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Slay the Spire 2 1.0 release: Sep 2027Not announced: our best guess from Mega Crit's 1 to 2 year Early Access plan.
Best guessMega Crit's Early Access FAQ on Steam says it will stay in Early Access "Until the game feels great! Last time we thought it would be about a year and it took about 1.5 years. So perhaps in the same 1 - 2 year range." We count 18 months from the Mar 5, 2026 Early Access launch, as the first game took, to the first Thursday of Sep 2027 (Mega Crit ships on Thursdays) at 10 AM Pacific, the hour of the Early Access launch. Steam

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Curses, Statuses and Quest Cards

Slay the Spire 2 has 18 curses, 16 statuses and 3 Quest cards on its main branch (v0.107.1). Curses stay in your deck until removed (Eternal ones, such as Ascender's Bane from Ascension 5, never leave), statuses last one combat, and Quest cards (Byrdonis Egg, Lantern Key, Spoils Map) pay out when you finish their task.

Slay the Spire 2 has 18 curses, 16 status cards and 3 Quest cards on its live main branch, v0.107.1, by the count of the game data that Spire Codex reads. Curses are harmful cards that stay in your deck for the run until you remove them, and six of them are Eternal, which "Cannot be removed or transformed from your Deck" (game data): among them Ascender's Bane, the curse every run starts with from Ascension 5. Statuses are added during a combat by enemies or by your own cards and last only that fight. Quest cards, new in Slay the Spire 2, are Unplayable cards from events that reward you when you fulfill their task. The game is in Early Access, so this page gives main-branch text, with public-beta changes labeled.

Quick facts

Curses 18, 6 of them Eternal
Statuses 16
Quest cards 3: Byrdonis Egg, Lantern Key, Spoils Map; a fourth, Dowsing, is on the beta since v0.109.0
Ascender's Bane Ascension 5: "Start each run cursed." (PCGamesN); Ethereal, Unplayable, Eternal
Removing curses The Merchant (one card per visit), events, Neow's Precise Scissors and Precarious Shears, the Meat Cleaver's Cook; never an Eternal curse
Removal price Rises 25 Gold per removal (PCGamesN); on Ascension 6 from 100 Gold, rising 50 (Mega Crit)
Version Main branch v0.107.1 (Mega Crit)

Curses

Curse Cost Effect
Ascender's Bane Unplayable Ethereal. Eternal.
Bad Luck Unplayable Eternal. At the end of your turn, if this is in your Hand, lose 13 HP.
Clumsy Unplayable Ethereal.
Curse of the Bell Unplayable Eternal.
Debt Unplayable At the end of your turn, if this is in your Hand, lose 10 Gold.
Decay Unplayable At the end of your turn, if this is in your Hand, take 2 damage.
Doubt Unplayable At the end of your turn, if this is in your Hand, gain 1 Weak.
Enthralled 2 Eternal. If this is in your Hand, it must be played before other cards.
Folly Unplayable Innate. Ethereal. Eternal.
Greed Unplayable Eternal.
Guilty Unplayable Removed from your Deck after 5 combats.
Injury Unplayable No effect text.
Normality Unplayable You cannot play more than 3 cards this turn.
Poor Sleep Unplayable Retain.
Regret Unplayable At the end of your turn, if this is in your Hand, lose 1 HP for each card in your Hand.
Shame Unplayable At the end of your turn, if this is in your Hand, gain 1 Frail.
Spore Mind 1 Exhaust.
Writhe Unplayable Innate.

Source: Spire Codex (game data, v0.107.1), read Oct 26, 2026. "No effect text" means the game data gives only keywords.

Nine curses have no effect text in the game data, only keywords: Ascender's Bane, Clumsy, Curse of the Bell, Folly, Greed, Injury, Poor Sleep, Spore Mind and Writhe. Their harm is that they take up a draw and a place in your Hand, and Mega Crit has not published any further effect for them. Mobalytics' card database prints "Unplayable. Ethereal." for every curse, a placeholder that is wrong for most of them (Mobalytics), so its curse text is not used here.

Where curses come from

Most curses are the price of a reward you chose. From the game data's events and relics (Spire Codex: events, relics) and OP.GG's event pages (beta v0.111.0 data):

Curse Where it comes from
Ascender's Bane Every run at Ascension 5 and higher (PCGamesN)
Bad Luck Reflections event, "Shatter": duplicate your Deck and receive Bad Luck
Clumsy "This or That?" event: add Clumsy and obtain a random Relic
Curse of the Bell Mega Crit has not said; Darv's relic Calling Bell gives "a unique Curse and 3 Relics" (OP.GG), and Curse of the Bell is the only curse named for a bell
Debt Crystal Sphere event, "Payment Plan": gain a Debt and Divine 6 times (OP.GG)
Decay Grave of the Forgotten ("Confront with Truth") and The Lost Wisp ("Capture the Wisp") events
Doubt, Shame, Regret The Trial event, by your verdict (OP.GG)
Enthralled The relic Blood-Soaked Rose, which also gives 1 Energy at the start of each turn
Folly Vakuu's relic Preserved Fog (Mega Crit's v0.100.0 notes)
Greed Sunken Treasury event (v0.100.0 notes) and Neow's Cursed Pearl, with 333 Gold (OP.GG)
Guilty The Trial and the Wellspring event ("Bathe": remove 1 card, add Guilty)
Injury Punch Off event ("Nab": a random Relic) and Neow's Hefty Tablet, with a Rare card (Mega Crit)
Normality Field of Man-Sized Holes event, "Resist": remove 2 cards and add Normality (OP.GG)
Poor Sleep Unrest Site event, "Rest Anyways": heal to full HP
Spore Mind Luminous Choir event, "Reach into the Flesh": remove 2 cards and add Spore Mind
Writhe Not published

Random curses come from three more places. Neow's Bones gives 2 random Neow relics and 1 random Curse from "a list of ten curses", and Mega Crit's engineer Ed explained in Major Update #2 that players were right it gave Debt too often before the v0.107.1 random-number fix. Vakuu's relics add 2 random curses (Sere Talon on the main branch; on the beta since v0.109.0, Distinguished Cape instead). Game Rant says the Act 2 boss Knowledge Demon "inflicts curses that have some seriously punishing effects" (Game Rant).

Ascender's Bane and Ascension 5

Ascender's Bane is the curse Ascension 5 puts in your deck: the level's text is "Start each run cursed." (PCGamesN). The card is Ethereal, Unplayable and Eternal and has no other text (game data). Unplayable means it can never be played; Ethereal means that if it is still in your Hand at the end of the turn it is Exhausted for the rest of that combat; Eternal means the Merchant, events and transforms cannot take it out. So it costs you one dead draw per combat at most, every combat of the run. Ascension effects stack, so it stays at every level from 5 to 10 (Ascension).

One bug could make more of it. Until beta v0.108.0, the Colorless Power Entropy could transform curses into Ascender's Bane.

How to remove curses

Removing a curse works like removing any card. The Merchant removes one card per visit (Game Rant) at a price that rises 25 Gold each time (PCGamesN); Mega Crit has not published the first removal's price. From Ascension 6, Inflation, removal starts at 100 Gold and rises 50 (Mega Crit's v0.102.0 notes). Merchant and Rest Sites covers the shop.

Events and relics remove cards too: Neow's Precise Scissors (1 card) and Precarious Shears (2 cards for 16 HP), the Wellspring (1 card, but it adds Guilty), Luminous Choir and Field of Man-Sized Holes (2 cards each, for another curse), the Ancient relic Biiig Hug (4 cards, then a Soot each time you shuffle) and the Meat Cleaver, which lets you Cook at a Rest Site: "Remove 2 cards from your Deck and gain 9 Max HP" (game data; OP.GG). The Cook's Max HP is 5 on the beta since v0.109.0.

Some curses leave by themselves or cannot leave at all. Guilty is "Removed from your Deck after 5 combats" (game data). Ascender's Bane, Bad Luck, Curse of the Bell, Enthralled, Folly and Greed are Eternal and stay all run. Transforms ("Transformed cards become a random card of any rarity") turn a non-Eternal curse into a random card, which may be better or worse.

You can also make curses pay. The event relic Darkstone Periapt gives 6 Max HP per Curse (OP.GG), and Exhaust and Ethereal effects clear them out of a single combat.

Statuses

Status Cost Effect
Beckon 1 At the end of your turn, if this is in your Hand, lose 6 HP.
Burn Unplayable At the end of your turn, if this is in your Hand, take 2 damage.
Dazed Unplayable Ethereal.
Debris 1 Exhaust.
Frantic Escape 1 Get farther away. Increase Sandpit by 1. Increase the cost of this card by 1.
Infection Unplayable At the end of your turn, if this is in your Hand, take 3 damage.
Slimed 1 Exhaust. Draw 1 card.
Soot Unplayable No effect text.
Toxic 1 Exhaust. At the end of your turn, if this is in your Hand, take 5 damage.
Void Unplayable Ethereal. Whenever you draw this card, lose 1 Energy.
Wither Unplayable At the end of your turn, if this is in your Hand, take 3 damage. Upgraded: At the end of your turn, if this is in your Hand, take 6 damage.
Wound Unplayable No effect text.
Disintegration Unplayable At the end of your turn, take 6 damage.
Mind Rot Unplayable Draw 1 fewer card each turn.
Sloth Unplayable You cannot play more than 3 cards each turn.
Waste Away Unplayable Gain 1 less Energy per turn.

Source: Spire Codex (game data, v0.107.1), read Oct 26, 2026.

Statuses last one combat, and your own cards make some of them. The Defect's Status archetype adds Dazed (Boost Away), Slimed (Gunk Up), Void (TURBO), Burn (Overclock) and Wounds (Fight Through) on purpose, and its Smokestack, Iteration, Compact and Flak Cannon pay you back (game data; Defect Cards).

Where statuses come from

Enemies add most statuses. The game data names these sources (Spire Codex: cards and monsters):

Status Added by
Beckon Soul Fysh, an Underdocks boss, with its opening move Beckon
Burn Mecha Knight and Test Subject #C14; the Defect's Overclock
Dazed Chomper, Eye with Teeth and Haunted Ship; the Defect's Boost Away; the event relic Tea of Discourtesy, 2 Dazed next combat (OP.GG)
Frantic Escape The Insatiable, a Hive boss: "Get farther away. Increase Sandpit by 1." (Mega Crit)
Infection Phrog Parasite and Wriggler
Slimed Leaf Slimes, Twig Slime (M) and Slimed Berserker; the Defect's Gunk Up
Soot The Ancient relic Biiig Hug, whenever you shuffle your Draw Pile
Toxic Myte
Void The Defect's TURBO
Wither Aeonglass, a Glory boss
Wound Vantom, an Overgrowth boss; the Defect's Fight Through
Debris, Disintegration, Mind Rot, Sloth, Waste Away Not published by Mega Crit or an allowed source; the game data has debuffs of the same names as the last four

Wither arrived with Aeonglass, the Act 3 boss since v0.107.1; since v0.106.1 Wither cannot be upgraded and is not kept in Hand by Retain. PC Gamer's Austin Wood calls Aeonglass "markedly harder" than the other Act 3 bosses because it fills your deck with status cards that deal ramping damage to you, and Evan Lahti says the Silent's Sly cards answer it (PC Gamer, Sep 18, 2026). Haunted Ship applies Dazed since v0.101.0. Bosses and Enemies give each fight.

Quest cards

Quest cards are new in Slay the Spire 2. Mega Crit announced them in its March 2025 Neowsletter: "We're adding a new type of card called Quests. Obtain these rare cards and fulfill their requirements and you will be greatly rewarded." They are Unplayable cards you receive at events (Mobalytics), so they sit in your deck as dead draws until the task is done.

Quest card Text Where you get it Reward
Byrdonis Egg "Can be hatched at a Rest Site." Byrdonis Nest event, "Take the Egg" (or "Eat the Egg" for 7 Max HP) Hatch it at a Rest Site for the Byrdpip relic, a companion in battle, and Byrd Swoop, a 0-cost Attack dealing 14 damage (18 upgraded)
Lantern Key "Unlocks a special event in the next Act." The Lantern Key event in the Hive: "Keep the Key" means fighting the Mysterious Knight; "Return the Key" pays 100 Gold War Historian, Repy in Act 3: free him for History Course, or open the chest for 2 Potions and 2 Relics
Spoils Map "Marks a site of 600 extra Gold in the next Act." The Legends Were True event, "Nab the Map" 600 Gold at the chest marked with a red X in the next Act; since v0.104.0, 600 Gold per copy

Source: Spire Codex (game data, v0.107.1) for card text; OP.GG event pages (beta v0.111.0 data) and Mobalytics for sources and rewards, read Oct 26, 2026.

Players split almost evenly on the egg and mostly sold the key. In its April 2026 Neowsletter, Mega Crit said 51% of players took the Byrdonis Egg and 49% ate it, 56% returned the Lantern Key for Gold, and 88% of those who kept it and met Repy freed him for his tome. History Course was cut back on the beta in v0.109.0 to repeat only Attacks, and holding several Lantern Keys makes "something special" happen at Repy in single player since v0.105.0.

A fourth Quest card is on the beta only. Neow's Dowsing Rod, added in v0.109.0 (Jul 17, 2026), adds Dowsing: "After entering 5 more ? rooms, transform this into Abundance", an Ancient Skill that offers 1 of 3 Upgraded Powers, free to play that turn. Events gives every event's choices.

Deprecated Card

One more Status exists only for saved runs. If an update removes a card that is in a run in progress, the card becomes "Deprecated Card", a Status that reads "Draw 1 card. Remove this from your Deck. Exhaust." (Mega Crit's v0.100.0 notes).

Frequently asked questions

How do you remove curses in Slay the Spire 2? In Slay the Spire 2 you remove a curse like any card: at the Merchant (one per visit, the price rising 25 Gold each time, per PCGamesN), or with events and relics such as Neow's Precise Scissors. Eternal curses such as Ascender's Bane and Greed cannot be removed.

What is Ascender's Bane in Slay the Spire 2? Ascender's Bane is the curse Slay the Spire 2 adds to your deck at Ascension 5 and above ("Start each run cursed.", per PCGamesN); it is Ethereal, Unplayable and Eternal, so it cannot be removed or transformed (game data).

Can you remove Ascender's Bane in Slay the Spire 2? No. Ascender's Bane is Eternal in Slay the Spire 2, and Eternal cards "Cannot be removed or transformed from your Deck," per the game data; being Ethereal, it is Exhausted if it is still in your Hand at the end of a turn.

How many curses are in Slay the Spire 2? Slay the Spire 2 has 18 curses on its main branch (v0.107.1), six of them Eternal, per the game data.

What are status cards in Slay the Spire 2? Status cards in Slay the Spire 2 are cards that enemies or your own cards add during a combat, such as Dazed, Burn, Slimed, Wound and Void; the game data lists 16 (Spire Codex).

What are Quest cards in Slay the Spire 2? Quest cards are Unplayable cards from events in Slay the Spire 2 that reward you when you complete their task: the Byrdonis Egg, the Lantern Key and the Spoils Map on the main branch, per the game data and Mobalytics.

What does the Spoils Map do in Slay the Spire 2? The Spoils Map in Slay the Spire 2 "Marks a site of 600 extra Gold in the next Act" (game data); since v0.104.0 each copy pays 600 Gold.

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Last updated Oct 26, 2026 by the Vi.ki team. Page text CC BY-SA 4.0.

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