A proud and noble warrior, Garen fights as one of the Dauntless Vanguard. He is popular among his fellows, and respected well enough by his enemies—not least as a scion of the prestigious Crownguard family, entrusted with defending Demacia and its ideals. Clad in magic-resistant armor and bearing a mighty broadsword, Garen stands ready to confront mages and sorcerers on the field of battle, in a veritable whirlwind of righteous steel.
Spinning into action, League of Legends' resident beyblade, Garen, has arrived to the world of Riftbound. Introduced in Origins: Proving Grounds, this tank is in the Might and Body domains, meaning that he's all about amassing large numbers of units, while scaling up and playing larger units too.
With this, Garen definitely wants to play very aggressively. His two champion cards, Garen Commander and Garen Rugged show two different sides to his playstyle, with Commander looking to be centered around big boardstates, and Rugged is a beefy unit to send into a battlefield at a high cost.
Where Sett looks to play more with buffs, Garen is more straightforward and about units and numbers, and therefore operates in a slightly different space within the same domains of Body and Order. It'll be interesting to see how Garen differs in playstyle to Sett, as Sett is already quite popular and is one of the most played decks going into Origins.
Garen Signature Cards
Might of Demacia, Garen's Legend, is a fairly hefty effect with a fairly hefty cost. It incentivises you to go wide and conquer battlefields with lots of units to keep your hand full, and keep snowballing out of control with these massive boardstates. It's definitely something that takes a lot of setup, though, and is one of the more difficult Legends to maintain in the game.
Decisive Strike is a wide-buff effect, giving all of your units +2 Might; which can be huge when attacking a battlefield with your whole board. However, at 5 energy, it's still a hefty cost and is more of a card that needs to be played at the right time, rather than a generically good card at any point in the game.
Garen Staple Cards and Synergies
With Garen caring so much about units, making unit tokens is going to be very important. With this, cards like Recruit the Vanguard seem as though they're going to be powerful in making sure you can get Might of Demacia going to start the snowball. Also, units that act as both early pressure and a way to channel extra runes such as Soaring Scout will be really impactful; if we ever get a cheap unit that Channels on play, it'll be instantly a Garen card.
Garen Decklists
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