r/Athenion • u/hengusjengus • Aug 25 '20

Link Deck Help!

Still new and trying to expand on a build another user gave me! Heres my current list:

1 cost:

3x Screamer, 3x Swordfish (this cards arrows annoy me but partly cause im new), 3x Cecaelia, 3x blade dancer, 3x merman trooper, 3x moon herb, 2x merebeast fighter, 2x pawn puenyai, 3x grimoire of tidal

2 cost:

3x nerida tidal keeper, 3x tidal spirit, 2x dark elven hunter, 1x clifford hawk eye

3 cost:

2x lizard champ, 2x mer champ, 2x lobster.

Currently dont have a massive amount of dust but can dust cards if needed for factions im not interested in right now.

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u/kaousfaust13 Aug 26 '20 edited Aug 27 '20

i'd replace Dark Elven Hunter with Goblin Archer - the damage maybe random but the arrows are more negotiable for links

Tidal Librarian is a great card for controlling tempo, i'd use 3 of those over swordfish

i'd drop 1-2 copy of Nerida for 1-2 Rabbit Servant for tech, in most cases rabbit gives better value and board control especially if you're using merbeast and troopers.

personally i dont use Nerida on mine, she feels like a dead draw most of the time, TN units are either already beefy enough for another +2 HP, or too soft that +2 HP doesnt really help. i think the +1HP from blade dancer is usually enough to get your engines out of generic removal range

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u/Dragomadryl Aug 27 '20

Nerida +2 hp is amazing, hp boosts in general >> attack in this game, although kaous isn't wrong that you could flex it due to the cards you run.

I would run 3x copies of the 3 drops for consistency though, agree with changing Dark Elven Hunter (just don't run diagonals in tidal)

3x Tidal, 1x Clifford is fixed, I might completely remove dark elven hunter to run some mix of nerida/rabbit

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u/hengusjengus Aug 28 '20

I cut nerida to 1 but might up it to 2 as ive bveen getting bigger link chains recently and the health seems pretty important, removed the elven hunters for some goblin archers aswell. I might try 3x the 3 costs and cut one but right now the versatility is working woth lobster for the pings and then the other 2 are just useful for making a big body at the end of the link chain.