Distinguished Cape Relic

Is Distinguished Cape good in Slay the Spire 2?

Distinguished Cape is an ancient relic in Slay the Spire 2. While carried, it does the following: Upon pickup, lose 9 Max HP. Add Apparitions to your Deck. It’s a reliable mid-tier relic, landing at C tier in our rankings.

Across 124 recorded runs, decks carrying it win 50.4% of the time, comfortably clear of the 13.8% average, by 36.6%. It’s a more situational relic, showing up in just 0.6% of runs. The class that gets the most out of it is the Regent, at a 65.0% win rate. Regent players hold onto it in 0.6% of their runs.

It combos especially well with Strike, worth a +18.3% win-rate swing together. Another strong card to run with it is Falling Star, worth +18.3% 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 62 run wins against 61 losses in our tracked data. When runs carrying it end, the most frequent culprit is Soul Nexus Elite, which closes out 8.9% of them. Read on for Distinguished Cape’s complete card, class, and threat breakdown before you decide to pick it up.

Pick or Skip: Distinguished Cape

Distinguished Cape is taken in 100.0% of its 125 recorded offers, but with 124 runs picking it and 0 passing, neither side has enough decided runs for a win rate yet.

Taken 125 times out of 125 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 Distinguished Cape

Ranked by win-rate lift, the best cards to run with Distinguished Cape are Strike (+18.3%), Falling Star (+18.3%), and Venerate (+16.3%).

Strike+18.3%16 runsFalling Star+18.3%16 runsVenerate+16.3%19 runsNeutralize+14.6%20 runsDefend+12.8%20 runsDualcast+12.8%19 runs

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

Distinguished Cape Win Rate by Class

Distinguished Cape shows up across 5 classes, led by Regent (65.0%), Defect (60.0%), and Silent (54.2%) by win rate.

The Regent65.0%21 runsThe Defect60.0%20 runsThe Silent54.2%24 runsThe Necrobinder43.5%23 runsThe Ironclad41.2%34 runs

Distinguished Cape Details

Distinguished Cape is an ancient relic carried in 0.6% of runs and usually picked up around floor 33.

Upon pickup, lose 9 Max HP. Add Apparitions to your Deck.

What Ends Runs with Distinguished Cape

Distinguished Cape’s most common run-enders are Soul Nexus Elite (8.9%), Queen Boss (8.9%), and Test Subject Boss (8.9%).

• Soul Nexus Elite8.9% of runs
• Queen Boss8.9% of runs
• Test Subject Boss8.9% of runs
• Aeonglass Boss8.1% of runs
• Knights Elite2.4% of runs

See Also

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