Necrobinder Card Tier List
The best Necrobinder cards in Slay the Spire 2 right now, ranked by Codex Score from community runs, featuring the highest-rated card in the entire game.
Ratings come from community-submitted runs: Codex Score grades a card's win rate when picked against the average. This is Necrobinder as of mid-July 2026 on the main branch. The live tier list updates continuously and can slice by bracket.
The top of the list
[[Glimpse Beyond]] is the single highest-rated card in the game: a perfect 100 Codex Score on a 62% win rate. Souls into every draw pile scales absurdly in co-op, and even solo it is a top pick. If you see it, the data says take it.
[[Neurosurge]] (56.5% win) is the honest S tier for every mode: energy, cards, and a Doom cost that a Necrobinder deck is already built to answer.
The underrated one is [[Shared Fate]]: 55.4% win rate on a 19.7% pick rate. Symmetric Strength loss reads bad and plays great, because the enemy misses the Strength more than you do.
The engine pieces
[[Banshee's Cry]] (54.9%) is the Ethereal payoff that clears acts, and [[Misery]] (52.6%) spreads your debuffs to the whole board. The sleeper is [[Legion of Bone]], an uncommon rating A tier at 52.7%, the best summon-per-gold card in the pool and one of the reasons Necrobinder feels strong in every bracket.
Solid picks
[[Spirit of Ash]], [[Seance]], [[Necro Mastery]], [[Oblivion]], and [[Reanimate]] all hold B tier around 50%. Reanimate's flat Summon 20 is the safest of them; Necro Mastery wants an Osty deck already in motion.
The traps
[[Reap]] and [[Sow]] sit at the bottom at 30 to 33% win rates. The names promise an engine, the numbers say it never comes online.
The relics
Necrobinder has four S-tier relics in a nine-relic pool, more than any other character, graded on the relic tier list. Relic win rates run high across the board, so the tier is the signal.
[[relic:Ivory Tile]] and [[relic:Big Hat]] tie at the top (66.3% win rate), [[relic:Funerary Mask]] seeds the Soul engine from turn 0, and [[relic:Bone Flute]] is arguably the best common relic in the game, S tier at 65.1% for having Osty do what Osty does. The only one to think twice about is [[relic:Phylactery Unbound]], D tier at 51.2%, which reads like a build-around and performs like a blank.
Full numbers, per-act splits, and Codex Elo live on the card metrics page. For how her deck loops actually work, read Necrobinder's True Potential, then upload your runs.
More character tier lists: Ironclad, Silent, Defect, Regent.
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