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
Zoe Specialized
Ensures consistent draws and reduces the cost of her champion spell, which is critical for her core gameplay loop.
Provides a steady stream of champion spells to consistently mark and clear enemy units.
Grants Overwhelm and bonus stats to her units, which is essential for converting her massive accumulated power into Nexus damage.
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 discounted champion spells to control the enemy board.
Echoing Spirit and The Grand General's Counterplan provide infinite value, ensuring you always have access to Kindred's Mark. The Beast Within is mandatory, as it ensures that your scaled units can push lethal damage through blockers to close out the game.
Frozen Tomb Scaling
- Supplies the mandatory Overwhelm keyword to ensure damage connects with the enemy Nexus.
Provides an immediate second copy of the champion for accelerated marking and board presence.- Reduces the cost of champion spells and ensures consistent draws.
Strategy
This build focuses on rapid unit scaling and consistent summoning. Frozen Tomb immediately establishes a secondary threat on the board, doubling the effectiveness of your marking mechanics.
Combined with Echoing Spirit, this setup allows you to rapidly cycle through spells and scale your board state, while The Beast Within guarantees that your massive units can overwhelm the enemy Nexus.
Early Board Clear
Provides a reliable turn-one board clear, eliminating all units with 3 or less health when Spirit Blossom Kindred is played.
Collects keywords from the numerous units destroyed by Wicked Harvest and her spells.- Supplies the mandatory Overwhelm keyword to ensure damage connects with the enemy Nexus.
Strategy
Designed to establish immediate dominance, this build leverages Wicked Harvest to clear low-health enemy units the moment Spirit Blossom Kindred is played. This secures early tempo and feeds Voidborne Carapace.
The Beast Within is crucial for closing out the game once board control is established. If The Beast Within is unavailable, Troll King's Crown serves as an effective substitute for the Overwhelm keyword.
Chemtech Duplicator Combo
Zoe Specialized
Once active at 6 mana, this relic duplicates her spells, allowing for rapid board scaling and massive damage output.- Provides an immediate second copy of the champion for accelerated marking and board presence.
Provides the necessary Overwhelm to ensure the duplicated, high-stat units can strike the enemy Nexus.
Strategy
Geared towards slower, control-oriented encounters. The strategy involves stalling the game until you reach 6 mana.
Once Chemtech Duplicator is active, casting spells will duplicate them, leading to massive board presence and rapid cost reduction. Note that duplicated summons can occasionally fizzle if Kindred levels up mid-resolution.
Other Relic Options
Players disagree about The Taker's Bow. Some consider it essential for maintaining board presence and reducing spell costs in difficult encounters. While others find it inconsistent, noting severe anti-synergies with Corrupted Star Fragment (which consumes the unit before the invulnerability applies) and Chemtech Duplicator.
Considered a top-tier choice for sustained healing and stat-stealing, especially on accounts with Nova crystal upgrades.
Often preferred over her signature relic for consistent card draw and cost reduction.
Highly effective for immediate area-of-effect damage upon summon or attack, accelerating her level-up condition.
This relic is considered too slow for high-difficulty adventures, as it activates too late to impact critical turn-one board states.
Constellation
Spirit Blossom Kindred possesses a highly synergistic constellation tree that significantly alters her power level. Her unique invulnerability mechanics provide 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.</br> 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.
Mark of the Kindred II
Round Start: Mark a random enemy.</br> When ANY unit dies, create a Beast's Frenzy in hand or, if you have one, reduce its cost by 1.
Overkill
When one of your units or spells deals excess damage to an enemy, deal that much to another random backrow enemy.Review
The 4-star overkill power is highly efficient due to having no mana cost or cap. However, it possesses a severe anti-synergy with the 'Psychological Warfare' power; Gloom does not count as actual damage, which prevents the overkill effect from triggering entirely.
Manaflow
Game Start: Get a mana gem.
Death's Approach
Round End: Reduce marked enemies' Health to 1.Review
The 6-star power demands a high 50 mana investment. Without an extra starting mana gem from relics or powers, deploying Kindred on turn one becomes difficult, making this upgrade slow in fast-paced encounters.
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 blockers.
- Avoid the Sweet Trap Node
Do not path into the 'Sweet Trap' adventure node. Kindred's champion spell counts as a 'Challenge,' which inadvertently triggers the trap's negative effects. If forced into this encounter, target a spellshield unit to spawn the attacking wolf without triggering the challenge penalty.
- Leverage Ephemeral Synergies
Spirit Blossom Kindred's undying nature means that ephemeral copies of her (generated by powers like 'Shadow Totem' or spells) do not die at round end. This allows you to build a permanent board of multiple champions.
- 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.
- Separate Champion Marks
Be aware that Spirit Blossom Kindred and the standard Kindred champion do not share marks. Their mechanics operate entirely independently.