Category Archives: Deck Techs

A collection of the various deck techs written by BCW employees and occasional guests. These cover a wide range of games including Magic the Gather, Pokémon, Flesh and Blood, Cardfight Vanguard, Final Fantasy TCG, and others.

Cardfight Vanguard Deck Tech: BanG Dream MyGo!!!

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By Serena L.

Stand Up! Vanguard!

Hey guys, girls, and gamers! It’s Serena back again, this time bringing you a whole new tune! We’re gonna be going over the popular Cardfight Vanguard BanG Dream collab deck, MyGO!!!!!, which had strong performances in both the English and Japanese metagames. MyGO!!!!! is a deck that can easily swarm with 4-5 attacks by using the Music orders that our main vanguard can search from the deck or drop with units that bind themselves at the end of turn and can be recalled by that same Vanguard! The best part? Each of the proper MyGO!!!!! Rearguards and our grade 3 vanguard all have 2 separate effects each!

Innocent Cry, Tomori Takamatsu card for Cardfight Vanguard
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Direful Dolls Cardfight Vanguard Deck Tech

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By Serena L.

Stand Up! Vanguard!

Serena back again! This time we’re back with Vanguard talking with the modern version of one of my favorite decks: Direful Dolls! This new archetype is a Standard format take on the old Nightmare Dolls with a whole new rideline that gets really good on those grindy games. And like Nightmare Dolls, Direful Dolls revolved around calling Workeroid units from soul to attack our opponents, with the added twist of calling them from bind for defense!

Direful Doll, Tonia from Cardfight Vanguard
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Pokémon Deck Tech: Quad Thorns

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For most decks, finding the right balance between Pokémon and Trainer cards is as much art as it is science. That’s not the case with this deck: it’s 4 copies of Iron Thorns ex. There are obvious disadvantages, such as giving your opponent significant card advantage before the game begins. Fortunately, in this case, the risks are worth the reward.

Gameplay using an Iron Thorns ex deck
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Miku, the Renowned Commander Deck Tech

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By Serena L.

Hey guys!
It’s Serena, taking the stage again to bring you all another Magic the Gathering Commander deck tech!

Selection of cards from the Miku-themed commander deck featured in the article

This time, we’re discussing Hatsune Miku! More specifically, we’re talking about Miku, the Renowned, a reskinned version of Feather, the Redeemed, a classic commander. This is a 3/4 flying angel for a red and two white. Also, whenever you cast an instant or sorcery that targets a creature you control, you exile it, then return it to your hand at the end phase. Therefore, we’re a fairly limited spellslinger deck, but that doesn’t mean we have bad options! The deck revolves around our commander and low-cost spells to hit our opponents hard and fast.

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Cardfight Vanguard Lascaria Deck Tech

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By Serena L.

Stand Up! Vanguard!
Hey guys, it’s Serena again, buzzing in to bring you another Cardfight Vanguard deck tech! This time we’re talking about the lovely lady, Lascaria! Debuting in DivineZ’s first full set, Fated Clash, Lascaria is a new Stoicheia deck that focuses on the Veleno Famiglia and their boss, Lascaria and has the ability to use multiple blitz orders in a single turn!

Overview of a Lascaria deck for Cardfight Vanguard in use
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Tsareena ex Attack Lock Pokémon Deck Tech

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Pokémon ex (as opposed to Pokémon EX) were introduced in the Scarlet and Violet base set and immediately made an impact on the game. Some of these ex Pokémon have the Tera type, which makes them immune to damage while on the bench and changes the Pokémon’s type as well. Tsareena ex is such a Pokémon, and while it isn’t meta-defining, it can be very powerful with the right backup.

Gameplay using the Tsareena ex Pokemon deck
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MTG EDH Deck Tech – Alela Vehicles

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Hey guys! It’s Serena back again!

Cards featured in this Magic the Gathering commander deck

Let’s talk about vehicular combat! More specifically, I was inspired to build myself a new Alela, Artful Provocateur deck, built around vehicles. Last time we discussed a deck with more combo potential, but now we’re going for more of a midrange resource generative game plan. This list will be a heavily modified Buckle Up precon from Kamigawa Neon Dynasty, with a focus on token creation to use to pilot our mechs. The Buckle Up precon is blue and white, but with Alela add black for some classic Esper artifacts. Alela is a stellar vehicle commander, because every time you cast an artifact (or enchantment), she gives you pilots to crew your mechs. We also have a whole garage of draw engines to get us on the streets in style! As a refresher, Alela is a 2/3 Faerie Warlock with flying, deathtouch, and lifelink, and gives your other flyers +1/+0. You also create a 1/1 faerie token for every artifact and enchantment you cast. Those tokens are great for getting in the robots below.

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Kumena Merfolk Tribal EDH Deck Tech

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By Serena L.

Hey guys! It’s Serena back, this time taking another dive into Commander!

As you may have noticed, I’m a big fan of Lyrical Monasterio and Bermuda Triangle in Vanguard, so we’re gonna submerge ourselves into an upgraded “Explorers of the Deep” precon deck from the Lost Caverns of Ixalan. To start off, Explorers of the Deep is a merfolk kindred deck in blue and green, and also has some nice +1/+1 counter synergies. While the preconstructed version uses Hakbal of the Surging Soul, I’ve cut that card entirely. The commander we’re going with is Kumena, Tyrant of Orazca, which enables our combos a lot easier, including some game-ending infinites.

Magic the Gathering cards that are the means to victory when using this deck
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