aka "isn't anger actually a pretty bad card"

Anger: Does 6(8) damage, 0 cost, add a copy to discard

I know this is a fairly perennial topic, and I'm not a super experienced and super good player, but uh, aren't a lot of people, including fairly experienced people, overvaluing anger? In particular here's a few points that aren't often made, so maybe people might want to offer some thoughts...

Anger has a pretty bad winrate amongst good players

Out of 72 Ironclad cards listed in https://spirelogs.com/stats/ironclad/tierlist.php Anger is number 62. That's to say, using the (admittedly esoteric) scoring method, for Ascension 17+ players anger is the 11th worst Ironclad card. Looking deeper into the stats suggests some explanations: anger might help with hallway fights, but a deck with anger in it does worse than a deck without anger against virtually every boss (except a couple of Act 1 bosses).

Even Jorbs, who likes picking up anger, shows not exactly reliable performance with this card. https://spirelogs.com/compare/ironclad/card-winrate.php?user=jorbs100

Anger might be his 10th most often picked card, but of those ten cards he has the lowest winrate with anger. In fact out of his 20 most picked cards only Clothesline has a lower win rate. In his most recent dataset ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WF89mszVaNCHWFyc6lafLrfoTXbMJddAL-CH8EKv9Bc/edit#gid=2120555449 ) anger having decks score *worse* than his anger-less ironclad average. is still pretty low down on his ELO rankings.

So the baseline is that there's very little evidence that amongst people who should know better, picking up Anger helps them win.

Anger and Act 1

There's a common argument about Anger, which is that "it helps you through act 1, and then later it scales with strength builds". But I think this ignores the downside of that, which can be subtle.

The first is player time. Imagine two strategies: one strat reliably gets you to act 3, and then has a 50% chance of beating the boss. The other strat has a 50% chance of killing you in the first battle of act 1, but if you win you are guaranteed to beat the game. Both strats have the same win rate. But which is the better strat?

Well, I'd argue that strategy 2 is *hugely better

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"Don't Look Back in Anger" In-game

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Every British person seems to know this song and they sing it and soccer games. Is it like a British cultural thing or what?

Almost like someone else sang it but idk. Thoughts?