Tough Bandages Relic

Is Tough Bandages good in Slay the Spire 2?

In Slay the Spire 2, Tough Bandages is a rare relic you can pick up on your climb. Its effect: Whenever you discard a card during your turn, gain Block. The data marks it as a weaker relic, settling at D tier — rarely a run-defining grab.

Over 47 tracked runs the win rate of decks holding it sits at 34.8%, 21.8% ahead of the 13.0% all-run baseline. It sees lighter play, carried in only 0.3% of runs. It does its best work in the hands of the Silent, who post a 34.8% win rate with it. Within Silent runs specifically, it’s carried 1.3% of the time.

Its standout card pairing is Piercing Wail, which lifts the relic’s win rate by +24.0% when both are in play. It also works nicely with Backflip, good for a +17.6% win-rate change. It typically enters the deck near floor 22. As a rare relic, how often it’s offered depends on its rarity tier.

Of the runs that carried it, 16 ended in victory while 30 fell to a defeat. Its most common run-ender is The Insatiable Boss, finishing 8.5% of the runs it appears in. See the best cards, class split, and threats below for the full read on whether Tough Bandages is worth grabbing.

Pick or Skip: Tough Bandages

Players take Tough Bandages in 52.2% of the 92 offers it appears in; those runs win 34.0% against 31.8% for runs that passed, a pick lift of +1.8% over 47 decided runs.

Taken 48 times out of 92 offers.

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 Tough Bandages

The cards that gain the most from carrying Tough Bandages are Piercing Wail (+24.0%), Backflip (+17.6%), and Tactician (+9.0%), each shown with its win-rate swing.

Piercing Wail+24.0%17 runsBackflip+17.6%21 runsTactician+9.0%16 runsRicochet+4.1%18 runsCloak and Dagger+2.7%16 runsDagger Throw+2.7%16 runs

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

Tough Bandages Win Rate by Class

Tough Bandages’s class data comes mostly from the Silent, at a 34.8% win rate over 47 runs.

The Silentappears in 1.3% of its runs (47 tracked)

Tough Bandages Details

Carried in 0.3% of runs, Tough Bandages is a rare relic typically acquired near floor 22.

Whenever you discard a card during your turn, gain Block.

What Ends Runs with Tough Bandages

Runs carrying Tough Bandages end most often against The Insatiable Boss (8.5%), Queen Boss (6.4%), and Kaiser Crab Boss (6.4%) — the share of its runs each accounts for is shown.

• The Insatiable Boss8.5% of runs
• Queen Boss6.4% of runs
• Kaiser Crab Boss6.4% of runs
• Aeonglass Boss4.3% of runs
• Knowledge Demon Boss4.3% of runs

See Also

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