Root + Mist starter deck

Root + Mist combines healing, card draw and traps. Root keeps your Shardlings alive, Mist keeps your hand full and the opponent off balance. It is a patient deck that wins the long match by having more cards and more health left.

Every player owns one starter deck. The six starter decks can all be played against the computer at any time.

Key cards

ElderstagCost 6 · 5/7 · Stage 3LegendaryRegrow 2: heals 2 at the end of your turn.StormveilCost 6 · 5/7 · Stage 3LegendaryGrovewardenCost 5 · 4/6 · Stage 3EpicThorns 2: a Shardling that attacks it takes 2 damage.Mirage SeerCost 5 · 4/7 · Stage 3EpicJump: you may swap the lanes of two enemy Shardlings.

Game plan

• Draw early: the deck has two Foresight, and Renewal gives a card and 4 life.
• Set Mirage Mist and Snare Roots on the lanes the opponent is about to attack through.
• Push with Fogmoth into an occupied lane: the Shardling standing there goes back to the hand with every earlier stage.

Against the other starter decks

Average against all five: 48 %. Computer against computer with the current rules, 500 games per pairing, both players going first equally often. The computer plays well but not perfectly, so treat these numbers as a guide, not a promise.

Cards worth adding later

Rare, Epic and Legendary cards of the same two classes that are not in the starter deck. Good first picks for your own version of this deck.

EldershellCost 6 · 4/11 · Stage 3LegendaryBloom 2: at the end of your turn, heals 2 on neighbouring friends. Thorns 1: attackers take 1.NightlynxCost 6 · 6/6 · Stage 3LegendaryVeil: immune to traps, abilities and spells. Pierce: excess damage hits the ward.Phase SerpentCost 4 · 3/4 · ShardlingEpicJump: you may push an enemy to a neighbour lane. Whoever stands there returns to hand with its earlier stages.BramblebuckCost 5 · 5/6 · Stage 3EpicBloom 1: at the end of your turn, heals 1 on neighbouring friends. Thorns 1: attackers take 1.BurrowmoleCost 5 · 4/7 · ShardlingEpicRegrow 1: heals 1 at the end of your turn. Thorns 1: attackers take 1.TidewraithCost 5 · 5/7 · Stage 3EpicVeil: immune to traps, abilities and spells.DimmingCost 3 · SpellRareGive every enemy Shardling −1 attack.Pollen CloudCost 3 · TrapRareTrigger: an enemy Shardling attacks. The attack is blocked and you (the player) regain 2 life.

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