DAC Builder

Special pieces & draws

Most pieces come from the normal shop, but a few have their own rules.

Legendary rotation

There are 98 pieces in the normal shop, including 19 legendary (5-cost) pieces. Each game, only 10 of them are in the pool; the others are removed at random. Five are revealed at the start and the rest are revealed when someone first recruits them. The full list:

Abyssal Underlord5DemonWarlockArc Warden5KoboldShamanDisruptor5OrcShamanGyrocopter5DwarfMechInvoker5ElfMageJakiro5DragonMageLeshrac5GodCentaurDruidMorphling5ElementalElfAssassinOmniknight5HumanKnightPrimal Beast5BeastWarriorQueen of Pain5DemonAssassinRingmaster5Sven5DemonWarriorTechies5GoblinMechTemplar Assassin5ElfAssassinTidehunter5NagaHunterTroll Warlord5TrollWarriorWarlock5OrcWarlockZeus5GodMage

Pandaren fishing

With at least one Pandaren on the board, you get a roll at the start of every round to catch a free piece:

  • 1 Pandaren: a chance to catch a random piece that shares a race with one of your board pieces. The first roll is about 7%, and the chance grows each round you miss, resetting when you catch something.
  • 2 Pandaren: in addition, every Pandaren on the board has a 15% chance to bring a copy of itself.
  • A Lucky Pendant on any of your pieces increases these chances.
  • Fishing is the only way to get the Pandaren spirits: Ember Spirit, Storm Spirit, Earth Spirit and Void Spirit. It can also catch the spare Undead pieces.
Earth Spirit ✪4PandarenShamanEmber Spirit ✪4PandarenAssassinStorm Spirit ✪4PandarenMageVoid Spirit ✪4PandarenMonk

Spare Undead pieces

Fifteen Undead pieces, three at each cost, are never in the shop. You mainly get them with the Ascetic's Cap: after a battle, a non-Undead piece holding it may be reborn as a random Undead of the same cost and star (90% for 1-cost pieces, down to 50% for 5-costs). Pandaren fishing can catch them too, and the Golden Heart can offer Wraith King, Spectres and Necrophos.

Abaddon1UndeadKnightClinkz1UndeadHunterWinter Wyvern1UndeadDragonMageLifestealer2UndeadKoboldWarlockMuerta2UndeadHunterVengeful Spirit2UndeadHarpyDemon HunterDrow Ranger3UndeadHunterPudge3UndeadWarriorUndying3UndeadPriestDeath Prophet4UndeadWarlockLich4UndeadMageNyx Assassin4AqirUndeadAssassinNecrophos5UndeadWarlockSpectres5UndeadDemon HunterWraith King5UndeadWarrior

SSR pieces

SSR pieces are super-rare variants of four pieces, each with a stronger, unique skill. From courier level 7, every shop slot has a 1 in 100 million chance to offer one of them, so most players will never see one.

  • An SSR piece costs 9 gold and arrives finished: it can't be combined or upgraded, and it counts as a ★★★, level-9 piece (so it deals the most damage to a losing player and sells for 9).
  • For synergies it counts as a different piece from the normal version. An SSR Chaos Knight next to a normal Chaos Knight counts as 2 Knights, and also as 2 different Demons, which switches the Demon bonus off.
  • Ogre Twin Head Mage Dragon is the SSR Ogre Magi and has an extra race: Dragon.
  • SSR pieces never go back into the shared pool, and they can't come from special draws such as the Golden Heart or Wheel of Wonder.
Brewmaster ♠ Stout9PandarenMonkChaos Knight ♠ Hellfire9DemonKnightOgre Twin Head Mage Dragon ♠9OgreDragonMageShadow Shaman ♠ Gemforged9TrollShaman

Io and Ringmaster

  • Io has a 0.2% chance to appear in any shop slot and isn't taken from the shared pool. It can stand in for a copy when combining (see Stars & combining).
  • Ringmaster has no fixed class. At the start of each game it is given 3 random classes for that game.

Heart of the Machine

  • With 3 Mechs, winning a home battle with a Mech alive gives you a Heart of the Machine: a free shop refresh.
  • With 6 Mechs, the reward can instead be a Golden Heart (20% per courier level above 5). It opens a shop of 5 random legendaries, including ones not in this game's rotation, and you get one of them for free.

Wheel of Wonder

A relic. Put one of your pieces into the wheel and you get a choice of 5 copies of it at the same star, each with a different random extra race or class. Pick one for free. In the builder, use “+ trait” on a piece to model this.

Dismiss

You can dismiss one race or class to stop its pieces from appearing in your shop. Other players aren't affected.

  • It costs gold: the more pieces the synergy has in this game, the more it costs (about 8 gold for 2 pieces, up to 27 for 15).
  • Only one synergy can be dismissed at a time. Cancelling is free, but the gold isn't refunded.
  • A dismissed synergy also blocks those pieces from Golden Heart offers and from Pandaren self-copies.