Deck building

This page is designed to help you build your deck the best way possible by providing ideal options for both your frontline and your backline, as well as options for specific events.

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Basics

When building a deck for battling, and one specialized in either attack or defense, it is important to have both a strong Frontline and Backline. As well, you should generally focus the majority of your efforts in one or the other, in order to maximize your effectiveness in one of attack or defense.

Frontline

The sole factor for success in building your frontline is the Skills of your cards. While having cards with strong attack or defense may make your front line look formidable, they will only hinder you if they don't possess the right kind of skills. As such, you should pick only the five cards with the most beneficial skills in order to fully bolster your backline, since this is where the majority of your attack and defense comes from.

Skill picking

Skills come in various magnitudes, with varying amounts of effectiveness depending on the skill. The following chart illustrates the the maximum effect that any skill type can possess at level ten. The table applies to drop skills as well.

Skill type	Element target	Attack or defense?	Effect size
Great Boost / Great Drop
	1 element	Attack	25%
	1 element	Defense	25%
	1 element	Both	20%
	2 element	Attack	24%
	2 element	Defense	24%
	2 element	Both	20%
	All elements	Attack	20%
	All elements	Defense	20%
	All elements	Both	20%
Large Boost / Large Drop
	1 element	Attack	23%
	1 element	Defense	23%
	1 element	Both	18%
	2 element	Attack	22%
	2 element	Defense	22%
	2 element	Both	18%
	All elements	Attack	18%
	All elements	Defense	18%
	All elements	Both	18%

The type of skill to use, and whether to boost your own attack/defense or lower your opponent's attack/defense will often depend on your situation, as well as your own resources and attribute makeup.

The standard method used by people is to use frontlines with only boosting skills. Doing so allows you to use one frontline for all situations without much hassle, and will allow you to fully take advantage of your backline if it's been optimized. However, drop skills will often make much more sense if your backline isn't up to speed, or your opponent has a really strong backline of attack or defense cards, with power to burn. Drop skills which target only one or two elements can often times provide the greatest effect against strong opponents, although these skills require planning ahead against your opponents, which isn't always possible or practical in battles.

Elemental targeting is also important in skills. Most people will go for a frontline of all one or two element boosting skills, since doing so provides the greatest boosts to your cards, especially if you only have cards of one element. However, if you use more than one element in your deck, skills which target all elements will work better for you.

With all skills, it is important to rememnber that the boost/drop percentage only affects the your base deck strength. For example, if you have a deck that can attack with 1,000,000 raw power, and you have three great boost to all skills activate, then your end strength attack will be 1,600,000 (20% of 1mil=200k x3=600k+1mil base=1.6mil)

The same math applies for drop skills. Great drop to all only reduces an opponnet by 20% of their base stats.

Backline

Your backline makes up the core of your deck. A strong backline can give you a win over someone with a strong frontline, but a pitiful backline. Don't neglect this part of your deck!

The most important factor in deciding which cards to use is attack/defense to power ratio. A higher ratio means greater efficiency, which means more attack/defense you are able to provide for every one point of power. This is important for two reasons:

Gaining attribute points becomes painfully slow at later levels
You can't hold infinite cards in your deck (presents don't count)

Getting lots of high efficiency cards will allow you to maximize the amount of damage you inflict/absorb and fully take advantage of the amount of attack/defense power you currently have, as well as more fully utilizing the limited space you are alloted.

Front Line attack

First choice drop cards

Any great drop to all defense or great drop to all attack and defense card that is YOUR element is first choice.

First choice boost cards

Here are cards giving the strongest boost to your one element decks.

1st Choice Forest Attack Boosts
Card Name	Max Skill Effect
(Torus) Death-Haunted Summoner Koo	25% forest attack boost
(Ritual) Holy Birdwoman Tilda	25% forest attack boost
(Drain) Immortal Vampire Lord	25% forest attack boost
(Pure-Love) Oathbound Alain & Lelia	25% forest attack boost
(Brilliant) Sakuya of Shangri-la	25% forest attack boost
(Furtive) Sinful Cleric Aramis	25% forest attack boost
(Jocund) Carousing Rogue Lara	24% or 29% water/forest attack boost
(Venture) Wonderland Wanderer Alice	24% water/forest attack boost
(Unit), (Ally), (Team), and (Duty) Altruistic Jade Musketeers	24% water/forest attack boost
(Gracious) Planet Bearing Entellous	24% water/forest attack boost
(Clashing) Henriette, Righteous One	24% forest/fire attack boost
(Stunning) Golden Age Lucrezia	24% forest/fire attack boost
(Stalking) Peter's Creeping Shadow	24% forest/fire attack boost
(Revolt) Demagogue Mariangeles	24% water/forest attack boost
(Friends) Genie's Partner Aladdin	24% water/forest attack boost
(Birth) Irene, Life Giant Subduer	24% water/forest attack boost
(Warped) Encarna, Ruin's Nursemaid	24% fire/forest attack boost
(Covenant) Sartori, Defying Destiny	24% water/forest attack boost
(Ordnance) Munition Empress Lavinia	24% forest/fire attack boost
(Delight), (Aspiration), and (Fulfilled) Jade Treasure Island	24% forest/fire attack boost

1st Choice Water Attack Boosts
Card Name	Max Skill Effect
(Absolute) Masked Wizardess Leila	25% water attack boost
(Glorious) Hymning Queen Mermaid	25% water attack boost
(Eradicator) Sunlight Avatar Aurora	25% water attack boost
(Venturer) Chiron, Holy Horse Rider	24% or 29% water/fire attack boost
(Transcendental) Holy St. Valentine	24% water/fire attack boost
(Chivalrous) Martyred Knight Gawain	24% water/forest attack boost
(Speculative) Conductress Galatea	24% water/fire attack boost
(Unit), (Ally), (Team), and (Duty) Altruistic Azure Musketeers	24% water/fire attack boost
(Oath) Lucrèce, Upholder of Vows	24% water/forest attack boost
(Endow) Fred of the Eternal Blade	24% water/fire attack boost
(Leader) Nature's Maiden Eunice	24% water/fire attack boost
(Beloved) Elin, the Cursed Princess	24% water/forest attack boost
(Attraction) Empowering Riviena	24% water/fire attack boost
(Welkin) Amaria of Holy Blue & Gold	24% water/fire attack boost
(Delight), (Aspiration), and (Fulfilled) Beryl Treasure Island	24% water/forest attack boost

1st Choice Fire Attack Boosts
Card Name	Max Skill Effect
(Deadeye) Evelyn, Nirvana's Evil	25% fire attack boost
(Advent) Resurrected Goddess Eostre	25% fire attack boost
(Nativity) Tiamat of Endowed Heaven	25% fire attack boost
(Ruler) Satanachia, Ghoul Puppeteer	25% fire attack boost
(Lion) Reigning Kings Regulus & Leo	25% fire attack boost
(Brave) Dorothy, Magician of Hope (iOS)	24% fire/forest attack boost
(Take) Possessed Witch of the North (Android)	24% fire/forest attack boost
(Titanic) Atlas, King of Atlantis	24% water/fire attack boost
(Unit), (Ally), (Team), and (Duty) Altruistic Rose Musketeers	24% forest/fire attack boost
(Solar) Apollo of the Crimson Haze	24% forest/fire attack boost
(Statute) Goddess of Morality Maat	24% forest/fire attack boost
(Matured) Yearning Wendy	24% forest/fire attack boost
(Darkrealm) Eternight Count Alfred	24% water/fire attack boost
(Wealth) Alita, Goddess of Commerce	24% forest/fire attack boost
(Godspeed) Hurricane Blade Mary	24% water/fire attack boost
(Emotional) Ancient Wizard Sigurd	24% forest/fire attack boost
(Brisk) Wondersky White Rabbit	24% forest/fire attack boost
(Delight), (Aspiration), and (Fulfilled) Rouge Treasure Island	24% water/fire attack boost

Second choice boost cards

This list is composed of cards giving you the second strongest boost to your one element decks. Please note this list does not include base/regular versions of the cards in the first choice list, as they all give large boosts to your attack.

2nd Choice Forest Attack Boosts
Card Name	Max Skill Effect
(Naivete) Santa Caroler Novice	23% boost to forest attack
(Immersed) Long-Suffering Fantine	23% boost to forest attack
(Tumult) Twilight Ruler Umbriel	23% boost to forest attack

2nd Choice Fire Attack Boosts
Card Name	Max Skill Effect
(Militant) The Ancient Begetter Marcion	23% boost to fire attack
(Devour) Isis, Protector of the Dead	23% boost to fire attack
(Restore) Awakening Grim Reaper	23% boost to fire attack
(Civic) Inspired Queen Clover	23% boost to fire attack
(Preaching) Divine Leader Abraham	23% boost to fire attack

2nd Choice Water Attack Boosts
Card Name	Max Skill Effect
(Heartless) Iceman, the Ringleader	23% boost to water attack
(Trek) Yielding Powered Exoskeleton	23% boost to water attack
(Befouled) Babel, Enemy of Heaven	23% boost to water attack
(Creating) Clemente, Seeking an End	23% boost to water attack
(Savvy) Retaliatory Tinkerbell	23% boost to water attack
(Purge) Hervé, Smiter of the Divine	22% boost to water/forest attack

Front Line - Third Choice Cards

Here is a list of cards giving you a combination of a strong boost to attack (20+%) together with one of the strongest ATK power in game

3rd Choice Forest Attack Front Line Cards

Vampyr King of Salvation	Therianthrope Empress	Lord of Salvation Albiga	Wagner, the Legendary Dragon	Immortal Vampire Lord	Dark Queen Guinevere
13,300 ATK	13,230 ATK	12,985 ATK	12,985 ATK	12,950 ATK	12,950 ATK
3rd Choice Fire Attack Front Line Cards

Barbara, Ultimate Empress	Fated Blood Bonds Ines	Renegade Dragonslayer	Temple Knight Fortunata	Holy Proclaimer Mireille	Lucifer the Damned
14,385 ATK	13,370 ATK	13,020 ATK	12,845 ATK	12,845 ATK	12,810 ATK
3rd Choice Water Attack Front Line Cards

Just Fencer Porthos	Sagacious Wizard of Oz	Fantasy Usher White Rabbit	Empyrean Ruler Artesia	Boreas of the Northern Wind	Puppets of Chaos
13,230 ATK	13,195 ATK	13,160 ATK	13,125 ATK	13,055 ATK	12,950 ATK

Attack - Best Backline Cards

You are here looking for highest efficiency cards, without forgetting that you have a card slot limit in your deck.

Example: Betelgeuse, Winter Overlord has a high efficiency and he is only pwr10, so you might be limited by deck size if you have heavy attack stats

This chart includes all cards with an attack efficiency over 850 regardless of cost, and all cards with efficiency over 700 costing below 100pp.

HIGHEST EFFICIENCY ATTACK
EFF	Forest	Fire	Water
880
875
870
865
860
855	add: Umbriel
850	add: Hook		add: Babel
845		add: N. Barb
840	add: N. Rabbit add: Lucrezia	add: Petra	add: I'Olonnais
835		add: D. Peter Pan
830
825	add: Peter Shadow	add: Rehnskold	add: Porthos ; Eubleus
820		add: Fiore	add: Ivy add: Lucrece
815	add: Ra	add: Ruby ; Ezechiele
810		add: Apollo ; Mary	add: Fred add: Amada
805	add CC Richelieu add: Demagogue	add: Paris add: Leo	add Tarquinia add: Hervé ; R. Tinkerbell
800		add: N. Maat
795	add: Aladdin ; Phanuel
790	add: N. Entellous ; Gemini add: Eunice	add: Euphemia	add: Anubis ; Elin
785	add: Milja add: Irene ; Gremory	add: Esperanza
780	add: Fort	add: Alfred add: Solomon	add: Jean Valjean
775	add: Nathalia ; Kjerstin		add: Helfried
770	add: Fantine ; Ostrava	add: Pain ; Abraham add: Grumbach	add: N. Adonis ; Nimrod add: Wishmaker ; Téa
765
760			add: Bael add: Hayreddin
755
750	add: Erwin
745
740
735
730
725		add: Carole	add: Veronika
720	add: Evita
710
700
670
630

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Front line defense

First choice drop cards

Any great drop to all attack or great drop to all attack and defense card that is YOUR element is first choice.

First choice boost cards

The following are cards which give the largest boost to your one element decks.

1st Choice Forest Defense Boosts
Card Name	Max Skill Effect
(Decided) Shemhaza, Angel No More)	25% forest defense boost
(Holywaters) Heavensea Cornelia	25% forest defense boost
(Inherit) Moca, Kidd's Progeny	25% forest defense boost
(Demon) Ishtar, War Maiden Scourge	25% forest defense boost
(Void) Azazel Prophet	25% forest defense boost
(Exploitive) Gaston, Chaos Master	25% forest defense boost
(Revenge) Devious King Rosario	25% forest defense boost
(Moonlit) Lunar Celestial Liesel	24% water/forest defense boost
(Closure) Wrathful King Hartmut	24% water/forest defense boost
(First) Julian, Ascended to Godhood	24% water/forest defense boost

1st Choice Fire Defense Boosts
Card Name	Max Skill Effect
(Overlord) Primeval Dark Demogorgon	25% fire defense boost
(Vile) Bewitching Morgan le Fay	25% fire defense boost
(Rot) Lifeless King of the Undead	25% fire defense boost
(Madness) Master of Puppets	25% fire defense boost
(Odyssey) Sea Dragoon Cordula	24% water/fire defense boost
(Peerless) Cynical Dark Valentine	24% water/fire defense boost
(EX) Eruk the Conquistador	24% forest/fire defense boost
(Kissing) Romeo, Fighting for Love	24% water/fire defense boost

1st Choice Water Defense Boosts
Card Name	Max Skill Effect
(Zone) Lorentz, Ruler of Space-Time	25% water defense boost
(Folklore) Cascading Dragon God	25% water defense boost
(Relentless) Harbinger Valerie	25% water defense boost
(Seasoul) Prism-Clad Marion	24% water/forest defense boost
(Crab) Starland Praesepe & Karkinos	24% water/forest defense boost
(Verdant) Treefolk Princess Lidya	24% water/forest defense boost

Second choice boost cards

The following are cards giving the second largest boosts to your one element decks. Please note this list does not include base/regular versions of the cards in the first choice list, as they all give large boosts to your defense.

2nd Choice Forest Defense Boosts
Card Name	Max Skill Effect
(Violence) Inhert, Oracle Ranger	23% forest defense boost
(Richsource) Wealth Goddess Morega	23% forest defense boost
(Kingsblade) Sterling, Off to War
(Rank) Murum, Emperor's Offspring	23% forest defense boost
(Shining) Silver Maiden Priscilla	22% forest/fire defense boost
(Darklord) King Breithaupt in Black	22% forest/water defense boost

2nd Choice Fire Defense Front Line Cards
Card Name	Max Skill Effect

(Conquer) Defiled Ebony Knight	23% fire defense boost
(Instigator) Abyssal Goddess Osiris	23% fire defense boost
(Azure) Lyudmila, Sea Dragon Keeper	23% fire defense boost
(Aged) Dreadful Immortal King Kåre	23% fire defense boost
(Maroon) Mabel of the King's Blades
(Jeering) Demon-Taunting Marcellin	22% forest/fire defense boost

2nd Choice Water Defense Front Line Cards
Card Name	Max Skill Effect
(Dilute) Lagu, Elf of Ruling Waters	23% water defense boost
(Urging) Edgardo, Out of Hades	23% water defense boost
(Legendary) Resurrected King Kidd	23% water defense boost
(Redbeard) Ocean Ruler Hayreddin
(Apple) Iðunn, Bearer of Gold Fruit	22% water/fire defense boost

Defense - Best Backline Cards

You are here looking for highest efficiency cards, without forgetting that you have a card slot limit in your deck.

Example: Inhert, Oracle Ranger has a high efficiency and he is only pwr10, so you might be limited by deck size if you have heavy defense stats

This chart includes all cards with an attack efficiency over 850 regardless of cost, and all cards with efficiency over ... costing below ...pp. ( feel free to complete chart below)

HIGHEST EFFICIENCY DEFENSE
EFF	Forest	Fire	Water
930
910
890
880
870		add: Drina
860		add: Lyudmila	add: row 865 for Zinadia
850	add: row 855 for Ylva		add: Klaara
845
840		add: Cosette
835
830	add: Egeo ; Virgo	add: Irmela
825		add: Cordula
820			add: Arcelia
815			add: Marion
810	Dahaka
805	add: Rosario ; Liesel	add: Wyatt
800	add: Guide Peter Pan	add: Genie
795	add: Hristina add: row 780 for Moca add: row 775 for Morega add: row 770 for Fantine ; Ostrova add: row 760 for Nathalia ; Priscilla ; Kjerstin add: row 750 for Gremory	add: row 790 for King Kare ; Sylvia add: row 785 for Hilde add: row 775 for MoP add: row 770 for Pain ; Beastsword add: row 765 for Grumbach ; Wendy add: row 755 for Athos	add: Crab Starland P & K add: row 785 for Helen add: row 775 for Hayreddin ; Bael add: row 770 for N. Adonis ; Nimrod ; Téa add: row 765 for Helfried add: row 755 for Jean Valjean

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Raid Cards

Raid Cards Efficiency

the power required in raid is (5 + front line pwr) / 2.

Thus, assuming you are using 5 cards in your front line, the power efficiency of raid cards is computed using the formula (Max ATK) / (PWR required +1)

HIGHEST RAID EFFICIENCY
Icon	Card	EFF	ATK	PWR	Skill
	(Duty) Altruistic Jade Musketeers	770	13,094	16	1.35x-1.70x Boost
	(Duty) Altruistic Rose Musketeers	770	13,094	16	1.35x-1.70x Boost
	(Duty) Altruistic Azure Musketeers	770	13,094	16	1.35x-1.70x Boost
	(Tea) Tea Party in Wonderland	724	12,308	16	1.35x-1.70x Boost
	Wind Awakener Seraphina	656	9835	14	1.35x-1.70x Boost
	Magical Musketeer Munster	653	9800	14	1.35x-1.70x Boost
	Marvelous Fairy Raili	652	10430	15	1.35x-1.70x Boost
	Render of Darkness Muriel	651	9765	14	1.35x-1.70x Boost
	Moral Sojourner Ursula	651	9765	14	1.35x-1.70x Boost
	Degenerate Mad Hatter	649	9730	14	1.35x-1.70x Boost
	Dragonhead Mukhtar	646	9695	14	1.35x-1.70x Boost
	Sprites Annie & Delilah	644	9660	14	1.35x-1.70x Boost
	Empress of Dawn Ilmatar	642	9625	14	1.35x-1.70x Boost
	Mystic Hunter Anastasiya	639	9590	14	1.35x-1.70x Boost
	Fame Seeker Lenaelle	639	9590	14	1.35x-1.70x Boost
	Ninlil, Sand Empress	637	9555	14	1.35x-1.70x Boost
	Undercover White Queen	635	9520	14	1.35x-1.70x Boost
	Empowered Adonis	634	10150	15	1.35x-1.70x Boost
	Urd, Herald of Doom	632	9485	14	1.35x-1.70x Boost
	Isaac, Prince of Spring	632	9485	14	1.35x-1.70x Boost
	Earth Mother Rhea	630	9450	14	1.35x-1.70x Boost
	Hypnos, the Narcolepter	628	9415	14	1.35x-1.70x Boost
	Power Hungry Gilgamesh	625	9380	14	1.35x-1.70x Boost
	Unique High Wizard Oz	623	9345	14	1.35x-1.70x Boost
	Doom Calling Origenes	623	9345	14	1.35x-1.70x Boost
	Ever Isochronal Diana	621	9310	14	1.35x-1.70x Boost
	Athena, Protector of Order	618	9275	14	1.35x-1.70x Boost
	Maat, Goddess of Serenity	607	9100	14	1.35x-1.70x Boost
	Loki, Prominent Deviant	607	9100	14	1.35x-1.70x Boost

A complete list of raid card efficiency can be found on the Complex Card Comparsion page, under the column RB Att Eff

Hall of Fame decks

The following frontline decks are ones put together by real users, and which the general community feels is deserving of recognition for being among the top.