Ninja Scroll Relic

Is Ninja Scroll good in Slay the Spire 2?

Ninja Scroll is a shop relic in Slay the Spire 2. While carried, it does the following: At the start of each combat, add Shivs into your Hand. It currently underperforms most relics, sitting at D tier in our Slay the Spire 2 relic rankings.

Across 76 recorded runs, decks carrying it win 42.1% of the time, comfortably clear of the 13.8% average, by 28.3%. It’s a more situational relic, showing up in just 0.4% of runs. The class that gets the most out of it is the Silent, at a 42.1% win rate. Silent players hold onto it in 1.6% of their runs.

It combos especially well with Calculated Gamble, worth a +26.6% win-rate swing together. Another strong card to run with it is Knife Trap, worth +26.6% to its win rate. On average it’s acquired around floor 23 of a run. Its shop rarity shapes how frequently you’ll run into it.

It has 32 run wins against 44 losses in our tracked data. When runs carrying it end, the most frequent culprit is Queen Boss, which closes out 7.9% of them. Read on for Ninja Scroll’s complete card, class, and threat breakdown before you decide to pick it up.

Pick or Skip: Ninja Scroll

Out of 320 recorded offers Ninja Scroll is taken 23.8% of the time, and taking it is worth +10.3% in pick lift — 42.1% for runs that picked it against 30.4% for runs that skipped, across 76 decided runs.

Taken 76 times out of 320 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 Ninja Scroll

Ranked by win-rate lift, the best cards to run with Ninja Scroll are Calculated Gamble (+26.6%), Knife Trap (+26.6%), and Tactician (+24.6%).

Calculated Gamble+26.6%16 runsKnife Trap+26.6%16 runsTactician+24.6%15 runsDeflect+23.1%23 runsExpose+21.1%19 runsRicochet+12.9%20 runs

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

Ninja Scroll Win Rate by Class

So far Ninja Scroll is carried mainly by the Silent, who win 42.1% of their runs with it across 76 tracked.

The Silentappears in 1.6% of its runs (76 tracked)

Ninja Scroll Details

Ninja Scroll is a shop relic carried in 0.4% of runs and usually picked up around floor 23.

At the start of each combat, add Shivs into your Hand.

What Ends Runs with Ninja Scroll

Ninja Scroll’s most common run-enders are Queen Boss (7.9%), Decimillipede Elite (5.3%), and Test Subject Boss (5.3%).

• Queen Boss7.9% of runs
• Decimillipede Elite5.3% of runs
• Test Subject Boss5.3% of runs
• Knowledge Demon Boss5.3% of runs
• Soul Nexus Elite5.3% of runs

See Also

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