*taken from KTCAOP's beginner guide* I personally like the Grimlic's Legion bg. Not many training bgs have shatter, so the demon shields are good. Seeing people waste huge amounts of hp and ap to try kill a pincushion and then to call it superior, warms my heart. Here an overview of what you get and some points how to use the runes. Badgerale or others might make proposals for improvements. 9 different champs is low in my opinion, but might be good as it is a training bg not meant to have too many different abilities/options. Public Deck Grimlic's Legion Champions Deep Elf Priestess (*reminder to myself, mention the updates per champ) Deep Elf Priestess poison 2, multiattack 2 Deep Elf Summoner Deep Elf Summoner Goblin Archer Goblin Archer Grimlic Imp mischief - dodge 1 Imp Pincushion Pincushion Pit Dragon Pit Dragon Scorched Dwarf pariah - mason 2 (only use when you have priestess, summoner or grimlic out, demon ELF bound, pariah makes superiority not possible) Succubus charm 2, fire resist 2 Succubus Spells Dark Pact (hardly used by me, mostly deploying another champ is better) Demolish (good against stealthed relics, or bundled ones) Fire Blast Fire Blast Retribution (ideal against avatars) Sacrifice (*reminder to myself, included the 85% price to all champs) Sacrifice Superiority (very good range, good alt damage, source of detect) Superiority Relics Head of Osarius (expensive but combined with stealthed imps, it can make your opponent lose time to retake his font) Head of Osarius Mark of Sheoul (always good) Equipment Demon Shield (not a lot of shatter makes it a good equip, use only on grimlic, dep or des) Demon Shield
Dark pact is an awful thing to put in a deck which is both for newbies and will be used single player a lot. There is also a lot of range champs which is hardly a goos introduction to UD. Other than that though I'd say it's decent.
Head of Osaris is supposed to be shadowstealthed, but is it? I never see the darkened screen animation and the AI seems to have no problem finding it and killing it. What do I do with summoners? Pawn is ok, but they make for crappy frontline champs. If I use them for invig, having 2 seems kinda pointless. The imps they generate are so very, very bad that it seems like a complete waste of ap.
