Seal of Gold•Relic

Is Seal of Gold good in Slay the Spire 2?

Seal of Gold is an ancient relic in Slay the Spire 2. While carried, it does the following: At the start of your turn, spend Gold to gain Energy. It currently underperforms most relics, sitting at D tier in our Slay the Spire 2 relic rankings.

Across 70 recorded runs, decks carrying it win 32.9% of the time, comfortably clear of the 13.9% average, by 18.9%. It’s a more situational relic, showing up in just 0.6% of runs. The class that gets the most out of it is the Regent, at a 38.5% win rate. Regent players hold onto it in 0.7% of their runs.

It combos especially well with Strike, worth a +0.5% win-rate swing together. Another strong card to run with it is Bash, worth +0.5% to its win rate. On average it’s acquired around floor 18 of a run. Its ancient rarity shapes how frequently you’ll run into it.

It has 23 run wins against 47 losses in our tracked data. When runs carrying it end, the most frequent culprit is Decimillipede Elite, which closes out 10.0% of them. Read on for Seal of Gold’s complete card, class, and threat breakdown before you decide to pick it up.

Pick or Skip: Seal of Gold

Seal of Gold is taken in 100.0% of its 70 recorded offers, but with 70 runs picking it and 0 passing, neither side has enough decided runs for a win rate yet.

Taken 70 times out of 70 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 Seal of Gold

Ranked by win-rate lift, the best cards to run with Seal of Gold are Strike (+0.5%), Bash (+0.5%), and Defend (+0.5%).

Strike+0.5%15 runsBash+0.5%15 runsDefend+0.5%15 runsUnleash-1.3%19 runsStrike-1.3%19 runsDefend-1.3%19 runs

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

Seal of Gold Win Rate by Class

Seal of Gold shows up across 4 classes, led by Regent (38.5%), Silent (33.3%), and Ironclad (33.3%) by win rate.

The Regent38.5%13 runsThe Silent33.3%18 runsThe Ironclad33.3%15 runsThe Necrobinder31.6%19 runs

Seal of Gold Details

Seal of Gold is an ancient relic carried in 0.6% of runs and usually picked up around floor 18.

At the start of your turn, spend Gold to gain Energy.

What Ends Runs with Seal of Gold

Seal of Gold’s most common run-enders are Decimillipede Elite (10.0%), Entomancer Elite (7.1%), and Kaiser Crab Boss (7.1%).

• Decimillipede Elite10.0% of runs
• Entomancer Elite7.1% of runs
• Kaiser Crab Boss7.1% of runs
• Aeonglass Boss5.7% of runs
• Test Subject Boss4.3% of runs

See Also

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