Cards of the week! 5th Edition

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One Who Rules the Storm, Commander Thavas

The waves created by my storms shall be
ceaseless

[Stride]

[Act] [VC] Choose a face down card named "One Who Rules the Storm, Commander Thavas" from your G-Zone, and turn it face up.] Choose up toone of your rearguards, until end of turn it gets [power] +5k and "[Cont] [RC] This unit can attack from the back row" And until end of turn, this unit gets "[Auto] [VC] [GB3] [Wave 4] When your unit attacks a vanguard, choose 3 of your opponent's rearguards. Your opponent chooses 1 from among them, and retires it.

The G-Rare of the Aqua Force clan booster. While many are disappointed in this card, I am not. This is exactly the card Aqua Force needed: A card that allows us to get 4 attacks with any three cards. We can turn grade 0's like Petros into Stacia at will, We can make Tidal Assault hit like Magnum Assault. We can put two Melanias into the same column and have them both attack. The flexibility that this card allows is simply outstanding just by it's initial ability alone.

It's GB3 is very strong with Thavas, but isn't that useful in other Aqua Force decks.

Verdict: An Outstanding Support Card

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One Who Surpasses the Storm, Thavas

Must. Have. This. SP. So. Good!

[Auto] [VC] [GB2] [Wave 4 or more] When this unit attacks a vanguard, this unit gains [Critical] +1 and your opponent cannot normal call grade 0's from hand to [GC] until end of that battle.

[Auto] When your G-Unit [Stride], choose your vanguard, and until end of turn it gets "[Auto] [VC] [Wave 4] When your unit attacks a vanguard, choose 3 of your opponent's rearguards. Your opponent chooses 1 from among them, and retires it.

The Namesake of this very blog, Thavas is one of my favourite, if not the favourite Aqua Force boss.

His GB2 Was decent, but with his very own Heart Thump Worker clone, Petros, he can hit 23k boosted. Because of his Tom skill, this number makes it near impossible to no pass without P-guarding it, and with G-units providing high power vanguard columns, this gives Aqua Force a secondary win con outside of Lambros.

Even when you stride over him, Thavas puts in work. His On-Stride skill retires an opponent's rearguard at the fourth attack, and while you won't have full control of what is retired, the grind this card helps accelerate softens up your opponent for either Lambros or Thavas' GB2 skill.

 This is ignoring the fact that Aristoteles, Tidal Bore and Commander Thavas work with this skill very well.

Verdict: A strong card with very strong synergies.