Empty Cage Relic

Is Empty Cage good in Slay the Spire 2?

Empty Cage is an ancient relic in Slay the Spire 2. While carried, it does the following: Upon pickup, remove cards from your Deck. It currently underperforms most relics, sitting at D tier in our Slay the Spire 2 relic rankings.

Across 187 recorded runs, decks carrying it win 28.6% of the time, comfortably clear of the 13.8% average, by 14.8%. 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 Necrobinder, at a 46.9% win rate. Necrobinder players hold onto it in 0.9% of their runs.

It combos especially well with Lethality, worth a +31.4% win-rate swing together. Another strong card to run with it is Enfeebling Touch, worth +24.3% to its win rate. On average it’s acquired around floor 21 of a run. Its ancient rarity shapes how frequently you’ll run into it.

It has 53 run wins against 132 losses in our tracked data. When runs carrying it end, the most frequent culprit is Test Subject Boss, which closes out 9.6% of them. Read on for Empty Cage’s complete card, class, and threat breakdown before you decide to pick it up.

Pick or Skip: Empty Cage

Empty Cage is taken in 100.0% of its 187 recorded offers, but with 187 runs picking it and 0 passing, neither side has enough decided runs for a win rate yet.

Taken 187 times out of 187 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 Empty Cage

Ranked by win-rate lift, the best cards to run with Empty Cage are Lethality (+31.4%), Enfeebling Touch (+24.3%), and Defy (+21.4%).

Lethality+31.4%15 runsEnfeebling Touch+24.3%18 runsDefy+21.4%18 runsPrepared+21.4%28 runsFootwork+21.4%16 runsWisp+18.4%17 runs

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

Empty Cage Win Rate by Class

Empty Cage shows up across 5 classes, led by Necrobinder (46.9%), Silent (38.1%), and Ironclad (22.7%) by win rate.

The Necrobinder46.9%33 runsThe Silent38.1%42 runsThe Ironclad22.7%45 runsThe Regent18.8%16 runsThe Defect17.6%51 runs

Empty Cage Details

Empty Cage is an ancient relic carried in 0.9% of runs and usually picked up around floor 21.

Upon pickup, remove cards from your Deck.

What Ends Runs with Empty Cage

Empty Cage’s most common run-enders are Test Subject Boss (9.6%), Knowledge Demon Boss (5.9%), and Decimillipede Elite (5.9%).

• Test Subject Boss9.6% of runs
• Knowledge Demon Boss5.9% of runs
• Decimillipede Elite5.9% of runs
• Queen Boss5.3% of runs
• Entomancer Elite4.8% of runs

See Also

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