The Courier Relic

Is The Courier good in Slay the Spire 2?

In Slay the Spire 2, The Courier is a rare relic you can pick up on your climb. Its effect: The merchant no longer runs out of cards, relics, or potions and his prices are reduced by %. The data marks it as a weaker relic, settling at D tier — rarely a run-defining grab.

Over 473 tracked runs the win rate of decks holding it sits at 35.6%, 21.8% ahead of the 13.8% all-run baseline. It sees lighter play, carried in only 2.3% of runs. It does its best work in the hands of the Regent, who post a 43.9% win rate with it. Within Regent runs specifically, it’s carried 2.1% of the time.

Its standout card pairing is Big Bang, which lifts the relic’s win rate by +51.0% when both are in play. It also works nicely with Spoils of Battle, good for a +39.4% win-rate change. It typically enters the deck near floor 20. As a rare relic, how often it’s offered depends on its rarity tier.

Of the runs that carried it, 166 ended in victory while 300 fell to a defeat. Its most common run-ender is Kaiser Crab Boss, finishing 5.1% of the runs it appears in. See the best cards, class split, and threats below for the full read on whether The Courier is worth grabbing.

Pick or Skip: The Courier

Across 478 offers The Courier has a 99.8% pick rate; the 477 runs that took it and 1 that left it are still below the sample floor, so no win rate is shown.

Taken 477 times out of 478 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 The Courier

The cards that gain the most from carrying The Courier are Big Bang (+51.0%), Spoils of Battle (+39.4%), and Cosmic Indifference (+38.1%), each shown with its win-rate swing.

Big Bang+51.0%16 runsSpoils of Battle+39.4%16 runsCosmic Indifference+38.1%19 runsOffering+29.4%20 runsSpectrum Shift+29.1%18 runsCrush Under+27.5%19 runs

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

The Courier Win Rate by Class

Of the 5 classes that carry The Courier, it performs best with Regent (43.9%), Necrobinder (39.6%), and Ironclad (34.9%).

The Regent43.9%68 runsThe Necrobinder39.6%92 runsThe Ironclad34.9%134 runsThe Silent30.5%106 runsThe Defect27.3%67 runs

The Courier Details

Carried in 2.3% of runs, The Courier is a rare relic typically acquired near floor 20.

The merchant no longer runs out of cards, relics, or potions and his prices are reduced by %.

What Ends Runs with The Courier

Runs carrying The Courier end most often against Kaiser Crab Boss (5.1%), Test Subject Boss (5.1%), and Queen Boss (4.7%) — the share of its runs each accounts for is shown.

• Kaiser Crab Boss5.1% of runs
• Test Subject Boss5.1% of runs
• Queen Boss4.7% of runs
• Aeonglass Boss4.4% of runs
• The Insatiable Boss4.4% of runs

See Also

Keep exploring Slay the Spire 2 tier lists and stats below.