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Friday, March 14, 2014

Dragonic Lawkeeper

Hello everyone! It's Ascriptmaster again, with another deck profile for Cardfight!! Vanguard. This time, we're profiling the first Kagero Limit Break released, from the Extra Booster, Cavalry of Black Steel. Dragonic Lawkeeper's style focuses on using its Limit Break to temporarily clear the opponent's field via binding them, granting effects to other Kagero units reliant on the opponent having 2 or fewer Rearguards on the field.

[ACT](VC) Limit Break 4 (This ability is active if you have four or more damage): [Counter Blast (1)] Bind all of your opponent's rear-guards, and at the beginning of the end phase of that turn, your opponent chooses up to four face up cards that were bound with this effect from his or her bind zone, calls them to separate (RC), and puts all other cards that were bound with this effect into the drop zone.

[AUTO](VC):When this unit attacks, if the number of rear-guards your opponent has is two or less, this unit gets [Power]+3000 until end of that battle.
Because it is a battlefield, there is a law to be kept with pride.

Grade 0:
Demonic Dragon Mage, Deva
4 Dragon Dancer, Barbara
4 Gatling Claw Dragon
4 Blue Ray Dracokid
4 Lizard Soldier, Goraha
Grade 1:
4 Dragon Dancer, Maria
3 Embodiment of Armor, Bahr
3 Seal Dragon, Kersey
2 Calamity Tower Wyvern
2 Lizard Soldier, Raopia
Grade 2:
4 Demonic Dragon Berserker, Kumbhanda
4 Demonic Dragon Mage, Kongara
3 Dragon Knight, Berger
Grade 3:
4 Dragonic Lawkeeper
2 Dauntless Drive Dragon
2 Dual Axe Archdragon
Dragonic Lawkeeper's ability to clear the opponent's field for a turn allows it to gain support from many powerful beatstick units. Dual Axe Archdragon, Kongara and Raopia all give power boosts when the opponent has 2 or fewer Rearguards, a condition that is guaranteed due to the Limit Break. Kumbhanda also gains power boosts because Dragonic Lawkeeper is a Limit Break, meaning that there are effectively 8 11,000-Power Grade 2 attackers in this deck, thanks to Kongara and Kumbhanda. This allows them to hit non-Crossride Vanguards unboosted, and pressure Crossrides for 10,000 shield when boosted by a Kersey or Bahr. Dual Axe Archdragon can strike for 13,000, hitting a Crossride Vanguard unboosted and pressuring 15,000 shield from other Vanguards when boosted by Bahr. Finally, Dauntless Drive Dragon sits as a suitable back-up Vanguard that you can Break Ride on later for a powerful attack, but also serves well as a Rearguard attacker.

Unfortunately, since Dragonic Lawkeeper's Limit Break only clears the field temporarily, instead of permanently retiring units like most other Kagero decks, it loses out on some of its defensive capabilities. Demonic Dragon Mage, Deva, Calamity Tower Wyvern and Seal Dragon, Kersey generally help by providing some much-needed draws to increase the shield in your hand. Deva's effect triggers easily due to the 6 Limit Break units in the hand, because your opponent is not likely to guard the attack so early-game anyways just to prevent a single draw.

Dragon Knight, Berger (aka Berger King) also helps with the deck's defenses as an Especial Intercept, which gives 10,000 shield when intercepting. While these kinds of interceptors are generally discouraged in a metagame filled with Narukami, who specialize in destroying front-row units, it still sees some potential because it draws attacks away from your Vanguard, who is already in danger of being abused due to its 10,000 base Power, and if it does not stop an attack, it swoops in as guard to protect Lawkeeper from harm. All in all, however, the Berger King can be included or excluded from your Deck in favor of more offensive cards like Dragon Knight, Nehalem if you feel that Berger is not helping with your defenses.

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