Sword of Jade Relic

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 279 recorded runs, decks carrying it win 69.5% of the time, comfortably clear of the 13.8% average, by 55.7%. 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 Necrobinder, at a 76.7% win rate. Necrobinder players hold onto it in 1.2% of their runs.

It combos especially well with Dodge and Roll, worth a +30.5% win-rate swing together. Another strong card to run with it is Dirge, worth +24.9% 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 194 run wins against 85 losses in our tracked data. When runs carrying it end, the most frequent culprit is Queen Boss, which closes out 7.9% 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 278 recorded offers, but with 277 runs picking it and 0 passing, neither side has enough decided runs for a win rate yet.

Taken 278 times out of 278 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 Dodge and Roll (+30.5%), Dirge (+24.9%), and Wisp (+21.4%).

Dodge and Roll+30.5%17 runsDirge+24.9%18 runsWisp+21.4%22 runsLethality+18.0%16 runsSpectrum Shift+18.0%16 runsEscape Plan+18.0%16 runs

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

Sword of Jade Win Rate by Class

Sword of Jade shows up across 5 classes, led by Necrobinder (76.7%), Silent (74.3%), and Regent (73.3%) by win rate.

The Necrobinder76.7%43 runsThe Silent74.3%74 runsThe Regent73.3%45 runsThe Ironclad66.2%65 runsThe Defect56.3%48 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 Queen Boss (7.9%), Test Subject Boss (7.5%), and Aeonglass Boss (5.0%).

• Queen Boss7.9% of runs
• Test Subject Boss7.5% of runs
• Aeonglass Boss5.0% of runs
• Kaiser Crab Boss3.2% of runs
• Knowledge Demon Boss1.4% of runs

See Also

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