How to remove cards from your deck with the Toad

Your deck is getting bloated and Discard or Exhaust only moves a bad card away temporarily.

THE SHORT ANSWER

Use a Toad reward to Forget one eligible card from the current run's deck. A Toad Pond leads to the Toad interaction: feed the same Toad until its reward offers a Forget choice. Discard only removes a card from your hand, and Exhaust only removes it for the current Explore or Combat encounter.

Answer source: Current Steam Toad and exploration discussion Answer source: NiaMeowDB Demo room records

QUICK FIELD CHECK

Follow the Toad route until the card leaves this run.

Forget is the deck-cleanup result. Repeated Feed actions build toward it; Discard and Exhaust are different forms of temporary movement.

Route choice: What to doChoose Toad Pond when that route is offered.; ProofThe room record identifies it as the home of a Toad with a Forget reward.
Build the reward: What to doFeed the same Toad and watch for the Forget choice.; ProofOne player estimates four or five feeds; the current records do not fix that count.
Forget choice: What to doChoose one eligible removable card from the offered selection.; ProofHandy cards cannot be removed, so do not expect every card to qualify.
Deck check: What to doOpen the deck view, then watch later draws in the run.; ProofThe chosen card stays absent; Discarded or Exhausted cards follow their normal return rules.

TOAD ROUTE

Feed, choose, then verify removal.

Read door rewards before choosing a tunnel and take the Toad Pond route when it is offered and you need run-long deck cleanup.
At the Toad interaction, feed the same Toad and watch for the Forget choice instead of assuming one Feed is enough. One current player estimates roughly four or five feeds; no current record establishes a fixed counter or visible progress meter.
When the Forget choice appears, select the card that weakens your average draw. Keep Handy cards in mind: the Demo glossary says they cannot be removed from the deck.
Confirm the chosen card is absent from the deck view after the interaction. Do not use a normal Discard or Exhaust animation as proof of permanent removal.

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE

The chosen eligible card disappears from the deck list and does not return on a later draw in that run. A merely discarded or exhausted card will return under its normal encounter rules.

VERSION BOUNDARY

The Toad Pond reward, Toad card, Forget result, Handy exception, and distinction from Discard and Exhaust are cross-checked against current Demo records and a current player discussion. Only one player estimates four or five feeds; no source fixes the count, proves a progress meter, guarantees Toad Pond in every run, or supports deleting a card across future runs.