Alliance War – The Epics to Craft – A Guide for New Players
Have you finished crafting the legendaries from Alliance War? Do you now want to go after the Alliance War epics and add them to your collection? This guide will help you to craft the best Alliance War epics to expand your collection in the most cost efficient way.
Epics in Alliance War
To complete your collection of all epics in Alliance War, you will need a total of 60 cards. This includes 9 epics per color, as well as 15 in tricolor. This can total as much as 24,000 soul gems (or 96,000 soul gems for all premium epics). However, let’s look at what you really need to craft to build great decks…
Alliance War Epic Crafting Guide for Control Decks
The Must-Haves
The must-have epics in Alliance War are Baandari Opportunist, Gray Viper Brigand, Transitus Shrine and Debilitate.
Baandari Opportunist
Baandari Opportunist is a staple one drop that shuffles more of itself into your deck. These copies get an additional cantrip ability, which basically allows Opportunist to replace itself for little magicka and provides you with additional ping damage through an unguarded lane. They can also be used for one-turn-kill combos involving Mentor’s Ring in control decks.
Gray Viper Brigand
Gray Viper Brigand is a resilient body for control decks that draws a card for each Gray Viper Brigand in your discard pile. He provides a proactive tool during opening and can extend your resources during a later phase of the game. Gray Viper Brigand is best used in 50-cards decks, as they offer higher draw consistency. However, he has also found a home in Conscription control decks, as these rapidly thin their decks.
Transitus Shrine
The Transitus Shrine support is a staple card in Empire decks that allows players to easily dump their hand. The shrine already got nerfed once, but it is still a very strong card. It reduces the magicka cost of creatures and actions in your hand once you have at least one creature in each lane. With cheap creatures that also consistently re-draw, you have a very powerful engine to build a board of tokens very quickly.
Debilitate
Debilitate is mass removal à la bonne heure. It reduces all creatures stats (including your own) across both lanes by -2/-2. This even applies if the creature is warded. With Shearpoint Dragon in play, Debilitate is easily a more powerful Ice Storm. Paired with a proactive early-game control strategy, it is even possible to reduce the cost of the card to less than 7.
Summary Alliance War Epics
These 12 epics from Alliance War add up to a total cost of 4,800 soul gems. Since you can acquire one Baandari Opportunist and one Debilitate through two of the theme decks (i.e. Pact Assault and Dominion Dominance for 2,000 gold), you will only need 4,000 additional soul gems.
