#deck thoughts

[atarev]

Set 12: Bastion Accord

Ba-Baaaaa!

So! In honour of the first request from @chronojumperintraining as well as the new episode that just aired (don't worry no spoilers here), we start properly shifting these articles just from Rogue Deck analysis, to full on Meta Deck Analysis as well! What better way to start that then with a deck that's had an evolution long in the making which does Not disappoint at all? Bastion Accord!

CONT:All of your grade 3 or greater front row rear-guards cannot be chosen by your opponent's card effects, and get [Power]+5000. (Active on opponent's turn too) AUTO:At the end of the battle this unit attacked, choose one of your grade 3 or less rear-guards, [Stand] it, and if your opponent's vanguard is grade 3 or greater, it gets "AUTO1/Turn:When this unit attacks, COST [Counter Blast (1) & discard a card with "Bastion" in its card name from hand], and this unit performs drive checks until end of that battle." until end of turn.

Eye-catching content: Free restand?? Bastion Persona-Blast to drive check?? Resist?? Perma +5k??

This card is just about as insane as it looks and it only gets crazier from here! Here's the list I've been testing that really brings out Accord's full strength

Code E4YZ on Eng decklog (these cards are still only in Japanese, just that EN decklog has a JP version)

Let's dive into some decisions behind this deck!

Firstly! The big new card from Set 12 outside of Accord himself, Grandeur Edge!

[CONT](Hand):When a grade 3 card would be revealed from your hand for the cost of your card's ability, this card may be regarded as revealing two cards. [CONT](RC/GC):If you have a vanguard with "Bastion" in its card name, this unit gets [Power]+10000/[Shield]+10000. (Active on opponent's turn too)

This card is one of the best things that Bastion's ever gotten, and it shouldn't be too hard to see why! By counting as 2 g3s, if you choose to use the Bastion ride-line, you dont need to keep as many g3s in hand in order to pay their costs! Also gaining +10k power as well as shield with a Bastion VG? It's Kokabiel and Pride Protection Dragon but way better because you can use it as a body on the board as well!

Now onto a pair of cards where one shines way more than the other, but the latter is still important! Sapient Owl and Rondahlia!

[CONT](RC/Hand/Trigger Zone):During your turn, if you have a vanguard with "Bastion" in its card name, this card gets grade+2/[Power]+2000. [AUTO]:When this unit is placed on (RC), if you have a vanguard with "Bastion" in its card name, COST [put a grade 3 or greater card from drop into soul], choose one of your vanguards, and it gets [Power]+5000 until end of turn. If a card with "Bastion" in its card name was put for this cost, and you did not Counter Charge this turn, Counter Charge (1).

This card single handedly plungles Bastion into Promo Hell, but for those who truly want to make Accord shine, the price is worth it! This card supplies early aggression, easy boosting, soul fuel and counter-charging! And even if you can't put a Bastion into soul with its effect, theres one other card that feels Great to target with Owl who also segues well into the Choices section of the article: Brave On Sky-Trimmer, Rondahlia!

An English version of a card?? Revolutionary!!

Jokes aside, its synergy with Owl should be quite obvious, by dropping Rondahlia for a ride-up, you can send it to soul with Owl and give a backrow Grandeur boost for a Massive Alden Swing, or any other massive swing if you like!

This synergy is also why we dont run Dark Strain, alongside the fact it works better in the long term, where you might want to Persona Ride on Accord before you ride to Prime next turn but you only have a single rear to give boost to? If you used Rondahlia the turn before, it feels so nice to get to use her second skill!

Now onto a more avant-garde choice, the Blaster Rideline

Anybody who's played Bastion even during OverDress's infancy will know what it feels like to call a trigger off of Fort's skill, and that's what we're aiming to prevent! It also helps to avoid calling a top-deck Prime (thats happened to me more than you would think) and losing a copy of our Kill Button. Yes it needs counter-blast to work, but with the speed the meta is at right now, you'll likely be eating an early damage, especially if you're going 2nd which this rideline really shines in the case of!

Those are the big power-cards, with units other than that feeling fairly obvious in use (Sajess to get over defensives, Alden for Draw, Prime as Kill Button, Surrogate to search Prime and a Rear) with Form Up being a flex-spot but also nice to help force extra guard on a accord swing boosted by Owl

Overall this deck is extremely strong, it can light people up without even needing to rely on Prime, but if they can get to Prime with a Rondahlia moving to soul? You better pray that you've worn them down with a rush enough that you kill on next turn if you even get one!

I feel like I have a pretty good idea of what next week's deck is going to be! It has something in common with 2 other decks I've shown off, but it isn't a Masques deck, I wonder if anyone's willing to try guess!

As always thanks for reading! If you have any suggestions, questions or just wanna chat about vg, message me or reply to this post!

Until next time!

Ciao!

[psyduckbuttercup]

hey so i Fully Believe that telemachus was not afraid of odysseus in Hold Them Down

people may have told him stories of Odysseus, King of Ithaca, Athena's chosen Champion, Hero of Troy

but mama's boy telemachus sat by her feet as she wove tapestry after tapestry; and penelope told her little wolf stories of his father

how they met, how he tripped over himself to woo her, how he cried his eyes out when penelope became pregnant, how telemachus wouldn't sleep in his cot as a baby because he was so used to being in his father's arms because odysseus would not put him down; and yes, how viciously he defended their family when the atrides came to retrieve him for the war

telemachus? the child of the Unhinged Power Couple? who knew very well how horrible those suitors were, how they treated him and spoke of his mother?

took one look at his dad viciously protecting their home, their family, and thought he was the coolest, strongest person ever (after mom ofc)

[fjordline]

[joyfulhottubfuntik]

One of my favorite things in GF fics is when Stan throws something Ford has said/ written about him in his face.

Like, for example, some time during their travels Stan somehow reveals that this whole time he's had this creeping thought that Ford only wants him around out of guilt or obligation. Ford is naturally taken aback by just how far from the truth it is and, more importantly, very hurt that his brother can even think that about him.

And so Stan says something along the lines of

"Am I supposed to believe that you suddenly give a shit about me now? Or is it just that I've done something worthwhile for the first time in my life? That I was useful to you?"

And Ford's immediate reaction is

"God, Stanley, why'd you even think-

-oh"

Like, the whole thing of Stan still thinking about those words that were said years ago, now when everything is fine and when Ford is actively doing everything he can to show his brother that he loves him. Meanwhile Ford never thought much about those words, never placed any importance on them and only perhaps meant them the moment when he said them, when he was angry and very tired. He didn't even really regret them because he didn't remember about them, that's how little they mattered. But they mattered to Stan, still do and haunt him every day

[wizardinahole]

Everyone say thank you Andy Robinson and Alexander Siddig

[aquanutart]

dragon dance

[ghostlyferrettarot]

📀⚡️The Part of Fortune and how we find happiness⚡️📀

❗️All the observations in this post are based on personal experience and research, it's completely fine if it doesn't resonate with everyone❗️

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⚡️Masterlist⚡️

⚡️ Part of Fortune in Aries: you experience your greatest joy and delight when you feel the potential of trust, faith and hope flowing in the most selfless generosity throughout your being. Generosity begins with oneself and always discovering new ways to give it will attract your greatest luck and fortune.

⚡️ Part of Fortune in Taurus: you experience your greatest joy and delight when you feel the relationship with the divine without intermediaries and in the first person and, thus, you can transmit to each individual inspiration, harmony and a priceless feeling of being welcomed and accepted in the world. Your ability to understand with kindness through empathy will attract your greatest luck and fortune.

⚡️ Part of Fortune in Gemini: you experience your greatest joy and delight when you feel the potential of free will and the ability to love (yourself) in total freedom flowing through your entire being in order to learn to choose (yourself). The activation of your shamanic mind and the balance of forces within you will attract your greatest luck and fortune.

⚡️Part of Fortune in Cancer: you experience your greatest joy and delight when you open new routes to success and deploy your power, your mastery and your magnetism in unthinkable ways. Going for triumph and success that allows you to assert yourself as an individual and realize your desires for action in the world will attract your greatest luck and fortune.

⚡️ Part of Fortune in Leo: you experience your greatest joy and delight when you feel the potentials of courage, will, passion and valor flowing, in a serene and calm way, throughout your being. Finding and feeling the centering, the magnetism in the axis around which your own life revolves will attract your greatest luck and fortune.

⚡️ Part of Fortune in Virgo: you experience your greatest joy and delight when you connect with the depths of your soul. Pursuing the call of your desire to be one with the divine and cultivating introspection, wisdom, prudence and perseverance will attract your greatest luck and fortune.

⚡️Part of Fortune in Libra: you experience your greatest joy and delight when you feel the potentials of balance, rigor, loyalty, authenticity and honesty flowing through your entire being. Finding yourself in a balance that is not, in reality, static but in continuous transformation, looking life in the face and people directly in the eye… will attract your greatest luck and fortune.

⚡️ Part of Fortune in Scorpio: you experience your greatest joy and delight when you move towards the future in a totally dynamic attitude and are willing to explore unknown regions. Continually being reborn into new ways of being, destroying the superficial and leaving only the essential at every step, will attract your greatest luck and fortune.

⚡️ Part of Fortune in Sagittarius: you experience your greatest joy and delight when you feel the potentials of harmony, tolerance, connection and peace flowing through your entire being. Seeking and finding the middle path between light and shadow, activating kind understanding and intelligence of the heart will attract your greatest luck and fortune.

⚡️ Part of Fortune in Capricorn: you experience your greatest joy and delight when you feel the potentials of all your material power and capacity for seduction that are available in your physical vehicle, the temple of your body. Your efforts and determination to access leadership will attract your greatest luck and fortune.

⚡️ Part of Fortune in Aquarius: you experience your greatest joy and delight when you do not let your ideas go to waste and, when you get down to work, you feel the potentials of know-how, structuring and realization flowing through your entire being. The world needs you to invent things and put your contributions into practice, so attending to and honoring your need to exercise your activity in the field will attract your greatest luck and fortune.

⚡️Part of Fortune in Pisces: you experience your greatest joy and delight when you feel the potentials of unlimited vision and the most fertile creativity flowing through your entire being. Your willingness to feel the mobility of all emotions and all feelings will attract your greatest luck and fortune.

[dent-de-leon]

Adrienne: "Caleb as The Tower was the very first card we thought of, even before we knew this was gonna be a thing...Nothing I think captures that moment of catastrophic change in your life, but also like, a complete--nothing will ever be the same. It's that moment of, 'Nothing will ever be the same.' And that can be something of your own doing. Like, it goes up in flames, and--he's at the flame, like he did that, right."

Taliesin: "And the background--"

Adrienne: "Yeah, originally we were gonna have just his house, and then you--

Taliesin: "I was like, 'No, no, no.' Yeah. I have a...there's nothing more Caleb, and there's nothing that ties him more to this--cause of his obsession about this one bad decision that ruined everything--is that...he built a magic a tower. He built a magic, happy tower, filled with wonder and cats, and then the top floor is a recreation of his house that he burned down. So his house is sitting here at the top of The Tower, it's literally...so that wonderful place, technically speaking, is always on fire and it's always 'his fault,' and I was just---'Oh. That's rough buddy...'"

AHH oh....my heart......it still makes me weak that Caleb built a tower that was such a reflection--a physical manifestation--of all his love, and it's still a place where he's haunted and tormented by the most painful parts of his past. Enshrines it.

Thinking always of Caleb caught in the blazing fire of The Tower, and how Molly ran to douse the flames and gave him a forehead kiss the first time he ever saw that look in Caleb's eyes. The difference between Caleb's fall in The Tower--what's meant to be an objective, omniscient perspective--and the Caleb we see in Molly's deck as The Magician. Molly seeing him as, "softness and light."

Thinking of Taliesin saying how rough it is that Caleb would still torment himself in the tower. Thinking of Kingsley one day feeling exactly the same, telling Caleb he doesn't have to keep hurting himself like that--

[thegreatyin]

a valuable part of fallen london progression is starting the game thinking the masters are all collectively playing evil mastermind organization-13-esque sixth dimensional chess and then by the endgame knowing they're just individually playing their own games of normal 3 dimensional chess just like the rest of us. and they're all playing against each other. and (this is the important part) none of them even know how chess works

[themissingmango]

[yeagrave]

lol

[atarev]

Avantgarda: Richter - Set 13

Your blade and my soul!

Hello again! With Will+Dress (and Yuyu's story in general) rounded out, content for the WD gang might've stopped in animated form, but rest assured I still have plenty of decks to go through! Not just with Set 13, but earlier stuff as well!

So why not keep the energy going with a deck that I have gotten Extremely familliar with since its new boss units released 2 months ago! Avantgarda, Richter!

[ACT](Hand):If your opponent's vanguard is grade 3 or greater, COST [reveal this card & bind a "Blue Deathster, "Skyrender" Avantgarda" on (VC)], ride this card as [Stand], and it gets all of the original [ACT] abilities of the card bound for this cost until end of turn. [AUTO](VC):At the end of the battle this unit attacked, if your soul has a "Blue Deathster, Sora Period", COST [discard two cards from hand], choose a "Blue Deathster, "Skyrender" Avantgarda" from your bind zone, ride it as [Stand], and it gets [Power]+10000/drive -1 until end of turn.

Thsi card takes Avant's 'make big swings and blow up the opponent' approach and turns it up to 11! By combining it with support like Arla, Req, and the big bad Death Winds, the heights this deck can soar to are incredible!

Here's the list that I settled on! Code HQFZ in Decklog!

Starting this lower section off with talking about Ala Dargente (or however you spell it) as she is the most important card in the deck outside of richter himself!

Immediately, her ability to power up for each Avant swing means that she's going to get massive on a full-power Richter turn! By combining a persona ride, richter's skill and deathwinds together, Ala can end up reaching 55k before triggers or boosts! Her ability to search deck or drop for strategy cards is amazing too! It'll keep you in the game as long as you need to be in terms of offensive capabilities!

Outside of Ala, the other card I mentioned also segues nicely into one of the main creative choices I made with this deck, Req Gewehner!

Req's power might not go up as high as Ala's, but it goes up a lot easier and will go up to its maximum no matter what from turn 3 onward! Combine him with a boost from a card like Asagi (13k if you set a strategy that turn), then persona and deathwinds? You're hitting the opponent with 53k! No matter what triggers they play that's a 3 card guard!

My choice of Req also means that i dont run the cycler, Habitable Zone. While that card is great for discard fodder which helps keep the deck alive, not only is it expensive and i own this deck IRL, but its functionality is limited without reducing copies of stuff like Asagi or the set-orders to make room for Refablishment Dock (a set order that makes your g2s boost).

Aside from that, front's help your power go even higher and act as even greater shield! What's not to like about that?

That's all on my Richter deck! With Ala releasing just a few days ago in EN, I hope to pick up some copies and make this deck as good as it can be IRL!

Until next time! Ciao!

[anneliis18]

Hermittober day 11 - Burst

[ink-the-artist]

What if I made a tarot card deck that’s all just that ai image photo-manipulation kind of art I’ve done, barely comprehensible

[lizpaige]

okay wait I find the TRC graphic novel major arcana tarot assignments are so interesting and I am assuming that MStief had a say in this, so let me share some quotes from her book about tarot for the individual card meanings. Tarot has all different meanings with similar themes, but I thought it'd be interesting to look at what stief thinks about these cards herself.

All quotes are from Illuminating the Prophecy by Maggie Stiefvater. I highly recommend the book if you're interest in tarot or just are obsessed with the series.

BLUE - JUSTICE "When you see the Justive card, it reminds you that you may have fudged the rules a little and got away with it, or you may have persuaded others that your dubious choice was a correct one, but the universe believes in an absolute right or wrong, and you will get what you deserve based upon that. This card is also a reminder that your reward or punishment is often unseen. A bad turn performed on someone else will haunt you years later, and likewise, an unnoticed kind event will create its own reward inside you. At the end of it, you will become the product of these actions: you are the Justice. There's an intense comfort to knowing that you have this control, especially if you feel your good intentions are being taken poorly." - pg. 41-42

ADAM - THE MAGICIAN "Regardless of who or what you believe in, the Magician is an extraordinary master of all trades, and he is resilient because no matter what the world throws at him, no matter how much he loses, he will always have the most powerful tool at his command: himself." pg. 21-22

GANSEY - THE CHARIOT "The duality that the Lovers card mutters about becomes a proper problem by the time the Chariot shows up in a reading. There are two sides to you, seemingly opposite, and you keep being thrown from one to the other. In many decks, this card depicts two beasts of different color pulling a chariot; when they agree on a direction, the chariot moves forward swiftly. When they disagree, the chariot grinds to a halt. You've ground to a halt... "The chariot's not moving because you can't figure out how to get yourself in line. You can't figure out which you you want to be. The Chariot isn't really about choice, though. It's about balance. You aren't cutting one of the beasts free so that you can move on without it. The chariot will move with only pone of them, but not as fast as if you found a way to make them both move in the same direction. The Chariot tells you that there is a way to satisfy the warring parts of you. Find your self-control, embrace your dark and light sides, and enjoy the ride." pg. 33-34

RONAN - THE LOVERS "This card can represent actual lov ers, and when it does, the love pictured is epic - the pairing pof two souls so complementary that it seems obvious that some greater power has designed them for each other. But it can also represent a duality inside you, and the complementary pairing it refers to is your inner self and your outer self. Just like in a great love affair, everything is perfect when both sides of you are working in harmony. And just like in a great love affair, the world crumbles when you war with yourself. The card speaks to the power of wholeness and knowing yourself." - pg. 31-32

NOAH - THE HANGED MAN "The Hanged Man is all about sacrifice - not a martyr's sacrifice, but a scholar's sacrifice. He goes not only willingly, but pleasantly toward his hanging, certain that the time spent in agony will be worth it... When this card shows up in your reading, it's a sign that whatever answer you seek is not going to simply be handed to you. You need to level up in some way, and it's going to require a genuine effort on your part. It doesn't mean that it requires hard work or a huge sum of money... It requires you to literally prostrate yourself on the altar of wisdom, holding yourself vulnerable, looking deep inside yourself for answers. You've got to let go and be willing to let knowledge and transformation take you." - pg. 43-44

[dailypunctilio]

Just a couple of time-travelling girlies