Is Sword of Jade good in Slay the Spire 2?

Sword of Jade is an event relic in Slay the Spire 2. While carried, it does the following: Start each combat with Strength. It ranks among the better relics in the game right now, earning a spot at B tier in our Slay the Spire 2 relic tier list.

Across 123 recorded runs, decks carrying it win 74.8% of the time, comfortably clear of the 14.5% average, by 60.3%. It’s a more situational relic, showing up in just 1.3% of runs. The class that gets the most out of it is the Regent, at a 87.0% win rate. Regent players hold onto it in 1.4% of their runs.

It combos especially well with Blade Dance, worth a +13.4% win-rate swing together. Another strong card to run with it is Wisp, worth +12.7% to its win rate. On average it’s acquired around floor 35 of a run. Its event rarity shapes how frequently you’ll run into it.

It has 92 run wins against 31 losses in our tracked data. When runs carrying it end, the most frequent culprit is Test Subject Boss, which closes out 9.8% of them. Read on for Sword of Jade’s complete card, class, and threat breakdown before you decide to pick it up.

Pick or Skip: Sword of Jade

Sword of Jade is taken in 100.0% of its 123 recorded offers, but with 123 runs picking it and 0 passing, neither side has enough decided runs for a win rate yet.

Taken 123 times out of 123 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 Sword of Jade

Ranked by win-rate lift, the best cards to run with Sword of Jade are Blade Dance (+13.4%), Wisp (+12.7%), and Venerate (+12.2%).

Blade Dance+13.4%17 runsWisp+12.7%16 runsVenerate+12.2%23 runsFalling Star+10.9%

Sword of Jade Win Rate by Class

Sword of Jade shows up across 5 classes, led by Regent (87.0%), Necrobinder (78.3%), and Silent (76.7%) by win rate.

The Regent87.0%23 runsThe Necrobinder78.3%23 runsThe Silent76.7%30 runsThe Defect71.4%14 runs

Sword of Jade Details

Sword of Jade is an event relic carried in 1.3% of runs and usually picked up around floor 35.

Start each combat with Strength.

What Ends Runs with Sword of Jade

Sword of Jade’s most common run-enders are Test Subject Boss (9.8%), Queen Boss (4.1%), and Kaiser Crab Boss (3.3%).

• Test Subject Boss9.8% of runs
• Queen Boss4.1% of runs
• Kaiser Crab Boss3.3% of runs
• Knowledge Demon Boss1.6% of runs
• Doormaker Boss1.6% of runs

See Also

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