Bone Tea Relic

Is Bone Tea good in Slay the Spire 2?

In Slay the Spire 2, Bone Tea is an event relic you can pick up on your climb. Its effect: At the start of the next, Upgrade your starting hand. The data marks it as a weaker relic, settling at F tier — rarely a run-defining grab.

Over 460 tracked runs the win rate of decks holding it sits at 20.0%, 6.1% ahead of the 13.8% all-run baseline. It sees lighter play, carried in only 2.2% of runs. It does its best work in the hands of the Necrobinder, who post a 22.9% win rate with it. Within Necrobinder runs specifically, it’s carried 2.6% of the time.

Its standout card pairing is Phantom Blades, which lifts the relic’s win rate by +33.4% when both are in play. It also works nicely with Reaper Form, good for a +33.4% win-rate change. It typically enters the deck near floor 17. As an event relic, how often it’s offered depends on its rarity tier.

Of the runs that carried it, 91 ended in victory while 365 fell to a defeat. Its most common run-ender is Kaiser Crab Boss, finishing 7.8% of the runs it appears in. See the best cards, class split, and threats below for the full read on whether Bone Tea is worth grabbing.

Pick or Skip: Bone Tea

Across 460 offers Bone Tea has a 100.0% pick rate; the 460 runs that took it and 0 that left it are still below the sample floor, so no win rate is shown.

Taken 460 times out of 460 offers.

A win rate is only shown once that side clears the sample floor. Below it you get the run counts and nothing else — a 0% here would be a reporting artefact, not a result.

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.

Best Cards with Bone Tea

The cards that gain the most from carrying Bone Tea are Phantom Blades (+33.4%), Reaper Form (+33.4%), and Well-Laid Plans (+33.4%), each shown with its win-rate swing.

Phantom Blades+33.4%15 runsReaper Form+33.4%15 runsWell-Laid Plans+33.4%15 runsMad Science+33.4%30 runsExpose+30.0%16 runsAdrenaline+27.9%23 runs

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

Bone Tea Win Rate by Class

Of the 5 classes that carry Bone Tea, it performs best with Necrobinder (22.9%), Regent (21.9%), and Silent (19.6%).

The Necrobinder22.9%96 runsThe Regent21.9%82 runsThe Silent19.6%108 runsThe Defect18.6%71 runsThe Ironclad17.2%101 runs

Bone Tea Details

Carried in 2.2% of runs, Bone Tea is an event relic typically acquired near floor 17.

At the start of the next, Upgrade your starting hand.

What Ends Runs with Bone Tea

Runs carrying Bone Tea end most often against Kaiser Crab Boss (7.8%), The Insatiable Boss (6.3%), and Knowledge Demon Boss (6.1%) — the share of its runs each accounts for is shown.

• Kaiser Crab Boss7.8% of runs
• The Insatiable Boss6.3% of runs
• Knowledge Demon Boss6.1% of runs
• Aeonglass Boss5.0% of runs
• Test Subject Boss5.0% of runs

See Also

Keep exploring Slay the Spire 2 tier lists and stats below.