Get ready to trade the untamed wilds and crackling anima of Ashenfall for the treacherous, ever-shifting floors of the Spire! This week, we’re setting aside our crafting benches and spectral axes, drawing our starting hands, and preparing for the Slay the Spire: Ascension Gauntlet, where tactical drafting, ruthless relic synergies, and cold calculation will determine who scales the summit and who perishes at the base.

Your mission for next week:

• 🎴 Ascend from Level 0: Every challenger steps into the Spire with a clean slate. Choose your champion—Ironclad, Silent, Defect, or Watcher—and prepare to carve a path through floors of ruthless monsters, cryptic events, and punishing elites.

• ⚡ Draft, Synergize & Slay: Build your deck with precision, manage your hit points like currency, and hunt down game-warping relics. Whether you’re stacking massive block walls, assembling an unstoppable shiv storm, juggling lightning orbs, or dancing between lethal stances, every card picked or skipped matters. Push your run through the Heart and unlock the next level of torment before the clock expires.

• 🏆 Crown the Master of the Spire: The climber who clears the highest Ascension level by close of night on Sunday takes the Weekly Challenge! (Tiebreaker: total successful runs completed across the week).

You have all week to theory craft your card packages, weigh risky elite paths against vital campfire rests, and outsmart the Spire’s most brutal bosses. If Time Eater snaps your turn short or the Corrupt Heart crushes your block pool, grab a fresh deck, adjust your pathing, and start climbing all over again.

Do you have what it takes to defy the Spire's cruel RNG and engrave your victory into the ancient stone? Shuffle your deck, play your hand, and let the ascent begin!