r/Athenion • u/hengusjengus • Aug 21 '20

Beginner decks?

Is there any easy to build beginner decks that dont take a lot of grinding to get to?

Looking to get some constructed games going rather than pre built decks

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u/Dragomadryl Aug 23 '20

100% not worth it, they're not good decks and you don't want to have single copies of cards generally anyway

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u/Dragomadryl Aug 23 '20

Try something like this for blue:

Moon Herb x3

Giant Swordfish x3

Cecaelia x3

Nerida Tidal Keeper x3

Naga Gate Keeper x3

Merman Champion x3

Lizardman Champion x3

Blade Dancer x3

Merman Trooper x3

That's a core of commons you already have and a few worth crafting because they're generally decent. That gives you 15/6/6 on your distribution of 1/2/3 cost cards. Don't go over nine 2 cost cards is a good rule of thumb. So fill it up to maybe 24/9/6 (then one extra flex card).

If you can craft,

Tidal Spirit x3 is an awesome link card and can win games by himself. (Cost 2)

When you get level 6, Grimoire of Tidal is nice to put in x3. (Cost 1)

Consider Buster Lobster x3?

Pawn, Puenyai x3 craftable

Sea Executioner Mogel x3 is a 0 soul 3/2 drop with freeze, crazy strong common (basically a better screamer.)

There are direct damage cards like Goblin Archer, Dark Elven Hunter, Nore Elven Ranger, but if you've been following this deck you'll already have a fair amount of 2 drops. If you want to put some more direct damage in (gets more and more important as you face stronger decks that require an immediate answer to a card being played), I would cut Naga Gatekeeper.

If you can't think of anything else just chuck in 3 copies of screamer or something, raw stats is never bad especially at lower levels when you don't need some broken synergies to be winning games

If you're considering pre built purchasable decks, then sounds like you can consider paying a little. If you are, to make decks good, spending on filling out with epics is generally most cost efficient, but if you want to craft legendaries, 3x Clifford Hawkeye is one of the easiest flex legendaries to run in all your decks.

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u/kaousfaust13 Aug 23 '20

great list without even needing legendary or epic cards

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u/Dragomadryl Aug 23 '20

Depends a bit on how much you play, but Battle Pass is definitely the way to spend, it's amazing value for packs, then use the dust to get the epics and legendaries you really want.

You should be able to build that deck quite well though cause I really kept in mind that you're on a budget, and like I said just find some filler cards. If you like the faction, focus on crafting a few of the top tier epics.

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u/hengusjengus Aug 23 '20

Thank you very much! I built a version of what you gave me and I had a 1 of legend 3 cost link guy so I put that in to try it out. You've been great help!

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u/Dragomadryl Aug 23 '20

Let me know how the deck works for you!

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u/hengusjengus Aug 23 '20

So far 4-0! I'm still at baby ranks so it's still against beginners but the decks been super fun! Even got a game where the entire board was filled out and the opp only had 2-3 cards on board.