Forgotten Ritual

Forgotten Ritual is a 1-cost Uncommon Skill card for the Ironclad that grants 3 energy if you have Exhausted any card this turn. This conditional energy burst lets you play 3 or more additional cards in a turn, enabling explosive combo turns when the condition is met.

Forgotten Ritual pairs with any cheap Exhaust trigger like Burning Pact, True Grit, or Molten Fist to enable the energy gain. Use the extra energy to play Demon Form, Colossus, or other expensive cards that would normally require your entire turn. Dark Embrace and Stoke help find Forgotten Ritual and trigger the Exhaust condition simultaneously. Cascade and Fiend Fire are devastating when powered by Forgotten Ritual's extra energy.

Forgotten Ritual is an energy engine for Ironclad Exhaust decks. Pick it when you have reliable Exhaust triggers and expensive cards that need the extra energy. It is a dead card without an Exhaust trigger in hand, so evaluate your deck's Exhaust density. Against Kaiser Crab and other bosses where big turns matter, the energy burst enables plays that would otherwise be impossible. It turns the Ironclad's Exhaust engine into an energy engine.