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Ahri

Nine-Tailed Fox · Value control · Advanced

Calm domainCalmSustain
Mind domainMindDisruption

Ahri plays a patient value game, using timing and staying power to make opponents fight on bad terms.

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Playstyle

Calm lets Ahri preserve resources while Mind pressures the opponent's options. The deck wants to trade cleanly, then pull ahead once both players are low on easy plays.

Strengths

  • Strong long-game decisions
  • Good control tools
  • Rewards patient sequencing

Watch Outs

  • Can be slow to score
  • Needs careful hand management
  • Less direct for new players

Game Plan

  1. 1Early: establish cards that support the Calm / Mind identity.
  2. 2Midgame: set up durable turns and preserve key units while using Mind cards to keep the plan stable.
  3. 3Late: convert the strongest battlefield position into Hold points instead of chasing every fight.

Pick Ahri if you enjoy control decks that win by making every opponent choice awkward.

Key Cards

Riftbound Unit: Lonely Poro. [Deathknell] — If I died alone, draw 1. (When I die, get the effect. I'm alone if there are no other friendly units here.)

Lonely Poro

Teh Bestest One's Best of Legend list maxes out on 3 copies of this Unit, marking it as a core engine piece rather than filler.

Riftbound Unit: Ravenbloom Student. When you play a spell, give me +1 [S] this turn.

Ravenbloom Student

Teh Bestest One's Best of Legend list maxes out on 3 copies of this Unit, marking it as a core engine piece rather than filler.

Riftbound Unit: Thousand-Tailed Watcher. [Accelerate] (You may pay [1][C] as an additional cost to have me enter ready.) When you play me, give enemy units -3 [S] this turn, to a minimum of 1 [S].

Thousand-Tailed Watcher

Teh Bestest One's Best of Legend list maxes out on 3 copies of this Unit, marking it as a core engine piece rather than filler.

Starter Deck

Ahri does not currently have a preconstructed starter deck in the Hextech starter deck library.

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Budget Upgrades

Budget upgrade guidance is shown for legends with starter decks. For Ahri, start by building around the same domain pair and using the recent meta deck as a card pool reference.

Best of Legend Deck

Teh Bestest One · Ahri, Nine-Tailed Fox

31 · Teh Bestest One · Riftbound Regional Qualifier: Atlanta - Final Standings

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Legend

  • 1x Nine-Tailed Fox

Units

  • 1x Ahri, Inquisitive
  • 3x Ravenbloom Student
  • 3x Thousand-Tailed Watcher
  • 3x Lonely Poro
  • 2x Tasty Faefolk
  • 2x Lecturing Yordle

Spells

  • 3x Defy
  • 3x Discipline
  • 3x Feral Strength
  • 2x Charm
  • 2x Find Your Center
  • 2x Meditation

Gear

  • 1x Zhonya's Hourglass

Runes

  • 6x Calm Rune
  • 6x Mind Rune

Battlefields

  • 1x Aspirant's Climb
  • 1x Grove of the God-Willow
  • 1x Marai Spire

Sideboard

  • 2x Disarming Rake
  • 2x Not So Fast
  • 2x Bellows Breath
  • 1x Ahri, Alluring
  • 1x Thwonk!