Ok, so, my mom has allowed me to purchase a bunch of UFS single cards from my favorite website (www.coolstuffinc.com), and from here I put together a Tira deck (Life) for about ten bucks, to ten fifty, or so. Therefore, it's not as powerful as it could be (it's more of a starter), but I'd like to continue modifying it and playing it for a while. So, here's the build, and I'd like some recommendations, please

It's central theme is speed boosting and vitality draining (opponent loses, I gain).

Characters (1):

Tira* (Soul Calibur IV edition)

Foundations (28)

Hijinks (This is similar to a strategy I play in Magic: the Gathering. When you can life drain your opponent, it's not a bad price at all for you both to lose 1 vitality. Also, it puts a bit of fear behind blocking, and can trigger a side change if I desire.)

Dancing Sword Arts x4 (makes my Life attacks faster, and all attacks are Life.)

Genius Alchemist (makes it easier to attack more in one turn)

Journey of Repentance x2 (I ran out of cheap foundations, saw this at "Buy 1 Get 3 Free", and thought it would make a nice filler foundation, since it protects the better ones )

Keeper of the Watchers x4 (increases attack speed)

Personality Split x4 (allows me to repeatedly enhance and change Tira and her attacks with Jolly and Gloomy side.)

Prominent Noblewoman x4 (a subtheme in this deck is stopping my opponent from gaining vitality.)

Purified Body x4 (I'm assuming this will provide a good speed boost.)

Shattered Persona x4 (helps keep the frail Tira at good vitality, or keeps my attack difficulty low, depending on what I choose.)

Actions (6)

Amazing Tolerance x3 (another "filler" card. I also thought it would be rather nifty to protect Tira's low vitality )

Frantic Search (being able to draw and discard cards seems nifty to me. More of a filler.)

Jolly Side (necessary for SCIV Tira, IMO)

Gloomy Side (same as Jolly. They go together.)

Assets (1)

Ostrheinsburg Castle - Twilight (speed boosts, and foundation readying.)

Attacks (25)

Rera Kishi Matek x4 ("Buy 1 Get 3 Free", and it can make my next attack faster, assuming it's unblocked, which is what the "blocking fear" is for.)

Evil Sparrow x4 (makes it easier to play more attacks in a turn)

Lowdown Neb x4 (much more vitality loss for my opponent)

Oratorio Halcyon (big life drainer )

Piercing Talon Strike x4 (life drainer)

Swing Kick* (SCIV version, another life drainer)

Venom Lash x3 (stops opponent from gaining vitality)

Zessho Hoho (actually an edit out of my Sagat deck. It has a built in speed boost equal to momentum, as well as an action split to allow me to gain vitality equal to my momentum).

This should come in the mail tomorrow, as well as some cards for my Sagat deck. This is all theoretical... I hope it works. Any advice for the long run?

Thanks.

Kryzen Beastfang

Tira off of life eh? I havent tried her off that symbol ..yet. But I will see if I have any reconmendations for ya. First lets go over the attacks. Im not really fond of your lineup but like you said this is on a budget. I would however look into bayonette lunge its a common and should be easy to get ahold of. Another idea is Chi disrupter from lu chen, its a reversal that you can block with and is a great card from the new set. Another fun idea since your speed boosting is chaos flare. If it hits you can lose health to give your next attack a damage equal to the health you lost which can be quite nasty. As for foundations Action hero is one that is underated and can b very useful for life. Being able to clear the card pool is good. Adoration is another good foundation that gives a speed boost has wonderful stats and is common to boot. Also we cant forget everyones fave life gain foundation battle prowess. This and chaos flare sounds like a fun combo to me. As for actions you only really need 1 gloomy and jolly. I would recomend kung fu fighting though as it gives a huge speed pump coupled withh action hate. I hope this helps and good luck.

The card "A Perfect Sense of Balance" is amazing imo.

Anti commit and it gives some control.

Also, Tira's asset: Eiserne Drossel is an amazing speed boost (free E: on every attack) and it drains life (which is what you want, correct?)

Heidern's Assassination Arts, Crazy speedboost for a life based deck

Yeah, I looked at most of these cards (too expensive to go with the deck at first, lol. Had to make choices )

But yeah, those are all good cards. Thanks everyone!

I might suggest something more like this...

1 Tira.

1 Gloomy Side
1 Jolly Side
4 Kung-Fu Traning

4 Bayonette Lunge
4 Chobi Jishi
4 Juli's Spin Drive Smasher
4 Reborn Slasher

4 Adoration
4 Darkhunter of the Night
4 Genius Alchemist
4 Heidern's Assassination Arts
3 Needs No Ally
4 Personality Split
3 Rindokan
4 Shattered Persona
4 The Anti' K
3 Tough Outer Shell

Nothing here is more then 0.49 a card all save Kung-Fu Traning, But its 0.99 and there insane. Speed boost and action negation. But this seems to me a lil more consistant for what life dose.

EDIT:

I just priced everything, The total came to $26.24 and thats with out any buy one get ones which there are in the deck.

Ah, thanks for putting so much effort in!

Unfortunately, I ordered it all already... just came in today.

Also, my budget was around $10...

However, your deckbuild is really good, and I'm planning on making steps towards it over time.

Also, I'm not going pure life gain... the idea was more life drain. For example, when opponent loses, I gain, or when i gain, opponent loses. For example, Swing Kick* and Oratorio Halcyon, and Piercing Talon Strike all drain.

As a question, if i were to go dual-symbol, would it be better to add Air or Death?

I'm thinking air, but I'm not positive.

personally id add in Death seeing as it has a lot of good control pieces!

Inhuman Perception...has air and death

Oral Dead

Unorthodox Training

Martial Arts Champion

Revenants Calling

Valuable Experience

Trapped in a Nightmare

Destiny

Charismatic

Manifest Destiny

No Memories

probably some more im leaving out!

Good Luck with your deck sir!

Tira

Actions(2)
Gloomy Side x1 2/5 +2L
Jolly Side x1 2/5 +2H

Assets(2)
Robes of the Grandmaster x2 3/4 Unique

Attacks(24)
Bayonette Lunge x4 5/3 5M4 +1L
Chi Disruptor x4 4/3 2M5 Reversal +2M
Flying Edge x4 4/3 3M4 +1M
Oratorio Halcyon x4 5/3 5M4 Combo +2M
Tetsu Zanko x4 5M4 +2H
Ura maki Geri x4 4/3 3M4 +2M

Foundations(32)
A Means of Self Defense x4 2/5 +2M
Bounce Back x4 2/5 +2M
Distractible x4 2/5
Feelings of Friendship x4 2/4 +2L
Heidern's Assassination Arts x4 2/5 +1L
Perfect Sense of Balance x4 2/5
Professional Soldier x4 1/5
Will for the Fight x4 2/5 +3M

Sideboard(8)
The Anti K' x4 1/5/4 +3M
Torn Hero x4 1/5

should be a fairly cheap deck and competitive enough to play, if you can get some Eiserne Drossel that would help this deck a lot but it's not needed. Hope this helps, tried to keep it as on a budget as i could (ie NO Rares, Promos or URs at all). Any more help just read my reviews on teamcanadonline and it should help ya.

N.J.

THE GORGEOUS TEAM!!!