Juni's Arrow Lockdown - Critique needed

By dshaffer, in UFS Deck Building

**Juni (All, Order, Water) 6 HS, 27 Vit
R Commit: After your opponent plays an attack (not as a block), they commit X cards in their staging area. X equals the difference between the number of cards in your hand and the number of cards in your opponent's hand.
E: If your opponent's attack deals damage, add 1 Reversal from your discard pile to your hand. Discard 1 card at the end of this turn.


Assets
4 x 0/6 Olcadon’s Mentoring +0L (8)
4 x 2/3 Guile’s Comb +1M (O)

Attacks 3
2 x 7/1 5L10 Darkness Blade +1H (W)
4 x 4/3 4H3 Guile’s Comb +1M (O)
2 x 6/2 4M5 Juni’s Spiral Arrow +1M (O)

Foundations 11
2 x 3/6 Abducted +3M (O,W)
4 x 1/5 Aquakinesis +3H (O,W,)
2 x 3/6 Blind Loyalty +2M (O,W)
4 x 2/5 Blood Runs True +1H (O)
4 x 1/6 Burning Hatred +2M (W)
2 x 4/6 Chester’s Backing +1M (W)
3 x 3/4 Chinese Boxing +3M (O,W)
4 x 2/5 Familial Loyalty +2M (O,W)
4 x 2/5 Light on One’s Feet +2H (O)
3 x 3/5 Program Malfunction +1M (O,W)
4 x 2/5 Psycho Style (O)
4 x 2/5 Strife’s Patronage +0H (O,W)
4 x 2/5 Tenacious +1M (O,W)
4 x 2/4 The Bigger they Are +3M (O,W)

Looking for a critique on this one before I start heavilly playtesting it this weekend. Mostly just want to see if you can spot any major holes or cards that dont belong. This is a Order/Water deck, concentrating on Order lockdown, emphasising Juni's ability to retrieve Reversals and to commit their foundation base.

The key factor here is Juni's Spiral Arrow, combined with Tenacious/Juni's abilities to recurse it and keep their foundations locked down. Chinese Programming, Program Malfunction, and Psycho Focus does the majority of the commiting process, helped out by Juni herself if she's got a nice set of Reversals already in hand. Darkness Blade helps speed the killing progress once you can get a steady Spiral Arrow+Tenacious 'loop' going on your turn, and can also speed up the process of commiting his staging area. Abducted and Blind Loyalty provide some backup in case Tag Along shows up to wreck Juni's recursion. As it is a multi symbol deck, try to keep a block and a reversal of the same symbol in hand.

Blood Runs True is their primarily to keep him from blocking your Spiral Arrow, although you cant overlook how it can mess up his attack routines. Strife's Patronage (To look at his hand) combined with Light on One's feet will also help it get through, as well as help with blocking. Burning Hatred helps with getting your reversals through, but it's there mostly for the 6 check.

Aquakinesis, combined with The Bigger They Are and Familial Loyalty gives you some rather insane card draw. Olcadan's is a stock answer for many problems you may encounter. Guile's Comb helps make those Reversals easy to get out, and the fact that it's also a cheap reversal for early game doesnt hurt either.

One change I'm considering is replacing the 2 Darkness Blades with Feline Spikes. Faster 'kill card', but its abilities dont intrinsically help with the lockdown and I'd have to rebuild a bit to increase momentum generation. (Probably remove the burning hatreds for Lord of the Makai) Anything else I should consider?

Maybe you can try putting in Circuit Scrapper to combo with Juni's Spiral Arrow. Juni's R, then Spiral Arrow to keep everything committed and then Scrapper next turn for the bonus damage. I'm sure you have already considered High Plasma Beam which my help too. Plenty of lock down but another attack or two wouldn't hurt.

You might want to try using Hybrid Style as an alternative way to pick up your reversals or even Rejection and keep your card pool clear.

Maybe instead of darkness blade you could use either circuit scrapper as suggested or high plasma beem.

Take out the two abducted, and add in one more Chinese Boxing and one more Program Malfunction. Also, take out the four Tenacious, and add in two more Chester's Backing, as well as two more Juni's Spiral Arrow. I'd also try to find an attack to replace the flip-side of Guile's comb, because there are much better choices. I just can't think of any right now.

Don't cut tenatious, instead take it down to 2 or 3.

Bump spiral arrow up to 3 at least.

Get rid of guiles comb entirely you wont need it.

Mabye switch darkness blade for neo raging storm(requires lord of the makia or other momentum foundations), high plasma beam, or cirrcuit scrraper.

Deck still needs defense. Try 3amy's, 3holding ground, 2cutting edge.

Have to have at least 2 tagalongs. Really good with tenacious.

In my opinion cards you don't need:

4 x 4/3 4H3 Guile’s Comb +1M (O)

2 x 3/6 Abducted +3M (O,W)

2 x 3/6 Blind Loyalty +2M (O,W)

4 x 1/6 Burning Hatred +2M (W)

4 x 2/5 Light on One’s Feet +2H (O)

If you cut this stuff and are worried about splitting symbols try using a full set of lynnettes to make the splash a little better, or you could use buhdist devotion.

After playtesting...

Tenacious and Light on Ones feet are to important to get rid of. Light on One's feet was responsible for getting more cards past defense then BRT did and you need Tenacious to recycle the Spiral Arrows if your opponent doesnt attack. I probably need to add another Chinese Boxing and Program Malfunction in. Needs more Spiral Arrows and I did put in Plasmas...Guile's Comb...well there's not that many other low cost Reversals for the early game and it's a fairly decent block if I need to retrieve the things, the Asset just gives me a bit of added utility. Currently looking at replacing the Blind Loyalties and Abducted with 3 of her Asset and a couple Tag-Alongs. Switching it to totally Order in the process.

I'll post a new card list when I'm done tinkering.

If your going to go pure order you may want to think about exp. combatant and forethought.