[Card of the Day] Blue Wave General, Eason

New Blue Wave card, and a card we’d seen in the Bushiroad Monthly!

 

[Stride]
[AUTO](VC):When your rear-guard with “Blue Wave” in its card name attacks, that unit gets [Power]+3000 until end of that battle.
[ACT](VC)[1/Turn]:[Soul Blast (1)-card with “Blue Wave” in its card name] Look at seven cards from the top of your deck, search for up to one grade 3 card with “Blue Wave” in its card name from among them, place it on your (VC) as a heart, and shuffle your deck. If you placed one or more cards, put all of your heart cards other than the card placed with this effect into your drop zone.

Blue Wave General, Altiom

Still not a very good card.

 

[AUTO](VC):During your turn, when your G unit with “Blue Wave” in its original card name Stride, choose up to one card with “Blue Wave” in its card name from your hand, call it to (RC), choose one of your rear-guards with “Blue Wave” in its card name, and until end of turn, it gets “[AUTO](RC):At the end of the battle that this unit attacked a vanguard, choose one of your other rear-guards in the same column as this unit, and exchange its position with this unit.”.

Blue Wave General, Eason

It’s funny, this card actually looks playable. Because it’s not Tetra-Drive Dragon! It gives you a pretty cool Stride Skill, one that’s definitely usable for Blue Wave as a whole. However, the ability wants you to run Blue Wave purely (with enough space for tech cards, maybe). Its only real application to be seen is that you can call this card:

 

[AUTO]:[Counter Blast (1) & Soul Blast (1)] When this unit is placed on (RC), if you have two or more cards with “Blue Wave” in its original card name on your (VC), you may pay the cost. If you do, choose one of your other units, that unit and this unit get [Power]+4000 until end of turn. (The number of heart cards is included)

Blue Wave Solider, Cimon

and make it an 11000 attacker that can swap within the same column (preferably with your Foivos). Outside of that, Cimon is kinda weak. I mean, bless Bushiroad for trying to push Blue Wave as a pure deck, but Blue Wave never really needed to become that. It was a good deck because Blue Wave was pretty open-ended: you could run literally anything with their cards and it could still be identified as a Blue-Wave deck. Not sure what made R&D want to create this deck all of a sudden. One thing I will admit is that this card makes Damia very desirable. Not because it’s gonna be a dank new deck, but because you now have the option to call Damia from the hand: and then column swap her into the back-row. She’ll swing for 12000 while you’re under the Altiom, which is kinda relevant.

To be totally honest, the new cards are definitely not going to change Blue Wave’s current formula. Utility rear guards aren’t very good in a deck that wants as much redundancy as bloody possible. Having all the redundancy means your consistency is at maximum potential: which is what actually makes me sad about some cards in this set. Blue Wave definitely won’t be losing the Adelaide + Foivos + Tidal lineup: especially since now you have zero reason to not have Thavas’ friends in your main deck. And furthermore: no reason to not have Tidal Assault since he’s just that good.

Maybe this could lead to a new rush deck, though. I guess. Since having another Grade 2 Blue Wave makes Foivos legitimately scary for being capable of being active as soon as you ride to Grade 2. We’ll see how things go, though.

According to word of god (R&D notes), tomorrow’s stream will feature Shadow Paladin and Gear Chronicle fighting. Because the clans that got Generation Rares clearly shouldn’t get a fight displayed.

I’ll shitpost about that tomorrow. Maybe. Kinda. Okay I have to. I’ll see y’all tomorrow. Be sure to click this here link if you wanna watch it.

See you.