Prayer Wheel Relic

Is Prayer Wheel good in Slay the Spire 2?

In Slay the Spire 2, Prayer Wheel is a rare relic you can pick up on your climb. Its effect: Normal enemies drop an additional card reward. The data marks it as a weaker relic, settling at D tier — rarely a run-defining grab.

Over 393 tracked runs the win rate of decks holding it sits at 37.7%, 24.2% ahead of the 13.4% all-run baseline. It sees lighter play, carried in only 2.4% of runs. It does its best work in the hands of the Silent, who post a 48.5% win rate with it. Within Silent runs specifically, it’s carried 2.7% of the time.

Its standout card pairing is Abrasive, which lifts the relic’s win rate by +37.3% when both are in play. It also works nicely with Serpent Form, good for a +35.7% win-rate change. It typically enters the deck near floor 21. As a rare relic, how often it’s offered depends on its rarity tier.

Of the runs that carried it, 145 ended in victory while 240 fell to a defeat. Its most common run-ender is Queen Boss, finishing 6.4% of the runs it appears in. See the best cards, class split, and threats below for the full read on whether Prayer Wheel is worth grabbing.

Pick or Skip: Prayer Wheel

Players take Prayer Wheel in 59.5% of the 679 offers it appears in; those runs win 38.6% against 28.3% for runs that passed, a pick lift of +10.1% over 394 decided runs.

Taken 404 times out of 679 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 Prayer Wheel

The cards that gain the most from carrying Prayer Wheel are Abrasive (+37.3%), Serpent Form (+35.7%), and Tools of the Trade (+35.7%), each shown with its win-rate swing.

Abrasive+37.3%21 runsSerpent Form+35.7%16 runsTools of the Trade+35.7%16 runsPhantom Blades+32.9%18 runsAfterimage+31.9%24 runsUltimate Defend+30.8%20 runs

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

Prayer Wheel Win Rate by Class

Of the 5 classes that carry Prayer Wheel, it performs best with Silent (48.5%), Necrobinder (37.5%), and Ironclad (35.4%).

The Silent48.5%103 runsThe Necrobinder37.5%64 runsThe Ironclad35.4%79 runsThe Regent32.8%67 runsThe Defect31.5%76 runs

Prayer Wheel Details

Carried in 2.4% of runs, Prayer Wheel is a rare relic typically acquired near floor 21.

Normal enemies drop an additional card reward.

What Ends Runs with Prayer Wheel

Runs carrying Prayer Wheel end most often against Queen Boss (6.4%), Test Subject Boss (5.1%), and The Insatiable Boss (4.3%) — the share of its runs each accounts for is shown.

• Queen Boss6.4% of runs
• Test Subject Boss5.1% of runs
• The Insatiable Boss4.3% of runs
• Kaiser Crab Boss4.1% of runs
• Knowledge Demon Boss4.1% of runs

See Also

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