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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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