I've not really played this game in a long time and have never played competitively but I sent of decks for the starter trade in and got a *Night Terror* promo.

having built a deck around him, despite having only just enough cards of his symbols, he seems brutal and beats all the decks I've made but the new 32 foundation starters so I was wondering, how viable a deck is it?

here's my adjust version for the current format, though I know little about it:

Character
*Night Terror*

Foundations
4 All Life is Prey - (2/5 +3L)
4 A Beautiful Nightmare - (3/4)
4 Alluring Beauty - (1/4 +1L)
4 Cheerful - (1/6 +1L)
4 Corrupting Force - (2/5)
4 Instant Success - (3/4)
4 Intimidating Presence - (2/5)
4 Master of Magic - (3/5)

Foundation/Action Splits
4 Charismatic - (2/4 Split Card 3diff +2H)

Attacks
4 Shadow Blade - (5/2 4H5 Reversal Stun:2 +2M)
4 Two Deadly Rings Technique - (2/3 2M2 Breaker:2 Stun:2 Ranged +3M)
4 Zhao Daiyu's Poison Touch - (4/3 2H4 Stun:1 +2H)
4 Ichi no Tachi - (3/3 3M3 Weapon +2M)
3 Swing Kick* - (2/3 3L2 Kick +0L)

You got the basic idea down. 4x Charismatic is a bit rough, and maybe a little more damaging attacks could be useful too.

on that note that. GG when you play Shadow Blade... that's gotta be rough...

in the version I actually play I use some higher difficulty attacks and a full 4 billigerant aggression but due to format constraints, aggression had to go and certainly in that version the attacks all seemed like they'd be better if they had lower difficulty so I went with the ones you see there. it might well be the case that lack of aggression and weapon training makes this deck need stronger attacks though.

All Life is Prey + Shadow Blade + Night Terror = OH BABY

I mean... holy cow

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That said, I would definitely cut down on the high-difficulty foundations {A Beautiful Nightmare, for example, is IMO really redundant when you're blowing up their whole board... but I see why it's important to have, to stop Blinding Rage and stuff. Instant Success, though, doesn't do TOO much really {and it's purely reactive, meaning your opponent has control over when it does anything... and with 3/4 no block, that's not something you want}. Master of Magic might not pull its weight, Iunno, with the 2ccs in the deck and all. I guess most of your moves are cheap enough that it would help... Iunno, test it out :]

I would definitely want to add Saikyo Ryu and Huge Wrestling Army to this deck. Both are low-difficulty cards that you can easily use to pay Night Terror's ability, HWA allowing you to play more foundations early and Saikyo giving you more options to screw with your opponent blocking.

Wafflecopter said:

lol, yeah, All Life is Prey is strictly better than Weapon Training here and that seemed to win games in my testing (we all know how lousy my card pool is though).

once you start playing multiple attacks in a turn though, then this card becomes brutal.

Wafflecopter said:

I tried but they all seem too good

Wafflecopter said:

ABN stops them getting a use out of it. that's worth quite a bit here I think.

reread sucess, it destroys foundations at no cost other than commiting. that's got to be worthwhile right?

Master of magic turns attacks into foundations, meaning more to sac next time. I could see it really helping keep me from running out.

Wafflecopter said:

I had both in when designing but I had to make cuts and they didn't actually do anything so...

can see why they'd be worthwhile though.

As stated though, I do not have the cards for this and I have very little access to UFS here so this is a very theoretical list. if anyone is able to test this though, I would be interested to hear their take on it.

Oh yeah. God, I wish Shadow Blade weren't so good, because M Bison's Fierce Punch seems pretty godlike for this deck 8). Too many 2ccs though >_<

@Instant Success: Yeah, it destroys foundations for a commit cost, but is it worth it when you run a very real risk of failing your first control check if you're forced to play a 3diff on turn 1? And I also question its effectiveness -- it's far from impossible to simply commit it, or play around it until they're ready to commit it.

Hey, off of Death and Evil there's also Superiority. Sure, it commits two but it's one less difficulty, one more control and has a block. Unless what you're worried is assets and well, you're screwed there unless you try The Twilight Witch.