Monday, November 19, 2012

[Cardfight!! Vanguard] A look on the upcoming BT09 -part 3-

Ohaiguise! I herd you liek Conroes, so I put a Conroe ability in your Amaterasu so you can find any unit while Counter Blasting *2!

日輪の女神 アマテラス
Goddess of the Sun Amaterasu
Ability:
【V】 : LIMIT BREAK 4(This ability activates when you have four or more damage): [Counter Blast *2] When this unit's attack hits the opponent's Vanguard, you may pay the cost. If you do, search up to one 《Oracle Think Tank》 from your deck, show it to your opponent, show it to your opponent, and shuffle your deck.
【V】 : If you have "CEO Amaterasu" in your Soul, this unit gains 2000 power.
【V/R】 : 盟主(if you have a unit of a different clan from this unit, this unit may not attack)


Counter Blast *2 and add any card from deck to hand? Seems want.

Saturday, November 17, 2012

Monday, November 12, 2012

Aki's AFA '12 @ Singapore experience

It was quite an awesome experience for me:
  • first time up close with Nishikawa Takanori;
  • double signatures from May'n;
  • LiSA literally bumped into me, while I'm camping for Takanori-san's photo, took me a few second before I realize who she really is, /fail /not going to wash my sweater;
  • FLOW's members are awesome, posting for photos even we can't get their autographs;
  • took a photo with BSR's CEO, Kidani-san;
  • Terakawa Aimi called my name, while signing her autograph for me, made me kinda happy;
  • uncle Homura becomes a lolicon;
  • fell sick during the end of the second day of AFA;
  • and lots more!
A great thank you to everyone who went to Singapore with me, especially Alex, uncle Homura, Eric, Hafiz, Kin-chan and Edmund.

I'm too lazy to double upload the photos I took on AFA, so I'll just include the Facebook link of the photos here. Pardon the blurry photos, I was taking the photos with a crappy camera. Photos included are shots of Nishikawa Takanori (TMR), May'n, FLOW, Babymetal, Kishio Daisuke, Kidani-san (BSR CEO), pre-released EB04 and B05 cards, etc. I'll make the photos public for the meantime.

To end this post, I'll be including photos of my loots from AFA!


U JELLY?

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

[Cardfight!! Vanguard] Deck list from the anime -part 10-

The following is Misaki's Koko deck from the anime. Open the image in a new tab if you can't view it clearly on lightbox.

Monday, October 29, 2012

[Cardfight!! Vanguard] Platinum Ezel is not OP, Gold Paladin is

Recently, I've read about how people claim PE (Platinum Ezel) is OP. In my opinion, PE is not OP. Why he isn't?

First, he needs 5 damages before he is able to use his LB. Capping him at 4 damages will render him useless, except for the extra 2k if he does have BE (Blond Ezel) in his Soul.

Second, his LB ability is the almost the same thing as SSD, Zeal or Sephirot. It gives only power and that can be repel in many ways. Nulls, tons of hand cards, eliminating Rearguards, etc. Heck, Sephirot is even much scarier than this since it is able to deal high power damage every turn by just LB'ing without the need to pay any other cost. Besides, PE's LB ability is somewhat to deal "Final Turn", that's all.

Third, 13k isn't a new thing anymore, unless you're playing English version. We've come a long way since BT05, we've already adapt to looking at crossride units such as The End and PBO. We will eventually adapt to the current situation.

That being said, the main reason why PE is viewed as OP is because the whole clan itself, GP is very strong.

As I've said in my previous post, PE is good in the sense that no matter which G3 you ride, you can ride and still get away with it, because BE or PE itself is strong enough to fight as it is. This is unlike previous crossride decks that heavily emphasize on both G3 units in the deck: pre-crossride unit and crossride unit to really threaten your opponent.

Furthermore, with GP as the current meta, you can be damn sure BSR will be releasing more cards to support GP, as if it needs more card. It's not even helping when GP is already a very versatile clan with tons of playing style and units to toy with.


For now, this is what I can imagine for a Ezel-based GP deck:

Grade 0
Kyrph *1 (staring VG)
Flame of Victory *4 (critical)
Silent Punisher *4 (critical)
Falcon Knight of the Azure *4 (draw)
Elixir Sommelier *4 (heal)

Grade 1
Gareth *4
Mark *4
DoP/Haugan *3 (either force LB unit or extra power)
Raging Storm/DoP *2 (either Soul Charger or force LB unit)
Tron *2

Grade 2
Beaumains *4
Bagdemagus *4
Tripp/MoP *3 (either unflipper or force LB unit)

Grade 3
BE *4
PE *3

PE itself is not OP, it's a great unit, but GP as a whole is a huge screw trying to fit into your butthole.



/sidenote: I'm not endorsing, nor encouraging more crossride units, they break the game in a way or another. But, what can we do? BSR are the ones who release the cards. Unless all the players boycott the game together, or it'll be the "if you don't like it, don't play it" situation all over again.

Sunday, October 28, 2012

[Cardfight!! Vanguard] A look on the upcoming BT09 -part 2-

Ohaiguise! I herd you liek crossrides!




The cards above probably will be crossride units. I've anticipated BSR will be pulling off something like this since BT09 will be releasing in within a month after EB04 and EB05.

What are you guys waiting for? Go spam EB05 just like how BSR want YOU to!