Starter Decks

In Skylords Reborn every new player starts with 2 ready-made collection decks and the uneditable deck designed to play the Tutorial. Additionally, players get the option to freely choose 2 out of 16 decks, that are only usable in Player vs Player (PvP). This selection can be changed once per day.

Example of a beginner's typical collection of starter decks.

## PvE

As the 2 starter decks that are meant for Player vs Environment (PvE), consist of 40 owned cards, this means those can technically also be used in PvP. Given that these decks are neither charged nor upgraded, the free PvP decks serve this purpose better. Next to the 2 actual starter decks, players also receive 11 additional cards for further customization, which makes in total 51 cards. PvE starter cards vary in editions but are all of common rarity. In the Forge Inventory, all permanently owned starter cards are marked with a bell/pin icon in their top left corner, and the base card cannot be sold or traded. Additional charges can be traded and applied as usual though.

The starter cards are split amongst factions as follows:

* 13 Fire cards
* 10 Shadow cards
* 11 Frost cards
* 12 Nature cards
* 2 Bandit cards
* 3 Stonekin cards

This card distribution means that a new player will be unable to effectively produce a pure deck, and will need to settle for splash decks instead. The current starter decks are displayed further below.

A third deck every player permanently owns is named "**Tutorial**" and meant to be used to play the explanatory PvE Scenario . This deck can also be used to play other maps, but cannot be changed at all. It also contains the extra card . All other cards of this deck are also contained in the other 2 starting decks.

The starter cards are generally sufficient to get the player familiar with the system and run them through the campaign on standard difficulty, however more advanced cards may be desirable if tackling higher difficulties.

* Deck 1
* Deck 2
* Extra Cards
* Tutorial Deck

Deck 1: FireShadow (   )
This deck features cards of Fire and Shadow, meaning it is a Bandits deck.

Deck 2: FrostNature (   )
This deck features cards of Frost and Nature, meaning it is a Stonekin deck.

Extra Cards
Players are given 5 T1 cards from the Nature and Shadow faction, to provide the option to settle for a different start of the game. Additionally they receive  as the card is included in the Tutorial deck.

Tutorial Deck (  )
This deck does not contain any cards that require 4 monuments (T4) nor does it reach a deck's card limit of 20 contained cards.

List of included Cards
All of the 51 provided and permanently owned starter cards, alphabetically organized, are as follows:

## PvP

As of Pre-Release Patch #400013 players in Skylords Reborn have the option to choose 2 out of 16 prebuild decks. This can be done by either clicking on the "Sword" Icon in the Forge Header Menu or using the button on the deck overview window.

The player always needs to rent 2 decks at the same time and will actually rent the 40 cards the 2 selected decks consist of. Because of that, players can also select and rent a PvP deck, even if they have already reached the deck limit. The PvP decks are fully upgraded and fully charged and thus deck level 120. Decks stay rented indefinitely but the choice can be changed once per day, indicated by a timer counting down.

The free cards gained from these decks can only be used to build PvP decks though, but rented cards can be exchanged by owned card. Regardless, if modified or not, these Starter Decks are exclusively usable in PvP matches. One's originally rented decks can be restored by going back to the respective deck preview and cloning them there.

Selection window of free the PvP starter decks.The upgrade 3 deck preview cards can directly be tested in the forge by left-clicking on them.
The currently available decks are shown below, but they can be adjusted at any time by the player using other rented or owned collection cards. The decks are crafted and updated by well-experienced PvP players and are considered strong in the current meta.

### Currently available Decks

All deck names are composited of the typical affinity prefixes (Tainted / Gifted / Blessed / Infused) indicating the decks T2 orb and a chosen noun afterwards (Darkness / Flora / Ice / Flame) related to the T1 faction. The deck name remains changeable to disguise the contained cards to experienced opponents.

* Shadow Decks
* Nature Decks
* Frost Decks
* Fire Decks

Tainted Darkness

Gifted Darkness

Blessed Darkness

Infused Darkness

Tainted Flora

Gifted Flora

Blessed Flora

Infused Flora

Tainted Ice

Gifted Ice

Blessed Ice

Infused Ice

Tainted Flame

Gifted Flame

Blessed Flame

Infused Flame

## Patch History

Patch #400035
* Reordered some cards in the free PvP decks **Blessed Darkness** and **Blessed Flora** to be more consistent for hotkey usage.
* The following free PvP decks also had some cards exchanged, to better fit to the new meta:

 **Tainted Flora** |  | *
 **Infused Flora** |  | *
 **Gifted Flame** |  | *

Patch #400034
* Reordered the cards in many of the free PvP decks to be more consistent for hotkey usage.
* The following free PvP decks also had some cards exchanged, to better fit to the new meta:

Patch #400033
* Updates to a free PvP deck a player has selected, will now cause a notification and grant the option to either swap to the new cards or keep the current deck.
* Adjusted the following free PvP decks to better fit the changes in the meta:

 **Gifted Flora** |  | *
 **Gifted Flame** |  | *
 **Infused Flame** |  | *

Patch #400031
* Adjusted most of the current free PvP decks to better fit changes in the meta:

* Increased the frequency by which players can make a new choice for their selected free PvP decks from every 7 days to every 24 hours.

Release Patch #400020
* Added  to the pool of PvE **starter cards**.

Pre-Release Patch #400019
* was removed from the PvE Bandits starter deck and replaced by .
* was removed from the PvE Stonekin starter deck and replaced by .

Pre-Release Patch #400017
* You can now clone the free PvP decks in their preview window.
* Adjusted the free PvP decks UI to be less confusing.

Pre-Release Patch #400014
* Fixed UI sometimes not properly updating when creating/deleting decks in the deck window.
* Fixed cards from free PvP composed decks showing up as available charges for collection cards. Should solve the error many people were experiencing when trying to charge cards sometimes.
* Fixed choosing free PvP decks for a second time not working properly.

Pre-Release Patch #400013
* Players can now choose 2 out of 16 decks per week. These decks are fully charged and upgraded (Deck Level 120) and can be customized with own cards, but cannot be used in Non-PvP Gamemodes.

Pre-Release Patch #400004
* With the change on how card charges work, the "Tutorial" deck gained in strength due to upgrade 0 cards now all having their base charges doubled.

## See also

* Cards
* Deck