Echo of Nemesis

Hello everyone, this is Ascriptmaster back with another Cardfight!! Vanguard deck profile. This week's deck focuses on the powerful new Dark Irregular unit released in Fighter's Collection 2014 in Japan, Echo of Nemesis. Echo of Nemesis stands apart from most other high-power Vanguards because of its ability to immediately stop Sentinel units that would otherwise trivialize the need to guard. Here is a video of the deck.

[自](VC) Limit Break 4 (This ability is active if you have four or more damage):When this unit attacks, if the number of cards in your soul is ten or greater, until end of that battle, this unit gets [Power]+10000, and your opponent cannot call grade 1 or greater units to (GC) from his or her hand.

[起](VC):[Soul Blast (1 Grade 0 card)] Soul Charge (2). This ability cannot be used for the rest of that turn.

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Grade 0
Amon's Follower, Fate Collector
4 Amon's Follower, Cruel Hand
4 Amon's Follower, Hell's Trick
4 Dark Knight of Nightmareland
4 Hysteric Shirley

Grade 1
4 Amon's Follower, Vlad Specula
4 Doreen the Thruster
3 Alluring Succubus
3 Jet Black Poet, Amon

Grade 2
4 Gwynn the Ripper
4 Fatigue Succubus
3 Flirtatious Succubus

Grade 3
4 Echo of Nemesis
4 King of Masks, Dantarian

Overall, Echo of Nemesis plays like any other Dark Irregular ace unit: accumulate a high Soul and gain effects based on your Soul count. Once 10 cards are in the Soul, Echo of Nemesis' Limit Break gives it an additional 10,000 Power (similar to Demon World Marquis, Amon's skill given 10 Soul) and prevents Grade 1 or higher units from guarding when it attacks. This will instantly shut down any Sentinel hoping to catch the attack effortlessly in late game. This forces the opponent to guard with the triggers in their hand, whittling down their hand because of high-power attacks. Dantarian increases the guard that Echo of Nemesis can drain in a turn, by giving even more power to Echo of Nemesis and its booster, for at least a 20,000 Power boost. Dantarian is also a good unit for increasing the Soul every turn to reach the 10-Soul threshold.

The rest of the deck also tends to focus on high-power attacks to force guard in late game. Doreen the Thruster is especially useful once you have Echo of Nemesis, because of the latter's ability to send a Grade 0 unit from the Soul to the Drop Zone to Soulcharge 2 cards, immediately granting Doreen a 6,000 Power increase for the turn, allowing it to boost for 12,000! This is especially deadly when combined with Hysteric Shirley, whose ability places herself from the field into the Soul, as it immediately fulfills the conditions for Echo of Nemesis to use, either immediately for an inhuman amount of power, or allowing you to save the skill for later to boost Doreen again. When Dantarian is the Vanguard, Jet Black Poet, Amon fulfills the role of a powerful booster as it consistently maintains 9,000 Power during your turn, which is particularly useful when boosting a Fatigue Succubus once you have met the 10-Soul requirement.

Instead of using the arguably more reliable Emblem Master and Courting Succubus to amass Soul, I ultimately chose to rely on Alluring Succubus and Flirtatious Succubus instead at the time of recording. Without the need to hit to trigger their skills, the two Succubi have one guaranteed Soulcharge when they are called, and also give Doreen the Thruster a boost for the turn. That is not to say that the aforementioned cards are not viable; you should try it out and find out which combination works best for you.