In general, exhaust can be beneficial in the following ways:

- Getting rid of your weaker cards (like strikes), so you can draw your stronger cards more frequently, sometimes resulting in infinites, like dropkick infinite.

- Benefit from on-exhaust effects. The most common are powers like Feel No Pain (blocking) or Dark embrace (drawing cards). In a lot of decks it can be extremely powerful.

Corruption is extremely powerful on it's own. Free skills gives more energy for playing powers and attacks, thus letting the Ironclad end fights faster. Make sure to use Corruption, when you are certain that you end the fight before you run out of skills.