The Necrobinder
The Necrobinder is one of two brand new characters coming to Slay the Spire 2. She’s a powerful lich who fights alongside a giant reanimated hand and her kit is built around two systems: dealing with the undead and cursing her foes with Doom.
What Makes the Necrobinder Unique?
The first thing you’ll notice about the Necrobinder is her trusty reanimated hand called Osty. Osty can attack enemies independently of yourself which means if you find yourself debuffed, he can continue dealing damage. He also acts as a shield, jumping in front of attacks that would hit you, even to the point of death. You can, of course, just resummon Osty using cards with the Summon keyword.
Doom is a damage mechanic unique to the Necrobinder that’s similar to Poison in that it stacks. But instead of ticking down and dealing damage over time, it ticks up and once it eclipses the enemy’s current health, they die instantly.
Her other pillar is Souls which come from other class specific cards, empowering her with card draw.
New Necrobinder Cards
We already have a whopping 47 Necrobinder cards fully revealed, giving us an idea as to how the character will play.
Are There Foreshadowed Necrobinder Builds?
Just looking at the cards shown so far there are two main builds: Necromancy and Doom.
Necromancy build
Necromancy likely involves powering up and using Osty as much as possible. Bone Shards, for example, deliberately kills him as a cost of dealing 9 damage to all enemies. Meanwhile the damage of Unleash scales up as Osty’s current HP does. There will likely be two different builds here. One that wants to keep Osty alive and large as a tank, empowering your cards along the way; and another that just wants to cycle him through death and resurrection.
Doom build
Doom is pretty straightforward in that all it wants to do is increase those stacks as quickly as possible. You can, of course, continue to damage foes traditionally too as the stacks only have to exceed their current HP, not their max HP. Cards like Blight Strike apply Doom equivalent to the unblocked damage dealt, meaning traditional attacks and Doom stacking work together rather than competing against one another.