Fully Equipped – Flying High

Hexers! It’s a me, NicoSharp!

It’s a pleasure to be here. You might recognize me from in-game or from the many PvE resources I maintain in the Strategies and Decklists section of the HEX forums.

HEX: Shards of Fate captured my imagination 3 years ago and, with it, most of my free time. HEX is exactly what I was looking for: TCG and RPG elements married into one digital, easily accessible, online game. The fact that I no longer have to negotiate with my family for Saturdays away at the local hobby shop has made me a dedicated fan. So much so, I started a guild before HEX went into alpha to keep that same “card-shop” feel. Playing HEX means socializing to me and sharing in everyone’s triumphs and failures.

My new series, Fully Equipped, will focus on sharing my PvE triumphs with everyone. We will be looking at affordable PvE decks for the game’s various PvE content for new and budget players. Decks built around a particular theme, idea, card, or equipment will be centerpieces here. We will focus on cards that have synergy and how they, with their equipment, combo with other elements of the decks we build. Not only do I want to share my successes, but I hope to teach new players some of the same deck building concepts I use to make a deck successful.

In future articles, I will look to the community for ideas, themes, cards, and equipment they would like to see as centerpieces in the next article. Finally, I’d like the deck building challenge I inflict on myself to also be shared with everyone, and would love to hear what you came up with using the same loose guidelines.

Let’s come up with some deck building guidelines below for Fully Equipped decks:

We will always start with a theme, card, equipment, or idea to build from

Decks will be under 1,000 plat in relative current value whenever possible and will never be more than 2,000 plat in relative current value

Decks will primarily include common and uncommon cards

We will consider all PvE cards and PvE equipment acquired through PvE play to have no static value in plat. This gives us a farm progression path to cards we would like at no loss to us as a deck-building consideration

Let’s also do a quick deck building walk-through so you can follow along with the article:

Login to HEX and go to the Collection Deck Builder option from the main screen

option from the main screen Click on Save and Additional Options drop down menu from the lower deck building screen and choose New Deck . Pick a generic name (we can Rename Deck later)

drop down menu from the lower deck building screen and choose . Pick a generic name (we can later) Towards the upper right side of the screen click on the Filter menu and turn on the check box Show All Items and Show PvE Cards

menu and turn on the check box and We will turn off the check box to Show PvP Cards

If we know the Shards we want to build in, we will filter for only those shards + Shardless options (For example: An Orc themed deck would be only Ruby, Blood and potentially Shardless. We would detoggle the Wild, Sapphire, and Diamond Shards)

We will use this first set of filters to identify PvE Cards of any rarity that fit our theme/concept/card/equipment we want to build around.

After adding desired cards to our deck list or noting cards we may want to play with, we apply the second filter:

From the Filter menu we will turn on the check box Show PvP Cards

We will turn off the check box Show PvE Cards

Click on Show Advanced Filters from the Filter menu and turn off Rare and Legendary check boxes from the Rarity column

This filter will give us PvP card options to further flesh out our deck building concept, while safely keeping us away from Rare and Legendary cards that could quickly make the deck out of reach for our budgets.

Now with the basics out of the way, let’s build a Fully Equipped themed deck now!

Flying High

My deck building theme for this deck will be: A Sapphire Flight themed deck for the HEX Arena



If you would like – stop reading here – and build a deck using the above theme – I’d like to hear what you came up with using the same restrictions!