Beast Cookies Tier List — Which Ones Are Worth Pulling?

Updated 11 October 2026: earlier versions ranked Silent Salt first because his debuff field supposedly stopped enemies from being revived. It does not. His kit has no revive effect, and cookierun.wiki's Revival page lists no Cookie that prevents a revive. The Silent Salt section now makes his case from what his kit actually does. Earlier versions also called Eternal Sugar and Mystic Flour Magic Beasts and Shadow Milk an Ambush one. They are Bomber, Healing and Magic, and their sections now describe their real kits.

Updated 10 October 2026: earlier versions said Beast Soulstones come only from Beast Raid and told you to save 60,000 Crystals for Beast banner pity. Both were wrong. Beast Gachas run on their own event currency, not Crystals, and give a free copy of the featured Beast every 250 draws, and each original Beast's Destiny Gacha theme pays out every 300 draws. Earlier versions also left out Dominion of the Beasts, a permanent event that gives you a free Beast of your choice, and described a Beast Magic Candy line that Beasts do not have. The sourcing section, the cost table and the pull checklist now work from the corrected facts. The ranking below predates Rajapendra Cookie of Mortality, the Beast released on 23 September 2026, and does not rank him.

Beast Cookies are the most opaque investment in CRK. They take a long time to build, and only some of them are actually worth the wait.

The pitch is intoxicating. A rarity tier above Legendary, kits built around continent-defining mechanics, animations that turn your team comp into a flex post. The reality is messier. Some Beasts genuinely warp the meta the moment they hit the field. Others are showpieces with a big price tag attached.

If you are looking at the Beast Cookie banner this week and trying to figure out whether the pull is justified, this is the post. We rank every current Beast, walk through the F2P math, and give you a decision tree so you stop pulling on vibes.

What makes a Beast Cookie different

Beast rarity sits one full tier above Legendary. Devsisters introduced the class through the Beast-Yeast continent story, framing each Beast Cookie as an in-universe deity who got domesticated into a baked good. Mechanically, two things set them apart from most Legendaries:

1. Mechanic-defining ultimates. Each Beast skill is built around a unique status or terrain effect. Silent Salt marks the enemy's highest-ATK Cookie with Fury of the Catacombs. Eternal Sugar Enchants enemies, which pauses their Cooldown. These are not "1.6x ATK damage" skills. They change how a fight is played.
2. A longer promotion track. Beasts promote to ★6 and cannot ascend. From ★2 on, each star also costs Legendary Soul Essence, so a full promotion takes 540 Soulstones and 290 Soul Essence. Beasts have no Magic Candy or Crystal Jam.

That last point is the real cost. One copy unlocks a Beast at the bottom of a 540-Soulstone climb, so a fresh unlock is a long way from fully promoted. The investment ceiling is the whole pitch.

Treat every Beast Cookie pull as a long-term decision. You are not just rolling for the cookie. You are committing to the promotion grind, the topping rerolls, and the team rework needed to actually use them.

Master ranking — all current Beasts

Here is where every current Beast stands as of the May 2026 patch cycle. Tiers reflect Arena, Guild Battle, and high-end PvE relevance combined. PvE-only players should weight tank and DPS Beasts higher than Arena-only specialists.

If you only read one row of this post, read the top one. Silent Salt is the only Beast where the answer is "yes, pull, do not overthink it." Everything below S is a roster-specific call.

Silent Salt — the only must-pull

Silent Salt released in v6.9 (September 2025). He is an Ambush Cookie prioritised to the Front, and his kit is built to shut down the enemy's strongest Cookies:

• End of Silence (14-second cooldown) roots enemies for 2.5 seconds and Silences them repeatedly, then his Lunar Slash Petrifies, adds 40% to the damage they take for 15 seconds and ignores 40% of their DMG Resist.
• Fury of the Catacombs lands on the enemy with the highest ATK at the start of every battle. It cuts that Cookie's Cooldown Recovery and damage dealt by 25%, cannot be dispelled and ignores debuff immunity. It charges over time and gains extra charge each time the target uses its skill, fires Punishment (heavy damage plus an undispellable Silence) when full, and moves to the next-highest-ATK enemy when its target falls.
• Wrath of the Catacombs triggers once per battle when his team's total HP drops to 70%. He resets his own skill cooldown and gains 1 second of Invulnerability, and the Punishment that follows instantly defeats any Cookie it leaves below 3.5% HP.
• Forsaken Freedom makes him immune to Cooldown-impairing effects. Each time one is applied, he gains an HP Shield of 20% of his Max HP, DMG Resist +15% and Cooldown Recovery +25% for 5 seconds.

What he does not do is stop revives. cookierun.wiki's Revival page lists only three Cookies that react to an enemy revive, and none of them prevents it: Timekeeper punishes the revived Cookie with Emergency Dial Lock, Rajapendra gains ATK and damage, and Nether Queen's Branded Soul cuts the revived Cookie's Max HP by 25%.

There are two reasons Silent Salt earns the must-pull label:

• He pressures the enemy's best Cookie from the first second. Fury of the Catacombs goes straight onto the highest-ATK enemy, debuff immunity does not block it and it cannot be dispelled, so that Cookie spends the fight hitting 25% softer and recovering its cooldown 25% slower.
• Cooldown control does not work on him. Forsaken Freedom shrugs off the Cooldown increases and pauses that control Cookies rely on, and turns each one into a shield and faster cooldown recovery for him.

The catch is promotion. One copy unlocks Silent Salt, but full promotion to ★6 takes 540 Soulstones and 290 Legendary Soul Essence, and the Destiny Gacha's Freedom & Silence theme does not drop loose Silent Salt Soulstones. Budget for the Soulstones before you budget the team.

For where he fits in competitive comps, our Kingdom Arena meta team breakdown covers the current Arena teams. The Silent Salt gear guide covers the topping setup.

Eternal Sugar — dropping but still relevant

Eternal Sugar (v6.4, May 2025) is a Bomber prioritised to the Middle, and she is still excellent.

What she still does well:

• Heavy Poison damage. Saccharine Breeze and Dazzling Light both ignore 40% of DMG Resist, and Dazzling Light adds damage based on Max HP against Cookies.
• Control that stalls enemy skills. Saccharine Breeze Charms, Enchanted then incapacitates targets and pauses their Cooldown, and undispellable Laxness cuts enemy Cookies' Cooldown recovery by 25% and ATK SPD by 35% for 18 seconds.
• A team-wide damage buff on a tough body. Her Cotton Candy Angels passive gives all allies DMG +25%, and she starts each battle with an HP Shield worth 150% of her Max HP.

What knocked her down a peg is the Timeline of Fate update. Timekeeper, the Legendary it added in May 2026, also stalls enemy skills: Dial Lock freezes the cooldowns of the three highest-ATK enemies, and her Regression debuff slows them. That overlaps with Eternal Sugar's Enchanted and Laxness, and Timekeeper is a Legendary, not a Beast. She is still S tier, still worth pulling if her banner is up and you can reach its guarantee. Just not the top of the hill anymore.

If you missed Eternal Sugar's original banner, do not panic-pull her on a rerun unless your Arena climb is genuinely stuck and you have already built Silent Salt.

For the topping spread, our Eternal Sugar gear guide is current as of this patch.

Burning Spice, Mystic Flour, Shadow Milk — the back half

These three are the original Beast trio. They were terrifying on release. The meta caught up. Here is the honest read on each.

Burning Spice

Beast Charge type, the original "frontline you cannot ignore" Beast. The kit hits like a truck and applies a strong DoT field. The problem is that modern Charge Cookies have caught up in raw damage while bringing better utility.

He is still strong in low-to-mid PvE. He is still fun. He is no longer worth a Beast-tier investment when a built Burning Spice topping setup only takes you so far. B+ today, dropping further every patch.

Mystic Flour

The Beast healer. Mystic Flour is a Healing Cookie prioritised to the Rear, and the only healer among the five original Beasts. Her Realm of Apathy heals allies over 5 seconds, wraps them in Cocoon of Futility, an HP Shield that cannot be dispelled, and then heals them for part of the damage they dealt. Enemy Cookies who enter it have their Cooldown increased and catch Pale Plague, which adds more Cooldown when it is dispelled. With no Safeguarded Cookie on the team, she cannot be incapacitated and gives her allies Buff Protection.

That is why she is A and conditional rather than a must-pull. She is worth it if you need a healer, but she competes for the slot with the healers you already own, and as a Healing Cookie she switches off Sugar Swan's revives if you run both. The Mystic Flour gear guide has the toppings, but only spend the soulstones if she fills a real gap in your healer slot.

Shadow Milk

The hardest sell on the Beast roster. Shadow Milk is a Magic Cookie prioritised to the Middle. His Puppet Show locks onto the enemy with the lowest Max HP, damages it and its neighbours, and ends in a Grand Finale that hits every enemy and leaves the Puppet Show target with Taint (damage dealt −30%, buff strength −30%, debuff strength +50%). The first time he is defeated he slips into Shadow Form, leaving a taunting Puppet in his place while he heals back to full. Conceptually wild.

His best argument is Eye of Truth, which cleanses the whole team's debuffs once it builds four stacks of Truth. That makes him one of only seven Cookies that cookierun.wiki's Purify page lists as cleansing the whole team. If your roster lacks a team cleanse, that is the reason to look at him. Otherwise he is a B, the lowest-priority current Beast for most rosters. Check the Shadow Milk gear guide if you already have him, but do not chase the soulstones.

How to actually get a Beast Cookie F2P

Beast Cookies come from several places, and for a free player a permanent mission event and the event gachas matter far more than any raid. These are the documented sources:

Dominion of the Beasts comes first. It is a permanent mission event, added in v6.7 and extended twice since, most recently in the August 12, 2026 update. Each of its three parts gives you a copy of a Beast you pick: Mystic Flour or Burning Spice in Part 1; Shadow Milk, Eternal Sugar or Silent Salt in Part 2; any of those five in Part 3. The copy is locked out of some modes until you clear that part's missions, and a pick cannot be changed once made. That is up to three of the five original Beasts for free, so the gachas below matter most for the other two and for promotion Soulstones. Rajapendra is not one of the choices.

The Beast Gacha is the main pull route. Each of the five original Beasts launched with one: Mystic Flour (May 2024), Burning Spice (October 2024), Shadow Milk (January 2025), Eternal Sugar (May 2025) and Silent Salt (September 2025). Since then Devsisters has moved to reruns and alternate Beast Gachas. The one for Rajapendra Cookie of Mortality runs from 23 September to 4 November 2026, alongside a Burning Spice rerun. Beast Gachas take no Crystals or Cookie Cutters. Their currency comes from the event's missions, plus any later event or mail rewards, and no other Beast, Ancient, Legendary, Dragon or Super Epic Cookie can drop there. Every 250 draws, which is 25,000 of that currency, gives a free copy of the featured Beast.

The Destiny Gacha is the other guaranteed route. Each original Beast shares a duo theme with an Awakened Ancient: Silent Salt with White Lily, Eternal Sugar with Hollyberry, Shadow Milk with Pure Vanilla, Burning Spice with Golden Cheese, and Mystic Flour with Dark Cacao. Every 300 draws in a theme pays a Choice Chest you can take the Beast from, and each theme keeps its own count. The pool gives Beasts only as whole Cookies, never as loose Soulstones. Our Destiny Gacha guide walks through every theme.

Beast Raid is a top-up, not a way to build a whole Beast. It is a seasonal boss mode that first ran in v5.1, not a Beast-Yeast stage. For the five seasons from Peak of Hollow Tears (2024) to Chains of Silence (2025), Fandom's season pages show the same pattern. The shop sold that season's Beast's Soulstones 2 at a time, with a stock of 2 in Peak of Hollow Tears and 3 in the other four, and the raid's own rewards leaned heavily on Beascuit Dough. In all five, tickets stocked up to 6 and refilled one every 6 hours.

The Mileage Shop does not help here. It stocks Epic Soulstones, not Beast ones.

There is no reliable F2P timeline to quote, so this post no longer prints one. The numbers that do hold: 20 Soulstones (or one copy) unlocks a Beast, a duplicate copy counts as 20 Soulstones, and promoting a Beast all the way to ★6 takes 540 Soulstones in total plus 290 Legendary Soul Essence. Whether a free player reaches 250 draws depends on how much currency the event hands out. It has fallen short before: on the 2021 Tide Shard Gacha for Sea Fairy, Fandom counts at most 231 draws from free sources, 19 short of the guaranteed copy.

A few rules that follow from that:

• Count your draws before you start. 250 draws is 25,000 of the event currency. If the event will not get you there, decide up front whether the odds and the level rewards are worth it on their own.
• Do not count on carry-over. No source says a Beast Gacha's draw count carries into a later rerun, and the Destiny Gacha tracks each theme separately.
• Missed a Beast's event gacha? Check Dominion of the Beasts, then its Destiny theme. A Dominion pick costs nothing, and the 300-draw Choice Chest in the Destiny theme does not wait for that Beast's event gacha to come back.

If you want the continent itself, our CRK Beast-Yeast guide covers its episodes and bosses.

Beast Cookie investment cost vs Legendary investment cost

The soulstone count is only the first number: 540 Soulstones to fully promote a Beast, against 290 to take most Legendaries to ★5. The gap narrows once you count ascension, because a Legendary then takes 200 Soulcores to reach ★5A and a Beast cannot ascend at all.

Here is the rough comparison for getting a Cookie from "pulled" to "competitive":

Neither column has a Magic Candy line. Fandom lists no Magic Candy for any Beast or Legendary, and the Crystal Jam, the Legendary equivalent, exists for only a handful of Legendaries such as Sea Fairy and Wind Archer. A Beast's extra cost sits in promotion instead: from ★2 on, each star also takes Legendary Soul Essence, so expect to run a usable-but-not-maxed version for a while after the pull.

Toppings are also stickier. Beasts demand the top-tier topping spread to function at their stat ceiling, which means rerolling whatever you had on a Legendary substitute and committing fresh resources. Check the CRK tier list before you reroll, because some Beasts share topping templates with strong Legendaries you may already have built.

Should you pull the current Beast banner?

The decision tree, in order:

Question 1: How many built Legendaries do you have?

• Fewer than 3 → Skip Beasts entirely. Build your Legendary core first. A team of five maxed Legendaries beats a team of four undercooked Legendaries plus one underleveled Beast every time.
• 3 to 5 → You can pull, but only for Silent Salt. Other Beasts are luxury at this roster size.
• 6+ → You have flexibility. Pull based on what your roster lacks (a healer, a team cleanse, control).

Question 2: What content do you actually play?

• Arena and Guild Battle main → Silent Salt first, Eternal Sugar second, skip the rest until refreshed.
• Cake Tower main → Pull for the tray you are stuck on, not for the tower in general. Across Decadent Choco's 55 trays, Devsisters' recommended lists name Burning Spice on four (24, 31, 38 and 40) and each of the other original Beasts on one: Shadow Milk on 29, Eternal Sugar and Mystic Flour on 45, Silent Salt on 49.
• World Exploration and story → Beast Cookies are massive overkill. Spend your Crystals elsewhere.

Question 3: Can you reach the guarantee?

First check Dominion of the Beasts. If one of its picks can still give you this Beast, take that and treat the banner as a Soulstone source. Beast Gachas do not take Crystals. They run on the event's own currency at 100 per draw, and every 250 draws (25,000 of that currency) pays a free copy of the featured Beast. Before you start, work out how many draws the event's missions and rewards will actually give you. If that gets you to 250, the Beast is guaranteed. If it does not, every draw is a roll at the base rate with the Gacha Level Rewards as consolation, so decide up front whether that is worth it. For one of the five original Beasts, its Destiny Gacha duo theme is the other guaranteed route: 300 draws in that theme for the Choice Chest, paid in Destiny Cookie Cutters and Tickets.

Stopping at 200 draws does not earn the guaranteed copy, and no source says those 200 count toward a later rerun. Know where you will land before you start.

For guild-context pulls (where your guild leader is begging you to grab a specific Beast for raid synergy), our Guild Battle team building guide covers what compositions actually need a Beast versus what guilds just think they need.

Quick Action Checklist

Before you spend a single draw on the current Beast banner, run this list:

• You know whether the event gives you enough currency for 250 draws, the free-copy guarantee
• You have 3+ Legendary Cookies already built to level 75 with +12 toppings
• You have a plan for promotion Soulstones after the unlock (a full promotion takes 540)
• You have checked whether a Dominion of the Beasts pick can give you this Beast for free
• You have a topping plan and the rerolling materials to execute it
• You have checked which Treasures your target Beast needs (some require dedicated builds)
• You actually play the content where this Beast is strong

If you cannot check at least five boxes, you are pulling on vibes. Sit this banner out.