Bone Tea

Bone Tea

Event
At the start of the next combat, Upgrade your starting hand.
  • Bought for 50 Gold: from the Tea Master, which only appears in the first two acts.
  • One charge: in the next combat, at the start of turn 1, every card in your hand is Upgraded for that fight, then the charge is spent and the relic goes grey and counts as used up.
  • Deck unchanged: deck copies are unchanged.
  • Hand size matters: it only touches the cards physically in hand at that moment, so a bigger opening hand gets more.
Rarity
Event
Character
All characters

When to take Bone Tea

Buy it when you can pick the fight ahead, an elite or the act boss. Fifty Gold for a fully Upgraded opening hand is cheap there, a waste before a normal fight you would win anyway.

Cards that synergize with Bone Tea

Dramatic Entrance
Attack
0
Innate.
Deal 11 damage to ALL enemies.
Exhaust.
Innate cards such as Dramatic Entrance are always in the hand.Innate.
Deal 11 damage to ALL enemies.
Exhaust.

Relics that synergize with Bone Tea

Bag of Preparation
Bag of Preparation makes it 7 cards.At the start of each combat, draw 2 additional cards.
Booming Conch
Booming Conch does the same in an elite.At the start of Elite combats, draw 2 additional cards and gain .
Miniature Cannon
Miniature Cannon adds 3 to each Upgraded Attack.Upgraded Attacks deal 3 additional damage.
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Related relics

Happy Flower???AkabekoBig HatBooming ConchBreadBrimstoneCandelabraChandelierCrossbowDivine Destiny

Changes by version

  1. 2 Jul 2026Bug fixToolboxPlaytest
    Fixed an issue where Bone Tea relic could fail to upgrade your hand if you also have Toolbox relic
  2. 5 Feb 2026InterfaceInternal playtest
    Relic icons are now only grayed out if their effect is used up for the entire run (for example, after Bone Tea relic upgrades your starting hand next combat)
  3. 25 Sep 2025ChangeTea MasterInternal playtest
    Changed Tea Master event's Bone Tea relic: now upgrades your hand for a single combat instead of 5 but costs less
All 5 patch notes2 older
  1. 7 Jun 2024Bug fixTea MasterInternal playtest
    Updated Bone Tea choice in Tea Master event to reflect new behavior
  2. 31 May 2024NerfInternal playtest
    Now only affects the next Rest Site instead of the next 2

Internal playtest notes are from before the Early Access release. Names and numbers in them can differ from the game today.

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