Warhammer 40,000 Warpforge: Meta decks

The simple reasoning for this deck is that it does constant damage to the enemy warlord. And while we do mention in our tips that solely concentrating on the warlord can often mean you’re overwhelmed by the other player’s cards, you’ll note that there are plenty of cards - such as Death from Above & Stormraven - which concentrate on dealing large amounts of damage to the field as a whole.

Humanity’s Shield is also a key pick as it makes your warlord invulnerable for a turn, which means that if your opponent is in a position to do massive damage on their turn, you can negate their attack. The mana curve - the cost of energy and how you use it per-turn - is also more focused across the entire breadth, whereas other meta deck builds for warlords like Marneus Calgar are heavily focused on a consistent gameplan which risks being upset if your opponent bucks it.

Recommended Deck: Grukk Face-Rippa, Grot x2, Attack Squig x2, Makari the Grot x1, Ard as Nails x2, Slugga Boy x2, Stormboy x2, Shoota Boy x2, Gretchin Mob x2, Da Green Horde x2, Hornhelmz’ Boyz x2, No Mukkin’ About x2, Skarboy Nob x2, Banner Nob x2, Boomdakka Snazzwagon x2, Deff Dread x2, Will of Gork x1. While decks in other CCGs that use a lot of low-tier, low-cost cards are often joke decks, the Ork strategy in Warpforge focuses heavily on the use of tide. Cards such as Da Green Horde drastically reduce energy cost for cards, and coupled with the number of cards that use the Tide effect - allowing you to play multiple of the same card for additional energy - it means that you can very easily overwhelm the opposing player if you play your cards right (pun intended).

Meanwhile, cards such as No Mukkin About or Will of Gork are the equivalent of drastically upsetting the opposing player’s game plan. The randomness and looming threat of these cards means that either a player that’s knowledgeable about your deck will be overly cautious, or better yet, that you can catch them out with a hugely destructive - even to you - play.

Recommended Deck: Imotekh the Stormlord, Reconstitution Protocol x2, Protection Protocol x1, Triarch Praetorian x2, Technomancer x2, Tomb Blade x2, Psychomancer x1, Skorpekh Destroyer x2, Curse of the Phaeron x2, Doom Scythe x2, Lychguard x2, Scythe Assault x2, Hexmark Destroyer x2, Plasmancer x1, Conquering Tyrant x2, Necron Lord x1, Methodical Destruction x2, Tomb World x1. Unsurprisingly, the meta build for the Necrons at the moment focuses strongly on their slow, methodical and eventually highly destructive strategy. Cards like Tomb World are amazing game-ending plays which means that even if you lose a great deal of units, you can bring back up to six of them even without Remnants on the field.

The combination of Technomancer, a card that resurrects remnants, and Reconstitution Protocol, which brings a destroyed card back into play means that even if you lose the vital artifice effect that brings back remnants, you can then bring that card back into play too. All in all, it represents a satisfyingly lore-accurate and deadly combination for steamrolling other players after grinding them down.

Recommended Deck: Tervigon, Ripper Swarm x2, Encircle the Prey x2, Predator Instincts x2, Neurogaunt Nodebeast x2, Mucolid Spore x2, Termagant x2, Overwhelming Swarm x2, Pyrovore x2, Tyranid Warrior x2, Biovore x2, Venomthrope x2, Tyranid Prime x1, Tyrant Guard x2, Rapacious Hunger x2, Hive Crone x2, Hive Fleet Leviathan x1. The focus of this deck, as with others, is to build on the synergy between cards in the Tyranid deck. Specifically, you’ll note plenty with the swarm attribute that causes cards to merge together and add their attack value and health into one card. Combining the Hive Fleet Leviathan Card and Overwhelming Swarm Card also ensures you can quickly deploy numerous units in the late game.

The fact is that, while Orks concentrate on buffing lacklustre units with stratagems, by combining the swarm mechanic with cheap units and tide, you can effectively deploy cards like Termagants for free. With the tide mechanic, this means you can then deploy a nearly limitless number, merging them with other cards to produce cheap but immensely powerful units.

Small wonder that this deck comes highly recommended for proving the validity of the ‘nid faction in multiplayer.

Recommended Deck: Eliaz Zephyrblade, Guardian Defender x2, Weapons Platform x2, Veteran Guardian x2, Windrider x2, Shroud Runner x2, Striking Scorpion x2, Banshee Mask x1, Sudden Assault x2, Nuadhu ‘Fireheart’ x1, Vyper x2, Bladestorm x2, Eldritch Storm x2, Dance of Death x1, Striking Scorpion Exarch x1, Crimson Hunter x2, Falcon x2, Fire Prism x2. This deck is focused squarely on speed and exploiting attributes such as Shuriken. By ensuring that you can use a number of cards with the flank and shuriken attribute, playing cards like sudden Assault then allows you to deal even more damage, while the shuriken attribute itself ensures that low-tier cards with low health can’t wear you down with chip damage.

Even then, cards like Eldritch Storm mean that even if you do lose a few units, then their spirit stones will still actively contribute to doing free damage against an enemy. Effectively, this means that using this with the Aeldar faction can steamroll opponents before they get a chance to resist.

Recommended Deck: Abaddon the Despoiler, Dark Disciple x2, Abaddon’s Chosen x2, Hideous Mutation x1, Chaos Spawn x1, Hound of Abaddon x2, Dark Oratory x1, Traitor’s Hate x2, Rubric Marine x2, Possessed Marine x2, Plague Marine x2, Veteran Legionary x2, Disgustingly Resilient x1, Daemonic Frenzy x2, Spawndom x2, Skeins of Fate x2, Hosts of Chaos x1, Bringer of Decay x2, Heldrake Strike x1. The most unique part of the Chaos playstyle is the heavy reliance on stratagems. Most of these are representative of the spells and dark pacts that are used in the lore, and almost half the cards in this deck are composed of stratagems.
This deck is encouraged to experiment with, and the Chaos playstyle is very different from other factions due to the focus on dark packs. However, cards such as Plague Marines are noted for their resilience, and cards with the pact of Nurgle can effectively build a huge amount of staying power on the field that lets you outlast and build pacts. Add in those such as Spawndom and you can even match up numbers with your opponent when needed.

These decks are all experimental, of course, but are at the moment coming fairly well-recommended from the community. When the game finally makes its way to mobile later this month, it may very well be that we see a surge of new players and new metas arise. For now, these are the best decks in Warpforge to aim towards - and also offer an overview of how to capitalise on the strengths and cover the weaknesses of your faction.