Buildy Monarchy

Big Bang (0E Skill, cycle Stars and draw) is the engine — at zero energy cost it advances the Stars economy without spending any of your 3 energy per turn. Alignment (Skill, convert Stars directly into Energy) solves the energy problem on turns where you have accumulated Stars but lack energy for payoffs. Seven Stars (spend 7 Stars, deal 49 AoE damage to all enemies) is the primary finisher — 7 Stars generates 49 damage across every enemy simultaneously.

Stars persist between turns, unlike Energy which resets each turn. This means a Stars accumulation strategy compounds across the combat — turn 1 generates Stars, turn 2 adds more, and by turn 3–4 the accumulated Stars enable a game-ending Seven Stars play. CN community priority order for Stars cards: Children of Stars, then Confluence, Gamma Blast, Radiation, Escort.

A complete 21-card reference Stars decklist is available from DVG.cn community guides and represents the current CN metagame consensus for this archetype.

Alignment + Shining Strike create a self-reinforcing loop where Stars generated are immediately reinvested into more Star generation, eventually producing enough Stars to enable free repeated plays per turn. An Act 1 infinite is confirmed as achievable for Regent — this is the earliest consistent infinite of any character in STS2.

Bombardment plus the right Stars-scaling relic package create an exponential damage variant. The Heavenly Drill threshold correction: X>=4 produces 8 hits (64 damage total), revised from the earlier X>=3 reports.

Sovereign Blade is a Retained Attack, meaning it is always in your hand at the start of every turn — it never needs to be drawn. Forge enhancements permanently upgrade Sovereign Blade's stats and effects each time you smith at a campfire using a Forge action instead of a Rest action.

The community consensus is Stars > Forge in terms of consistency and ceiling. Sovereign Blade is rated 'undertuned' by multiple sources — its baseline damage and scaling do not match the output ceiling of a Stars Alignment build. The Forge path's key event is 'Decisions, Decisions', which provides Forge-specific card rewards unavailable through normal card reward screens.

Run Forge only if early card rewards strongly support it. The Retained keyword on Sovereign Blade is its main advantage — reliable, predictable damage every turn without draw dependency.

Discovered by the Japanese community, this build summons minions and then sacrifices them for burst effects. Colorless card synergies expand the minion options beyond Regent's class-specific cards.

This is the most niche Regent archetype and requires specific JP-meta cards that may not appear consistently in Early Access card rewards. Treat as an opportunistic build when the required cards appear early.

Never mix Stars and Forge. Every Stars card added to a Forge deck makes your Forge turns weaker. Every Forge investment made in a Stars run takes up a card slot that Stars cards need. A 50/50 split deck loses to specialized decks consistently. Commit to one path by end of Act 1 — if you cannot identify which path you are on after 3 card rewards, default to Stars.

Stars builds can handle 25 cards because Big Bang at 0E keeps the engine running regardless of deck size. Forge builds must stay below 20 cards — Sovereign Blade is the deck anchor and every other card needs to directly support or play alongside it on the same turn.

Ascension 8 is the critical difficulty cliff for Regent. At A8 and above, the viable builds narrow substantially. Mini Regent relic provides Strength scaling from each Star spent, which enables a hybrid that remains viable at higher Ascensions — look for it in Act 2 shops.