November 28, 2017
Building custom decks is a great way to set yourself apart from others in the Lightseekers card game. To help you discover what combinations can achieve the best results we’ve asked members of the Lightseekers team to highlight their own combinations. To kick it all off here’s Ben from the event teams kreebal deck!
Hero
Lalu the Rascal
Combos
Overload
Storm Wall
Electrified Deluge
Tornado
Rolling Thunder
Storm Action Cards –
Evaporator x3
Mari Bard x2
Storm Shaman x2
Electrified Moat x2
Crackling Beast x2
Thunder Slug x2
Dust Fiend x2
Vitalizing Frog x2
Unaligned Action Cards –
Unruly Mob x2
Kreebal Raid Party x2
Kreebal Infiltrator x3
Frenzied Kreebal x3
Sneaky Kreebal x3
Ben’s Comments
This deck is pretty interesting, out of the 30 action cards that make up the bulk of a Lightseekers deck, 13 of the cards are Unaligned, why such a large percentage? What about combos? How does this work?
At the core of this deck are the humble Kreebal cards, Sneaky Kreebal and Frenzied Kreebal, both are common cards found in every starter deck and when the other players started to customize decks these two were the first to go. I wanted to see what would happen when you went the other way, instead of adding more cards from the Storm Order, I removed Storm cards and replaced them with as many of the Kreebals that I could get my hands on and see what happens. Using full sets of Frenzied Kreebals, Sneaky Kreebals and Kreebal Infiltrators and 2 of each of the Kreebal Raid Party and Unruly Mobs the unaligned core of the deck was set. Added to this were 2 of the most interesting cards in the Storm order: the Evaporator and the Mari Bard.
Once the core of the deck was sorted, the deck was filled out with Storm cards to bring out the best of the deck, Storm Shamans to boost damage, Thunder Slugs to remove any buffs that get in the way, Crackling Beasts for extra damage and Dust Fiends to help pay for those combos when needed. The action card section of this deck was rounded out with 2 Vitalizing Frogs for healing and 2 Electrified Moats for some protection. Combos were the easy part, Overload is the main combo here and the only one I want to play normally, the others were the high cost heavy damage combos that I could get to use with the Overload and the Evaporator action cards to get the greatest benefit out of these two cards.
The only decision after this was the choice of hero, Malia to get the most out of combos that would be played during the game or Lalu the Rascal to get that extra action when under 10 health. In the end Lalu won out due to her superior element – Lightning compared to Malia’s Air, as Lightning cards form the bulk of the Storm action cards in the deck Lalu was the better choice in the long run.
So how does it play? Well this deck is a bit of a rush beat down deck which can deal some really heavy hits with just a combination of action cards, having a Storm Shaman out and then using a Kreebal Raid party and discarding another unaligned card will net 11 damage while the Evaporator can hit for 12 if you discard Tornado or Rolling Thunder. Mari Bard can make a mockery of the opponents board while you do this, freezing the buffs for 2 turns. The Kreebals and the Evaporators cause this deck to play differently, I am not trying to save cards in my hand to pay for Combo cards instead saving Combos to boost Evaporator and making sure I keep a low hand size to get the most out of Frenzied Kreebals, this makes the deck fast and fun to play, confounding and confusing players.