Charon's Ashes

Introduction

This is one of the more critical relics you can find.  Its a rare one, so you have a possibility of getting it from NEOW as an option when you start the game or as a chance during encounters with elites.

Notes

• Only works on cards that you play and get exhausted.  Additions like "Daze" do not make its effect occur.
• Can stack with other card effects that provide an effect when a card is exhausted, such as "Feel no Pain".

Card Synergies

• The card "Endless Agony" is an excellent companion to this relic as it perpetually puts a copy of itself in your hand when drawn.
• Using "Feel no Pain" to add a +3 block effect to when cards are exhausted.
• Use the card "Corruption" in combination with a lot of skill cards to make a run on leveraging this relic.
• Use in combination with "Sever Soul" and a large hand to do damage en masse.
• Use the card "Fiend Fire", which will exhaust your hand and do damage per card for a bonus +3 per card. Best done with a large hand.
• Pair with the card Purity to exhaust 4 cards rapidly to do 12 damage to all enemies.
• Shiv cards and cards that provide Shivs will also assist here.  Storm of Steel will let you convert every card in your hand to shivs.  These are exhausted when used and will provide the damaging effect.

Relic Synergies

• The Blue Candle relic allows you to exhaust Curse cards.  It inflicts 1 HP damage but removes them from your deck.
• The Medical Kit relic can be purchased in the shop.  It allows you to play status cards, which will exhaust them.  Playing a status does not require Energy.

Strategies

• Build a deck with numerous exhaust cards to take advantage of this relic.
• Using a card that exhausts it.  Seeing Red, War Cry, Havoc, etc.  this provides the damage.
• Enemies that put playable exhaust cards into your hand can be used against them, such as the "Slimed" card.
• Pair the card Nightmare with Endless Agony to create a large number of Endless Agony cards quickly that will equally double as they are drawn (Endless Agony creates a copy when drawn and is exhausted when used).
• Pair with the curse "Pride" to create a new 1 energy cost card to exhaust every turn.