Cardfight Vanguard Deck Tech – Tamayura

By Serena L.

Stand up! Vanguard!

It’s Serena and I’m back with another Cardfight Vanguard Overdress format deck tech! This time around we’re taking a look at the Glitter who seeks the Fire Regalis, Tamayura. Tamayura is our first foray into Dragon Empire, but she brings a familiar style of play, particularly if you read our last article. Let’s get started!

Our ride deck starts us off with Nine-Tailed Fox Spirit, Tamayura, who has the standard abilities of a D era starter. Following up is In the Calm Sunlight, Tamayura. When Calm Sunlight rides over her Nine-Tailed Fox form, she lets us look at the top 7 cards of our deck and choose up to one card with ‘Ririmi’, or ‘Rarami’ in it’s card name, or a Fox Art card from among them and add it to our hand. More on our targets for her later! Festival of Burning, Tamayura says when she rides over Calm Sunlight, she chooses a ‘Ririmi’ or ‘Rarami’ from our drop and returns it to our hand. Finally in our ride deck we have Deepening Night, Tamayura, which is currently our only grade 3 unit in the deck, including our Persona Ride copies. At the beginning of your ride phase, you get the effect “All of your front row units gets +5k”. From turn 4 onwards you have a free boost when attacking. She also says when she attacks, Counterblast 1 and perform one of the following: “Choose a card from your soul and call it to rear.” or “Choose a card with ‘Ririmi’ in it’s card name from your soul, and a card with ‘Rarami’ in it’s card name from your soul, and call them to rear.” Now I’m sure you are all wondering who Ririmi and Rarami are, so let me introduce them!

Ririmi and Rarami are Tamayura’s best friends and are something we haven’t seen in this series before! While they are Dragon Empire units, they are also actually Dark States, meaning you can play them in either. First up, we have 4 Twin Direful Doll, Ririmi, a grade 2 Workeroid that says when she’s played on rear, and you have a rearguard with ‘Rarami’ in it’s card name, you can Soulblast 2, choose one of your opponent’s rear-guards and put it into soul! Now her sister is Twin Direful Doll, Rarami, who we also run 4 of. It has the effect of being placed on rear if you have a ‘Ririmi’ rearguard, you can SB2 and draw a card. Now, you might be wondering how we’re getting soul for this? Well, both of these ladies have the Glitter ability where if your vanguard is Tamayura, when they get retired from the Guardian Circle, they go to soul! Then you can call them back out with Tamayura’s skill, and then you can use them as intercepts later!

Those are the grade 2 units from the deck, so let’s go to our grade 1s! You might have thought we finished with the dolls, but don’t fret! We have 3 copies of Ladies and Gentlemen! Rarami. This Rarami says when she’s placed from soul into drop during your turn, CB1 and call her to a backrow circle in the same column as a front row Ririmi! She also has a Glitter ability that is active if your vanguard is Tamayura. Specifically, at the end of the battle she boosted, put all your rearguards in the same column as her into soul, and if you put a Ririmi by this effect, choose one of your units and give it 5k until the end of the turn! And now we have 4 more dolls! It’s Show Time! Ririmi is the last normal unit in the deck, and like her sister has a normal ability and a Glitter ability. Her normal ability is the mirror of her sisters, going to a backrow circle behind a front row Rarami. Her Glitter ability says at the end of the battle she boosted, her and the unit she boosted go into your soul, and if you put a Rarami into soul from this effect. Then, if you haven’t Countercharged this turn, SB1 to Countercharge 1!

Now you might be wondering, “Only 7 grade 1s and 8 grade 2s? Why so low?” Well, the answer to that, is Tamayura is a deck who also likes to run Orders! Remember the Fox Art thing from the grade 1 in our ride deck? That’s where these come in! We have 2 different Fox Arts, the first being 2 copies of Scarlet of Fluttering Evanescent Life, a grade 3 Normal Order: Fox Art, which you can play for SB2 if you have a Tamayura named Vanguard. Fluttering lets you choose up to one unit card with ‘Ririmi’ and up to one unit card with ‘Rarami’ from your drop and call them to rear, giving you another way to recycle your dolls. Our other Fox Art is another 2 of, called Fleeting Shine That Lights Life, which is a grade 2 and is a Blitz Order: Fox Art, meaning we play it in response to the opponent attacking. At the cost of 2 soul if we have a Tamayura vanguard, we choose one of our vanguards and it gets an ability that states “All your opponent’s front row units get -10k.” until the end of the turn. Now for the most important card in the deck, which has unfortunately been going up in price: Broken Toys. Broken Toys is a grade 1 Normal Order. It says you can play it if your vanguard is Tamayura. It allows you to look at the top 7 cards of your deck, choose up to one ‘Ririmi’ and up to one ‘Rarami’ from among them OR your drop, put them to soul and shuffle your deck. Then, if your soul has one or more ‘Ririmi’ and one or more ‘Rarami’ you draw a card. This is what allows the deck to keep going even with such heavy soul costs! If you can’t swing Broken Toys (and it’s entirely understandable since they’re only promos from tournaments and haven’t had a more widely released printing yet), you can look at picking up Stealth Fiend, Forktail who lets you look at top 7 and take a ‘Stealth’ or ‘Glitter’ unit from there and put it into soul, but she’s nowhere as useful as our 4 copies of Broken Toys.

Rounding out our main deck is 3 of the effect Sentinels for Dragon Empire, that being either Sparkle Rejector Dragon or Twin Buckler Dragon and 1 copy of Elementaria Sanctitude, or you can simply run 4 of the aforementioned dragons, since Sanctitude and Fleeting Shine can’t be played on the same turn, as they’re both Blitz Orders. We also have 4 of the effect front triggers, Blaze Maiden Parama, 4 standard heal triggers, in this case Blaze Maiden, Rona, 7 standard critical triggers: 4 Blaze Maiden, Zonne and 3 Blaze War Monk, Sougyou. Finally, there is our Overtrigger, Dragon Deity Ring of Resurgence, Dragveda, who has the additional effect of restanding our vanguard, which potentially can let you get 8 attacks in 1 turn!

The last thing I want to mention here is we are getting a new grade 3 Tamayura, called (according to fan translations) as Will-o-Wisp Daybreak, Tamayura. Normally when new support comes for a deck I would write more in depth about what changes to make and how it changes the deck, but this new Tamayura is the only new card coming for this deck at this time, and it won’t change too much in the next few months. Simply we will replace our current Persona Rides for 3 copies of this new Tamayura grade 3 (keeping the original in the ride deck) and swapping one of the other cards out for a 4th copy of Daybreak, as the Daybreak Tamayura says when she rides over Deepening Night, Tamayura, you search your deck or drop for a non-Regalis Piece order and put it into your hand, if you searched deck shuffle it, then activate Persona Ride. She also has the ability of when she attacks, you bind the Deepening Night, Tamayura from soul to choose up to one of each of ‘Ririmi’ and ‘Rarami’ from soul and call them to rear and they get 5k power until the end of turn. On top of that, at the end of that turn, you ride the Deepening Night you bound as rest again.

Here’s the list for the deck on Bushiroad’s website: https://decklog-en.bushiroad.com/view/M1ZV

Anyway, that’s all from me for now! I hope you enjoyed this first foray into Dragon Empire and I’ll catch you next time when we return to my favorite nation, Lyrical Monasterio!
Until we meet again!