What to do with Lin Lie

Everything I'm Excited to Try with Lin Lie 

This week's new Series 5 card is a little more complex, a little more cerebral, a little more quirky. I think Lin Lie is going to appeal to certain types of players more and is destined to become a new “pet card” for some of those players. Here's everything I'm excited to try.

The Hoop Through Which You Must Jump

Lin Lie asks you to complete a little chore before he gives you any real value. You have to work for him. There are quite a few ways to achieve this, but here are my favorite enablers.

Ghost Spider + Lin Lie = 3/14

Just playing these two together is a nice little value package. If just tossing the two alone into a deck feels strong, Lin Lie will be a must-buy. 

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Web Sling has extra synergy with Lin Lie in that you can decide if you'd rather move the sword or the man, allowing for more board optimization than Ghost-Spider.

Lin Lie ⇾ (Turn 4) Zombie Scarlet Witch + Web Sling

Lin Lie ⇾ Absorbing Man ⇾ Madame Web or Web Sling

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Hellion is an underrated card that might see more play with the introduction of Lin Lie. He is currently seeing play in the one obvious home Lin Lie has.

The Obvious Home

Top ladder player Iris has been playing a deck for a while that Lin Lie can slot right into. The question is about what to take out. I won't speak for Iris, who has hundreds of hours more reps with the deck than I do, but I opted to make the deck a little more Power oriented to lean into the advantage Lin Lie brings, though we might miss Deafening Chord in some games.

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Batroc ⇾ Lin Lie ⇾ Spider-Punk or Hydra Stomper ⇾ Kraven + Silk ⇾ Hellion

Fragile to Tech

Lin Lie, even more than most cards, is quite fragile to disruption by our opponent, and I don't just mean Enchantress. I think Lin Lie is the exact type of card that will do better after its initial release week.

Lin Lie is both interesting from a power-level perspective and as a deck-building and gameplay puzzle. The nature of the card makes it far harder to evaluate than the typical card, but my instinct tells me those points and cross-synergies are solid enough to see play. I'm worried about tech fragility, but those worries could evaporate with a meta shift.

Other Lin Lie Concepts

I've included three more Lin Lie ideas below for our paid supporters.

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