Cards of the Week! 12th Edition.

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Wings of Annihilation, Blade Wing Tibold

[Stride]

[Auto] When this unit is placed on [VC], If you have a heart with "Blade Wing" in it's card name, return all cards from the drop zone to the deck, and shuffle your deck. Then, if the number of cards in your soul is 15 or more, until end of turn this unit gets "[Cont] [VC] All of your rearguards in the front row get [power] + 10000", and if not [SC5]

I said to one of my friends who plays vanguard the other day: "They're doing Blade Wing for Dark Irregulars, how in the world are they going to make them Viable? They need 15 cards in soul to even do anything!" 

Turns out this is how.

This card does 3 different jobs at once: It's a mass soul charger,  Dreaming Dragon and it's Regalie, rolled up into one unit.

It's worth noting that the 10k to the front row skill is restricted to only when you have 15 cards in soul. This is a target for Dark Irregulars anyway, because Gilles De Rais, the clan's Finisher, also needs 15 cards in soul to have all skills online, and the Blade Wing grade 3's also have skills that activate when you have 15 cards in soul.

A Dreaming Dragon skill is amazing in clans like Genesis and Dark Irregulars, where deck-out is much more likely to happen then in other decks, so a stride that does this on top of other skills is really great.

It's also worth noting that this card behaves fundamentally differently depending on what heart it is using. If the heart is Reijy, it is used mainly as a Regalie clone, if the heart is Sullivan, it is used to fuel Sullivan's extreme soul blasting.

Verdict: Really, REALLY solid.

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Blade Wing Sullivan

[Cont] [VC] If the number of cards in your soul is fifteen or more, this unit gets "[Cont] [VC] All of your guardians gain [Shield] +10000" & "[Auto] [VC] At the end of the battle that this unit was attacked, [SB2]"

[Auto] When this unit is placed on [VC], choose one of your rearguards, search your deck for up to 3 cards with the same that as that card, put them into your soul and shuffle your deck.

The RR for this winter's Fighter's Collection. I'm not going to lie, at first I really did not like this card. Funny how knowing the stride made me do a complete 180 opinion wise. 

This is one of the best defensive vanguard in the game... When you reach 15 soul, that is. Giving 10k shield to all cards is amazing, especially considering cards like Visionary Gemini exist. Being able to no pass 26k G-Unit boosted by a 7k rearguard with 2 10k shield cards is amazing. 

This comes at a cost, however. Every time your vanguard is attacked, if you have 15 or more cards in soul, you must soulblast. It's a small price to pay.

Verdict: Amazing.