Twisted Fate
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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.
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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 3 victories through massive scaling from his 4 star and board control from the destiny cards, as well as allowing you to draw a massive amount of cards that are all discounted from his 2 star.
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.
Boosts the damage output of Twisted Fate's Red Card.
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.
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 and ensure you start with a copy of Twisted Fate in hand.
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. Notably, at 5 star and higher, this build falls off massively since you no longer need to spend 2 relic slots to deploy him on turn 1.
Community builds recorded for clearing the 10-Star Zoe Adventure with Twisted Fate
- level: 50Players:SydiemProfSE
- level: 34Player:VodopadUmraza
- level: 49Player:Chengsta
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.
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 gives the 'Power Riff' (reduce cost by 1 for each card drawn) item to all drafted 6+ cost cards, allowing him to pick up more expensive and impactful card without worrying about their cost.
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 massive stat boost for drawing cards, 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, and Gold Card.Review
Provides a significant buff to his Blue Card, granting extra spell mana and additional card draw.
- 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 Star of Discovery node unlocked, drafting 6+ cost cards becomes a highly effective strategy. Because his engine draws so many cards, these expensive cards will frequently be discounted to 0 mana.
- 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.
- 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.