Very cool deck. You actually inspired me to build my own variant. With the new rules update for deck building in the Dissona set, I think this archetype has a major shot in the arm. You can now splash off-color Angels to round the deck out. The new sets have just a bunch of really awesome Angel Signi that expand on this strategy and compensate for a lot of its shortcomings that you mentioned, that being power and closing the game promptly. It would be cool if you went back to this list and modified it to whatever current meta you decide to bring it back for. Angels may not be the most top-tier strategy, but after Atoms it's the most solid tribal build by a long shot. Tama is an excellent LRIG and any strategy that rewards you for running Arcgwyn and Exia is doing something right in my book!
Loved seeing this. Hadn't really thought about using Gaia that way, even as I've been realizing green is much better for defense. The way you're using the color to keep cards on the field is cool too. Also funny you mention Mel as an example of a troublesome situation; I've been wanting to build her but haven't come up with an idea I thought was good enough. I've ran blue-white and blue-white-red angels pre-Vertex with Ange as center, and that was fun but not super strong. Mostly just threw people off just enough. Someone at my shop runs a deck very similar to yours, with blue instead of green for Madoka and Audomula to dig for guards and stop aggro, and I've been sticking to Muzica Diagram and Hirana Dash mostly. Even if I don't build something to your list for a laugh I've been looking for decks I can build for a casual box. Have you thought about doing techs for more common decks, just as a basic intro to how they work or the archetype in general? Just as an example I haven't seen many people play Madoka in person for months before a friend brought a deck once last month, and most lists online in any language might have won a tournament, a 4-person local, or a single match, so even if it seems common or overdone there might be someone who'd appreciate the breakdown.
I haven't tried building with Mel, but she does seem strong. And hearing about a +10 000 Phalaris makes me realize just how few effects I run that can deal with that. And yeah, this deck is pretty fun - I also bounced between blue and green, but I do think Gaia is stronger than Audomula - Audomula's effect is surprisingly tricky to activate reliably. Unfortunately I'm not familiar with other decks to the point I'm confident doing videos for them. Realistically the rest of the content I do for the channel somewhat limits how much Wixoss videos I can put out, so I keep my focus on what I'm most familiar with. That's also the reason I keep mentioning the life burst podcast - even if the format is slightly different, they do a lot more testing, and are familiar with a lot more different decks.
The official Wixoss site has a set of lists from the most recent GP, that's a really good resource to help understand the general power level and gameplans you'll be fighting against, at least. Wixossbox is a JP site that posts winning decklists from local tournaments - they're a few months ahead of us, but by looking back you can get a few ideas on builds. Dexoss also has a bunch of user-submitted lists, so that may also be useful. Finally, the Life Burst podcast here on youtube posts a lot of lists, and walks through them so you can see how they're supposed to work. A lot of it is just trying things out and testing, but hopefully this is all helpful!
I've been sitting on a Devil's Carnival for a while now, so I would love to build Demons. Getting cards into Canada is painful, though, which slows down how many deck I can build (probably for the best).
I watched this video just to hear you passionately talk about something. Cuz I barely know the rules for this veeksoss thingy. One gripe though: cut the white corners off of the cards. It's same as with nice paper proxies: just a 45 deg shave gets you the 80% there.
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Definitely had a bit of fun putting that ending together. Thanks!
Very cool deck. You actually inspired me to build my own variant. With the new rules update for deck building in the Dissona set, I think this archetype has a major shot in the arm. You can now splash off-color Angels to round the deck out. The new sets have just a bunch of really awesome Angel Signi that expand on this strategy and compensate for a lot of its shortcomings that you mentioned, that being power and closing the game promptly.
It would be cool if you went back to this list and modified it to whatever current meta you decide to bring it back for. Angels may not be the most top-tier strategy, but after Atoms it's the most solid tribal build by a long shot. Tama is an excellent LRIG and any strategy that rewards you for running Arcgwyn and Exia is doing something right in my book!
Fascinating
Loved seeing this. Hadn't really thought about using Gaia that way, even as I've been realizing green is much better for defense. The way you're using the color to keep cards on the field is cool too. Also funny you mention Mel as an example of a troublesome situation; I've been wanting to build her but haven't come up with an idea I thought was good enough.
I've ran blue-white and blue-white-red angels pre-Vertex with Ange as center, and that was fun but not super strong. Mostly just threw people off just enough. Someone at my shop runs a deck very similar to yours, with blue instead of green for Madoka and Audomula to dig for guards and stop aggro, and I've been sticking to Muzica Diagram and Hirana Dash mostly. Even if I don't build something to your list for a laugh I've been looking for decks I can build for a casual box.
Have you thought about doing techs for more common decks, just as a basic intro to how they work or the archetype in general? Just as an example I haven't seen many people play Madoka in person for months before a friend brought a deck once last month, and most lists online in any language might have won a tournament, a 4-person local, or a single match, so even if it seems common or overdone there might be someone who'd appreciate the breakdown.
I haven't tried building with Mel, but she does seem strong. And hearing about a +10 000 Phalaris makes me realize just how few effects I run that can deal with that.
And yeah, this deck is pretty fun - I also bounced between blue and green, but I do think Gaia is stronger than Audomula - Audomula's effect is surprisingly tricky to activate reliably.
Unfortunately I'm not familiar with other decks to the point I'm confident doing videos for them. Realistically the rest of the content I do for the channel somewhat limits how much Wixoss videos I can put out, so I keep my focus on what I'm most familiar with. That's also the reason I keep mentioning the life burst podcast - even if the format is slightly different, they do a lot more testing, and are familiar with a lot more different decks.
where can i find resource for this game (deck repository, meta state, deck recipe, etc...) ? Can you share me some of yours ?
The official Wixoss site has a set of lists from the most recent GP, that's a really good resource to help understand the general power level and gameplans you'll be fighting against, at least. Wixossbox is a JP site that posts winning decklists from local tournaments - they're a few months ahead of us, but by looking back you can get a few ideas on builds. Dexoss also has a bunch of user-submitted lists, so that may also be useful. Finally, the Life Burst podcast here on youtube posts a lot of lists, and walks through them so you can see how they're supposed to work. A lot of it is just trying things out and testing, but hopefully this is all helpful!
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would like to see you do a demon build next
I've been sitting on a Devil's Carnival for a while now, so I would love to build Demons. Getting cards into Canada is painful, though, which slows down how many deck I can build (probably for the best).
I watched this video just to hear you passionately talk about something. Cuz I barely know the rules for this veeksoss thingy.
One gripe though: cut the white corners off of the cards. It's same as with nice paper proxies: just a 45 deg shave gets you the 80% there.
Good call on the borders. It's an extra step, but it does stick out - I'll keep them trimmed on the next video!