Card Effect
If you Exhausted a card this turn, gain [energy:3].
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💡 How to Use
Forgotten Ritual acts as a potent energy accelerator that nets 2 Energy, provided you have a reliable method to Exhaust cards within the same turn. It is most effective in dedicated Exhaust engines where it can fuel high-cost finishers or enable long chains of card plays that would otherwise be energy-gated.
⚡ Synergies
Corruption
Corruption reduces the cost of all Skills to 0 and causes them to Exhaust upon use, making Forgotten Ritual free to play and its activation condition trivial to meet. This combination allows the Ironclad to generate massive amounts of energy while rapidly cycling through their deck.
Dark Embrace
Since Forgotten Ritual requires an Exhaust trigger to function, Dark Embrace ensures that the setup for your energy gain also replenishes your hand. This creates a powerful feedback loop where Exhausting cards provides both the draw and the energy needed to continue the turn indefinitely.
Whirlwind
As an X-cost attack, Whirlwind benefits immensely from the net +2 energy gain provided by Forgotten Ritual. This allows for a significant increase in total damage output, especially when combined with Strength scaling or Vulnerable applications.
Charon's Ashes
This relic deals damage to all enemies every time a card is Exhausted, which is the specific prerequisite for Forgotten Ritual. It turns the mechanical requirement of the card into a source of passive AOE damage, rewarding the player for building into the Exhaust archetype.