For the one year anniversary, I’m bringing Scouts to the table. This is one of the decks I latched onto when I made the jump to constructed, and it’s still meta-relevant. It’s important to note that Scouts is not the best choice for a ladder grinder. It is designed to be a best-of-three deck where you’re looking to play against Tristana. In best-of-three, you should be looking to play against decks like Deep, Darkness, and Karma Sett, and then ban out Tristana.
Scouts is a deck that relies heavily on Champion’s Strength. Unlike Tristana decks, which flood the board with card generation, Scouts uses unit summons and board control to build up a wide board. We have cards like Marai Warden and Island Navigator that can put two units on the board at the same time, and then use challengers to control the board. Even if she can’t attack, Miss Fortune still provides a lot of value.
Finally, Scouts has a nice Scout package attached to it. We can get a big board full of Scouts and give them a big unit boost with Miss Fortune’s attacks, For Demacia!, or Champion’s Strength. It’s better to give three of your units a bonus than just one, and if you give a Scout unit a bonus, it’s like giving two units a bonus since it gets to attack twice.
I’m excited to see how this deck performs, and I hope you are too! Let’s jump on in and see what happens!