Whyever Anger over Clash?

[DivebyBootins]

In my estimation, they both have the function of providing free damage, they're both geared toward offensive decks, and they're both weak while your deck is full of status cards.

Clash can end fights much more quickly and encourages you to build that way, eliminating non-attacks with some combination of redraws, Exhausts, and an Attack-filled deck.

Anger inflates your deck with free and low damage, which is acceptable in the early game, but in the endgame, you want to exhaust cards when you deck starts getting big, right? I don't find Anger works very well with Exhaust.

Maybe Anger can do some hilarious stuff with Everspinning Top, but that's one relic. There at least 3 relics that grant passive Block, which, combined with Burning Blood, is all you need to get a Clash deck rolling.

Open to convincing.

[Jeff]

Ways I can think anger could potentially be better-

-Firebreathing
-Strength build (having 4 angers dealing 6+x deals more than 18+x, and it only gets farther from there)
-Relics that count your cards like shuriken
-If you have things that add wounds to your deck, or curses, anger is still playable
-If you are running bludgeon on a low energy run, the little extra free damage can help, when you aren't able to play a block

Clash is almost always better because at certain points you are punished for playing many small cards and not punished for playing few stronger cards. And because you don't always want to draw a bunch of 0 cost strikes (especially past the first floor)

And looking back, firebreathing is underwhelming in my experience, strength builds do not want anger in them because they function better when thin, and ok the shuriken might be a possiblilty.

Don't take anger I guess. I'm terrible at convincing.

[KyotoKyoshi]

when i run iron clad i generally run decks that are 14 or less cards (or will exhaust to be 14 or less cards like offering)

and anger is amazing in those decks because i dont want to draw anything but 8 angers when im running with the style of iron clad i normally do which is small deck heavy draw and consitantly wanting anger to be in my hand while if i get evolve which helps a high draw build clash is garbage