Tachikaze - Tyrant Beatdown

It's a really simple deck.  Pretty cheap too.  But it's pretty balanced and all.

I should've gotten archbirds when they were $4...

Dragon∞Blade's [Narukami - Thunder Break / Dungaree]

I wasn't a fan of Vermillion, but I wanted to play Narukami.  So I came up with this BS.
Cheap decks are great!

Granblue - Only 4

It's THAT deck.

Well, no, not the 1 Monster Frank deck (although that's also hilarious).

The 4 G3 deck.
Really budget.  Really fun.

Card Discussion - Mirror Diva, Biscayne

Alright! So... Dragon∞Blade normally does her "Unit of the Week" but since she's on vacation I'll be doing a "Card Discussion". It's been a while since anything has happened on the blog so let's take a look at one of the cards from the recently released Extra Booster, Dazzling Divas.

The card of discussion will be Mirror Diva, Biscayne.

For a set titled "Dazzling Divas", Biscayne is
the only one labeled as such outside of lore.

As her name, flavor text, and even image suggests, Biscayne is rarely ever alone on stage. A single Soulblast let's you look at the top seven cards of your deck for another copy to add to your reserves. The only qualified stand-in for the diva Biscayne is herself. 

Right then, let's use some numbers for once to get a better idea of how much "luck" you would need to pull off her effect.

(My calculations could be wrong so bear with me.)

• After setting your Starting Vanguard and drawing your opening hand, you are left with 44 cards in your deck.
• It's your turn and you draw a card (43 cards left in your deck).
• You ride to Grade 1 and assuming you don't use a Forerunner, you call Biscayne to the Rearguard and activate her effect.
• Assume 3 copies of Biscayne are left in your deck at this point.
• Through Biscayne's effect, each checked card that is not Biscayne increase the odds of the next card being Biscayne.

3/43 + 3/42 + 3/41 + 3/40 + 3/39 + 3/38 + 3/37 = 0.5263182714 = 52.63182714%

• Thus, you're a little better off than a flip of a coin.

• Now, let's assume you are using a Forerunner. You won't be able to use Biscayne until you are at Grade 2.
• By the time you're at Grade 2 you would have drawn another card (42 cards left) and performed at least 1 Trigger Check (41 cards left).
• Again, we assume you still have 3 copies of Biscayne in your deck.

3/41 + 3/40 + 3/39 + 3/38 + 3/37 + 3/36 + 3/35 = 0.5541698772 = 55.41698772%

• Thus, Biscayne offers a little over 50-50 chance of retrieving another copy. The same pattern can be used to calculate the odds of the effect working a second time in the same turn (37.94893264%).

To be honest, if your were the type of player to run 4x Sentinals and 4x 8k Boosters, Biscayne would just take up deck space since the remaining slots would go to Units that supports your deck's strategy. Plus if your deck requires Soulblasts, Biscayne might actually slow it down.

However, for a budget build, Biscayne is a good way to provide a small lead in card advantage. The extra copy of Biscayne can be used to Boost or Guard. Even though its just 1 less card, it still means 1 card closer to possibly checking a trigger. As a 6k Booster, it just barely sets up columns attacking for 15k-16k. Nonetheless, if your deck doesn't focus on hitting the magic 20k-21k columns, having Boosters is better than having none.

Well, I think this post is long enough. Time to sit back and enjoy Biscayne's newest song.

(I wonder if she performs covers.)

A shameless post......I'm not sorry.

So, I was on a Skype chat with Rin and Barrel, and we were discussing snacks.  Rin said that his favorite Pretz flavor was onion, and I said I liked the tomato flavor a lot more.

And Barrel gave me this quick edit:

Neo Nectar supplies the nations with produce and other wonderful snacks!

 

This post was absolutely pointless, but I hope someone laughs at this!  (Stuck with 3 copies of this in my sneak peek deck.  Cost me a game or two for sure!)

Barrel's [Kagero - Control]

Barrel here and I present to you my "Kagero Tech". I wouldn't call this my "main" deck - actually I don't even know if I have a "main" deck or not - but this has been the most consistent deck in terms of victories and usage.

Unit of the Week - 4/14/13

Can't slack off anymore, I'll make this one a bit nicer.

EDIT: I'M LATE.
EDIT: Took me over 2 weeks to realize I titled the MONTH wrong.

I was actually pretty excited about this one.

Unit of the Week - 3/24/13



Let's talk about some underrated cards today.



 

 

Since this week is supposed to be for Murakumo anyways.  A nice card we got in set 5: Covert Demonic Dragon, Mandala Lord!

 

Shadow Paladin - Ildona's Chaos

Sometimes you only need to ride a unit once to know that you've found something great for yourself.  In my case, I borrowed a Shadow Paladin deck from a store employee at my locals after that day's tournament and played quite a few games with it.

Despite the fact that I usually lean toward the build with the dragons, I discovered that I don't like Phantom Blaster Dragon at all!  But I instantly took a liking to Origin Mage, Ildona.

Enough to make the damn deck apparently...

Unit of the Week - 3/17/13

Tachikaze this week, like I said.  It's on time too lol.

I'm too happy today ^_^v.

"Bruh, that's a SANGAN!" - a friend of mine to another friend who attacked a Blightops.