While thinkering with teams i’m constantly sad that i don’t always have good options to use some themes around certain troops because the options to make the said teams efficient would break the theme. Gnolls for example.
Yeah i’m weird and not just only on this sense.
I wanted to build a team around @Nimhain (Amira) and the options to get mana generators were Hellcat and Giant Spider. None would fit, esthetically with Nimhain (Amira), so i went ahead and looked for another troop that could fit, and Spirit Fox seemed quite nice as a familiar for our tender-hearted assassin. Both are stealthy so they would stick around quite nicely, but i would still want some troop to generate mana and with Amira and Spirit Fox being purple the Giant Spider became more and more interesting so the obviously approach was to find an “owner” to adopt the spider, not a dificult task since there are some good options on Zhul’Kari.
Team Ladies and Pets:
Double Green Banner
Dark Maiden
Amira
Giant Spider
Spirit Fox
The team works well for beginners since the highest rarity is from Amira and she can be unlocked at Leonis Empire. With the rework on Zhul’Kari’s troops Dark Maiden become a good converter with healing powers (giving life to be more accurate) for the first troop as bonus, while the most common Zhul’Kari team would use a Spider Queen upfront because of her trait, Leader. But once you get Dark Maiden’s mana if you have certain combinations of gems around yellows you pretty much have an “all-colors @Lyya (Mercy)”.
(Sorry, i couldn’t resist the urge to repeat the joke with troop’s avatars/names, but it’s all in good spirit and healthy fun. 
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Battle plan:
Dark Maiden will always gives herself life since she is the first troop, this increases her survival considerably. Also if green or red is surrounded by yellow she will recharge herself too. If you can turn yellow gems to get tons of blue mana you will be able to charge Giant Spider’s spell that will most likely charge Amira and Spirit Fox (if it is not fully traited or if you just fired it’s spell as first move).
Spirit Fox will get in the way of Dark Maiden, since she needs yellow gems, but sometimes the removal of the gems will also cascade into combinations of four or more of a kind giving you some occasional board manipulation bringing some new yellow gems too.
Nimhain (Amira) is here for the fun with True damage to bring down any blue troops you face because of the double damage, as well as stealing some magic for more damage later.
Giant Spider is the transformer and can provide some meat shield summoning spiders if Dark Maiden is slain.
Traits:
Considering that you can almost fully trait this team using mostly cheap stones you have access to Webbed on skull damage with Dark Maiden, two Cursed traits to weaken the enemy (D. Maiden and Spirit Fox), Giant Spider will become fat because of her Big trait while also providing Magic Link, Venomous is not a “must have” since you could keep your Arcane Swamp for Lyya’s (Mercy’s) traits later when you get the troop.
Dark Maiden provides Nature Link as well, working fine for herself and her pet Giant Spider and sharing the greens with Nimhain’s (Amira’s) pet Spirit Fox too.
Awww, they are like BFF already… 
(Nimhain) Amira don’t really need her traits, but if you feel like it’s nice to give her some lovely gems to unlock her powers, Spirit Fox would be best fully traited, but at least it’s cheap to do it.
Well, i hope i haven’t forgot any important consideration, and i hope you guys enjoy the team.