Currently, NN is stuck with the units released on BT05. However, with the release BT08, NN has added two new main Vanguard, namely White Lily Musketeer, Cecilia and Arboros Dragon, Sephirot. After tons of irl proxy and Byond testing, I have to say I prefer Sephirot over Cecilia. Don't get me wrong, Cecilia is a good unit if you know how to use. However, Sephirot on the other hand, is just simply straightforward, yet versatile. Combining Sephirot and Trailing Rose, it's a nightmare to opponent if you play them right and fielding a perfect formation. Besides, Sephirot is a fucking dragon, not a fag like that guy over at FF7 who keeps getting his ass handed to him.
Let's skip the lame jokes and get back to the topic. Why do I think Sephirot is that good?
Let's look at my build first, shall we?
G0 *17
Arboros Dragon, Ratoon [startup] *1
Dancing Sunflower [draw] *4
Dungan Chestnut [critical] *4
Watering Elf [stand] *4
Sweet Honey [heal] *4
G1 *16
Arboros Dragon, Branch *4
Lady of Kamorebi *4
Corolla Dragon *4
Maiden of Blossom Rain *4
G2 *10
Arboros Dragon, Timber *4
Maiden of Rainbow Wood *4
Glass Beads Dragon *2
G3 *7
Arboros Dragon, Sephirot *4
Maiden of Trailing Rose *3
Now, let's look at all the Arboros Dragons' abilities:
アルボロス・ドラゴン “新芽” - Arboros Dragon, Ratoon
自 : When you ride "Arboros Dragon, Branch" on this unit, you may look at the top 7 cards of you deck and select up to one "Arboros Dragon, Timber" or "Arboros Dragon, Sephirot" to add to your hand. After that, place the remaining cards to the top of your deck and shuffle.
自 : When you ride a 《Neo Nectar》 unit other than "Arboros Dragon, Branch", you may move this unit to 【Ｒ】.
アルボロス・ドラゴン “若枝” - Arboros Dragon, Branch
永【Ｖ】 : If your Soul contains "Arboros Dragon, Ratoon", this unit gains 1000 power.
自 : If you ride "Arboros Dragon, Timber" on top of this unit, and your soul contains "Arboros Dragon, Ratoon", choose one of your 《Neo Nectar》 Rearguard, search your deck for up to one card with the same name as that unit, call it to 【Ｒ】, and shuffle your deck.
アルボロス・ドラゴン “樹” - Arboros Dragon, Timber
永【Ｖ】 : If your Soul contains "Arboros Dragon, Branch", this unit gains 1000 power.
自 : If you ride "Arboros Dragon, Sephirot" on top of this unit, and your soul contains "Arboros Dragon, Branch", choose one of your 《Neo Nectar》 Rearguard, search your deck for up to one card with the same name as that unit, call it to 【Ｒ】, and shuffle your deck.
アルボロス・ドラゴン “聖樹” - Arboros Dragon, Sephirot
永【Ｖ】 :LIMIT BREAK 4 (This ability activates when you have four or more damage) All your 《Neo Nectar》 units gain the following ability: "永【Ｖ／Ｒ】: During your turn, if there is a unit with the same name as this unit on 【Ｖ／Ｒ】, this unit gains 3000 power".
永【Ｖ】 : If your Soul contains "Arboros Dragon, Timber", this unit gains 1000 power.
Basically, with Sephirot, it's simply easy to dish out 22-23k lines, and you might even go up to 25k per lines if you know how to field your units correctly. Furthermore, you don't really need Iris Knight anymore, you could just spam Maiden of Rainbow Wood and Glass Bead Dragon with Arboros Dragon, Timber for grade 2's. Imagine Rainbow Wood or Glass Bead on the Rearguard circle, boosted by any same 7k unit or Corolla Dragon. That's easily 22-23k in power and you can Counter Blast *2 when you hit an opponent's unit to draw a card. If the specify unit is your opponent's Vanguard, he/she'll have to take a damage, which leads me to my next point - DOUBLE PROFIT!
With Sephirot, you'll be able to play your deck as a Meta deck, Anti-meta deck or even a Sweeper deck. Damn you, Sephirot.
"LOL! AKI!!! BUT I MISRIDE!!!" Aha! And that's where Trailing Rose comes in. For early game, you don't necessarily need to ride Sephirot, unless you're able to perfect ride with a Rearguard intact on a Rearguard circle, which allows you to target it and superior "profit" call it from your deck onto a Rearguard Circle. The usage of Counter Blast in the deck is limited, unless you plan to keep spamming Rainbow Wood or Glass Bead's abilities. The fact that you are able to pressurize your opponent with Trailing Rose during early game with her Persona Blast, coupled with Rainbow Wood or Glass Bead is great. Your opponent will be at a loss on guarding here and there to stop you from using any ability. This indirectly means you're reducing your opponent hand cards by forcing them to guard, and if they don't, you'll be drawing more cards or calling more units onto the field.
By late game, you can ride Sephirot onto the Vanguard circle, disregarding whether is Timber in the Soul, provided you have already arranged your units in a good formation.
For example, I did this on Byond:
Kay, obviously my opponent's name is not Player 1, I just censor his/her name, in case he/she gets offended, because I screenshot our match. That aside, by fielding such formation, I'm able to create all 25k on my two Rearguard line, while Soul Charging Watering Elf and giving 3k to Sephirot, I'm making another 25k line on the Vanguard line. Basically, I successfully made 3 25k lines that match. Unfortunately, my opponent wasn't able to ride Law Official, Lox , so his/her Guardian of Truth, Lox was only 10k in power. See that, Ezel? It's painful, no? o i haer u say PBO and JIENDO?
In conclusion, Sephirot does indeed deserve to receive "One Winged Angel" as it's theme song when you ride it. He's just that awesome. That's it, I'm shifting to Neo Nectar as my main deck! Bye bye, Imouto deck... /sadface
Anyway, as usual, if you have any suggestion or questions, feel free to drop me a comment. Till next time!
Hi there! I was wondering, how do I use BYOND? I just picked up the game yesterday, and I want to practice online.
ReplyDeleteFirst, download Byond's client here. In the meantime, register yourself an account on Byond. After registering, you'll get a confirmation letter in your inbox of the e-mail address you used for the registration.
ReplyDeleteAfter confirming your e-mail address and installing Byond onto your PC, log in to the Byond client with your username. Next, go to the main page for Cardfight Capital. Select a server you prefer and open it on a new tab (right click, open new tab), I usually go for the server without the "hosted by *insert usernam*". On the new tab, copy the link from the address bar.
Go back your Byond client, look at the menu bar. You'll see an option call "Bookmarks". Click it and click "Add...". Insert the link you've copied to the "URL" slot, and type a name you like to the "Name" slot. Click "OK" after you're done. After that, you'll see your new bookmark on the "Bookmarks" tab, click it and you're good to go.
You can check for the controls for the game in the game. Click on the help button on the top right corner, it's marked by a "?" symbol.
Good luck and have fun!
which to download? i use windows 7 starter. I downloaded the first link and the one beside it but it doesn't work...
ReplyDeleteHi Aki I like your thought about those Arboros Dragon series. But is this deck can still shine againts destructive deck, like Narukami or Kagero?
ReplyDeleteIt can fend itself against Narukami and Kagero decks, depending on how you play and how you set up the field formation.
DeleteNarukami decks pay high costs to retire/attack unit, but Arboros-Trailing Rose can replenish their units fast enough; Kagero decks may be able to retire more efficiently, but retiring based Kagero decks mostly have 10k unit on the Vanguard circle, in which you can easily pressure with Sephirot's LB.
thanks Aki, now I really want to build this deck too
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