Poor Sleep

Curse

A Curse with Retain and Unplayable and no other text.

  • Retain: drawn once per combat and never leaves your hand, occupying one of your 10 hand slots every turn for the rest of the fight, never shuffled back.
  • Counts: as a card in hand for anything that looks at hand size.
  • Run modifiers: the code keeps it out of the cards that run modifiers generate.
Type
Curse
Cost
Unplayable

When to take Poor Sleep

Never take it on purpose, and remove it at the first shop you can. Until then, treat every fight as if your hand size were 9.

Cards that synergize with Poor Sleep

Purity
Skill
0
Retain.
Exhaust up to 3 cards in your Hand.
Exhaust.
Purity exhausts up to three cards from hand.Retain.
Exhaust up to 3 cards in your Hand.
Exhaust.
Second Wind
Skill
1
Exhaust all non-Attack cards in your Hand. Gain 5 Block for each card Exhausted.
Second Wind exhausts it and pays 5 Block.Exhaust all non-Attack cards in your Hand. Gain 5 Block for each card Exhausted.
Sculpting Strike
Attack
1
Deal 9 damage.
Add Ethereal to a card in your Hand.
Sculpting Strike gives it Ethereal so it exhausts at end of turn.Deal 9 damage.
Add Ethereal to a card in your Hand.
BEGONE!
Skill
1
Choose a card in your Hand to Transform into Minion Strike.
BEGONE! transforms it into a Minion Strike.Choose a card in your Hand to Transform into Minion Strike.
Tyranny
Power
1
At the start of your turn, draw 1 card and Exhaust 1 card from your Hand.
Tyranny exhausts a card from hand every turn.At the start of your turn, draw 1 card and Exhaust 1 card from your Hand.

Cards that clear your hand are the answer.

Rules and timing

Excluded from cards generated by run modifiers.

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Ascender's Bane
Curse
Ethereal.
Unplayable.
Eternal.
Bad Luck
Curse
Unplayable.
At the end of your turn, if this is in your Hand, lose 13 HP.
Eternal.
Clumsy
Curse
Ethereal.
Unplayable.
Curse of the Bell
Curse
Unplayable.
Eternal.
Debt
Curse
Unplayable.
At the end of your turn, if this is in your Hand, lose 10 Gold.
Decay
Curse
Unplayable.
At the end of your turn, if this is in your Hand, take 2 damage.
Doubt
Curse
Unplayable.
At the end of your turn, if this is in your Hand, gain 1 Weak.
Folly
Curse
Ethereal.
Innate.
Unplayable.
Eternal.

Changes by version

  1. 16 Oct 2025ArtInternal playtest
    Added card art
  2. 2 Oct 2025ChangeUnplayableRetainInternal playtest
    Changed Arrhythmia (now Poor Sleep) card: now an Unplayable curse with Retain
    NameArrhythmia cursePoor SleepInternal playtest
    Changed card name from "Arrhythmia curse" to "Poor Sleep"

Internal playtest notes are from before the Early Access release. Names and numbers in them can differ from the game today.

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