24 Food Proxy Expo

Trade a little early power for a two-base economy: tech at 24 food and plant a proxy Tree of Life the opponent may never scout, walk it to the expansion, then two Ancients of Lore into Dryads.

By Gym Coaches· Updated 24 September 2026

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About this build

Full guideNight Elf’s 24 Food Proxy Expo

This build is seen mostly against Undead but has situational viability elsewhere. The idea is to sacrifice a little early power to establish a two-base economy; once it is running you can pump units and upgrades. Because the expansion is a proxy, the opponent may not scout it, which is an even bigger advantage.

Medium difficulty: requires Ancient of War creeping and knowing where to place proxy expansions.

Build order · 25 steps

#	Food	Instruction
1	5	Send 4 Wisps to the gold mine. 1 Wisp builds the Altar, then shift-click it to scout the enemy base. Queue Wisps #1 and #2.
2	6	Pull a Wisp from gold to build the Ancient of War near the 1st creep camp. Your first built Wisp builds Moon Well #1, then shift-click it to lumber.
3	6	Queue Wisp #3. Rally Wisps #2 and #3 to the gold mine to have 5/5 on gold.
4	7	Queue Wisp #4 and rally to wood. Continue production until 10 wood Wisps in total.
5	9	Start training your first hero.
6	15	Queue Archer #1.
7	18	As soon as you have 40 wood build Moon Well #2.
8	19	Start Ancient of War creeping.
9	20	Shop trick for 21/20: start building a shop, queue a Wisp at your Tree of Life, then immediately cancel the shop.
10	22	Queue Archer #2.
11	24	You should have 10 wood Wisps.
12	24	Tech to tier 2.
13	24	At 340 gold and 185 wood build a Tree of Life in a proxy location.
14	23	Queue Archer #3.
15	25	Build Moon Well #3 and a Hunter's Hall.
16	25	Queue Archer #4 (when this Archer finishes, use the Ancient of War to continue creeping).
17	27	Your tier 2 tech should be done. Start your 2nd hero.
18	32	Upgrade Ultravision as soon as the Hunter's Hall finishes.
19	32	Queue a Wisp.
20	33	The proxy Tree of Life finishes: walk it to your expansion and creep the expansion when it arrives.
21	33	Build an Ancient of Lore.
22	32	Here you can vary the build: follow along, or tech to tier 3 and then add a 2nd Ancient of Lore.
23	32	Build Ancient of Lore #2, then build a shop.
24	30	Once the Tree of Life roots at your expo, train 5 Wisps out of it to fill the mine. When the Ancients of Lore finish begin training Dryads.
25	43	Build Moon Well #4.