CHARACTER
1x 6/6 Astrid 6/27 (All, Fire, Order) +0M

ATTACKS (20)
4x 3/3 Pommel Smash [weapon, S:1] 2H1 (All, Fire, Order)
4x 4/3 Tyr's Warding Smash [weapon] 2H4 (All, Fire, Order) +1H
4x 3/3 Fire Shadow [weapon] 3L3 (Fire, Order) +0H
4x 3/3 Weak Slash [weapon] 3L3 (Order) +0L
4x 4/3 Hiogi 3L3 [weapon] (Fire, Order) +3H

FOUNDATIONS (39)
4x 1/6 Blinding Rage (Fire) +1M
4x 3/4 Bitter Rivals (All, Fire) +2M
4x 1/4 Manifest Destiny (Fire) +1M
4x 3/5 Enraged Golem (Fire)
4x 1/5 Envoy of the Queen [weapon] (All, Fire, Order) +3L
4x 2/4 Relentless [weapon] (All, fire, order)
4x 0/5 Hope for One's People (Fire, Order) +3H
4x 2/4 Resourceful [weapon] (All, Fire, Order) +3M
3x 3/5 Experienced Combatant (Fire, Order) +2M
4x 1/5 Personal Style (Fire, Order) +2H

ASSETS (6)
2x 4/5 Valkynsverd [weapon] (All, Fire, Order) +3M
2x 2/4 Reaver's Axe [unique, weapon] (All, Fire, Order) +2H

One of the builds im considering for astrid--who im totally in love with. My current build runs 16 attacks and a bit higher difficulty, mostly her support. Basically running more attacks in this version, Relentless drawing and spamming out attacks. Pommel Smash is amazing when tacked on as a reversal, personal style is crazy for astrid, especially since all my attacks except for pommel smash have blocks, and she's already boosting the damage insanely. Experienced combatant is a bit obvious, and when combined with relentless it's not too difficult to fuel it. I can sit back slightly more defensively and play the reversal game or when they open themselves up spam attacks away.

I considered the first execution rite, but I didn't really want more bitter rivals bait, as of now only pommel smash and reaver's axe are BRable.

36 weapons run in the deck, that + personal style is pretty painful. Enraged Golem is something im a little unsure about; it's very nice, but i'll be commiting foundations for astrid for nearly the same affect, it has no block, and it is a 3 diff when im already running bitter and experienced.

Any suggestions? I'm planning on testing this and the 16 attack version out quite a bit.

It's mostly a fire build, with the exception of weak slash, tyr's and hiogi both boost my next attack by +2.

The other thing i'm considering is A Samurai's Life, for bouncing back my attacks and playing them as reversals after blocking with them, etc. If it seems needed i'll probably run it.

makai high noble, olcadon's, and samuri's life are the only obvious aditions for me. i might consider adding in astrid's super (odin's something).

Olcadans is something i will put in when I need to, i don't run them locally personally but I certainly do when testing for a tournament i'll travel to, and add them.

Makai + Blinding Rage seems like overkill, and I originally had makais in which I took out for personal style, and A Samurai's Life is still something im considering for this build.

I don't own any Odin's, and I wouldn't run it in this version personally because im about low cost (3/4 diff) attacks and just spamming it, abusing her ability and personal style; they can easily start coming at anywhere between 9-20 per, and bitter helps push em through

I definitely will look into A Samurai's Life, and if it seems like I need to i'll add Makai or swap blinding rage out for makai since makai is manifestable, I just like that blinding doesn't have to be ready.

Resourceful? So how much momentum do you keep? Cause it effects your damage output

generally just one; resourceful is more in there since it's a weapon, but it is nice as an "oh ****" situation when it comes down to it; i tend to ditch any attack to discard though.

Eithinis said:

Good idea, I didn't run it because of 4 check and didn't think i'd use it. But I find myself milling a lot of cards that aren't weapon

I really like HIlde's weapon..I ran it over Valketc