Choices Paradox•Relic

Is Choices Paradox good in Slay the Spire 2?

Choices Paradox is an ancient relic in Slay the Spire 2. While carried, it does the following: At the start of each combat, add 1 of random cards into your Hand. Add Retain to the chosen card. It’s a reliable mid-tier relic, landing at C tier in our rankings.

Across 101 recorded runs, decks carrying it win 43.6% of the time, comfortably clear of the 14.0% average, by 29.6%. It’s a more situational relic, showing up in just 0.9% of runs. The class that gets the most out of it is the Silent, at a 60.7% win rate. Silent players hold onto it in 1.0% of their runs.

It combos especially well with Deflect, worth a +21.1% win-rate swing together. Another strong card to run with it is Survivor, worth +17.1% to its win rate. On average it’s acquired around floor 33 of a run. Its ancient rarity shapes how frequently you’ll run into it.

It has 44 run wins against 57 losses in our tracked data. When runs carrying it end, the most frequent culprit is Test Subject Boss, which closes out 11.9% of them. Read on for Choices Paradox’s complete card, class, and threat breakdown before you decide to pick it up.

Pick or Skip: Choices Paradox

Choices Paradox is taken in 100.0% of its 101 recorded offers, but with 101 runs picking it and 0 passing, neither side has enough decided runs for a win rate yet.

Taken 101 times out of 101 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 Choices Paradox

Ranked by win-rate lift, the best cards to run with Choices Paradox are Deflect (+21.1%), Survivor (+17.1%), and Defend (+17.1%).

Deflect+21.1%17 runsSurvivor+17.1%28 runsDefend+17.1%28 runsStrike+17.1%28 runsNeutralize+16.4%25 runsPrepared+13.6%21 runs

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

Choices Paradox Win Rate by Class

Choices Paradox shows up across 5 classes, led by Silent (60.7%), Regent (44.4%), and Necrobinder (39.1%) by win rate.

The Silent60.7%28 runsThe Regent44.4%18 runsThe Necrobinder39.1%23 runsThe Defect38.9%18 runsThe Ironclad15.4%13 runs

Choices Paradox Details

Choices Paradox is an ancient relic carried in 0.9% of runs and usually picked up around floor 33.

At the start of each combat, add 1 of random cards into your Hand. Add Retain to the chosen card.

What Ends Runs with Choices Paradox

Choices Paradox’s most common run-enders are Test Subject Boss (11.9%), Queen Boss (10.9%), and Aeonglass Boss (10.9%).

• Test Subject Boss11.9% of runs
• Queen Boss10.9% of runs
• Aeonglass Boss10.9% of runs
• Soul Nexus Elite3.0% of runs
• Slimed Berserker Normal3.0% of runs

See Also

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