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Yasuo

Unforgiven

Calm

ChaosAdvanced

Yasuo moves exhausted units out of base, turns Herder's movement into cards, and sends boosted Remorseful attacks through important defenders. Windrider supplies a separate three-move scoring option.

Should you play Yasuo?

Pick Yasuo if you enjoy finding the most useful place for a unit you already paid for. The movement should earn a card, improve an attack, or preserve a body you still need.

Best for: Players who like planning several legal moves ahead while keeping location, ready state, and temporary Might separate.
Think twice if: You expect the Legend to rescue a unit in response to removal. Its activation has normal Main-Phase timing and does not ready the unit it moves.

Key Cards

Herder turns every actual move into a card, giving the Legend a productive use before the late game. Remorseful turns Might into attack-trigger damage before regular combat damage. Those are the main reasons to build around movement here; the single Windrider is another way to score, not the only reason the deck works.

Yasuo, Remorseful
Chosen Champion · Calm

Yasuo’s Field Guide

Unforgiven pays two Energy and exhausts to move a friendly unit to or from its base. The unit itself does not need to be ready because you are paying the Legend's exhaust cost, not taking the unit's normal move. That lets a freshly played, exhausted unit reach a battlefield and attack. It does not ready that unit, cannot move an enemy, and cannot move a unit directly between two battlefields. The ability has ordinary Main-Phase timing. Ride the Wind, Hidden Tideturner, and Star-Crossed provide different options at different timings; they are not interchangeable copies of the Legend.

How Yasuo wins

Yasuo wants the unit that entered at base to matter sooner, then wants the next movement to produce another useful result. Herder draws whenever it moves. Akali gains Might each time she moves to a battlefield. Remorseful can remove a defender with his attack trigger before the remaining units deal combat damage. Windrider rewards a third move in the same turn with a point. You do not need to assemble all of those in one turn. Choose the unit whose payoff fits the board, and keep enough resources for the response that protects it.

Key interactions

Moving, readying, and returning to hand are different

Stellacorn Herder · Ride the Wind · Tideturner

The Legend moves without readying. Ride the Wind moves and readies. Tideturner exchanges places with a unit you control at another location and does not ready either unit. Herder draws from those actual moves, but not from Star-Crossed returning it to hand or Hourglass recalling it to base. A ready Herder can move to a field for a card, then the Legend can move it back to base for another. That second move leaves it exhausted, and abandoning the field may give up a future Hold. The cards are only worth it if the position you leave is acceptable.

Increase the damage before Remorseful's ability resolves

Yasuo, Remorseful · Mask of Foresight · Discipline

Remorseful's attack ability checks his current Might when it resolves. If he attacks alone with Mask in play, let Mask's +1 Might resolve before his damage ability. Discipline can add another two in response while drawing a card. A boost after the damage has already resolved cannot increase it retroactively. The chosen enemy also needs to remain here relative to Yasuo when the ability resolves, so moving Yasuo away can break his own attack trigger. Mask's bonus lasts for the turn once earned; a later friendly reinforcement does not undo it.

Plan the third move before spending the first payment

Yasuo, Windrider · Unforgiven · Ride the Wind

Windrider has Ganking and scores a point on his third move in a turn. For example, start with him ready at a field: move him to base normally, use the Legend to move him to another legal field, then Ride the Wind back to base. That is three moves for four Energy and one Chaos Power, leaving him ready. Any intervening fight still has to be resolved. The point comes from his ability, so it does not require the third move to conquer a field. Recall is not a move, and moving a fourth or sixth time does not earn another copy of the third-move point.

Strengths

The Legend can bring an exhausted unit into an immediate attack without paying a separate ready effect.
Herder gives ordinary movement a card return, while several other threats reward the same positioning tools differently.
Remorseful's attack damage and Windrider's ability point offer ways to make progress beyond a straightforward Might trade.

Weaknesses

The two-Energy Legend payment can compete with protection, draw, or a needed second unit.
Some of the best movement lines leave the previous field empty or put the unit back at base instead of setting up a Hold.
Returning a threat to hand may save it but also removes its temporary bonuses and requires paying to play it again.

Shadow's Pick

Yasuo tournament list by 𝙶𝙻𝚇-归来

11th place · S4 Shenyang City Challenge, 2026-08-16

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Deck total $115.32

Legend (1)

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Runes (12)

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Battlefields (3)

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Spells (13)

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Sideboard (10)

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Shadow's take

Herder is the card I would build the ordinary turns around. The three copies mean movement can keep the hand working instead of just shifting the same threat around. Boots makes Herder five Might and gives it Ganking, while a newly attached Brutalizer makes it six for the turn. Either can turn a card-draw unit into a real attacker. Remorseful is where the Might investment becomes removal. Mask, Monk's Assault, and the combat tricks can all increase his attack-trigger damage, so I would work out that number before deciding whether another spell is necessary. Akali gives you a cheaper threat that grows when moved to a battlefield, and Zed leaves a Clone after conquering so a later swap does not have to abandon the old field entirely. There is only one Windrider here. I like having the three-move point available, but I would not hold useful movement cards for several turns waiting to draw him. Make the Herder turn or the Remorseful attack that is already in front of you, then use Windrider when the route and the resources actually line up.

The Game Plan

Early gameLook for a cheap unit and a reason its first field will be useful. Paws can conquer at zero Might; a solo attack or defense with Mask gives it a temporary point of Might. Its own seven-Energy Empower is a later investment, not something this deck gets for free. Gust Monk costs two Energy, or three if you want its play trigger. That trigger also needs a card to banish from a trash before giving Assault 2. When an opposing trash card is available, consider using it rather than consuming a unit your future Shadow Clone could need. Mask is a gear that works from base, not Equipment to attach.
MidgameDecide between developing Herder's card return and bringing a threat straight out of base. Akali costs four Energy and one Calm Power, then the Legend's two Energy can move her to a battlefield for the +2 Might trigger. Remorseful costs six Energy and two Calm Power before that same movement payment, so his immediate attack costs eight Energy and two Calm Power in total. With Mask already established, a solo Remorseful can deal seven through his attack ability once Mask resolves. Budget additional protection separately. Boots costs three Energy plus one Chaos Power to equip; Brutalizer costs two Energy plus one Calm Power. Only Brutalizer's extra two Might expires after the attachment turn, leaving its usual one-Might bonus.
Late gamePreserve the threat whose next movement matters most. Zed's conquest makes an exhausted zero-Might Clone at base; his one-Energy, one-Chaos Action ability can exchange their locations without readying them. The Clone can attack for Assault 4 by banishing a unit from your trash, but it does not receive four Might just for existing. Use Star-Crossed when returning a friendly unit and an enemy to hand is worth the later replay payment. Hourglass instead heals, exhausts, and recalls a unit when preventing its death, which saves the body but does not trigger Herder or advance Windrider. Apathetic at a field stuns new opposing unit plays anywhere and prevents that opponent moving them for the turn. Existing attackers and enemy play abilities still need an answer.

Battlefields

Blind

Sunken Temple · Akali, Silent · Stellacorn Herder

Temple lets you pay one Energy to draw when you conquer with a Mighty unit. Akali reaches six after moving to the field, Remorseful starts at six, and Zed starts at five. Herder needs a boost rather than qualifying on its own. Keep the one Energy available when you finalize the conquest trigger instead of spending everything on the movement that got you here. Several small units totaling five Might do not substitute for one Mighty unit.

Going First

Back-Alley Bar · Ride the Wind · Yasuo, Windrider

A unit that moves from Bar gains +1 Might for the turn. Ride the Wind can carry that bonus to another field and ready the unit, while the Legend can send it to base without readying it. Herder draws from the departure too. Count whether the unit has another legal move available before paying for a route that leaves the bonus sitting at base. The opponent's units receive the same boost when they leave, so an apparently modest attacker here may be stronger at its next field.

Going Second

Emperor's Dais · Gust Monk · Tideturner

On conquest, Dais lets you pay one Energy and return a friendly unit here to hand as the cost to make a two-Might Sand Soldier here. That can preserve a unit or put Monk and Tideturner back in hand for a later paid play. The return happens when committing the trigger, before it resolves, and is not movement: Herder does not draw and Windrider does not count it. The Sand Soldier leaves a body at the field, but it enters exhausted. Returning an expensive Remorseful is a substantial replay bill, so do it for a concrete reason rather than using the field automatically.

Sideboard

Protect the turn from the right kind of answer

Not So Fast · Decree of Focus · Defy

The two Not So Fasts counter an enemy spell or ability choosing a friendly unit or gear. Bring them over Defy when the key answer is an ability or a spell outside Defy's printed limit of four Energy and one Power. They do not counter an effect that chooses neither. Focus gives +4 Might for one Energy when your unit fights an enemy Fury unit or is chosen by an enemy Fury spell. Exchange En Garde or another weaker trick for it when that condition is common. A Fury Legend does not make every enemy card a Fury card.

Make the field easier to take before attacking

Charm · Adaptatron · Ride the Wind

Charm moves an enemy during your Main Phase, giving you a way to remove a blocker from the field you want without returning it to the opponent's hand. The extra Adaptatron can kill a gear after conquering and gain a buff if the kill happens. It does not have Ganking on its own; use Boots, the Legend's base route, or Ride the Wind to make its next move. Bring these when positioning and an important gear are the problems, trimming a slow Zed or Windrider whose scoring route is not developing. A second buff cannot be stacked onto an already buffed Adaptatron.

Choose which Vex effect the matchup needs

Vex, Apathetic · Vex, Cheerless · Steel Paws

The extra Apathetic disrupts newly played enemy units globally while she is at a battlefield. Cheerless instead changes spell costs while she is in combat: your spells cost one less Energy and Power, with a minimum of one Energy, while enemy spells cost one more of each. That can make Defy cost one Energy with no Power, but it does not discount the Legend or an Equip activation. Bring the two Cheerless copies for spell-heavy fights and Apathetic when fresh units keep retaking fields. I would trim a slow Zed or a low-impact Paws while keeping enough cheap bodies to establish the board first.

Use Baron only when the game supports the payment

Baron Nashor · Yasuo, Windrider · Steel Paws

Baron costs ten Energy and three Chaos Power, gives other friendly units +2 Might, and cannot be chosen by enemy spells or abilities. It can still be affected by removal that does not choose it. Bring the single copy for a long game where the larger board matters more than a difficult Windrider route or a small unit that has stopped contributing. If it creates Baron Pit, it enters there and adds another battlefield whose movement permission both players can use. If the Pit already exists, do not assume Baron is automatically played there again. Count the new battlefield in the point plan before committing all those resources.