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Slay the Spire 2 just added a new character: The Fool!

The developers said they expect he’ll go through a bunch of changes and rebalancing, and he def needs it: feels both underdeveloped and OP right now.

STS characters usually have three main archetypes (e.g. Defect’s Orbs, 0-cost cards, and status generation) but The Fool only has two main ones (Arrows and Melody), with a minor one (Sadness) tacked on.

The Sadness cards seem like they’re meant to be a deal-with-the-devil situation: strong cards with a clear downside. But the Sadness statuses don’t actually hurt you till you have more than 5 of them, and (in the two runs I played with him) I tended to have won the fight long before then. Maybe they could be like Burns and deal a damage to you every turn, until you turn them into Joy?

I’m excited to see where they take the character!