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Teemo’s Field Guide

Teemo makes Hidden preparation inexpensive, but still needs a field to prepare. Swift Scout replaces the usual Power payment with one Energy, preserving runes while you build options for a later turn. The facedown card can then be a body, a combat swing or more cards in hand. You need to control the battlefield, respect its Hidden capacity and wait until a subsequent turn to play the prepared card. Those restrictions are the opening challenge. Once a field is established, choosing the right future card can make defending it much cheaper than developing everything openly.

How Teemo wins

Hidden decks can use repeated unit effects or build around a coordinated group of bodies. Either way, the facedown card is what makes attacking your battlefield risky: a prepared unit can join the defense after the attack begins, while Switcheroo reduces a large enemy's Might and increases a friendly unit's. Strategist supplies another defensive threat by revealing Hidden cards for damage when he defends. The Legend can also put a Teemo unit you own back into your hand on your turn, so a Teemo with a useful play effect can be hidden and used again. Keep enough presence to earn Holds, then judge whether the second battlefield is worth reducing the first group's size. More bodies in one place are powerful, but the other field still scores points.

Key interactions

Count the Might before the swap resolves

Switcheroo · Teemo, Scout

Switcheroo compares the current Might of two units at the same battlefield as it resolves, then lowers the larger one and raises the smaller one by the difference for the turn. Teemo, Scout enters with +3 Might for the turn, so a 4-Might Scout swapped with a 7-Might attacker becomes 7 while the attacker becomes 4. Each battlefield normally holds one facedown card, so if Scout was the card hidden there, Switcheroo has to come from your hand for its full cost. The swap does not copy the enemy's abilities.

Refill the facedown cards

Guerilla Warfare

Guerilla recovers up to two Hidden cards from your trash and lets you Hide without paying the cost that turn. It does not add slots or let you play a newly hidden card immediately. It is at its best after a fight has used up your facedown cards and you still control battlefields with empty slots to hide them in.

Make Strategist defend for his damage

Teemo, Strategist · Swift Scout

Strategist's current ability triggers when he defends. Playing him from Hidden into a defense works; revealing him on offense does not create a separate damage trigger. Choose an enemy at his battlefield, reveal five cards and count the Hidden hits. The damage is uncertain. Zero Hidden hits deal zero, so the reveal is a bonus on top of a defense that already holds. The Legend can put a Teemo from the board into your hand on your own Main, although that activation is not a Reaction escape from removal.

Strengths

One-Energy Hide payments preserve Power while preparing inexpensive plays for later turns.
Hidden deployment changes the combat after an attack begins, which turns each facedown card into a threat the opponent has to play around.
Recovery like Guerilla Warfare and the Legend's return of a Teemo unit help the deck prepare another field instead of relying on the opening hand alone.

Weaknesses

The Hidden discount needs an established field and does not solve the first deployment by itself.
Losing control of a battlefield removes the card hidden there at the next cleanup, so a failed defense can cost the prepared card as well as the point.
Prepared cards take time, Strategist's damage varies, and concentrating the whole board can concede the other field.

Shadow's Pick

Teemo tournament list by Xedoran

5th place · 16k€ Grand Summoner Skirmish, Sep 26, 2026

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Shadow's take

This is my Teemo pick because it solves the problem the Legend cannot solve by itself: Swift Scout lets you pay 1 Energy instead of 1 Power for every hide, but you still need a battlefield you control before you can hide anything. Sneaky Deckhand can be played straight to an open battlefield, Sprite Fountain makes a ready 3-Might Sprite that can move out the turn it arrives, and Evelynn, Entrancing can pull an enemy unit to her battlefield when you play her from face down on your turn. Once you hold a battlefield, each hide can cost 1 Energy instead of 1 Power, and the facedown card can match whatever attack the opponent is likely to make. Sprite Call puts a ready 3-Might Sprite at that battlefield, Windsinger returns an attacker with 3 Might or less, Switcheroo swaps Might with their biggest unit there, and Teemo, Scout arrives with +3 Might. Teemo, Strategist rewards that density, since 25 of the 39 main-deck cards have Hidden and he deals 1 damage for each one in the top five when he defends. I like that the Legend can also return a Teemo to your hand on your own turn, so a Scout that has already done its job can be hidden again for another +3 later.

The Game Plan

Early gameThe first job is controlling a battlefield, because nothing can be hidden until you do. Sneaky Deckhand can be played directly to an open battlefield, and Sprite Fountain's Sprite enters ready, so it can move in on the turn you play it. Most other units enter exhausted and have to wait a turn before they can move. Once you control a battlefield, use the Legend to hide a card there for 1 Energy instead of recycling a rune for Power. Each battlefield holds only one facedown card, so pick the one that answers the attack you expect next turn.
MidgameEvelynn, Entrancing does the most when you play her from face down on your own turn, because moving an enemy unit from another location to her battlefield can open the battlefield it left or leave it outnumbered where your units are. Guerilla Warfare returns up to two Hidden cards from your trash to your hand and lets you hide cards without paying the cost for the rest of that turn, which refills your battlefields after a fight used up the facedown cards. Switcheroo and Wind and Ghosts work well together: once Switcheroo leaves an enemy unit at 3 Might or less, Wind and Ghosts banishes it instead of returning it to hand. Temporal Breach on your own Teemo, Scout replays him at the same location with a fresh +3 Might for the turn.
Late gameTeemo, Strategist turns a defense into removal by choosing an enemy unit at his battlefield and dealing 1 to it for each Hidden card in the top five of your Main Deck. That damage varies, so treat it as a bonus on top of a defense that already holds. If that reveal, or the look at the top two from conquering The Candlelit Sanctum, finds Nocturne, Horrifying, you may banish him and play him for 1 Power of any domain. Holding Grove of the God-Willow draws a card, and Power Nexus lets you pay 4 Power when you hold it to score another point, which Gold from Pyke, Returned and Wages of Pain can help pay.

Battlefields

Blind

Grove of the God-Willow

Grove draws a card each time you hold it, which is exactly what this deck is trying to do: keep a battlefield with a facedown card behind your units and make the opponent attack into it. The extra card also helps replace the hidden card you spent defending it.

Score faster

Power Nexus · Pyke, Returned

When you hold Power Nexus, you may pay 4 Power to score 1 point. Paying hides with the Legend's Energy option keeps more runes available to recycle for that Power, and Gold from Pyke, Returned or Wages of Pain can cover part of it. It is most useful once the board is stable enough that spending those resources does not leave the other battlefield exposed.