All of his Powers work best if invoked early, turning him into a serious menace to deal with if he's able to play his correct cards. Gathering Steam: While all of the characters invoke this to some extent, Ironclad embodies this the best.Deal with the Devil: His lore literally states he sold his soul to the devil for more power.Cursed with Awesome: His demonic blood turns him into an exceptional warrior at the cost of selling his soul.A card named Rupture increases your attack damage every time you do this, and you can build a deck around hurting yourself to gain more strength and regain lost health with Reaper or his starter relic. Cast from Hit Points: Has various Blood Magic cards that also costs HP to use.
Where the Silent unleashes dozens of knives or the Defect rotates out orbs to buff himself to high heaven, Ironclad simply stacks his block to extremely high levels and becomes functionally invincible. Case in point, it's widely believed that the single strongest combo in the game is the Block stacking strategy enabled by his Barricade card. While he won't reach the insane potential of the other characters as easily, he can unleash some devastatingly powerful combos if built right. The Ironclad on the other hand is much simpler, and thus his deck archetypes are much easier to achieve.
His primary card manipulation mechanic is Exhaust, which removes a card until the end of the combat. While it takes a while for the ball to get rolling so to speak, if the Ironclad can really take off, he'll either be doing absolutely absurd amounts of damage or otherwise be so well defended that enemies can't even penetrate through his utterly massive wall of block. Of all the playable characters, Ironclad has the most cards meant for Gathering Steam, often dramatically buffing his stats over time. Ironclad specializes in two major areas: Strength stacking and Defense stacking. Begins with 5 Strike cards, 4 Defend cards, and 1 Bash card. Sold his soul to harness demonic energies.A man clad in iron armor and imbued with demonic powers who ascends the spire in an attempt to regain his lost honor.