Guides

Decklists and faction specific guides can be found here.

New players can jump right into the introduction videos shown below!

Basic Guides

If you're new to Duelyst, we recommend you check out the great introduction videos shown below!

→ If you want some more info, you can check out the Getting Started page. If you'd rather learn various tips, see the General Tips guide

• How to set up your Duelyst account and what to do first with a new account
• Daily Duelyst A blog about being new to Duelyst

General Links

Deckbuilder

• Deckbuilder on www.bagoum.com
• Deckbuilder www.duelystcards.com
• Deck Database Website by chuyqwerty to upload your decks, get them rated by the community and look at other decks!
• How to make beautiful decklists

Tournament streams/reports

• How to go at deckbuilding for a tournament by SonofMakuta
• How to win a tournament by GGH
• SonofMakuta's Testing for the DWCQ report
• SonofMakuta's DWCQ report
• SonofMakuta's Duelyst Open #4 report
• SonofMakuta's The Grand Melee report
• Regular Tournament Reports by Duelyst Central
• SonofMakuta's report of Brawl4All
• TheTacticalGmr's playlist of tournament matches
• Meltdown League #2 tournament stream v.1.96
• DM Classic Top 8 Decklists june 2018 v.1.96 and commentary and highlights by AlphaCentury
• Meltdown League Season #1 Streams
• Team Wars Season 6 Finals v.1.96

Mods

• Site to track your decks' winrates
• T2k5's many scripts to mod Duelyst
• Deck Tracker mod with percentage indicator
• T2k5's Mod: Units with black outlines
• Mod for old rarity symbols
• Mod for expansion name in card descriptions
• Spanish fan translation for Duelyst v.1.96
• How to unlock never released Ice Bridge Battle Map, new working download link can be found here.
• Mod for intensified Prismatic visual effects
• Mod to play multi faction decks
• How to unlock all exclusive skins

Modding guides

• How to edit the art on your Duelyst cards tutorial by frost_arr0w

Others

• Duelspot - the no.1 Duelyst content and decklists website!
• Duelyst Central - a Duelyst content website
• How to best spend money
• F2P guide
• List with hidden achievements and rewards
• How can I play in windowed mode?
• Interviews with some of the Duelyst Grandmasters
• Orb buying guide of latest expansions for returning players
• Interview spotlights on Duelystcentral
• Duelyst Central podcasts
• How high are the chances the Wanderer player has the card they need in their hand?
• Solution for Browser's MacOS "Your Graphics hit a Snag"
• Ribbon Watch - Who has the most faction ribbons?
• Here you get 5 free Mythron orbs! Thanks Steelseries for that promotion!
• Here it explains you how to get 3 free Core orbs and 1 common crate! Thanks Alienware for that promotion!
• Twitch drops gets explained here

Strategy Guides

If you want to learn about general strategies used in Duelyst you can find a lot of information here.

• SonofMakuta's Strategy Shorts series

Game Strategies

General

• General guide for newer players part 1

• General guide for newer players part 2

• Duelyst dictionary

• Useful card game terminology part 1

• Useful card game terminology part 2

• What are the different archetypes and what do they mean?

• Guide about some Bloodborn Spells (pretty old but foundations still sound)

• 4 mistakes new Duelyst players make

• Igni's Duelyst Replay Analysis videos (old games but base gameplay advice still good)

• Boronian's Duelyst Short Analysis videos

• Decision Making - the Odds and Risks

• Freud's Guide to S-Rank (tierlist outdated but good advice in general and for several archetypes)

• Strategy Shorts #7 Replacing on hard mode
• What's your play #2

• What's your play #3

• What's your play #4

• What's your play #5

• Strategy Shorts #1 - Who's the beatdown

• Strategy Shorts #14 - Playing Against Burst Decks

• Basics Guide about Provoke by TheTacticalGmr

• Boronian's How to Duelyst series

Positioning

• Guide to Positioning part 1

• Guide to Positioning part 2

• Positioning 101 - the three fundamental stances by GGH

• Positioning 102 - Combat Maneuvers by GGH

• Positioning 201 - advanced combat maneuvers by GGH

• Positioning 202 - conservative combat by GGH

• Positioning 341 - offensive theory by GGH

• Positioning 342 - reading your opponent by GGH

• Video Guide about Positioning

• Guide about Mana Springs

• Strategy Shorts #10 - The best Defense

• Scarzig's Unit Facing: Backstab und Dancing Blades

• advanced Positioning by NowayitsJ

• Strategy Shorts #13 - Clearing your own units

• How to play around Sandswirl Reader by Boronian

Opening Moves

• Guide about the opening moves part 1

• Guide about the opening moves part 2

• Guide about the so-called Scientist opener Reddit discussion about it

• Guide about battle pets openings

• Son of Makuta's guide on how to replace

• What's your play #1 Opening Moves

• Scarzig's Going First: Opening Plays #1

• Scarzig's Going First: Opening Plays #2

• Using removal in the early game?

Cards to play around and Card Advantage

• The Power of Suboptimal Plays and Card Advantage

• The Snowball of Playing around Cards with Positioning

• Cards to play around and how

• Basic things to play around

• List with all (played & unplayed) cards to play around v.1.93

• Strategy Shorts #3 - Why they always have it

• Strategy Shorts #8 - How to play around cards

Deckbuilding

• a list with deck archetypes and short explanations
• Deckbuilding Concepts
• Boronian's, Iceyfire95's and PonchoMango's Disenchanting Guide v.1.96
• Beginners guide to deckbuilding (partly outdated)

• Another beginners guide to deckbuilding

• Video about Deck Building Fundamentals in Duelyst #1

• How to evaluate cards in Duelyst

• Short guide to Mana Curve

• Chances of missing turn 1 in relation to the number of your 2 drops in the deck
• Statistic about the number of Turn 1 drops
• Introduction to Sideboarding part 1
• Introduction to Sideboarding part 2
• What makes a deck well optimized?
• L'kian or Spelljammer?
• Tactical's video deckbuilding guide for beginners
• The value of single cards
• Strategy Shorts #2 In defence of 1-ofs
• Strategy Shorts #5 Deckbuilding 101
• Strategy Shorts #6 Card Evaluation
• ImprobableBlob's guide on netdecking and deckbuilding
• Several really good tips how to build a deck
• Strategy Shorts #12 Role of Card Draw
• Are big minions useful at all?
• How to evaluate cards in Duelyst part 1
• How to evaluate cards in Duelyst part 2
• Duelyst theory - the metagame clock

Gauntlet

• Zelda's Gauntlet Rankings

• How to deal with Gauntlet fear

• Son of Makuta's "Learn Gauntlet with me" videos

• Son of Makuta's Super Colossal Gauntlet Draft Guide, Ultra Edition

• Video Guide about the in v. 1.85 introduced exclusive Gauntlet cards

• 1pancakess' Gauntlet Tierlist / Drafting Guide
• Gauntlet helper mod by ScotyDoesKnow

• Tacticalgmr's Immortal Vanguard Gauntlet Infographics

Getting better

• Guide about player's confidence and "tilting"

• Guide about a winning mindset part 1

• Guide about a winning mindset part 2

• How to improve yourself

• Dealing with Rank Anxiety/Frustration

• Thinking outside of the box

• How to get a "learning mindset"

• Improving as a novice