Silver Crucible Relic

Is Silver Crucible good in Slay the Spire 2?

In Slay the Spire 2, Silver Crucible is an ancient relic you can pick up on your climb. Its effect: The first card rewards you see are Upgraded. The first Treasure Chest you open is empty. The data marks it as a weaker relic, settling at F tier — rarely a run-defining grab.

Over 759 tracked runs the win rate of decks holding it sits at 11.7%, 2.2% short of the 13.8% all-run baseline. It sees lighter play, carried in only 3.6% of runs. It does its best work in the hands of the Necrobinder, who post a 14.1% win rate with it. Within Necrobinder runs specifically, it’s carried 3.4% of the time.

Its standout card pairing is Afterimage, which lifts the relic’s win rate by +46.2% when both are in play. It also works nicely with Mad Science, good for a +40.1% win-rate change. It typically enters the deck near floor 1. As an ancient relic, how often it’s offered depends on its rarity tier.

Of the runs that carried it, 87 ended in victory while 659 fell to a defeat. Its most common run-ender is Kaiser Crab Boss, finishing 4.7% of the runs it appears in. See the best cards, class split, and threats below for the full read on whether Silver Crucible is worth grabbing.

Pick or Skip: Silver Crucible

Across 759 offers Silver Crucible has a 100.0% pick rate; the 759 runs that took it and 0 that left it are still below the sample floor, so no win rate is shown.

Taken 759 times out of 759 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 Silver Crucible

The cards that gain the most from carrying Silver Crucible are Afterimage (+46.2%), Mad Science (+40.1%), and Smokestack (+35.0%), each shown with its win-rate swing.

Afterimage+46.2%19 runsMad Science+40.1%30 runsSmokestack+35.0%15 runsDecay+31.2%21 runsDramatic Entrance+29.5%17 runsBulk Up+29.5%17 runs

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

Silver Crucible Win Rate by Class

Of the 5 classes that carry Silver Crucible, it performs best with Necrobinder (14.1%), Silent (13.3%), and Defect (11.5%).

The Necrobinder14.1%122 runsThe Silent13.3%159 runsThe Defect11.5%132 runsThe Regent10.7%143 runsThe Ironclad9.6%203 runs

Silver Crucible Details

Carried in 3.6% of runs, Silver Crucible is an ancient relic typically acquired near floor 1.

The first card rewards you see are Upgraded. The first Treasure Chest you open is empty.

What Ends Runs with Silver Crucible

Runs carrying Silver Crucible end most often against Kaiser Crab Boss (4.7%), Decimillipede Elite (4.7%), and Lagavulin Matriarch Boss (3.8%) — the share of its runs each accounts for is shown.

• Kaiser Crab Boss4.7% of runs
• Decimillipede Elite4.7% of runs
• Lagavulin Matriarch Boss3.8% of runs
• Infested Prisms Elite3.8% of runs
• Knowledge Demon Boss3.7% of runs

See Also

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