Ranking EVERY Relic in Slay the Spire! (Tier List)

hey hey there everybody baylor here in the new cozy setup and today i want to talk about the relics of slay the spire be ranking all of the relics all 100 plus inspire on a tier list here s through f just to kind of give a general idea of their overall usefulness their overall utility you know kind of what i think of them in brief if you like this video don't forget to drop a like below and let me know in the comments what your favorite relic in slay the spire is because i think everybody's gonna have a slightly different opinion and i want to know what people's personal faves are i'll try to pick out my own fave amongst these as well without further ado let's just start grabbing relics here starting with the anchor good old boot thingy block on turn one i think anker is a very very good relic and i'm basically always happy to have it providing a guaranteed block in turn in act two and act three especially i'm happy with an a tier for that acabeco guaranteed damage on your first attack also a for acabeko a for anchor very tempting i'm thinking either a or b hard to decide personally um i like that akabeko can can combine with other relics like bag of marbles i'm gonna give that an a as well i'm just gonna start grabbing these kind of at random here my bank gives you gold every floor ma bank's not that good mob bank is is very often um pretty garbage actually because you you usually break it it's only money until you spend it at a shop so i can't justify putting it in either the higher tiers here they can see your d let's let's put it in d actually it's got a cool interaction with the bloody idol though so that is noteworthy speaking of the bloody idol itself i'm gonna put in b b for bloody healing every time you get gold is real good really really good but it's relatively difficult to acquire bag of preparation that's also an a tier for me even though it starts with a b i think extra cards on turn one in general noticing a theme here common relics that affect your turn one i'm giving a high ranking to and i think we're going to see that pattern continue cairon's ashes damage every time we exhaust something ironclad uh has no no shortage of damage every time i get this relic actually i tend to find that it does a thousand or more damage it's just an absolutely enormous source of of aoe that can single-handedly end some fights especially combined with cards like theme fire second wind i think i'm gonna put that in s especially as a as a rare relic it's just really good art of war energy the turn after you don't play any attacks problem with the art of war is that it can never do anything on turn one but in a lot of decks can be a very good energy generator i think either a or b tier uh depending on your exact setup overall i'm gonna give it a b easily a thousand damage from from karen's ashes thanks to relic stats we've been able to track the the numerical values of uh of different relics and i i usually see karen's ashes do over a thousand damage the only relic i've seen get a number over 2000 is tingshot i don't actually know where it is in the in the list here so i'm just going to start grabbing more relics blood vial very tiny amount of healing it's consistent but it's just a little bit too small i'm gonna give it a c tier here over the d i think which is where i would put just two health per combat because you can get bytes for free with the uh with the blood vial bronze scales got to be b for bronze really really solid damage particularly good against the heart um usually at least three per turn i think we've seen on average it's four and a half per turn no that's mercury hourglass but i'd say bronze scales and mercury hourglass are are very very similar relics in what they do do i have the the hourglass here and we'll put that in the same tier with it because they're both they're both contributing very constant amounts of decent damage the advantage with the hourglass is that it happens before the enemies hit you but they both contribute quite nicely and they're both good damage relics speaking of bee let's talk about bottles bottled flame i can't give it an f tier because i don't think it deserves left here but i will give it a d tier often a relic you find when you'd much rather have found just about anything else guaranteeing an attack on turn one is sometimes helpful and there are a few attacks that go really well with this like clothesline uppercut doom and gloom any attacks that draw cards just to name a few but a lot of the times i find myself outright skipping this relic or preferably taking the blue key conversely skills on turn one is pretty dang good depending on the exact skill that you bottle an apotheosis a seek card draw i would put the bottled lightning i think around beats here it's it's not necessarily an advantage always sometimes you would have just drawn the card on turn one anyway and i think that's where i'm gonna put the bottled tornado as well guaranteeing a particular power on turn one it's a really good effect really very nice to genuine to guarantee an important power like demon form or echo form on turn one but there is that invisible chance that you would have drawn it on turn one anyway and of course drawing a card on turn one means not drawing a different card on turn one which can be detrimental to your turn ones other things that start with b burning blood ironclad's starting relic i think is very very good i'm gonna put that in a tier just six health per combat every single combat it's real good i i very like very really like trading the boss relic away on ironclad for this reason abacus gives block when you shuffle the draw pile as a shop relic it's not too expensive and i think it's quite good when it works but it very rarely works so i don't think i can give it higher than a c or so that said it does enable some really cool infinite combos and if you're close to one of those you should really consider it great with the the reboot cards and the deep breath cards too see do i have the other starter relics here we've got the the miracle from watcher which i think is pretty good it's not it's not as high tier as the the ironclads starting relic but i think it's it's pretty good one energy on a turn that you want is quite useful in and of itself but where i really like the miracle is that it combos with any kind of skill playing it can activate conditional cards like sanctity and crush joints it can activate letter opener and it can be upgraded by various effects and for that reason it's a b whereas just one energy on one turn i think would be a c speaking of c calendar starts with the c the stone calendar does really good damage on turn seven but most fights don't go to turn seven um some boss fights do some elite fights do but most the time calendar is sitting there unused another thing that starts with c is calipers which i'm not going to put in seats here calipers can be very much run defining letting you carry your block over from turn to turn and in many runs i think this relic is an s tier but a lot of the time that you find the calipers they don't do anything and it can be quite difficult to to generate enough excess block you have to have 15 additional block uh to get any use out of calipers and i don't think that justifies ester as a result i think it's just a little bit lower calipers would often be good here but it also would often not be blue candle unfortunately not a very good relic lets you play curses for one health it's got a couple of niche and interesting interactions it can let you get rid of curses if you happen to be carrying them around but oftentimes you'll want to those will be the first cards you remove anyway but sometimes that playing a card for one damage can be useful such as activating something like the centennial puzzle here which i'm going to put at beat here really good card draw but you have to take damage to activate it and that can be a little bit of a problem you'd much rather have unconditional raw which is what the bag of prep is but the fact that it's one more card is pretty dang good a strange spoon strange spoon's another very strange one this is a great example of a relic that can be actively detrimental with shivs for example putting those into your into your discord pile instead of your you know instead of the exhaust pile can be very detrimental but if your deck exclusively has exhaust cards that you want to have come back so stuff like adrenaline's catalysts offerings [Music] then the strange boon giving it back can be really really cool and for for some very special build spoon is a really cool relic on average though it's a wash with some decks being actively harmed and some decks benefiting only marginally more boot thingys the captain's boat thingy gives us block on turn three i think all three boat thingies are very good but i do think the captain's wheel is probably the least effective of the three just although it's the highest numerical block value the timing of the block is the least convenient con uh being really effective only in a small handful of fights the slime boss from the knob like vulin quite good against heart pretty good against spear and shield but there's many many many more fights where you'd rather have the block on turn one or turn two and that's why i think the hoot the horn cleat is the best of the boat thingies is it good enough to be esteer i think so i actually do for for an uncommon relic horn cleat is absurd giving you 14 block on turn 2 relevant in basically every single fight in the game with very few exceptions it's so good let's put some other stuff in s tier since i see a few other st relics here dead branch generating a random card anytime you exhaust a card there are so many things that combo with dead branch it would take an hour to list them all the more you have the better the relic gets but even with only a handful of exhaust this relic is stellar not as tier though unfortunately the boot boot gives extra damage if you're doing less than five but shame on you you should have done more than five damage or boot much beloved but i'm booting it down to deter here not worthy of f though cauldron i think is in a similar spot pay 150 gold for five random potions is usually too many potions i mean generally speaking i'd much rather be able to pay you know 50 gold for three random potions you almost never have spots for all of the potions and rarely rarely is it better than just like buying the other potions in the store and i think that's actually what makes cauldron weak is that it's always offered alongside three other guaranteed potions for sale poor cauldron all right self-forming clay gives you block whenever you take damage this is i think also an esteer relic um the amount of block that this can generate in a self-damage build is exceptional and it also just helps you massively if you're in a fight where you start taking damage the more times you take damage the better it gets and that can be really really spectacular against heart i've seen this i've seen this relic generate genuinely 60 block on one turn against heart ceramic fish nine gold whenever you pick up a card i think it's better than my bank a lot of the time that's not quite true it's it's okay it's it's really not that bad i find it consistently gives you you know 100 to 120 gold if you find it early it's a good process i would i would not personally put this in f i think it's it's a passably fine relic it's a slow trickle of money if you remember it it can be quite helpful in a store and if you have the bloody idol it'll heal you whenever you add a card to the deck and that's kind of cool i think i'm gonna put it in d i think it's it's got to be comparable to mall bank my bank pays a lot faster but the ceramic fish does usually give more total yeah i'm gonna i'm gonna reserve the f tier for a particular type of relic what champ belt adds weak when you do vol i think that's b b for belt it's a pretty good relic but it needs uh it needs some work to actually to actually do a lot for you the faces face of gladik giving hit points every time you finish a battle this is one of the good face outcomes and i think the good faces are spectacular uh i'm gonna put this even an s actually if you get this in the early game this is easily 25 to 35 max health two mangoes which is insane speaking of the actual mango i'm gonna put eight here just very good very good max hp um and i think we can easily make conclusions about the other fruit from there pear would be beetier strawberry is somewhere down there come to me strawberry there you are rank those fruits all right clue class back when this was originally added to the game at two block per card i would have easily put this in s tier i think it's only eight here now at one block per card in hand at the end of turn which is often more blocked than you'll get from the uh thread needle and go cut in the line yeah it's true it did let's let's officially get it back to the end there you're right we can't have that we can't have that all right we want it we want an entry for the ft here's one hand drill hand drill is paying 150 gold for an effect that will almost never matter that's generally speaking how i feel about it i've i've tried taking it a couple of times and not once have i been impressed or felt like its contribution was particularly valuable and given how conditional it is it requires the enemy of block it requires that you need to be able to use the vulnerable i don't know i don't think so dark stone periapt i'm gonna put that in d tier d for dark stone it's max hp when you gain a curse and that can sometimes be as much as like 30 health over the course of a run sometimes dark stone period ends up being just as good as face of cleric but most of the time dark stone does nothing at all and that's why it's in detail clockwork souvenir that i'm gonna put a guaranteed blocking bull on heart combos with so many cards from so many classes just artifacts guaranteed turn one in general is very good against so many different opponents and the relatively low price of acquisition i think makes it a particularly good here's an interesting one duvuda gives you bonus strength per curse you have the higher ascension you're playing on the better this is uh if you're above ascension 10 you guaranteed get one point of strength which i think makes it pretty good better than better than vajra i'm going to give it a i'm going to give it a beat here but if you're on lower ascension it's relic may not do anything at all now that said in the rare event where you do get multiple curses in the deck duo doll can absolutely break or run with five or more points of innate strength being provided from curses can do some really cool things but we're talking 100 runs or something i'm pretty happy with the b evaluation which is probably where i'll put vajra let's see what he got here defects starting our cracked core i think crack core is a sea tier it's a nice little bit of starting damage it gets you started on orbs but it's really just not that good but these are going to get pretty full data disc one guaranteed focus that is amazing on the defect beta disc gloves loves defect and another guarantee another defect particular relic of the gold-plated cables activates your front orb one more time at the end of each turn i think gold plated cables are also excellent just anything that that makes your orb build a little bit more potent without requiring any setup that these relics work immediately on turn one is what makes them so good meanwhile the emotion ship has a stronger effect activating all of your orbs but requires that you take damage on a prior turn the chip can be very good but is quite difficult to utilize effectively i think i'll rank it a tier lower but emotion ship is really good that's a general rule i kind of feel bad putting it now i'm going to put it in a tier i feel bad putting it in btr because it's really really powerful it's just a conditionally powerful relic rather than a guaranteed powerful relic something that's also conditionally powerful chemex from the store making x-cost cards more effective i really like what this relic does i think it's super cool uh there's just not enough x-cos cards to make it consistently awesome but if you've got a couple oh boy is it good i'll rank that a b how about b for books nilry's codex i think this is one of the strongest but i put this in s here i almost don't want to put it in s because it's so onerous to use sometimes but uh norrie's codex let's do it let's put that in the a tier it is an onerous owner's relic to make use of tomorrow on watcher one mantra per turn i think damaru supports divinity builds really really well but you're not always specking into divinity once you have damara you should definitely pick up the first mantra card you see also with a b bird-faced urn i think is a very excellent source of healing i'm gonna put it up in a with the uh the burning blood bird face turn can be an absolutely massive amount of sustain in any deck with a decent power count particularly on defect combo with something like uh creative ai all right we gotta pick up the pace here frozen egg guaranteed upgraded powers make that a bee i think i think about a b feels right not always guaranteed to get use out of it sometimes those powers will be upgraded anyway but upgraded powers in general are extremely good how about gambling chip that's an s for me so much you know if if bank of prep is two cards on turn one gambling chip is at least potentially five if you discard five cards you get five cards drawn and comboed with any source of turn one draw can be even better courier bonus money from shops i think that's great it's a it's a beat here the fact that it restocks the store is particularly cool goldeneye bonus scry on watcher this is this is almost ester i'll put it in a tier but uh increasing the amount of scraw you get is crazy crazy good yeah particularly on silent gambling chip is incredibly good back when um there used to be a site for tracking spire win rates and such and it determined that gambling chip was most associated with winning on silent which made sense to me burner now that's going to be an s here for me you can guaranteed block the ten by four from spire spear with a little bit of setup you can manipulate this relic with a little bit of patience to give you intangible on and key turns in so many different fights such a breakable breakable breakable rare relic and i think that's just as good with helix too helix is right up there as one of the best defensive relics in the game being able to block an entire turn of an enemy assault we have the big 67 from heart a big hit from transient or many many other things strike dummy as for strike no i can't write strike dummy an s i think it's a i think it's a a classic c tier kind of relic very very good in the early game uh particularly on ironclad watcher also really likes it for making her strikes do much much more damage but often times this relic does absolutely nothing if you've removed all your strikes so it can feel pretty bad then also pretty low tier i'm gonna rate dreamcatcher quite low extra card rewards are good but dreamcatcher really doesn't give you very many extra card rewards so i don't think i like it there how about fan favorite ice cream retain your energy from turn to turn i really like the effect but it only does stuff if you're generating extra energy which can be a bit of a problem i for that reason i can't put it in the s tier it's i think either an a or a b probably a b i think ice cream can often be a trap making you take cards that you really ought not to a double energy that you don't actually have the energy to spend you don't have any way to spend the energy that you've generated and then you die with 20 energy and wonder how could it all go wrong that's a trap end caribbean free power's on turn one it's good it's really good i don't think it's quite as good as as nilry's but a very very powerful effect overall let's put that in be choosy bracelet this one's interesting if you're speed running this isn't an s this could also be an s to your uh relic in certain types of challenge overall though turning comments turning of yeah turning combats into events is not necessarily a good thing um and i think i would put juzu let's put it in in c tier to acknowledge that it's got some genuine real use to it under certain circumstances but for the most part it's it's very skippable definitely advise taking blue key over juzu sometimes it might be better to just leave it on the ground rather than picking it up but that's where i'm gonna put the juzu it's got uses just not in the traditional sense right now gremlin horn that's that's going to be a tier for me very easy solve for the reptomancer fight just very helpful energy generation in a lot of different combats magic flower makes ironclad heal more i think that's also exceptional we're going to see a lot of high rankings for most of the uh most of the rares bonus healing is so huge particularly comboed with ironclad's burning blood duality this could this could potentially be an s but i'll put it in uh i'll put it in a as well giving additional dex temporary dexterity whenever you play an attack can be a very much build defining relic for watcher especially combined with good old orange pellets from the shop guria gains strength at rest sides up to three times it's good but it's expensive this is either b or a depends on the character really i'm gonna put it in b truthfully noting that geria at a shop is usually a trap you're spending 300 gold for the ability to do something other than upgrading strength is great but don't forget you're down the upgrades for having invested in your gurya that said with the right build if you've got ironclad limit break it's incredible it's incredible on watcher it's just good lizard dale you're a super super high tier lizard tail gives you a second chance at life sometimes you don't need it i think a lot of the times i end up not using the lizard tail and i think for that reason i'm not going to put it in ester but it's definitely something you want to have and not need versus need and not have you know and i think that's where i'm going to put meat on the bone too healing you 12 after each combat a really really good source of sustain preserved insect i think that's another very very high tier one preserved insect makes all elites a lot easier to kill especially the ones before the heart and that is a huge huge boon especially as a common relic preserved insect is cheap to buy and easy to get your hands on but i don't think quite meets the criteria for s for me how about the lantern lantern's guaranteed energy on turn one i often find that lantern isn't always getting a full use i'm gonna put it in the b tier here it's not quite up there with the bonus draw or block on turn one but often very good matrushka gives you bonus relics out of the next couple of chests i honestly don't think this is very good in an ideal situation you're getting two relics for the price of one but they're actually stinky relics as the bonus relic you get is guaranteed either common or uncommon no chance of a rare um with a 75 chance of giving you a common so you're trading one uncommon relic for probably two commons and you may not even get two chests which is the real problem especially if you've got a curse key you may not want to open your chests either it's not quite down in detail but it's really close smiling mask cheaper removals i think is is quite good doesn't always save you a lot of cash uh although i do like removals in general i'm gonna put this in b i often change my pathing to accommodate the smiling mask and i'm quite happy for the extra cash that it provides a lot more reliable i think than either the mall bank or the ceramic fish as a gold relic maybe i put it one tier above those in seating or here noting that it's better than these two as the gold really goes let's see ginger makes you mean to weaken as a rare relic i don't think ginger is all that cool ginger can do some neat things with artifacts allowing you to use your artifact for different purposes for example um one charge of artifact and ginger will block vulnerable from collector whereas you would need two churches of artifact otherwise but in practice like i think that's happened one time in thousands of hours of spire experience for me so i don't think the ginger is particularly good in general though being immune to weak is great there's lots of enemies that weaken you and not being weakened can definitely be the difference between killing and not killing but it doesn't feel as impactful as some of the other really valuable rare relics do odd mushroom reduces the amount of damage you take from vulnerable i think it's a useful effect but it's easy to forget and it's just not that much numerically cultist-phased a call you know where it's gotta go ink bottle ink bottles good card draw the more cards you play the more cards inkbottle will draw and therefore the better the ink bottle gets i really really like ink bottle in general you can manipulate it to be guaranteed turn one draw and it can be so much more than that so i think it's very much in the same tier as the bag of preparation it's often times one but sometimes more than one drop per combat and you have so quite a bit of control over when that is banner notes the ginger can block the weak from the curse card that's true could also block the weak from the gremlin face we'll put that one in if tier the stinky face of the face trader event making you weak on turn one unless you have ginger kunai oh man kunai is good stuff kunai can be quite difficult to use but gaining decks every time you play three attacks is a hella useful effect particularly on silent with blade dances it can be a a build basically but notably watcher and defect can also make huge use of it too consider defect with hologram all for one or watcher with flurries and weaves hey hey everyone did you know that you can now support me directly on youtube by getting a channel membership for as low as five bucks a month you'll get access to perks like custom badges and emojis to use in comments and discounts on the merch store all while helping support me and this channel to do what i love every day just click the join button below to get started now back to the video letter opener does good aoe damage but three skills is a little difficult to meet the requirement of so i'm going to put that one in b tier it doesn't do that much i think i tend to find that the letter opener does comparable damage to the bronze scales and to the mercury hourglass but requires me to change my play in order to do so golden idol gives you additional money you pick it up in an event in act one it's really not that much money but i think it's generally worth picking up in exchange for the max hp or whatever else that you must give up in order to accommodate it see membership card this is an easiest tier membership card is often just instantly worth buying like instantly gives you money in the shop that you find it if it's less than half your gold to buy it and makes everything cheaper it's just so good just just so good let's rate some other shop relics melange i'm gonna have to put melange having seen how it works with deep breath i i really feel compelled to put melange in deter gives you scry whenever you shuffle the draw pile which is theoretically useful but in practice just works awkwardly it's got some weird interactions and it just doesn't do what you want it to do dolly's mirror lets you duplicate a card in your deck dolly's mirror i mean depending on what you've got to duplicate can be s tier very notably if you're duplicating an upgraded card you get an upgraded card um and you can also upgrade a card by copying a card that you have the corresponding egg for i don't think it's quite ester because it does require you that you have something good to duplicate but it can be exceedingly powerful yeah was lament letting you kind of as a starting bonus you have to compare this against the other options i think it's honestly not bad if you're able to get a free let's put it in c if you're able to get a free elite out of your niagara's lament those first three combats have one health then it can be quite good but if you are only getting three free combats you might be better off with the seven max hp so that's that's usually how i feel about it if you can get a free elite go for it it's quite good but if you can't then take something else meal ticket heals you at stores i like this a lot less than meat on the bone but in general i think sustained relics are quite good and i think that uh meal ticket fits nicely into the into the b tier how about the mutagenic strength strength on turn one you get this from the jax steeler i think i'm going to put this in seat here as well noting that there are often better options at the jax dealer event some the transform 2 in particular is uh usually very good but three strength on turn one can combo with orange pellets or combo with artifact quite nicely that's i think where i'm going to put the medical kit too medical kit lets you play status cards to exhaust them this can be very very valuable especially if you've got a particularly small deck also in z tier i'm going to put the ninja scroll three guaranteed shivs on turn one is quite nice but can really clog your turn one draw and there are many circumstances especially on silent who has those two additional cards on turn one from her starting relic where the ninja scroll is costing you draws on turn one so i think i'll put it in c tier for that reason let's see nunchaku babysit it for energy every 10 attacks is it's just not that often i think menchaku ends up being uh energy a lot less frequently than happy flower i'll put that in c as well bag of marbles turn one vulnerable it's great turn one volume is great removes artifact from enemies quite very quite solid quite good but i don't think i would put it in in a tier with uh some of the other like truly stellar commons and i think that's where i'm gonna put the twisted funnel as well just a funnel is for poison on turn one that shop relic for the silent can remove artifact from enemies it can also just be a little bit of free damage or it can get poison started for catalyst which is quite nice gold coin instant 300 gold that's got gotta be an a tier it's not quite as good as some of the others up in s tier but easy pga for me omamori unfortunately i like what you do but oftentimes you don't do what you do supposed to block two curses but curses inspire just aren't offered often enough to make it ever a guaranteed sometimes you pick up omumuri first relic and you still have two charges at the end of the heart i'm sorry i'm amore that said umari notably for being the only way you could avoid the curse from the necronomicon which is definitely up in uh up in a tier here i think duplicating your first two cost attack each turn [Music] it's great only reason this doesn't go into s is that oftentimes you don't have a two cost attack as you're picking it up you don't get to know if you're getting this thing ahead of time it costs you 21 health to pick up and you must take a curse unless you have omamori so i'll leave it in a here but the effect alone is in s tier also pretty cool that the curse this generates can do some unique things in and of itself paper crane that's an s here for me paper crane makes your weakened essentially almost twice as strong reducing enemy damage by 40 taking so many big threatening attacks and bringing them down to nothing i think it's one of if not the best defensive relic in the game and i would absolutely put it on the same tier as incense burner and helix in that regard insanely good insanely good potion belt more potion slots i think potion slots are really good you don't always have the potions to put in the potion belt which is why i'm going to put it in b to your belt deer but it's great or a calcium guaranteed block six block if you have none i think that's a c to your effect it's very very good in the early game tends to fall off in the later game but does still have some utility and i can say that i've had runs where aura calcum has been life-saving against the heart which is kind of cool paper frog makes your vulnerable do more damage it's not quite as good as the the paper crane is i think this is a or b probably b given how difficult it is to get your hands on as an ironclad only uncommon vulnerable can be a little difficult to keep up at times but it's quite potent bludgeon with a paper frog does 73 damage slapper tornado after healing whenever you use a potion pretty good this is definitely less total healing than the burning blood i think i'll put it in in b tier in practice tends to be five hit points every other combat if you're using your potions with maximum effectiveness does allow you to buy more health at stores which is quite nice pantograph however i think i'll put that in a tier massive amount of healing right when you need it at the boss fight and triggers multiple times on ascension 20. good stuff i put yeah bird phase during an a over 20 north after and b i would say bird face turn is often or at least can be a lot more healing than the ornithopter is uh let's see prayer wheel gives you additional cardboard after every combat i think that's an incredibly good effect prayer wheel is one of the i think well is the best card generating relic that is to say prayer wheel gives you more additional cards than any other relic including question card i'm looking at you although question card does combo very nicely with this question card giving you only one more option at each card award i think is gonna be probably b a little bit less good than the the prayer wheel is but they're both very good relics overall ori meanwhile you can buy it in a store it's five card rewards all at once i think that's i think that's probably b as well getting to see a lot of things if you have question card or eggs the ori gets quite a bit better speaking of pellets orange pellets allow you to remove all debuffs from yourself which is so very good combos with many many powers across many many characters fasting on watcher bias cognition on defect wraith form on silent mummy hand depending on the run this may be ester i think generally speaking eight here we can give you a free card every time you play a power often times mummy hand is as good as an energy relic it's great ornamental fan block every time you play three attacks i don't think that's as good as the kunai probably be or even c tier depending on the build i'm probably gonna put it in c it's it's sunblock sometimes but it's not that much usually brimstone the ironclad exclusive shop relic gives you two strength every turn brimstone has a massively powerful upside but it comes with a serious downside making all enemies gain one strength per turn very very scary against certain opponents to make brimstone work well you have to lean into its offensive potential and kill things fast while um still having a couple safeguards here and there against enemy attacks for the two strength alone it would be in s tier but because it comes with this big ass downside i'm going to put it in a here let's see in lost gift higher chance of rare cards you have to give up another relic to get the gifts but the fact that it's often times worth doing i i think means i'm gonna put this in b-tier triples your chance of finding rares usually you see two to three additional rares with the gift if you can get the gift for free it's great you know giving up a relic that doesn't do anything but uh giving up something often means it can be a bit of a challenge to be worth taking peace pipe lets you remove cards at every rest site i really want this to be a tier i think extra removals are very good um but just like the guria the fact that it's a rare relic that doesn't provide an immediate effect the fact that it's very expensive to buy and the fact that your access to rest sites might be limited puts it in b for me pen nib doubles every tenth attack pen nibs pen nib's a very very good common relic i don't think it's the best it does require a little bit of um of caretaking and you're not always sure exactly what the right number is i think because you don't know what cards you're gonna draw in what order but if you can line it up on your best attacks it's super potent great with reaper great with bludgeon great with wallop pocket watch that i'm gonna put a nest here extra card draw potentially every turn plus three cards drawn uh if you played three or fewer cards on your last turn at the start of the game this is just instant free card draw for almost every character as you get into late game it's a little harder to play around but still an immensely powerful draw source it's just so good one of my one of the relics that i most associate with having a winning run for my for me personally easy s tier for me how about the shard prismatic shard lets you see relics from every character i think it's a super cool super fun effect but it's just not very good um it's very challenging to to put a run together and you're very much at the whims of the rng paying 150 gold for it that really stings but i really like shard for for what it does i think it's a very cool relic i just can't in good conscience rate it very highly here's a low tier relic for you that the lost hungry face means you miss out on a relic this relic is the opposite of a relic that's bad that's bad about the red mask red mask you get from the red mask gang giving you weak on turn one i think that's really good as an effect red mask you're usually getting by either fighting the red masking which you should absolutely do or paying all of your money in act three which you should probably not do uh and if you get it in act two then it's really stellar because it might even get you bonus money if you encounter the tomb of lord red mask later on red skull red skull in b red skull gives you strength below half hp on ironclad it's pretty dang good overall regal pillow i like the bonus healing but i think you don't often want to rest and a lot of times that i pick up regal pillow it doesn't do much of anything brick capacitor here gives you bonus orbs slots on defect i think that's an excellent effect defect loves more orb slots and it's one of those really really good shop relics for the defect so we're gonna put that in a for rose and i letting you see the drop pile in order the more draw you have the better this gets i think it takes a little bit of patience and a bit of willingness to think your your turns through but what the frozen eye does is quite powerful not not universally useful and doesn't doesn't add any numerical value that you can directly observe which i think makes it really difficult to to want to have but the effect is really useful if you're willing to use it doesn't take as much time as you might think either just like simply quickly knowing like am i going to draw a card a next turn or the turn after next turn can be extremely valuable to you so you don't have to you don't have to plan out every detail of every moment to get good use out of it okay we're getting close to the end here spirit poop it's stinky you get this for giving a curse to the to the bonfire spirits we're gonna put that in indeed i think molten egg guaranteed upgraded attacks very good stuff i'll put that up there with the frozen egg in b where's the toxic egg there it is at the bottom toxic egg guaranteed upgraded skills that's much better and depending on the character i think toxic egg is an s tier for for silent in particular but just about everybody can make really good use of it ironclad loves it with corruption um there's plenty of watcher skills that she loves to have upgraded so i'm gonna put the toxic above two tiers even above the others singing bowl lets you skip cards to gain max hp it's good but it takes a while to be good and if you get it late it's not that great so i'm gonna put that in b oddly smooth stone guaranteed one decks pretty good i think i'll put that in the same tier as vajra which is probably going to be beachier speaking of where is vajra let's get you in there as well plus one strength plus one dax i rate those as both a b generally speaking across the four characters happy flower guaranteed energy every third turn do i write that in the same tier as lantern i think it's one tier above it's if you work around it happy flower can be constant energy multiple times per fight and if you can retain your cards or otherwise set up your draws it's just gonna be the gift that keeps on giving and as a comment it's pretty easy to get your hands on nice and cheap definitely up there with bank of prep and anchor in the common relics sure can i'm gonna put shuriken here with the kunai giving you strength scaling instead of defense scaling for your attack spam just like the kunai it does require a little bit of setup to get going but once it gets going it's real good let's see here silence starting relic that's definitely up in a guaranteed turn one draw shovel unfortunately unfortunately i don't think shovel is too good as much as we like our as much as we like our dig memes i'm gonna put it down in d for dig nobody can argue with that d is for digging it's good enough for me problem with the shovel is that you have to you're trading away a guaranteed improvement via an upgrade or rest to get a random improvement in the form of a relic a random relic is unreliable although it can be good and gambling with a relic can be a way to bail out a run it's just not reliable and certainly not worth paying 300 gold for in a shop sneko's gold bonus poison for the silent i think that's up in a if you've got a poison build going stekosko will take your poison build and send it to the next level particularly boosting stuff like bouncing flask and venom or noxious fumes tiny chest sorry you're in detail that's just the way it is tiny chest makes it so that you see additional additional chests from question mark rooms every fourth question mark room but oftentimes you only get the one relic back that you would have found in the first place and it may come at the expense of getting an event or combat that you actually wanted more although usually you want a relic more than a combat all right thread needle that's definitely at five i think this would have been nested here as it stands now it's an a tier giving a solid four block per turn really good really really good see warps tongs i think warp tongues are also an a giving you a guaranteed upgrade per turn that's good stuff sling of courage bonus strength against elites i put this i put this in b it's twice as strong as the vajra is but only for one particular type of combat depending on which character you are you may or may not have a huge use for the sling but i particularly like it on silent and watcher or the the bonus oomph there for a relatively low price of acquisition i think it's uh totally worth picking up war paint two random skill upgrades i think war paint and whetstone are both run-of-the-mill kind of average relics we'll put them in the in the sea tier eternal feather that's gonna be a massive massive massive guaranteed healing whenever you enter a rest site let's keep grabbing all right white bee statue giving a guaranteed potion every comment i think that's very stellar put that up in a tier on average i think you get about about twice as many potions with a white bee statue really really good stuff especially if you can combine it with a toyota or something tough bandages these i'm gonna put a nest here these are very much very much build defining um and can be absolutely absolutely incredible generating just massive amounts of block with stuff like calculated gamble prepareds unloads anything that lets you discard a lot of cards which usually pairs with drawing a lot of cards um can generate just enormous enormous block and its counterpart ting sha i think is almost as good tings has got the exact same condition but it does damage randomly instead of blocking and i think block is on it you know on a one to one basis block is better than randomly targeted damage so i'm going to put the bandages in b sorry the bandages in s and the tingsha in a tier just a couple more to go now waffle for the full heal a classic of the channel i think i'll put it in a it's like a it's like a strawberry but the full heal that it gives can be absolutely miraculous plus it's delicious sundial sundial is a cool infinite enabler it's only good sometimes though when it works it does really cool stuff a lot of the times though and i suspect for many of you out there sundial is randomly without warning gain to energy and forget about it all right the specimen specimen causes poison to transfer to different enemies i find that oftentimes when i find this specimen i don't even have poison and when i do usually the transferring doesn't matter that said sometimes specimen can do some really really powerful things like against rectomancer letting you poison the daggers and having the poison transfer to repto um and it could also let you kind of carry poison over from phase one to phase two of awakened one which is pretty cool all right free dark chord one turn one i think that's a tier for uh for the the symbiotic virus one of the best relics that defect has and uh just a really good it's it's front loaded scaling almost it's how i like to think of it it's just great makes compile divers better does lots of damage for free tungsten rod saves you one health whenever you take damage not quite an s to your relic but definitely in a tier having lots of cool little interactions working even in events preventing self damage you name it you name it all right turnip prevents frail i think turnip is one tier higher than ginger just like ginger turnip lets you avoid wasting your artifact on the frail debuff and i think i rate this overall because i think that frail is a worse debuff for the player than weak is this partially because block cards tend to be valued in such a way that frail um gets you with rounding for example defends blocked for five but with frail only blocked for three that's a 40 reduction even though even though frail is supposed to be only a 25 reduction and various other cards suffer similarly there's a lot of frail in acts 2 and a turnip really helps there and it's invaluable against heart too so i like the turnip all right serpent head i think serpent head is the best outcome from the face trader event and i'm going to put i'm going to put both of the good faces in s here because i think they are being just incredible incredible relics serpent head is often more money than old coin i've seen it be 500 gold from from one relic it's really good tory reduces unblocked attack damage that's definitely up in a tier not quite as good a block generator as the incense burner the fossilized helix or the paper crane although notably tori and tungsten rod together are ester very very powerful combination as they'll make you completely immune to anything five or less damage toolbox it's a guaranteed it's a card on turn one and you get to choose one of three i think it's really cool the variability of the colorless card pool i think puts it in b tier but as a general rule being able to choose one of three cards on turn one is good stuff and i really like toolbox just for providing that lots of colors cards are zero cost as well which helps unceasing top love it or hate it this thing either does incredible things or it does absolutely nothing for most of you i'm sure this does nothing until you free until you remember that you have it which is rarely it took me a long time to start remembering on ceasing top i'm going to put it in seats here i wish it was i wish it was better sometimes it does really cool things so i can't put it in d or f tier but most the time it does nothing some of the time it does many thing particularly if you're on low ascension if you're below ascension 10 building around the unceasing top can be a really fun way to achieve your first infinite build all right ancient d set this is probably my least favorite of the energy generators the fact that it's two energy is nice reliably on turn one is nice but only after visiting a rest site is a little little awkward i do like it for energy turn one against spire spirit inspire shield as well as of course energy turn one against any boss wing boots they let you teleport around changing your pathing i actually don't think they're as good as we often hype them i'm gonna put them in b tier the wing boots are come in place of a you know a different relic and depending on your map generation you may not actually be able to get additional useful pathing out of the the boots so i'm gonna put them in b or boots i would give them the boot let's see just a few left to uh to wait here to drop lock it starting you out in calm for watcher i think that's an exceptionally good effect i'm gonna put that up in a tier it's basically two energy every single combat but you get to choose when the energy arrives and that is very very strong mark of the bloom so this is a relic you get from the mind bloom event when you take upgrade all this relic simply prevents you from healing which on its own is an f-tier effect uh i'm gonna evaluate this as the the choice to upgrade all cards and not be able to heal which is a powerful powerful option that you should take sometimes you should consider this option in mind bloom because upgrading every card in your deck especially if you have 10 or more upgraded cards can be really really powerful and really really valuable the downside of being unable to heal really really sucks and so i think maybe only about 30 of the time you want to upgrade everything even when going for heart you should you should consider upgrading all because a properly fully upgraded deck can just dumpster the late game but that downside is huge and you have to be very very very careful about how you play from there i find it most most likely to take this event on silent but yeah on its own the relic is definitely done in f just to be completely clear circlet if you fi if you have a circlet that means you have every relic that means you're doing a really good job so i'm going gonna put circle at an s here because if you see it you're winning for sure let's see is that just the boss relics left then yes that's every relic inspire rated except for the boss relics let's see put the boss relics in the same rankings that i gave them in our boss relics video but there's our full brutal tier list ranking for every single relic in slave aspire whether you agree or disagree with these rankings i hope you find them useful and i hope that you got a lot of joy watching this uh this breakdown video please let me know in the comments below what do you think your own personal favorite relic in slave the spire is or if you disagree with any of my own evaluations here let me know what you disagree with and why all right everybody thank you so much for watching this heck and long tier list this is pretty fun to make hey everyone thanks so much for watching did you know that i'm live five days a week on twitch come join us to watch me live ask questions or chill with the community click the link in the description below to follow and be notified when i'm live and while you're down there make like a sandwich and sub to this channel for more fresh baylor content 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Published: Sat Oct 23 2021