Throwing Axe Relic

Is Throwing Axe good in Slay the Spire 2?

In Slay the Spire 2, Throwing Axe is an ancient relic you can pick up on your climb. Its effect: The first card you play each combat is played an extra time. Performance-wise it’s a steady, unspectacular pick rated C tier overall.

Over 224 tracked runs the win rate of decks holding it sits at 53.6%, 39.7% ahead of the 13.8% all-run baseline. It sees lighter play, carried in only 1.1% of runs. It does its best work in the hands of the Regent, who post a 60.0% win rate with it. Within Regent runs specifically, it’s carried 1.4% of the time.

Its standout card pairing is Hidden Cache, which lifts the relic’s win rate by +20.1% when both are in play. It also works nicely with Untouchable, good for a +19.8% win-rate change. It typically enters the deck near floor 33. As an ancient relic, how often it’s offered depends on its rarity tier.

Of the runs that carried it, 120 ended in victory while 104 fell to a defeat. Its most common run-ender is Aeonglass Boss, finishing 12.5% of the runs it appears in. See the best cards, class split, and threats below for the full read on whether Throwing Axe is worth grabbing.

Pick or Skip: Throwing Axe

Across 224 offers Throwing Axe has a 100.0% pick rate; the 224 runs that took it and 0 that left it are still below the sample floor, so no win rate is shown.

Taken 224 times out of 224 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 Throwing Axe

The cards that gain the most from carrying Throwing Axe are Hidden Cache (+20.1%), Untouchable (+19.8%), and Thunderclap (+18.6%), each shown with its win-rate swing.

Hidden Cache+20.1%19 runsUntouchable+19.8%15 runsThunderclap+18.6%18 runsInfinite Blades+17.0%17 runsDeflect+16.8%27 runsGlow+14.8%19 runs

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

Throwing Axe Win Rate by Class

Of the 5 classes that carry Throwing Axe, it performs best with Regent (60.0%), Necrobinder (55.8%), and Ironclad (54.0%).

The Regent60.0%45 runsThe Necrobinder55.8%43 runsThe Ironclad54.0%50 runsThe Silent52.6%57 runsThe Defect42.3%26 runs

Throwing Axe Details

Carried in 1.1% of runs, Throwing Axe is an ancient relic typically acquired near floor 33.

The first card you play each combat is played an extra time.

What Ends Runs with Throwing Axe

Runs carrying Throwing Axe end most often against Aeonglass Boss (12.5%), Test Subject Boss (8.9%), and Queen Boss (8.9%) — the share of its runs each accounts for is shown.

• Aeonglass Boss12.5% of runs
• Test Subject Boss8.9% of runs
• Queen Boss8.9% of runs
• Knights Elite3.1% of runs
• Soul Nexus Elite2.2% of runs

See Also

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