Rusty Sword
Rare from Antiquity & Middle Ages
Rusty Sword is a weapon of Rare rarity in Cave Smash. It belongs to the Blade family and deals 13.5 base damage plus 0.76 per point of Intelligence. Blades land critical hits more often than any other family.
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Field notes
The first blade most Smashers meet. Rare, so not much stronger than a Common weapon, but it brings the blade family's extra critical chance to mid-level Intelligence builds.
The Blade family
Blades scale with Intelligence and add 12 points of critical chance on top of what Intelligence already gives. A critical hit deals 1.8 times the damage. Critical chance is capped at 50 %.
Who should use it
Intelligence builds. Intelligence raises both the blade's damage and the crit chance against less clever opponents, so every point counts twice.
Damage at a glance
Average damage of one attack before armor, crits and skills, for a Smasher of level 10 or more with that many points in Intelligence. Stars add 10 % each.
| Intelligence | Per attack |
|---|---|
| 20 | 41 |
| 50 | 74 |
| 100 | 129 |
How to get it
Like every weapon in Cave Smash, Rusty Sword cannot be bought. It appears in level-up drafts: 22 % of cards are weapons and 29 % of cards are Rare. The draft never shows the same item twice, and drawing it again adds a star.
Values read from the game on 2026-11-12. Cave Smash is in development: balance can change before launch.
