The Best Defect Cards Tier List

A list of all Defect cards from Slay the Spire, ranked from best to worst. We combined votes from 32 players to create this list. When deciding which cards to add to your deck it's useful to understand their general power level. As you play The Defect, this list can be a helpful resource for learning and improving your card-drafting skills.

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S
Echo Form
Biased Cognition
Seek
A
Fission
Defragment
Electrodynamics
Genetic Algorithm
Skim
Self Repair
Core Surge
Glacier
Hologram
Doom and Gloom
Buffer
Reboot
B
Coolheaded
Equilibrium
Chill
TURBO
Ball Lightning
Recycle
Reinforced Body
Cold Snap
Capacitor
Aggregate
Compile Driver
Charge Battery
Go for the Eyes
Sunder
White Noise
Loop
Beam Cell
C
Hyperbeam
Rainbow
All for One
Machine Learning
FTL
Darkness
Heatsinks
Creative AI
Rebound
Sweeping Beam
Boot Sequence
Consume
Amplify
Melter
Steam Barrier
D
Blizzard
Hello World
Rip and Tear
Bullseye
Meteor Strike
Chaos
Overclock
Streamline
Recursion
Static Discharge
Auto-Shields
Barrage
Tempest
Fusion
Leap
Double Energy
Force Field
Multi-Cast
Storm
Stack
Thunder Strike
F
Claw
Scrape
Reprogram

S Tier

Echo Form, Biased Cognition, Seek

A Tier

Fission, Defragment, Electrodynamics, Genetic Algorithm, Skim, Self Repair, Core Surge, Glacier, Hologram, Doom and Gloom, Buffer, Reboot

B Tier

Coolheaded, Equilibrium, Chill, TURBO, Ball Lightning, Recycle, Reinforced Body, Cold Snap, Capacitor, Aggregate, Compile Driver, Charge Battery, Go for the Eyes, Sunder, White Noise, Loop, Beam Cell

C Tier

Hyperbeam, Rainbow, All for One, Machine Learning, FTL, Darkness, Heatsinks, Creative AI, Rebound, Sweeping Beam, Boot Sequence, Consume, Amplify, Melter, Steam Barrier

D Tier

Blizzard, Hello World, Rip and Tear, Bullseye, Meteor Strike, Chaos, Overclock, Streamline, Recursion, Static Discharge, Auto-Shields, Barrage, Tempest, Fusion, Leap, Double Energy, Force Field, Multi-Cast, Storm, Stack, Thunder Strike

F Tier

Claw, Scrape, Reprogram