A · Fundamentals · §3
Seven shuffled units in thirty-nine cards, twenty-four spells, and a board made almost entirely of things the deck did not draw.
4 cards sit outside the curve: the Battlefield and the Legend are played from their own zones and have no Energy cost.
Card types
40 cards in the main deck. The Battlefield and Legend play from their own zones and are not counted.
Power by domain
12 of 44 listed cards carry a Power requirement. A card with two domains counts under both, so these do not sum to the deck size.
Energy, type and domain are printed card values from the Riftcodex snapshot, joined against this guide’s list.
＋ Bring in (tap to add copies)
− Take out
7 shuffled units.
From the guide . §3 Deck Architecture
Forty cards are registered including . The Chosen Champion starts in the Champion Zone, so the shuffled library is 39 cards, and inside it there are exactly seven units: three , three and one .
P(≥1 shuffled unit in 4) = 1 − C(32,4) / C(39,4) ≈ 56.3%
Nearly half of opening hands contain no unit at all, which in most decks would be unkeepable. Here it is close to irrelevant, because the eight Sprite makers are the real threat count and the Legend is available on every turn of the game regardless of what you drew.
P(≥1 Sprite maker in 4) = 1 − C(31,4) / C(39,4) ≈ 61.7%
That 61.7% is the number that matters, and even it understates the deck, because a hand with four Energy and no Sprite maker still makes a Sprite on turn four using the Legend.
The deck plays twenty-four spells, more than half the shuffled library. gains +1 Might for the turn on each one, which turns a 2-Might body into a real attacker on the turns you were casting reactions anyway. It is the only card in the deck whose value goes up because the deck is spell-dense rather than down.
Empowers when a combat it was in ends and keeps the +2, so it grows across turns in a deck where nothing else survives one. Between Witness, Student and the single Watcher, the deck has seven chances to draw a unit that is still standing when a hold would score. Section 7 is about why that number is the deck’s real ceiling.