Siegfried SCIV

Attacks (13)
4x Ichi No Tachi 3/3 - 3m3 +1m mid weapon Good
4x Side Harpe - 3(6)/3 4m4 +2H mid weapon - multiple:1 Good
2x Siegfried's Earth Divide 6/2 4H13 Good/Earth
3x Double Grounder Beta 4/2 3L5 +2H Combo Multiple:2 Good/Earth

Actions (4)
4x Tag Along 5/4 Good/Earth

Assets (12)
3x Mysterious Stance 3/4 +1M Good/Earth
3x Soul Calibur* 4/5 Unique Good/Earth/Life
3x Lynettes Shop 3/6 +1M Infinity
3x White Gi 2/4 +2M Good

Foundations (31)
4x White magic 1/5 +3M Good
4x Buddhist Devotion 2/5 +2H Breaker 2 Good
4x Fight or Flight 2/4 +2M Good
4x Demuth's Sponsorship 2/4 +0L Good
4x Holding Ground 2/4 +2L Good/Earth
4x Torn Hero 1/5 Good/Earth/Life
4x Red Lotus of the Sun 2/5 +3L Good
3x Criminal Past 3/5 Earth

This deck is to run at my local shop. Not to be a competitive deck but more just a fun pound-face deck. Basic idea is to kill with siggy's attacks. Side Harpe can combo into either attack, or just double-grounder/ichi into Earth Divide. White Magic/Demuth's/White Gi for momentum gen. Mysterious Stance/Criminal Past to work with demuth's. Buddhist Devotion to help me drop those criminal past's as well as to drop a needed FoF on my kill turn.

Thinking of lowering Buddhists for Cursed Blood when its officially released, or maybe adding some revenants callings. Could also throw in Lone Wolf to up the 6 checks. Let me know what you think. Will most likely throw it together tonight and give it a shot this weekend.

Avg Diff: 2.93 (using 6 for side harpe)
Avg CC: 4.23 (gulp)

For those odd times you don't draw enough attacks, consider Mentally Unstable. You can use it on the last Beta multiple to add the original attack (perhaps the first attack too) to hand, making room for the Earth Divide.

Or add the Earth Divide back to hand for later use. I dunno.

not a bad idea. At 3/4 doesn't exactly help with my difficulty curve, lol.

I guess i just assumed (hoped) that by the time that last multiple resolves my opponent would be dead.

Any idea what to drop? I would think maybe a holding ground or FoF...

You're definitely not going to need 4 copies of Buddhist and Torn Hero. Three seems about right for Hero, given that it's a huge anti-commital tool. But Buddhist, as a First F, is going to clog the staging area when they start Olcadan'ing it in. Two or three at the most seems like the best way to go there. And as it's Unique, you may want to drop down to 2 copies of Soul Calibur.

Conveniently making room for other fun stuff, too.

MegaGeese said:

2-3 Sounds right for buddhist. 2 may not be enough to "play" one...but yeah, its will be coming into play via olcadans.

Torn hero to me seems like a 4-of. Pommell smash alone will eat up 2 of them. Tons of new attacks have stun, plus with things like manifest and chinese boxing going around....maybe i will drop it to a 3 of and run it that way for this weekend, but when i first started building the deck my mind was set on it being a 4-of.

With 2 copies of soul calibur you think i will get one in play consistently running 2? I have never really ran only 2 copies of anything, and its a 5 check and i figured if i get more than 1 i can just drop it during my review step. maybe ill put the 3rd (and maybe 4th) in the sideboard...

Thanks for the tips, keep em coming

A small part of me wants to add Atoning for Wicked Deeds and Gorgeous Team...but my checks tell me no.

Smazzurco said:

It seems to me that you'd be better served with something like Yugao, Swooping Hawk Lunge, or Reborn Basher instead of Side Harpe -- it seems to me like the Multiple is kinda wasted with Double Grounder Beta in the deck {since you can't hit the combo with a multiple copy}, and you run enough attacks+few enough Earth Divides that it shouldn't be a tremendous problem there.

that and i could only find 2 side harpes, lol.

Ill maybe run 2, or maybe take them out completely. I just dont want to sit with an earth divide and one other attack in my hand. Having to hold an earth divide longer than a turn or 2 will hurt, being a 6 hander (especially if i have another attack in my hand as well)

But yeah an ideal attack would be ichi, Beta multipled out, Earth Divide + FoF.

With Siegs E the Betas should be at least 7 dmg each, and a 6-7 dmg ichi will hopefully bait at least one block lol.