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Thursday, 29 December 2016

Guide to a Deck: Mirurun

Mirurun is an interesting deck. Mirurun's gimmick consists of utilizing her opponent's spells in the trash and at times from the hand/deck. Of course, her main focus isn't using the spells but the bonus effect she gets from using the spells. Overall on those regards, Mirurun makes a quite effective deck with the ability to banish SIGNIs quite easily and/or making her opponent discard their entire hand. However, due to the fact that she requires specific cards for her opponent to have in order to be useful, Mirurun can be classified as a hate deck, which is basically a deck meant to counter another deck specifically. In Mirurun's case, this specified deck is Piruluk, but she can also counter other Spell-heavy decks such as Hanayo 2-stop. On the other hand though, this also means that when she's fighting something that isn't Spell-heavy, or if the opponent plays smart and doesn't use any of his/her spells, she's next to useless.

Overall, Mirurun is very reliant on her opponent's cards to do what she does, but when she does it she does it decently well.

Friday, 26 August 2016

Guide to a Deck: Remember

Bitch I mean Remember is a decent deck. Remember, having Piruluk in her attribute, can run all the support cards that was meant for Piruluk, although it's more of picking up stuff that Piruluk will never use and picking it up for herself. Unlike her blue counterpart, Remember's playstyle is being offensive more than anything, while having access to Piruluk benefits such as making your opponent discard cards at times and drawing a lot of cards, in exchange of not being as offensive as other more offense oriented decks, such as Hanare and Yuzuki. Remember is the more "balanced" version of the countless offensive decks out there.

However, this leads her to becomes a tryhard of sorts, not being able to do any one of the many things she try to do well enough for her to become good overall. She does have some interesting and unique things to brag of, but that doesn't change the fact that Remember is a preety meh deck to use in the meta right now. Remember requires, at minimum, one ARTS slot to function even slightly well, in the form of Lock You. Using Remember 5 you're probably gonna end up taking over 2. Having only 3-4 defensive ARTS (conditional ones at that, since Remember options are preety wierd) in a deck that doesn't have enough offense to end the game extremely early can hurt a lot depending on what you do.

Disclaimer: I haven't tested that much of what Remember does since Horoscope was released. I've played maybe like, 2-3 games since Horoscope, so remember to take what I say with a grain of salt.

Sunday, 31 July 2016

Guide to a Deck: Eldora

Eldora is a great deck. With her signature ability to manipulate her Life Cloth, Eldora can live through most forms of offence your opponent can throw at you, provided you could do the setup. This makes Eldora virtually immortal, being able to live through anything. Her offence is also threatening, thanks to the Squid Sisters, who lets Eldora break through at minimum 1 Life Cloth against most decks per turn, at best 3. This offence is also consistent, considering how much Blue decks can draw. Spamming THREE OUT can bring you a long, long way.

Overall, Eldora's tactics of defending her life by manipulating her Life Cloth combined with the offence that you have access to through your cards makes Eldora an extremely solid deck.

Sunday, 10 July 2016

Decklist: Piruluk: "Maboroshi Sapphire"




Way back in the WX06 era, when Shironakuji first came out, a Piruluk build that used Water Beasts was born. This build made the best use of Shark Lance, which, at the time was one of the best cards for Piruluk, and Shironakuji was an overall amazing card, and it remained meta for quite a while then. However, when WX09 became a thing, more effective cards came out for Electric Machines (namely, AMS and HTR) while quality generic Water Beast support became uncommon, making Waterluk fall off from the meta by quite a bit. 

A year or so later, I was testing my SuperDora for fun to see how it worked. The last time I played it was... what, when it first came out in WX10? Back then, the results weren't all that fabulous so I didn't expect much and really expected it to be a fun deck for casual play.

Wednesday, 6 July 2016

Guide to a Deck: Piruluk

Piruluk was one of the best decks in the meta, and is now the best deck, with the introduction of Code Piruluk APEX. Before APEX came by, Piruluk, with the mass discarding she could do, the massive hand size, and quality cards, had the potential to sweep the metagame singlehandedly. The only reason she didn't at the time was because, well, Yuzuki was even more powerful. Even then, Piruluk was an amazing deck.

Hell, Piruluk turned out to be so powerful that TakaraTomy nerfed her twice in less than one set. And even that didn't stop Piruluk from being devastating, while still remaining on the top of the meta. Those nerfs did make Piruluk much less powerful, however.