Friday 27 December 2013

Deck Classes in vanguard

Hey folks, today i'm going to talk about decks and the metagame in cardfight vanguard.

Decks that are viable in the current competitive scene.
Eradicators
Transcendence Dragon G4
Minerva
Dauntless Reverse
Chaos Breaker Dragon
Silver thorns
Jewel Knights
Blaukuger
Revengers

Lets classify them into classes and Categories.
Playstyle
Class 1: Disruptive Field Control
Class 2: Aggressive beatdown
Class 3: Anti Burn
Class 4: Anti Rush

Triggering Style
Shuffle
Stack Hastening

Disruptive Field Control (Burn).
They are decks that are disruptive and love killing your rearguards. Decks of this class gain +1 for themselves or -2 to the opponent via retiring or field removal. Often packed with pressure on the opponent who is facing it.

Decks that fall into this class:
Kagero
Narukami
Nubatama
Chaos Breaker Dragon

Aggro-Beatdown(Rush)
They are the type of decks that do nothing else except 1 thing. to rush and beatdown and deal damage. They are decks that are packed with pressure and forces the opponent to guard everything or take the damage. They are the type of decks that normally do not gain pluses with exception of a restanding vanguard.

Decks that fall into this class:
Beast Deity
Spike Brothers
Aqua Force
Blaukuger
Dimension Police
Ancient Dragons
Great Nature
Murakumo

Anti Burn
They are the type of deck that gain massive advantage and able to replenish their field easily to make up for the lost. Often have a huge handsize to begin with and play around. They are usually direct counter to our dragons from the dragon empire.

Decks that fall into this class:
Jewel Knights
Silver thorns
Minerva
Bermuda triangle
Granblue
Royal Paladins
Gold paladins
Celestials
Great Nature
Murakumo

Anti Rush
They are decks that are counterblast dependant and gain advantage when have loads of open damage to use for counterblast. They are there to prevent getting rushed and to counter them after getting rushed.

Decks that fall into this class:
Revengers
Celestials
Jewel knights
Narukami
Kagero
Nubatama
Gold paladins

Not to forget some decks belong to more than one class and share more than 1 characteristic.

Now we know what decks there are out there,
Lets simplify how the metagame works
Burn (wins)> Rush
Burn > Anti Rush
Rush > Anti Burn
Anti Rush > Rush
Anti Rush > Anti Burn

Now lets talk about triggering style in vanguard. This section is where the more advanced players would understood and how triggers can help gain pluses.

Shuffling
Shuffling is one of the few ways to score triggers as it resets your deck stacking pattern by removing the cards that are non trigger.

Decks that uses this technique:
Neo Nectars
Revengers
Royal Paladins
Great Nature
Murakumo

Stacking
Oracle Think Tank
Granblue
Dark Irregulars
Palemoon
Gold Paladin

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