Nur Deck Guide — Might & Magic The Card Game

Nur is an Academy hero in Might & Magic The Card Game. Academy is the arcane faction of spells, ranged units, and Constructs — it wins by controlling the board with efficient removal and finishing with burst spell damage.

This guide covers Academy's spell-tempo game plan, the cards a Nur deck is built around, a sample list, and the mulligan habits that keep you in control.

What the tracked data says

Nur's Playstyle

Academy is a spell-tempo faction. Nur uses cheap ranged attackers to contest the board early, leans on flexible removal to stay ahead, and converts that control into damage with reach spells.

• Contest early with aggressive ranged units that attack safely.
• Answer threats with cheap, flexible spells instead of trading bodies.
• Close with reach — Chain Lightning and Storm Terrace finish what the board started.

Key Cards

These cards define a Nur deck — build around them:

Cost	Card	What it does
6	Chain Lightning Legendary	5 damage that chains to two more targets — a board-clearing finisher.
3	Hasafah, the Unseen Arrow Legendary	Ranged body that deals 3 damage on arrival.
4	Storm Terrace Legendary	Flying engine that pings and develops over time.
6	Akane, Caller of Memories Legendary	Shelves 3 cards for long-game card advantage.
7	Lightning Speed Epic	Grants Double Attack for a surprise lethal swing.

Sample Nur Deck (Spellcasting Tempo)

A solid starting list. Treat copy counts as flexible — tune them with your own results.

Early game (cost 0–2)

Cost	Card	Role
1	Rakshasa Skirmisher	2/1 with a burst-attack swing
1	Rakshasa Scout	Attacks without retaliation
0	Crimson Apprentice	Cheap body that buffs Beasts
2	Dancing Dervish	Spell synergy — pings after you cast

Mid game & payoffs

Cost	Card	Role
3	Hasafah, the Unseen Arrow Legendary	Ranged tempo + removal
4	Storm Terrace Legendary	Recurring value engine
6	Akane, Caller of Memories Legendary	Card-advantage payoff

Spells & removal

Cost	Card	Role
1	Dispel Magic	Answer a problem creature cheaply
2	Slow	Lock down an attacker for a turn
3	Air Trap	Hard removal for flyers
1	Arcane Armor Rare	Protect a key unit from spells
6	Chain Lightning Legendary	Board wipe / reach finisher

The cards Nur decks actually run

Taken from 2,616 tracked Nur decklists. In decks is the share of those lists that included the card, with the raw count in brackets; win rate is how the lists containing it performed, shown only where at least 30 lists ran the card.

Cost	Card	In decks	Win rate
2	Spirit Traveler Rare	91.2% (2,385)	59.5%
2	Dispel Magic Common	89.3% (2,337)	59.6%
3	Obsidian Gargoyle Common	87.5% (2,288)	58.7%
2	Boots of the Explorer Common	81.9% (2,143)	60.1%
3	Bag of Gold Rare	79.8% (2,087)	58.6%
3	Crimson Tower Rare	76.5% (2,002)	59.4%
3	Lightning Bolt Common	70.3% (1,838)	59.1%
2	Slow Common	67.5% (1,767)	60.5%
7	Chain Lightning Legendary	66.8% (1,747)	59.8%
7	Blast of Wind Rare	66.2% (1,733)	57.5%
5	Void Ripple Rare	61.4% (1,606)	57.0%
7	Hakeem, Seeker of Mysteries Legendary	58.6% (1,534)	59.8%
2	Gargoyle Common	57.8% (1,513)	62.3%
1	Rakshasa Scout Common	55.2% (1,443)	56.3%
6	Djinn Mentor Rare	51.2% (1,340)	58.2%
11	Shi-No-Shi Legendary	47.3% (1,238)	61.5%
2	Spellstealer Wizard Rare	46.5% (1,217)	56.9%
10	Implosion Legendary	46.1% (1,207)	59.3%

Highest win rate among the commonly-played cards here is Gargoyle at 62.3%, from the 1,513 lists that ran it. Inclusion measures what people build, not what wins — where the two columns disagree is usually the interesting part.

Deck archetypes

These are grouped by what the lists actually contain, not by what anyone called them. A group appears here only when several different players have independently built close to the same deck, so what follows describes the deck rather than quoting its owner. Together they cover 47.4% of the 447 distinct Nur lists on record; the remainder are one-off brews that resemble nothing else.

Mulligan Guide

Nur wants to act on every early turn. In your opening hand:

• Keep cheap ranged units so you contest the board on curve.
• Keep a one- or two-cost spell to answer their opener.
• Redraw Chain Lightning and Akane early; save them for when they swing the game.

For the full keep-or-redraw framework, see our Might & Magic The Card Game Mulligan Guide.

Matchups & Tips

Matchup	Games	Win rate
vs Nur	1,005	62.5%
vs Anastasia	771	61.5%
vs Agrael	595	48.7%
vs Slava	513	57.7%
vs Giovanni	385	64.2%
vs Sandor	252	51.2%

Only matchups with 50 or more tracked games are listed. These are recorded from the Nur player's side, and because both sides are not equally likely to be running the tracker, a matchup and its mirror image will not add up to 100%.

• Vs aggro: trade with ranged units, hold Slow and removal for their biggest threat, and stabilize into Chain Lightning.
• Vs control: grind with Storm Terrace and Akane for card advantage, then end it with reach.
• General: don't over-spend removal early — bait out their threats, then answer the ones that matter.

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