Slay the Spire – Infinite Deck Guide

Quick Guide to Infinite Deck

The best possible deck:

• Gambling chip and bag of prep ensures that Acrobatics+ and reflex+ can get in a hand with 5 other cards on turn 1.
• Acrobatics+ draws the remaining three cards and then discards the reflex+. 3 energy remaining (lantern)
• Reflex+’s effect triggers on discard, redrawing reflex+ and acrobatics+. All ten of the deck’s cards are now in hand
• (1)At this point, playing Calculated gamble will discard all nine other cards and then redraw all nine other cards. Tactician+’s effect will proc, giving 2 energy, and reflex+’s effect will proc, redrawing calculated gamble. This allows you to generate arbitrary amounts of energy.
• (2)If you want, you can spend 1 energy to play survivor onto reflex+, gaining some block and then redrawing both survivor and reflex. Doing this at least a few times will be necessary in time eater and heart fights. This also allows you to generate arbitrary amounts of block.
• If you want, you can play Grand Finale. This is the deck’s source of damage. After playing Grand Finale, you can play any card which discards (such as calculated gamble) to discard reflex+, redrawing the Grand Finale alongside the reflex+ and whatever card discarded the reflex+
• To survive turns 2 and 3 of attacks from heart, as well as the part where statuses are put into your deck, you can play wraith form.

Since future turns don’t have either of gamble chip or bag of prep, you need to think a little bit in order to get your entire deck into your hand. Wraith form and ascender’s bane will be gone, but burn and wound will be added.

It is theoretically possible to draw the exact hand Grand Finale, Survivor, Burn, Wound, Tactician, which is incapable of doing anything except playing survivor. There is a chance that this happens on turn 3.

To avoid this, use the fact that you can generate arbitrary amounts of energy and block (using bullet points 1 and 2) in order to make sure that Acrobatics+ is the only card in your draw pile on any hand where you successfully draw the entire deck and combo off.

I sincerely hope this was helpful. Good luck to you!