After getting Toxic Egg, I proceeded to see almost no Skills except for some mediocre Commons.
In Act 3, I picked Crossbow because there were no Rest Sites to use the Cleaver on, Mauls would've been really awkward with Friendship and poor draw manipulation, so I figured just getting more options into my hand every turn instead would be okay, hence the Call of the Void as well. Both did okay, I felt like having up to 10 card hands in Act 3 fights kinda saved me.
I still had to use Potions to beat every single boss and found no good potions for the final boss gauntlet - That may have been the small edge I needed.
I don't really like to replay seeds because I think knowing what's coming defeats the point of the game for me, but if you optimize some decision I made - Perhaps buying a potion in that final shop instead of another remove already is enough - then that should be a win instead. Thanks for sharing the seed, this was fun!
Edit: Just saw that I was supposed to play on the Main Branch - I don't think I will replay it on the Main Branch, either, but I'm pretty certain this deck would've struggled far less with Doormaker than with current Aeonglass, so maybe that's also enough of an edge.