Foregone Conclusion Skill

Is Foregone Conclusion good in Slay the Spire 2?

In Slay the Spire 2, Foregone Conclusion is a rare skill from the Regent card pool. Its effect: Next turn, put cards from your Draw Pile into your Hand. Performance-wise it’s a solid if unspectacular include, rated C tier overall.

Over 163 tracked runs its win rate sits at 34.2%, 20.3% ahead of the 13.8% all-deck baseline. It sees niche play, included in only 0.8% of eligible runs. When it is actually offered players take it 17.1% of the time, and that looks correct: those runs win 38.8% against 30.6% for runs that passed, a +7.6% pick lift over 121 decided runs. Within Regent runs it’s drafted 4.9% of the time, making it a regular part of that class’s decks. Decks that include it run about 1.1 copies on average.

Its standout pairing so far is Sword Sage, which lifts its win rate by +25.9% when the two share a deck. On the relic side, Venerable Tea Set is its standout companion, worth a +29.9% win-rate swing alongside it. It costs 1 energy, gets upgraded 20.4% of the time, and tends to be picked up near floor 18.

Upgrading the card adds +1 Cards to its stat line. Of the runs that drafted it, 55 ended in victory against 106 deaths and 2 abandons. Its most common run-ender is Knowledge Demon Boss, finishing 5.5% of the runs it shows up in. See the synergies, class split, and threats below for the full picture of where Foregone Conclusion fits a Regent deck.

Pick or Skip: Foregone Conclusion

Players take Foregone Conclusion in 17.1% of the 724 offers it appears in; those runs win 38.8% against 30.6% for runs that passed, a pick lift of +7.6% over 121 decided runs.

Taken 124 times out of 724 offers.

Pick rate when offered counts offers, not runs: out of every time the game put this in front of a player, how often it was taken. It is not the same number as the share of runs that end up containing it.

Pick lift is the sample-adjusted gap between runs that took the option and runs that passed on it. It is the fair way to rank choices, because raw win rates put the smallest samples on top.

When to Pick Up Foregone Conclusion

Of the 3 pickup windows recorded for Foregone Conclusion, Act 3 is the best: 71.4% across 14 runs.

Win rate of runs by the act Foregone Conclusion entered the deck. Acts that have not reached the sample floor show their run count only.

Best Cards to Pair with Foregone Conclusion

Foregone Conclusion’s strongest card pairings so far are Sword Sage (+25.9%), Pillar of Creation (+19.0%), and Make It So (+17.4%), each shown with the win-rate lift it adds.

Sword Sage+25.9%19 runsPillar of Creation+19.0%19 runsMake It So+17.4%16 runsBig Bang+16.7%36 runsBulwark+15.6%32 runsBundle of Joy+15.6%19 runs

Based on small co-occurring samples — treat these as early signals, not final verdicts.

Foregone Conclusion Win Rate by Class

Exclusive to the Regent, Foregone Conclusion posts a 34.8% win rate over 160 tracked runs.

The Regentappears in 4.9% of its runs (160 tracked)

Best Relics for Foregone Conclusion

The relics that swing Foregone Conclusion’s win rate the most are Venerable Tea Set (+29.9%), Oddly Smooth Stone (+26.4%), and Orichalcum (+25.9%), with each lift shown.

Venerable Tea Set+29.9%25 runsOddly Smooth Stone+26.4%27 runsOrichalcum+25.9%19 runsVajra+25.9%24 runsLucky Fysh+23.5%15 runsBook of Five Rings+21.3%16 runs

Based on small co-occurring samples — treat these as early signals, not final verdicts.

Foregone Conclusion Card Details

A 1-energy rare skill, Foregone Conclusion is upgraded 20.4% of the time and tends to enter the deck around floor 18.

Next turn, put cards from your Draw Pile into your Hand.

Upgrade: +1 Cards

What Ends Runs with Foregone Conclusion

Runs holding Foregone Conclusion end most often against Knowledge Demon Boss (5.5%), Test Subject Boss (4.3%), and Queen Boss (4.3%) — the share of its runs each accounts for is shown.

• Knowledge Demon Boss5.5% of runs
• Test Subject Boss4.3% of runs
• Queen Boss4.3% of runs
• Aeonglass Boss3.7% of runs
• Decimillipede Elite3.1% of runs

See Also

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