Shaman of Eternity: One Man Draw Engine

At first glance, Shaman of Eternity looks like another Mystic that rewards you for placing +1 attack counters on your fighters. In reality, it's one of the strongest card advantage engines available to the faction.

Whenever one or more of your fighters gain a +1 attack counter, Shaman of Eternity draws you a card for each fighter that gained a counter. This means the real goal isn't simply stacking counters onto a single fighter. Instead, you want to spread counters across as many fighters as possible with a single effect.

For example, if five different fighters each gain a +1 attack counter at the same time, Shaman of Eternity draws five cards.

Once you start looking at the card this way, a huge number of interactions begin to open up.

Mystics

Mystics are arguably Shaman of Eternity 's strongest pairing, as the faction already wants to spread +1 attack counters across your entire board.

Cards like RATS! and Roll Call become far more than simple attack buffs. Instead of only strengthening your fighters, they can suddenly refill your hand as well. Because Shaman of Eternity draws a card for each fighter that gains a +1 attack counter, resolving one of these cards on a wide board can easily draw four, five or even more cards in a single effect.

The synergy doesn't stop there. Clief, Ancient Eclipse allows you to cast RATS! and Roll Call directly from your discard pile whenever he attacks, without paying their cost, before placing them back on the bottom of your deck. This effectively gives you repeated access to some of your strongest draw turns while ensuring you can gain extra value from those key spells.

Mystics also gain value through Phantasmal. Whenever a fighter Gains Phantasmal and gains a +1 attack counter, it still satisfies Shaman of Eternity's trigger. This means your temporary fighters can contribute towards your draw engine just as effectively as your permanent board, allowing seemingly ordinary Phantasmal effects to generate surprising bursts of card advantage.

The end result is a faction that naturally rewards going wide. The more fighters you can keep on the board, the more devastating every counter placing effect becomes. Rather than viewing RATS! and Roll Call as combat tricks, you'll often find yourself treating them as some of the strongest draw spells available.

Synth

Synth pairs with Shaman of Eternity in a very different way to Mystics. Rather than focusing solely on drawing cards, Synth rewards you for enhancing your fighters, and +1 attack counters count as enhancements. This means every counter you place is often triggering multiple effects at once.

Calamity Blaque is an excellent example, placing +1 attack counters onto two different fighters as she enters play. Alongside Shaman of Eternity, those two counters immediately become two cards drawn while simultaneously enabling your other enhancement payoffs.

Poof, Worst Enemy continues the engine by placing a +1 attack counter onto a fighter whenever it takes damage, turning combat into another opportunity to grow your board and generate additional cards.

Because you're already playing Mystics alongside Synth, cards like RATS! and Roll Call become even more valuable. Not only can they refill your hand through Shaman of Eternity, but they also trigger Synth's enhancement synergies across your board.

Mahna, Soft Speaker draws a card the first time she is enhanced each game, meaning a well-timed RATS! or Roll Call can draw through both Mahna, Soft Speaker and Shaman of Eternity simultaneously. Ada, Relict Fighter gains +1 attack for each enhanced Boss or Fighter you control, allowing your counter effects to rapidly increase her damage output without investing additional resources. Meanwhile, Pia, Laser Focused can destroy one of your own enhancements when played from hand to draw a card, giving you another way to convert enhancements into value once they've served their purpose.

The result is a deck where every +1 attack counter is doing far more than simply increasing a fighter's attack. The same counter can trigger Shaman of Eternity, activate enhancement payoffs, increase Ada, Relict Fighter's attack, and provide fuel for cards like Pia, Laser Focused, creating layers of value from a single effect.

Shifters

While Mystics provide the explosive draw turns, Shifters provide consistency. Rather than focusing on placing additional +1 Attack counters themselves, they excel at ensuring you always have a board worth putting counters on.

Because Shifters constantly replace themselves through Transform, it's much harder for opponents to completely dismantle your engine. Fighters like Kupp Lightpaws and Orson, Quickstinger can transform into another Fighter of the same level or lower, helping you maintain a wide board and ensuring cards like RATS! and Roll Call continue drawing multiple cards throughout the game. Better still, Transform doesn't care about faction, meaning any suitable Shifter can potentially transform directly into Shaman of Eternity when the situation calls for it.

Transform also creates some interesting secondary synergies. Because the transforming Fighter is destroyed as part of the process, cards like Goodstead, Sandhog can immediately trigger, placing a +1 Attack counter onto themselves. That counter then triggers Shaman of Eternity, allowing Transform itself to become another source of card draw while simultaneously upgrading your board.

The pairing also gives you access to several cross-faction payoffs. Eliza, Do Little gains +2 Attack simply for having a Shifter on your team, making her an efficient target for the +1 Attack counters you're already distributing.

Perhaps the biggest strength of Mystic/Shifter is resilience. Most opponents can answer one threatening Fighter, but repeatedly replacing your board through Transform means Shaman of Eternity is far more likely to survive long enough to take over the game. Every time your board rebuilds, your next RATS! or Roll Call threatens another huge burst of card draw.

Unlike Synth, where the counters fuel enhancement payoffs, or Mystics, where they create explosive draw turns, Shifters ensure the engine keeps running by continually rebuilding your board and even finding Shaman of Eternity through Transform.

Survivors

Survivors take a more defensive approach to Shaman of Eternity. Rather than generating explosive bursts of card draw, they naturally create a steady stream of value simply by refusing to die.

Cards with Determination are a perfect example. Fighters like Bobby Brushbacks place a +1 Attack counter on themselves the first time they would be destroyed, allowing them to survive the attack. That counter also triggers Shaman of Eternity, meaning your opponent's attempt to remove a Fighter often ends up replacing itself with another card.

Chirp, Teammate provides one of the faction's strongest direct synergies, placing two +1 Attack counters onto a Survivor Fighter. While both counters are placed on the same Fighter and only draw a single card from Shaman of Eternity, they create a sizeable threat while keeping your hand full.

Because Survivor decks naturally excel at keeping Fighters alive through effects like Determination, they also become excellent targets for Mystic staples such as RATS! and Roll Call. Rather than rebuilding your board after every trade, you'll often find yourself growing the same Fighters over several levels, turning each counter spell into both additional pressure and additional card draw.

The pairing rewards patience. Every time your opponent struggles to remove one of your Fighters, they're forced to play through yet another body that continues generating value. Over the course of a long game, that constant stream of cards can quickly bury opponents under an overwhelming resource advantage.