Burning Sticks Relic

Is Burning Sticks good in Slay the Spire 2?

In Slay the Spire 2, Burning Sticks is a shop relic you can pick up on your climb. Its effect: The first time each combat you Exhaust a Skill, add a copy of it into your Hand. Performance-wise it’s a steady, unspectacular pick rated C tier overall.

Over 137 tracked runs the win rate of decks holding it sits at 52.5%, 38.7% ahead of the 13.8% all-run baseline. It sees lighter play, carried in only 0.7% of runs. It does its best work in the hands of the Silent, who post a 63.6% win rate with it. Within Silent runs specifically, it’s carried 0.5% of the time.

Its standout card pairing is Prepared, which lifts the relic’s win rate by +20.8% when both are in play. It also works nicely with Blade Dance, good for a +16.2% win-rate change. It typically enters the deck near floor 28. As a shop relic, how often it’s offered depends on its rarity tier.

Of the runs that carried it, 72 ended in victory while 65 fell to a defeat. Its most common run-ender is Test Subject Boss, finishing 10.9% of the runs it appears in. See the best cards, class split, and threats below for the full read on whether Burning Sticks is worth grabbing.

Pick or Skip: Burning Sticks

Players take Burning Sticks in 10.1% of the 1360 offers it appears in; those runs win 52.5% against 28.8% for runs that passed, a pick lift of +22.2% over 137 decided runs.

Taken 137 times out of 1360 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.

Best Cards with Burning Sticks

The cards that gain the most from carrying Burning Sticks are Prepared (+20.8%), Blade Dance (+16.2%), and Neutralize (+8.6%), each shown with its win-rate swing.

Prepared+20.8%15 runsBlade Dance+16.2%16 runsNeutralize+8.6%18 runsInvoke+8.6%18 runsDefend+7.5%20 runsSurvivor+7.5%20 runs

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

Burning Sticks Win Rate by Class

Of the 5 classes that carry Burning Sticks, it performs best with Silent (63.6%), Defect (56.5%), and Regent (51.9%).

The Silent63.6%22 runsThe Defect56.5%23 runsThe Regent51.9%27 runsThe Necrobinder51.6%31 runsThe Ironclad41.9%31 runs

Burning Sticks Details

Carried in 0.7% of runs, Burning Sticks is a shop relic typically acquired near floor 28.

The first time each combat you Exhaust a Skill, add a copy of it into your Hand.

What Ends Runs with Burning Sticks

Runs carrying Burning Sticks end most often against Test Subject Boss (10.9%), Queen Boss (4.4%), and Knowledge Demon Boss (4.4%) — the share of its runs each accounts for is shown.

• Test Subject Boss10.9% of runs
• Queen Boss4.4% of runs
• Knowledge Demon Boss4.4% of runs
• The Insatiable Boss3.6% of runs
• Aeonglass Boss3.6% of runs

See Also

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