Cardfight Vanguard!!: Back in the game??

Helloooooo everyone! Just a short post for today. So I just went to my local cardshop to play a few games with my Kagero deck, if you haven't seen it, check out my deck profile here. Sadly, because I went there pretty early, there wasn't many people playing Vanguard, and in the end I couldn't get to play any games (sadface). But oh well, maybe I will drop by next week at a later timing.

But I am the type of person who tends to spend money if I see what I like, which in short just means impulse buying. Haha. So I got some Kai Sleeves, they look AWESOME, let me show you guys:

Kai Sleevessssssss! Pardon the many 's's. Hehe.

These are for my Kagero Dauntless Drive Dragon deck. Sadly I didn't get to use them. But there's always next time! Also, I recently found Cruel Dragon, the RRR from the newest EB09, very cool. Its' effect is really interesting, its' a superior riding Grade 3, like Ezel but much better. Just because its' a Dragon and its' from Kagero. But for those of you who don't know what it does, this is the breakdown of his skills:

 Cruel Dragon

 [AUTO](VC) Limit Break 4 (This ability is active if you have four or more damage):[Counter Blast (1) & Soul Blast (1)] When this unit attacks a vanguard, you may pay the cost. If you do, choose one of your opponent's grade 2 or less rear-guards, and retire it.
[ACT](Hand):[Reveal this card & Choose your grade 2 or greater «Kagerō» vanguard, and [Rest] it] If you put an opponent's rear-guard into the drop zone during the main phase of that turn, ride this unit as [Stand], and choose your vanguard, and that unit gets [Power]-3000 until end of turn.
[CONT](VC/RC): Lord (If you have a unit without a same clan as this unit, this unit cannot attack)

 The picture above may be slightly off-center, but basically that it how it looks like. Its' art is amazing, basically the winning point is the superior ride capability which you can trigger at Grade 2 with Kimnara, The Grade Zero draw trigger and many others like Berserk Dragon or Corduroy. Because Kagero has so many retiring units that are Grade 2 and below, superior riding can help you gain more advantage as the only minus is the -3000 power which can be fixed by sending Artpitch, the Seal dragon draw trigger from your field into the soul for the +3k power. Cruel Dragon can also combo well with Dauntless Drive, especially if you get pushed to 4 damage early and need to claw back some advantage, but do take note that even if you breakride with Cruel Dragon on Dauntless on your turn 3, Dauntless by itself consumes quite a bit of cards to activate the breakride effect to restand. But the fact that if you do breakride and use the restanding effect (which you should unless in exceptional circumstances, but still.), you can get to use Cruel Dragon's Limit Break skill twice because it is a on-attack activation, which potentially means you can retire pesky intercepts before the Guard Phase. But the weakness is that you cant use the effect if your opponent has no rearguards, but then again, isn't it great if your opponent has no rearguards? Because Cruel Dragon's effect uses SoulBlast and CounterBlast, the main thing that will be restricting you will likely be these two variables. So in theroy you can use it 3 times if you breakride over Dauntless, unless you Soulcharge with the Grade 0 Draw triggers. But compared to other Kagero cards, this card's Limit Break may not seem very attractive. The main selling point is the art, ahem* I mean the superior ride, which in a Grade 4 Transendence Deck helps you hit Grade 4 one turn earlier and potentially nets your a HUGE advantage.

But overall, this card is a pretty good card, especially in a Grade 4 centric Kagero deck. But it is useful in a normal Kagero Deck too, just that there are more OP options like DOTE or Blast Bark Dragon. And knowing people, its' likely this card is overhyped and then nobody ends up playing it as a keycard but rather as a Grade 3 ride towards Grade 4. Which I think was the initial intention, which was seen in the manga. Thats all I have today, so until next time,

EndBlade