Slava is a Haven hero in Might & Magic The Card Game. Haven is the holy faction of Humans and Angels — it wins by building a wide board, buffing it with combat tricks, healing through damage, and bringing key threats back from the dead.
This guide covers how Haven wants to play, the cards that hold a Slava deck together, a sample buff-midrange list, and the mulligan habits that keep you ahead from turn one.
What the tracked data says
What these numbers are. They come from 2,805 Slava games uploaded by FatesForge users, not from the game's own statistics. Tracked players beat their mostly untracked opponents, so every hero reads high: across all 17,509 tracked games the average win rate is 60.7%, where a true population average has to be 50%. Compare heroes against each other, not against 50%.
Slava's Playstyle
Haven is a go-wide midrange faction. Slava establishes a board of efficient Humans, then turns small creatures into real threats with buffs and protection while out-healing aggression.
- Build a wide board of cheap Humans so your buffs always have targets.
- Buff and protect — Bless, Celestial Armor and Holy Shield turn small bodies into game-winning attackers.
- Out-value with healing and Resurrection so trades always favor you.
Key Cards
These cards define a Slava deck — build around them:
| Cost | Card | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | Eleonore, Voice of Harmony Legendary | Whenever a friendly creature is summoned, buff it. The payoff for going wide. |
| 4 | Angels Temple Legendary | Reduces the cost of a random Angel each turn — a recurring discount engine. |
| 5 | Resurrection Epic | Summon the last friendly creature that died — recur your best threat. |
| 6 | Divine Intervention Legendary | Restore 10 Health and grant Holy Shield — an anti-aggro lifeline. |
| 1 | Lay of Hands Rare | Buffs a creature for each friendly Human — scales hard on a wide board. |
Sample Slava Deck (Buff & Resurrect Midrange)
A solid starting list. Treat copy counts as flexible — tune them with your own results.
Early game (cost 0–2)
| Cost | Card | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | Soldier | Cheap Human body, buff target |
| 2 | Legionnaire | Sturdy 2/3 to anchor the board |
| 2 | Griffin Crossbowman | Reach to pick off small threats |
| 2 | Tithe Collector Rare | Gold Production +1 — ramps your curve |
Mid game & payoffs
| Cost | Card | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | Eleonore, Voice of Harmony Legendary | Go-wide payoff |
| 4 | Angels Temple Legendary | Angel discount engine |
| 1 | Dwarvensmith Epic | Pushes hero damage for reach |
Spells & removal
| Cost | Card | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | Bless | +3 Attack burst for a lethal swing |
| 1 | Celestial Armor | +1/+3 to survive trades |
| 2 | Guardian Angel | Holy Shield to protect a key unit |
| 3 | Chain Heal | Stabilize against aggression |
| 5 | Resurrection Epic | Bring back your best creature |
The cards Slava decks actually run
Taken from 2,331 tracked Slava 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Imperial Guard Rare | 82.8% (1,930) | 60.3% |
| 4 | Crusader Sergeant Common | 79.5% (1,852) | 61.3% |
| 4 | Sunburst Rare | 75.3% (1,756) | 61.1% |
| 2 | Tithe Collector Rare | 75.0% (1,748) | 61.0% |
| 4 | Blessing Inquisitor Rare | 71.6% (1,668) | 62.7% |
| 2 | Bless Common | 70.9% (1,652) | 61.9% |
| 5 | Scattershot Marksman Common | 68.3% (1,593) | 61.8% |
| 1 | Lay of Hands Rare | 67.4% (1,571) | 62.5% |
| 3 | Rally Flag Common | 59.9% (1,397) | 60.4% |
| 2 | Holy Praetorian Common | 59.8% (1,394) | 60.6% |
| 11 | Shi-No-Shi Legendary | 58.3% (1,358) | 59.6% |
| 4 | Eleonore, Voice of Harmony Legendary | 48.4% (1,128) | 62.4% |
| 2 | Boots of the Explorer Common | 47.1% (1,097) | 60.7% |
| 3 | Watchman Common | 46.0% (1,072) | 60.5% |
| 3 | Blind Brother Rare | 41.1% (958) | 62.0% |
| 5 | Sun Crusader Rare | 36.0% (838) | 62.3% |
| 7 | Angel Commander Epic | 35.9% (837) | 59.7% |
| 7 | Anael, Angel of Redemption Legendary | 32.8% (765) | 61.6% |
Highest win rate among the commonly-played cards here is Blessing Inquisitor at 62.7%, from the 1,668 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 36.4% of the 472 distinct Slava lists on record; the remainder are one-off brews that resemble nothing else.
Human Midrange
What sets it apart: Bless, Blind Brother, Lay of Hands, Shi-No-Shi
Almost always present: Imperial Guard, Bless, Crusader Sergeant, Blessing Inquisitor, Sunburst, Lay of Hands
Human Midrange (Anael, Angel of Redemption)
What sets it apart: Anael, Angel of Redemption, Watchman, Scattershot Marksman, Matewa, Voice of Thunder
Almost always present: Scattershot Marksman, Tithe Collector, Holy Praetorian, Watchman, Bless, Lay of Hands
Human Aggro
What sets it apart: Holy Priest, Soldier, Wandering Bard, Griffin Crossbowman
Almost always present: Holy Priest, Lay of Hands, Bless, Holy Praetorian, Blessing Inquisitor, Scattershot Marksman
Mulligan Guide
Slava wants to act on every early turn. In your opening hand:
- Keep at least one 0–2 cost Human so you curve out.
- Keep Tithe Collector — the extra gold accelerates everything.
- Redraw Divine Intervention and Resurrection in your opening hand; they're dead early.
For the full keep-or-redraw framework, see our Might & Magic The Card Game Mulligan Guide.
Matchups & Tips
| Matchup | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|
| vs Nur | 668 | 66.5% |
| vs Agrael | 541 | 63.4% |
| vs Slava | 536 | 57.6% |
| vs Anastasia | 455 | 55.6% |
| vs Giovanni | 362 | 55.2% |
| vs Sandor | 236 | 67.8% |
Only matchups with 50 or more tracked games are listed. These are recorded from the Slava 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 early, lean on Chain Heal and Divine Intervention, then stabilize and go wide.
- Vs control: apply steady pressure and hold a buff for after their board wipe; Resurrection rebuilds fast.
- General: sequence buffs after blockers are committed so your swing is unanswerable.
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