Sword Girls OCG/RPG - Page 31

On May 18 2012 19:15 Cel.erity wrote:


Yeah, there's a lot wrong with that deck. First of all, you only have 10 followers, which is not nearly enough, especially with Nold lowering your field size. 15 should be the bare minimum unless you really know what you're doing, but my Child Nold deck runs 17 relatively high cost followers and that works out fine.

Your deck isn't really control, it doesn't have any particular focus at all to be honest. It's lacking synergy between the cards. Take out Sacrifice, Heartless Blow, and Mother Demon Rumor as they are all rather unplayable. Focus on making a 5-3-2 curve since you're utilizing Nold, you want your followers to mostly cost 3 or 5. 4 is quite bad because it eats -1 size bonuses from Nold after two turns, and it gives you less flexibility than 3 in terms of playing the correct number of cards to utilize Nold. The only 4 I might run is 2S Agent Nine and Fated Rival Seven if you have her. Nold is pretty decent with the starter academy cards; Mop Maid/Guard Maid/Silent Maid/Cultist Maid are all good with her if you want to go for a maid theme. I don't see the reason to be branching out into other factions for followers, especially since you have Mass Recall. 2S Agent Nine is just better than Luthera and most of your off-faction cards don't work particularly well in the deck. Battle Sita is fine of course, you'll also want Crimson Witch Cinia.

For spells, 3 Unionize is too many, they're too situational to play more than 1 or 2 since you often won't be able to cast them. Meadow Leisure is probably a worse buff than Black Magic Plot (which should be an auto-3x) or Shift Change. You can also run some 3-size spells like Maid Revolution or Meteor Call, but don't run too many since it messes with your curve. Shrink and Ward are both great, try to find a couple of 1-cost cards also to abuse Nold more easily. The 1size spells are pretty lacking, so you might have to play a Layna or a couple of Fanatic Sarahs or something. It isn't required, but it does make the deck run smoother.

Edit: Oh, and speaking from personal experience, this deck's biggest weakness is small followers snowballing. Mass Recall is really your only panic button if they get a Wall Climbed Layna, or if your Servant's Ward just misses the problem follower. I never came up with a good answer for it, though I was DP capped. Pilgrimage seems like it deals with the problem okay, but you might also want to consider stuff like Maximum Drive, 1 Dark Secret + 1 Forced Entry + 1 Swap Spell, or other creative solutions. Unionize and Meteor Call simply don't address the weaknesses that I found while playing the deck.

On May 19 2012 03:22 BrTarolg wrote:Exchanging cards for materials is TERRIBLE. like, REALLY bad.

On May 19 2012 05:08 Cel.erity wrote:


No it's not. It gets more efficient with higher rarity though, but in general you end up getting ~1/2 of the mats you invested or slightly more for character cards/rare followers, so it's a lot more efficient than transmuting. The problem is, you obviously never want to transmute away cat dolls, so I think the only viable uses for this would be to exchange ep1 DRs (or possibly just rare spells), or character cards in order to turn swords/books into cat dolls or S2 mats when S2 is released. If you have the ore, it's likely better than transmuting.

On May 19 2012 05:08 Cel.erity wrote:


No it's not. It gets more efficient with higher rarity though, but in general you end up getting ~1/2 of the mats you invested or slightly more for character cards/rare followers, so it's a lot more efficient than transmuting. The problem is, you obviously never want to transmute away cat dolls, so I think the only viable uses for this would be to exchange ep1 DRs (or possibly just rare spells), or character cards in order to turn swords/books into cat dolls or S2 mats when S2 is released. If you have the ore, it's likely better than transmuting.