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Teemo

Swift Scout

Mind

ChaosAdvanced

Teemo trades a small setup cost for stronger choices in the next fight. Spiderlings grow together, Switcheroo turns opposing Might against its owner, and a prepared field keeps the hand working.

Should you play Teemo?

Pick Teemo if you enjoy preparing the next fight before the opponent knows which cards will join it. Think twice if you prefer threats that stay the same size when their supporting units leave.

Best for: Players who like Hidden sequencing, coordinated boards and turning a small setup payment into a strong later defense.
Think twice if: You tend to overfill one field, forget when a card was hidden or assume the next Strategist reveal will deal exactly the damage you need.

Key Cards

Swift Scout lets you hide a Hidden card for one Energy instead of a Power. Spiderling turns each additional copy at its location into more Might for the whole group, and Switcheroo can turn one of those small bodies into the largest unit in the fight. Teemo, Scout is the chosen Champion; the Spider and Hidden interaction package does most of the work in this pick.

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. The Spiderling plan rewards the second approach: each Spider gains a Might for every other friendly Spider at the same location. Three unmodified Spiders are three Might each, giving nine total combat Might. A prepared Spider can increase that group during the opponent's attack, 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. 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

Add the body before calculating the swap

Spiderling · Switcheroo · Bandle Tree

With two Spiders at Tree and a third prepared there, revealing the third makes all three three-Might units. A prepared Switcheroo can then swap one Spider's three Might with a seven-Might attacker: your units become seven, three and three, while the attacker becomes three. Tree supplies the two Hidden slots for that setup. If a Spider later leaves, the remaining copies get smaller; the swap does not freeze their Might or copy the enemy's abilities.

Keep the useful cards out of the reset

Consult the Past · Invert Timelines · Guerilla Warfare

Cards already hidden stay on the board when Invert discards the hands and gives each player four cards. Consult can provide a later draw for no current Energy after its earlier Hide payment. 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. Make the preparation useful before refilling the opponent's hand along with yours.

Make Strategist defend for his damage

Teemo, Strategist · Void Gate · 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. Gate adds one to an actual damage instance here, but zero Hidden hits still deal zero. 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.
Each additional Spider can improve the entire group, and Hidden deployment changes the combat after an attack begins.
Draws, hand resets and recovery 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 or returning one Spider lowers the Might of the others there, which can cause further casualties if they are damaged.
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 FG.流萤

42nd place · S4 Shanghai City Challenge, 2026-08-08

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Deck total $251.96

Legend (1)

1x$0.29 ea.

Runes (12)

6x$0.16 ea.
6x$0.11 ea.

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Shadow's take

I'm keeping this eighteen-Spider list as the pick. It has enough bodies to build the group without giving up the cards that make the fights interesting: three Switcheroos, three Star-Crossed and three Strategists. The eighteen copies are legal because Spiderling explicitly allows any number in a deck. I like having Consult and Invert to keep the hand moving, but I would not fire off Invert simply because it is available. Hiding the cards you want to keep and checking the opponent's hand size makes a big difference. Scout is a useful chosen Champion because he can enter for two Energy without spending a Power, or join a later defense from Hidden at four Might for that turn. Time Warp is the expensive finish after the board is established. The main plan is still taking a field, preparing the right follow-up and making the opponent spend more than expected to get through the Spiders.

The Game Plan

Early gamePlan the first actual unit deployment. Hiding requires a controlled battlefield, so a hand full of cards you want facedown still needs a way to claim one. Scout costs two Energy normally and a Spider costs three. Units enter exhausted normally; Scout's play bonus does not grant an immediate attack. Once a field is yours, the chosen Scout can be hidden directly from the Champion Zone under the normal Hidden rules; you do not need to pay the Legend to put him into hand first. I would return the expensive Warps or Possession when the hand cannot establish a field and prepare a useful next turn.
MidgameDecide what the next attack will require before filling the Hidden slot. Another Spider grows every friendly Spider here; Switcheroo reaches the large unit that raw numbers cannot comfortably beat; Consult restocks the hand. At Tree you can prepare two cards, such as Spider plus Switcheroo, for two Energy across the two Hide payments. On a later defense, resolve the Spider first, recalculate the whole group, then decide whether the swap is still needed. Star-Crossed can remove a major enemy and save a friendly unit, but returning a Spider also shrinks its companions. Keep the field's remaining Might in view instead of counting the returned card as a free save.
Late gameConvert the prepared board into points before spending the top end. Time Warp costs ten Energy and four Mind Power; it gives another turn, not an answer to an enemy field by itself. It is strongest when the extra ready step and Holds do useful work. Possession costs eight Energy and three Chaos Power, takes an enemy unit at a battlefield and recalls it to your base. That can remove a serious threat, but the stolen unit still needs a legal way back to a scoring field. Keep Abandon for the spell that breaks the plan, remembering that an ordinary countered spell goes back to the opponent's hand. If the hand needs a reset, prepare the Hidden cards you want to retain before Invert and consider what four new cards will give the opponent.

Battlefields

Blind

Bandle Tree · Spiderling · Switcheroo

Tree gives two Hidden slots instead of one, letting you prepare a body and a different kind of answer at the same field. That is especially useful for the Spider-then-Switcheroo defense, or for keeping Consult available alongside a body. It does not remove the need to control the field or wait until a later turn. I would start here with an opening that can establish presence and actually use both choices.

Going First

Ripper's Bay · Star-Crossed · Consult the Past

When a unit here returns to a player's hand, that player can pay one Energy to channel a rune exhausted. Star-Crossed gives an explicit way to recover a friendly card and earn that option while removing an enemy. The opponent can benefit from their returned unit too. Pay the Energy before the new rune arrives; it is exhausted and cannot fund the payment that created it. Choose Bay when that paid resource growth supports the longer game without giving up a useful holder.

Going Second

Void Gate · Teemo, Strategist · Singularity

Gate increases spell and ability damage to units here, helping a positive Strategist reveal reach a larger attacker. It does not increase combat damage or create damage from a reveal with no Hidden hits. The opponent gets the same bonus against your Spiders, and damage to a second target elsewhere stays unchanged. I would choose it when the extra damage matters more than that exposure, especially if the sideboard plan includes Singularity.

Sideboard

Use the Gear answer that reaches the target

Acceptable Losses · Rocket Barrage

Losses costs one Energy and makes each player kill one of their Gear. This list has none of its own, but the opponent chooses what they lose and can sacrifice a spare Gold or cheap Gear. Barrage is the more precise answer, or can deal four to a unit in base. Its full Repeat costs eight Energy and two Mind Power. Bring the appropriate answer for the opposing Gear, trimming a slow payoff or less useful interaction instead of assuming the cheapest option always removes the important card.

Remove the units the Spider combat cannot handle

Singularity · Void Gate · Possession

Singularity deals six to each of up to two units for six Energy and two Mind Power. A target at Gate takes seven; a target elsewhere does not. It has normal spell timing, so plan the removal before the fight rather than holding it as a Reaction. It can replace a slower Possession or another expensive card when direct removal is the job you need. Keep enough affordable bodies to take the field after clearing it.

Make the decisive spell resolve

Mel, Newly Awakened · Abandon · Switcheroo

Mel draws on play and, after her three-Energy Empower, makes your spells and abilities uncounterable. Her empowered ability also adds another minus-one Might to the decreasing half of Switcheroo. That is a seven-Energy, one-Mind investment including her play, and it does not protect the board from removal by itself. The extra Abandon is the cheaper way to contest a specific spell. Bring these when counterplay is the real problem, checking what comes out: replacing a Hidden card lowers Strategist's hit density; replacing a non-Hidden card such as Time Warp or Possession leaves the Hidden count unchanged.