G-BT04: Soul Strike Against the Supreme

[kukuchan]

Destruction Deity Beast, Vanargand

[AUTO](VC) Generation Break 2 (This ability is active if you have two or more face up G units in total on your (VC) or G zone):[Soul Blast (6) & Choose a face down card named "Destruction Deity Beast, Vanargand" from your G zone, and turn it face up] When this unit attacks a vanguard, you may pay the cost. If you do, until end of turn, this unit gets "[AUTO](VC):At the beginning of your drive step, look at four cards from the top of your deck, search for up to four cards from among them, put them on the top of your deck in any order, and put the rest of the cards on the bottom of your deck in any order.".

EXCUSE ME?

O.O oh my god! This is impossible. *Faints*

[kukuchan]

Mythic Serpent, Jormungand
[AUTO](RC) Generation Break 1 (This ability is active if you have one or more face up G units in total on your (VC) or G zone):When a card is put into the drop zone from your soul, this unit gets [Power]+1000 until end of turn.

[Lucius]

Is fake! I already see in the wiki, and this is joke. The true day of the skill, is day 25.

sry to tell ya american bushi does not talk about Spoilers with japanese bushi

[colonel830303]

Soaring Divine Knight, Altmile

[Stride] (Released when both players' vanguards are grade 3 or greater!)-Stride Step-[Choose one or more cards with the sum of their grades being 3 or greater from your hand, and discard them] Stride this card on your (VC) from face down.
[AUTO]:[Choose a face down card named "Soaring Divine Knight, Altmile" from your G zone, and turn it face up] When this unit is placed on (VC), you may pay the cost. If you do, until end of turn, this unit gets "[CONT](VC):All of your units in your front row get [Power]+3000.". Then, if the number of face up cards in your G zone is two or more, search your deck for up to one grade 2 card, call it to (RC), shuffle your deck, and that unit gets [Power]+5000 until end of turn.

[Cherry]

Is everything it needed to be.

Finally, what Soul Saver failed to do consistently for the clan as a whole. Altomile gives significant power, a free call, and a boost to said call. He can pop every important Grade 2 out of his ass and massively capitalize on it. Benizel, Violinist, Swordmy, hell even Blaster Blades. And +8s whatever he calls too. He has the exact same skill timing as Religious Soul Saver, which would be a problem. However, just like Ayesha, he has a built in failsafe for his wording to be superior in every possible way. The +3000 is CONT, so he'll wait patiently for you to get a front row whenever you want, and gives things Twin Sword calls the boost too.

+3000 isn't as heavily as powerful as 5 or 6 would be. But it scales with Pier's numbers in G Royals, along with putting himself at an amazing 36 with a 7 booster. In other decks, one rearguard column would have a +8 to keep it going, but the other would only have +3. That's 19 unless it's a power gaining unit like Black Mantle, Cerdic, Tracie, Archer of the Sanctuary, and anything with Pier back in G Royals. This guy is just heavenly in design. Everything he needed to do for Royals while still sticking to the flavor of being a Royal. Finally, we correct the mistake of Thing Saver with this and Sanctuary Guard, two leaders that stick to what the clan should be doing. Superior Calling/Gaining and giving power to allies.

I'd take four of him over Saint Blow, personally. Saint Blow shines early and mid, but Altomile picks up whenever you want him to. Early? Push and get full field. Mid? Do the same. Late? Push all three columns to win. Like Ayesha, he proves vital against retire matchups. Doesn't help against Lock unless you intercept a bunch or don't call before using him, but this works even still. Saint Blow's problem has always be that he hogs power for himself and gets nulled for his Critical. While that is still dangerous, he doesn't help push for everyone. Altomile and Sanctuary Guard both do that, and that the correct design choice.

Thank God.

[Beryl]

i keep feeling like altmile isn't nearly as good every time i read it, but the thing is that its support, similar to ayesha's support, really sticks out and makes the stride significantly better. one actually might argue that similar to how this might be a 4-of, ayesha might be considered a 4-of based off of support alone.

i really like saint blow, and i do think that i'd rather play it as a 4-of for metagaming purposes, but altmile synergizes with most if not all of g-royals, since it only takes a few cards to trigger pier, and on top of that, most of your call targets at g1 or g2 are fantastic to stack on top of this effect. mixing this with jewels still looks like the way to go, but for the first time it feels like it would be wiser to use straight up g-royals with sanctuary guard rather than bothering to go into seekers or jewel knights. same consistency with potentially more explosive results.

it's not always amazing because it does require you to invest more time into setting up an optimal board state off of altmile's heartbeat to really make this stride shine, but it's certainly just about as good as ayesha's stride counterpart is. would play it at least as a 2-of if i really felt like saint blow was better. still a very strong card.

[Sandy]

Anyone else kinda sad that after this, it'll be just two months of nothing but RP, LJ and a HUGE wave of AQ? Two months of basically nothing for me, I just hope the stuff from this set can tide me over.