Order Aggro Astrid

[Mulciber113 0]

Ok, while not to many people are talking about her, I feel Astrid can be a beast. Here is my deck idea, any constructive criticism welcome.

Character (1)

Astrid 6/6 6/26 All/Fire/Order

Attacks (16)

4 Dragon's Breath 5/3 3M5 +2M Weapon Fire/Good/Order
4 Pommel Smash 3/3 2H1 Stun: 1 Weapon All/Fire/Order
4 Fierce Twin Slash 6/3 4M5 Multiple: 1 Weapon All/Fire/Order
4 Raven's Claw 4/2 4M4 +3M Ranged Weapon All/Fire/Order

Actions (3)

3 Warrior's Path 2/5 +2M

Assets (5)

 

3 Reaver's Axe 2/4 +2H Unique Weapon All/Fire/Order
2 Valkyrja's Shield 3/4 +2M Unique Weapon Breaker: 1 All/Fire/Order

Foundations (34)
4 Challenge to Battle 2/5 +3M Fire/Good/Order
4 Paying Respect to Your Ancestors 3/5 All/Fire/Order
4 Envoy of the Queen 1/5 +3L Weapon All/Fire/Order
4 Hope for One's People 0/5 +3H Fire/Good/Order
4 Soichi Jinmu 2/5 
4 Dancing Battle Kabuki 0/4 +2L Breaker: 2 Chaos/Earth/Order
4 Resourceful 2/4 +3M Weapon All/Fire/Order
4 Relentless 2/4 Weapon All/Fire/Order
4 Bloodied but Unbowed 2/4 All/Fire/Order

Blocks:
35 Total
8L
21M
7H

Ok, the basic purpose of the deck is to get out the axe, challenge to battle, and paying your repects. With these three out start combat phase, if you check an attack there is +2 damage to all attacks. Then play Dragon's Breath -1 speed and +1 damage to all attacks, so really +2 damage. So now you are at plus +4 to all attacks. Then use Reaver's Axe free e: +1 speed and +1 damage to weapons. This gets rid of the speed lowering and gives an additional +2 damage to all attacks. So.....SMASH FACE...END TURN.

 

[Shaneth 0]

Wouldn't Kuzuryu Reppa be a better choice than Fierce Twin Slash? It spots a +1H block, which is nice for defending against those Spikes. It also has one more point of base damage and a drawing effect if it deals damage.

That said, since this is Order Aggro, I would find room for Personal Style. You gain an extra attack with a block with Kuzuryu Reppa and be able to tack on more damage with each progressive attack.

[Mulciber113 0]

I like the Personal Style idea alot. It gives me an addtional block, good effect and nice stats.

As for Kuzu, it is not a weapon and I am trying to focus on the weapon factor Astrid has, nonetheless the draw power is attractive.

[Shaneth 0]

Personal Style is great. Glad you like the idea.

Forgot about the Weapon theme. In that case, I believe Bayonette Lunge would be a better choice than Raven's Claw. It boasts a better check and can eliminate progressive difficulty for itself. It also has a cheap low block, and Order isn't very good at blocking low attacks.

[Mulciber113 0]

I forgot Bayonette Lunge was a weapon. Playing as a reversal would be fun. My only concern is the high difficulty of my attacks. I like Ravens claw because it can finish out an attack string blowing up the ax for a potential win. Hard choices

[Shaneth 0]

As long as you spend two or three turns building, passing checks for a large string of attacks won't be hard. Also, Bayonette has the ability to remove itself from progressive difficulty. Remember that Soichi Jinmu also gives +2 to the check, I believe.

[Suija2 0]

Since Order and Fire is your thing with this I am surprised that you are not running Offer a Duel. Also, though this will lower your block and attack count, you could sub Raven's Claw for Tag Along. It would give you some added control against other characters and let you fish attacks out of your discard when you want to go for the kill turn and boost your general CC ratio, additionally RC kills one of your precious assets that could be used to save your life or help kill your opponent. If nothing else I would say to run 3 of each of the two assets that you have. Also here are some auto inclueds that you could look at putting in: Amy's Assistance, Experianced Combatant, Kabuki Artist, Cutting Edge, N-Type Human, Chinese Boxing, and Program Malfunction. The reasons for these cards being suggested should be obvious. Other good attacks to replace Raven's Claw are Sujaku (yay for more draw if you use it as an asset), Lightening Sword (Clears itself from the card pool), Chobi Jishi (cause everybody loves life gain), and Bayonette Lunge (as discussed in previous posts). All and all it is a great deck that will beat people down fairly quickly. Hope that this helps.

[Cetonis 0]

With all the potential for card draw you have here, Experienced Combatant could be a very good choice, plus if you want even more draw there's always Hilde's asset. (E Commit: +2 speed, if the attack deals damage draw 2, Weapon keyword) So far as attacks, considering that virtually every one you throw is going to be a monster with all the pumps regardless of the stats it starts with, why not pass on the high difficulty stuff and play things like Weak Slash or Fire Shadow? 

[Mulciber113 0]

Hmm, the low diff attack idea sounds interesting. Experienced Combatant also helps out by locking down things I don't like.

I think to start out I am going to take out the Raven's Claw for Bayonette Lunge and replace Resourceful with Experienced Combatant. This will help out my block modifiers and cc ratio.

 

 

[Shaneth 0]

Good choices. You'll find them both excellent. Checking those 2CCs really hurts at the most improper times.

[FFTARoxorz05 0]

An Astrid deck stomped everyone today playing 4x Moving On, since that guarantees +3 speed.

[LordAggro 0]

Why no love for Astrid's Wolf Strike?  That thing is absolutely DEVASTATING when played as a Reversal (I know it ended my turn twice when I played against that deck at the Shadowar prerelease).  With all the card-drawing you'll have, there's really no reason to not have it, IMHO.

[Mordai 0]

Well I'm using a similar deck, only due to my cards I tweaked it towards fire, Wind dance ftw and also I added in Amy's assistance.

Fierce twin slash and astrids wolfstrike is awesome to combine with astrids damage pumping ability. and with wind dance giving free speed, they will start commiting foundations in order to block it^^

[Eithinis 0]

Mordai said:

Well I'm using a similar deck, only due to my cards I tweaked it towards fire, Wind dance ftw and also I added in Amy's assistance.

Fierce twin slash and astrids wolfstrike is awesome to combine with astrids damage pumping ability. and with wind dance giving free speed, they will start commiting foundations in order to block it^^

 

Just remember you can't use her "boost a weapon's damage" ability on multiple copies, as they do not retain "weapon"

[Mordai 0]

Yes I know. but I got other dmg pumps aswell, so if they block one, they probably can't block the other, And Ivy was my favourite victim alot of attacks in her cardpool and then make a reversal

[Bloodrunstrue 0]

No makai high noble or Owlface?

WTF??

Although not having them is a good excuse. Good luck with Astrid!

[Vagabond Aeon 0]

While risky, have you considered using Lunar Slash? Playing that as a reversal on your opponent's turn would hurt a LOT.

[joe10lo 0]

Have you considered A samurai's life to pick the block up to help reduce difficulty for the reversal?

[MarcoPulleaux 0]

*raises hand*

Um...so seeing as how the only cards without Fire are Dancing Battle Kabuki and Soichi Jinmu, wouldn't it be easier to...

...hmm...what I want to say is, it doesn't feel like Order. Where are the Chinese Boxings, Program Malfunctions, or Psycho Styles? Because as of right now, you might as well call it Fire Aggro. Generally Order Aggro maintains its control, while utilizing aggressive tools, like Personal Style and whatnot.

Otherwise, beastin deck. I think of her as the new ***Adon*** =D

[Mulciber113 0]

Wow, did not expect so many comments. I am leaning to some more fire support. I wanted to test the deck this weekend but cards did not come in yet. Grrrr. I like the Wind Dance idea in that of the attacks for the deck share the block zone of the attack. Also going to add moving on.

And yes Marco, I did design her to play like promo Adon =D

Once I get the deck finalized I will post.