Genshin TCG: Genie Summoning Tips & Tricks for Beginners - Genshin Impact Guide - IGN (2023)

Genius Invokation is Genshin Impact's own collectible card game, utilizing a similar elemental reaction system to defeat enemies in the main game. Rather than focusing on reflexes, this game focuses more on strategy. The purpose of this guide is to offer some tips and tricks for any newcomer to get and get some wins in this exciting new way to play Genshin Impact.

• Purpose of the Game - The Victory Condition
  • What is a Round?
  • Types of shares
• Resources to follow
  • controlling time
  • control cards
  • Control Data
  • controlling the energy
  • Damage and Balance Resources
• Other tips and tricks

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Each player starts the game with three character cards (some of which are familiar enemies you've seen on your journeys fighting by your side). You win by defeating all three characters your opponent controls, reducing their health to zero.

That said, many of the best decks aim to wipe out their opponents' characters as quickly as possible. Each game round counts for more than you'd expect! Expect matches between competent champions to end at round 3-5, unless a specific strategy is used to purposely interrupt the game.

What is a Round?

In most card games, players take "turns" in which the active player casts spells, summons creatures, and/or attacks. Genshin's invocation works differently in the sense that turns are shared. We call these rounds.

At the start of the round, players are given eight Elemental Dice to serve as fuel that is expended to perform actions such as using Character Skills, Explosions, Attacks, and Action Cards. These dice are random elements and you have the opportunity to reroll any number of dice per round.

The data sides are as follows:

• scored
• Water
• electro
• cry
• Soft
• Here we are
• geo
• Omni (can be used for any elemental cost)

Whenever a player attacks or switches characters, the opponent also has the opportunity to perform an action. Once a player chooses not to take further actions, they can choose to end the round, in which case the opponent can use their remaining resources as they wish until they, too, end the round.

At the end of a round, some effects take place, depending on your cards, and the next round starts from there.

Types of shares

There are two "speeds" of actions.

• Combat Actions - Attacks, Skills, Explosions and character switching.
• Quick Actions - Play Action Cards, equip Artifacts or Weapons, and use Food or Support cards.

Combat Actions transfer control of the round to the opponent until he performs a Combat Action. Quick Actions allow you to continue your turn until you take a Combat Action or end your half of the round.

Some letters like "Katherine" and "Leave it to me!" change Combat Actions such as switching characters to Quick Actions and are often used when a player wants to switch before the opponent can react to a strategy.

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An example of this is quickly switching to Jean and using her Elemental Skill, which deals damage and forces the opponent to switch characters. Without these tools, the opponent can predict your moves and react accordingly. Use cards like these to ambush your opponents.

All card games have features that allow players to perform actions during the game. Mastering the flow of these resources between you and your opponent is key to winning any battle.

• Tempo
• cards
• Data
• Energy

controlling time

Tempo involves control over how many actions you can take per round. Sometimes it speeds you up; others, it slows down the opponent. Cards like "Katheryne" and "Leave it to me!"butyour pace, allowing you to perform more actions at once than you would normally be able to.

Jean's skill, however,take awaypace your opponents, forcing them to use a combat action to get back into character or spend resources to readjust their battle plan. Other examples include using Hydro and Cryo attacks to freeze an opponent in place, rendering them unable to perform attacks, or overload reactions with Pyro and Electro to force switches while dealing damage.

control cards

Almost all card games operate under the "card advantage" economics. Card advantage is usually measured by how many cards you use compared to the amount of cards you win and/or the cards your opponents lose.

For example, let's say I use "Strategy". It costs one die to draw two cards.

• I lose a card - "Strategy"
• I gain two cards from my deck.
• (-1) + 2 = 1

Thus, I gained +1 advantage card.

Another card, "NRE", allows me to draw a random Food card from my deck after playing it for two dice of any elements. So, for every Food card I play (once per turn), I draw another Food card from my deck.

• I "lose" a card - "NRE"
  • (stays on the field, but is no longer in my hand)
• I draw a Food card
• (-1) + 1 = 0

Here, I have zero card advantage, which some might think is a bad thing; most of the time it is not. We call letters like these "cantrips". Tricks smooth your hand by filtering one card for another.

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Finally, we have a card like "Raven Bow", which is equipped to a character by two matching elemental dice and allows a character wielding the bow to deal +1 damage on their attacks.

• I lose a card - "Raven Bow"
• I don't gain cards (unless this 1 damage is enough to defeat a character)
• (-1) + 0 = (-1)

here i havelostcard benefit.

In many card games, losing the card advantage is a big loss, but not so much in Genius Invokation. Losing card advantage doesn't matter if you win the game on the same turn or stop your opponent from winning on a crucial turn.

That is, don't waste cards unnecessarily; do this only with purpose in your strategy.

Control Data

Data is needed to perform almost any action in the game. There are two ways to take advantage of data:

1. To takemoredice than a turn normally allows.
2. Change thetypeof your dice to allow character attacks.

Ensuring you have the right data elements to take the necessary actions can be the difference between winning and losing. If you need six Cryo dice for Ayaka's ability to be used twice, each attack defeating an enemy, and you only have four Cryo dice and two Dendro, Ayaka won't be able to close the game, leaving her open to a KO of your opponent.

Dice are also a random element of the game; you can't always control whether or not you have the right data. Fortunately, Genius Invokation allows players to discard a card in their hand at any time during their turns to convert a useless die into a die of their active character's element. Remember, this is a loss of card advantage, but sometimes it's a necessary loss.

"Paimon" is a card that costs three dice of the same element, but gives two extra omni-dice (which can be used for any element cost) for the next two turns. You lose three dice for a total of four in two turns. Several "One-Turn-Kill" decks (OTK's) rely on this card to attack multiple times in a row on subsequent turns to eliminate the entire group in one round. Since almost every type of attack costs at least three energy, having 10 dice allows for at least three attacks in a single turn.

If there are cost reduction effects like "Minty Meat Rolls" (which makes normal attacks require one less misaligned die per turn), that number increases to four or more consecutive attacks!

Finally, "The Best Travel Companion!" requires a card and two dice of any elements to give two omni-dice. Here, we miss a letter to filter elemental features.

controlling the energy

Energy is needed to use the characters' Elemental Bursts. An Elemental Burst, as with the rest of Genshin Impact, is usually a character's most powerful attack. Each time an Attack or Skill is used, the active character gains one energy.

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Bursts usually cost between 2-3 energy, which means that, unassisted, performing a Burst is dependent on your character staying alive for several turns, after which it may be game over!

Fortunately, there are cards that manipulate energy to help characters explode as soon as possible, adding not just a damage advantage, but a timing advantage in their own way.

"Calx's Arts" is an end-game reward that can add up to two energy to a character at the cost of one energy from each of your other characters. This is often a good way to surprise an opponent with an unexpected Explosion at a low dice cost.

Starsigns cost more dice, but grant an energy to your active character unconditionally.

Liu Su then offers a cumulative energy advantage; whenever a character is switched (once per turn, two uses), if that character has no energy, he gains one energy. Teams that use a lot of trade effects will be able to build team-wide energy quickly and with little dice cost.

Damage and Balance Resources

In the end, it's the losses that lead to the wins. All those resources you manage are valuable in that they defeat enemy characters faster than they defeat your own.

Depending on your strategy and howyour deckis built to win, certain features will be more valuable. Here is an example...

A deck with these three characters focuses on ensuring that Fischl and Collei can call in allies to deal damage from Electro and Dendro in order to create a Quicken reaction, which allows attacks from Dendro and Electro to deal more damage. Keqing then exists to close out the game with its powerful attacks and Burst.

In this deck, triggering Quicken as soon as possible is important, otherwise the characters alone are weak. That said, Fischl wants to summon Oz and leave the battlefield immediately. Cards that allow her to quickly switch into Collei can help Collei follow up with a Dendro attack on the same turn, keeping Quicken's reaction going for the rest of the game.

Energy, Dice, and Timing are important to this deck's game plan, with card advantage being neglected. The reason card advantage is overlooked is to make the first turn of the game as impactful as possible.

Running two Electro characters allows for many ways to grant characters energy for their flurries, but the first turn requires 3 Electro dice and 3 Dendro dice. Considering you only get eight dice each turn, that takes a lot of luck! To fix this, we use cards like "The Best Traveling Companion" to make sure our strategy runs smoothly.

However, because the deck neglects the card's advantage, the deck "burns out" if it fails to defeat opponents fast enough. When your opponent has way more resources than you, it's all over. The reason this aggressive strategy works is because characters are also a resource. If you manage to knock out someone's key character in the first two rounds of the game, the rest can be an easy pick.

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This trio of characters, on the other hand, focuses on a later turn (usually turn 3) to be the game's most impactful turn. With Yoimiya's Burst, damaging allies will have a follow-up Pyro damage after their attacks.

Since Pyro and Cryo create strong Melt Reactions, and Ayaka's Normal Attacks deal Cryo damage the turn she enters the field, the goal is to set Yoimiya's Burst in the first round, along with using a card like " Paimon" to build dice for future turns. After switching to Ayaka, the plan is to knock out all three characters at once with cryo-infused normal attacks.

Naturally, this deck prioritizes dice advantage and maximizes damage with food and artifacts at the cost of card advantage and early-game pacing.

Then notice how different strategies prioritize different resources over others, and change the support cards in your decks to match that strategy. Also, notice how the above strategies focus on elemental reactions, just like the rest of the game!

Resource management is the key to any card game, but there are, of course, other game tips.

• Stay away from cards that do nothing the first turn or two unless the bounty isveryIt is worth it.

Most basic artifacts cost two dice to reduce the die cost by one for attacks, once per turn. This means that you are spending cards (-1 card advantage) to cost one less each turn (-1 die on the first turn), just totieon the next curve. then takesthree whole lapsto take advantage of these artifact sets. At this point, the game may be over before you get any equipment advantage.

Some artifacts, however, such as "Gambler's Earrings", more than pay for themselves with dice refunds after each kill. The Liben support card is also an exception, as it costs no dice to collect unused dice each turn. After three dice, you are dealt two cards and twoomni-data! This again helps stack dice for future turns, as well as giving the cards an advantage. Here, the trade-off is the card does nothing the instant it is played.

• Don't feel obligated to use Elemental Bursts right away once you have them ready. Focus on exactly how each action will contribute to winning in the moment. Think long term instead of short term.

This may seem contradictory to the first point, but we are looking at "long term" and "short term" in a different way here. Using an Elemental Burst that heals, for example, might be better when your characters are really damaged; it would be a waste to use it right away.

Also, if the Burst is very powerful and you have gear, it might be wiser to build up buffs on your character before unleashing it, as it will take a lot of time and resources to burst a second time.

• Finish your side's round first (when you can) in order to jump over your opponent in the next round.

When you finish the round before your opponent does, youto doopen yourself up to attacks you can't respond to before your opponent ends the round. If you predict the amount of damage your opponent can do, keep track of the cards in your opponent's hand and the dice they have, it's usually safe to let them get that extra normal attack if you're prepared to backtrack for the next round. when you have the data.

Caution is the key here.

• In each game, depending on the board position, make a conscious choice between running or fumbling.

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Both players are usually proactive in trying to end the game as quickly as possible. Sometimes, regardless of the deck, there is a way to interrupt the opponent's strategy (as in the previously mentioned freeze and overload reactions). If you've seen the opponent build up buffs on your character, it might be best to remove them from combat as soon as possible to trip your opponents up.

Otherwise, you'll just need to focus on hitting harder and faster. Know when to be beaten and when to control the board, even if a deck leans heavily towards one strategy as opposed to the other.

• Think about what your opponent can do as much, if not more, than you think about what he can do.youcan.

TCGs are strategy games, which means you must anticipate likely moves to stay one step ahead of your opponents. Familiarize yourself with all the cards in the game. Keep an eye on popular strategies and analyze popular game lines. Often you cannot defeat your enemy unless you understand him first. Many TCG players forget this fact!

Again, how many cards are in their hand, what characters they're using, how much dice they have, and what cards they've used in the game so far are extremely important to keep track of. Use a notebook and pen if you have to!

For example, if your opponent uses two "Leave it to me!" cards in a game, you don't need to play about a third, as a player can only have two copies in his deck. If your opponent has already used a card once, and a deck contains 30 cards, 5 of which go into your hand to start the game, then the chances of your opponent drawing a second copy are about 5% (considering the draw normal cards and effects).

Mastering these skills, however, will come with time. There are no shortcuts!