Astrid loves flaming spam

[Eithinis 0]

CHARACTER
1x 6/6 Astrid 6/27 (All, Fire, Order) +0M

ATTACKS (20)
4x 3/3 Pommel Smash [weapon, S:1] 2H1 (All, Fire, Order)
4x 4/3 Tyr's Warding Smash [weapon] 2H4 (All, Fire, Order) +1H
4x 3/3 Fire Shadow [weapon] 3L3 (Fire, Order) +0H
4x 3/3 Weak Slash [weapon] 3L3 (Order) +0L
4x 4/3 Hiogi 3L3 [weapon] (Fire, Order) +3H

FOUNDATIONS (39)
4x 1/6 Blinding Rage (Fire) +1M
4x 3/4 Bitter Rivals (All, Fire) +2M
4x 1/4 Manifest Destiny (Fire) +1M
4x 3/5 Enraged Golem (Fire)
4x 1/5 Envoy of the Queen [weapon] (All, Fire, Order) +3L
4x 2/4 Relentless [weapon] (All, fire, order)
4x 0/5 Hope for One's People (Fire, Order) +3H
4x 2/4 Resourceful [weapon] (All, Fire, Order) +3M
3x 3/5 Experienced Combatant (Fire, Order) +2M
4x 1/5 Personal Style (Fire, Order) +2H

ASSETS (6)
2x 4/5 Valkynsverd [weapon] (All, Fire, Order) +3M
2x 2/4 Reaver's Axe [unique, weapon] (All, Fire, Order) +2H

 

One of the builds im considering for astrid--who im totally in love with.  My current build runs 16 attacks and a bit higher difficulty, mostly her support.  Basically running more attacks in this version, Relentless drawing and spamming out attacks.  Pommel Smash is amazing when tacked on as a reversal, personal style is crazy for astrid, especially since all my attacks except for pommel smash have blocks, and she's already boosting the damage insanely.  Experienced combatant is a bit obvious, and when combined with relentless it's not too difficult to fuel it.  I can sit back slightly more defensively and play the reversal game or when they open themselves up spam attacks away.

I considered the first execution rite, but I didn't really want more bitter rivals bait, as of now only pommel smash and reaver's axe are BRable.

 

36 weapons run in the deck, that + personal style is pretty painful.  Enraged Golem is something im a little unsure about; it's very nice, but i'll be commiting foundations for astrid for nearly the same affect, it has no block, and it is a 3 diff when im already running bitter and experienced. 

Any suggestions? I'm planning on testing this and the 16 attack version out quite a bit.

 

It's mostly a fire build,  with the exception of weak slash, tyr's and hiogi both boost my next attack by +2.

The other thing i'm considering is A Samurai's Life, for bouncing back my attacks and playing them as reversals after blocking with them, etc.  If it seems needed i'll probably run it.

[trane2 0]

makai high noble, olcadon's, and samuri's life are the only obvious aditions for me. i might consider adding in astrid's super (odin's something).

[Eithinis 0]

Olcadans is something i will put in when I need to, i don't run them locally personally but I certainly do when testing for a tournament i'll travel to, and add them.

 

Makai + Blinding Rage seems like overkill, and I originally had makais in which I took out for personal style, and A Samurai's Life is still something im considering for this build.

 

I don't own any Odin's, and I wouldn't run it in this version personally because im about low cost (3/4 diff) attacks and just spamming it, abusing her ability and personal style; they can easily start coming at anywhere between 9-20 per, and bitter helps push em through

 

I definitely will look into A Samurai's Life, and if it seems like I need to i'll add Makai or swap blinding rage out for makai since makai is manifestable, I just like that blinding doesn't have to be ready.

[Ultimo2 0]

Resourceful?  So how much momentum do you keep?  Cause it effects your damage output

[Eithinis 0]

generally just one; resourceful is more in there since it's a weapon, but it is nice as an "oh ****" situation when it comes down to it; i tend to ditch any attack to discard though.

[Ultimo2 0]

Eithinis said:

generally just one; resourceful is more in there since it's a weapon, but it is nice as an "oh ****" situation when it comes down to it; i tend to ditch any attack to discard though.

Good idea, I didn't run it because of 4 check and didn't think i'd use it.  But I find myself milling a lot of cards that aren't weapon

I really like HIlde's weapon..I ran it over Valketc