Posts made by Akihito

Yeah works very nice until... Jaina or Nemesis dies. Nemesis is extremally fragile 1 turn (4-2-7 with no increase from skill or +1/+1) when you play her so for snowballing Nemesis i strongly recommend shock + double dress up. In addition i recommend rolling trance spells to recycle your crux duo.

I tried both Nemesis setup with shock + dress up and Jaina + something with shock + awakening. I prefer using that combo as a def ramp for the rest of the deck and strong start rather than win condition. Too fragile for my taste.

Cheers

Well, transformation table at swordgirls.org isn't fully correct. Most of chars have fine descriptions but some lack of extra effects. I would say around 1/5 have some missing descriptions so they are in reality better as stated. swogi had correct effects but it's offline for now :(

@PrinceSitri

It's classical luthica deck back from official server. Overall it's decent deck but somewhat ancient and no better than good. Planned misfortune is mistake as well. But its fun to play i fully agree :)

@Nietono said in Dungeon drop and card crafting guide - "what is season ___?", "where do I farm ___?", etc:

@Akihito I'd say those ranges are mostly accurate. There are a few dungeons I'd like to make additional comments about. I'll also point out any where making a specific counter for a given boss would drastically change the requirements.

*** Catch That Cat!: the boss is much harder than the rest of the dungeon (which can be cleared at 100DP). The boss can be beaten with a 300DP field lock deck, though this obviously takes ages and is not the same deck you'd use for the previous floors. The boss is notoriously inconsistent even for very high DP decks.**

I'm curious as to what grinding deck you'd use Amrita (Underground Library boss card) for, since you marked her and Anj Inyghem (Vampire Lands boss card) as only for grinding purposes. Also I wouldn't even suggest Anj for grinding - with the nerf to the final part of Anj's skill (the formerly infamous 'Anjecute') Fugitive Iri Flina (Darklore starter deck character) is generally preferable.

Well Shana it's officially doable with 100 dp and with bruteforce (no gimmicky counters). You shall believe in me! :dagger:

Introduction

Hi I'm Aki (just Aki) and semi-experienced player here. Still i'm one of stronger if not strongest pvp player at 100 and 300 DP brackets known for bruteforce and gimmick decks. Today we gonna deal with pure bruteforce deck.

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Range

Pure Cookers 80-450 DP
Cookers Mixed with strongest Vita followers 300 -700 DP

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What do you eat cookers with?

Primarily Cook Club deck is subfactioned deck. This means you gonna play followers of 1 faction (in this case Vita) and moreover only those named with specific prefix. This of course leaves less variety of possible pick ups but don't worry Cook Club has all you need. The deck is build around size 1/2/3 followers and idea of placing them with double or even in some cases tripple spells. Yeah sure, but why particulary cook club than you may ask. Answer it that those creepy little things have possibilities which other subfaction doesn't. Mainly we are talking about 4 message combos, very strong cheap buffing spells and so-called minority attack (description in next paragraph). All together this makes Cook Club one of fastest buffing subfactions in game.
Deck aims to wreck opponent with brute force not worrying much about how strong opponent followers may become. This has however downside that Cook Club decks struggle against decks which are not oriented on playing followers battle. But when it comes to followers there aren't many decks which can stand up those creepy little beasts...

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Minority Attack

It's a combo setup named after spell Minority Report. Even though itmay suggest you attack your opponent with lower number of followers actuall effect is opposite. Not many knows it but it's best buffing spell in the game if used wisely. Minority Report spell replaces skills and sizes of your Cook Club followers for skill of the second Cook Club follower on field. This means you want as many Cookers as possible to get bigger effect. Which skill you aim for than?

• Well... mainly the Cook Club Member rare version. With 3 Cook Club followers on field it gives +2/+3/+3 buff for every follower on the field with 4 Cookers it's +2/+4/+4. But if you copy skill and have 4 followers on field effect is quadrupled: +8/+16/+16 buff for 4 followers!!
  However this needs some prerequisites which makes Minority attack hard to trigger. First you need of course a spell, second you need Cook Club Member rare (and you may have only 2 in the deck) and thirdly you need at least 2 other Cookers. There is of course also downside of such pure power and this is size. Cook Club Member is size 3 and spell is also copying size of follower which means that after Minority Attack you gonna be locked (size 9 or 12 field). For PvE with weaker npces this doesn't matter as it's already game over - you won. Similar at 100 dp bracket as is very rare to recover after opponent is faced with Minority. But against strong opponents in 300 DP pvp sometimes it may backfire due to very, very high def of your followers.

• Second skill you may aim for is Unlucky Member skill. It gives +2/0/+2 buff in defense and than jumps to another follower on your field if there is any. It also happens when follower dies which allows you to accumulate skill on the last standing cooker on the field (if things go wrong) with final effect of +6/0/+6 in defense. This is less preferable option of using Minority Attack but also very viable. As a promp it doesn't leave you self-locked.

• There is also an option of using Minority as a defense resource. When met with sth having very nasty defense u can use Minority for copying Cook Club Ace or Cook Club Advisor (ex4) skill which will deal with very high def opponents as well as (in second case) some nastieses like Lukif for example.

• Awful hand case. If you happen to be very unlucky with your hand and down on shuffles you may also try to cut down loses with Minority. You can lower size of your followers this way or give them a little bit of size-based buff if you play Poplar or Jaimie.

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Char

There are few possible choices but undoubtly best is first one:

• Mania Layna - Awesome +1/0/+4 prebuff for every follower in your deck. If you somehow manage to get into battle longer than 10 turns you will get additional +1/0/+4 buff on turn 11, 21 and so on. Your little beasties are initially weak having even 4 or 5 sta so this prebuff makes things a lot easier. Best.

• Child Helena - Best prebuffing char in the game, having in addition only 1 DP cost (if you are PVP oriented). Same thing as with Mania altough is not Vita faction so has some downside with it. Still almost as good.

• Santa Sita - antideckout option with counter to burns. 1 point char in addition and mediocore buff. Strong pick up but somewhat weaker unless you want to be safe against deckout and burn. Little bit more expensive.

• Tea Time Sita - strong buffing option. Somewhat cheaper. Allows to use feast and heartless blow if you willing to (similar to Santa Sita).

• Others: Santa Asmis, Novic, Crux Knight Rose, Child Asmis, Bunny Girl Canelle, Unhoused Canelle, Ginger

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Followers

Here we are coming into fun part of guide. Our little beasties!

• Cook Club Member rare - Minority Queen. As the flavor text goes "make sure you definitely stop by the Cook Club!" Well idk how i feel stoping at her but she definitely may stop a lot of things! Whenever you see her in your hand consider going for the Minority attack with shuffles. Must be follower.

• Ritafarit - another prime jewel. As any ep.9 rare it's very strong with her effect and being a cooker makes things even better. Her second skill is refreshing one which means if you put Ritafarit, Cook Club Member and some 1 size Cooker with skill you will not only get on Rita +6/+6/+9 buff but also she will have her antibuff skill and moreover will recover +1/+2 skill in next turn. Beast.

• Poplar - if you haven't seen her in action you never would believe how creepy she can be. She is 5-1-4 which is average even for 1 sizers but none experienced player will underestimate her. Her skill reverse the size effect making it advantage rather than downside. And if still not convienced imagine situation (which actually quite often happens) 2x poplar, 4 message spell and cooking failure spell with Mania Layna char. 5-1-4, +6/3/6 from 4 message (no size increase, +3/0/+3 additional buff), +3/1/4 from failure (again) and +1/0/4 from prebuff which leaves us at 13-5-18 1-sizer at cost of 1 point and 3 point spells. Ouch! And in addition she is delicious Minority filler as antistall follower. What more do you want?

• Jamie ep 11 - somehwat weaker sister of Poplar. Has extra +1/0/+1 buff from her skills but doesn't get as much from 4 messages. At Minority Combo she will get 4 size instead of 3 which depending on circumstances may be advantage or disadvantage. Still must be.

• Advisor ep.0 - definitely not the hotest follower but she has that sturdy +2 sta, is 2 sizer only, posses a skill (again Minority) and has very slightly better stats than similar followers. Decent, simple pickup with low DP cost.

• Unlucky - second minority target. She would be awesome if only her Sta would be bigger. Mania and Helena helps here a lot. Otherwise she might be get killed by spells before your buffing spells will act. Her skill is very strong one but somewhat unpredictable. Even if not top tier pick up still very strong contender.

• Ace - kinda safety button against high def followers. She might be used in Minority but downside is that most of Cook Club buffs has defense buff involved. With minority will kill any def you may encounter. Still viable option though may be best to have only 1 or 2 of her.

• Member ep.0 - another starting follower! She has skill, is 1 sizer, cheap and her skill is decent against npc. For PvE deck great choice, for PvP somewhat questionable but playable (i'm running 1 myself in Mania setup).

• Svia - well, tell me in which other top tier deck you can met 3 various starter followers? To makes things funnier until you haven't seen her in Glacier Recycle deck you probably won't expect much from her but she can be deadly. As most of your buffs has def ingredient you can easily expect to get +2 or even +3 at. from her skill. Moreover if you decide to put Member without Minority Report spell she will get additional +2 (maybe +3) def making her skill creepy. However she has downside of being large. Yeah, 4 sizer for cook club is already little too big (Ritafarit is the only exception). If you pick her better be ready for some deck synergy issues though she is indeed tempting...

• Advisor ex4 - she has somewhat weak stats, is pretty expensive and has controversial skill. It may be as bad as -1 sta damage or as good as -6 if used with Minority. It's rather backup option. May be used.

• Elsfi - bad stats for starters but has handy skill, is 3 sizer and very cheap. Mainly filler for 100 dp, highly unadviced in higher dp (both PvE PvP).

• Gluttony - nice antideckout buffing skill but it's all good about her. She can't be used as Minority target at any case and is big. Stats are average. An option but i don't recommend her.

• Cook Club Iri - it's rare follower but she somewhat lacks of power for this tier. May be used for decks with 300+ DP but i would be very careful with picking her for PVP.

• Critic - similar to Elsfi, mainly filler. She has better stats in comparison, has nice synergy with uniform modification but it's bigger. An option for lower dp.

• Unorthodox Cookers - Both Amanda and Linfield may be used in lower dp where Minority will get rid of their nasty skills (and getting a handy skill) leaving high initiall stats and low (1 or 2) size at cost of none buffs for turn. It's a sensible option and i used it with some succeses however it has downside: it's slow. Both has 3 def which makes them great uniform mod. targets. Great Zero Serve targets as well. Uninvented Guest may be used for some hillarious combo where you put 2x 1 sizers with her and Minority spell and receive 3x 6sizer field where when dieing each followers takes -3 life from opponent though it's extreme. May be used also with poplar or jaimie combo with 4 messages spell where she gets -2 size while second follower is buffed.

• Non-Cookers - it is possible also to include other Vita followers, mainly in higher DP Cook Club decks but they have be choosen wisely as every non Club follower breaks quite seriously deck synergy. Possible followers are: Animal Suit Layna, Girl Detective Asmis, Head Researcher, Detective Linus and Asmis, Sanctuary Investigator Asmis. Library Spirit. If you gonna pick up 2-3 sizers you do same thing but you have to get rid off cooking failure and possibly zero serve in exchange for higher DP buffs. If you go for Library Researcher, Library Spirit and Uberchipper (Detective - if you used it you know what i mean ;) ) i advice to grab supplies transfer spell and include that low sizer - high sizer - supplies combo. If you gonna use Novic than you mas want to put as well Observer and Clothes Thieves (maybe Casey).

• Upcoming - next episode Cook Club follower. Jack of all trades and if you feel lucky with gambling this is your paradise. As a Minority target (supposed skill won't be bugged :p ) she will copy her skill to all followers giving a one time +1/0/+1 buff before attack AND allow all followers on field to copy skill of first follower in your deck and than spread it to all followers. So imagine we have Aras and 2 other cookers and you are able to hit Cook Club Member skill... 3x +1/0/1 +9x +2/+3/+3 which gives us +21/27/30 if all followers will survive. Well I hope you are looking forward into next episode as much as I ^^

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Spells

Here is where things get complicated. As the rule of thumb you should have followers size of at least 125-130% of your character possible life. This extra % over your char life is because of possible graving, last hand followers and so on. This means you should run followers with all together 38-39 size where almost all of your followers is 1/2/3 sizers. Moreover as the main plan involves playing at least half-half f/s besides minority you should have around equal number of spells and followers. Things get even more complicated when you include size opperations and possible deskills from opponent. And you need some followers to get Minority combo as well! Alltogether this makes question how many spells you need very tricky to answer. My advice is to forget about this basic rule and concentrate on followers/spell ratio which should be either 13/17 or 14/16. Alltogether size should aim for 25-35 bracket for pure cookers and 30-40 for slightly mixed decks with Vita big sizers.
This was one issue with spells, second is which one you should include and how many counters you should have. And for Cook Club you always have great number of spells you want and not enough space.

Non-DR.

• Minority Report - one of trump cards. Have seen Cookers without it (mainly because lack of spells slots and being hard to trigger) but they weren't especially succesful. Possible to run without but highly unadviced. You need all 3 of them.

• 4 messages - a must be. Incredible 6/3/6 buff for Poplar and 4/2/4 for Jaimie without downside. May be used also on others 1-2 sizers if needed, works very well with Uniform Modification.

• Cooking Failure - very cheap and effective. 3/1/4 buff for Poplar and Jaimie without downside. 2/1/3 for other cookers with +1 size. Size 3 is usually not an issue. Highly recommended especially for lower DP. Fully playable at 300 DP.

• Uniform Modification - creepy but tricky. It gives at buff at double value of def. with price of half def. sta debuff. Best is to use on odd def. values so 3 def and 5 def will give you 6 at - 1 sta and 10 at - 2 sta respectively. Very strong spell for it's cost. Using on leftovers of Minority Attack gives mayhem followers. Great to use 2 turn after ordinary buffs. Possible life-saver. Highly adviced.

• !!!! - good, cheap all-around buff. 3/1/1 or 1/1/3 is decent and it gives def which is welcomed at Cook Club. Always worth considering.

• Zero Serve - very tricky spell. It's 1 pointer, it's size 1 and effect varies from mediocore to superstrong. It copies stats from 2 follower on your field (it even doesn't have to be Vita!) to next 2 Cook Clubbers in your deck. Often how effective it gets decides pure luck with spell triggering and attack sequences. It's main downside is taking space for other spells, otherwise there are no disadvantages. May be used after tripple Minority. Gambling option but potentially ultrastrong. Recommended.

• Warning - good pick up. Having low size followers allows for more empty slots in hand. Also kind of pseudoshuffle and Cookers like them.

• Sage's - good all-around buff. Nothing special but good filler. Obtainable from Detective Agency dungeon. You may have only 1.

• Vanishment - Very good pick up for low DP decks. It's very strong buff/debuff for common card and 4 size with Cookers doesn't hurt as much. Not recommended in higher DP.

• String of Emotion - great buff for Coookers if it only would be 2 targets spell. It gives +4/2/4 for both Poplar and Jaimie without downside. Possibility for lower DP.

• Jackpot - decent low DP buff spell. Nothing special but most often gives def.

• New Student Orientation ex4 - good all-around 100 DP spell. Anti-Lukif and anti-passcode in terms of pvp. Decent at strike to strike in PvE. Only low DP.

• Ward Rupture - often underestimated spell. May be very decent though when put on low sizer or high sizer depending of opponents deck. Worth considering on lower DP and probably a must when going with low DP unorthodox cookers deck.

• Complete Control - works very nice with low size vita followers. Recommended with Mania or Child Helena setups for non-pvp decks.

• Party Time - similar advantage as warning. Once again - Cookers like def. Somewhat offbeat but possible.

• Exiled witch - decent pvp option. You may consider putting as first card some spell and count on lucky trigger sequence. Has the issue though it cuts down your deck by 1. Still better than mass recall.

• Crackdown - definitely unorthodox choice. PvP possibility but usually you need Cook Club Katie for it as well as slightly higher number of followers. Very Risky pick up but has some point.

• Feast - Tea time Sita and Santa Sita option. One of best life gain spells in the game. It serves a role of counter against burns and passcode decks. Solid choice. You probably want only 1 or 2 of them.

• Heartless Blow - another Sita proposition. Handy filler at 100 DP.

• Advent - good Child Helena option. Risky but not as much as bolt out of blue.

• Misfit - another Child Helena possibility for PvP. Usually awesome, with cookers even slightly better due to low sizers.

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DR

Cook Club deck use a lot of 1 point and 3 point spells and little rare followers. This means you are guaranteed to use DR spells in any CC deck above 200 DP. In 300 DP is possible to have as much of those as three in the deck. It is wise to have at least one field clearer in DR spells.

• Memory - simply best choice. Great prebuff with additional possibility of stronger Minority Attack. +1 shuffle also helps to achieve it.

• Forced Return - best field clearer in the game. Highly recommended however it's hard to obtain. It requires clearing Kana's Altar Dungeon which is known of being a nightmare for beginners.

• Secret Art: Nameless Flash - epic name, epic falvor text, epic effect with low sizers. Issue is that it's even harder to obtain than Forced as costs of crafting are hillarious. Altough If you can afford it...

• The Truth... - another great field clearer. And this one is much easier to obtain. Very strong contender.

• Encounter with the Spirit - last possible field clearer. From easier to obtain d.rares i prefer The Truth but still viable option. Up to you.

• Secret Exploration - another great brute force spell. With many 1 and 2 sizers you may put this with single follower so you have buffor in front of you. However it's risky because you may get it late in the battle. In CC you can't afford for Backup from another detective.

• Relieve Post - laziest DR possible xdd Still worth putting in and recommended. Very easy to craft.

• Devastation - great spell especially when you use one of Sita's char. Worth considering as well with other Vita characters.

• Homing Instinct - very nice DR if only your char is Mania or Helena. Just as Nameless extremely expensive.

• Child Helena additional DR possibilities: Hindered Scheme, Miracle, Vernika's World.

• Cheap playable DR: Balance, Evil Eye (Helena), Advancement, Encounter, Luthica's Ward, Once you Enter (Novic)

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Advantages and disadvantages

The advantages:

• Mayhem followers
• Great deck synergy
• Very enjoyable grinding
• Very cheap core deck (ep 0 cards, a lot of 1 and 3 pointers, only two 13 pointers)
• May be used with free characters
• Simple to use after you get familiar with Minority
• Hard to stall followers and possibility to oversize field
• Big DP range

The disadvantages:

• Vulnerable to decks which doesn't base on followers
• Not many counterspells
• Altough core deck is cheap one improvment quickly needs multiple DR spells
• Outcome can be highly influenced by bad luck
• Best characters for it are mediocore expensive

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Example Decks

Well... I'm not a Shana. No decks on silverplate from me :D

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Good luck with our little juggernauts! Let force be with you :)

I think we gonna get Aras follower in next update. And basically it's all im interested in. Almighty Aras xdd

First of all thanks for including my pvp version of passcode to the guide.
Secondly i would like to place an quite important additional option you didn't mentioned. But before few words on my pvp version of deck.

Street Idol Clarice PvP version (based on akihito's build) - 100DP is a deck purely oriented at pvp. It's as much antideckout as possible for passcode and it allows to get strong field presence ASAP. What wasn't mentioned it's that recycle follower on field allows you to be rookie target at any case. This is why it needs to be played with Rookie debut. I strongly advice this setup (or similar) for pvp purposes and it can be done with basic Alchemist Clarice as well even though it isn't so strong. Main key for good cheap versions of pvp passcodes is to make use of free dp left and include lukif. In lowest pvp bracket it can be very hard to counter or even in some cases impossible which allows you to get some freerolls. Lukif is also highly recommended in 300 dp versions as well as grinding decks. Of course if you can allow the cost of crafting.

Crux Passcode - PvE/ 300 DP pvp is the more expensive passcode version but better one and can be improved a lot. This deck I put in is just general idea deck - aim is to exchange rookie buff for Sisters Reunion buff (4x +4/0/+4 or 3x +3/0/+3 with added possibility to get rid off lukif due to -3/-3/-3 debuff if only 1 follower is put) and Demotion (possibly +4/0/+4 but may be as low as +2/0/+2) and improve deck with d.rare crux followers oriented spells like Luthicas Ward/Dignity/The Truth Revealed/Shock/Forced Return/ Pacifism maybe Sanctuary Pillar or Totem. In addition you can use very funny but powerfull in this setup spell called Smallification and maybe Sending information if you feel lucky and adventorous (very risky option but may give buff as much as +6/0+6 for 3 followers).
Char is usually picked up from crux chars but it doesn't have to be, you may decide to pick up mighty child Helena for example, it's really up to you but you can't play Clarisse chars. This deck has possibility to improve up to around 350 DP and than you can switch your followers to 2 sizer crux followers and play so-called Crux mass deck (similar idea just 2 sizers with some twists) which you can improve further up to around 500 DP.

But... before we clap our backs till no tomorrow there is something to be said about passcode decks. It's aim is mainly to be cheap grinding deck and quick improvement for beginners. As for pvp stage there is quite number of better decks even with buffing abilities. Passcode is safe all-around choice with decent outcomes but can't be treated as Holy Grail. As i mentioned it can be used as a pit stop before achieving crux mass deck evolving itself into stronger version which is capable of doing more damage, but main goal of passcode is just to be very cheap and as effective in it's price as possible.

Hope i helped :)

Hey guys,
i thought we lack this kind of topic. Feel free to post any interesting screenshots you have made during our little battles :)

To start with, my today grinding at new dungeon with low dp deck:

And another New Dungeon screen with same deck. I would say pretty decent as for start of 3-rd turn...

@Seadrias said in The Student Council Monthly Swap PVP Deck (100 DP-low cost!):

No, it doesn't work like that.

Let's take a common scenario against a swarm deck.
You play a 0/2/11 and a 4/1/10 like you mentioned. Your opponent plays four followers and buffs them to 8/0/8's on average. Your followers each get attacked 3 times on average, 2 from enemies and 1 from a counterattack, and that kills both of them. Now what do you do?

You can continue to stall, or steal/remove.
If you stall, you're either playing followers that die in one turn like I just described, or not doing anything since your deck has no healing or deactivation cards. Either way you're going to take damage, and waiting for your opponent to "overbuff" is likely going to cost you a third to half your health pool.
If you start to steal/remove the enemy followers, you're likely trading 1 for 1. You can't play more than 2 steal/removal a turn most of the time, and your opponent has 4 followers out. So, you will steal a 8/0/8 or a 12/0/12 follower on average depending on how much your opponent buffed in 2 turns, and that follower will trade with your opponent's follower with the same stats. This just resets the board state, which lets your opponent build another board again with buffs. That's what swarm decks are good at doing.

Depending on rng, this might vary a bit, since you are giving your opponent a useless follower a good amount of the time, but on average your followers will simply trade. Now you're back at the start again, except you probably lost a third to half your life in the process, while your opponent lost around 5hp. Your opponent rebuilds their board, the cycle repeats, and you die at the end.

Defense buffing is almost negligible, most swarm followers have 0-2 defense, which means you spend 3-5 turns of doing almost nothing to steal a follower that will likely die on the following turn, most likely taking 8-10 damage in the process. Eventually you will run out of removal and keep drawing followers that are dead to your opponent's board and lose.

The only way I can see your deck feasibly winning is if your opponent has no idea what they're doing and buffs their board to some ridiculous state like four 20/2/20's and you steal 2 of those, then get some good rng to kill their other 2 off. However, as soon as your opponent sees a single piece of removal, they're going to be incredibly wary and won't overbuff their board. The entire premise of your deck becomes invalid at that point. You might win once against an unaware opponent, but I have a very hard time seeing the deck winning twice against the same opponent.

Generally I feel like you only thoroughly tested the deck against stall decks, which you stand a good chance against just by having child laev as your character (child ginger is almost an auto-win), and only played a few games against buff decks without testing out a large sample size. Otherwise your opponents might have not known how to play around your deck and kept falling into the same trap over and over again. I just can't see it winning consistently against a good opponent using a standard swarm deck.

As a side note, any deck that requires you to wait until TURN 101 in order to win is NOT beginner friendly.

Good explanation but you are just a little bit too harsh with this deck effectivity. But only a little bit. Yeah against passcode it's insta resign, same as against burns, crescents, and maybe witches, + anything which uses ep def based followers. But actually best 100 dp decks have decent amount of def - usually 2/3 for most of followers - just to mention seekers, cookers, ladies. Moreover those decks are crazy buffing ones so it's not easy to slow down with buffing or you have most of buffs with def (like cookers). Against those this deck is pretty effective but mostly because swaps not because graving "overdefed" followers (if cookers can survive graving, than it may work only against dress rose). Still there are some effective gimmicks like nightmare or morale crackdown so this deck has some options. Sadly most effective one is swap...

Everything is almost pure bulshit. This deck works only well against high def decks like cookers or dress rose. Other than that decks works mainly on swapping buffed followers...
For some reason author is believing that opponent cant pull 10+at right off the bat which of course isnt true as many can do it easily even with multiple followers.
This deck has no stall potential so the only way how he pulls off is to wait for buffing def to at least 4 value than steal or grave with Hermes, or to just steal other followers. It's not awfull deck, but very risky and even not in 1/4th good as author thinks.
Still - you gonna lose with weak decks, gonna win with some strong ones but in dirty, childish way of stealing "monsters" with swaps as def based steal/grave didn't worked even against cookers deck (had that doubtfull pleasure).
All in all, just NO.

P.S And this is definitely not a beginner deck as you can't grind with it as well as win with people on your level. You will win some with very good players but in return you not gonna have possibility to fight with them again in future as noone of those will fight you if you use 6 swaps...

Can we make Sending Information (200624) not restricted to Crux Faction character? Would make this spell very handy.

@Nietono
Very nice guide. Great tool for beginners.

On my own i would like to pick up topic of required deck strenght for particular dungeon. Dungeons vary with difficulty not only as season goes but also a lot inside of it. Quite often people tend to believe that dungeons vary with difficulty from left to right which isn't actually true. As a some kind of tip when to attack particular dung i would like to post there list of them with recommended deck strenght which is counted in so-called deck points (DP). Values are picked for general grinding deck - not particular dungeon deck or record runs -, but they are divided for 2 categories. First DP value is stated for grinding dungeons based on succesing myself with at least 3 diffrent decks with some consistency. Some means more than half wins but still far from 100% in overall (still some particular decks have almost 100% consistency). This is value hard to obtain but definitely doable so sould be aimed for and can be make for testing by comparison with your own deck. Second value is the "Safe" value where you should be able to clear dungeons in at least 90% (in some cases due to very rng based nature of boss value may be lower) of cases with multiple decks. Still this doesn't mean you can clear that dungeon with any deck which scores that DP value. Additionally i decided to pick up "99" and "299" values as a kind of middleroad for dungeons which can be made with those DP brackets with some ease but not yet consistent enough for second bracket. Still - those values don't mean after reaching particular DP you are destined to win, but that average good deck on that level should do the job.
List:
EASY:
Beginner/Intermediate/Advanced - Beginner deck
Bamboo Garden - Beginner deck / 99 DP
Dream Island - 99 DP / 150 DP
2s Agency - 99 DP / 100 DP
Muzisitter Land (2s) - 100 DP / 250 DP
NORMAL:
Frontier Dungeon - 99 DP / 100 DP
Witch Tower's - 100 DP / 300 DP
Crux Training Camp - 150 DP / 250 DP
Linia's Mansion - 100 DP / 250 DP
Vampire Lands - 200 DP / 299 DP
Vita Public School - 100 DP / 250 DP
Vivid World - 200 DP / 300 DP
Catacombs (s2) - 299 DP / 400 DP
Ancient Sanctuary (s2) - this one is tricky due to buggy nature of the boss: it may happen, although rare case, that boss will buff his deck faster as it is stated (mechanics aren't clear yet) so i give 2 values (please take note how high DP you need to have if you are unlucky!)
normal - 300 DP/ 550 DP
bugged - 700 DP / 900 DP - approximately - met 4 times out of 24 clears
Catch That Cat (s2) - 100 DP/ 900 DP - one of hardest - 100 DP was made by me lately so i corrected it. Don't expect though making it with 100 dp unless its extremely good.
Underground Library (s2) - 299 DP / 400 DP
Underground Altar (s2) - 600 DP / 900 DP - one of hardest
Royle City(s2) - 299 DP / 400 DP
Weekly The Legend(s2) - 100 DP / 299 DP - very easy as for season 2, recommended for grinding
Dimensional Rift(s2) - 300 DP / 700 DP - second main season 2 grinding dungeon
Altar of Kana (korean named) (s2) - 400 DP / 800 DP (difficulty of boss depends a lot on luck)
Attack on Royle (korean named) (s3) - 99 DP / 150 DP
HARD:
Shadowland - 100 DP / 250 DP - it's only hard from name :)
Goddess Tower - 299 DP / 550 DP
Linia's World - 600 DP / 1100 DP - hardest dungeon in the game besides Muspelheim

Besides that some characters obtain from dungeons are usefull and some are worthless. Dungeons stated below posses handy chars as a prize and those may be used for making good decks:
Intermediate, Frontier, Linia's Mansion, Vampire Land Royle City (only for grinding purposes), Ancient Sanctuary, Underground Library (same as Royle City), Weekly the Legend, Altar of Kana, Linia's World
Additionally two more dungeons gives handy characters but only for pvp purposes and very specific decks:
Muzisitter Land, Dream Island
At last, 2sAgency is giving a very good spell as reward for 1 clear.

Good luck young adventurers :)

Halloween Asmis character doesn't reduce sizes from top of the deck but from the bottom. +1 stamina for Asmis followers works.

@Nietono
Veri nicely explained. I agree fully with small exception of Clarice.
I quote:
Pros of Alchemist Clarice:

Uses up cards more slowly (less prone to decking out).
Guarantees at least one follower on your field.
What is more important it gives you:
- more slots for spells
- better card coordination - every biggest issue of passcode is rng rolls with card distribution - if you gonna have continously 4 followers with sth like hot item  or 5 of them or 2 with 3 spells your potential will be hugely lowered. What Clarisse does it's doubling your card distribution effectivity.

Cons:

No life burn nor buff. - Indeed.
Can't get -5/-5 out of Warning.  - Agree.
Some of the buffing goes to waste each turn. - Not true...

if you have some experience in that char. All passcode buffs are multitargets which means that "lost" buff isn't really taken from other follower but is simply restored by new follower with initiall stats. This means that at. buff is indeed lost but also means that sta may be not lost (as follower took some damage) and you get another target for rookie debut! All in all passcode deck is mass deck and you shouldn't fall in love with any of your followers - just replace them one after another.
I wouldn't say it's lost buff.

All in all i tested several chars for passcode and
Street Idol i found simply the best. Normal Clarice is worse as you don't get such nice initiative boost and overall your follower (even if mathematically the same) has slightly lower stats due to average fight time scenarios.
There are some other nice passcode characters though like for example dress luthica.
All in all if you use rookie you should use Clarice - if you don't than you may try other chars (but still i would prefer one of Clarice)

Anyway Shana, do you have any information about new ep.?
I didn't logged to the game for 2 weeks, just did it yesterday for few seconds to check if it's on.
I wonder if updating game was already abandoned.

@Tamius said in Cheap grind deck for beginner!:

From a completely fresh beginning, you should craft "Summer Day Memory", "Passcode" and "Hot Item" and use Size 1 cards. you have access to plenty from the default beginner decks.

Fugitive Iri Flina

Follower: 19

Cook Club Member x3
Gardening Maid x3
New Knight x3
Crescent Conumdrum x3
Game Starter
Student Council Roroa x3 (Best 1 point follower even after nerf)
Burning Guardian* x3 (or any cheap size 1 you like from the lab)

Spell: 11

Summer Day Memory x3
Passscode x3
Hot Item x3
Sacrifice
Four Messages

Bulshit deck.

Proper passcode: exchange hot item for rookie's debute. Char should be Alchemist Clarisse. Instead of Sacrafice and Four essages 2x linus fury in pve or in pvp mass recall 3 pointer. For pvp must is Lukif. Cut number of followers to 15/16 - add some spells instead like sage's, another linus or mass, warnings maybe 14 request,4 messages, swaps or party time.

Roroa is far from being best. She isn't either best in raw damage, tactical uses or survavilibity. Bus i admit that for 1 pointer in passcode she is probably best.
Best passcode char is anyway StreetIdol Clarice but she is expensive.

As for Sita deck actually best pvp 300 sita deck is only with 1 sita follower and 3 followers in totall - so called sita burn deck. Classical Sita deck is aimed for 300 dp - Battle Sita, AS Sita x3, SG SItax3, Sita's friend', SU Sita, maybe Cafe Sita, and 2 animal suit laynas for mighty 2 sizers. If you short on dp sita maids are very nice as well but only if u use Mania Layna which is anyway probably best char for sita deck 100 or 300 dp. To be honest- i still believe that sita deck has it's peak around 150 dp and actually 100 dp sita is better than 300 dp sita.
Mighty 300 dp decks (not all but probably more than less - there aren't many of those):
Novic Crux
Classical Taras burn
Rivelta loop
Sita burn
First Blood 2-sizers
Glacier - Vita recycle
Child Helena Lady
First Blood/Santa Shion Rion/Pajama Linus stall

Sita deck is 2-tier deck for pvp which still isn't worst. In pve it ranks better due to high buffing potential. Still as for pure buffing vita 300 deck i prefer Novic Vita, Layna Cookers or even well-balanced mixed Vita. Sita deck actually doesn't have much more special than +3/+3 spell buff and animal suit sita skill and forces you to play mostly (or only) sita followers which admitedly are very good followers what makes the whole concept worthy even if not top tier.

Cheers

@Hina
In my opinion best is to catch some experienced player in the game.
Many of us can throw at you deck after deck only by recalling.
To your knowledge: Shana is best at Muspel, Chris or Beshaba at 700-unlimited, me probably at 100-300.
Just catch some experienced player and ask for particular ideas and decks - you don't get only ready made decks but also explanation why and modification versions.

I'm not shure where is the problem but i will steal pick it up.
Seeker Beryl def -1 part of skill is extremely odd versus npc. I checked it versus players and everything is fine but when used against npc it feels like blank. I activated def -1 part of skill at least 100 times and never saw single debuffed follower...
Is it that it doesn't works against npc or for some reason npc has been coded for 0% chance of playing those cards? Either way it's sth wrong with it.

Weak as hell. Nothing to be proud of.

Hey,

looking for some good pvp deck idea (100/300 dp) with Child Asmis. Any ideas? :)