Meat on the Bone•Relic

Is Meat on the Bone good in Slay the Spire 2?

Meat on the Bone is a rare relic in Slay the Spire 2. While carried, it does the following: If your HP is at or below % at the end of combat, heal HP. It currently underperforms most relics, sitting at D tier in our Slay the Spire 2 relic rankings.

Across 258 recorded runs, decks carrying it win 34.8% of the time, comfortably clear of the 14.0% average, by 20.8%. It’s a more situational relic, showing up in just 2.2% of runs. The class that gets the most out of it is the Defect, at a 37.5% win rate. Defect players hold onto it in 2.9% of their runs.

It combos especially well with Expose, worth a +24.1% win-rate swing together. Another strong card to run with it is Subroutine, worth +21.5% to its win rate. On average it’s acquired around floor 22 of a run. Its rare rarity shapes how frequently you’ll run into it.

It has 89 run wins against 167 losses in our tracked data. When runs carrying it end, the most frequent culprit is Test Subject Boss, which closes out 7.0% of them. Read on for Meat on the Bone’s complete card, class, and threat breakdown before you decide to pick it up.

Pick or Skip: Meat on the Bone

Out of 424 recorded offers Meat on the Bone is taken 61.8% of the time, and taking it is worth +5.4% in pick lift — 35.1% for runs that picked it against 29.5% for runs that skipped, across 259 decided runs.

Taken 262 times out of 424 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 Meat on the Bone

Ranked by win-rate lift, the best cards to run with Meat on the Bone are Expose (+24.1%), Subroutine (+21.5%), and Accuracy (+19.8%).

Expose+24.1%17 runsSubroutine+21.5%16 runsAccuracy+19.8%23 runsAstral Pulse+18.6%15 runsBlood Wall+18.6%15 runsLeading Strike+17.6%21 runs

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

Meat on the Bone Win Rate by Class

Meat on the Bone shows up across 5 classes, led by Defect (37.5%), Silent (35.0%), and Necrobinder (34.8%) by win rate.

The Defect37.5%48 runsThe Silent35.0%61 runsThe Necrobinder34.8%46 runsThe Regent33.3%42 runsThe Ironclad32.2%60 runs

Meat on the Bone Details

Meat on the Bone is a rare relic carried in 2.2% of runs and usually picked up around floor 22.

If your HP is at or below % at the end of combat, heal HP.

What Ends Runs with Meat on the Bone

Meat on the Bone’s most common run-enders are Test Subject Boss (7.0%), Queen Boss (6.2%), and Knowledge Demon Boss (6.2%).

• Test Subject Boss7.0% of runs
• Queen Boss6.2% of runs
• Knowledge Demon Boss6.2% of runs
• Aeonglass Boss5.0% of runs
• Infested Prisms Elite3.5% of runs

See Also

Compare Meat on the Bone with the rest of the best Slay the Spire 2 relics, cards, and classes below.