Chosen Champion

Mel, Newly Awakened
Vendetta #69 (Epic)
Riftbound · Ready To Play deck
Mel Awakened Control
Mind & Chaos · Control: shrink their units, then remove them
GST included · tracked postage at checkout, free over $75
- 56 cards: the legend, a 40-card main deck with the champion, 3 battlefields and 12 runes. In a deck box.
- Legal in Standard on 9 November 2026: deck-building rules and the ban list checked.
- Built from our own singles, graded by hand: 44 Near Mint.
- Tracked postage: pick your courier at checkout. It’s free over $75. We send it the next business day from Brendale, Queensland.
Game plan and how to win
This deck slows the opponent and wins in the late turns. It makes enemy units weaker, then removes them. Your legend, Mel, Soul's Reflection, empowers itself when you empower something else. Then disempower and exhaust it to give a unit at a battlefield -2 Might this turn. Your Chosen Champion, Mel, Newly Awakened, draws a card when you play it. When it is Empowered, your spells and abilities can't be countered. Also, your spells and abilities that give - Might to a unit give an additional -1 Might.
- Play Strigian Oracle, Lecturing Yordle or Apprentice Mage in your first turns.
- Pay to empower Apprentice Mage. This also empowers your legend.
- Defend your battlefields. Do not attack with weak units early.
Use your legend, Mesmerize and Stupefy to make an enemy unit weaker in a fight. Shock Blast costs less when you control something Empowered. Save Falling Comet and Wind and Ghosts for the biggest threats. Play Mel, Newly Awakened before your big turn. Then pay 3 to empower it. After that, Riptide Mage and Smoke Screen shrink an enemy unit more. You win when you get enough points. Hold battlefields with Mysterious Chronomancer and Cloud Drake to score them.
The decklist
Units (21)
×2Strigian Oracle
Radiance #53 (Common)
×2Watchful Sentry
Origins #96 (Common)
×3Apprentice Mage
Vendetta #47 (Common)
×2Lecturing Yordle
Origins #87 (Common)
×2Trinket Peddler
Radiance #54 (Common)
×2Applied Researchers
Vendetta #55 (Uncommon)
×2Kinkou Lifeblade
Vendetta #93 (Common)

Mel, Newly Awakened
Vendetta #69 (Epic)
×2Riptide Mage
Radiance #58 (Uncommon)
×2Mysterious Chronomancer
Radiance #50 (Common)

Cloud Drake
Vendetta #48 (Common)
Spells (18)
Battlefields (3)
Runes (12): 9 Mind, 3 Chaos.
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