Silken Tress Relic

Is Silken Tress good in Slay the Spire 2?

Silken Tress is an ancient relic in Slay the Spire 2. While carried, it does the following: Upon pickup, lose all Gold. Enchant all cards in the first card reward with Glam. It currently underperforms most relics, sitting at F tier in our Slay the Spire 2 relic rankings.

Across 1523 recorded runs, decks carrying it win 16.7% of the time, comfortably clear of the 14.3% average, by 2.5%. It’s a more situational relic, showing up in just 5.6% of runs. The class that gets the most out of it is the Necrobinder, at a 21.3% win rate. Necrobinder players hold onto it in 6.0% of their runs.

It combos especially well with Apotheosis, worth a +61.0% win-rate swing together. Another strong card to run with it is Finesse, worth +43.3% 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 251 run wins against 1248 losses in our tracked data. When runs carrying it end, the most frequent culprit is Decimillipede Elite, which closes out 4.1% of them. Read on for Silken Tress’s complete card, class, and threat breakdown before you decide to pick it up.

Pick or Skip: Silken Tress

Silken Tress is taken in 100.0% of its 1523 recorded offers, but with 1523 runs picking it and 0 passing, neither side has enough decided runs for a win rate yet.

Taken 1523 times out of 1523 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 Silken Tress

Ranked by win-rate lift, the best cards to run with Silken Tress are Apotheosis (+61.0%), Finesse (+43.3%), and Mad Science (+42.0%).

Apotheosis+61.0%18 runsFinesse+43.3%15 runsMad Science+42.0%63 runsEchoing Slash+41.1%19 runsReaper Form+41.0%26 runsUndeath+38.3%20 runs

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

Silken Tress Win Rate by Class

Silken Tress shows up across 5 classes, led by Necrobinder (21.3%), Silent (18.9%), and Ironclad (17.0%) by win rate.

The Necrobinder21.3%277 runsThe Silent18.9%322 runsThe Ironclad17.0%361 runsThe Regent13.4%263 runsThe Defect11.7%289 runs

Silken Tress Details

Silken Tress is an ancient relic carried in 5.6% of runs and usually picked up around floor 1.

Upon pickup, lose all Gold. Enchant all cards in the first card reward with Glam.

What Ends Runs with Silken Tress

Silken Tress’s most common run-enders are Decimillipede Elite (4.1%), Phantasmal Gardeners Elite (3.5%), and Knowledge Demon Boss (3.3%).

• Decimillipede Elite4.1% of runs
• Phantasmal Gardeners Elite3.5% of runs
• Knowledge Demon Boss3.3% of runs
• Aeonglass Boss3.2% of runs
• The Insatiable Boss3.2% of runs

See Also

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