The central theme of this deck is deities. Virtually all of the champions in this deck are deities from the various AD&D game worlds, avatars or clerics. One secondary theme is realm inaccessibility, by making all realms attackable by flyers, swimmers or earthwalkers, and another theme is denial, by preventing an opponent's spells, events and powers from working. This deck was defeated only three times in the 9 months or so it existed, and never in its final incarnation (below). The only decks that have any sort of reasonable chance are typically dragon decks, which have a large number of flyers. The deck is entirely legal: it has 105 levels of champions, but this is permissible under the latest version of the Spellfire Tournament Rules, which state that each deck can contain one avatar whose level doesn't count toward the maximum allowable levels (90) in a deck.
Card Listing |
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| Card No. | Set | Name | Notes |
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Champions |
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| 92 | For. Realms | Cyric | Cyric: deity from Forgotten Realms. His power of "hiding" the pool really keeps opponents nervous. |
| 89 | For. Realms | Helm | Deity from Forgotten Realms. Used to eliminate events. |
| 167 | 1st Ed. | Iuz the Evil | Deity from Greyhawk. Very useful for fighting losing battles. |
| 166 | 1st Ed. | Lolth the Spider Queen | Deity from Greyhawk. |
| 46 | 1st Ed. | Midnight, Goddess of Magic | Deity from Forgotten Realms. Controls opponents' wizards. |
| 93 | UnderDark | Ellorelloran | Mage from the Underdark, but casts clerical spells. Can eliminate rule cards. |
| 63 | 3rd Edition | Karlott the Shaman | Cleric from FR. Can retrieve a used event. |
| 83 | Artifacts | Goldmoon | Cleric from Dragonlance. Can use an opponent's clerical spells against him. |
| 10 | 1st Ed. Chase | Delsenora | Cleric. Can cancel a harmful event. |
| 80 | Powers | Shadair Mesker | Cleric, can also use psionic powers (not much use in this deck). |
| 22 | Night Stalkers Chase | Gib Drawsemaj | Avatar. Not really essential to this deck, but is relatively easy to bring out (requires an opponent's realm to be discarded, and with Disintegrate, Cataclysm!, Iuz and Deflection, this isn't a problem). His power of imitating the powers of any two champions is very, very useful (I usually choose Cyric and one other). |
| 84 | For. Realms | Adon | Cleric of FR. With Midnight in play, is a level 10 champion unaffected by offensive spells, items and artifacts. |
| 280 | 4th Edition | Amarill | Cleric. When defeated, can retrieve one of the more powerful champions from the discard pile. |
Allies |
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| 255 | 3rd Edition | Kank Lancers | Instant defeat for swimmers. Since most of the realms require the attacker to be a flyer and/or a swimmer... |
| 84 | 1st Ed. | Noble Djinni | Instant defeat for flyers. Since most of the realms require the attacker to be a flyer and/or a swimmer... |
Spells |
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| 393 | 1st Ed. | Disintegrate | Why attack a realm when you can disintegrate it? |
| 63 | Birthright | Drawmij Instant Summons | Fetch a useful item or artifact (like the Ring of Winter) immediately. |
| 46 | For. Realms | Wish | Good for nasty opposing champions or rule cards. |
| 43 | For. Realms | Limited Wish | Stop events. |
| 74 | DragonLance | Recall | Get all used spells back into the draw pile. |
| 370 | 4th Edition | Dispel Magic | Stop a spell. |
| 389 | 4th Edition | Re-target | Send a spell back to the opponent (especially useful with Disintegrate). |
| 358 | 1st Ed. | Dispel Magic | Stop a spell. |
| 48 | Runes and Ruins | Intercession | Stop an event. |
| 53 | Birthright | Control Weather | Prevents flyers from flying, which makes it very difficult for them to attack flyer-only realms. |
| 48 | Powers | Stasis | Win a combat immediately (given a half decent champion). |
| 28 | For. Realms | Creeping Doom | Raze an opponent's realm. |
| 34 | For. Realms | Resurrection | Retrieve a discarded champion (like Helm!) |
| 83 | DragonLance | Reflection | Send a spell back to it's caster. |
| 45 | Ravenloft | Heal | Get those nice instant-kill allies back. |
| 56 | Mindkiller | UnderDark | Kill a champion. |
| 400 | 4th Edition | Dispel | Stop a spell or psionic power. |
Realms |
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| 12 | Runes and Ruins | Isle of Dread | All of these realms have some onerous condition required to attack them, like swimmers only, flyers only, flyers or swimmers, flyers and earthwalkers, and so forth. With a deck optimised against flyers and swimmers, this makes it very difficult to attack these realms and get away with it. |
| 16 | Runes and Ruins | The Lost City | |
| 87 | Artifacts | Shining Lands | |
| 3 | Night Stalkers | Mintarn | |
| 11 | For. Realms | Coral Kingdom | |
| 13 | For. Realms | Kozakura | |
| 13 | DragonLance | Isle of Selasia | |
| 12 | DragonLance | Spine of Taladas | |
| 49 | 4th Edition | The Five Peaks | |
| 23 | 4th Edition | Spindrift Isles | |
| 57 | 4th Edition | Blood Sea of Istar | |
| 13 | 4th Edition | Giant's Run Mountains | |
Holdings |
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| 33 | 1st Ed. | Mulmaster | With the number of spells in this deck, and with every single champion being a spellcaster, you can end up drawing a huge number of cards, drawing one for each spell played. Especially useful against spell-heavy opponents, because of the number of Dispels played. |
Magical Items and Artifacts |
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| 205 | 4th Edition | Scimitar of Speed | Lets a champion defend twice. Very useful with Amarill or Iuz. |
| 61 | For. Realms | Ring of Winter | Deprive the opponent of a card per turn. |
| 25 | DL Chase | Medallion of Faith | Get an extra card per turn yourself. |
Events |
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| 99 | 3rd Edition | Cataclysm! | Kill a realm. |
| 319 | 1st Ed. | Caravan | Have an extra turn. |
| 100 | 1st Ed. | Good Fortune | Get more cards. |
| 400 | 1st Ed. | Calm | Stop an event. |
| 275 | 1st Ed. | Wind Dancers | Kill all flyers in play. Stop those dragon decks! |
| 54 | Artifacts | Deflection | Bounce an event (like Cataclysm!) |