Precarious Shears Relic

Is Precarious Shears good in Slay the Spire 2?

Precarious Shears is an ancient relic in Slay the Spire 2. While carried, it does the following: Upon pickup, remove cards from your Deck and lose HP. It currently underperforms most relics, sitting at F tier in our Slay the Spire 2 relic rankings.

Across 751 recorded runs, decks carrying it win 20.7% of the time, comfortably clear of the 13.8% average, by 6.9%. It’s a more situational relic, showing up in just 3.6% of runs. The class that gets the most out of it is the Necrobinder, at a 25.9% win rate. Necrobinder players hold onto it in 4.4% of their runs.

It combos especially well with Mad Science, worth a +47.0% win-rate swing together. Another strong card to run with it is Leg Sweep, worth +40.2% to its win rate. On average it’s acquired around floor 1 of a run. Its ancient rarity shapes how frequently you’ll run into it.

It has 153 run wins against 586 losses in our tracked data. When runs carrying it end, the most frequent culprit is Knowledge Demon Boss, which closes out 4.3% of them. Read on for Precarious Shears’s complete card, class, and threat breakdown before you decide to pick it up.

Pick or Skip: Precarious Shears

Precarious Shears is taken in 100.0% of its 751 recorded offers, but with 751 runs picking it and 0 passing, neither side has enough decided runs for a win rate yet.

Taken 751 times out of 751 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 Precarious Shears

Ranked by win-rate lift, the best cards to run with Precarious Shears are Mad Science (+47.0%), Leg Sweep (+40.2%), and Finesse (+35.5%).

Mad Science+47.0%35 runsLeg Sweep+40.2%23 runsFinesse+35.5%16 runsSquash+34.9%18 runsUp My Sleeve+34.9%27 runsDebilitate+34.9%18 runs

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

Precarious Shears Win Rate by Class

Precarious Shears shows up across 5 classes, led by Necrobinder (25.9%), Silent (25.3%), and Regent (20.7%) by win rate.

The Necrobinder25.9%160 runsThe Silent25.3%197 runsThe Regent20.7%124 runsThe Ironclad16.6%142 runsThe Defect12.2%124 runs

Precarious Shears Details

Precarious Shears is an ancient relic carried in 3.6% of runs and usually picked up around floor 1.

Upon pickup, remove cards from your Deck and lose HP.

What Ends Runs with Precarious Shears

Precarious Shears’s most common run-enders are Knowledge Demon Boss (4.3%), Phrog Parasite Elite (4.3%), and Lagavulin Matriarch Boss (3.5%).

• Knowledge Demon Boss4.3% of runs
• Phrog Parasite Elite4.3% of runs
• Lagavulin Matriarch Boss3.5% of runs
• Phantasmal Gardeners Elite3.2% of runs
• Test Subject Boss2.9% of runs

See Also

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