Simply ludicrous damage for 1 energy. Get it back with Headbutt to play it more often!

Still efficient, but less exceptional after Dominate moved to rare. Tremble often supplies enough Vulnerable while being common and easier to obtain.

The cheap vulnerable payoff is consistently strong for Ironclad, despite occasional decks that cannot exploit it well.

One of Clad's best damage mitigation cards. Reduced damage values round down, making this block for more than 50% at times. Make sure you have multiple ways to apply vulnerable to get most of this card.

Still extremely powerful after its small nerf. Vulnerable is easy to maintain, making its damage reduction a reliable foundation for block-heavy decks.

Decent block if you can't activate the effect, and ludicrous block if you can! Worth grabbing early on even if you can't yet meet the condition consistently because of how strong this card can be.

Only modest block without setup, but excellent once exhaust can be aligned consistently. The enhanced block can support Barricade and Unmovable decks.

One of the best ways to get Strength on Ironclad. Always provides a small amount but goes crazy with cards like Tremble and Molten Fist. Beware of enemies with Artifact!

More balanced but still worthy of A at rare. In the right boss fight it supplies enormous Strength and Vulnerable for only one energy.

Powers that draw more cards are extremely strong because they can get you additional cards across many turns for only a single initial card play. This card is one of the strongest card draw powers because you can activate the effect many times per turn. This combos with a wide variety of cards, including some Curse and Status cards.

A core power for virtually every engine-focused Ironclad deck. Exhaust is common enough that additional copies and upgrades remain attractive.

A massive source of draw that can be used to enable energy-generating cards in your build. You only need 2 or 3 sources of Vulnerable to make this excellent. A must-upgrade.

Good once draw, energy, and Vulnerable support are assembled, but expensive and replaceable by cards such as Pommel Strike in more ordinary decks.

One of the best ways to get more energy to play cards. The cost in health is generally offset by the added value of the additional cards you can throw down. One way to win a run is to add enough draw to your deck to cycle this card repeatedly and use the energy gain to kill bosses before you run out of health.

Still a top-tier engine card after moving to uncommon. It converts Ironclad's plentiful draw into the energy needed for fast combo turns.

Dealing a lot of damage is the obvious benefit of this card, but exhausting your whole hand is also beneficial. Play any cards you don't want to Exhaust first, THEN play the Fiend Fire to delete everything else. This can let you thin your deck down to one strong combo.

A consistent way to turn card draw into immediate damage while thinning the deck. Enchantments and other multipliers make its ceiling exceptional.

Outstanding for activating exhaust effects like Feel No Pain or Dark Embrace. Creating random cards can make new powers for you or otherwise bail you out by making an immediately useful card.

Powerful and unusually flexible, but easy to misuse. It can rescue an unfinished engine, yet refined decks often prefer more consistent output cards.

The damage added to this card includes your Strength, Relics, and Enchantments. The damage of this card can scale very rapidly while also thinning the deck so that you can re-draw it later.

A versatile but situational long-fight damage plan. It can also exhaust obsolete attacks more reliably than an unupgraded True Grit.

Pommel Strike's cooler brother. Doesn't need an upgrade and can work wonders with an attack-heavy deck. Combine with Anger or Hellraiser.

A weak attack-draw card that he still finds no reason to pick; Pommel Strike performs the useful part much more efficiently.

Treat this like a multiplier to all of your Attack damage, so it works equally well with large single attacks or multiple small hits. Gets even better with multiple copies.

An uncommon with rare-level output. One upgraded copy makes Vulnerable dramatically stronger, while stacking copies produces extreme damage.

Ironclad loves card draw and this is one of the better ways to get it. Really wants an upgrade to become draw 2.

The premier common attack: efficient damage plus draw, useful at every stage, and a major reason weaker draw attacks look unnecessary.

The gold standard for block cards. Play it to block a whole turn on its own, but it works even better with Barricade.

A dependable rare that can blank a dangerous turn by itself. Barricade and Unmovable make its large block number even more valuable.

Tons of free block for doing what Clad already does best: playing lots of attacks.

A high-priority early pick that can become a full block engine. It bridges draw-heavy decks until Bloodletting or other energy support appears.

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Effectively 1 draw per turn that always gets an attack. Very useful if you have bonus energy generation or if you can limit the cards that this will retrieve.

Usually too slow for Ironclad's fast combo decks, but the innate upgrade can solve specific late-game problems and its recurring attack retrieval has niche value.

Very solid block per turn combined with self-damage to activate other cards. Nice with Rupture, Tear Asunder or the relic Self-Forming Clay.

Spectacular passive block despite its nerf. The upgrade remains excellent and the HP loss also enables Ironclad's self-damage synergies.

Basically makes all your blocks free so you can spend energy on attacks. You should have a plan to win the fight by the time you run out of block cards.

An amazing engine enabler, especially when a deck has many Burning Pacts, Taunts, Trembles, and Shrugs but lacks Bloodletting.

Corruption rapidly exhausts the deck into powerful loops and usually accelerates Ironclad directly toward a win.

Free Skills accelerate Ironclad into powerful exhaust turns, while some decks remain too dependent on preserving their Skills.

The damage from this power adds up very fast, especially in a deck that blocks many times for small amounts. Activates once per card exhausted by Second Wind. Also great with any relic that gives block like Cloak Clasp or Gorget.

Has almost no convincing solo use case. Even the obvious Second Wind plus Pain setup has better payoffs available.

A powerful sustain effect that you can use to fuel self-damage cards or just to heal damage back from combats. You might need to skip playing this the first time and draw back into it later.

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Area damage is generally desired at the start of a fight, when the condition of this card may not yet be met. This is a card that performs well if re-drawn repeatedly, similar to Blood For Blood.

A strong payoff for exhaust-heavy decks, providing efficient damage while helping remove attacks that are no longer useful.

Huge energy generation for a single setup turn allows you to tackle endgame fights much more easily. This is a must-upgrade.

Provides enough scaling for a two-energy power and can support self-damage decks, but it is not universally efficient.

0-cost card draw makes this a no-brainer for any deck that doesn't already have a lot of draw effects. Combo with Headbutt to keep drawing it every turn.

A premium engine card whose draw restriction is easy to work around by exhausting it or sequencing other draw first.

A steady source of Max HP, but it can be tricky to land consistently. Extremely good with Retain, or with cards that can make additional copies. Don't upgrade this card.

Potentially broken for max HP, but taking it can slow Act 2 development and delay a working engine. Its value should rise when Act 4 arrives.

Many Ironclad decks are attack-heavy which lets this card multiply a wide variety of options. Most effective on high-cost attacks like Bludgeon or Whirlwind.

An unreliable duplication effect with no compelling role in the decks Navegreed currently builds.

A remarkably flexible attack that can be used for free damage early game as well as being an endgame damage plan with Strength and card draw. Combine with Vicious, Pillage, or Battle Trance to draw the growing pile of attacks. Sometimes you should refrain from playing this card if additional copies would be disadvantageous.

One of the two common attacks he is happiest to take. It helps early and scales unusually well with enchantments because copied Angers retain them.

A very nice pickup to help with multi-enemy fights. You can pay full price if you really need to, but goes best with some 0-cost attacks to make it cheaper.

Ironclad's worst area-damage card. Whirlwind and Breakthrough solve the same fights more efficiently and with better scaling.

Ironclad's only source of Weak, which makes this a must for bosses. Nice for breaking through Artifact on enemies.

A very strong attack and priority upgrade. Weak is uniquely valuable on Ironclad, while Vulnerable and artifact removal give it broad utility.

Low-damage attack that scales up very quickly with exhausted cards. Exhausting more cards will both improve the damage and let you draw this card more often, leading to massive damage output.

A respectable speculative damage pick for decks already exhausting cards. It can grow into a real damage plan once mass-exhaust tools appear.

Gives Clad a good reason to stack more vulnerable. Even with 1 vulnerable, this card deals 9 for 0 energy which is comparable to Anger. Works very well with Exhaust effects to thin your deck down to just Vulnerable cards and Bully.

Efficient zero-cost damage, but its uncommon rarity means it often appears after Ironclad has already solved damage. The useful timing window is narrow.

Lets you turn energy into immediate card plays. Better with more energy that you can make and more expensive cards in your deck. Great upgrade.

Much worse after Bloodletting became uncommon and status-heavy fights became more important. It remains usable only with the right energy and draw combinations.

A surprisingly effective package of solid block + reflected damage. Doesn't really fit into a 'build', but is a versatile tool that can contribute in a wide range of situations.

Excellent early, especially in Underdocks and against eels, but its fixed block and retaliation fall off compared with Blood Wall.

Seems difficult to use both effects of the card at the same time. I like this for extending Vulnerable on enemies during defensive turns, rather than as a way to apply Vulnerable initially. Great with Body Slam.

An excellent common that outclasses Iron Wave: solid block, useful Vulnerable, and a strong upgrade make it easy to add.

Block plus draw, what's not to love? One of the most reliable block options for Clad.

One of the game's most generically useful block commons. Good block plus draw keeps it relevant in almost every Ironclad deck.

This becomes a great card once you have 3 or 4 sources of Exhaust in your deck. Particularly busted with Stoke or Fiend Fire.

A spectacular block engine that has improved as Navegreed has refined exhaust-heavy decks. He now takes nearly every copy.

Fight me, Tanx!! This card is a very powerful source of Strength gain, and the drawback is minimal against most opponents. Be careful playing this on enemies with multihit moves, especially in multiplayer.

A viable scaling solution when Dominate or Demon Form is absent, especially with Glam. It is clunky once the deck already has enough damage.

Excellent early-game power spike, allowing most Act I encounters to be beaten with ease. In the mid- or late-game, Bludgeon is best when discounted or multiplied with effects like Pen Nib or Cruelty + Vulnerable.

Too slow and awkward for most modern Ironclad decks. Cheaper common attacks and efficient engine cards usually solve early damage more cleanly.

Extremely powerful with card draw effects, especially Aggression or Pillage. Get a bunch of attacks in hand, then play this and dump them all! Also works nice with Thrumming Hatchet from the colorless pool.

More broadly useful after Bloodletting became uncommon. It can supply the missing energy engine and even enable infinite combos.

This card 'accelerates' your deck by both removing bad cards as well as drawing new ones to immediately replace the exhausted card. Combine with energy generation from something like Bloodletting and you can play many more cards per turn.

Premium draw and exhaust in one card. Navegreed happily takes and upgrades multiple copies because both halves accelerate Ironclad's strongest engines.

Deceptively useful damage common. Put your best damage card back on top of the deck to use it again, set up a crucial block for an incoming attack, or fetch a Power card that you had to skip playing earlier.

Most Ironclad decks want one copy for controlled redraws and combo setup. It is especially useful with Havoc and other high-impact cards.

Low output in the early game makes it difficult to take this card - early on, you need better attacks to deal with enemies. By the time this card is good, you already have a damage plan. Figuring out the correct time to pivot to this card is key. With the right build, this is the best damage output for Clad lategame.

Improved alongside Barricade and block-heavy strategies. It can become efficient damage, but is not generically useful without substantial block.

Very efficient damage, especially in the early game. Although it costs health to use, killing enemies faster can save you health in the long run. Combo with Rupture or Tear Asunder for added value.

Excellent early damage that remains useful because the HP loss activates self-damage synergies. It comfortably earns its A-tier placement.

A great card for dealing with multi-enemy combats, as well as a way to turn damage into energy efficiently alongside cards like Expect a Fight. Needs an upgrade.

A strong Act 1 area-damage solution, particularly against eels. It scales with multi-hit bonuses but is generally a step below Conflagration.

Useful both as a way to help your allies block and as a way to activate self-damage effects for only 1 hp loss. You'll want other good block cards so that your friend can benefit.

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A very useful 'bridge' card that works with self-damage, Exhaust, and Strength interactions. Not particularly strong in isolation, but the strength of this card lies in its ability to stack triggered effects from powers and relics.

Combines Strength, Exhaust, and self-damage, so it can trigger several engines at once. Without sufficient draw or synergies it is too costly.

A solid area-damage card that goes hard with Strength. Also very nice if you can find an Enchantment.

Broadly useful area damage whose extra hit on upgrade scales especially well with Strength, enchantments, Miniature Cannon, and other multipliers.

Excellent pickup in the early game when you can count on Bash to provide vulnerable. Later in the game, you are likely to need more support to keep this card useful.

A solid multi-hit damage card, roughly a stronger Twin Strike. Its uncommon rarity and awkward timing prevent it from being a premium pick.

A very nice payoff for a build that is dealing small amounts of self-damage frequently. Works especially well with Strength.

Extremely strong long-term damage with reliable self-damage triggers, but awful without them. Pick it only when Brand, Inferno, or similar support is established.

Amazing damage in the early game but doesn't really synergize with other Ironclad cards. Just add Vulnerable!

Already strong before its buff, and now an excellent way to turn a draw-heavy hand into immediate damage without Stoke's inconsistency.

A solid one-time energy boost that fits into Exhaust synergy decks. Great with Dark Embrace or Burning Pact.

A useful late-game energy option once Dark Embrace and Burning Pact engines already exist. It rarely creates that engine by itself.

A 0-cost attack you can take to throw down more damage in the early game. Becomes a lot better if you can activate the secondary effect with Crimson Mantle or Inferno.

Strong when self-damage triggers are already abundant, but too conditional for a generic pick. Inferno plus Rupture is one natural home.

Frequently generates huge value by creating a 2- or 3-cost attack but may also lowroll into Whirlwind or Anger. Much nicer with an upgrade to 0-cost.

Ironclad already finds damage easily, while the random pool contains too many expensive or unusable attacks. The inconsistency is not worth a card.

Not amazing unless you gain a benefit from Exhaust effects. This is useful for dealing with enemies that add Status cards to your deck. Lots of damage with Juggernaut.

One of Ironclad's strongest block and exhaust payoffs. It converts unwanted cards into a huge defensive turn while accelerating the remaining deck.

An extremely fast source of Strength gain in the right build. Works extremely well with Tear Asunder as a win condition. Best with small self-pings like Breakthrough or Crimson Mantle.

A strong scaling option, but it needs reliable self-damage such as Crimson Mantle, Inferno, Brand, or Blood Wall to justify the slot.

Passable area damage. Two common cards for Clad that inflict self-damage (this and Blood Wall) point to much easier access to self-damage synergy/builds. In particular, having a card do 1 damage to self is the most efficient way to activate damage effects on the player.

Solid early area damage, especially for Underdocks eels, and the HP loss is often positive. Better deckbuilding has made it less necessary.

This card gets better if you can have more cards in your hand at once. At base value, you can think of as 5 block + 3 block or 3 damage in short fights, but a better use is in giving continual value for longer fights where you redraw the deck.

Act-dependent: useful for early block checks in Underdocks, but weak in Overgrowth and later acts where Ironclad can upgrade key cards normally.

At face value this is 14 block / 2 energy - decent value but made better with self-damage synergies. Having a huge block card in the common pool makes Body Slam much easier to use.

A broadly strong block card whose self-damage is often neutral or beneficial. It supports Rupture, Inferno, relic triggers, and large-block strategies.

Solid block for the early game that synergizes well with block effects and Exhaust triggers. Add a Feel No Pain or Dark Embrace later to make the most of this.

A timely upgraded copy can save substantial HP and remove unwanted cards, but needing the upgrade keeps it below the premium exhaust tools.

A steady source of block for the early game, but less effective as the run goes on. Fun to duplicate.

A fine early block pickup, particularly in Underdocks. It is useful when upgraded but does not offer a powerful late-game engine.

Retaining your block can be a very powerful effect, but the high energy cost of this card combined with the need to generate massive block means that it's hard to get this card in play. Works really well with the colorless cards Panic Button, The Gambit and Prolong.

Much better than he once rated it. Block-heavy decks are more reliable now, and Barricade can turn one strong defensive engine into a boss solution.

Useful for playing huge attacks like Bludgeon or Mangle without having to pay their cost. Best if you can Exhaust other attacks in hand to guarantee a specific target.

Actively harmful in attempts to enable expensive attacks such as Mangle. Navegreed sees essentially no worthwhile use case.

Very nice way to get additional copies of key attacks. This will also create copies of cards that Exhaust or cards with Enchantments.

Copying the third attack played has no practical payoff in the Ironclad decks Navegreed builds.

Decent damage plus an effect that works well with Clad's big attacks like Bludgeon or Mangle. You can save the effect across multiple turns.

A serviceable multiplier rather than a strong generic card. It works with Vulnerable packages but is rarely essential.

A pretty good 'value package' card that combines two small effects to give you good value for 1 energy. Benefits from both Strength to improve damage and Dexterity to improve block. A decent way to incorporate block into an attack-spamming deck.

Outclassed by common Taunt, which blocks more and adds Vulnerable. It remains playable but lacks a compelling niche.

Easy way to get Vulnerable for cheap, very nice if you have big expensive attacks. Cheap way to get a card in the Exhaust pile for related synergies.

One of Ironclad's key cards: cheap, plentiful Vulnerable with Exhaust attached. Most decks want at least one, and often more.

Can be nice to stack Vulnerable for Bully or Dominate, but needs a lot of support from other cards. In the early game this can just be an attack with Exhaust.

Designed mainly for multiplayer interactions. In solo play, arranging both self-damage and Vulnerable makes it far too awkward.

Good enough damage to add in the early game that can scale up with more Strike cards. Great with Pommel Strike and more Perfected Strike, not great with Twin Strike or Setup Strike.

Desperation damage that is usually too inefficient at two energy. It only works when the deck already has enough Strike cards and multipliers.

An Attack card that can be played directly or exhausted by other cards to get a more powerful effect. A good payoff for having access to lots of exhaust. Kind of awkward since this card will go to the discard pile after playing from the Exhaust pile.

Its buff made it a respectable emergency area-damage solution, similar to Breakthrough, but it is mainly valuable when Act 1 demands that answer.

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Lets you play all your Strike cards for 'free' at the cost of them being randomly targeted. If you don't combine this with card draw, you're likely to end turns with unspent energy. Excellent with multiple copies of Pommel Strike.

Can create funny Strike combos, but those setups are fragile and unreliable. Its practical use cases remain extremely narrow.

Consistent area damage is a nice effect in many fights. The main downside is that there is no effect until next turn unless you have other self-damage cards.

An easy damage pick whose output is far above rate. Self-damage, Rupture, Blood Wall, and other synergies make it even stronger.

The quintessential 'scaling' card. One copy gives you enough damage for the first Act and part of Act II, but won't be enough for the endgame. Multiple copies can work, but there are easier ways to gain large amounts of Strength. A decent early-mid game pickup.

A serviceable Strength card that is outclassed by Fight Me!, Demon Form, Rupture, and Dominate in most developed decks.

Decent damage for a 2-cost attack, plus thinning your deck each time you play it. Play last on your turn to avoid losing another card you might want to play.

Still far too weak and not worth taking.

Decent enough early game damage that benefits twice from Strength. Very nice with Strike Dummy.

Alongside Anger, one of the common damage cards he is comfortable taking early. Multi-hit scaling keeps it relevant later.

A single-card damage plan that can work quite well with Aggression or with a lot of Exhaust to redraw it frequently.

Too slow and outclassed by Ironclad's many stronger damage plans. He recommends never taking it.

Underwhelming damage, but the primary advantage is being able to utilize powers that interact with Vulnerable. Draws cards like crazy with Vicious.

Has fallen sharply because Taunt and Tremble apply Vulnerable more effectively. It is mainly relevant when a Vicious deck specifically wants it.

A passable early-game attack that can combo well if you have a lot of other attacks to play. Works well with Anger or Spite.

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Can support a simple early damage sequence with another attack, but its payoff is modest and comparable cards are easier to use.

Benefits a ton from Strength or Enchantments. The low initial damage and random targeting make this a liability in the early game.

A serviceable multi-hit attack with normal Strength and enchantment scaling, but weaker and less reliable than Twin Strike.

Huge damage reduction paired with subpar damage makes for an unusual card. Hard to justify 3 energy for this unless it completely negates an enemy attack. Notably does not exhaust. Very broken if you can make this card free.

Better than his early impressions and a legitimate damage option on its own. Trying to force it through Stampede was the real problem.

Not very useful if you play it for the draw. The main benefit is acting as 'fuel' for cards like Second Wind or True Grit and giving you energy back. Great with Corruption.

Very specific, but spectacular when Corruption or Havoc can play and exhaust it for free, effectively turning it into draw plus energy.

Ironclad's Strikes are useful all game. They have synergies with other cards and can be Enchanted to be more useful.

Adequate enough block in Act I. An upgraded Defend can help patch your block up if you can't find proper block cards to add.

A usable source of Vulnerable that gets outclassed if you find other debuff sources. Worth an Act I upgrade if you don't get any more Vulnerable.

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This card is a lot more desirable if you can upgrade it. Combo with Headbutt to play a particular card, or just use it to remove cards from the draw pile. Doesn't add much value to the starting deck, making this a bad floor 1 pick.

A fun but upgrade-dependent card. It can enable powerful Drum of Battle or Headbutt interactions, yet cleaner draw cards usually outperform it.

Actually increases the total damage dealt by enemies if you use this in a 2-player game. Only really worth it with 4 players, and you need VERY good block to survive after playing this.

Often feels far too slow for 3 energy, given the overall scarcity of energy and lack of cheap multi-hit cards for Ironclad. There are other ways to get Strength for cheaper, but this card is still excellent if you can get it into play for free.

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A solid boss solution even before its buff and now faster and easier to justify. It supplies a complete damage plan when a deck lacks one.

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