Hand Drill Relic

Is Hand Drill good in Slay the Spire 2?

In Slay the Spire 2, Hand Drill is an event relic you can pick up on your climb. Its effect: Whenever you break an enemy's Block, apply Vulnerable. The data marks it as a weaker relic, settling at F tier — rarely a run-defining grab.

Over 149 tracked runs the win rate of decks holding it sits at 22.4%, 8.6% 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 Defect, who post a 32.0% win rate with it. Within Defect runs specifically, it’s carried 0.6% of the time.

Its standout card pairing is Clumsy, which lifts the relic’s win rate by +18.7% when both are in play. It also works nicely with Greed, good for a +17.6% win-rate change. It typically enters the deck near floor 7. As an event relic, how often it’s offered depends on its rarity tier.

Of the runs that carried it, 33 ended in victory while 114 fell to a defeat. Its most common run-ender is Waterfall Giant Boss, finishing 9.4% of the runs it appears in. See the best cards, class split, and threats below for the full read on whether Hand Drill is worth grabbing.

Pick or Skip: Hand Drill

Across 149 offers Hand Drill has a 100.0% pick rate; the 149 runs that took it and 0 that left it are still below the sample floor, so no win rate is shown.

Taken 149 times out of 149 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 Hand Drill

The cards that gain the most from carrying Hand Drill are Clumsy (+18.7%), Greed (+17.6%), and Shrug It Off (+7.0%), each shown with its win-rate swing.

Clumsy+18.7%17 runsGreed+17.6%21 runsShrug It Off+7.0%17 runsZap+6.7%25 runsDefend+6.7%25 runsStrike+6.7%25 runs

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

Hand Drill Win Rate by Class

Of the 5 classes that carry Hand Drill, it performs best with Defect (32.0%), Ironclad (25.0%), and Regent (20.0%).

The Defect32.0%26 runsThe Ironclad25.0%28 runsThe Regent20.0%20 runsThe Silent19.4%32 runsThe Necrobinder16.7%42 runs

Hand Drill Details

Carried in 0.7% of runs, Hand Drill is an event relic typically acquired near floor 7.

Whenever you break an enemy's Block, apply Vulnerable.

What Ends Runs with Hand Drill

Runs carrying Hand Drill end most often against Waterfall Giant Boss (9.4%), Decimillipede Elite (6.7%), and Terror Eel Elite (6.0%) — the share of its runs each accounts for is shown.

• Waterfall Giant Boss9.4% of runs
• Decimillipede Elite6.7% of runs
• Terror Eel Elite6.0% of runs
• Soul Fysh Boss6.0% of runs
• Lagavulin Matriarch Boss4.0% of runs

See Also

Keep exploring Slay the Spire 2 tier lists and stats below.