Rengar

Pridestalker

Fury

BodyIntermediate

Rengar makes every unit play a Might boost, then uses replay effects to get more out of the units already on the board. The best target for the extra Might is not always the unit you just played.

Should you play Rengar?

Pick Rengar if you like changing a fight by adding a useful unit, then finding another job for the survivors. His simple Legend text rewards careful decisions about where the body goes and where the extra Might goes.

Best for: Players who enjoy combat-heavy decks with flexible sequencing, unit replays, and several ways to turn one surviving attacker into another point.
Think twice if: You prefer a fixed curve and permanent stat growth. Most of the Legend's Might disappears at the end of the turn, and the replay cards ask you to track which effects you keep and which you reset.

Key Cards

Thrill of the Hunt replays a friendly unit at any battlefield without its base cost, giving you another play effect and another Pridestalker trigger. First Mate is one of the most useful units to replay because it readies a different unit as well. That lets the new body contest one field while a ready attacker and the Legend's extra Might threaten another.

Thrill of the Hunt
Key card · Fury / Body

Rengar’s Field Guide

Whenever you play a unit, Pridestalker gives a unit +1 Might for the turn. The unit you just played has entered by the time you choose the target, so it can receive the increase, or you can put it on a different unit at any location. There is no exhaust cost or once-per-turn limit. Playing a unit token counts too. This is a temporary Might increase, not a buff counter: several triggers can stack on the same unit, but they disappear at the end of the turn.

How Rengar wins

Rengar wants each unit play to do two useful things. The new body develops or reinforces a battlefield, and the extra Might changes the combat that matters. Ambush units are especially good at this because you can add them after the opponent commits. The chosen Trophy Hunter extends Ambush to a battlefield occupied only by enemies, so you do not always need a friendly foothold first. The deck then uses readying, returns to hand, and Thrill of the Hunt to get further plays or attacks from its surviving units. The goal is to keep converting those resources into points without leaving the previous field empty.

Key interactions

Thrill is a replay, not a ready

Thrill of the Hunt · First Mate · Kai'Sa, Survivor

Thrill costs two Energy and one Fury or Body Power. It banishes a friendly unit, then its owner plays it to any battlefield while ignoring its base cost. That removes the old unit's damage, buffs, and temporary effects and creates a new play, including Pridestalker's trigger. The replayed unit normally enters exhausted. First Mate can ready another unit; Kai'Sa can enter ready if you pay her additional one Energy and one Fury Power for Accelerate. Neither happens just because Thrill was played. The battlefield placement itself can still contest a field without a ready unit making a move.

Put the Legend trigger before Initiate's check

Kinkou Initiate · Noxus Hopeful · Pridestalker

Initiate draws if your other units have at least five total Might when its play trigger resolves. If your only other unit is a four-Might Hopeful, play Initiate and resolve Pridestalker's +1 on Hopeful before resolving the draw check. Hopeful is now five, so Initiate draws. Putting the +1 on Initiate does not help because Initiate excludes itself. The opponent can still change the board before that check, so do not count a draw after the relevant other unit has been removed.

Use the reset before the Might investment

Thrill of the Hunt · Punch First · Pit Rookie

Thrill can save a unit from a pending targeted answer by taking the old object off the board and replaying it. The old targeting relationship does not follow the new unit, even if it returns to the same battlefield. But your own effects do not follow it either: Punch First's +5 and Rookie's buff are lost. If the attack needs both Thrill and a Might boost, replay first and apply the boost afterward. Do not use this line on a token you expect to get back; a token banished from the board ceases to exist.

Strengths

Unit plays can improve an existing attacker or defender without giving up the new body they add to the board.
The Legend works on both turns, including with Ambush units and unit tokens played by death effects.
Thrill gives the featured list a way to reuse play effects, escape a targeted answer, or contest another battlefield with the same card.

Weaknesses

A board that looked large during your turn loses the Legend's temporary increases before the next turn's fights.
The replay and readying effects need useful units already available. A hand full of them does not replace an early board.
A reset can erase your own Might investment, and moving the only unit away from a field can give up the Hold you needed.

Shadow's Pick

Rengar tournament list by mystegune

2nd place · Skirmish Carfurle X Univers Parallèle, 2026-09-13

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Deck total $418.59

Legend (1)

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Runes (12)

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4x$0.10 ea.

Battlefields (3)

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Spells (10)

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Shadow's take

This is my pick because the three First Mates and two Grim Apothecaries give Thrill more useful work than simply relocating the largest unit. Mate can become a body at one battlefield, ready Kai'Sa at base, and put the Legend's extra Might on Kai'Sa for the next attack. Grim can save a battlefield unit or put a Mate, Rookie, or Initiate back in hand for a later replay. That costs resources, but it means the same card can keep contributing after its first job is done. I also like that the early units are not there just to inflate the board. Faefolk changes where the opponent has to defend, Rookie leaves a real buff in addition to the Legend's temporary increase, and Initiate can replace itself off a modest existing board if you order the triggers properly. Kai'Sa and Nidalee supply the other card flow: conquest for Kai'Sa, an actual combat win with Nidalee still present for Nidalee. The trap is spending all of those extra plays to win the same fight by more than necessary. Once the attack is good enough, put the next Might trigger on the unit defending your other point, or save the Ambush unit for the retake.

The Game Plan

Early gameStart with units that make the next play better. A cheap card before Hopeful activates its two-Energy Legion cost. Rookie buffs another friendly unit, while the Legend can add a separate temporary +1 to that same target; Rookie alone cannot give itself its own buff. Faefolk needs to move to a battlefield to pull an enemy there, so playing or replaying it directly to the field does not trigger that ability. Inferna contributes three attacking Might before the Legend's increase, but only one defending Might before it. Build enough real board that Initiate can draw.
MidgameUse Kai'Sa or Nidalee where their draw trigger is achievable, then keep enough resources for the replay or reinforcement that preserves the result. Kai'Sa costs four Energy normally or five and one Fury Power with Accelerate. Nidalee costs three Energy and one Body Power through Ambush, and Trophy Hunter costs five and one Body Power. The Legend's trigger can improve whichever unit needs the Might, not only the one entering. Thrill on First Mate is a two-Energy, one-Power way to replay Mate at a battlefield and ready a different unit. Let the current showdown settle before trying to make that readied unit's normal move from base. If both fields matter, leave a defender rather than shifting every body toward the newest fight.
Late gameWork out the remaining points before choosing between more bodies and a large Punch First. Thrill can place an exhausted unit directly into a battlefield, but it does not give that unit a second move afterward. Pyke is the exception worth setting up: paying his additional Fury Power when replaying him readies him and gives +2 Might for the turn, and he has Ganking. The Legend can add another +1, making him five Might before any other help. First Mate can ready him for another legal battlefield-to-battlefield move. Use Sabotage before the final commitment to remove a non-unit answer from hand. Rampage can clear a unit at base or a battlefield during your Main Phase, but the damage exchange is not a combat win and does not draw a card from Nidalee.

Battlefields

Blind

Star Spring · First Mate · Kai'Sa, Survivor

Your first non-token unit played here each turn may move another friendly unit here back to base. Mate can use that play to send an exhausted Kai'Sa back and ready her with its own play trigger. The Legend's +1 can go on Kai'Sa, and Mate stays to defend Spring while she attacks elsewhere. This requires an actual unit play here and another unit already present; moving a unit here does not activate it. Spring does not put the old unit in hand or repeat its play effect. Check the first-play limit, which applies separately to each player.

Going First

Emperor's Dais · Pit Rookie · Kinkou Initiate

After conquering here, you can commit one Energy and return a friendly unit here to hand as the cost of making a two-Might Sand Soldier here. That token is a unit play, so it produces another Legend trigger. Returning Rookie, Mate, or Initiate sets up a later paid replay while the Soldier replaces a body on the field. The return happens when you commit the trigger, before the Soldier arrives; do not wait for the token and then decide which unit to pick up. Keep enough strength behind for the retake rather than assuming a two-Might replacement is always sufficient.

Going Second

Forbidding Waste · Thrill of the Hunt

Waste makes a lone defender two Might smaller. Use that to retake the battlefield, then reinforce it before the opponent can apply the same penalty to your own lone unit. Thrill can replay a unit directly here, but it enters exhausted unless its own additional cost or another effect readies it.

Sideboard

Give the closing attack room to resolve

Brynhir Thundersong · Thrill of the Hunt · Rampage

Brynhir costs six Energy, and once its play trigger resolves, opponents cannot play cards for the rest of the turn. They can respond before the trigger resolves and can still activate abilities afterward. Bring the sideboard copy when held-up spells and Ambush units keep stopping the attack, trimming a slower Forerunner or a Rampage that does not answer that problem. Have attackers ready already; Brynhir normally enters exhausted. If Brynhir survives, Thrill can replay it for another trigger on a later turn, including the opponent's, but that is another paid spell and another response window, not a permanent lock.

Take the card that will stop the turn

Decree of Strength · Sabotage · Rampage

Strength can recycle a Mind card from the opponent's revealed hand for one Energy, including a unit that Sabotage cannot take. The extra Sabotage reaches non-unit answers of any domain for one Energy and one Body Power. Use the relevant one before the attack. I would replace a Rampage against a deck whose important interaction is in hand, or a slow Forerunner when the game is decided before its replacement Mechs can matter. Do not bring Strength solely to inspect a hand that has no meaningful Mind targets.

Answer the Gear engine

Brittle Steel · Akshan, Mischievous

The two Steels kill Gear during your Main Phase and can be played again from the trash through Flow for four Energy and one Fury Power before being banished. Akshan can take control of an enemy Gear if you pay his additional two Body Power, but it returns when he leaves the board. Trim a less useful combat card when the Gear is deciding the game; keep the unit count high enough for the Legend and Initiate.

Keep playing units after the large one dies

Ferrous Forerunner · Rampage · Inferna

The sideboard Forerunner brings the total to three for games full of ordinary kill trades. Each death plays two three-Might Mechs at base, and each Mech gives a separate Pridestalker trigger. Those increases can help a unit still fighting elsewhere, while the Mechs wait for a later turn. Banishment and returns to hand do not create them, including your own Thrill. The extra Rampage is for a large unit your own threat can fight profitably; its optional Body Power gives the friendly unit +2 before they damage each other. I would trim the small Infernas when their defending bodies keep disappearing, or Sabotage when the opponent is winning with units rather than non-unit answers.