A closer look
It sounds completely counterintuitive to pay a shopkeeper your hard-earned gold to take your belongings away, but in rogue-like deckbuilders, a thin deck is a winning deck. By aggressively purging their basic 'Strike' and 'Defend' cards, expert Slay the Spire players artificially manipulate the tempo of their deck. This ensures they consistently draw their ultra-powerful infinite combo pieces rather than drawing a handful of useless starter trash when a boss is about to hit them for sixty damage.
