Early bodies and occupation
8 cards3×Pit Rookie Unit2–Two bonuses, one cardPlayed, it makes a permanent buff and a temporary Legend +1. Those are two separate allocations and they do not have to go to the same unit, so one two-Energy card can change two battlefields.
3×Irresistible Faefolk Unit2–PositionalDisturbs where the opponent wanted the fight to happen. Against a deck built on one protected defender, moving the pieces is worth more than out-sizing them.
2×Determined Sentry Unit1–Cheap trigger, positional debtThe cheapest Legend trigger in the deck, and it carries real debt: it cannot move to base, so Star Spring cannot rescue it and it can be stranded alone at Forbidding Waste.
Reactive units
5 cards3×Nidalee, Cat Form Unit3–Combat into a cardNot a generic Ambush body. It rewards winning the combat, so it goes in when the result is already likely or when the Legend trigger is what makes it likely.
2×Inferna Unit2–Distributed interactionAmbushes to a battlefield you already hold. Its own Might handles that combat while the Legend trigger goes somewhere else entirely, which is one card affecting two battlefields.
Card flow and second actions
8 cards3×Kinkou Initiate Unit3–Conditional replacementThe condition is checked when the ability resolves, not when it triggers. At four other Might, order the Legend trigger above it and the draw happens anyway.
3×First Mate Unit3–Second actionReadies another unit, never itself. Played while everything is already ready, it is a three-Might body with no text, so the target has to be exhausted first.
2×Twilight Reveler Unit3–Attack into a second actionHas to attack to trigger, and readies another friendly unit. Build the exhausted target before the attack; the trigger cannot be banked.
Midgame threats
8 cards3×Kai’Sa, Survivor Unit4–Temporary Might into a real cardThe best way the deck has to turn a temporary +1 into a permanent card: the Legend bonus turns a marginal conquest into a successful one, and the conquest draws.
2×Rengar, Unseen Unit4–Mobile pressureGanking lets it migrate between battlefields, which is what makes it a good First Mate target and a good Thrill target when Accelerate is affordable.
2×Noxus Hopeful Unit4–Curve compressionFour Energy on paper, two after any other card has been played this turn. If that first card was a unit, the pair produces two Legend triggers and two bodies.
1×Rengar, Trophy Hunter Champion5–Champion ZoneAmbushes to a battlefield holding enemy units even with nothing of yours there. That is why an apparently empty battlefield is never safe while you have five Energy and Body Power.
Top end
3 cards2×Ferrous Forerunner Unit6–ReconstructionThe answer to a removal-heavy opponent: killing it leaves two bodies at base. The weakness is speed, because those tokens arrive at base rather than where Ferrous was standing.
1×Brynhir Thundersong Unit6–Protected turnThe lock starts when the play ability resolves, not when Brynhir is announced. It is the first action of a decisive turn, never the last card after the interaction has already happened.
Spells
8 cards3×Thrill of the Hunt Spell2–Replay engineBanishing and replaying makes the unit a new object: damage, Stun and temporary modifications all clear, the play ability happens again, and the Legend triggers again.
3×Punch First Spell1–Scoring conversionA held Punch changes how the opponent deploys. A spent Punch changes one turn. Exhaust the unit-based alternatives before reaching for it.
2×Falling Star Spell2–Split damageTwo sequential three-damage instructions with all targets chosen up front. Six to one unit or three to each of two, and choosing the same Deflect unit twice costs the Deflect price twice.
Legend and battlefields
4 cards1×Rengar, Pridestalker Legend––The engineWhenever you play a unit, a unit gets +1 Might for the turn. Any legal unit, not necessarily the one just played, which is the whole flexibility of the deck.
1×Emperor’s Dais Battlefield––Value battlefieldConverts one conquest into a token, a unit back in hand, and a future play ability plus Legend trigger. Do not do it if the two-Might token cannot hold the position.
1×Forbidding Waste Battlefield––Anti-tallA unit defending alone there is two Might smaller. It is the reason Trophy Hunter breaks one-defender decks, and it is symmetrical, so your own lone defender pays it too.
1×Star Spring Battlefield––Flexible defaultThe first non-token unit each player plays there may move another of their units back to base. Symmetrical, so playing there first can hand the opponent the same reposition.
E = Energy, M = Might, shown only where the guide states them.
Sideboard · 10
Brittle Steel · new this revision2×Pyke, Dockside ButcherHidden reactive bodyHidden and Ganking, with an optional Fury cost for extra immediate tempo. The card that lets you add reactive coverage after boarding without dropping the shuffled unit count.
2×Brittle SteelNewGear removalKills Gear outright and can be replayed from the trash through Flow. The recommended second copy: the field asks for credible Gear interaction more often than it asks for damage prevention.
2×SabotageNon-unit engineStrips the protection spell or the engine card before you commit several bodies to a battlefield they were going to answer anyway.
2×Decree of StrengthMind-domain answerAimed at the Mind card most capable of breaking your sequence. Many of the best answers this deck faces are Mind cards, which is what makes a restriction rather than a removal spell worth a slot.
1×Against the OddsAnti-wide scalingGives one unit +2 Might for each opposing unit at its battlefield. Excellent once they have committed three or more, and close to blank against a single defender.
1×Unyielding SpiritDamage preventionOnly against damage. It does nothing about combat damage, kill effects, Stun, recall, movement or recycling, which is exactly why the second copy became a second Brittle Steel.
Chosen champion · Rengar, Trophy Hunter, in every matchup. Always available from the Champion Zone, and it can Ambush to a battlefield holding enemy units with nothing of yours there.
No alternate · The sideboard carries no second Chosen Champion, so your post-board identity never changes. Matchups shift through interaction and unit texture instead. §9 →