When assembling a deck for each champion, you need to ask yourself three questions:
- How do I survive the early game?
- How do I finish a game that goes long?
- How do I interact with my opponent’s units?
Our recommended strategy is stack Annie as many times as possible. You pursue every Champion Item Chest, add Annie items after each boss, then you hard mulligan every game in search of a copy of Annie. Ideally, you will also be able to give her the starting relic THE GRAND GENERAL’S COUNTERPLAN to draw an additional copy of Annie each turn.
Stacking Annie in this fashion helps us answer two of the three questions. It gives us a highly available early game champion that also doubles up as a way to interact with our opponents units. Annie’s flip into Disintegrate will be your bread a butter removal spell.
With the ‘Big Annie Stack’ in your deck, you are only concerned with finding a few pieces of late game. Typically, you will look for a late game champion like Lux, Udyr, or Katarina. If you pass on a big champion, make sure you prioritize an expensive unit with overwhelm or elusive!
Strengths:
- Easy decks to build — Pick All the Annies
- Aggressively curved deck minimizes do nothing draws
- Disintegrate can kill any unit
- The 2 Star Power – Guile along with a defensive power can stall boards indefinitely
- Healer encounters are always strong. Cutting cards from your deck increases the density of Annies within!
Weaknesses:
- If you don’t draw Annie you will lose big chunks of health vs encounters and lose entirely to bosses
- Damage based removal like Death’s Hand and 2 power units don’t kill anything at higher star levels
- Needs specific relics (Grand General’s Counterplan / Lost Chapter / Archangel’s Staff) to be consistently good and they require RNG to find.
Tips:
- Adding items to Disintegrate will effect the Annie Flip Disintegrate. Card Draw and Manifest are extremely powerful additions.
- When selecting powers, prioritize mana generation (Manaflow, Sorcery, Black Market Discount, Wild Inspiration). Otherwise, look for high powered (Domination, Slow but Steady) or defensive (Hold It!, Hold Them Off)
- Healer Removal Order – Manasoul Student is always first. If your deck needs “more power” then cut the Spider cards next. If your curve is too high or if you don’t have the ephemeral item then cut Captive Greyback.
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