TOP 5 Deck building MISTAKES, and how to avoid them | TCG 101 | Genshin Impact TCG

Welcome to the TCG-101 series - the best way to become a better duelist with lessons in under 10 minutes.

Deck building is one of the hardest skills to learn in almost any TCG - even harder than playing the game well - and why you'll so often see people copying and playing meta decks. While copying a decklist online is great if your only goal is to win, our goal here at Invokation Akademy is to help you play TCG YOUR way - which means with YOUR own decks!

Unfortunately deckbuilding as a general concept is way too hard to teach as a single lesson - so instead, I'll take you through the top 5 most common mistakes I see from newer players who post decklists and ask for advice. By avoiding these common traps, you can quickly and drastically improve the quality of any deck you build!

For in depth deckbuilding, we're going to need individual lessons covering each archetype, as different decks demand different strategies - so keep an eye out for that!
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00:22 - Intro
01:34 - Mistake #1
02:47 - Mistake #2
03:47 - Mistake #3
05:04 - Mistake #4
05:46 - Mistake #5
06:32 - Outro

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What is Genius Invokation?
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Genius Invokation TCG (GITCG) is a card game inside Genshin Impact! To unlock this game mode, you will need to reach AR32 in Genshin and complete the associated quest. The entire game is free to play.

[Taktighoul]

I've always said that if you want to be a competitive player you'll only get so far by "net decking" and you should actually understand how the deck building process works.
Mess around and build "bad" decks as they'll force to you analyse what makes the deck work within it's archetype.
Building bad decks will also force you into making unorthodox plays which can help you gain more practice for those types of descions in real matches.

Absolutely great video btw!
Talking about deck building is one of my passions because you can go so deep down the rabbit hole

[weird_mango]

I agree! Using pre-built meta decks don't feel the same, this video is so useful

[shaami]

The biggest problem for me when it comes to deck building is not that idk what am i suppose to do, but rather how am i suppose to do it. I watched a quick guide to deck building (for any card game but mostly hearthstone) by Funki Monki back when GI TCG first came out, and he break it down into 8 palatable steps.

1. Idea (what mechanics you want to base your deck around)
2. Win condition (best way to implement those mechanics)
3. Synergy (best cards to achieve win condition)
4. Draws (add cards to your hand)
5. Removals (remove threats)
6. Balance (balancing costs to ensure maximum use of resources)
7. Go through collection (see what can better replace cards in the deck)
8. Play test

However, i couldnt put these steps in the context of GI TCG because of it being completely different game to hearthstone that Funki Monki used for his examples. So perhaps you could contextualize these steps in terms of GI TCG, that would be really helpful.

[dish_]

as a newbie, i was actually very surprised when i first saw that normally, people would play 2 of each card rather than take all 30 different cards. As i got into the game more tho, i could understand why haha.

[woodywas]

As somebody who actually managed to put together a deck on my own (Amber (w/ talent), Xinqiu and Hu Tao) these is no better feeling than testing and perfecting your own deck and finally making it into something conpetetive with other good decks

Bonus points for the element of suprise, since your opponent might just not have any idea what your gameplan is lol

[Juju_Invokation]

Very informative! I made a bunch of these mistakes before myself so it's great for newer players to avoid them as early as possible ^^

I also think refining an existing deck can be under the umbrella of deck building, not to the point of mistake #5 but to an extent where you'll see the performance improving regardless of matchups. Definitely helped how I build decks since then

[yuitsurata]

I don't really build deck, I just copy a deck with 2 or 3 characters I want to play with, play it and gradually change only support cards to match my style, I think trial and error is a good way to improve your own deck, my main deck now is a weird deck with 3 bow users, run magic and a little bit weapon engine with Where's The Unseen Razor/Golden House, I've played it for 3 months and it's so comfortable and fun to the point I don't think of changing my deck, at least for now.
I think building deck is similar to finding your playstyle, it's difficult at the start, but when you have the better grasp of it, it will be much easier.

[Oofjay]

Xingqiu/Thoma/Alhaitham takes a long time to get going, but it's hilariously fun when it does :D

Also, I played against you the other day; was pretty cool to see you in the wild!

[lovelambs]

Thank you so much for this series. I seriously have been struggling to get a better understanding of TCG that I gave up. I hope I can learn to become a decent player with this

[KobiSheero]

Great guide, I'd love to see more in depth guides you mentioned at the beginning as well

[cylenalag]

Excellent! Lots of great points. I am going to share this with friends.

[squarehead]

Thanks for the tips blep!
I made a Ganyu Raiden Keqing deck back when Raiden was released and haven't used anything else since then. It has fallen off quite a bit lately so it might be time to finally make a new deck haha

[gloom]

that overambition is something I've been seeing a lot in youtuber's matches and it is a pet peeve of mine. Xingqiu/Thoma is already a bit of a stretch but I've seen Xingqiu/Beidou or even Yelan/Beidou. Like... I get the idea, but it's a bit painful to watch hahah

[krishshah]

Blep love your content,
Here is an idea for a video. if it is possible can you make video taking about how to chose an anchor charcter for the third slot or list of good anchor charcters in game

[conicalmug]

Nice video! I think it's pretty frustrating how common it is to see new players asking for advice building/tweaking their decks, only to be told to copy a meta choice or abandon a character they want to build around.

As a pretty new player myself I tend to make mistake #3 most often. Especially considering most of my games are just against NPCs (where even the greediest strategies will probably work) it's all too easy to get wrapped into making an extremely demanding setup deck that can be dismantled in an instant by a surprise KO or just bad dice rolls/card draws. Interestingly, a lot of the NPC decks themselves seem to have this problem. They love spending multiple turns loading each character up with weapons, artefacts and food, only for the player to be ready to teamwipe them before they can actually use any of it.

[minecrafters]

I always thought that, if you want to use weapon cards, it would be best to pick 2 characters that can utilize the same weapon card. Although you do have to be careful which characters to bring and what weapon to choose in order for this technique to be effective

I also built this one noelle deck where every card in the deck is chosen to serve noelle. It was a bad deck, all the cards were useless if they werent being used to support noelle, but when it works, IT WORKS. I was able to:

1. Take no damage
2. Deal BIG damage
3. Heal everyone else at the same time

[Dzyntara]

When I put together my Sara Klee Keqing deck without knowing anything about deckbuilding I felt so cool. It absolutely destroyed the AI even with my pretty bad cards. With more card draw, fixing and omnidice, it would have been even better!

[CoolGrovyle]

Yes winning with Noelle hold more value for me than winning with DanemoShenhe (which I have not created) because I just love our Geo maid and I want to lead her to victory! <3 She matches very badly with MEW and YelanOTK though so I keep losing to it (And I never faced FiNaLy with it, but I can imagine it would be very hard too :D ). Plus I've always felt like Noelle's deck is very RNG dependent event though I run some fixes on me :D I run her with Raiden and Gorou for Inazuma Resonance, Energy, Geo bonus and auto-crystalize. If cards come in good order then I'll be fine. If they don't well... at least Noelle will get some sleep :D

[rintaichou]

EiMikoAmber deck is real after 100s of matches!!

[VeliaOwO]

I built a Noelle carry deck a few months ago and it’s my favourite by far, I’m always improving it when there are new cards tho. The characters I use are:

1. Noelle
2. Gorou
3. Raiden

It’s also a Jeht deck, that’s why I use cards like Dunyarzard (idk if I wrote that correctly xD), Liben, that guy with a book in hand that can draw cards (forgot his name, he’s from Liyue), Mamere, Paimon, Seelie and the Sorush card.
The only equipment I use are Gamblers and Wolves Gravestone for Noelle. For sustain I only use Lotus Crisp and Geo Ressonance, since the only character that should survive is Noelle anyways. As my Arcane card I use Fresh Wind of Freedom, but others could work too. And ofc the Geo Woven dices :) There are 3 more card slots left, but I’m not sure what I put there atm… I think I also used I-haven’t-lost-yet? Ohhh and ofc also the Inazuma Ressonance for dice fixing!

On the first round I just try to get up my Raiden burst and draw as many cards as I can if I have Seelie, Mamere or the book guy. If my dice are too bad to use Raidens skill and NA I just try to ramp with Liben or something else. Next round I use my Raiden‘s burst and then either ramp more or switch to Gorou and use his burst. Raiden is completely useless after her burst, so you just need to keep her alive until she bursts. Her summon is great for crystallise so your Noelle gets a bit more damage and surviveability later. Gorou can die too, but sometimes he’s useful to end the game if Noelle somehow died. After the Gorou burst you can either ramp more or I sometimes also try to get up a second burst if I still haven’t gotten enough Jeht stacks/my Jeht cards. When you’re ready just switch to Noelle and finish the game :D

I really enjoy playing this deck (and playing Noelle in general, she’s my favourite TCG card) and it’s also pretty good! The only times I have lost was because I played against aggro decks that just killed my Raiden and Gorou before I could do anything or because I just had very bad luck with my card draws… or when I was playing dumb ofc ;3

Idk if anyone will read this message (it’s quite long xD), but if you do, then you could try out my deck if you want to! Have a nice day everyone :D