Meal Ticket Relic

Is Meal Ticket good in Slay the Spire 2?

Meal Ticket is a common relic in Slay the Spire 2. While carried, it does the following: Whenever you enter a shop room, heal HP. It currently underperforms most relics, sitting at F tier in our Slay the Spire 2 relic rankings.

Across 1755 recorded runs, decks carrying it win 28.1% of the time, comfortably clear of the 13.8% average, by 14.2%. It’s a more situational relic, showing up in just 8.4% of runs. The class that gets the most out of it is the Regent, at a 32.2% win rate. Regent players hold onto it in 8.2% of their runs.

It combos especially well with Arsenal, worth a +45.6% win-rate swing together. Another strong card to run with it is Gold Axe, worth +41.5% to its win rate. On average it’s acquired around floor 17 of a run. Its common rarity shapes how frequently you’ll run into it.

It has 488 run wins against 1251 losses in our tracked data. When runs carrying it end, the most frequent culprit is Knowledge Demon Boss, which closes out 6.8% of them. Read on for Meal Ticket’s complete card, class, and threat breakdown before you decide to pick it up.

Pick or Skip: Meal Ticket

Out of 2891 recorded offers Meal Ticket is taken 61.6% of the time, and taking it is worth +2.1% in pick lift — 28.5% for runs that picked it against 26.4% for runs that skipped, across 1762 decided runs.

Taken 1782 times out of 2891 offers.

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 Meal Ticket

Ranked by win-rate lift, the best cards to run with Meal Ticket are Arsenal (+45.6%), Gold Axe (+41.5%), and Shame (+38.6%).

Arsenal+45.6%19 runsGold Axe+41.5%24 runsShame+38.6%15 runsHeirloom Hammer+36.6%17 runsBolas+36.6%18 runsAlchemize+35.6%23 runs

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

Meal Ticket Win Rate by Class

Meal Ticket shows up across 5 classes, led by Regent (32.2%), Silent (31.7%), and Necrobinder (29.5%) by win rate.

The Regent32.2%271 runsThe Silent31.7%392 runsThe Necrobinder29.5%313 runsThe Ironclad27.2%428 runsThe Defect19.6%337 runs

Meal Ticket Details

Meal Ticket is a common relic carried in 8.4% of runs and usually picked up around floor 17.

Whenever you enter a shop room, heal HP.

What Ends Runs with Meal Ticket

Meal Ticket’s most common run-enders are Knowledge Demon Boss (6.8%), Kaiser Crab Boss (5.3%), and Test Subject Boss (4.9%).

• Knowledge Demon Boss6.8% of runs
• Kaiser Crab Boss5.3% of runs
• Test Subject Boss4.9% of runs
• Aeonglass Boss4.0% of runs
• Decimillipede Elite3.9% of runs

See Also

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