Defender
20 cards
Summon ×9Fortify ×5Spell ×2
Average mana cost1.60
Average heat cost1.70
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Compendium
15 prebuilt lists, 20 cards each, available from the lobby without owning a single card. They are also the archetypes the card pool is designed around — a good map of what the game is trying to let you do.
Raider
20 cards
Instant Attack ×8Other ×5Spell ×4
Average mana cost1.40
Average heat cost1.35
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Prospector
20 cards
Resources ×9Summon ×5Windfall ×3
Average mana cost1.25
Average heat cost1.20
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Wolf Pack
20 cards
Summon ×7Other ×7Instant Attack ×5
Average mana cost1.05
Average heat cost1.20
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Necromancer
20 cards
Instant Attack ×12Other ×6Spell ×1
Average mana cost1.75
Average heat cost1.55
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Infernal
20 cards
Instant Attack ×11Spell ×4Other ×2
Average mana cost1.60
Average heat cost1.65
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Frostbound
20 cards
Spell ×10Instant Attack ×5Other ×3
Average mana cost1.85
Average heat cost2.05
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Warband
20 cards
Summon ×8Other ×4Resources ×4
Average mana cost1.55
Average heat cost1.40
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Arcanist
20 cards
Buff ×5Spell ×5Other ×5
Average mana cost1.85
Average heat cost2.15
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Grove
20 cards
Summon ×7Spell ×4Other ×4
Average mana cost1.50
Average heat cost1.85
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Sanguine
20 cards
Other ×9Instant Attack ×6Spell ×5
Average mana cost0.85
Average heat cost1.30
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Plague
20 cards
Instant Attack ×8Other ×6Fuel ×2
Average mana cost1.75
Average heat cost1.70
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Warren
20 cards
Other ×7Summon ×6Legion ×5
Average mana cost1.75
Average heat cost1.90
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Soul-smith
20 cards
Spell ×13Souls ×5Instant Attack ×2
Average mana cost1.60
Average heat cost1.95
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Bulwark
20 cards
Fortify ×16Summon ×2Spell ×1
Average mana cost1.90
Average heat cost2.05
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Building your own
Exactly 20 cards
Not a minimum and not a maximum — a deck is 20 cards. Legendaries are singletons; everything else caps at 3 copies, and enchanted variants count against that same 3.
Uses matter more than copies
Every card has a use count that is spent per match. Discarding and reshuffling doesn't refill it, and a burn cast exhausts the copy outright — so a three-use common can out-work a legendary you only ever get to fire once.
Filter by effect, per mode
The deck builder's Effect filter reads whichever cast the Mana/Burn toggle is showing. Cards like Imp Raid change category between their two faces, so the same filter gives different results depending on the mode. The card browser here does the same.
A note on deck strength
These are starting points, not a tier list. They are deliberately spread across the archetypes rather than balanced against each other, so some of them are considerably stronger than others in a straight fight — and which one is stronger depends heavily on the map, your character and who else is at the table.
Treat them as twenty-card sketches of an idea. The moment you own enough cards to fill in the gaps, the version you build yourself will beat the version here.