Flex Slots & Future Tuning

Locked core

Both Master Yi cards, three Lonely Poro, three Scuttle Crab, three First Mate, three Irelia, Fervent, three Rengar, Trophy Hunter, three Discipline, at least two Punch First, at least two Hourglass, the seven Body and five Calm split, and the current battlefield suite.

True flex slots

Whiteflame Protector, Onslaught, one Rampage, one En Garde, one Pit Rookie, and the third Hourglass.

Card 51 · Grim Resolve

Grim Resolve gives +3 for the turn and two XP if the unit wins combat. Choosing Fervent makes it +4 in total, the XP moves Tempered toward level six, and it costs only two Energy, which makes it far less all-in than Onslaught. Test it as minus one Onslaught, plus one Grim Resolve if Onslaught keeps sitting in hand or producing more Might than the game required.^◆src

Card 52 · Disarming Rake

A three-Energy Calm unit that may kill a Gear when played. It is faster than Barbara with no seven-rune requirement, and it still leaves a body. Barbara is larger and better later, but Rake is the better answer when Draven, Kennen or Azir can end the game before that threshold. Test it as minus one Barbara, plus one Rake.^◆src

Targeted-control branch

When Ezreal, Kai’Sa and LeBlanc are overrepresented, minus one Whiteflame Protector, plus one Ruin Runner in the main deck, then refill the sideboard slot with Rake, Grim Resolve, a second Alpha Strike or something matchup-specific. This lowers the ceiling and produces a substantially more reliable target-resistant curve.

Energy compression

Challenge costs two Energy and one Body Power for the same mutual damage. Minus one Rampage, plus one Challenge improves two-spell turns and early interaction, and it worsens the fights where Rampage’s optional +2 is what wins them.^◆src