Spirit Blossom Kindred
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Excellent (8.5/10)
High Investment Required
Epic Relics
Rare Relics OK
Spirit Blossom Kindred is widely regarded as a highly resilient and powerful control champion. Her unique invulnerability mechanics offer a distinct playstyle that excels in difficult encounters, though she requires significant constellation investment and specific Epic relics to reach her maximum potential.
Optimal Spell Control
Ensures consistent draws and reduces the cost of her champion spell, which is critical for her core gameplay loop.
Grants Overwhelm and bonus stats to her units, which is essential for converting her massive accumulated power into Nexus damage.
Provides a steady stream of 'Dance of Arrows' to consistently mark and clear enemy units.
Strategy
This build maximizes Spirit Blossom Kindred's spell-slinging capabilities. The primary goal is to establish early board presence and utilize the constant generation of champion spells to control the enemy board. Echoing Spirit and The Grand General's Counterplan provide infinite value, while The Beast Within ensures that your scaled units can push lethal damage through blockers.
Chemtech Duplicator Combo
Once active at 6 mana, this relic duplicates her spells, allowing for rapid board scaling and massive damage output.- Provides the necessary Overwhelm to ensure the duplicated, high-stat units can strike the enemy Nexus.
Offers essential mana sustain to fuel the continuous casting of duplicated spells.
Strategy
Designed for slower, control-oriented encounters. The strategy involves stalling the game until you reach 6 mana. Once Chemtech Duplicator is active, casting 'The Beast' spell will duplicate it, leading to exponential board presence and rapid cost reduction of subsequent spells, overwhelming the opponent in a single turn.
Rare Relic Control
- Generates a Fleeting copy of her champion spell every round for consistent marking and removal.
Applies damage and marks to the entire enemy board upon summon, setting up immediate board clears.
Serves as the Overwhelm enabler to ensure damage connects with the enemy Nexus.
Strategy
A highly effective build utilizing only rare relics. Ravenous Hydra is used to instantly mark all enemies when Spirit Blossom Kindred is played. The Grand General's Counterplan then provides the necessary spell generation to eliminate the marked targets, while Troll King's Crown allows her to close out the game.
Immortal Wall
- Provides Overwhelm to maintain offensive pressure while defending.
Protects Spirit Blossom Kindred from her primary weaknesses: Stun, Frostbite, Silence, and Recall.
Provides an immediate second copy of the champion for accelerated marking and board presence.
Strategy
This build focuses on protecting Spirit Blossom Kindred from control effects that bypass her invulnerability. Black Shield ensures her 'cannot die' mechanic remains active against disruptive spells. Frozen Tomb accelerates her game plan, allowing her to act as an impenetrable defensive wall while slowly dismantling the enemy board.
Other Relic Options
Players disagree about the effectiveness of her signature relic. Some consider its ability to keep attacking ephemeral units alive useful for multiple attacks or blocking later in the turn. While others find it underwhelming because the units still die at round end, making it less impactful than consistent spell generation.
Triggers on summon and level-up, providing immediate marks and targeted removal.
Amplifies the damage of her champion spell, which is especially effective when multiple copies of Kindred are on the board.
Provides essential mana sustain for spell-heavy playstyles, particularly useful in encounters where Kindred might be obliterated and needs to be replayed.
Synergizes well with her ephemeral mechanics, allowing for rapid board flooding and mark generation.
Constellation
Spirit Blossom Kindred possesses a highly synergistic constellation tree that significantly alters her power level. While she functions adequately at lower star levels, her true potential is locked behind substantial investment. Her unique 'cannot die' mechanic provides unparalleled resilience, but she requires specific upgrades to accelerate her win condition and overcome her inherent lack of Overwhelm.
Mark of the Kindred I
Round Start: Mark a random enemy. When an ally dies, create a Beast's Frenzy in hand or, if you have one, reduce its cost by 1.
Mounting Dread
+1 Starting Mana. When a marked enemy dies, grant Ephemeral and champion allies everywhere +1|+0.Review
Provides essential scaling for both champions and ephemeral units. This makes relics like Strength of Stone counterproductive, as it overrides the attack buffs.
Mark of the Kindred II
Round Start: Mark a random enemy. When ANY unit dies, create a Beast's Frenzy in hand or, if you have one, reduce its cost by 1.Review
Grants her signature invulnerability during combat. This mechanic frequently causes the AI to make suboptimal targeting and blocking decisions.
Overkill
When one of your units or spells deals excess damage to an enemy, deal that much to another random backrow enemy.Review
A transformative power spike. Doubling the damage of all drafted spells allows her to easily clear wide boards and significantly accelerates her removal capabilities.
Manaflow
Game Start: Get a mana gem.Review
The additional starting mana is critical for deploying Kindred early, especially when combined with cost-reduction powers, enabling Turn 1 or Turn 2 summons.
Death's Approach
Round End: Reduce marked enemies' Health to 1.Review
Sets marked enemies to 1 Health at round end. This provides absolute board control and acts as a definitive counter to high-health units, though its end-of-round timing means it does not facilitate First Turn Kills.
Gameplay Tips
- Exploit AI Targeting
The AI frequently miscalculates Spirit Blossom Kindred's invulnerability, wasting removal spells and making unfavorable attacks against her. Use this to your advantage to stall the game and build your board.
- Prioritize Overwhelm
Spirit Blossom Kindred can easily accumulate massive stats, but lacks inherent Overwhelm. Always prioritize relics or powers that grant Overwhelm to ensure you can push damage through chump blockers.
- Beware of Hard Removal
While immune to standard damage and kill effects, Spirit Blossom Kindred is highly vulnerable to Obliterate, Recall, Silence, and Polymorph. Draft defensive spells or use Black Shield in encounters featuring these mechanics.
- Leverage Level-Up Triggers
When Spirit Blossom Kindred levels up, she merges with The Beast and counts as a new summon. This will re-trigger on-summon relics like Stalker's Blade or Ravenous Hydra.
- Draft Cost Reduction
The 'Wild Inspiration' power is exceptionally strong, reducing the cost of created cards. When combined with Echoing Spirit, this allows you to play Kindred and her champion spells for significantly less mana.
- Maximize Ephemeral Synergies
Spirit Blossom Kindred gains the benefits of Ephemeral buffs (like increased stats) without the drawback of dying at round end, making powers like 'Shadow Totem' or 'Stabilize' highly valuable.