The Regent
The Regent is one of two new characters coming to Slay the Spire 2. He’s an alien heir who travels by throne carried by his diminutive minions. His kit is built around a unique resource pool and a couple of smaller mechanics including a dedicated sword, minion fodder, and an affinity for Colorless cards.
What Makes The Regent Unique?
The Regent’s biggest mechanic is an entirely separate resource pool: Stars. After generating Stars, they can then be used like traditional energy to attack, block, or empower yourself. Unlike energy, Stars don't reset at the end of your turn and there is no cap on how many you can hold at once.
A unique weapon called the Sovereign Blade is another one of his key mechanics. This sword can be Forged, and each time you do so it’ll come back stronger, starting at 10 damage and building from there. This is intended to synergize with other Colorless cards as the Blade is technically not a Regent class card.
There’s also a smaller mechanic of transforming cards in your hand into Minion Sacrifices. Doing so gives you a 0-Cost card that gives you 11 Block before Exhausting.
New Regent Cards
The most mysterious new Slay the Spire 2 class so far, we only have 11 confirmed Regent cards revealed (that includes the Colorless cards related to the Regent mechanisms).
Are There Foreshadowed Regent Builds?
Despite the limited number of cards we can already identify a few potential builds: a Stars scaling build and a Sovereign Blade build.
Stars build
Having a massive stockpile of Stars is the most fundamental option. Venerate and Hidden Cache exist purely to generate Stars, and Falling Star spends these instead of energy, suggesting that there are likely more cards that use and scale with how many you’ve stored up. Since they have no cap and don’t deplete, there could easily be a build where you amass a huge number of them and unleash them on huge payoff cards.
Sovereign Blade build
The Sovereign Blade build would naturally focus on forging the blade as much as possible to increase the amount of damage it does. Cards like Summon Forth let you fetch it over and over again while also empowering it with Forge helping you feed into it as a one-shot finisher.