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Vex

Gloomist · Card draw control · Intermediate

Calm domainCalmSustain
Chaos domainChaosVolatile

Vex draws a card every time you or an ally hold a battlefield, turning defensive play into incremental advantage.

Playstyle

Calm supports the defensive holding pattern while Chaos provides disruptive tools to protect it. Vex wants to establish Holds, then draw through the deck faster than the opponent can break the lock.

What Makes This Legend Different

Gloomist: "When you or an ally hold, you may exhaust me to draw 1."

Vex rewards holding ground; the deck feels best when you establish a battlefield and make the opponent fight uphill to break it.

Strengths

  • Reliable card draw engine
  • Rewards defensive play
  • Good card quality over time

Watch Outs

  • Needs to hold battlefields
  • Can be slow to score
  • Draws need to translate into action

Game Plan

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

Pick Vex if you like control decks that quietly pull ahead by drawing more cards every turn.

Starter Deck

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

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Best of Legend Deck

白银山.绝世废物 · Vex, Gloomist

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Legend (1 card)

  • 1x Gloomist

Units (16 cards)

  • 3x Overzealous Fan
  • 3x Scuttle Crab
  • 2x Treasure Hunter
  • 3x Kha'Zix, Mutating Horror
  • 1x Sona, Harmonious
  • 1x Vex, Apathetic
  • 1x Vex, Apathetic
  • 1x Ahri, Alluring
  • 1x Blitzcrank, Impassive

Spells (22 cards)

  • 3x Charm
  • 3x Defy
  • 2x Existential Dread
  • 3x Discipline
  • 1x Not So Fast
  • 2x Rebuke
  • 3x Switcheroo
  • 2x Thwonk!
  • 3x Back Off

Gear (2 cards)

  • 2x Last Rites

Runes (12 cards)

  • 6x Calm Rune
  • 6x Chaos Rune

Battlefields (3 cards)

  • 1x Amateur Recital
  • 1x Targon's Peak
  • 1x The Papertree

Sideboard (8 cards)

  • 1x Abandon
  • 1x Emperor's Divide
  • 1x Not So Fast
  • 3x Kog'Maw, Caustic
  • 1x Adaptatron
  • 1x Fading Memories

Best of Legend Key Cards

Riftbound Spell: Back Off. [Hidden] (Hide now for [A] to react with later for [0].) [Action] (Play on your turn or in showdowns.) [Stun] a unit. (It doesn't deal combat damage this turn.) If you played this from your hand, draw 1.

Back Off

白银山.绝世废物's Vex list plays 3 copies of this Spell. Its text says, "[Hidden] (Hide now for to react with later for .) [Action] (Play on your turn or in showdowns.) [Stun] a unit. (It..." That is useful because it keeps the deck moving through card selection or extra cards.

Riftbound Unit: Overzealous Fan. When I defend, you may kill me to move an attacking unit to its base.

Overzealous Fan

白银山.绝世废物's Vex list plays 3 copies of this Unit. Its text says, "When I defend, you may kill me to move an attacking unit to its base." That is useful because it turns resources into removal or lethal combat math.

Riftbound Unit: Scuttle Crab. (Units with 0 [S] can conquer and hold.) When you play me, draw 1. [Deathknell][>] Choose an opponent. They reveal their hand. You can look at their facedown cards this turn. Gain 1 XP. (When I die, get the effects.)

Scuttle Crab

白银山.绝世废物's Vex list plays 3 copies of this Unit. Its text says, "(Units with 0 can conquer and hold.) When you play me, draw 1. [Deathknell][>] Choose an opponent. They reveal their..." That is useful because it keeps the deck moving through card selection or extra cards.