Blind Monk
Lee Sin's Legend gives a friendly unit a lasting +1 Might buff for one Energy, and this list puts those buffs on units that are already large, then lets Lee Sin, Centered make them bigger. Charm and Irresistible Faefolk move enemy units so the fights happen where you want them, and each of its battlefields can turn a conquest into a card.
Pick Lee Sin if you enjoy building a defensible board, then choosing when to turn it into an attack. A well-placed buff can matter for several turns, but only if you keep its carrier useful.
Nothing else in this list buffs a unit, so Lee Sin, Centered is at his best after several turns of one-Energy Legend activations have left buffs on the units around him. Jayce, Hammer in Hand chooses Assault 2, Deflect 2 or Ganking for the turn whenever he becomes ready, and First Mate can ready him a second time. Rengar, Trophy Hunter is a six-Might Ambush unit that can also be played to a battlefield where there are enemy units, even if you don't have units there.
Blind Monk
Legend
Lee Sin, Centered
Chosen Champion · Body
Jayce, Hammer in Hand
Key card · Body
Rengar, Trophy Hunter
Key card · Body
Blind Monk pays one Energy and exhausts to buff a friendly unit. That gives a unit without a buff a lasting +1 Might; it does not stack another buff onto a unit that already has one. The activation has no Action or Reaction permission, so use it during your own open Main Phase. You are deciding which body should be better in the next fight, not waiting until combat to reveal another point of Might. Centered then rewards that preparation by giving your other buffed units +2 Might at his battlefield. It is a local bonus, not a boost to every buffed unit on the board, and it does not apply to Centered himself.
Use cheap units to establish a battlefield without spending the whole hand, then improve the bodies that can keep it. A lasting buff on a defender can buy the time needed to develop a second threat, while Centered makes several modest units much harder to trade through together. The challenge is deciding when to stop adding to the defense and attack somewhere else. A large total Might in one lane does not answer an opponent scoring freely in the other. Keep the unit that earns the Hold, and use your movement, ready effects, and protection to make the next attacker accomplish something beyond another favorable trade.
Lee Sin, Centered · Monastery of Hirana
At Centered's battlefield, a buff supplies its own +1 Might and qualifies another unit for +2 more. Spending it can therefore remove three Might immediately. Effects that spend a buff, such as Monastery of Hirana's conquest draw, are only worth it when the unit losing that buff doesn't need those three Might for the next fight. If another unit you control has a buff it can spare, spend that one instead.
Blind Monk · Lee Sin, Centered
The Legend exhausts as part of its cost, so it can buff at most one unit each turn, and a unit that already has a buff gains nothing from it. Over several turns, the useful question is which units will still be on the board when Centered arrives. A buff on a unit that dies leaves with it, while a buff on a survivor keeps its +1 Might and qualifies that unit for Centered's +2 at his battlefield. Because the Legend can't be activated during the opponent's turn, a spare Energy on your own turn is usually better spent on a buff than saved.
Zhonya's Hourglass · First Mate · Blind Monk
Hourglass replaces a friendly unit's death by killing the Gear, healing the unit, exhausting it, and recalling it to base. The unit keeps its buff because it never leaves the board. First Mate can then ready it on your turn so it can move back out. That is real value, but Hourglass has still removed a defender from the battlefield and may have given up a point. It is not Equipment assigned to one chosen carrier: a different friendly unit's death can consume it first. Banishment and returning the unit to hand are different problems that the death replacement does not solve.
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This is my Lee Sin pick because it doesn't need a pile of cheap buff cards to make the Legend matter. One Energy a turn leaves a lasting buff on the unit you want to keep, and the deck's main threats are already large: Jayce, Hammer in Hand starts at five Might, Nidalee at four and Rengar, Trophy Hunter at six. A buff makes Nidalee or an empowered Mournful Witness Mighty, which matters at Sunken Temple, and every buffed unit beside Lee Sin, Centered gets another +2 Might. The other half of the deck decides where those fights happen. Charm moves an enemy unit on your turn, so it can take a defender off the battlefield you want, while Irresistible Faefolk can pull an enemy unit into the battlefield it moves to and leave the opponent's other battlefield empty. I like how Jayce adapts to the turn in front of him. He chooses Assault 2, Deflect 2 or Ganking whenever he becomes ready, and First Mate can ready him again after an attack so he can take Ganking and move to the second battlefield. Just remember that a Jayce who stayed ready through your last turn doesn't become ready at the start of this one, so he gets no choice until something else readies him.
Monastery of Hirana · Lee Sin, Centered
Monastery is my default because the Legend can pay for it every turn. When you conquer here, you may spend a buff from any unit you control to draw a card, and the Legend can put a new buff out for one Energy on your next turn. Spend it from a unit that doesn't need it for the next fight. A buffed unit beside Lee Sin, Centered loses both the buff and his +2 Might, and the Legend can't replace it during the opponent's turn.
Seat of Power · Irresistible Faefolk · Charm
Seat of Power draws one card for each other battlefield you control when you conquer it, which in a two-player game means one card if you already hold the opponent's battlefield. Going first usually gives your two-Energy units the first chance to move onto a battlefield, so I like it when the hand can take one field early and follow up here. Faefolk or Charm can clear the last enemy unit from the other battlefield, but nobody controls a battlefield with no units, so you still need to move a unit there to take it.
Origins Champion Deck
Legend: Lee Sin, Blind Monk (OGN-257)
Sunken Temple · Jayce, Hammer in Hand · Nidalee, Cat Form
Sunken Temple lets you pay one Energy to draw when you conquer here with at least one Mighty unit, meaning a unit with five or more Might. Going second, the extra rune on your first turn helps you reach Jayce, Rengar or a buffed Nidalee sooner while keeping that Energy available. A unit that is Mighty only because of Assault still counts when you conquer, but Deflect and Ganking add no Might.
Tomb-Raider Barbara · Noxian Demolitionist
Barbara's play trigger needs seven or more runes under your control, then disempowers an empowered enemy Gear or kills one that isn't empowered. Noxian Demolitionist can kill a Gear when it conquers, but only one whose Energy cost is no higher than its Might. Its one printed Might only reaches one-Energy Gear, so a Legend buff raises that to two and a buff beside Lee Sin, Centered raises it to four. Bring them in for a combat trick or a Charm when opposing Gear is what wins the fights.
Not So Fast · Repulse · Ruin Runner
Not So Fast counters an enemy spell or ability that chooses a friendly unit or Gear, while Repulse protects one friendly unit at a battlefield from an enemy spell or ability that chooses it and no other friendly unit. Ruin Runner is a five-Might unit that enemy spells and abilities can't choose at all. None of them stops an effect that doesn't choose its target, so swap them for a combat trick only when the opponent's removal actually targets.
Defy · Sabotage
The extra Defy counters a spell that costs no more than four Energy and one Power, and the two extra Sabotages reveal the opponent's hand during your turn and recycle a non-unit card from it. They fit best against decks whose spells decide the game, replacing a Rampage or Charm when the opposing units aren't the real problem.
Dragon's Rage
Dragon's Rage moves an enemy unit, then has another enemy unit at its destination and the moved unit deal damage equal to their Mights to each other. It needs a second enemy unit at that destination, so it is better against decks that spread several units than against one large threat.
