Cauldron Relic

Is Cauldron good in Slay the Spire 2?

Cauldron is a shop relic in Slay the Spire 2. While carried, it does the following: Upon pickup, brews random potions. It’s a reliable mid-tier relic, landing at C tier in our rankings.

Across 49 recorded runs, decks carrying it win 55.3% of the time, comfortably clear of the 13.8% average, by 41.5%. It’s a more situational relic, showing up in just 0.2% of runs. The class that gets the most out of it is the Silent, at a 66.7% win rate. Silent players hold onto it in 0.3% of their runs.

It combos especially well with Ascender's Bane, worth a +1.8% win-rate swing together. On average it’s acquired around floor 33 of a run. Its shop rarity shapes how frequently you’ll run into it.

It has 26 run wins against 21 losses in our tracked data. When runs carrying it end, the most frequent culprit is Test Subject Boss, which closes out 12.2% of them. Read on for Cauldron’s complete card, class, and threat breakdown before you decide to pick it up.

Pick or Skip: Cauldron

Out of 1350 recorded offers Cauldron is taken 3.6% of the time, and taking it is worth +22.0% in pick lift — 55.3% for runs that picked it against 28.7% for runs that skipped, across 47 decided runs.

Taken 49 times out of 1350 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 Cauldron

Ranked by win-rate lift, the best cards to run with Cauldron are Ascender's Bane (+1.8%).

Ascender's Bane+1.8%23 runs

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

Cauldron Win Rate by Class

Cauldron shows up across 2 classes, led by Silent (66.7%) and Necrobinder (50.0%) by win rate.

The Silent66.7%13 runsThe Necrobinder50.0%12 runs

Cauldron Details

Cauldron is a shop relic carried in 0.2% of runs and usually picked up around floor 33.

Upon pickup, brews random potions.

What Ends Runs with Cauldron

Cauldron’s most common run-enders are Test Subject Boss (12.2%), Doormaker Boss (4.1%), and Aeonglass Boss (4.1%).

• Test Subject Boss12.2% of runs
• Doormaker Boss4.1% of runs
• Aeonglass Boss4.1% of runs
• Soul Nexus Elite4.1% of runs

See Also

Compare Cauldron with the rest of the best Slay the Spire 2 relics, cards, and classes below.