Phylactery Unbound Relic

Is Phylactery Unbound good in Slay the Spire 2?

In Slay the Spire 2, Phylactery Unbound is a starter relic you can pick up on your climb. Its effect: At the start of each combat, Summon. At the start of your turn, Summon. The data marks it as a weaker relic, settling at F tier — rarely a run-defining grab.

Over 170 tracked runs the win rate of decks holding it sits at 27.1%, 13.2% ahead of the 13.8% all-run baseline. It sees lighter play, carried in only 0.8% of runs. It does its best work in the hands of the Necrobinder, who post a 27.1% win rate with it. Within Necrobinder runs specifically, it’s carried 4.7% of the time.

Its standout card pairing is Transfigure, which lifts the relic’s win rate by +32.9% when both are in play. It also works nicely with Neurosurge, good for a +30.6% win-rate change. It typically enters the deck near floor 18. As a starter relic, how often it’s offered depends on its rarity tier.

Of the runs that carried it, 46 ended in victory while 124 fell to a defeat. Its most common run-ender is Test Subject 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 Phylactery Unbound is worth grabbing.

Pick or Skip: Phylactery Unbound

Across 170 offers Phylactery Unbound has a 100.0% pick rate; the 170 runs that took it and 0 that left it are still below the sample floor, so no win rate is shown.

Taken 170 times out of 170 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 Phylactery Unbound

The cards that gain the most from carrying Phylactery Unbound are Transfigure (+32.9%), Neurosurge (+30.6%), and Devour Life (+24.9%), each shown with its win-rate swing.

Transfigure+32.9%15 runsNeurosurge+30.6%26 runsDevour Life+24.9%25 runsParse+22.9%16 runsBorrowed Time+22.9%32 runsSeance+22.9%16 runs

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

Phylactery Unbound Win Rate by Class

Phylactery Unbound’s class data comes mostly from the Necrobinder, at a 27.1% win rate over 170 runs.

The Necrobinderappears in 4.7% of its runs (170 tracked)

Phylactery Unbound Details

Carried in 0.8% of runs, Phylactery Unbound is a starter relic typically acquired near floor 18.

At the start of each combat, Summon. At the start of your turn, Summon.

What Ends Runs with Phylactery Unbound

Runs carrying Phylactery Unbound end most often against Test Subject Boss (9.4%), Knowledge Demon Boss (7.6%), and Decimillipede Elite (6.5%) — the share of its runs each accounts for is shown.

• Test Subject Boss9.4% of runs
• Knowledge Demon Boss7.6% of runs
• Decimillipede Elite6.5% of runs
• Infested Prisms Elite5.9% of runs
• Kaiser Crab Boss5.3% of runs

See Also

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