Weiss & Ramblings

Welcome back everyone. It’s been a bit since I’ve written something here, and since my last two posts were some old deck profiles, I figure it’s time to try something new. Assault Lily is the JP set I’ve probably played the most over the past year; I think I’ve sleeved nearly every card in my playset at least once. Before the spoilers for the new expansion set start, I wanted to publish my brief thoughts on the set as a whole, quickly going over the set’s key cards, current strengths, and what possible new profiles to look out for in the upcoming release. In the interest of everyone’s time, I’ll shut up and just get on with it. oh shush, it’ll be fun i promise Current Builds If you’re still playing ALL right now, you’re probably trying to do one of two different things: Delete your opponent from mid level 2 with your ridiculous top end climax combo. Break boards and remove your opponent’s back row with the field removal package. Both have their obvious draws, popping off with crazy f...

This is a deck profile I wrote for a now-defunct community project. Even if that project starts back up again, these decks are no longer meta relevant. I didn't want to lose the writing, so I'm copy-pasting them here. Enjoy over coffee at your leisure. --- Reflection Blue changed a lot for Summer Pockets. No longer shackled to the now dicey investment of Shiroha , the set became free to explore more stable and traditional options. SMP quickly rocketed to the status of tournament threat in the current metagame due to the utilization of its unique older options while receiving quite a few new ones, but determining which of them to build around proved to be a bit of challenge. An expanded high-quality card pool allows SMP to fairly easily adapt to the ebb and flow of a changing metagame, so today I’ll be running down a generalized build that aims to answer a “blind” field. I’ll also cover alternative choices, so you can tune your personal build of Pockets to best respond to your o...

This is a deck profile I wrote for a now-defunct community project. Even if that project starts back up again, these decks are no longer meta relevant. I didn't want to lose the writing, so I'm copy-pasting them here. It's practically just an English adaptation of MilkTea's 8 Book profile, which is linked in the article itself. Enjoy over coffee at your leisure. --- Sometimes, the most interesting cards in a set can be deckbuilding traps. Unique profiles with the potential to create powerful boards and present unanswerable threats are what players, myself included, usually will start with when trying to craft a “meta” deck. This typically works out; Weiss Schwarz is a game where available shells are pretty obvious to brewers before a set even comes out. Many sets come out of the gate with a canned build available that sticks to the meta like glue. However, there are times where this isn’t the case. The community can miss the proverbial forest for a set’s stand-out trees...