The Silent
A huntress from outside the Spire.
Ready to stab and poison anything in her way.
Ring of the SnakeIn hand from floor one. Hover the name for what it does.
Play a single run to unlock this character.
Starting deck
Silent relics
Silent potions
How the Silent plays
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The basics
- The Silent has 70 HP, 3 Energy and 99 Gold, and she is the character built around card flow.
Her relic, Ring of the Snake, draws 2 extra cards on the first turn of every combat, so she opens on seven cards instead of five.
Starting deck
- The starting deck is twelve cards, two more than any other character: five Strike, five Defend, one Neutralize and one Survivor.
Neutralize costs 0, deals 3 and applies 1 Weak, which cuts that enemy's Attack damage by 25%.
Survivor gives 8 Block for 1 Energy and makes you discard a card, which this pool treats as a trigger, not a drawback.
Her three engines
- Her damage comes through three engines: Poison, which makes an enemy lose HP at the start of its turn and drops by 1 each turn.
Shivs, 0-cost Attack tokens that hit for 4 and Exhaust.- And Sly, which plays a card for free when it is discarded from your hand before the end of your turn.
- All three reward a big hand and heavy draw.
Silent card pool
Deal 11 damage.
Apply 3 Weak.
Draw 2 cards.
Exhaust.
At the start of your turn, lose 1 Dexterity.
Deal 10 damage.
Apply 1 Vulnerable.
Exhaust.
Gain 1 Dexterity.
Gain 4 Thorns.
Repeat this effect for each enemy killed.
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What to pick up
Fits any deck
- Three cards fit any deck at any point.
- Adrenaline costs 0, gives 1 Energy, draws 2 cards and Exhausts.
- Afterimage gives 1 Block for every card played, which adds up fast with 0-cost cards.
Footwork adds 2 Dexterity, so each Defend blocks 7 instead of 5.
The Act 1 fix
- Act 1 is a damage problem, with some elites over 120 HP, and the cheap fix is Shivs, 0-cost Attacks that deal 4 and Exhaust.
Leading Strike deals 3 and adds 2 Shivs, 11 damage for 1 Energy, and Blade Dance adds 3 Shivs for 12 damage.
Her Shiv plan
Shivs are her strongest plan.
Accuracy doubles each one, from 4 damage to 8.
Knife Trap costs 2 and plays every Shiv in the Exhaust Pile again, so ten spent Shivs return as 40 damage.- Blade of Ink adds 2 Inky Shivs that deal 5 and apply 1 Weak each, and it does not Exhaust.
- Discard decks rely on Sly cards, which play for free only when discarded before the end of the turn. Played by hand, Tactician and Reflex cost 3, so outlets such as Tools of the Trade and Calculated Gamble come first.
- Poison is too slow for Act 1 and her weakest plan in this version.
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Malaise and upgrade order
Malaise costs X: the enemy loses X Strength for the rest of the fight and gains X Weak. It blunts any elite or boss, and Adrenaline raises X by one.- Leg Sweep is the steady defensive pick at 11 Block and 2 Weak for 2 Energy.
Upgrade Adrenaline first for 2 Energy, then Footwork for 3 Dexterity and Neutralize for 2 Weak.
Two weak commons
- Two commons play worse than they read.
Dagger Spray is 4 damage to all enemies twice with nothing attached.
Flick-Flack is 6 to all enemies for 1 Energy unless a discard plays it.
Notes
The Silent unlocks after your first run with any character, won or abandoned. The unlock code runs after the run ends, and its comment names abandoning your first run as the trigger case.- Unlocking her makes the Regent the next character in the chain.
- Ring of the Snake draws on turn 1 only, so Flechettes is at its best on that seven-card turn while Precise Cut is at its worst.
- Grand Finale can only be played while the draw pile is empty.
Well-Laid Plans appears only in single-player runs. Flanking and Sneaky appear only in multiplayer.
Suppress and Wraith Form are her Ancient cards.
Changes by version
- Added new multiplayer Silent cards; Blade Symphony: Uncommon - Skill - Cost 1 - "Add 2(3) Shivs to ALL players Hands."; Concoct: Uncommon - Skill - Cost 0 - "Another player's Attacks apply 3(4) Poison this turn."; Fade: Uncommon - Skill - Cost 0 - "Retain. Another player gains 6(9) Dexterity this turn."
- Fixed a typo in the dialogue between Tanx and The SilentTextInternal playtestUpdated Silent's Epochs to be sorted in the correct order
- The line "You can trust me" is now properly said by Tezcatara to Silent instead of vice versa
All 23 patch notes20 older
- Moved Tough Bandages from shared relic pool to Silent's relic pool
- Updated the portrait art
- Added reveal requirement hovertips for Neow and Silent Epochs
- Added various placeholder Epoch portraits
- Changed Alchemize card: pool changed from Silent to ColorlessPoolGrand FinaleInternal playtestChanged Grand Finale card: pool changed back from Colorless to Silent
- Silent: Neutralize to Suppress
- Changed Neow's Bundle blessing: tweaked Silent bundles
- Adjusted Silent and Necrobinder's Character Select art
- Lightened Silent's shadow
- Made some Silent card portrait touch ups
- Updated art for various Silent card portraits
- Updated Silent rig with new head
- Added colored card trails for Silent, Defect, Regent, Necrobinder
- No longer a Silent card, now a Colorless card
- Playing Call of the Void card as Silent no longer softlocks the game
- Remove Silent's hair strand and other tweaks
- Add missing Infinite Blades card to Silent card pool
- Import new Silent animation
Internal playtest notes are from before the Early Access release. Names and numbers in them can differ from the game today.
Goes well with
- Flanking doubles the attack damage other players deal to one enemy this turn: play it on the boss before his Strength turn.
- Tank makes him take double damage and everyone else half, so her 70 HP is covered while she stacks Poison.
- Sneaky gives her Block whenever another player attacks, and he attacks every turn.
History
Prehistoria Chapter 1 of 7Nemesis
Ghastly nightmares of tormented souls stalk the Foglands.
She takes it upon herself to hunt the haunter. Once the hunt is complete, its skull is ceremoniously placed upon her by her Sisters. The ritual has concluded.
The first game Slay the Spire, character selectSlay the Spire (2019)
The Silent was one of the four who climbed in the first game, which introduced her as
A deadly huntress from the foglands. Eliminates foes with daggers and poisons.
Blight Chapter 2 of 7Trophies
Fantastic trophies occupy this forsaken place. All were defeated, one by one. Those marked by the Silent always fall.
Blight Chapter 3 of 7Poisoner
Another hunt concludes.
Stilling the putrid Heart with a special-made poison, the Silent rappels upwards and outwards and longs to bathe in the comforting moonlight. She leaves the Spire with a prize in hand. A piece of the Heart.
Flourish Chapter 4 of 7Bigger Prey
The other sisters judge the fourth one in silence...
They have not seen her for over three centuries and she returns with an ugly pulsating scrap.The Silent recollects the trials she endured for this trophy but does not speak; to speak is weak. One can only prove herself with more impressive trophies.
There is always bigger prey.
Flourish Chapter 5 of 7Ill
A sickness carrying a familiar scent courses through the Silent’s veins, the Heart piece is slowly killing her!
The grotesque trophy is hurled into the ocean, but the blight has no cure.She will die soon.
Doors Chapter 6 of 7Fog Rolls In
News of the Spire’s reopening made its way to the Silent.
She ferries a boat to The Capital.
Invitation Chapter 7 of 7Soup
“Hello, little one...!” the massive Tezcatara whispered to the Silent.
“Grow big and strong!” The Ancient speaks in a tender tone and scoots over a bowl of nutritious soup.
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