Kaleidoscope Relic

Is Kaleidoscope good in Slay the Spire 2?

In Slay the Spire 2, Kaleidoscope is an ancient relic you can pick up on your climb. Its effect: Upon pickup, obtain card rewards from other characters. The data marks it as a weaker relic, settling at F tier — rarely a run-defining grab.

Over 939 tracked runs the win rate of decks holding it sits at 11.0%, 3.2% short of the 14.3% all-run baseline. It sees lighter play, carried in only 3.5% of runs. It does its best work in the hands of the Necrobinder, who post a 16.1% win rate with it. Within Necrobinder runs specifically, it’s carried 2.7% of the time.

Its standout card pairing is Pillar of Creation, which lifts the relic’s win rate by +36.0% when both are in play. It also works nicely with Decay, good for a +34.0% win-rate change. It typically enters the deck near floor 1. As an ancient relic, how often it’s offered depends on its rarity tier.

Of the runs that carried it, 103 ended in victory while 830 fell to a defeat. Its most common run-ender is Decimillipede Elite, finishing 4.0% of the runs it appears in. See the best cards, class split, and threats below for the full read on whether Kaleidoscope is worth grabbing.

Pick or Skip: Kaleidoscope

Across 939 offers Kaleidoscope has a 100.0% pick rate; the 939 runs that took it and 0 that left it are still below the sample floor, so no win rate is shown.

Taken 939 times out of 939 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 Kaleidoscope

The cards that gain the most from carrying Kaleidoscope are Pillar of Creation (+36.0%), Decay (+34.0%), and Convergence (+33.4%), each shown with its win-rate swing.

Pillar of Creation+36.0%17 runsDecay+34.0%20 runsConvergence+33.4%27 runsMad Science+33.1%34 runsExterminate+32.7%16 runsSpectrum Shift+31.1%19 runs

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

Kaleidoscope Win Rate by Class

Of the 5 classes that carry Kaleidoscope, it performs best with Necrobinder (16.1%), Regent (13.6%), and Ironclad (10.2%).

The Necrobinder16.1%124 runsThe Regent13.6%164 runsThe Ironclad10.2%208 runsThe Defect9.2%197 runsThe Silent9.1%242 runs

Kaleidoscope Details

Carried in 3.5% of runs, Kaleidoscope is an ancient relic typically acquired near floor 1.

Upon pickup, obtain card rewards from other characters.

What Ends Runs with Kaleidoscope

Runs carrying Kaleidoscope end most often against Decimillipede Elite (4.0%), Test Subject Boss (3.6%), and Aeonglass Boss (3.4%) — the share of its runs each accounts for is shown.

• Decimillipede Elite4.0% of runs
• Test Subject Boss3.6% of runs
• Aeonglass Boss3.4% of runs
• Knowledge Demon Boss3.1% of runs
• Lagavulin Matriarch Boss3.0% of runs

See Also

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