Silent is a rogue and one of the playable characters in Slay the Spire. She defeats her foes with numerous cheap attacks, daggers, and poison.
I like playing Silent the most because of the poison mechanic. In time, I began to understand Silent’s play style better, tested different cards, and discovered even more powerful combinations and synergies that I want to tell you about.
In this Slay the Spire Silent guide, I will try to tell you how to play on Silent, go into as much detail as possible about the character, his features, and the best strategies and decks to play with.
Silent Basic Mechanics
Like all characters, Silent has several class features. The first important advantage is that she has the largest deck in the game (12 cards) at the beginning (one more defense card, as well as two class cards instead of one). She also has a strong starting relic – Ring of the Snake. It allows you to take two more cards at the beginning of each battle.
What’s more, Silent has some very interesting mechanics, such as poison or shivs. Furthermore, this character has the strongest discard and drawing card mechanics.
Silent Starting Relic
Silent’s starting relic is the Ring of the Snake. It allows you to draw 2 more cards at the beginning of the battle. This may not seem like a very useful bonus to beginners, especially compared to relics of Ironclad or Defect, but it’s not. This relic is powerful, as it allows you to find the right cards to start combat, such as After Image, Envenom, Footwork, or Accuracy. Moreover, this relic can be replaced with the Ring of the Serpent, allowing you to draw 1 more card each turn.
Poison
Silent has a unique poisoning mechanic on which you can build several strategies. For poisoning, the character has special skills, talents, attacks, and even relics. You can flip poison from one enemy to another, double or triple it, deal increased damage to poisoned enemies, or just defend yourself and wait for the poison to finish your enemies off.
It is important to note that poisoning bypasses the defense and hits the enemy’s health, which is especially strong against some of them.
0 Cost Cards
Among other things, the Silent has a lot of useful cards for 0 energy, on which you can also build several strong combinations. These include defensive cards, cards to increase energy, discard unwanted cards from your hand, or draw cards from your deck.
However, the most interesting are attacks that cost 0, such as Slice, Backstab, Endless Agony, or Shivs (which can only be obtained with other cards). Initially, they seem weak, but their damage can be increased many times over thanks to talents and artifacts.
Poison Build
Basic Cards: Noxious Fumes, Catalyst, Bouncing Flask, Poisoned Stub, Deadly Poison, Crippling Cloud, Burst.
The first and most classic build on Silent is based on poison mechanics. It's an easy and effective build to use, which has many variations. So you don’t need to look for any specific cards, just find some of the list, even the simplest ones, and you can actively apply this build for Silent in practice.
The basic principle of this deck is very simple: you need to throw the maximum amount of poison on your opponents. Mix copies of key cards into your deck, play them repeatedly, and increase the amount of poison on your opponents.
However, this strategy often doesn’t kill your opponents very quickly, as it takes several turns to inflict enough poison. For this reason, be sure to play protection cards so that your enemies cannot kill you before you play poison cards.I’ve had many situations where I’ve built a very strong deck, but I didn’t have enough defense cards, and in the final stage of the boss battle I didn’t have enough defense to survive one more turn and finish it.
Best Cards for Poison Build
This Silent build has some basic cards that have the strongest effect:
- Deadly Poison: Places 5/7 poison on the enemy
- Crippling Cloud: Inflicts 4/7 poison and two weaknesses on all enemies
- Noxious Fumes: Talent that applies 2/3 poison to all enemies each turn
- Catalyst: Doubles/times the amount of poison on the enemy
- Bouncing Flask: Apply 3 Poison to a random enemy 3/4 times
- Corpse Explosion: Apply 6/9 Poison. When an enemy dies, deal damage equal to its MAX HP to ALL enemies.
You also use several useful cards in this build to deal damage and increase the poison from the cards above:
- Burst:This turn your next Skill is played twice / 2 Skills are played twice. It allows you to boost your poison skills during the battle.
- Nightmare:Choose a card.Next turn, add 3 copies of that card into your hand, which allows you to copy your strongest poison card.
Best Relics for this Build
There are some strong relics that will help this build play many times stronger:
- Snecko Skull: When you poison an opponent, deal 1 additional poison
- The Specimen: After an opponent with poison dies, transfers his poison to another opponent
- Twisted Funnel: at the beginning of the battle puts 4 poisons on all opponents
- Toxic Egg: improves all skills added to the deck
