Twisted Fate
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Excellent (8.5/10)
High Investment Required
Epic Relics
Twisted Fate is a highly engaging combo-control champion who excels at drawing cards and manipulating the board. While his early levels can feel slow and prone to decking out, heavy investment into his constellations transforms him into a top-tier spellslinger capable of explosive early-game victories.
Destiny Duplication
Provides his signature Destiny Cards, which become incredibly powerful at 6 stars.
Copies his spells, accelerating his level-up and doubling his value generation.
Creates copies of Twisted Fate and reduces their cost, ensuring consistent card draw.
Strategy
This is the premier build for a fully upgraded Twisted Fate. Deck of Destiny provides a constant influx of Wild Cards, which are significantly upgraded at 6 stars.
Searing Brilliance copies these generated spells, while Echoing Spirit ensures you always have access to his discounted champion spell. This combination frequently enables Turn 1 or Turn 2 victories through massive card advantage and board control.
Aggressive Tempo
- Ensures a high density of Twisted Fate copies in the deck for consistent draws.
Grants Overwhelm and bonus stats to allies, helping push lethal damage.
Significantly boosts the damage output of Twisted Fate's Red Card and other skills.
Strategy
This build focuses on maximizing card draw, skill damage, and board presence to achieve early level-ups and overwhelm opponents. It leverages specific constellation powers to enable a high-tempo, aggressive playstyle.
Echoing Spirit guarantees consistent draws for quick leveling and repeated use of his powerful Pick a Card skills. The Beast Within increases overall board damage and helps convert wide boards into Nexus damage.
Luden's Tempest enhances board clear and direct Nexus damage, facilitating early aggression and ensuring his Red Card is devastating.
Turn 1 Plunder
Deals early Nexus damage at Game Start to activate Plunder immediately.
Reduces Twisted Fate's cost and provides scaling stats.- Provides the necessary spell generation to fuel his engine.
Strategy
This build focuses on deploying Twisted Fate as early as possible. Swain's Raven Army triggers Packed Powder's cost reduction at the start of the game, allowing for a Turn 1 summon.
Once on the board, Echoing Spirit provides the cheap spells needed to rapidly cycle through his deck, level him up, and overwhelm the opponent before they can establish a board.
Zoe Counterfeit Engine
Zoe Specialized
Increases the damage of his Red Card and other skills.- Stacks with Big Guns to further amplify skill and spell damage.
Doubles spells in the late game for massive value.
Strategy
A budget-friendly build specifically designed for the 10-star Zoe adventure. This strategy relies heavily on acquiring the 'Counterfeit Copies' power during the run to flood the deck with Wild Cards.
Chemtech Duplicator is helpful for accelerating wins once you reach 6 mana, while the combination of Big Guns and Luden's Tempest ensures that every Red Card deals massive damage to clear Zoe's wide boards.
Other Relic Options
Adds 10 random itemized cards to the deck. Highly RNG-dependent but creates chaotic and powerful synergies with his card draw engine.
Draws a 0-cost unit upon play, providing immediate board presence and accelerating his level-up.
Essential for protecting his fragile base stats from early removal spells.
A generally acceptable filler relic that provides a blanket stat boost if no better options are available.
Players disagree about Deck of Destiny. Some consider it exceptionally powerful at 6 stars due to the upgraded Destiny Cards. While others find it inconsistent or easily replaceable by Echoing Spirit at lower star levels.
Constellation
Twisted Fate's constellation tree is widely praised for its thematic design, offering a smooth power curve that heavily rewards investment. His 'Star of Discovery' node, which makes the first non-champion card played each round cost 0, is invaluable for accelerating his game plan. The 'Power Riff' node reduces the cost of 6+ cost cards, enabling massive tempo swings and unique drafting strategies.
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
Considered exceptionally strong by the community, this upgrade grants Overwhelm, fitting his playstyle perfectly and providing a crucial tool for reliably closing out games.
Manaflow
Game Start: Get a mana gem.Review
Highly valued for providing early tempo, allowing Twisted Fate to be deployed and start his engine much sooner.
Destiny
Your Destiny Cards are replaced with improved versions: Blue Card, Red Card, Gold Card.Review
Provides a significant buff to his Blue Card, granting extra spell mana, cost reduction, and additional card draw. While incredibly powerful for continuous card cycling, some players feel his 4-star and 5-star upgrades offer more immediate impact.
Gameplay Tips
- Manage Your Deck Size
Twisted Fate's primary mechanic involves drawing massive amounts of cards. While this fuels his cost reductions and level-up, it also introduces a very real risk of decking out (losing by running out of cards). Monitor your deck size carefully, especially when using Echoing Spirit or his 6-star upgrades.
- Leverage Power Riff
If you have his 'Power Riff' node unlocked, drafting 6+ cost cards becomes a highly effective strategy. Because his engine draws so many cards, these expensive units will frequently be discounted to 0 mana, allowing you to flood the board with massive threats.
- Counterfeit Copies Synergy
In longer adventures, prioritize the 'Counterfeit Copies' power. Using Wild Card with Counterfeit Copies creates numerous copies in the deck, providing versatile board control and damage while preventing deck-out scenarios.
- Early Deployment is Key
Aim to play Twisted Fate by turn 1 or 2 to start generating value and accelerate his game plan. He is exceptionally weak at level 1, so focus on playing cards to achieve his level-up as quickly as possible.
- Animation Times
Twisted Fate's optimal playstyle involves playing numerous cards and triggering multiple skills per turn. Be prepared for significantly longer game times due to the sheer volume of animations, even at maximum game speed.