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Senior Chief Engineer

Cid Pollendina (2-057C)

“(D): Your opponent shows his/her hand.”

Need to take a look at what your opponent has in store?

Cid here will let you take a look, Best part is you can use it once per turn.

You’ll never be in the dark again.

 

 

Cid Pollendina (5-056H)

“When Cid Pollendina enters the field, your opponent reveals his/her hand.

If Cid Pollendina deals damage to a Forward of cost 5 or more, increase the damage by 4000 instead.

If Cid Pollendina is dealt damage by a Forward of cost 5 or more, reduce the damage by 4000 instead.”

Almost like the Opus II Cid, but this Cid let’s you take a look at your opponent’s hand when he enters the field.

Other than that, Cid is great against high cost Forwards. His attacks do more damage and the damage he takes is less.
Add that to the 8000 power he already has. I’d say it’s not a bad card.

Not great either.

Cid Pollendina (13-039C)

“EX BURST When Cid Pollendina enters the field, you may search for 1 Job Engineer Forward and add it to your hand.”

Let’s take a look at what we wrote when Opus XIII came out.

“I didn’t realize how many Cid’s there are. Or Engineers. At first glance, I thought this card would be so-so. There are 17 Engineers including Cid Haze. And, 11 Cids. 12 if you count Cindy.

You can probably put together an Engineer deck. And have Cid Haze attack to Activate all of your cards. It might work. Or a Cid Deck. Who wants to build a Cid deck.”

Well, yes. We’ll keep it like that.

We’ll finally try our hand at an Engineer deck.

Maybe.

Cid Pollendina (17-049C)

“When Cid Pollendina enters the field, you may search for 1 Category IV Forward and add it to your hand.”

This is probably the most Common Cid you’ll see on the field. (See what I did there?)

Mr. Pollendina comes in and searches for a FFIV Forward. And, we all like searching for cards, cause you get to grab what you need.

Grab that Wind Legend Cecil, and call it a day.

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Guardians of the Summoner

You already know we’re going to build a FFX Deck with Yuna & Tidus, and the rest of the gang. So, lets get to it.

Starting off with Wakka (16-138S), because that is the best one to try and build around. If it was any other FFX Character we might have gone with the Opus 18 Wakka. But, today it’s Emissaries of Light Wakka. We can probably just grab the Custom Starter Set and call it a day. But, where’s the fun in that?

Since we’re grabbing Lulu (16-135S) first, it looks like that is what we’re doing. But, I promise you we’re not. Lulu will grab a Yuna from the Break Zone, which brings us to our next card.

Yuna (20-117L), I went on a rant when this card was first shown, and nothing has changed. We’re going to use this Yuna. And, fill up on Summons. We’ll grab those Summons later.

Tidus (16-116L), you can’t go wrong with this Tidus, and if you have 3 of them they’ll usually just come right back in your hand. You’ll always attack, and you know it’ll go through because Tidus can’t be blocked.

Kimahri (7-108H), Sure he might be a 6 cost Forward but you can get that cost down to 2, and possibly even one. Just depends on if you want to play Jecht or not. And, we do just to play a cheap Kimahri.

Jecht (20-011R) just so we can break Jecht in order to play Braska’s Final Aeon (11-015L).

And, if we have Braska’s Final Aeon we need Braska (7-121C) as well. No point in having one and not the other.

We need to add our Backups now. Class Fourth Moogle (10-121C), to give us some Fire CP.

Maria (1-083H) to give all of our Forwards a +1000 buff.

Rikku(2-071R), we would have gone with the Emissaries of Light Starter, but we need Backups.

White Mage (8-117C) so we can Activate all of our Forwards if we need to.

Let’s add Yuna (12-105L), doesn’t matter which Yuna you grab, because she’s just fodder for Holy.

All we need next is to fill up on Summons, to give Holy a bite.

Valefor (1-198S), Leviathan (2-140C), Syldra (3-135H), Amaterasu (12-002H), and Sylph (9-047C). You can also choose whichever Summons you like as well, as they are just used to make Holy more Powerful.

Forwards

3x – Wakka (16-138S)
3x – Tidus (16-116L)
3x – Lulu (16-135S)
3x – Jecht (20-011R)
3x – Yuna (20-117L)
3x – Kimahri (7-108H)
3x – Braska’s Final Aeon (11-015L)

Backups

3x – Rikku (2-071R)
3x – White Mage (8-117C)
3x – Class Fourth Moogle (10-121C)
3x – Braska (7-121C)
3x – Maria (1-083H)

Summons

3x – Leviathan (2-140C)
2x – Sylph (9-047C)
3x – Valefor (1-198S)
3x – Amaterasu (12-002H)
3x – Syldra (3-135H)

What would you change?

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Krile’s Splinter

Krile, your Backup Warrior of Light. Taking Galuf’s spot on the team and she does a good job at it. We’re actually going to use 2 Kriles in this deck. Krile (7-068H) and Krile (18-055R). Both of these Kriles work around Summons, and the Resurgence of Power Krile also allows you to grab a FFV Forward from your Break Zone. Thus bringing us to the next Character, Galuf.

You know we had to bring in her Grandfather. And, we are going with Galuf (12-056H), any Forward that has the ability to attack twice in one turn, especially with +10K power, is a go. And when he is sent into the Break Zone, you can search for a 2 cost Earth Forward and play it onto the field.

Next we’ll add Kolka (7-069C) and Tyro (11-072R). Both are Backups and both allow us to search for Krile, or Galuf if Krile is already on the field. And since Tyro allows us to produce CP of a different Element, we will add in the rest of the Warriors of Light.

Bartz (7-059L), cause this is a great card that can attack up to 3 times. You’ll just need some extra Bartzes on hand in order to do so. 3 to be exact. So we’ll just go ahead and add Bartz (19-048C) Because he is easy to recycle back into your deck. And any other Bartz you like, we’ll go with Bartz (12-052H).

Lenna (12-109L), just help us grab a Forward from the Break Zone and play it onto the field. And, Faris to help us grab a FFV Character from the top of your deck when she enters the field. If Lenna is on the field, Faris gains +2000 power.

Ghido (3-131H)? What? Who plays Ghido? Well, Ghido can contact Krile telepathically and that is why he is in here. Ghido is a little bit of a Backup plan that can return high cost Forwards to their owner’s deck.

If we take a look back at Galuf’s ability of searching for an Earth Forward, we are grabbing Ewen (17-080R) and Aerith (16-067L).
We need some more Backups. Let’s get some protection here. Cait Sith (XIV) (6-072C) and Layle (8-088C), both of these cards will protect us from Summons.

Summons are next. We’re bringing in Syldra (3-035H) as it is the only FFV Summon that we have, and it does a pretty decent job so, we’ll keep it.

Fenrir (19-064R), because everyone likes free cards. And Titan (17-070R) to give everyone a 5K boost.

And we’ll grab Objet d’Art (12-064C) which can turn into a Forward, or give all your Forwards +2K and Brave.

Forwards

3x – Ewen (17-080R)
3x – Aerith (16-067L)
3x – Bartz (7-059L)
3x – Galuf (12-056H)
3x – Lenna (12-109L)
3x – Krile (7-068H)
3x – Faris (7-120H)
3x – Bartz (12-052H)

Backups

1x – Cait Sith (XIV (6-072C)
2x – Layle (8-088C)
3x – Ghido (3-131H)
3x – Kolka (7-069C)
3x – Krile (18-055R)
3x – Tyro (11-072R)

Summons

3x – Titan (17-070R)
3x – Fenrir (19-064R)
3x – Syldra (3-135H)

Monsters

2x – Objet d’Art (12-064C)

What would you do differently?

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Gutsco – Clan Borzoi

Get ready for Clan Borzoi.

A bunch of thieves ready to take you on to get closer to the Horns of Ice. Well that’s what they were saying earlier, when they came through, looking for some cards to add to their deck.

First things first we’ll need 3 copies of Gutsco, simply because he is the leader of the Clan. When you say it like that it doesn’t sound too great. He’s the leader of Clan Borzoi, at least in FFTA.

First off we need to find a way to search for Gutsco, and I don’t believe there is a way. I might be wrong, but I don’t think there actually is a Fire Searcher. Except for Magissa, but she needs to be hit for 4000 damage before she can use her ability.

Never the less, it is a 3 cost Fire Forward that she searches for an plays straight to the field. So, we will be adding her, just so we can say we got a way to search for Gutsco.

There is also Meeth (7-017H) that can help you search for Gutsco, as long as you discard a card of 3CP. So, we’ll go ahead and add Meeth. If Gutsco is already on the field you can search for a Lieutenant. Lieutenants you ask?

Let’s bring out the Lieutenants. We have Bel Dat (20-056H) to let you play cards from your opponents Break Zone, Zidane (16-048H), to steal cards from your opponents deck, and Paul (6-056H) to slowly destroy cards from your opponents deck, every time he deals damage to your opponent.

Next we’ll just add Capricious Thief, because he’s cheap and can’t be blocked by Forwards that cost 5CP or more. Plus, Capricious Thief (2-059C) has thief in it’s name.

Summons, we picked Amaterasu, because it’s Amaterasu. You can’t go wrong with that.

Diabolos (15-053H) and Valefor (1-198S) Just because they work well together. And, if you do it right, you can clear all of your opponents Forwards from the board. In other words, Board Wipe your opponent!

On to our Backups.

Larkeicus (13-014R) to remove a pesky Forward from the game, for as long as Larkeicus is on the field. Rikku (2-071R) To activate all of your Forwards when she enters the field. Chelinka (15-045R) to give Zidane Brave and the ability to attack twice this turn. Allowing you to grab 2 cards from your opponents deck. White Mage (13-042C) to grab the first Fire card that shows up from your deck as you slowly reveal the cards one by one. Samurai (16-009C) to grab Gutsco from the Break Zone, and play him onto the field. Iedolas (18-131S) for the same reason we added Samurai.

As for the rest of the cards, we just added a bunch of Standard Unit Thieves, just to make sure that Clan Borzoi will obtain the Horns of Ice.

Forwards

2x Thief (4-059C)
3x Capricious thief (2-059C)
3x Paul (6-056H)
3x Zidane (16-048H)
3x Bel Dat (20-056H)
3x Gutsco (14-010H)
3x Magissa (12-017H)

Backups

1x Larkeicus (13-014R)
1x Thief (18-043C)
1x Thief (1-070C)
2x Rikku (2-071R)
1x Thief (3-055C)
1x Thief (5-055C)
3x Meeth (7-052H)
1x Thief (7-052C)
1x Thief (17-048C)
2x Chelinka (11-049R)
2x White Mage (13-042C)
1x Thief (8-052C)
2x Samurai (16-009C)
2x Iedolas (18-131S)

Summons

3x Diabolos (15-053H)
3x Valefor (1-198S)
3x Amaterasu (12-002H)

What would you all do with Gutsco?
Let us know in the comments.

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Gutsco – Card Analysis

Gutsco, the Thief

“Go away! Scat, skittle, skibobble! The horn is mine! Mine, I tell you!”


3CP/7000
Fire
Forward
Thief
Hero

“When Gutsco enters the field or attacks, remove the top card of your deck from the game.

When Gutsco leaves the field, add all the cards removed by Gutsco’s ability to your hand.”

Let’s see what we wrote when Gutsco was first released back.

“I like it.

Keep removing cards till Gutsco gets broken, or removed from the game.

After that all the cards removed come back to your hand. And, you can have a lot of cards that you can storm the field with. I will be trying this one out.”

I still like this card.

Since we don’t have much information on Gutsco, we’ll just go with the FFTA where he is the leader of Clan Borzoi, which means we can fill up on thieves. And, since most Thieves are Wind, it shall be a Fire/Wind. Outside of Standard Units, notable cards are Zidane, Bel Dat, and Paul. Fang (18-013R) is also a Thief, but you need to have FFXIII Characters on the field in order for her to be useful.

I believe a good plan would be to get Gutsco out as early as possible. Keep attacking, and when he leaves the field for any reason, grab all those cards, beef up the front line, and find a way to bring Gutsco back to repeat the process.