Twisted Fate
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Excellent (9/10)
High Investment Required
Epic Relics
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Twisted Fate is a definitive top-tier champion that offers a high ceiling for strategic mastery. While he requires significant resource investment to reach his full potential, his unique ability to manipulate the game's economy and board state through card draw makes him one of the most effective champions for concluding encounters quickly.
The First Turn Victory Loop
Reduces the cost of the champion spell, facilitating the rapid card cycling required to level up Twisted Fate by the second turn.
Grants a significant cost reduction and progressive stat increases, allowing for a turn-one deployment when combined with a pre-game plunder trigger.
Provides an immediate drain on the enemy nexus at game start, activating the plunder requirement for Packed Powder before the first round begins.
Strategy
This build is optimized for stacked accounts seeking to conclude games on the first or second turn. By deploying Twisted Fate immediately, the player can utilize the 6-star Blue Card upgrade to refill mana and draw additional resources. This creates a high-velocity loop that triggers Higher Education buffs repeatedly, though players must monitor their deck size to avoid an accidental loss through decking out.
The Generated Value Engine
- Ensures Twisted Fate is drawn consistently and lowers the cost of his champion spell for efficient board scaling.
Periodically adds Wild Cards to the deck, providing a constant stream of versatile tools for damage, mana refill, or crowd control.
Targets the generated Wild Cards or other high-value spells, reducing their cost and adding card draw to maintain the momentum of the card-playing engine.
Strategy
This strategy prioritizes the constant creation and deployment of Destiny Cards. It is particularly effective for navigating adventures with unpredictable modifiers, as it provides a tool for every scenario. Searing Brilliance ensures that the additional cards added to the deck remain high-tempo assets rather than clogging the hand.
The Late Game Duplicator
Doubles the impact of all spells and Destiny Cards once the player reaches six mana gems, providing a definitive finisher for longer encounters.
Safely summons a copy of Twisted Fate from the deck, ensuring board presence and doubling the output of Destiny Cards.
Increases the damage of the Red Card and other offensive skills, which is amplified significantly when combined with duplication effects.
Strategy
This build focuses on control and overwhelming power in the later turns of a game. By utilizing Frozen Tomb, the player ensures that Twisted Fate reaches the board with protection. Once the six-mana threshold is met, the duplicated cards can clear entire enemy boards and refill mana pools instantly, though this build is notably slower than plunder-based variants.
The Rare Skill Specialist
Provides a consistent source of spell mana each round, allowing the player to cast multiple draw and control spells without depleting standard mana.- Augments the power of all Destiny Cards, ensuring that even small-scale pings can remove relevant enemy threats.
Refills spell mana upon summoning the champion, allowing for an immediate burst of spell activity to trigger star power requirements.
Strategy
Designed for newer accounts, this build maximizes the utility of Twisted Fate's base kit. It relies on a high frequency of spell-casting to achieve a level-up and provide consistent board control. While it lacks the explosive turn-one potential of epic-tier builds, it remains highly reliable for clearing standard adventures through methodical control.
Other Relic Options
Offers vital protection against enemy removal spells, which is necessary due to the champion's small base stats.
An alternative to Luden's Tempest that provides global skill damage increases, facilitating more effective board clears.
Synergizes with the Power Riff node to pull high-cost cards like Slotbot or Zap Sprayfin and reduce their cost to zero.
Twisted Fate's versatility allows for significant experimentation; however, Echoing Spirit remains a cornerstone for almost all high-performance builds.
Constellation
Twisted Fate features a very intentional power curve. His early upgrades focus on board scaling and resource management, while his final stars enable a level of card-playing velocity that few other champions can match. His Star of Discovery is particularly noteworthy, as it creates a unique synergy with high-cost cards that typically struggle in other decks.
Wild Card
When you play your third card each round, create a Wild Card in hand.
Luck of the Draw
+1 Starting Mana. Cards you draw after the first each round cost 1 less this round.
Wild Card II
When you play your third card each round, create a 1 cost Wild Card in hand.
Higher Education
When you draw a card, give allies +1|+0 this round.Review
Higher Education is fundamental to his win condition. It ensures that every card drawn contributes to the permanent scaling of his units, turning an average board into a significant threat very quickly.
Manaflow
Game Start: Get a mana gem.Review
The additional mana gem provides the consistency needed to hit critical combo pieces earlier in the game, which is vital for surviving high-difficulty encounters.
Destiny
Your Destiny Cards are replaced with improved versions: Improved Blue Card, Improved Red Card, Improved Gold Card.Review
The upgraded Blue Card is the definitive engine of the deck. By drawing two cards and refilling two mana gems, it allows the player to maintain an almost indefinite tempo, provided they manage their deck and hand size.
Gameplay Tips
- Master the Power Riff Drafting Strategy
The Star of Discovery (Power Riff) node is a strategic centerpiece. When drafting, prioritize units and spells with a cost of six or higher. These typically cumbersome cards become zero-cost assets after a single round of drawing, allowing you to deploy big threats while simultaneously playing your control tools.
- Sequence Around Hand Limits
Twisted Fate generates an immense amount of card draw. Always calculate your current hand size before using Pick a Card or the Blue Card. It is often necessary to play cards sub-optimally just to make room for the cards you are about to draw, preventing the loss of your champion or key finishers.
- Account for the Priority Pass on Level Two
When Twisted Fate is at level two, playing a burst or focus spell triggers a Destiny Card. Because these cards are skills, they go on the stack and pass priority to the opponent. If you intend to open attack, ensure your units are already committed to the attack zone before playing your spells, or the opponent may use that window to play a blocker.
- Utility of the Slotbot
Slotbot serves as more than just a stat stick. Due to its average health and Tough keyword, it is one of your most reliable defensive units. In high-difficulty adventures, use its round-start stat reshuffle to heal it from chip damage, allowing it to serve as a persistent blocker while it scales from your card draw.
- Utilize Blue Cards for Mana Management
Especially at 6 stars, the Blue Card is your most important resource. Use it to bait out opponent mana or to refill your own pool after playing high-cost drafted units. In most turns, the Blue Card should be the first Destiny Card chosen to ensure you have the mana to play the cards you draw.