Lilina

## Overview

Written by: Basil

Lilina is a board-centric purple MC that can be 90+ base with range and draws on-hit. She can use her skill 1 to make herself hard to hit, allowing her to backline her other units while she can hit the opponent’s backline and the opponent struggles to hit her. Depending on how she is built, she can run a more traditional purple gameplan, stacking darks, lilina 5’s, and more to stay ahead in card advantage, or go all-in on Lilina, running dancers and buffers to make her swing more often and get to her skill 3’s benchmark of 150.

## Gameplan

Lilina’s early game can vary a bit depending on the build, but it usually isn’t too crazy. You may be playing dark mages or manaketes, and you may want to play them if you draw them, but she’s also alright not doing much except bridging on 2 and promoting on 3.

Once you promote, ideally you use her skill 1, Armads, once a turn and hit something so you get the card back. If your opponent dodges, it's still somewhat positive for you since they lost a card from hand and you still get the buff on Lilina.

From there, you’re mostly just deploying stuff in the back line and supporting Lilina as she buffs and hits stuff. If you have dancers, you can untap her to try to get her draw multiple times, if you have stackers you can stack value-generating support skills, it depends on what you want. The main thing is that you have Lilina in the front line tanking up and your support safe in the back line.

If the opponent over-commits to the board and deploys a lot of units, you can take a turn to use your buffers or Armads multiple times to use Lilina’s skill 3, Forblaze. This skill is incredibly powerful since it not only clears the opponent’s board, but also destroys their MC, so they have to be careful not to go down to 0 orbs. It is also great since after you clear the board, you will usually be +60 or +90 during the opponent’s turn, which can result in them wasting swings.

Your win condition is pretty much just controlling the board and then making a push on their MC with Forblaze once they either over-commit or get low on orbs. You can usually afford to go for the kill over a couple turns since you can tank Lilina up as you do so, making it hard for them to turn around and try to kill you with the last of their resources.

## Strengths and Weaknesses

**Strengths:**

* Usually 90 base with range, which is great stats
* Multiple on-hit effects means eventually some will go off
* Has the ability to nuke the board when the opponent over-commits or goes to 0 orbs

**Weaknesses:**

* Struggles against slower decks that don’t care about the board
* Selfing means she isn’t exactly 90 base all the time
* Sadly shares a name with the best support skill in the game, Lilina 5(4)

## Key Cards

### Nino 4(3)

Nino is run in basically every Lilina deck since she is basically a free way to get a Lilina in hand for her skill 1. She can stack a support skill you want for value as she does it, meaning you get a 2-for-1 in just skill 1 alone. Her other skill is nice for keeping up card advantage, especially if you run extra copies of Nino for dodging.

### Nils 3

Niles is your premiere Lilina buffer, since he is annoying to clear and can take the place of 1 Armads trigger with his buff. He can also buff your other units if you don’t need to go for Forblaze, which can help your lower cost units or mages hit, depending on what you run.

### Lute 4(3)

Lute is a great support for Lilina since you can’t really rely on Lilina 5 supports on your MC. Flip 1 draw is a solid rate, and in a pinch you can deploy her to refresh your hand if you have too many or too few Lilinas.

## Sample Decks

Midrange Lilina
4 Lilina, Beauteous Prodigal Flame
4 Lilina, Leader of Flame and Thunder+
4 Lilina, Brave Princess+
4 Nino, Pious Mage
4 Lute, Matchless Prodigal Mage+
4 Lilina, Wielder of Infernal and Shining Flames+
4 Canas, Benighted Smile
4 Canas, Scholar of Ancient Magics
4 Roy, Evil Star-Scorching Binding Flame
4 Nino, Daughter of the Black Fang (P)
4 Raigh, Darkness-Pursuing Youth
2 Roy, Darkness-Defying Fire
3 Nils, Wind-Riding Ballad
MC:
1 Lilina, Lady of the General's Lineage